Introduction

A NOTE ON THIS RENDERING

THE WITNESS — THE GREEK SETS THE FLOW

This Yechezkel stands on the SEPTUAGINT in the English of Sir Lancelot Brenton (1851), and the Greek governs the page — its words, its order, its versification. Of the three great prophets this is the one where the two witnesses stand closest together: the Greek is only a little shorter than the Hebrew, and the order is the same throughout. Forty-eight chapters, 1,265 verses. Where they do part, they part sharply, and this volume shows every place. THIS VOLUME REPLACES AN EARLIER ONE A Yechezkel already stood on this shelf. It was built before the Supply Rule was given on the twenty-fourth of July, under the older practice by which Masoretic matter absent from the Greek was REMOVED from the page and named only in the note-leaf. That protected the Greek's integrity but cost the reader the words. THIS VOLUME KEEPS BOTH. The Greek's flow and versification still govern the page; the Hebrew's substance is now restored in place, inside visible brackets. Nothing that stood in the first Yechezkel has been lost — Ben Adam still carries throughout, and the book still ends where it ended — but the Hebrew now speaks on the page instead of in a footnote. THE SUPPLIED HEBREW Seven places in this book are supplied because THE GREEK'S OWN VERSE-NUMBERING PRESERVES THE GAP. Where the Septuagint lacks Hebrew matter it does not renumber to hide the loss: chapter one runs 13, then 15; chapter ten does the same; chapter eleven leaps from 10 to 13; and so at 27:31, 32:19, 33:26 and 40:30. Every seam is a wound the manuscript declares about itself, and every one is filled from the Hebrew at the exact address the Greek left open. Four further places are supplied by ruling, because they hide inside verses the numbering does not betray. Eleven supplied places in all, and the brackets print. THE LAST WORD OF THE BOOK — 48:35 This is the supply that matters most, and it is the last line of the prophet. The Hebrew ends the whole vision with a name laid upon the city: YAHUAH SHAMMAH — YAHUAH IS THERE. THE GREEK HAS LOST IT. Brenton's Septuagint reads only that the name of the city, from the day it is finished, shall be the name thereof — a sentence that says nothing, because the name it was carrying has fallen out. The whole architecture of the closing chapters, the measured house and the returning Kavod and the river from under the threshold, is running toward that name. It is supplied in brackets on the final page, so that the book ends where it has always ended. THE ANOINTED KERUV — 28:14 The Greek reads that the king of Tzor was WITH the keruv on the holy mountain. The Hebrew reads that he WAS the keruv — the anointed keruv that covereth. This single preposition carries the whole weight of how the passage has been read for two thousand years, and the two witnesses do not agree on it. Both are set before the reader and neither is mended. The Greek holds the page; the Hebrew stands beside it in brackets. Interpretation belongs to this note, and this note declines to close the question. WRATH, OR THE RUACH — 39:29 One word, and the two Bibles say opposite things. The Greek: I have poured out My WRATH upon the house of Yisra'el. The Hebrew: I have poured out My RUACH upon the house of Yisra'el. The Hebrew reads ruach, and a hand that heard thumos instead has turned a promise of the Spirit into a sentence of anger. This is the plainest example in the prophets of why a Bible must show both hands. THE GREEK HOLDS THE PAGE, PER THE VORLAGE DOCTRINE; THE HEBREW IS SUPPLIED IN FULL BESIDE IT, AND THE READER JUDGES. BEN ADAM Ninety-four times the prophet is addressed by this name and no other, and ninety-four times it stands here as BEN ADAM. It is glossed once, at its first appearance in chapter two, and stands bare thereafter. The House has never rendered it 'son of man' in the body of this book, and the reader should hear it as the address it is: not a title of honour but a naming of dust, spoken to a man standing upright before the Kavod because a ruach entered into him and set him on his feet. ADONAI YAHUAH Seventy-six times this book uses the doubled divine title that is its signature — Adonai Yahuah, which Brenton renders 'the Lord God' and the English Bibles print as LORD GOD in small capitals. The House restores the doubling rather than flattening it to the Name alone, because the Hebrew doubles it and Yechezkel doubles it more than any other prophet.

THE CHAPTER THAT RUNS AHEAD — 21

The Greek opens chapter twenty-one where the Hebrew opens it, with the oracle toward the south. English Bibles carry those five verses at the end of chapter twenty instead. Through this chapter the volume therefore runs FIVE VERSES AHEAD of the English: 21:6 here is 21:1 there, and 21:37 here is 21:32 there. Everywhere else in the book the numbering agrees. The seam is bracketed on the page where it falls. THE VALLEY, AND THE TWO STICKS Chapter thirty-seven stands as the Greek gives it, and the Greek gives it whole: the bones very many and very dry, the breath from the four winds, the graves opened, and then the two sticks made one stick in the hand — Yehudah and the companions of Yisra'el, one nation upon the mountains, one king over them all. No supply is needed anywhere in this chapter. The two witnesses agree here from first verse to last. THE HOUSE, AND THE ZADOKITE PRIESTHOOD In the closing vision the sons of Tzadok alone come near to minister, and the reader of this House will know why that matters here. The measures are left in English per the numbers rule — cubits, reeds, thousands — because they MEASURE and do not SIGNIFY. Only 40:30 required a supply, where the Greek drops a line of the arches' measurement and the numbering shows the drop. THE TONGUE The names stand in the House manner — Yechezkel ben Buzi the kohen by the river Kevar; Adonai Yahuah; Ben Adam; the keruvim and the Kavod; Oholah and Oholivah; Gog of the land of Magog, with Meshech and Tuval; Tzor and Tzidon; Mitzrayim and Par'oh; Bavel and Nevuchadnetzar; Ashur, Edom, Mo'av, Ammon and the Pelishtim; Tammuz whose women weep at the north gate; the sons of Tzadok. Brenton's Greek spellings are restored to their Hebrew: Chobar to Kevar, Sadduc to Tzadok, Sor to Tzor, Oola and Ooliba to Oholah and Oholivah, Mesoch to Meshech, Thobel to Tuval, Assur to Ashur. YAHUAH is never glossed. Seventy-seven terms take the green gloss at first appearance and stand bare thereafter. House vocabulary carries INSIDE the supplied Hebrew as well. RULE X.4 The text is rendered as it stands. The abominations in the house are not softened, nor the two sisters of chapter twenty-three, nor the barber's razor, nor the death of the prophet's wife with no mourning permitted him, nor the birds called to the great supper of the slain. Where the Greek and the Hebrew part — and in this book they part at the anointed keruv and at the poured-out ruach and at the very last word — both are shown and neither is mended: the Greek holds the page, the Hebrew is supplied in brackets, and the reader is told which is which. Interpretation belongs to this note. The verse keeps the prophet's own voice.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 1

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1Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, that I was in the midst of the captivity by the river of Kevar (Chobar); and the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of Elohim (God). 2On the fifth day of the month; this was the fifth year of the captivity of king Yehoyakim (Joakim). 3And the word of Yahuah came to Jezekiel the kohen (the priest), the son of Buzi, in the land of the Kasdim (the Chaldeans), by the river of Kevar; and the hand of Yahuah was upon me. 4And I looked, and, behold, a sweeping wind came from the north, and a great cloud on it, and there was brightness round about it, and gleaming fire, and in the midst of it as it were the appearance of amber in the midst of the fire, and brightness in it. 5And in the midst as it were the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; the likeness of a man was upon them. 6And each one had four faces, and each one had four wings. 7And their legs were straight; and their feet were winged, and there were sparks, like gleaming brass, and their wings were light. 8And the hand of a man was under their wings on their four sides. 9And the faces of them four turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward. 10And the likeness of their faces was the face of a man, and the face of a lion on the right to the four; and the face of a calf on the left to the four; and the face of an eagle to the four. 11And the four had their wings spread out above; each one had two joined to one another, and two covered their bodies. 12And each one went straight forward: wherever the spirit was going they went, and turned not back. 13And in the midst of the living creatures there was an appearance as of burning coals of fire, as an appearance of lamps turning among the living creatures; and the brightness of fire, and out of the fire came forth lightning. 15And I looked, and, behold, the four had each one wheel on the ground near the living creatures. 16And the appearance of the wheels was as the appearance of beryl: and the four had one likeness: and their work was as it were a wheel in a wheel. 17They went on their four sides: they turned not as they went; 18neither did their backs turn: and they were high: and I beheld them, and the backs of them four were full of eyes round about. 19And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures lifted themselves off the earth, the wheels were lifted off. 20Wherever the cloud happened to be, there was the spirit ready to go: the wheels went and were lifted up with them; because the ruach (the spirit) of life was in the wheels. 21When those went, the wheels went; and when those stood, the wheels stood; and when those lifted themselves off the earth, they were lifted off with them: for the ruach of life was in the wheels. 22And the likeness over the heads of the living creatures was as a firmament, as the appearance of crystal, spread out over their wings above. 23And their wings were spread out under the firmament, reaching one to the other; two wings to each, covering their bodies. 24And I heard the sound of their wings when they went, as the sound of much water: and when they stood, their wings were let down. 25And lo! a voice from above the firmament 26that was over their head, there was as the appearance of a sapphire stone, and the likeness of a throne upon it: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as an appearance of a man above. 27And I saw as it were the resemblance of amber from the appearance of the loins and upwards, and from the appearance of the loins and under I saw an appearance of fire, and the brightness thereof round about. 28As the appearance of the bow when it is in the cloud in days of rain, so was the form of the brightness round about.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 2

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1This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahuah. And I saw and fell upon my face, and heard the voice of one speaking: and he said to me, Ben Adam (son of man), STAND UPON THY FEET, AND I WILL SPEAK TO THEE. 2And the ruach came upon me, and took me up, and raised me, and set me on my feet: and I heard him speaking to me. 3And he said to me, Ben Adam, I send thee forth to the house of Yisra'el (Israel), them that provoke me; who have provoked me, they and their fathers, to this day. 4And thou shalt say to them, Thus saith Yahuah. 5Whether then indeed they shall hear or fear, (for it is a provoking house,) yet they shall know that thou art a prophet in the midst of them. 6And thou, Ben Adam, fear them not, nor be dismayed at their face; (for they will madden and will rise up against thee round about, and thou dwellest in the midst of scorpions): be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their countenance, for it is a provoking house. 7And thou shalt speak My words to them, whether they will hear or fear: for it is a provoking house. 8And thou, Ben Adam, hear him that speaks to thee; be not thou provoking, as the provoking house: open thy mouth, and eat what I give thee. 9And I looked, and behold, a hand stretched out to Me, and in it a volume of a book. 10And he unrolled it before Me: and in it the front and the back were written upon: and there was written in it Lamentation, and mournful song, and woe.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 3

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1And he said to me, Ben Adam, eat this volume, and go and speak to the children of Yisra'el. 2So he opened my mouth, and caused me to eat the volume. And he said to me, Ben Adam, 3thy mouth shall eat, and thy belly shall be filled with this volume that is given to thee. So I ate it; and it was in my mouth as sweet honey. 4And he said to me, Ben Adam, go thy way, and go in to the house of Yisra'el, and speak my words to them. 5For thou art not sent to a people of hard speech, but to the house of Yisra'el; 6neither to many goyim (the nations) of other speech and other tongues, nor of harsh language, whose words thou wouldest not understand: although if I had sent thee to such, they would have hearkened to thee. 7But the house of Yisra'el will not be willing to hearken to thee; for they will not hearken to me: for all the house of Yisra'el are stubborn and hard-hearted. 8And, behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and I will strengthen thy power against their power. 9And it shall be continually stronger than a rock: be not afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their faces, because it is a provoking house. 10And he said to me, Ben Adam, receive into thine heart all the words that I have spoken to thee, and hear them with thine ears. 11And go thy way, go in to the captivity, to the children of thy am (the people), and thou shalt speak to them, and say to them, Thus saith Yahuah; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. 12Then the ruach took Me up, and I heard behind Me the voice as of a great earthquake, saying, Blessed be the glory of Yahuah from His place. 13And I perceived the sound of the wings of the living creatures clapping one to the other, and the sound of the wheels was near them, and the sound of the earthquake. 14And the ruach lifted Me, and took Me up, and I went in the impulse of My ruach; and the hand of Yahuah was mighty upon Me. 15Then I passed through the air and came into the captivity, and went round to them that dwelt by the river of Kevar who were there; and I sat there seven days, conversant in the midst of them. 16And after the seven days the word of Yahuah came to Me, saying, Ben Adam, 17I have made thee a watchman to the house of Yisra'el; and thou shalt hear a word of My mouth, and shalt threaten them from Me. 18When I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou hast not warned him, to give warning to the wicked, to turn from his ways, that he should live; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand. 19But if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, and from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, and thou shalt deliver thy soul. 20And when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits a trespass, and I shall bring punishment before him, he shall die, because thou didst not warn him: he shall even die in his sins, because his righteousness shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. 21But if thou warn the righteous not to sin, and he sin not, the righteous shall surely live, because thou hast warned him; and thou shalt deliver thine own soul. 22And the hand of Yahuah came upon Me; and He said to Me, Arise, and go forth into the plain, and there shalt thou be spoken to. 23And I arose, and went forth to the plain: and, behold, the glory of Yahuah stood there, according to the vision, and according to the glory of Yahuah, which I saw by the river of Kevar: and I fell on my face. 24Then the ruach came upon me, and set me on my feet, and spoke to me, and said to me, Go in, and shut thyself up in the midst of thine house. 25And thou, Ben Adam, behold, bonds are prepared for thee, and they shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not come forth of the midst of them. 26Also I will bind thy tongue, and thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: because it is a provoking house. 27But when I speak to thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith Yahuah, He that hears, let Him hear; and He that is disobedient, let Him be disobedient: because it is a provoking house.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 4

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1And thou, Ben Adam, take thee a brick, and thou shalt set it before thy face, and shalt portray on it the city, even Yerushalayim (Jerusalem). 2And thou shalt besiege it, and build works against it, and throw up a mound round about it, and pitch camps against it, and set up engines round about. 3And take thou to thyself an iron pan, and thou shalt set it for an iron wall between thee and the city: and thou shalt set thy face against it, and it shall be in a siege, and thou shalt besiege it. This is a sign to the children of Yisra'el. 4And thou shalt lie upon thy left side, and lay the iniquities of the house of Yisra'el upon it, according to the number of the hundred and fifty days during which thou shalt lie upon it: and thou shalt bear their iniquities. 5For I have appointed thee their iniquities for a number of days, for a hundred and ninety days: so thou shalt bear the iniquities of the house of Yisra'el. 6And thou shalt accomplish this, and then shalt lie on thy right side, and shalt bear the iniquities of the house of Yehudah (Judah) forty days: I have appointed thee a day for a year. 7So thou shalt set thy face to the siege of Yerushalayim, and shalt strengthen thine arm, and shalt prophesy against it. 8And, behold, I have prepared bonds for thee, and thou mayest not turn from thy one side to the other, until the days of thy siege shall be accomplished. 9Take thou also to thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and bread-corn; and thou shalt cast them into one earthen vessel, and shalt make them into loaves for thyself; and thou shalt eat them a hundred and ninety days, according to the number of the days during which thou sleepest on thy side. 10And thou shalt eat thy food by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat them. 11And thou shalt drink water by measure, even from time to time thou shalt drink the sixth part of a hin. 12And thou shalt eat them as a barley cake: thou shalt bake them before their eyes in man's dung. 13And thou shalt say, Thus saith Adonai Yahuah (the Lord GOD) of Yisra'el; Thus shall the children of Yisra'el eat unclean things among goyim. 14Then I said, Not so, Adonai Yahuah of Yisra'el: surely My soul has not been defiled with uncleanness; nor have I eaten that which died of itself or was torn of beasts from My birth until now; neither has any corrupt flesh entered into My mouth. 15And he said to Me, Behold, I have given thee dung of oxen instead of man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy loaves upon it. 16And he said to Me, Ben Adam, behold, I break the support of bread in Yerushalayim: and they shall eat bread by weight and in want; and shall drink water by measure, and in a state of ruin: 17that they may want bread and water; and a man and his brother shall be brought to ruin, and they shall pine away in their iniquities.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 5

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1And thou, Ben Adam, take thee a sword sharper than a barber's razor; thou shalt procure it for thyself, and shalt bring it upon thine head, and upon thy beard: and thou shalt take a pair of scales, and shalt separate the hair. 2A fourth part thou shalt burn in the fire in the midst of the city, at the fulfilment of the days of the siege: and thou shalt take a fourth part, and burn it up in the midst of it: and a fourth part thou shalt cut with a sword round about it: and a fourth part thou shalt scatter to the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them. 3And thou shalt take thence a few in number, and shalt wrap them in the fold of thy garment. 4And thou shalt take of these again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them up with fire: from thence shall come forth fire; and thou shalt say to the whole house of Yisra'el, 5Thus saith Yahuah; This is Yerushalayim: I have set her and the countries round about her in the midst of goyim. 6And thou shalt declare Mine ordinances to the lawless one from out of goyim; and My statutes to the sinful one of the countries round about her: because they have rejected Mine ordinances, and have not walked in My statutes. 7Therefore thus saith Yahuah, Because your occasion for sin has been taken from goyim round about you, and ye have not walked in My statutes, nor kept Mine ordinances, nay, ye have not even done according to the ordinances of goyim round about you; therefore thus saith Yahuah; 8Behold, I am against thee, and I will execute judgement in the midst of thee in the sight of goyim. 9And I will do in thee things which I have not done, and the like of which I will not do again, for all thine abominations. 10Therefore the fathers shall eat their children in the midst of thee, and children shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgements in thee, and I will scatter all that are left of thee to every wind. 11Therefore, as I live, saith Yahuah; surely, because thou hast defiled My holy things with all thine abominations, I also will reject thee; Mine eye shall not spare, and I will have no mercy. 12A fourth part of thee shall be cut off by pestilence, and a fourth part of thee shall be consumed in the midst of thee with famine: and as for another fourth part of thee, I will scatter them to every wind; and a fourth part of thee shall fall by the sword round about thee, and I will draw out a sword after them. 13And My wrath and Mine anger shall be accomplished upon them: and thou shalt know that I Yahuah have spoken in My jealousy, when I have accomplished Mine anger upon them. 14And I will make thee desolate, and thy daughters round about thee, in the sight of every one that passes through. 15And thou shalt be mourned over and miserable among goyim round about thee, when I have executed judgements in thee in the vengeance of My wrath. I Yahuah have spoken. 16And when I have sent against them shafts of famine, then they shall be consumed, and I will break the strength of thy bread. 17So I will send forth against thee famine and evil beasts, and I will take vengeance upon thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through upon thee; and I will bring a sword upon thee round about. I Yahuah have spoken.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 6

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1And the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 2Ben Adam, set thy face against the mountains of Yisra'el, and prophesy against them; 3and thou shalt say, Ye mountains of Yisra'el, hear the word of Yahuah; thus saith Yahuah to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the valleys, and to the forests; Behold, I bring a sword upon you, and your high places shall be utterly destroyed. 4And your altars shall be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. 5And I will scatter your bones round about your altars, 6and in all your habitations: the cities shall be made desolate, and the high places utterly laid waste; that your altars may be destroyed, and your idols be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats be abolished. 7And slain men shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am Yahuah. 8When there are some of you escaping from the sword among goyim, and when ye are scattered in the countries; 9then they of you that escape among goyim whither they were carried captive shall remember Me; (I have sworn an oath against their heart that goes a-whoring from Me, and their eyes that go a-whoring after their practices;) and they shall mourn over themselves for all their abominations. 10And they shall know that I Yahuah have spoken. 11Thus saith Yahuah; Clap with thy hand, and stamp with thy foot and say, Aha, aha! for all the abominations of the house of Yisra'el: they shall fall by the sword, and by pestilence, and by famine. 12He that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that is far off shall die by the pestilence; and he that is in the siege shall be consumed with famine: and I will accomplish Mine anger upon them. 13Then ye shall know that I am Yahuah, when your slain are in the midst of your idols round about your altars, on every high hill, and under every shady tree, where they offered a sweet savour to all their idols. 14And I will stretch out My hand against them, and I will make the land desolate and ruined from the wilderness of Deblatha, in all their habitations: and ye shall know that I am Yahuah.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 7

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1Moreover the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, Also, thou, Ben Adam, say, 2Thus saith Yahuah; An end is come to the land of Yisra'el, the end is come on the four corners of the land. 3The end is come 4on thee, the inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the day has drawn nigh, not with tumult, nor with pangs. 5Now I will pour out Mine anger upon thee near at hand, and I will accomplish My wrath on thee: and I will judge thee for thy ways, and recompense upon thee all thine abominations. 6Mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy: for I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt know that I am Yahuah that smite thee. 7Now the end is come to thee, and I will send judgement upon thee: and I will take vengeance on thy ways, and will recompense all thine abominations upon thee. 8Mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy: for I will recompense thy way upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt know that I am Yahuah. 9For thus saith Yahuah; Behold, the end is come. 10Behold, the day of Yahuah! although the rod has blossomed, 11pride has sprung up, and will break the staff of the wicked one, and that not with tumult, nor with haste. 12The time is come, behold the day: let not the buyer rejoice, and let not the seller mourn. 13For the buyer shall never again return to the seller, neither shall a man cleave with the eye of hope to his life. 14Sound ye the trumpet, and pass sentence on all together. 15There shall be war with the sword without, and famine and pestilence within: he that is in the field shall die by the sword; and famine and pestilence shall destroy them that are in the city. 16But they that escape of them shall be delivered, and shall be upon the mountains: and I will slay all the rest, every one for his iniquities. 17All hands shall be completely weakened, and all thighs shall be defiled with moisture. 18And they shall gird themselves with sackcloth, and amazement shall cover them; and shame shall be upon them, even upon every face, and baldness upon every head. 19Their silver shall be cast forth in the streets, and their gold shall be despised: their souls shall not be satisfied, and their bellies shall not be filled: for it was the punishment of their iniquities. 20As for their choice ornaments, they employed them for pride, and they made of them images of their abominations: therefore have I made them uncleanness to them. 21And I will deliver them into the hands of strangers to make them a prey, and to the pests of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane them. 22And I will turn away My face from them, and they shall defile My charge, and shall go in to them unguardedly, and profane them. 23And they shall work uncleanness: because the land is full of strange nations, and the city is full of iniquity. 24And I will turn back the boasting of their strength; and their holy things shall be defiled. 25And though propitiation shall come, and one shall seek peace, yet there shall be none. 26There shall be woe upon woe, and there shall be message upon message; and a vision shall be sought from a prophet; but the Torah (the law) shall perish from the kohen, and counsel from the zekenim (the elders). 27The prince shall clothe himself with desolation, and the hands of the am of the land shall be made feeble: I will do to them according to their ways, and according to their judgements will I punish them; and they shall know that I am Yahuah.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 8

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1And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the fifth month, on the fifth day of the month, I was sitting in the house, and the zekenim of Yehudah were sitting before me: and the hand of Yahuah came upon me. 2And I looked, and, behold, the likeness of a man: from his loins and downwards there was fire, and from his loins upwards there was as the appearance of amber. 3And he stretched forth the likeness of a hand, and took me up by the crown of my head; and the ruach lifted me up between the earth and sky, and brought me to Yerushalayim in a vision of Elohim, to the porch of the gate that looks to the north, where was the pillar of the Purchaser. 4And, behold, the glory of Adonai Yahuah of Yisra'el was there, according to the vision which I saw in the plain. 5And he said to me, Ben Adam, lift up thine eyes toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes toward the north, and, behold, I looked from the north toward the eastern gate. 6And he said to me, Ben Adam, hast thou seen what these do? They commit great abominations here so that I should keep away from my sanctuary: and thou shalt see yet greater iniquities. 7And he brought me to the porch of the court. 8And he said to me, Ben Adam, dig: so I dug, and behold a door. 9And he said to me, Go in, and behold the iniquities which they practise here. 10So I went in and looked; and beheld vain abominations, and all the idols of the house of Yisra'el, portrayed upon them round about. 11And seventy men of the zekenim of the house of Yisra'el, and Yekhonyahu (Jechonias) the son of Shafan (Saphan) stood in their presence in the midst of them, and each one held his censer in his hand; and the smoke of the incense went up. 12And he said to me, Thou hast seen, Ben Adam, what the zekenim of the house of Yisra'el do, each one of them in their secret chamber: because they have said, Yahuah sees not; Yahuah has forsaken the earth. 13And he said to me, Thou shalt see yet greater iniquities which these do. 14And he brought me in to the porch of the house of Yahuah that looks to the north; and, behold, there were women sitting there lamenting for Tammuz (Thammuz). 15And he said to me, Ben Adam, thou hast seen; but thou shalt yet see evil practices greater than these. 16And he brought me into the inner court of the house of Yahuah, and at the entrance of the Heichal (the temple) of Yahuah, between the porch and the mizbeach (the altar), were about twenty men, with their back parts toward the Heichal of Yahuah, and their faces turned the opposite way; and these were worshipping the sun. 17And he said to me, Ben Adam, thou hast seen this. Is it a little thing to the house of Yehudah to practise the iniquities which they have practised here? for they have filled the land with iniquity: and, behold, these are as scorners. 18Therefore will I deal with them in wrath: mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 9

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1And he cried in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, The judgement of the city has drawn nigh; and each had the weapons of destruction in his hand. 2And, behold, six men came from the way of the high gate that looks toward the north, and each one's axe was in his hand; and there was one man in the midst of them clothed with a long robe down to the feet, and a sapphire girdle was on his loins: and they came in and stood near the brazen altar. 3And the glory of the Elohim of Yisra'el, that was upon them, went up from the keruvim (the cherubim) to the porch of the house. And He called the man that was clothed with the long robe, who had the girdle on His loins; 4and said to him, Go through the midst of Yerushalayim, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that groan and that grieve for all the iniquities that are done in the midst of them. 5And he said to the first in my hearing, Go after him into the city, and smite: and let not your eyes spare, and have no mercy. 6Slay utterly old man and youth, and virgin, and infants, and women: but go ye not nigh any on whom is the mark: begin at my sanctuary. So they began with the zaken (the elder) men who were within in the house. 7And he said to them, Defile the house, and go out and fill the ways with dead bodies, and smite. 8And it came to pass as they were smiting, that I fell upon my face, and cried out, and said, Alas, O Yahuah! wilt thou destroy the remnant of Yisra'el, in pouring out thy wrath upon Yerushalayim? 9Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Yisra'el and Yehudah is become very exceedingly great: for the land is filled with many goyim, and the city is filled with iniquity and uncleanness: because they have said, Yahuah has forsaken the earth, Yahuah looks not upon it. 10Therefore mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have any mercy: I have recompensed their ways upon their heads. 11And, behold, the man clothed with the long robe, and girt with the girdle about his loins, answered and said, I have done as thou didst command me.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 10

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1Then I looked, and, behold, over the firmament that was above the head of the keruvim there was a likeness of a throne over them, as a sapphire stone. 2And he said to the man clothed with the long robe, Go in between the wheels that are under the keruvim, and fill thine hands with coals of fire from between the keruvim, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight. 3And the keruvim stood on the right hand of the house, as the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. 4Then the glory of Yahuah departed from the keruvim to the porch of the house; and the cloud filled the house, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of Yahuah. 5And the sound of the keruvim' wings was heard as far as the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty Elohim speaking. 6And it came to pass, when he gave a charge to the man clothed with the sacred robe, saying, Take fire from between the wheels from between the keruvim, that he went in, and stood near the wheels. 7And he stretched forth his hand into the midst of the fire that was between the keruvim, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of the man clothed with the sacred robe: and he took it, and went out. 8And I saw the keruvim having the likeness of men's hands under their wings. 9And I saw, and behold, four wheels stood by the keruvim, one wheel by each keruv (the cherub): and the appearance of the wheels was as the appearance of a carbuncle stone. 10And as for their appearance, there was one likeness to the four, as if there should be a wheel in the midst of a wheel. 11When they went, they went on their four sides; they turned not when they went, for whichever way the first head looked, they went; and they turned not as they went. 12And their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about the four wheels. 13And these wheels were called Gelgel in my hearing. 15And the keruvim were the same living creature which I saw by the river of Kevar. 16And when the keruvim went, the wheels went, and they were close to them: and when the keruvim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, their wheels turned not. 17When they stood, the wheels stood; and when they mounted up, the wheels mounted up with them: because the ruach of life was in them. 18Then the glory of Yahuah departed from the house, and went up on the keruvim. 19And the keruvim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went forth, the wheels were also beside them, and they stood at the entrance of the front gate of the house of Yahuah; and the glory of the Elohim of Yisra'el was upon them above. 20This is the living creature which I saw under the Elohim of Yisra'el by the river of Kevar; and I knew that they were keruvim. 21Each one had four faces, and each one had eight wings; and under their wings was the likeness of men's hands. 22And as for the likeness of their faces, these are the same faces which I saw under the glory of the Elohim of Yisra'el by the river of Kevar: and they went each straight forward.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 11

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1Moreover the ruach took me up, and brought me to the front gate of the house of Yahuah, that looks eastward: and behold at the entrance of the gate were about five and twenty men; and I saw in the midst of them Yekhonyahu the son of Ezer, and Phaltias the son of Banæas, the leaders of the am. 2And Yahuah said to Me, Ben Adam, these are the men that devise vanities, and take evil counsel in this city: 3who say, Have not the houses been newly built? This is the caldron, and we are the flesh. 4Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, Ben Adam. 5And the ruach of Yahuah fell upon Me, and said to Me, say; Thus saith Yahuah; Thus have ye said, O house of Yisra'el: and I know the devices of your spirit. 6Ye have multiplied your dead in this city, and ye have filled your ways with slain men. 7Therefore thus saith Yahuah; Your dead whom ye have smitten in the midst of it, these are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it. 8Ye fear the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith Yahuah. 9And I will bring you forth out of the midst of it, and will deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgements among you. 10Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you on the mountains of Yisra'el; and ye shall know that I am Yahuah. 13And it came to pass, while I was prophesying, that Phaltias the son of Banæas died. And I fell upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Alas, alas, O Yahuah! wilt thou utterly destroy the remnant of Yisra'el? 14And the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 15Ben Adam, thy brethren, and the men of thy captivity, and all the house of Yisra'el are come to the full, to whom the inhabitants of Yerushalayim said, Keep ye far away from Yahuah: the land is given to us for an inheritance. 16Therefore say thou, Thus saith Yahuah; I will cast them off among goyim, and will disperse them into every land, yet will I be to them for a little sanctuary in the countries which they shall enter. 17Therefore say thou, Thus saith Yahuah; I will also take them from goyim, and gather them out of the lands wherein I have scattered them, and will give them the land of Yisra'el. 18And they shall enter in there, and shall remove all the abominations of it, and all its iniquities from it. 19And I will give them another heart, and will put a new spirit within them; and will extract the heart of stone from their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh: 20that they may walk in My commandments, and keep Mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be to Me a people, and I will be to them an Elohim. 21And as for the heart set upon their abominations and their iniquities, as their heart went after them, I have recompensed their ways on their heads, saith Yahuah. 22Then the keruvim lifted up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the Elohim of Yisra'el was over them above. 23And the glory of Yahuah went up from the midst of the city, and stood on the mountain which was in front of the city. 24And the ruach took me up, and brought me to the land of the Kasdim, to the captivity, in a vision by the ruach of Elohim: and I went up after the vision which I saw. 25And I spoke to the captivity all the words of Yahuah which He had shewed me.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 12

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1And the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 2Ben Adam, thou dwellest in the midst of the iniquities of those, who have eyes to see, and see not; and have ears to hear, and hear not: because it is a provoking house. 3Thou therefore, Ben Adam, prepare thyself baggage for going into captivity by day in their sight; and thou shalt be led into captivity from thy place into another place in their sight; that they may see that it is a provoking house. 4And thou shalt carry forth thy baggage, baggage for captivity, by day before their eyes: and thou shalt go forth at even, as a captive goes forth, in their sight. 5Dig for thyself into the wall of the house, and thou shalt pass through it in their sight: 6thou shalt be lifted up on men's shoulders, and shalt go forth in secret: thou shalt cover thy face, and shalt not see the ground: because I have made thee a sign to the house of Yisra'el. 7And I did thus according to all that he commanded me; and I carried forth my baggage for captivity by day, and in the evening I dug through the wall for myself, and went out secretly; I was taken up on men's shoulders before them. 8And the word of Yahuah came to me in the morning, saying, 9Ben Adam, have not the house of Yisra'el, the provoking house, said to thee, What doest thou? 10Say to them, Thus saith Adonai Yahuah, the Prince and the Ruler in Yisra'el, even to all the house of Yisra'el who are in the midst of them: 11say, I am performing signs: as I have done, so shall it be to him: they shall go into banishment and captivity. 12And the nasi (the prince) in the midst of them shall be borne upon shoulders, and shall go forth in secret through the wall, and shall dig so that he may go forth thereby: he shall cover his face, that he may not be seen by any eye, and he himself shall not see the ground. 13And I will spread out My net upon him, and he shall be caught in My toils: and I will bring him to Bavel (Babylon) to the land of the Kasdim; but he shall not see it, though he shall die there. 14And I will scatter to every wind all his assistants round about him, and all that help him; and I will draw out a sword after them. 15And they shall know that I am Yahuah, when I have scattered them among goyim; and I will disperse them in the countries. 16And I will leave of them a few men in number spared from the sword, and from famine, and from pestilence; that they may declare all their iniquities among goyim whither they have gone; and they shall know that I am Yahuah. 17And the word of Yahuah came to Me, saying, 18Ben Adam, eat thy bread with sorrow, and drink thy water with torment and affliction. 19And thou shalt say to the am of the land, Thus saith Yahuah to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim on the land of Yisra'el; They shall eat their bread in scarcity, and shall drink their water in desolation, that the land may be desolate with all that it contains: for all that dwell in it are ungodly. 20And their inhabited cities shall be laid utterly waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am Yahuah. 21And the word of Yahuah came to Me, saying, 22Ben Adam, what is your parable on the land of Yisra'el, that ye say, The days are long, the vision has perished? 23Therefore say to them, Thus saith Yahuah; I will even set aside this parable, and the house of Yisra'el shall no more at all use this parable: for thou shalt say to them, The days are at hand, and the import of every vision. 24For there shall no more be any false vision, nor any one prophesying flatteries in the midst of the children of Yisra'el. 25For I Yahuah will speak My words; I will speak and perform them, and will no more delay, for in your days, O provoking house, I will speak the word, and will perform it, saith Yahuah. 26Moreover the word of Yahuah came to Me, saying, 27Ben Adam, behold, the provoking house of Yisra'el boldly say, The vision which this man sees is for many days, and he prophesies for times afar off. 28Therefore say to them, Thus saith Yahuah; Henceforth none of My words shall linger, which I shall speak: I will speak and do, saith Yahuah.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 13

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1And the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 2Ben Adam, prophesy against the nevi'im (the prophets) of Yisra'el, and thou shalt prophesy, and shalt say to them, Hear ye the word of Yahuah: 3Thus saith Yahuah, Woe to them that prophesy out of their own heart, and who see nothing at all. 4Thy prophets, O Yisra'el, are like foxes in the deserts. 5They have not continued steadfast, and they have gathered flocks against the house of Yisra'el, they that say, 6In the day of Yahuah, have not stood, seeing false visions, prophesying vanities, who say, Yahuah saith, and Yahuah has not sent them, and they began to try to confirm the word. 7Have ye not seen a false vision? and spoken vain prophecies? 8And therefore say, Thus saith Yahuah; Because your words are false, and your prophecies are vain, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith Yahuah. 9And I will stretch forth My hand against the nevi'im that see false visions, and those that utter vanities: they shall not partake of the instruction of My am, neither shall they be written in the roll of the house of Yisra'el, and they shall not enter into the land of Yisra'el; and they shall know that I am Yahuah. 10Because they have caused My am to err, saying, Peace; and there is no peace; and one builds a wall, and they plaster it,—it shall fall. 11Say to them that plaster it, It shall fall; and there shall be a flooding rain; and I will send great stones upon their joinings, and they shall fall; and there shall be a sweeping wind, and it shall be broken. 12And lo! the wall has fallen; and will they not say to you, Where is your plaster wherewith ye plastered it? 13Therefore thus saith Yahuah; I will even cause to burst forth a sweeping blast with fury, and there shall be a flooding rain in My wrath; and in My fury I will bring on great stones for complete destruction. 14And I will break down the wall which ye have plastered, and it shall fall; and I will lay it on the ground, and its foundations shall be discovered, and it shall fall; and ye shall be consumed with rebukes: and ye shall know that I am Yahuah. 15And I will accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that plaster it; it shall fall: and I said to you, The wall is not, nor they that plaster it, 16even the nevi'im of Yisra'el, who prophesy concerning Yerushalayim, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith Yahuah. 17And thou, Ben Adam, set thy face firmly against the daughters of thy am, that prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy against them. 18And thou shalt say, Thus saith Yahuah, Woe to the women that sew pillows under every elbow, and make kerchiefs on the head of every stature to pervert souls! The souls of My am are perverted, and they have saved souls alive. 19And they have dishonoured Me before My am for a handful of barley, and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls which should not die, and to save alive the souls which should not live, while ye speak to a people hearing vain speeches. 20Therefore thus saith Adonai Yahuah, Behold, I am against your pillows, whereby ye there confound souls, and I will tear them away from your arms, and will set at liberty their souls which ye pervert to scatter them. 21And I will tear your kerchiefs, and will rescue My am out of your hand, and they shall no longer be in your hands to be confounded; and ye shall know that I am Yahuah. 22Because ye have perverted the heart of the righteous, whereas I perverted him not, and that in order to strengthen the hands of the wicked, that he should not at all turn from his evil way and live: 23therefore ye shall not see false visions, and ye shall no more utter prophecies: but I will deliver My am out of your hand; and ye shall know that I am Yahuah.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 14

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1And there came to me men of the am of Yisra'el, of the zekenim, and sat before me. 2And the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 3Ben Adam, these men have conceived their devices in their hearts, and have set before their faces the punishment of their iniquities: shall I indeed answer them? 4Therefore speak to them, and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith Yahuah; Any man of the house of Yisra'el, who shall conceive His devices in His heart, and shall set the punishment of His iniquity before His face, and shall come to the navi (the prophet); I Yahuah will answer Him according to the things in which His mind is entangled, 5that he should turn aside the house of Yisra'el, according to their hearts that are estranged from Me in their thoughts. 6Therefore say to the house of Yisra'el, Thus saith Adonai Yahuah, Be converted, and turn from your evil practices, and from all your sins, and turn your faces back again. 7For any man of the house of Yisra'el, or of the gerim that sojourn in Yisra'el, who shall separate Himself from Me, and conceive His imaginations in His heart, and set before His face the punishment of His iniquity, and come to the navi to enquire of Him concerning Me; I Yahuah will answer Him, according to the things wherein He is entangled. 8And I will set My face against that man, and will make him desolate and ruined, and will cut him off from the midst of My am; and ye shall know that I am Yahuah. 9And if a prophet should cause to err and should speak, I Yahuah have caused that prophet to err, and will stretch out My hand upon Him, and will utterly destroy Him from the midst of My am Yisra'el. 10And they shall bear their iniquity according to the trespass of him that asks; and it shall be in like manner to the navi according to the trespass: 11that the house of Yisra'el may no more go astray from Me, and that they may no more defile themselves with any of their transgressions: so shall they be My am, and I will be their Elohim, saith Yahuah. 12And the word of Yahuah came to Me, saying, 13Ben Adam, if a land shall sin against Me by committing a trespass, then will I stretch out My hand upon it, and will break its staff of bread, and will send forth famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast. 14And though these three men should be in the midst of it, Noe, and Daniel, and Job, they alone should be delivered by their righteousness, saith Yahuah. 15If again I bring evil beasts upon the land, and take vengeance upon it, and it be ruined, and there be no one to pass through for fear of the wild beasts: 16and if these three men should be in the midst of it, as I live, saith Yahuah, neither sons nor daughters shall be saved, but these only shall be saved, and the land shall be destroyed. 17Or again if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Let the sword go through the land; and I cut off from them man and beast: 18though these three men were in the midst of it, as I live, saith Yahuah, they shall not deliver sons or daughters, but they only shall be saved themselves. 19Or if again I send pestilence upon that land, and pour out My wrath upon it in blood, to destroy from off it man and beast: 20and should Noe, and Daniel, and Job, be in the midst of it, as I live, saith Yahuah, there shall be left them neither sons nor daughters; only they by their righteousness shall deliver their souls. 21Thus saith Yahuah, And if I even send upon Yerushalayim My four sore judgements, sword, and famine, and evil beasts, and pestilence, to destroy from out of it man and beast; 22yet, behold, there shall be men left in it, the escaped thereof, who shall lead forth of it sons and daughters: behold, they shall go forth to you, and ye shall see their ways and their thoughts: and ye shall mourn over the evils which I have brought upon Yerushalayim, even all the evils which I have brought upon it. 23And they shall comfort you, because ye shall see their ways and their thoughts: and ye shall know that I have not done in vain all that I have done in it, saith Yahuah.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 15

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1And the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 2And thou, Ben Adam—of all the wood of the branches that are among the trees of the forest, what shall be made of the wood of the vine? 3Will they take wood of it to make it fit for work? will they take of it a peg to hang any vessel upon it? 4It is only given to the fire to be consumed; the fire consumes that which is yearly pruned of it, and it is utterly gone. Will it be useful for any work? 5Not even while it is yet whole will it be useful for any work: if the fire shall have utterly consumed it, will it still be fit for work? 6Therefore say, Thus saith Yahuah, As the vine-tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given up to the fire to be consumed, so have I given up the inhabitants of Yerushalayim. 7And I will set My face against them; they shall go forth of the fire, and yet fire shall devour them; and they shall know that I am Yahuah, when I have set My face against them. 8And I will give up the land to ruin, because they have utterly transgressed, saith Yahuah.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 16

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1Moreover the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 2Ben Adam, testify to Yerushalayim of her iniquities; 3and thou shalt say, Thus saith Yahuah to Yerushalayim; Thy root and thy birth are of the land of Kena'an (Chanaan): thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Chettite. 4And as for thy birth in the day wherein thou wast born, thou didst not bind thy breasts, and thou wast not washed in water, neither wast thou salted with salt, neither wast thou swathed in swaddling-bands. 5Nor did Mine eye pity thee, to do for thee one of all these things, to feel at all for thee; but thou wast cast out on the face of the field, because of the deformity of thy person, in the day wherein thou wast born. 6And I passed by to thee, and saw thee polluted in thy blood; and I said to thee, Let there be life out of thy blood: 7increase; I have made thee as the springing grass of the field. So thou didst increase and grow, and didst enter into great cities: thy breasts were set, and thy hair grew, whereas thou wast naked and bare. 8And I passed by thee and saw thee, and, behold, it was thy time and a time of resting; and I spread My wings over thee, and covered thy shame, and sware to thee: and I entered into covenant with thee, saith Yahuah, and thou becamest Mine. 9And I washed thee in water, and washed thy blood from thee, and anointed thee with oil. 10And I clothed thee with embroidered garments, and clothed thee beneath with purple, and girded thee with fine linen, and clothed thee with silk, 11and decked thee also with ornaments, and put bracelets on thine hands, and a necklace on thy neck. 12And I put a pendant on thy nostril, and rings in thine ears, and a crown of glory on thine head. 13So thou wast adorned with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and variegated work: thou didst eat fine flour, and oil, and honey, and didst become extremely beautiful. 14And thy name went forth among goyim for thy beauty: because it was perfected with elegance, and in the comeliness which I put upon thee, saith Yahuah. 15Thou didst trust in thy beauty, and didst go a-whoring because of thy renown, and didst pour out thy fornication on every passer by. 16And thou didst take of thy garments, and madest to thyself idols of needlework, and didst go a-whoring after them; therefore thou shalt never come in, nor shall the like take place. 17And thou tookest thy fair ornaments of My gold and of My silver, of what I gave thee, and thou madest to thyself male images, and thou didst commit whoredom with them. 18And thou didst take thy variegated apparel and didst clothe them, and thou didst set before them Mine oil and Mine incense. 19And thou tookest My bread which I gave thee, (yea I fed thee with fine flour and oil and honey) and didst set them before them for a sweet-smelling savour: yea, it was so, saith Yahuah. 20And thou tookest thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou borest, and didst sacrifice these to them to be destroyed. Thou didst go a-whoring as if that were little, 21and didst slay thy children, and gavest them up in offering them to them for an expiation. 22This is beyond all thy fornication, and thou didst not remember thine infancy, when thou wast naked and bare, and didst live though defiled in thy blood. 23And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, saith Yahuah, 24that thou didst build thyself a house of fornication, and didst make thyself a public place in every street; 25and on the head of every way thou didst set up thy fornications, and didst defile thy beauty, and didst open thy feet to every passer by, and didst multiply thy fornication. 26And thou didst go a-whoring after the children of Mitzrayim (Egypt) thy neighbours, great of flesh; and didst go a-whoring often to provoke Me to anger. 27And if I stretch out My hand against thee, then will I abolish thy statutes, and deliver thee up to the wills of them that hate thee, even to the daughters of the Pelishtim (the Philistines) that turned thee aside from the way wherein thou sinnedst. 28And thou didst go a-whoring to the daughters of Ashur (Assyria), and not even thus wast thou satisfied; yea, thou didst go a-whoring, and wast not satisfied. 29And thou didst multiply thy covenants with the land of the Kasdim; and not even with these wast thou satisfied. 30Why should I make a covenant with thy daughter, saith Yahuah, while thou doest all these things, the works of a harlot? and thou hast gone a-whoring in a threefold degree with thy daughters. 31Thou hast built a house of harlotry in every top of a way, and hast set up thine high place in every street; and thou didst become as a harlot gathering hires. 32An adulteress resembles thee, taking rewards of her husband. 33She has even given rewards to all that went a-whoring after her, and thou hast given rewards to all thy lovers, yea, thou didst load them with rewards, that they should come to thee from every side for thy fornication. 34And there has happened in thee perverseness in thy fornication beyond other women, and they have committed fornication with thee, in that thou givest hires over and above, and hires were not given to thee; and thus perverseness happened in thee. 35Therefore, harlot, hear the word of Yahuah: 36Thus saith Yahuah, Because thou hast poured forth thy money, therefore thy shame shall be discovered in thy harlotry with thy lovers, and with regard to all the imaginations of thine iniquities, and for the blood of thy children which thou hast given to them. 37Therefore, behold, I will gather all thy lovers with whom thou hast consorted, and all whom thou hast loved, with all whom thou didst hate; and I will gather them against thee round about, and will expose thy wickedness to them, and they shall see all thy shame. 38And I will be avenged on thee with the vengeance of an adulteress, and I will bring upon thee blood of fury and jealousy. 39And I will deliver thee into their hands, and they shall break down thy house of harlotry, and destroy thine high place; and they shall strip thee of thy garments, and shall take thy proud ornaments, and leave thee naked and bare. 40And they shall bring multitudes upon thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and pierce thee with their swords. 41And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and shall execute vengeance on thee in the sight of many women: and I will turn thee back from harlotry, and I will no more give thee rewards. 42So will I slacken My fury against thee, and My jealousy shall be removed from thee, and I will rest, and be no more careful for thee. 43Because thou didst not remember thine infancy, and thou didst grieve Me in all these things; therefore, behold, I have recompensed thy ways upon thine head, saith Yahuah: for thus hast thou wrought ungodliness above all thine other iniquities. 44These are all the things they have spoken against thee in a proverb, saying, 45As is the mother, so is thy mother's daughter: thou art she that has rejected her husband and her children; and the sisters of thy sisters have rejected their husbands and their children: your mother was a Chettite, and your father an Amorite. 46Your elder sister who dwells on thy left hand is Shomron (Samaria), she and her daughters: and thy younger sister, that dwells on thy right hand, is Sedom (Sodom) and her daughters. 47Yet notwithstanding thou hast not walked in their ways, neither hast thou done according to their iniquities within a little, but thou hast exceeded them in all thy ways. 48As I live, saith Yahuah, this Sedom and her daughters have not done as thou and thy daughters have done. 49Moreover this was the sin of thy sister Sedom, pride: she and her daughters lived in pleasure, in fulness of bread and in abundance: this belonged to her and her daughters, and they helped not the hand of the poor and needy. 50And they boasted, and wrought iniquities before me: so I cut them off as I saw fit. 51Also Shomron has not sinned according to half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine iniquities beyond them, and thou hast justified thy sisters in all thine iniquities which thou hast committed. 52Thou therefore bear thy punishment, for that thou hast corrupted thy sisters by thy sins which thou hast committed beyond them; and thou hast made them appear more righteous than thyself: thou therefore be ashamed, and bear thy dishonour, in that thou hast justified thy sisters. 53And I will turn their captivity, even the captivity of Sedom and her daughters; and I will turn the captivity of Shomron and her daughters; and I will turn thy captivity in the midst of them: 54that thou mayest bear thy punishment, and be dishonoured for all that thou hast done in provoking me to anger. 55And thy sister Sedom and her daughters shall be restored as they were at the beginning, and thou and thy daughters shall be restored as ye were at the beginning. 56And surely thy sister Sedom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the days of thy pride: 57before thy wickedness was discovered, even now thou art the reproach of the daughters of Aram (Syria), and of all that are round about her, even of the daughters of the Pelishtim that compass thee round about. 58As for thine ungodliness and thine iniquities, thou hast borne them, saith Yahuah. 59Thus saith Yahuah; I will even do to thee as thou hast done, as thou hast dealt shamefully in these things to transgress My brit (the covenant). 60And I will remember My brit made with thee in the days of thine infancy, and I will establish to thee an everlasting covenant. 61Then thou shalt remember thy way, and shalt be utterly dishonoured when thou receivest thine elder sisters with thy younger ones: and I will give them to thee for building up, but not by thy covenant. 62And I will establish My brit with thee; and thou shalt know that I am Yahuah: 63that thou mayest remember, and be ashamed, and mayest no more be able to open thy mouth for thy shame, when I am reconciled to thee for all that thou hast done, saith Yahuah.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 17

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1And the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 2Ben Adam, relate a tale, and speak a parable to the house of Yisra'el: 3and thou shalt say, Thus saith Yahuah; A great eagle with large wings, spreading them out very far, with many claws, which has the design of entering into Levanon (Lebanon)—and He took the choice branches of the cedar: 4he cropped off the ends of the tender twigs, and brought them into the land of Kena'an; he laid them up in a walled city. 5And he took of the seed of the land, and sowed it in a field planted by much water; he set it in a conspicuous place. 6And it sprang up, and became a weak and little vine, so that the branches thereof appeared upon it, and its roots were under it: and it became a vine, and put forth shoots, and sent forth its tendrils. 7And there was another great eagle, with great wings and many claws: and, behold, this vine bent itself round toward him, and her roots were turned towards him, and she sent forth her branches towards him, that he might water her together with the growth of her plantation. 8She thrives in a fair field by much water, to produce shoots and bear fruit, that she might become a great vine. 9Therefore say, Thus saith Yahuah; Shall it prosper? shall not the roots of her tender stem and her fruit be blighted? yea, all her early shoots shall be dried up, and that not by a mighty arm, nor by many people, to tear her up from her roots. 10And, behold, it thrives: shall it prosper? shall it not wither as soon as the east wind touches it? it shall be withered together with the growth of its shoots. 11Moreover the word of Yahuah came to Me, saying, 12Ben Adam, say now to the provoking house, Know ye not what these things were? say to them, Whenever the king of Bavel shall come against Yerushalayim, then he shall take her king and her princes, and shall take them home to Bavel. 13And he shall take of the seed royal, and shall make a covenant with him, and shall bind him with an oath: and he shall take the princes of the land: 14that it may become a weak kingdom, so as never to lift itself up, that he may keep his covenant, and establish it. 15And if he shall revolt from him, to send his messengers into Mitzrayim, that they may give him horses and much people; shall he prosper? shall he that acts as an adversary be preserved? and shall he that transgresses the brit be preserved? 16As I live, saith Yahuah, verily in the same place where the king is that made Him king, who dishonoured My oath, and who broke My brit, shall He die with Him in the midst of Bavel. 17And Par'oh (Pharao) shall make war upon him not with a large force or great multitude, in throwing up a mound, and in building of forts, to cut off souls. 18Whereas he has profaned the oath so as to break the brit, when, behold, I engaged his hand, and he has done all these things to him, he shall not escape. 19Therefore say, Thus saith Yahuah; As I live, surely Mine oath which He has profaned, and My brit which He has transgressed, I will even recompense it upon His head. 20And I will spread a net upon him, and he shall be caught in its snare. 21In every battle of his they shall fall by the sword, and I will scatter his remnant to every wind: and ye shall know that I Yahuah have spoken it. 22For thus saith Yahuah; I will even take of the choice branches of the cedar from the top thereof, I will crop off their hearts, and I will plant it on a high mountain: 23and I will hang it on a lofty mountain of Yisra'el: yea, I will plant it, and it shall put forth shoots, and shall bear fruit, and it shall be a great cedar: and every bird shall rest beneath it, even every fowl shall rest under its shadow: its branches shall be restored. 24And all the trees of the field shall know that I am Yahuah that bring low the high tree, and exalt the low tree, and wither the green tree, and cause the dry tree to flourish: I Yahuah have spoken, and will do it.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 18

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1And the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 2Ben Adam, what mean ye by this parable among the children of Yisra'el, saying, The fathers have eaten unripe grapes, and the children's teeth have been set on edge? 3As I live, saith Yahuah, surely this parable shall no more be spoken in Yisra'el. 4For all nefashot are Mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son, they are Mine: THE NEFESH (the soul) THAT SINS, IT SHALL DIE. 5But the man who shall be just, who executes judgement and righteousness, 6who shall not eat upon the mountains, and shall not at all lift up his eyes to the devices of the house of Yisra'el, and shall not defile his neighbour's wife, and shall not draw nigh to her that is removed, 7and shall not oppress any man, but shall return the pledge of the debtor, and shall be guilty of no plunder, shall give his bread to the hungry, and clothe the naked; 8and shall not lend his money upon usury, and shall not receive usurious increase, and shall turn back his hand from injustice, shall execute righteous judgement between a man and his neighbour, 9and has walked in My commandments and kept Mine ordinances, to do them; he is righteous, he shall surely live, saith Yahuah. 10And if he beget a mischievous son, shedding blood and committing sins, 11who has not walked in the way of his righteous father, but has even eaten upon the mountains, and has defiled his neighbour's wife, 12and has oppressed the poor and needy, and has committed robbery, and not restored a pledge, and has set his eyes upon idols, has wrought iniquities, 13has lent upon usury, and taken usurious increase; he shall by no means live: he has wrought all these iniquities; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him. 14And if he beget a son, and the son see all his father's sins which he has wrought, and fear, and not do according to them, 15and if he has not eaten on the mountains, and has not set his eyes on the devices of the house of Yisra'el, and has not defiled his neighbour's wife, 16and has not oppressed a man, and has not retained the pledge, nor committed robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has clothed the naked, 17and has turned back his hand from unrighteousness, has not received interest or usurious increase, has wrought righteousness, and walked in Mine ordinances; he shall not die for the iniquities of his father, he shall surely live. 18But if his father grievously afflict, or plunder, he has wrought enmity in the midst of My am, and shall die in his iniquity. 19But ye will say, Why has not the son borne the iniquity of the father? Because the son has wrought judgement and mercy, has kept all My statutes, and done them, he shall surely live. 20But the nefesh that sins shall die: and the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the iniquity of the transgressor shall be upon him. 21And if the transgressor turn away from all his iniquities which he has committed, and keep all My commandments, and do justice and mercy, he shall surely live, and shall by no means die. 22None of his trespasses which he has committed shall be remembered: in his righteousness which he has done he shall live. 23Shall I at all desire the death of the sinner, saith Yahuah, as I desire that He should turn from His evil way, and live? 24But when the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, according to all the transgressions which the transgressor has wrought, none of his righteousness which he has wrought shall be at all remembered: in his trespass wherein he has trespassed, and in his sins wherein he has sinned, in them shall he die. 25Yet ye have said, The way of Yahuah is not straight. Hear now, all the house of Yisra'el; will not My way be straight? Is your way straight? 26When the righteous turns away from his righteousness and commits a trespass, and dies in the trespass which he has committed, he shall even die in it. 27And when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and shall do judgement and justice, he has kept his soul, 28and has turned away from all his ungodliness which he has committed: he shall surely live, he shall not die. 29Yet the house of Yisra'el say, The way of Yahuah is not right. Is not My way right, O house of Yisra'el? is not your way wrong? 30I will judge you, O house of Yisra'el, saith Yahuah, each one according to His way: be converted, and turn from all your ungodliness, and it shall not become to you the punishment of iniquity. 31Cast away from yourselves all your ungodliness wherein ye have sinned against Me; and make to yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why should ye die, O house of Yisra'el? 32For I DESIRE NOT THE DEATH OF HIM THAT DIES, saith Yahuah.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 19

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1Moreover do thou take up a lamentation for the nasi of Yisra'el, 2and say, Why is thy mother become a whelp in the midst of lions? in the midst of lions she has multiplied her whelps. 3And one of her whelps sprang forth; he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men. 4And goyim heard a report of him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him into the land of Mitzrayim in chains. 5And she saw that he was driven away from her, and her hope of him perished, and she took another of her whelps; she made him a lion. 6And he went up and down in the midst of lions, he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men. 7And he prowled in his boldness and laid waste their cities, and made the land desolate, and the fulness of it, by the voice of his roaring. 8Then goyim set upon him from the countries round about, and they spread their nets upon him: he was taken in their pit. 9And they put him in chains and in a cage, and he came to the king of Bavel; and he cast him into prison, that his voice should not be heard on the mountains of Yisra'el. 10Thy mother was as a vine and as a blossom on a pomegranate tree, planted by water: her fruit and her shoots abounded by reason of much water. 11And she became a rod for a tribe of princes, and was elevated in her bulk in the midst of other trees, and she saw her bulk in the multitude of her branches. 12But she was broken down in wrath, she was cast upon the ground, and the east wind dried up her choice branches: vengeance came upon them, and the rod of her strength was withered; fire consumed it. 13And now they have planted her in the wilderness, in a dry land. 14And fire is gone out of a rod of her choice boughs, and has devoured her; and there was no rod of strength in her. Her race is become a parable of lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 20

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1And it came to pass in the seventh year, on the fifteenth day of the month, there came men of the zekenim of the house of Yisra'el to enquire of Yahuah, and they sat before me. 2And the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 3Ben Adam, speak to the zekenim of the house of Yisra'el, and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith Yahuah; Are ye come to enquire of Me? As I live, I will not be enquired of by you, saith Yahuah. 4Shall I utterly take vengeance on them, Ben Adam? testify to them of the iniquities of their fathers: 5and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith Yahuah; From the day that I chose the house of Yisra'el, and became known to the seed of the house of Ya'akov (Jacob), and was known to them in the land of Mitzrayim, and helped them with My hand, saying, I am Yahuah your Elohim; 6in that day I helped them with My hand, to bring them out of the land of Mitzrayim into the land which I prepared for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, it is abundant beyond every land. 7And I said to them, Let every one cast away the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the devices of Mitzrayim: I am Yahuah your Elohim. 8But they revolted from me, and would not hearken to me: they cast not away the abominations of their eyes, and forsook not the devices of Mitzrayim: then I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my wrath upon them in the midst of Mitzrayim. 9But I wrought so that my name should not be at all profaned in the sight of goyim, in the midst of whom they are, among whom I was made known to them in their sight, to bring them out of the land of Mitzrayim. 10And I brought them into the wilderness. 11And I gave them my commandments, and made known to them mine ordinances, all which if a man shall do, he shall even live in them. 12And I gave them my Shabbatot (the sabbaths), that they should be for a sign between me and them, that they should know that I am Yahuah that sanctify them. 13And I said to the house of Yisra'el in the wilderness, Walk ye in my commandments: but they walked not in them, and they rejected mine ordinances, which if a man shall do, he shall even live in them; and they grievously profaned my Shabbatot: and I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them. 14But I wrought so that my name should not be at all profaned before goyim, before whose eyes I brought them out. 15But I lifted up my hand against them in the wilderness once for all, that I would not bring them into the land which I gave them, a land flowing with milk and honey, it is sweeter than all lands: 16because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my commandments, but profaned my Shabbatot, and went after the imaginations of their hearts. 17Yet mine eyes spared them, so as not to destroy them utterly, and I did not make an end of them in the wilderness. 18And I said to their children in the wilderness, Walk not ye in the customs of your fathers, and keep not their ordinances, and have no fellowship with their practices, nor defile yourselves with them. 19I am Yahuah your Elohim; walk in my commandments, and keep mine ordinances, and do them; 20and hallow my Shabbatot, and let them be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am Yahuah your Elohim. 21But they provoked me, and their children walked not in my commandments, and they took no heed to mine ordinances to do them, which if a man shall do, he shall even live in them, and they profaned my Shabbatot: then I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to accomplish mine anger upon them. 22But I wrought so that my name might not be at all profaned before goyim; and I brought them out in their sight. 23I lifted up my hand against them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among goyim, and disperse them in the countries; 24because they kept not mine ordinances, and rejected my commandments, and profaned my Shabbatot, and their eyes went after the imaginations of their fathers. 25So I gave them commandments that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live. 26And I will defile them by their own decrees, when I pass through upon every one that opens the womb, that I may destroy them. 27Therefore, Ben Adam, speak to the house of Yisra'el, and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith Yahuah: Hitherto have your fathers provoked Me in their trespasses in which they transgressed against Me. 28Whereas I brought them into the land concerning which I lifted up Mine hand to give it them; and they looked upon every high hill, and every shady tree, and they sacrificed there to their gods, and offered there a sweet-smelling savour, and there they poured out their drink-offerings. 29And I said to them, What is Abama, that ye go in thither? and they called its name Abama, until this day. 30Therefore say to the house of Yisra'el, Thus saith Yahuah, Do ye pollute yourselves with the iniquities of your fathers, and do ye go a-whoring after their abominations, 31and do ye pollute yourselves with the first-fruits of your gifts, in the offerings wherewith ye pollute yourselves in all your imaginations, until this day; and shall I answer you, O house of Yisra'el? As I live, saith Yahuah, I will not answer you, neither shall this thing come upon your spirit. 32And it shall not be as ye say, We will be as goyim, and as the tribes of the earth, to worship stocks and stones. 33Therefore, as I live, saith Yahuah, I will reign over you with a strong hand, and with a high arm, and with outpoured wrath: 34I will bring you out from goyim, and will take you out of the lands wherein ye were dispersed, with a strong hand, and with a high arm, and with outpoured wrath. 35And I will bring you into the wilderness of goyim, and will plead with you there face to face. 36As I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Mitzrayim, so will I judge you, saith Yahuah. 37And I will cause you to pass under My rod, and I will bring you in by number. 38And I will separate from among you the ungodly and the revolters; for I will lead them forth out of their place of sojourning, and they shall not enter into the land of Yisra'el: and ye shall know that I am Yahuah, even Yahuah. 39And as to you, O house of Yisra'el, thus saith Yahuah, even Yahuah; Put away each one His evil practices, and hereafter if ye hearken to Me, then shall ye no more profane My holy name by your gifts and by devices. 40For upon My holy mountain, on the high mountain, saith Yahuah, even Yahuah, there shall all the house of Yisra'el serve Me for ever: and there will I accept you, and there will I have respect to your first-fruits, and the first-fruits of your offerings, in all your holy things. 41I will accept you with a sweet-smelling savour, when I bring you out from goyim, and take you out of the countries wherein ye have been dispersed; and I will be sanctified among you in the sight of goyim. 42And ye shall know that I am Yahuah, when I have brought you into the land of Yisra'el, into the land concerning which I lifted up My hand to give it to your fathers.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 21

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1And the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 2Ben Adam, set thy face against Thæman, and look toward Darom, and prophesy against the chief forest of Nageb, 3and thou shalt say to the forest of Nageb, Hear the word of Yahuah; thus saith Yahuah, even Yahuah; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour in thee every green tree, and every dry tree: the flame that is kindled shall not be quenched, and every face shall be scorched with it from the south to the north. 4And all flesh shall know that I Yahuah have kindled it: it shall not be quenched. 5And I said, Not so, O Adonai Yahuah! they say to me, Is not this that is spoken a parable? 6And the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 7Therefore prophesy, Ben Adam, set thy face steadfastly toward Yerushalayim, and look toward their holy places, and thou shalt prophesy against the land of Yisra'el, 8and thou shalt say to the land of Yisra'el, Thus saith Yahuah; Behold, I am against thee, and I will draw forth My sword out of its sheath, and I will destroy out of thee the transgressor and unrighteous. 9Because I will destroy out of thee the unrighteous and the transgressor, therefore so shall My sword come forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north: 10and all flesh shall know that I Yahuah have drawn forth My sword out of its sheath: it shall not return any more. 11And thou, Ben Adam, groan with the breaking of thy loins; thou shalt even groan heavily in their sight. 12And it shall come to pass, if they shall say to thee, Wherefore dost thou groan? that thou shalt say, For the report; because it comes: and every heart shall break, and all hands shall become feeble, and all flesh and every spirit shall faint, and all thighs shall be defiled with moisture: behold, it comes, saith Yahuah. 13And the word of Yahuah came to Me, saying, 14Ben Adam, prophesy, and thou shalt say, Thus saith Yahuah; Say, Sword, sword, be sharpened and rage, 15that thou mayest slay victims; be sharpened that thou mayest be bright, ready for slaughter, slay, set at nought, despise every tree. 16And he made it ready for his hand to hold: the sword is sharpened, it is ready to put into the hand of the slayer. 17Cry out and howl, Ben Adam: for this sword is come upon My am, this sword is come upon all the princes of Yisra'el: they shall be as strangers: judgement with the sword is come upon My am: therefore clap thine hands, 18and what if even the tribe be rejected? it shall not be, saith Adonai Yahuah. 19And thou, Ben Adam, prophesy, and clap thine hands, and take a second sword: the third sword is the sword of the slain, the great sword of the slain: and thou shalt strike them with amazement, lest the heart should faint 20and the weak ones be multiplied at every gate—they are given up to the slaughter of the sword: it is well fitted for slaughter, it is well fitted for glittering. 21And do thou go on, sharpen thyself on the right and on the left whithersoever thy face may set itself. 22And I also will clap My hands, and let loose My fury: I Yahuah have spoken it. 23And the word of Yahuah came to Me, saying, 24And thou, Ben Adam, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Bavel may enter in: the two shall go forth of one country; and there shall be a force at the top of the way of the city, thou shalt set it at the top of the way, 25that the sword may enter in upon Rabbath of the children of Ammon (Ammon), and upon Yehudah, and upon Yerushalayim in the midst thereof. 26For the king of Bavel shall stand on the old way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination, to make bright the arrow, and to enquire of the graven images, and to examine the victims. 27On his right was the divination against Yerushalayim, to cast a mound, to open the mouth in shouting, to lift up the voice with crying, to cast a mound against her gates, to cast up a heap, and to build forts. 28And he was to them as one using divination before them, and he himself recounting his iniquities, that they might be borne in mind. 29Therefore thus saith Yahuah, Because ye have caused your iniquities to be remembered, in the discovery of your wickedness, so that your sins should be seen, in all your wickedness and in your evil practices; because ye have caused remembrance of them, in these shall ye be taken. 30And thou profane wicked prince of Yisra'el, whose day, even an end, is come in a season of iniquity, thus saith Yahuah; 31Thou hast taken off the mitre and put on the crown, it shall not have such another after it: thou hast abased that which was high, and exalted that which was low. 32Injustice, injustice, injustice, will I make it: woe to it: such shall it be until he comes to whom it belongs; and I will deliver it to him. 33And thou, Ben Adam, prophesy, and thou shalt say, Thus saith Yahuah, concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and thou shalt say, O sword, sword, drawn for slaughter, and drawn for destruction, awake, that thou mayest gleam. 34While thou art seeing vain visions, and while thou art prophesying falsehoods, to bring thyself upon the necks of ungodly transgressors, the day is come, even an end, in a season of iniquity. 35Turn, rest not in this place wherein thou wert born: in thine own land will I judge thee. 36And I will pour out My wrath upon thee, I will blow upon thee with the fire of My wrath, and I will deliver thee into the hands of barbarians skilled in working destruction. 37Thou shalt be fuel for fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of thy land; there shall be no remembrance at all of thee: for I Yahuah have spoken it.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 22

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1And the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 2And thou, Ben Adam, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, declare thou to her all her iniquities. 3And thou shalt say, Thus saith Adonai Yahuah: O city that sheds blood in the midst of her, so that her time should come, and that forms devices against herself, to defile herself; 4in their blood which thou hast shed, thou hast transgressed; and in thy devices which thou hast formed, thou hast polluted thyself; and thou hast brought nigh thy days, and hast brought on the time of thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach to goyim, and a mockery to all the countries, 5to those near thee, and to those far distant from thee; and they shall mock thee, thou that art notoriously unclean, and abundant in iniquities. 6Behold, the princes of the house of Yisra'el have conspired in thee each one with his kindred, that they might shed blood. 7In thee they have reviled father and mother; and in thee they have behaved unjustly toward the ger (the stranger): they have oppressed the orphan and widow. 8And they have set at nought My holy things, and in thee they have profaned My Shabbatot. 9There are robbers in thee, to shed blood in thee; and in thee they have eaten upon the mountains: they have wrought ungodliness in the midst of thee. 10In thee they have uncovered the father's shame; and in thee they have humbled her that was set apart for uncleanness. 11They have dealt unlawfully each one with his neighbour's wife; and each one in ungodliness has defiled his daughter-in-law: and in thee they have humbled each one his sister, the daughter of his father. 12In thee they have received gifts to shed blood; they have received in thee interest and usurious increase; and by oppression thou hast brought thy wickedness to the full, and hast forgotten Me, saith Yahuah. 13And if I shall smite My hand at thine iniquities which thou hast accomplished, which thou hast wrought, and at thy blood that has been shed in the midst of thee, 14shall thy heart endure? shall thine hands be strong in the days which I bring upon thee? I Yahuah have spoken, and will do it. 15And I will scatter thee among goyim, and disperse thee in the countries, and thy uncleanness shall be removed out of thee. 16And I will give heritages in thee in the sight of goyim, and ye shall know that I am Yahuah. 17And the word of Yahuah came to Me, saying, 18Ben Adam, behold, the house of Yisra'el are all become to Me as it were mixed with brass, and iron, and tin, and lead; they are mixed up in the midst of silver. 19Therefore say, Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Because ye have become one mixture, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Yerushalayim. 20As silver, and brass, and iron, and tin, and lead, are gathered into the midst of the furnace, to blow fire into it, that they may be melted: so will I take you in My wrath, and I will gather and melt you. 21And I will blow upon you in the fire of My wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof. 22As silver is melted in the midst of a furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I Yahuah have poured out My wrath upon you. 23And the word of Yahuah came to Me, saying, 24Ben Adam, say to her, Thou art the land that is not rained upon, neither has rain come upon thee in the day of wrath: 25whose princes in the midst of her are as roaring lions seizing prey, devouring souls by oppression, and taking bribes; and thy widows are multiplied in the midst of thee. 26Her priests also have set at nought My Torah, and profaned My holy things: they have not distinguished between the holy and profane, nor have they distinguished between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from My Shabbatot, and I was profaned in the midst of them. 27Her princes in the midst of her are as wolves ravening to shed blood, that they may get dishonest gain. 28And her prophets that daub them shall fall, that see vanities, that prophesy falsehoods, saying, Thus saith Yahuah, when Yahuah has not spoken. 29That sorely oppress the am of the land with injustice, and commit robbery; oppressing the poor and needy, and not dealing justly with the ger. 30And I sought from among them a man behaving uprightly, and standing before Me perfectly in the time of wrath, so that I should not utterly destroy her: but I found him not. 31So I have poured out My wrath upon her in the fury of Mine anger, to accomplish it. I have recompensed their ways on their own heads, saith Adonai Yahuah.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 23

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1And the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 2Ben Adam, there were two women, daughters of one mother: 3and they went a-whoring in Mitzrayim in their youth: there their breasts fell, there they lost their virginity. 4And their names were Oholah (Oola) the zaken, and Oholivah (Ooliba) her sister: and they were mine, and bore sons and daughters: and as for their names, Shomron was Oholah, and Yerushalayim was Oholivah. 5And Oholah went a-whoring from me, and doted on her lovers, on the Ashurim (the Assyrians) that were her neighbours, 6clothed with purple, princes and captains; they were young men and choice, all horsemen riding on horses. 7And she bestowed her fornication upon them; all were choice sons of the Ashurim: and on whomsoever she doted herself, with them she defiled herself in all their devices. 8And she forsook not her fornication with the Mitzrim (the Egyptians): for in her youth they committed fornication with her, and they deflowered her, and poured out their fornication upon her. 9Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the children of the Ashurim, on whom she doted. 10They uncovered her shame: they took her sons and daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became a byword among women; and they wrought vengeance in her for the sake of the daughters. 11And her sister Oholivah saw it, and she indulged in her fondness more corruptly than she, and in her fornication more than the fornication of her sister. 12She doted upon the sons of the Ashurim, princes and captains, her neighbours, clothed with fine linen, horsemen riding on horses; they were all choice young men. 13And I saw that they were defiled, that the two had one way. 14And she increased her fornication, and she saw men painted on the wall, likenesses of the Kasdim painted with a pencil, 15having variegated girdles on their loins, having also richly dyed attire upon their heads; all had a princely appearance, the likeness of the children of the Kasdim, of their native land. 16And she doted upon them as soon as she saw them, and sent forth messengers to them into the land of the Kasdim. 17And the sons of Bavel came to her, into the bed of rest, and they defiled her in her fornication, and she was defiled by them, and her soul was alienated from them. 18And she exposed her fornication, and exposed her shame: and my soul was alienated from her, even as my soul was alienated from her sister. 19And thou didst multiply thy fornication, so as to call to remembrance the days of thy youth, wherein thou didst commit whoredom in Mitzrayim, 20and thou didst dote upon the Kasdim, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and their members as the members of horses. 21And thou didst look upon the iniquity of thy youth, the things which thou wroughtest in Mitzrayim in thy lodging, where were the breasts of thy youth. 22Therefore, Oholivah, thus saith Yahuah; Behold, I will stir up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy soul is alienated, and I will bring them upon thee round about, 23the children of Bavel, and all the Kasdim, Phacuc, and Sue, and Hychue, and all the sons of the Ashurim with them; choice young men, governors and captains, all princes and renowned, riding on horses. 24And they all shall come upon thee from the north, chariots and wheels, with a multitude of nations, shields and targets; and the enemy shall set a watch against thee round about: and I will set judgement before them, and they shall take vengeance on thee with their judgements. 25And I will bring upon thee My jealousy, and they shall deal with thee in great wrath: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and shall cast down thy remnant with the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy remnant fire shall devour. 26And they shall strip thee of thy raiment, and take away thine ornaments. 27So I will turn back thine ungodliness from thee, and thy fornication from the land of Mitzrayim: and thou shalt not lift up thine eyes upon them, and shalt no more remember Mitzrayim. 28Wherefore thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hands of those whom thou hatest, from whom thy soul is alienated. 29And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take all the fruits of thy labours and thy toils, and thou shalt be naked and bare: and the shame of thy fornication shall be exposed: and thy ungodliness and thy fornication 30brought this upon thee, in that thou wentest a-whoring after goyim, and didst defile thyself with their devices. 31Thou didst walk in the way of thy sister; and I will put her cup into thine hands. 32Thus saith Yahuah; Drink thy sister's cup, deep and large, and full, to cause complete drunkenness. 33And thou shalt be thoroughly weakened; and the cup of destruction, the cup of thy sister Shomron, 34drink thou it, and I will take away her feasts and her Roshei Chodashim (the new moons): for I have spoken it, saith Yahuah. 35Therefore thus saith Yahuah; Because thou hast forgotten Me, and cast Me behind thy back, therefore receive thou the reward of thine ungodliness and thy fornication. 36And Yahuah said to Me; Ben Adam, wilt thou not judge Oholah and Oholivah? and declare to them their iniquities? 37For they have committed adultery, and blood was in their hands, they committed adultery with their devices, and they passed through the fire to them their children which they bore to Me. 38So long too as they did these things to Me, they defiled My sanctuary, and profaned My Shabbatot. 39And when they sacrificed their children to their idols, they also went into My sanctuary to profane it: and whereas they did thus in the midst of My house; 40and whereas they did thus to the men that came from afar, to whom they sent messengers, and as soon as they came, immediately thou didst wash thyself, and didst paint thine eyes and adorn thyself with ornaments, 41and satest on a prepared bed, and before it there was a table set out, and as for Mine incense and Mine oil, they rejoiced in them, 42and they raised a sound of music, and that with men coming from the wilderness out of a multitude of men, and they put bracelets on their hands, and a crown of glory on their heads; 43Therefore I said, Do they not commit adultery with these? and has she also gone a-whoring after the manner of a harlot? 44And they went in to her, as men go in to a harlot; so they went in to Oholah and to Oholivah to work iniquity. 45And they are just men, and shall take vengeance on them with the judgement of an adulteress and the judgement of blood: for they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. 46Thus saith Adonai Yahuah, Bring up a multitude upon them, and send trouble and plunder into the midst of them. 47And stone them with the stones of a multitude, and pierce them with their swords: they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and shall burn up their houses. 48And I will remove ungodliness out of the land, and all the women shall be instructed, and shall not do according to their ungodliness. 49And your ungodliness shall be recompensed upon you, and ye shall bear the guilt of your devices: and ye shall know that I am Yahuah.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 24

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1And the word of Yahuah came to me, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, saying, 2Ben Adam, write for thyself daily from this day, on which the king of Bavel set himself against Yerushalayim, even from this day. 3And speak a parable to the provoking house, and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith Yahuah; Set on the caldron, and pour water into it: 4and put the pieces into it, every prime piece, the leg and shoulder taken off from the bones, 5which are taken from choice cattle, and burn the bones under them: her bones are boiled and cooked in the midst of her. 6Therefore thus saith Yahuah; O bloody city, the caldron in which there is scum, and the scum has not gone out of, she has brought it forth piece by piece, no lot has fallen upon it. 7For her blood is in the midst of her; I have set it upon a smooth rock: I have not poured it out upon the earth, so that the earth should cover it; 8that My wrath should come up for complete vengeance to be taken: I set her blood upon a smooth rock, so as not to cover it. 9Therefore thus saith Yahuah, I will also make the firebrand great, 10and I will multiply the wood, and kindle the fire, that the flesh may be consumed, and the liquor boiled away; 11and that it may stand upon the coals, that her brass may be thoroughly heated, and be melted in the midst of her filthiness, and her scum may be consumed, 12and her abundant scum may not come forth of her. 13Her scum shall become shameful, because thou didst defile thyself: and what if thou shalt be purged no more until I have accomplished My wrath? 14I Yahuah have spoken; and it shall come, and I will do it; I will not delay, neither will I have any mercy: I will judge thee, saith Yahuah, according to thy ways, and according to thy devices: therefore will I judge thee according to thy bloodshed, and according to thy devices will I judge thee, thou unclean, notorious, and abundantly provoking one. 15And the word of Yahuah came to Me, saying, 16Ben Adam, behold I take from thee the desire of thine eyes by violence: thou shalt not lament, neither shalt thou weep. 17Thou shalt groan for blood, and have mourning upon thy loins; thy hair shall not be braided upon thee, and thy sandals shall be on thy feet; thou shalt in no wise be comforted by their lips, and thou shalt not eat the bread of men. 18And I spoke to the am in the morning, as he commanded Me in the evening, and I did in the morning as it was commanded Me. 19And the am said to Me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are that thou doest? 20Then I said to them, The word of Yahuah came to Me, saying, 21Say to the house of Yisra'el, Thus saith Yahuah; Behold, I will profane My sanctuary, the boast of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and for which your souls are concerned; and your sons and your daughters, whom ye have left, shall fall by the sword. 22And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not be comforted at their mouth, and ye shall not eat the bread of men. 23And your hair shall be upon your head, and your shoes on your feet: neither shall ye at all lament or weep; but ye shall pine away in your iniquities, and shall comfort every one his brother. 24And Jezekiel shall be for a sign to you: according to all that I have done shall ye do, when these things shall come; and ye shall know that I am Yahuah. 25And thou, Ben Adam, shall it not be in the day when I take their strength from them, the pride of their boasting, the desires of their eyes, and the pride of their soul, their sons and their daughters, 26that in that day he that escapes shall come to thee, to tell it thee in thine ears? 27In that day thy mouth shall be opened to him that escapes; thou shalt speak, and shalt be no longer dumb: and thou shalt be for a sign to them, and they shall know that I am Yahuah.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 25

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1And the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 2Ben Adam, set thy face steadfastly against the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them; 3and thou shalt say to the children of Ammon, Hear ye the word of Yahuah; thus saith Yahuah; Forasmuch as ye have rejoiced against My sanctuary, because it was profaned; and against the land of Yisra'el, because it was laid waste; and against the house of Yehudah, because they went into captivity; 4therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of Kedem for an inheritance, and they shall lodge in thee with their stuff, and they shall pitch their tents in thee: they shall eat thy fruits, and they shall drink thy milk. 5And I will give up the city of Ammon for camels' pastures, and the children of Ammon for a pasture of sheep: and ye shall know that I am Yahuah. 6For thus saith Yahuah; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with thy foot, and heartily rejoiced against the land of Yisra'el; 7therefore I will stretch out My hand against thee, and I will make thee a spoil to goyim; and I will utterly destroy thee from among the peoples, and I will completely cut thee off from out of the countries: and thou shalt know that I am Yahuah. 8Thus saith Yahuah; Because Mo'av (Moab) has said, Behold, are not the house of Yisra'el and Yehudah like all the other nations? 9Therefore, behold, I will weaken the shoulder of Mo'av from his frontier cities, even the choice land, the house of Bethasimuth above the fountain of the city, by the sea-side. 10I have given him the children of Kedem in addition to the children of Ammon for an inheritance, that there may be no remembrance of the children of Ammon. 11And I will execute vengeance on Mo'av; and they shall know that I am Yahuah. 12Thus saith Yahuah; Because of what the Idumeans have done in taking vengeance on the house of Yehudah, and because they have remembered injuries, and have exacted full recompence; 13therefore thus saith Yahuah; I will also stretch out My hand upon Edom (Idumea), and will utterly destroy out of it man and beast; and will make it desolate; and they that are pursued out of Thæman shall fall by the sword. 14And I will execute My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My am Yisra'el: and they shall deal in Edom according to Mine anger and according to My wrath, and they shall know My vengeance, saith Yahuah. 15Therefore thus saith Yahuah, Because the Pelishtim have wrought revengefully, and raised up vengeance rejoicing from their heart to destroy the Israelites to a man; 16therefore thus saith Yahuah; Behold, I will stretch out My hand upon the Pelishtim, and will utterly destroy the Cretans, and will cut off the remnant that dwell by the sea-coast. 17And I will execute great vengeance upon them; and they shall know that I am Yahuah, when I have brought My vengeance upon them.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 26

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1And it came to pass in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, that the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 2Ben Adam, because Tzor (Tyre) has said against Yerushalayim, Aha, she is crushed: Goyim are destroyed: she is turned to me: she that was full is made desolate: 3therefore thus saith Yahuah; Behold, I am against thee, O Tzor, and I will bring up many goyim against thee, as the sea comes up with its waves. 4And they shall cast down the walls of Tzor, and shall cast down thy towers: and I will scrape her dust from off her, and make her a bare rock. 5She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for repairing nets: for I have spoken it, saith Yahuah: and it shall be a spoil for goyim. 6And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain with the sword, and they shall know that I am Yahuah. 7For thus saith Yahuah; Behold, I will bring up against thee, O Tzor, Nevuchadnetzar (Nabuchodonosor) king of Bavel from the north: he is a king of kings, with horses, and chariots, and horsemen, and a concourse of very many goyim. 8He shall slay thy daughters that are in the field with the sword, and shall set a watch against thee, and build forts around thee, and carry a rampart round against thee, and set up warlike works, and array his spears against thee. 9He shall cast down with his swords thy walls and thy towers. 10By reason of the multitude of his horses their dust shall cover thee, and by reason of the sound of his horsemen and the wheels of his chariots thy walls shall be shaken, when he enters into thy gates, as one entering into a city from the plain. 11With the hoofs of his horses they shall trample all thy streets: he shall slay thy am with the sword, and shall bring down to the ground the support of thy strength. 12And he shall prey upon thy power, and plunder thy substance, and shall cast down thy walls, and break down thy pleasant houses: and he shall cast thy stones and thy timber and thy dust into the midst of thy sea. 13And he shall destroy the multitude of thy musicians, and the sound of thy psalteries shall be heard no more. 14And I will make thee a bare rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I Yahuah have spoken it, saith Yahuah. 15For thus saith Adonai Yahuah to Tzor; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, while the wounded are groaning, while they have drawn a sword in the midst of thee? 16And all the princes of goyim of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and shall take off their crowns from their heads, and shall take off their embroidered raiment: they shall be utterly amazed; they shall sit upon the ground, and fear their own destruction, and shall groan over thee. 17And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and shall say to thee, How art thou destroyed from out of the sea, the renowned city, that brought her terror upon all her inhabitants. 18And the isles shall be alarmed at the day of thy fall. 19For thus saith Adonai Yahuah; When I shall make the city desolate, as the cities that shall not be inhabited, when I have brought the deep up upon thee, 20and great waters shall cover thee; and I shall bring thee down to them that go down to the pit, to the am of old time, and shall cause thee to dwell in the depths of the earth, as in everlasting desolation, with them that go down to the pit, that thou mayest not be inhabited, nor stand upon the land of life; 21I will make thee a destruction, and thou shalt be no more for ever, saith Adonai Yahuah.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 27

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1And the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 2And thou, Ben Adam, take up a lamentation against Tzor; 3and thou shalt say to Tzor that dwells at the entrance of the sea, to the mart of goyim coming from many islands, Thus saith Yahuah to Tzor; Thou hast said, I have clothed myself with My beauty. 4In the heart of the sea thy sons have put beauty upon thee for Beelim. 5Cedar in Senir was employed for thee in building: boards of cypress timber were taken out of Levanon, and wood to make thee masts of fir. 6They made thine oars of wood out of the land of Bashan (Bashan); thy sacred utensils they made of ivory, thy shady houses of wood from the isles of Chetiim. 7Fine linen with embroidery from Mitzrayim supplied thy couch, to put honour upon thee, and to clothe thee with blue and purple from the isles of Elisai; and they became thy coverings. 8And thy princes were the dwellers in Tzidon (Sidon), and the Aradians were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tzor, who were in thee, these were thy pilots. 9The elders of the Biblians, and their wise men, who were in thee, these helped thy counsel: and all the ships of the sea and their rowers traded for thee to the utmost west. 10Paras (the Persians) and Lydians and Libyans were in thine army: thy warriors hung in thee shields and helmets; these gave thee thy glory. 11The sons of the Aradians and thine army were upon thy walls; there were guards in thy towers: they hung their quivers on thy battlements round about; these completed thy beauty. 12The Carthaginians were thy merchants because of the abundance of all thy strength; they furnished thy market with silver, and gold, and iron, and tin, and lead. 13Greece, both the whole world, and the adjacent coasts, these traded with thee in the persons of men, and they gave as thy merchandise vessels of brass. 14Out of the house of Thogarma horses and horsemen furnished thy market. 15The sons of the Rhodians were thy merchants; from the islands they multiplied thy merchandise, even elephants' teeth: and to them that came in thou didst return thy prices, 16even men as thy merchandise, from the multitude of thy trading population, myrrh and embroidered works from Tarshish (Tharsis): Ramoth also and Chorchor furnished thy market. 17Yehudah and the children of Yisra'el, these were thy merchants; in the sale of corn and ointments and cassia: and they gave the best honey, and oil, and resin, to thy trading population. 18The people of Dameshek (Damascus) were thy merchants by reason of the abundance of all thy power; wine out of Chelbon, and wool from Miletus; and they brought wine into thy market. 19Out of Asel came wrought iron, and there is the sound of wheels among thy trading population. 20The people of Dædan were thy merchants, with choice cattle for chariots. 21Arav (Arabia) and all the princes of Kedar (Kedar), these were thy traders with thee, bringing camels, and lambs, and rams, in which they trade with thee. 22The merchants of Sabba and Ramma, these were thy merchants, with choice spices, and precious stones: and they brought gold to thy market. 23Charra, and Chanaa, these were thy merchants: Ashur, and Charman, were thy merchants: 24bringing for merchandise blue, and choice stores bound with cords, and cypress wood. 25Ships were thy merchants, in abundance, with thy trading population: and thou wast filled and very heavily loaded in the heart of the sea. 26Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the south wind has broken thee in the heart of the sea. 27Thy forces, and thy gain, and that of thy traders, and thy rowers, and thy pilots, and thy counsellors, and they that traffic with thee, and all thy warriors that are in thee: and all thy company in the midst of thee shall perish in the heart of the sea, in the day of thy fall. 28At the cry of thy voice thy pilots shall be greatly terrified. 29And all the rowers and the mariners shall come down from the ships, and the pilots of the sea shall stand on the land. 30And they shall wail over thee with their voice, and cry bitterly, and put earth on their heads, and spread ashes under them. 32And their sons shall take up a lament for thee, even a lamentation for Tzor, saying, 33How large a reward hast thou gained from the sea? thou hast filled nations out of thine abundance; and out of thy mixed merchandise thou hast enriched all the kings of the earth. 34Now art thou broken in the sea, thy traders are in the deep water, and all thy company in the midst of thee: all thy rowers have fallen. 35All the dwellers in the islands have mourned over thee, and their kings have been utterly amazed, and their countenance has wept. 36Merchants from goyim have hissed at thee; thou art utterly destroyed, and shalt not be any more for ever.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 28

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1And the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 2And thou, Ben Adam, say to the nasi of Tyrus, Thus saith Yahuah; Because thine heart has been exalted, and thou hast said, I am Elohim, I have inhabited the dwelling of Elohim in the heart of the sea; yet thou art man and not Elohim, though thou hast set thine heart as the heart of Elohim: 3art thou wiser than Daniel? or have not the wise instructed thee with their knowledge? 4Hast thou gained power for thyself by thine own knowledge or thine own prudence, and gotten gold and silver in thy treasures? 5By thy abundant knowledge and thy traffic thou hast multiplied thy power; thy heart has been lifted up by thy power. 6Therefore thus saith Yahuah; Since thou hast set thine heart as the heart of Elohim; 7because of this, behold, I will bring on thee strange plagues from goyim; and they shall draw their swords against thee, and against the beauty of thy knowledge, 8and they shall bring down thy beauty to destruction. And they shall bring thee down; and thou shalt die the death of the slain in the heart of the sea. 9Wilt thou indeed say, I am Elohim, before them that slay thee? whereas thou art man, and not Elohim. 10Thou shalt perish by the hands of strangers among the multitude of the uncircumcised: for I have spoken it, saith Yahuah. 11And the word of Yahuah came to Me, saying, 12Ben Adam, take up a lamentation for the nasi of Tzor, and say to him, Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Thou art a seal of resemblance, and crown of beauty. 13Thou wast in the delight of the paradise of Elohim; thou hast bound upon thee every precious stone, the sardius, and topaz, and emerald, and carbuncle, and sapphire, and jasper, and silver, and gold, and ligure, and agate, and amethyst, and chrysolite, and beryl, and onyx: and thou hast filled thy treasures and thy stores in thee with gold. 14From the day that thou wast created thou wast with the keruv: I set thee on the holy mount of Elohim; thou wast in the midst of the stones of fire. 15Thou wast faultless in thy days, from the day that thou wast created, until iniquity was found in thee. 16Of the abundance of thy merchandise thou hast filled thy storehouses with iniquity, and hast sinned: therefore thou hast been cast down wounded from the mount of Elohim, and the keruv has brought thee out of the midst of the stones of fire. 17Thy heart has been lifted up because of thy beauty; thy knowledge has been corrupted with thy beauty: because of the multitude of thy sins I have cast thee to the ground, I have caused thee to be put to open shame before kings. 18Because of the multitude of thy sins and the iniquities of thy merchandise, I have profaned thy sacred things; and I will bring fire out of the midst of thee, this shall devour thee; and I will make thee to be ashes upon thy land before all that see thee. 19And all that know thee among goyim shall groan over thee: thou art gone to destruction, and thou shalt not exist any more. 20And the word of Yahuah came to Me, saying, 21Ben Adam, set thy face against Tzidon, and prophesy against it, 22and say, Thus saith Yahuah; Behold, I am against thee, O Tzidon; and I will be glorified in thee; and thou shalt know that I am Yahuah, when I have wrought judgements in thee, and I will be sanctified in thee. 23Blood and death shall be in thy streets; and men wounded with swords shall fall in thee and on every side of thee; and they shall know that I am Yahuah. 24And there shall no more be in the house of Yisra'el a thorn of bitterness and a pricking briar proceeding from them that are round about them, who dishonoured them; and they shall know that I am Yahuah. 25Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; I will also gather Yisra'el from goyim, among whom they have been scattered, and I will be sanctified among them, and before the peoples and nations: and they shall dwell upon their land, which I gave to My servant Ya'akov. 26Yea, they shall dwell upon it safely, and they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and dwell securely, when I shall execute judgement on all that have dishonoured them, even on those that are round about them; and they shall know that I am Yahuah their Elohim, and the Elohim of their fathers.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 29

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1In the twelfth year, in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 2Ben Adam, set thy face against Par'oh king of Mitzrayim, and prophesy against him, and against the whole of Mitzrayim: 3and say, Thus saith Yahuah; Behold, I am against Par'oh, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his rivers, that says, The rivers are Mine, and I made them. 4And I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy river to stick to thy sides, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy river: 5and I will quickly cast down thee and all the fish of thy river: thou shalt fall on the face of the plain, and shalt by no means be gathered, and shalt not be brought together: I have given thee for food to the wild beasts of the earth and to the fowls of the sky. 6And all the dwellers in Mitzrayim shall know that I am Yahuah, because thou hast been a staff of reed to the house of Yisra'el. 7When they took hold of thee with their hand, thou didst break: and when every hand was clapped against them, and when they leaned on thee, thou wast utterly broken, and didst crush the loins of them all. 8Therefore thus saith Yahuah; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and will cut off from thee man and beast; 9and the land of Mitzrayim shall be ruined and desert; and they shall know that I am Yahuah; because thou sayest, The rivers are Mine, and I made them. 10Therefore, behold, I am against thee, and against all thy rivers, and I will give up the land of Mitzrayim to desolation, and the sword, and destruction, from Magdol and Syene even to the borders of the Kushim (the Ethiopians). 11No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it, and it shall not be inhabited for forty years. 12And I will cause her land to be utterly destroyed in the midst of a land that is desolate, and her cities shall be desolate forty years in the midst of cities that are desolate: and I will disperse Mitzrayim among goyim, and will utterly scatter them into the countries. 13Thus saith Yahuah; After forty years I will gather the Mitzrim from goyim among whom they have been scattered; 14and I will turn the captivity of the Mitzrim, and will cause them to dwell in the land of Phathore, in the land whence they were taken; 15and it shall be a base kingdom beyond all other kingdoms; it shall not any more be exalted over goyim; and I will make them few in number, that they may not be great among goyim. 16And they shall no more be to the house of Yisra'el a confidence bringing iniquity to remembrance, when they follow after them; and they shall know that I am Yahuah. 17And it came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, on the first day of the first month, the word of Yahuah came to Me, saying, 18Ben Adam, Nevuchadnetzar king of Bavel caused his army to serve a great service against Tzor; every head was bald, and every shoulder peeled; yet there was no reward to him or to his army serving against Tzor, nor for the service wherewith they served against it. 19Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Behold, I will give to Nevuchadnetzar king of Bavel the land of Mitzrayim, and he shall take the plunder thereof, and seize the spoils thereof; and it shall be a reward for his army. 20In return for his service wherewith he served against Tzor, I have given him the land of Mitzrayim; thus saith Adonai Yahuah: 21In that day shall a horn spring forth for all the house of Yisra'el, and I will give thee an open mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am Yahuah.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 30

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1And the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 2Ben Adam, prophesy, and say, Thus saith Yahuah; Woe, woe worth the day! 3For the day of Yahuah is nigh, a day of cloud; it shall be the end of goyim. 4And a sword shall come upon the Mitzrim, and there shall be tumult in Kush (Ethiopia), and in Mitzrayim men shall fall down slain together, and her foundations shall fall. 5Paras, and Cretans, and Lydians, and Libyans, and all the mixed multitude, and they of the children of My brit, shall fall by the sword therein. 6And the supports of Mitzrayim shall fall; and the pride of her strength shall come down from Magdol to Syene: they shall fall by the sword in it, saith Yahuah. 7And it shall be made desolate in the midst of desolate countries, and their cities shall be desolate in the midst of the desolate cities: 8and they shall know that I am Yahuah, when I shall send fire upon Mitzrayim, and when all that help her shall be broken. 9In that day shall messengers go forth hasting to destroy Kush utterly, and there shall be tumult among them in the day of Mitzrayim: for, behold, it comes. 10Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; I will also destroy the multitude of the Mitzrim by the hand of Nevuchadnetzar king of Bavel, 11his hand and His am's; they are plagues sent forth from goyim to destroy the land: and they all shall unsheath their swords against Mitzrayim, and the land shall be filled with slain. 12And I will make their rivers desolate, and will destroy the land and the fulness of it by the hands of strangers: I Yahuah have spoken. 13For thus saith Adonai Yahuah; I will also destroy the nobles from Nof (Memphis), and the princes of Nof out of the land of Mitzrayim; and they shall be no more. 14And I will destroy the land of Phathore, and will send fire upon Tzo'an (Tanis), and will execute vengeance on Diospolis. 15And I will pour out My wrath upon Sais the strength of Mitzrayim, and will destroy the multitude of Nof. 16And I will send fire upon Mitzrayim; and Syene shall be sorely troubled; and there shall be a breaking in Diospolis, and waters shall be poured out. 17The youths of Heliopolis and Bubastum shall fall by the sword, and the women shall go into captivity. 18And the day shall be darkened in Taphnæ, when I have broken there the sceptres of Mitzrayim: and the pride of her strength shall perish there: and a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall be taken prisoners. 19And I will execute judgement on Mitzrayim; and they shall know that I am Yahuah. 20And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of Yahuah came to Me, saying, 21Ben Adam, I have broken the arms of Par'oh, king of Mitzrayim; and, behold, it has not been bound up to be healed, to have a plaster put upon it, or to be strengthened to lay hold of the sword. 22Therefore thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Behold, I am against Par'oh king of Mitzrayim, and I will break His strong and outstretched arms, and will smite down His sword out of His hand. 23And I will disperse the Mitzrim among goyim, and will utterly scatter them among the countries. 24And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Bavel, and put My sword into his hand: and he shall bring it upon Mitzrayim, and shall take her plunder and seize her spoils. 25Yea, I will strengthen the arms of the king of Bavel, and the arms of Par'oh shall fail: and they shall know that I am Yahuah, when I have put My sword into the hands of the king of Bavel, and He shall stretch it out over the land of Mitzrayim. 26And I will disperse the Mitzrim among goyim, and utterly scatter them among the countries; and they all shall know that I am Yahuah.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 31

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1And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, that the word of Yahuah came to Me, saying, 2Ben Adam, say to Par'oh king of Mitzrayim, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? 3Behold, the Ashurim was a cedar on Mount Levanon, fair in branches, and thick in foliage, and high in stature; and his top was exalted among the thick clouds. 4Waters nourished him, the deep made him grow; her rivers went round about his plantation, and she sent forth her channels to all the trees of the field. 5Therefore was he exalted in height above all the trees of the field, and his branches were multiplied, and his boughs were raised by reason of the abundance of water. 6All the birds of the sky formed their nests in his boughs, and under his branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great goyim. 7Thus he was fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches; for his root was by great waters. 8The cedars in the paradise of Elohim were not like him; the cypress trees were not like his boughs, and the plane trees were not like him in his branches: no tree in the paradise of Elohim was like him in his beauty. 9Because I made him fair in his many branches, and all the trees of Heliopolis were jealous of him, and all the trees in the paradise of Elohim. 10Therefore thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Because thou hast been exalted in height, and he has set his top among the thick clouds, and his heart has been lifted up in his height; 11therefore I have given him into the hand of the mighty one of goyim; I will act against him, and I will cast him forth: and aliens, the plagues of goyim, shall destroy him, and shall cast him away. 12And strangers shall strip him, even the plagues of goyim, and shall leave him on the mountains, and in all the valleys his branches have fallen, and his boughs are broken in all the rivers of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone up from his shadow, and have left him. 13Upon his carcase all the birds of the sky shall rest; and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches: 14that none of the trees of water may be exalted in their height, nor set their top among the thick clouds, nor that any that drink water should stand up in their height: for they are all delivered unto death, to the depth of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit. 15Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; In the day when he went down to Hades, I caused mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I withheld her rivers, and restrained the great waters; and I darkened Levanon for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. 16I made goyim shake at the sound of his fall, when I brought him down to Hades with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Heliopolis, and all the choice trees of Heliopolis, and all the trees of the field, were comforted in the earth beneath. 17They also went down to Hades with him to them that are slain with the sword; and they that were his seed went down, and they that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of goyim. 18Whom art thou like, thus, in glory and greatness among the trees of Heliopolis? yet thou shalt go down with the trees of Heliopolis to the depth of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword. This is Par'oh and all his multitude, saith Adonai Yahuah.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 32

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1And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of Yahuah came to Me, saying, 2Ben Adam, take up a lamentation against Par'oh king of Mitzrayim, and say to him, Thou art like a young lion among goyim, and thou art as a dragon in the seas: and thou didst come forth with thy rivers, and didst disturb the water with thy feet, and didst foul their rivers. 3Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; I will spread My net over thee by means of many peoples; and they shall draw thee up in My snare. 4And I will cast thee on the ground, on the face of the plain, and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle upon thee, and will satisfy all the beasts of the field with thee. 5And I will lay thy carcase on the mountains, and will fill the valleys with thy blood. 6And the land wherein thou dost dwell shall drink thy blood, out of the mountains: and the valleys shall be full of thee. 7And I will cover the sky, and darken the stars thereof; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. 8And all the lights of the sky I will darken over thee, and I will bring darkness upon thy land, saith Adonai Yahuah. 9And I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I shall bring thy captivity in among goyim, into countries which thou hast not known. 10And I will make many peoples amazed at thee, and their kings shall be amazed, when I have brandished My sword before them, and they shall fear every moment for their own lives, in the day of thy calamity. 11For thus saith Adonai Yahuah; The sword of the king of Bavel shall come upon thee. 12By the swords of the mighty will I destroy thy multitude: they are all violent ones of goyim, and they shall spoil the pride of Mitzrayim, and all her multitude shall be destroyed. 13And I will destroy all her cattle that are on great waters; and their foot shall not trouble the waters any more, neither shall the wheels of chariots disturb them. 14Then will I make thy waters clear, and cause thy rivers to flow like oil, saith Adonai Yahuah: 15when I shall make the land of Mitzrayim desolate, and the land shall be forsaken of that which fills it, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, and they shall know that I am Yahuah. 16This is a lamentation, and they shall lament it: even the daughters of goyim shall lament it; over Mitzrayim and over all her multitude shall they lament, saith Adonai Yahuah. 17And it came to pass in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of Yahuah came to Me, saying, 18Ben Adam, lament over the multitude of Mitzrayim, and bring down, even thou and the daughters of the goyim mighty, them that go down to the depth of the earth: 19whom dost thou exceed in beauty? go down, and lay thee with the uncircumcised. 20In the midst of them that are slain by the sword they shall fall: she is delivered to the sword: draw her down, and all her multitude. 21The mighty chiefs shall speak to her out of the midst of Hades, with them that help her: they have gone down, they lie with the uncircumcised, slain with the sword. 22There is Asshur and all his company: all of them slain by the sword: 23whose sepulchres are set in the depth of the pit, and his company are round about his tomb: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who spread terror in the land of the living. 24There is Helam and all her multitude round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who spread terror in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with them that go down to the pit. 25They have set her a bed in the midst of them that are slain with the sword, with all her multitude: her graves are round about him; all the uncircumcised slain by the sword: yet they that spread terror in the land of the living have borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: they are set in the midst of the slain. 26There are Meshech and Thubal, and all their multitude round about their graves: all the uncircumcised slain by the sword, because they spread their terror in the land of the living. 27Yet they have not lain with the mighty chiefs that fell of the uncircumcised, who went down to Hades with their armour of war, and they laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities were upon their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. 28Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain by the sword. 29There is Edom, and her kings, and all her princes, who for all their mighty deeds are laid with them that are slain by the sword: yea, they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit. 30There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the slain; for all the terror which they caused by their might they are now ashamed; and they lie uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit. 31Par'oh saw them, and was comforted over all his multitude, even Par'oh and all his army, slain with the sword, saith Adonai Yahuah: 32for I have spread My terror in the land of the living, and he has lain in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword, even Par'oh and all his multitude, saith Adonai Yahuah.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 33

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1And the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 2Ben Adam, speak to the children of thy am, and thou shalt say to them, When I bring a sword upon a land, and the people of the land take one man of their coasts, and set him for a watchman: 3and if he sees the sword coming upon the land, he shall blow the trumpet, and warn the people; 4and if one hear the sound of the trumpet, and yet take not warning, and the sword come and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. 5For he heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; therefore his blood shall be upon him: but if he had taken warning, he should have delivered his soul. 6But if the watchman sees the sword coming, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned, and the sword come and take away a soul from them, yet that soul I have taken from the watchman's hand. 7Therefore, Ben Adam, I have made thee a watchman to the house of Yisra'el; therefore thou shalt hear the word of My mouth, and thou shalt warn them from Me. 8When I say to the wicked, O wicked one, thou shalt surely die; and thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked one shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand. 9But if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, yet he turn not from his way; he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. 10Therefore thou, Ben Adam, say to the house of Yisra'el, Thus have ye said, Our sins and our iniquities are upon us, and we pine away in them: how then shall we live? 11Say to them, As I live, saith Adonai Yahuah, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Yisra'el? 12Therefore, Ben Adam, say to the children of thy am, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression; and the ungodliness of the ungodly shall not hurt him in the day he turns from his ungodliness; and the righteous shall not be able to live by his righteousness in the day he sins. 13If I say to the righteous, He shall surely live; yet he trusts in his own righteousness, and commits iniquity, all his righteousness shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity which he has committed, he shall die for it. 14And if I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; yet if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; 15if the wicked restore the pledge, and pay back that which he has robbed, and walk in the ordinances of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. 16None of his sins which he has committed shall be remembered against him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live. 17And the children of thy am say, The way of Yahuah is not right: but their ways are not right. 18When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall die for it. 19And when the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby. 20And ye say, The way of Yahuah is not right. O house of Yisra'el, I will judge you each one according to his ways. 21And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, one escaped from Yerushalayim came to me, saying, The city is smitten. 22Now the hand of Yahuah was upon me in the evening, before he that escaped came; and he opened my mouth until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more silent. 23And the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 24Ben Adam, they that inhabit the desolate places in the land of Yisra'el speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land has been given to us for a possession. 25Therefore say to them, Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Ye eat with the blood, and ye lift up your eyes to your idols, and ye shed blood: and ye shall possess the land? 26Ye have stood upon your swords, ye have wrought iniquities, and ye have defiled every one his neighbour's wife: shall ye possess the land? 27Thus shalt thou say to them, Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; As I live, surely they that are in the desolate places shall fall by the sword, and him that is on the plain will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that are in strongholds and in caves shall die of the pestilence. 28And I will make the land desolate and ruined, and the pride of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Yisra'el shall be desolate, so that no one shall pass through them. 29And they shall know that I am Yahuah, when I have made the land desolate and ruined because of all their iniquities which they have wrought. 30And thou, Ben Adam, the children of thy am speak of thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, each to his brother, saying, Come, I pray, and hear what is the word that comes from Yahuah. 31And they come to thee as the am comes, and they sit before thee as My am, and they hear thy words, but will not do them: for they have lust in their mouth, and their heart goes after their gain. 32And, behold, thou art to them as a musical voice, a pleasant singer; and they hear thy words, but do them not. 33When it comes to pass, (and, behold, it comes,) then shall they know that there has been a prophet in the midst of them.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 34

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1And the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 2Ben Adam, prophesy against the shepherds of Yisra'el, and thou shalt say to the shepherds, Thus saith Yahuah; Woe to the shepherds of Yisra'el that feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks? 3Ye eat the milk, and clothe yourselves with the wool, and kill the fattened cattle; but ye feed not the flock. 4Ye have not strengthened the weak, and ye have not healed that which was sick, and ye have not bound up that which was broken, and ye have not brought back that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but ye have ruled them with force and cruelty. 5And my sheep were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, and were scattered. 6My sheep wandered on all the mountains, and on every high hill: yea, My sheep were scattered on the face of all the earth, and there was none to seek or search for them. 7Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of Yahuah; 8As I live, saith Yahuah, surely because My flocks became a prey, and My sheep became meat to all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd, and My shepherds sought not after My flocks, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not My flocks; 9therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of Yahuah; Thus saith Yahuah; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require My flocks at their hand, and will cause them to cease from feeding the flocks; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves anymore; and I will deliver My flocks out of their mouth. 10Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Behold, I am here, and I will seek after My flocks, and will visit them. 11As the shepherd seeks out his flock in the day when he is among his sheep that are separated, so will I seek out My sheep, and will rescue them out of all the places into which they were scattered in the day of cloud and darkness. 12And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land, and feed them on the mountains of Yisra'el, by the brooks, and in all the inhabited places of the land. 13I will feed them in a good pasture, and their fold shall be on the high mountains of Yisra'el: there shall they lie in a good fold, and feed in a fat pasture on the mountains of Yisra'el. 14I will feed My flocks, and will cause them to lie down, saith Adonai Yahuah. 15I will seek that which was lost, and bring back that which was driven away, and bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was weak: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgement. 16And as for My flocks, thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between rams and goats. 17Because ye have thrust with side and shoulder, and have pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad; 18therefore I will save My flocks, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle. 19And I will raise up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even My servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. 20And I Yahuah will be their Elohim, and My servant David shall be a nasi in the midst of them; I Yahuah have spoken it. 21And I will make a brit of peace with them, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the forests. 22And I will make them and the places round about My hill a blessing; and I will send down rain in its season, there shall be rain of blessing. 23And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase; and they shall be secure on their land, and shall know that I am Yahuah, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that enslaved them. 24And they shall be to Me a am, and I will be to them an Elohim, saith Adonai Yahuah. 25And David My servant shall be king over them; and they shall all have one shepherd: and they shall walk in My judgements, and keep My ordinances, and do them. 26And they shall dwell on the land which I gave to Jacob My servant, wherein your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell upon it, they and their sons, and their sons' sons, for ever: and David My servant shall be their king for ever. 27And I will make a brit of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting brit with them: and I will establish them, and will multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in the midst of them for ever. 28And My tabernacle shall be among them: and I will be their Elohim, and they shall be My am. 29And goyim shall know that I am Yahuah that sanctifies Yisra'el, when My sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for ever.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 35

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1And the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 2Ben Adam, set thy face against the mountain of Seir, and prophesy against it, 3and thou shalt say to it, Thus saith Yahuah; Behold, I am against thee, O mount Seir, and I will stretch out My hand against thee, and I will make thee a desolation and a desert. 4Thy cities shall be forsaken, and thou shalt be desolate; and thou shalt know that I am Yahuah. 5Because thou hast been an everlasting enemy, and didst deliver the children of Yisra'el into the hand of strangers in the time of their calamity: 6therefore, as I live, saith Yahuah, I will certainly make thee blood, and blood shall pursue thee: and since thou hast hated blood, blood shall pursue thee. 7And I will make the mountain of Seir a desolation and a desert, and will cut off from it him that passes through it and him that returns. 8And I will fill his mountains with them that are slain with the sword: in thy hills and in thy valleys and in all thy ravines they that are slain with the sword shall fall. 9I will make thee an everlasting desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited; and ye shall know that I am Yahuah. 10Because thou hast said, The two nations and the two countries shall be mine, and I will inherit them; whereas Yahuah was there: 11therefore, as I live, saith Yahuah, I will deal with thee according to the anger and according to the wrath which thou hast dealt with them; and I will be known among them, when I have judged thee. 12And thou shalt know that I am Yahuah: I have heard all thy reproaches which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Yisra'el, saying, They are laid desolate, they have been given to us for a possession. 13And thou didst speak against Me with thy mouth, and didst magnify thy speech against Me; I have heard it myself. 14Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; When all the earth rejoices, I will make thee desolate. 15As thou didst rejoice over the inheritance of the house of Yisra'el, because it was made desolate, so will I do to thee: thou shalt be made desolate, O mount Seir, and all Edom entirely; and they shall know that I am Yahuah.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 36

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1And thou, Ben Adam, prophesy to the mountains of Yisra'el, and say, Ye mountains of Yisra'el, hear the word of Yahuah: 2Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Because the enemy has said against you, Aha! and the high places of the earth have become a possession; 3therefore prophesy, and say, Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Because they made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye should be a possession to the remnant of goyim, and ye became the talk and the railing of the people; 4therefore, ye mountains of Yisra'el, hear the word of Adonai Yahuah; Thus saith Adonai Yahuah to the mountains, and to the hills, to the valleys, and to the plains, and to the desolate cities which have become a spoil and a derision to the remnant of goyim round about; 5therefore thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Surely in the fire of My wrath I have spoken against the remnant of goyim, and against all Edom, who have appointed My land to themselves for a possession with joy of a whole heart, and with despising of soul, that they may cast it out for a prey. 6Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Yisra'el, and say to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the valleys, and to the plains, Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Behold, I have spoken in My wrath, because ye have endured the reproach of goyim: 7therefore thus saith Adonai Yahuah; I have lifted up My hand, saying, Surely the goyim that are round about you, they shall bear their reproach. 8But ye, O mountains of Yisra'el, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to My am Yisra'el; for they are at hand to come. 9For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and ye shall be tilled and sown: 10and I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Yisra'el, all of them; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the desolate places shall be built up. 11And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall multiply and be fruitful: and I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former state, and will do more good to you than at the beginning: and ye shall know that I am Yahuah. 12And I will cause men to walk upon you, even My am Yisra'el; and they shall inherit thee, and thou shalt be their possession, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of children. 13Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Because they say to you, Thou art a devourer of men, and thou hast bereaved thy nation of children; 14therefore thou shalt no more devour men, and shalt no more bereave thy nation of children, saith Adonai Yahuah. 15And I will no more cause the reproach of goyim to be heard upon thee, and the railing of peoples shall not afflict thee anymore, and thy nation shall no more perish, saith Adonai Yahuah. 16And the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 17Ben Adam, when the house of Yisra'el dwelt on their own land, they defiled it by their ways and devices: their way was before Me as the uncleanness of a woman in her separation. 18Therefore I poured out My wrath upon them for the blood which they poured out upon the land, and because they defiled it with their devices. 19And I scattered them among goyim, and they were dispersed in the countries: according to their ways and according to their devices I judged them. 20And they went into goyim whither they went, and they profaned My holy name, when it was said of them, These are the am of Yahuah, and they are gone forth out of His land. 21But I had regard for My holy name, which the house of Yisra'el had profaned among goyim whither they went. 22Therefore say to the house of Yisra'el, Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Not for your sakes do I this, O house of Yisra'el, but for My holy name, which ye have profaned among goyim whither ye went. 23And I will sanctify My great name, which was profaned among goyim, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and goyim shall know that I am Yahuah, saith Adonai Yahuah, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. 24And I will take you from among goyim, and will gather you out of all the lands, and will bring you into your own land. 25And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be purified from all your uncleanness; and I will purify you from all your idols. 26And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the heart of stone out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. 27And I will put My spirit in the midst of you, and I will cause you to walk in My ordinances, and ye shall keep My judgements, and do them. 28And ye shall dwell on the land which I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be My am, and I will be to you an Elohim. 29And I will save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call upon the corn, and will multiply it, and will not bring famine upon you. 30And I will multiply the fruit of the trees, and the increase of the field, that ye may no more bear the reproach of famine among goyim. 31And ye shall remember your evil ways, and your devices that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves for your transgressions and for your abominations. 32Not for your sakes do I this, saith Adonai Yahuah, let it be known unto you: be ye ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Yisra'el. 33Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; In the day that I shall cleanse you from all your transgressions, then I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the desolate places shall be built. 34And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by. 35And they shall say, This land that was desolate has become like a garden of Heliopolis; and the desolate and ruined cities are fenced and inhabited. 36Then the goyim that are left round about you shall know that I Yahuah have rebuilt the ruined places, and planted the desolate land: I Yahuah have spoken, and will do it. 37Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Forasmuch as the house of Yisra'el ask Me to do it for them, I will yet be inquired of by them; to increase them with men like sheep. 38As the sheep of the sanctuary, as the sheep of Yerushalayim in her feast days, so shall the desolate cities be full of sheep of men; and they shall know that I am Yahuah.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 37

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1The hand of Yahuah came upon me, and brought me out in the spirit of Yahuah, and set me down in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones, 2and He led me round about to them on every side: and, behold, they were very many on the face of the valley, and, behold, they were very dry. 3And He said to me, Ben Adam, shall these bones live? And I said, O Adonai Yahuah, Thou knowest. 4And He said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, Ye dry bones, hear the word of Yahuah. 5Thus saith Adonai Yahuah to these bones; Behold, I will bring upon you the breath of life, 6and I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to grow upon you, and will cover you with skin, and will put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am Yahuah. 7So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a sound, and, behold, a shaking, and the bones came together, each bone to its joint. 8And I looked, and, behold, there were sinews upon them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above, but there was not breath in them. 9And He said to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, Ben Adam, and say to the wind, Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain ones, that they may live. 10So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, a very great host. 11And He said to me, Ben Adam, these bones are the whole house of Yisra'el: and they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished, and we are completely cut off. 12Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Behold, I will open your graves, and will cause you to come up out of your graves, and will bring you into the land of Yisra'el. 13And ye shall know that I am Yahuah, when I have opened your graves, and brought you up out of your graves, O My am. 14And I will put My spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I will cause you to rest upon your own land: and ye shall know that I am Yahuah; I have spoken, and will perform it, saith Yahuah. 15And the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 16And thou, Ben Adam, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Yehudah, and the children of Yisra'el his companions: and thou shalt take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph the stick of Ephrayim, and all the children of Yisra'el his companions. 17And thou shalt join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thy hand. 18And when the children of thy am speak to thee, saying, Wilt thou not tell us what thou meanest by these? 19thou shalt say to them, Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephrayim, and the tribes of Yisra'el his companions, and I will join them with the stick of Yehudah, and they shall become one stick, and they shall be one in My hand. 20And the sticks on which thou writest shall be in thy hand before their eyes. 21And thou shalt say to them, Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Behold, I will take the children of Yisra'el from among goyim, whither they have gone, and will gather them on every side, and will bring them into their own land. 22And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Yisra'el; and one king shall be king over them all, and they shall no more be two nations, nor shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more. 23And they shall no more defile themselves with their idols, and with their abominations, and with all their transgressions: and I will save them from all their wickednesses wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them, and they shall be to Me a am, and I will be to them an Elohim. 24And My servant David shall be king over them; and they shall all have one shepherd: and they shall walk in My judgements, and they shall keep My ordinances, and do them. 25And they shall dwell on the land which I gave to Jacob My servant, wherein their fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell upon it, they and their sons, and their sons' sons for ever: and David My servant shall be their prince for ever. 26And I will make a brit of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting brit with them: and I will establish them, and will multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in the midst of them for ever. 27And My tabernacle shall be with them, and I will be their Elohim, and they shall be My am. 28And goyim shall know that I am Yahuah that sanctifies Yisra'el, when My sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for ever.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 38

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1And the word of Yahuah came to me, saying, 2Ben Adam, set thy face toward Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tuval, and prophesy against him, 3and say, Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tuval: 4and I will turn thee round, and put a hook into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thy army, horses and horsemen, all armed with complete armour, a great multitude, armed with swords and shields: 5Paras, and Ethiopia, and Libia with them; all of them with shield and helmet: 6Gomer, and all his host; the house of Togarmah, from the sides of the north, and all his multitude; even many peoples with thee. 7Be thou ready, and prepare thyself, thou and all thy multitude that are assembled unto thee; and be thou to me for a guard. 8After many days thou shalt be numbered: in the last years thou shalt come to the land that is brought back from the sword, when the am is gathered from many peoples upon the mountains of Yisra'el, which have been a desolation; but the am has been brought forth out of goyim, and they all dwell securely. 9And thou shalt go up, and shalt come like a tempest, and thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou and all thy multitude, and many peoples with thee. 10Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; It shall come to pass in that day, that evil thoughts shall arise in thy heart, 11and thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of Yisra'el, to the land that has been made desolate, to the am that has been gathered from goyim, to whom I have given a possession, to the am that dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having no bars and gates; 12to take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand against the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the am that are gathered out of goyim, which have gotten cattle and goods, who dwell in the middle of the land. 13And all the merchants of the isles shall say to thee, Art thou he that was designed, gathering thy multitude to take a spoil, and to take a prey, to carry away gold and silver, to take away cattle and goods, to take much plunder? 14Therefore prophesy, Ben Adam, and say to Gog, Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Shalt thou not rise up in that day, when My am Yisra'el dwells securely? 15And thou shalt come forth from thy place, from the sides of the north, thou and many peoples with thee, all of them riding on horses, a great multitude, and a mighty force. 16And thou shalt come up against My am Yisra'el, as clouds to cover the land: it shall come to pass in the last days, and I will bring thee upon My land, that goyim may know Me, when I am sanctified in thee before their eyes, O Gog. 17Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Art thou he of whom I spoke in old time by My servants the nevi'im of Yisra'el, who prophesied in those days concerning this, to bring thee up against them? 18And it shall come to pass, when Gog shall come against the land of Yisra'el, saith Adonai Yahuah, that My wrath shall be kindled in My nostrils. 19For 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 Yisra'el: 20and the fishes of the sea shall be shaken, and the birds of the sky, and the beasts of the field, and all things moving on the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth; and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. 21And I will call upon him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon all his bands, and upon all the peoples that are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and sulphur. 22And I will be magnified, and sanctified, and glorified, and made known in the eyes of many goyim, and they shall know that I am Yahuah.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 39

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1And thou, Ben Adam, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tuval: 2and I will turn thee round, and I will lead thee on, and bring thee up from the sides of the north, and I will bring thee upon the mountains of Yisra'el: 3and I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and I will cast down thine arrows out of thy right hand. 4Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Yisra'el, thou and all thy bands, and the peoples that are with thee: I have given thee for a prey to the birds, even to every fowl, and to the beasts of the field. 5Thou shalt fall upon the face of the field; for I have spoken it, saith Adonai Yahuah. 6And I will send fire upon Magog, and upon the isles that are secure; and they shall know that I am Yahuah. 7And My holy name I will make known in the midst of My am Yisra'el; and I will not profane My holy name any more: and goyim shall know that I am Yahuah, the holy one in Yisra'el. 8Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith Adonai Yahuah; this is the day whereof I have spoken. 9And they that dwell in the cities of Yisra'el shall go forth, and shall make a fire of the armour and shields, and spears, and bows, and arrows, and hand-staves, and javelins, and they shall burn them in the fire seven years: 10so that they shall not take wood out of the field, nor cut down out of the forests; for they shall make a fire of the armour of the heathen: thus they shall spoil them that spoiled them, and plunder them that plundered them, saith Adonai Yahuah. 11And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give to Gog a place there of a grave in Yisra'el, the valley of those passing through on the east of the sea: and it shall stop them that pass through; and they shall bury Gog there, and all his multitude; and it shall be called the valley of the multitude of Gog. 12And the house of Yisra'el shall be burying them for seven months, that they may cleanse the land. 13Yea, all the am of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renowned day, wherein I shall be glorified, saith Adonai Yahuah. 14And they shall set apart men to bury them, to go throughout the land: and these with the am shall bury the slain in the valley; and they shall call them to the burial of Gog, so as to cleanse the land. 15And they shall bury all the multitude thereof; it shall be the valley of the multitude of Gog: and they shall bury Gog, and all his multitude, in the valley of the multitude of Gog, in the east of the sea: and they shall be stopped them that pass through, and it shall stop the multitude of Gog. 16And also the name of the city shall be Armona. Thus shall they cleanse the land. 17And thou, Ben Adam, thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Say to every fowl, and to all the beasts of the field, Gather yourselves together, yea come; gather yourselves from all sides to My sacrifice which I sacrifice for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Yisra'el, that ye may eat flesh and drink blood. 18Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, and lambs, and goats, and calves, all fatted beasts of Bashan. 19And ye shall eat fat until ye are full, and drink blood until ye are drunken, at My sacrifice which I have prepared for you. 20And ye shall be filled at My table with horses, and chariots, with mighty men, and all men of war, saith Adonai Yahuah. 21And I will set a sign among the goyim, and I will send forth a remnant escaped out of them with a sword among goyim; and I will bring them to their own land. 22And they shall know that I am Yahuah their Elohim: and goyim shall know that the house of Yisra'el went into captivity for their transgressions; because they transgressed against Me, therefore I hid My face from them, and gave them into the hands of their enemies: therefore they all fell by the sword. 23According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I dealt with them; and I hid My face from them. 24Therefore thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Now I will bring back the captivity of Jacob, and will have mercy upon the whole house of Yisra'el, and will be jealous for the sake of My holy name. 25And they shall bear their shame, and all their iniquities which they have committed against Me, when they dwelt securely on their land, with none to make them afraid. 26And when I have brought them back from goyim, and gathered them out of the lands of their enemies, I will be sanctified in them in the sight of many goyim. 27And they shall know that I am Yahuah their Elohim: and I will no more hide My face from them; for I have poured out My ruach (My Spirit) upon all the house of Yisra'el, saith Adonai Yahuah.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 40

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1In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was smitten, in that same day the hand of Yahuah was upon me, and brought me to Yerushalayim. 2In a vision Elohim brought me into the land of Yisra'el, and set me upon a very high mountain, on which was a building as it were of a city on the south. 3And He brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man whose appearance was as the appearance of brass, and a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood at the gate. 4And the man said to me, Ben Adam, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and apply thy heart to all things which I shall shew thee; for to the intent that they might be shewn thee art thou brought hither: and declare all that thou seest to the house of Yisra'el. 5And, behold, a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by a cubit and an hand-breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed. 6Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up the steps thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad. 7And the chamber was one reed long and one reed broad; and between the chambers six cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within, one reed. 8And he measured the porch of the gate within, one reed. 9And he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits: and the porch of the gate was within. 10And the chambers of the gate eastward were three on one side and three on the other; they were all of one measure: and the posts had one measure on one side and on the other. 11And he measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits. 12And the border before the chambers, one cubit on this side, and the border, one cubit on that side; and the chambers, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side. 13And he measured the gate from the roof of one chamber to the roof of the other chamber, the breadth, twenty-five cubits wide; as the door was over against the door. 14And he measured also the posts, sixty cubits; even to the post of the court of the gate round about. 15And from the front of the gate of the entrance to the front of the inner porch of the gate, fifty cubits. 16And there were narrow windows to the chambers, and to their posts, within the gate round about, and likewise to the porches: and windows were round about on the inside: and on each post were palm trees. 17Then he brought me into the outer court; and, behold, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers on the pavement. 18And the pavement by the side of the gates, according to the length of the gates, was the lower pavement. 19And he measured from before the lower gate to before the inner court without, one hundred cubits eastward and northward. 20And the gate of the outer court that looks toward the north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof. 21And its chambers were three on this side and three on that side; and its posts and its porches were according to the measure of the first gate: fifty cubits was the length thereof, and twenty-five cubits the breadth. 22And its windows, and its porches, and its palm trees, were according to the measure of the gate that looks toward the east; and they went up to it by seven steps; and the porch was before them. 23And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward the north and toward the east; and he measured from gate to gate, one hundred cubits. 24And he led me toward the south: and, behold, a gate toward the south: and he measured its posts and its porches according to these measures. 25And there were windows in it and in its porches round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits. 26And there were seven steps to go up to it, and its porch was before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and one on that side, upon the posts thereof. 27And the inner gate toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south, one hundred cubits. 28And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures. 29And its chambers, and its posts, and its porches, were according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in its porches round about: it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad. 30And the porches round about were twenty-five cubits long, and five cubits broad. 31And the porch thereof was toward the outer court; and palm trees were upon its posts: and the going up to it was by eight steps. 32And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures. 33And its chambers, and its posts, and its porches, were according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in its porches round about: it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad. 34And the porch thereof was toward the outer court; and it had palm trees upon its posts on this side and on that side: and the going up to it was by eight steps. 35And he brought me to the north gate: and he measured it according to these measures; 36its chambers, and its posts, and its porches, and the windows thereof round about: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits. 37And its posts were toward the outer court; and palm trees were upon its posts on this side and on that side: and the going up to it was by eight steps. 38And the chamber with the door thereof was by the posts of the gates, where they wash the whole-offering. 39And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the whole-offering, and the sin-offering, and the trespass-offering. 40And at the side without, as one goes up to the opening of the north gate, were two tables; and on the other side, which was at the porch of the gate, were two tables.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 41

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1And he brought me to the Heichal, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle. 2And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits. 3Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits. 4And he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the Heichal: and he said to me, This is the Holy of Holies. 5And then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of the side-chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side. 6And the side-chambers were chamber over chamber, three stories high, and thirty in each story: and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side-chambers round about, that they might have a hold, but they had not a hold in the wall of the house. 7And the side-chambers were broader as they rose higher round about the house: for the rising of the house was round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was increased upward, and thus one went up from the lowest story to the highest by the middle one. 8I saw also that the house had a raised basement round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six cubits to the outer edge. 9The thickness of the wall of the side-chamber without was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side-chambers that were within. 10And between the chambers was a width of twenty cubits round about the house on every side. 11And the doors of the side-chambers opened on the space left, one door toward the north, and one door toward the south: and the breadth of the space that was left was five cubits round about. 12And the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits. 13So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, one hundred cubits long; 14also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, one hundred cubits. 15And he measured the length of the building before the separate place which was behind it, and its galleries on one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits, and the inner Heichal, and the porches of the court; 16the thresholds, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the threshold, ceiled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows; and the windows were covered; 17over the door, even to the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure. 18And it was made with keruvim and palm trees; and a palm tree was between a keruv and a keruv; and every keruv had two faces; 19so that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on 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. 20From the ground to above the door were keruvim and palm trees made, and on the wall of the Heichal. 21The posts of the Heichal were squared, and the face of the Holy of Holies; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other. 22The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood. And he said to me, This is the table that is before Yahuah. 23And the Heichal and the Holy of Holies had two doors. 24And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door. 25And on them, on the doors of the Heichal, were made keruvim and palm trees, as were made upon the walls; and there was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch without. 26And there were narrow windows and palm trees on one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and on the side-chambers of the house, and on the thresholds.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 42

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1And 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. 2Before the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits. 3Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the outer court, were galleries against galleries in three stories. 4And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north. 5Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building. 6For they were in three stories, and had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lower and the middlemost from the ground. 7And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the outer court on the front of the chambers, was fifty cubits long. 8For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and, behold, before the Heichal were one hundred cubits. 9And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court. 10In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were chambers. 11And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all their goings out were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors. 12And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them. 13Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they are holy chambers, wherein the kohanim that approach unto Yahuah shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy. 14When the kohanim enter in, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and they shall put on other garments, and shall approach to that which is for the am. 15Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about. 16He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. 17He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. 18He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed. 19He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. 20He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 43

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1Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate whose prospect is toward the east. 2And, behold, the glory of the Elohim of Yisra'el came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory. 3And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when he came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river of Kevar; and I fell upon my face. 4And the glory of Yahuah came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. 5So the ruach took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of Yahuah filled the house. 6And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me. 7And he said unto me, Ben Adam, 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 Yisra'el for ever: and the house of Yisra'el shall no more profane My holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, and by the carcases of their kings in their high places; 8in their setting of their threshold by My threshold, and their post by My posts, and the wall between Me and them, they have even defiled My holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in Mine anger. 9Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from Me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever. 10Thou, Ben Adam, shew the house to the house of Yisra'el, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern. 11And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, show them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them. 12This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house. 13And these are the measures of the altar by cubits: the cubit is a cubit and a hand-breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar. 14And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit. 15So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward there are four horns. 16And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four sides thereof. 17And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four sides thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east. 18And he said unto me, Ben Adam, thus saith Adonai Yahuah; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer whole offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon. 19And thou shalt give to the kohanim the Levites that are of the seed of Tzadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith Adonai Yahuah, a young bullock for a sin offering. 20And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shall thou cleanse and purge it. 21Thou shalt also take the bullock of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary. 22And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bullock. 23When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish. 24And thou shalt offer them before Yahuah, and the kohanim shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a whole offering unto Yahuah. 25Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock and a ram out of the flock, without blemish. 26Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves. 27And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the eighth day, and so forward, the kohanim shall make your whole offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith Adonai Yahuah.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 44

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1Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut. 2Then said Yahuah unto me, This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because Yahuah, the Elohim of Yisra'el, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut. 3It is for the nasi; the nasi, he shall sit in it to eat bread before Yahuah; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same. 4Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of Yahuah filled the house of Yahuah: and I fell upon my face. 5And Yahuah said unto me, Ben Adam, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of Yahuah, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary. 6And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Yisra'el, Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Let it suffice you of all your abominations, O house of Yisra'el: 7in that ye have brought in strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my brit beside all your abominations. 8And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves. 9Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Yisra'el. 10And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Yisra'el went astray, which went astray from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity. 11Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the whole offering and the sacrifice for the am; and they shall stand before them to minister unto them. 12Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and became a stumblingblock of iniquity unto the house of Yisra'el; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith Adonai Yahuah, and they shall bear their iniquity. 13And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a kohen unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things: in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed. 14But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein. 15But the kohanim the Levites, the sons of Tzadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Yisra'el went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith Adonai Yahuah: 16They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge. 17And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within. 18They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat. 19And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the am, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the am with their garments. 20Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads. 21Neither shall any of the kohanim drink wine, when they enter into the inner court. 22Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Yisra'el, or a widow that had a kohen before. 23And they shall teach my am the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. 24And in controversy they shall stand in judgement; and they shall judge it according to my judgements: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my Shabbatot. 25And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves. 26And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days. 27And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, saith Adonai Yahuah. 28And the heritages shall be to them; I am their heritage: and ye shall give them no possession in Yisra'el; I am their possession. 29They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Yisra'el shall be theirs. 30And the first of all the first fruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be for the kohanim: ye shall also give unto the kohanim the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on thine house. 31The kohanim shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 45

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1Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto Yahuah, an holy portion of the land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about. 2Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof. 3And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place. 4The holy portion of the land shall be for the kohanim the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto Yahuah: and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary. 5And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers. 6And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand in breadth, and five and twenty thousand in length, over against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Yisra'el. 7And a portion shall be for the nasi on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border. 8In the land shall be his possession in Yisra'el: and my nasi shall no more oppress my am; but the rest of the land shall they give to the house of Yisra'el according to their tribes. 9Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; Let it suffice you, O nasi of Yisra'el: remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness, take away your exactions from my am, saith Adonai Yahuah. 10Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. 11The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer: and the ephah shall contain the tenth part of a homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer. 12And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, and twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels, shall be your mina. 13This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of a homer of wheat: and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of a homer of barley: 14And the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are a homer: 15And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Yisra'el; for a meat offering, and for a whole offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them, saith Adonai Yahuah. 16All the am of the land shall be bound to this oblation for the nasi in Yisra'el. 17And it shall be the nasi's part to give whole offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the Shabbatot, in all the solemn feasts of the house of Yisra'el: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the whole offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Yisra'el. 18Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary: 19And the kohen shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court. 20And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye make atonement for the house. 21In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten. 22And upon that day shall the nasi prepare for himself and for all the am of the land a bullock for a sin offering. 23And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a whole offering to Yahuah, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering. 24And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah. 25In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the whole offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 46

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1Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Shabbat it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened. 2And the nasi shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the kohanim shall prepare his whole offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of that gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening. 3Likewise the am of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before Yahuah in the Shabbatot and in the new moons. 4And the whole offering that the nasi shall offer unto Yahuah in the day of Shabbat shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish; 5And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram: and the meat offering for the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah. 6And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish. 7And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah. 8And when the nasi shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof. 9But when the am of the land shall come before Yahuah in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it. 10And the nasi in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth. 11And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah. 12Now when the nasi shall prepare a voluntary whole offering or voluntary peace offerings unto Yahuah, one shall then open to him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his whole offering and his peace offerings, as he doth on the day of Shabbat: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate. 13Thou shalt daily prepare a whole offering unto Yahuah of a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every morning. 14And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto Yahuah. 15Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual whole offering. 16Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; If the nasi give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it shall be their possession by inheritance. 17But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the nasi: but his inheritance shall be for his sons for them. 18Moreover the nasi shall not take of the am's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my am be not scattered every man from his possession. 19After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the kohanim, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a place on the two sides westward. 20Then said he unto me, This is the place where the kohanim shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear them not out into the utter court, to sanctify the am. 21Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court. 22In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure. 23And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about. 24Then said he unto me, These are the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the am.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 47

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1Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar. 2Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side. 3And when the man that had the measuring line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles. 4Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins. 5Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over. 6And he said unto me, Ben Adam, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river. 7Now when I had returned, behold, upon the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other. 8Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the plain: and they go into the sea: and the waters shall be healed. 9And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish: for these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh. 10And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many. 11But the miry places thereof and the marshes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt. 12And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months; because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine. 13Thus saith Adonai Yahuah; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Yisra'el: Yoseph shall have two portions. 14And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance. 15And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Chethlon, as men go into Zepho; 16Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the coast of Damascus and the coast of Hamath; Hazar-hattichon, which is by the coast of Hauran. 17And the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side. 18And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Yisra'el by Jordan, from the north border unto the east sea. And this is the east side. 19And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward. 20The west side also shall be the great sea from the south border, until a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side. 21So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Yisra'el. 22And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Yisra'el; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Yisra'el. 23And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith Adonai Yahuah.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 48

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1Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Chethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan. 2And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Asher. 3And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali. 4And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Manasseh. 5And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Ephraim. 6And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben. 7And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Yehudah. 8And by the border of Yehudah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the oblation which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it. 9The oblation that ye shall offer unto Yahuah shall be of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth. 10And for them, even for the kohanim, shall be this holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of Yahuah shall be in the midst thereof. 11It shall be for the kohanim that are sanctified of the sons of Tzadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Yisra'el went astray, as the Levites went astray. 12And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites. 13And over against the border of the kohanim, the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand. 14And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the first fruits of the land: for it is holy unto Yahuah. 15And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof. 16And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred. 17And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hundred and fifty. 18And the rest in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city. 19And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Yisra'el. 20All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city. 21And the rest shall be for the nasi, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against the portions of the nasi: and it shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof. 22Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the nasi's, between the border of Yehudah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the nasi. 23As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west side, Benjamin shall have a portion. 24And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side, Simeon shall have a portion. 25And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar a portion. 26And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun a portion. 27And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad a portion. 28And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea. 29This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Yisra'el for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith Adonai Yahuah. 30And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures. 31And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Yisra'el: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Yehudah, one gate of Levi. 32And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Yoseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan. 33And the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun. 34At the west side four thousand and five hundred: with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali. 35It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, YAHUAH SHAMMAH.

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Yechezkel

Introduction

A NOTE ON THIS RENDERING

THE WITNESS — THE GREEK SETS THE FLOW

THE CHAPTER THAT RUNS AHEAD — 21

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 1

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 2

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 3

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 4

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 5

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 6

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 7

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 8

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 9

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 10

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 11

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 12

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 13

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 14

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 15

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 16

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 17

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 18

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 19

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 20

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 21

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 22

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 23

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 24

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 25

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 26

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 27

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 28

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 29

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 30

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 31

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 32

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 33

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 34

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 35

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 36

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 37

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 38

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 39

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 40

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 41

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 42

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 43

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 44

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 45

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 46

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 47

Yechezkel (Ezekiel)—Chapter 48