001:001 Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month],
in the fifth [day] of the month, as I was among the captives
by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw
visions of God.
001:002 In the fifth [day] of the month, which was the fifth year
of king Jehoiachin's captivity,
001:003 the word of Yahweh came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son
of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar;
and the hand of Yahweh was there on him.
001:004 I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north,
a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness round
about it, and out of the midst of it as it were glowing metal,
out of the midst of the fire.
001:005 Out of the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures.
This was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.
001:006 Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings.
001:007 Their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet
was like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled
like burnished brass.
001:008 They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides;
and they four had their faces and their wings [thus]:
001:009 their wings were joined one to another; they didn't turn
when they went; each one went straight forward.
001:010 As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man;
and they four had the face of a lion on the right side;
and they four had the face of an ox on the left side;
they four had also the face of an eagle.
001:011 Their faces and their wings were separate above;
two [wings] of each one were joined one to another, and two
covered their bodies.
001:012 Each one went straight forward: where the spirit was to go,
they went; they didn't turn when they went.
001:013 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance
was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches:
[the fire] went up and down among the living creatures;
and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
001:014 The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance
of a flash of lightning.
001:015 Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, one wheel on
the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four
faces of it.
001:016 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl:
and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their
work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.
001:017 When they went, they went in their four directions:
they didn't turn when they went.
001:018 As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four
had their rims full of eyes round about.
001:019 When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them;
and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth,
the wheels were lifted up.
001:020 Wherever the spirit was to go, they went; there was the spirit to go:
and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit
of the living creature was in the wheels.
001:021 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood;
and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels
were lifted up beside them: for the spirit of the living
creature was in the wheels.
001:022 Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness
of an expanse, like the awesome crystal to look on,
stretched forth over their heads above.
001:023 Under the expanse were their wings straight, the one toward
the other: each one had two which covered on this side,
and every one had two which covered on that side, their bodies.
001:024 When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise
of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise
of tumult like the noise of an army: when they stood,
they let down their wings.
001:025 There was a voice above the expanse that was over their heads:
when they stood, they let down their wings.
001:026 Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of
a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire{or, lapis lazuli} stone;
and on the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance
of a man on it above.
001:027 I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within
it round about, from the appearance of his waist and upward;
and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw
as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness
round about him.
001:028 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day
of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about.
This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahweh.
When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice
of one that spoke.
002:001 He said to me, Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will
speak with you.
002:002 The Spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me
on my feet; and I heard him who spoke to me.
002:003 He said to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel,
to nations that are rebellious, which have rebelled against me:
they and their fathers have transgressed against me even
to this very day.
002:004 The children are impudent and stiff-hearted: I am sending you
to them; and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh.
002:005 They, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear,
(for they are a rebellious house), yet shall know that there
has been a prophet among them.
002:006 You, son of man, don't be afraid of them, neither be afraid
of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you
do dwell among scorpions: don't be afraid of their words,
nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
002:007 You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear,
or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.
002:008 But you, son of man, hear what I tell you; don't be you
rebellious like that rebellious house: open your mouth,
and eat that which I give you.
002:009 When I looked, behold, a hand was put forth to me; and, behold,
a scroll of a book was therein;
002:010 He spread it before me: and it was written within and without;
and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
003:001 He said to me, Son of man, eat that which you find;
eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.
003:002 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.
003:003 He said to me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat,
and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you.
Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
003:004 He said to me, Son of man, go, get you to the house of Israel,
and speak with my words to them.
003:005 For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of
a hard language, but to the house of Israel;
003:006 not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language,
whose words you can not understand. Surely, if I sent you
to them, they would listen to you.
003:007 But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will
not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are of hard
forehead and of a stiff heart.
003:008 Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces,
and your forehead hard against their foreheads.
003:009 As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead:
don't be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks,
though they are a rebellious house.
003:010 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall
speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.
003:011 Go, get you to them of the captivity, to the children of your people,
and speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh;
whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
003:012 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice
of a great rushing, [saying], Blessed be the glory of Yahweh
from his place.
003:013 [I heard] the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they
touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them,
even the noise of a great rushing.
003:014 So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went
in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Yahweh
was strong on me.
003:015 Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived
by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there
overwhelmed among them seven days.
003:016 It happened at the end of seven days, that the word of Yahweh
came to me, saying,
003:017 Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel:
therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
003:018 When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him
no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way,
to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity;
but his blood will I require at your hand.
003:019 Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn't turn from his wickedness,
nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity;
but you have delivered your soul.
003:020 Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness,
and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him,
he shall die: because you have not given him warning,
he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has
done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require
at your hand.
003:021 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous
not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live,
because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.
003:022 The hand of Yahweh was there on me; and he said to me, Arise,
go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with you.
003:023 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and behold,
the glory of Yahweh stood there, as the glory which I saw
by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.
003:024 Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet;
and he spoke with me, and said to me, Go, shut yourself
within your house.
003:025 But you, son of man, behold, they shall lay bands on you,
and shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them:
003:026 and I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth,
that you shall be mute, and shall not be to them a reprover;
for they are a rebellious house.
003:027 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you
shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: He who hears,
let him hear; and he who forbears, let him forbear:
for they are a rebellious house.
004:001 You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before you,
and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem:
004:002 and lay siege against it, and build forts against it,
and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it,
and plant battering rams against it round about.
004:003 Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron
between you and the city: and set your face toward it,
and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it.
This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
004:004 Moreover lie you on your left side, and lay the iniquity of
the house of Israel on it; [according to] the number of the days
that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.
004:005 For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be
to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days:
so shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
004:006 Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your
right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah:
forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it to you.
004:007 You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem,
with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.
004:008 Behold, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from
one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days
of your siege.
004:009 Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils,
and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make
you bread of it; [according to] the number of the days that
you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days,
shall you eat of it.
004:010 Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels
a day: from time to time shall you eat it.
004:011 You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin:
from time to time shall you drink.
004:012 You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it
in their sight with dung that comes out of man.
004:013 Yahweh said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their
bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.
004:014 Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul has not been polluted;
for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten
of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals;
neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
004:015 Then he said to me, Behold, I have given you cow's dung
for man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread thereon.
004:016 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff
of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight,
and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure,
and in dismay:
004:017 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another,
and pine away in their iniquity.
005:001 You, son of man, take a sharp sword; [as] a barber's razor
shall you take it to you, and shall cause it to pass on
your head and on your beard: then take balances to weigh,
and divide the hair.
005:002 A third part shall you burn in the fire in the midst of the city,
when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take
a third part, and strike with the sword round about it;
and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will
draw out a sword after them.
005:003 You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in your skirts.
005:004 Of these again shall you take, and cast them into the midst
of the fire, and burn them in the fire; from it shall a fire
come forth into all the house of Israel.
005:005 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem; I have set her
in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her.
005:006 She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more
than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries
that are round about her; for they have rejected my ordinances,
and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.
005:007 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you are turbulent
more than the nations that are round about you, and have
not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances,
neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are
round about you;
005:008 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I, even I,
am against you; and I will execute judgments in the midst
of you in the sight of the nations.
005:009 I will do in you that which I have not done, and whereunto I
will not do any more the like, because of all your abominations.
005:010 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of you,
and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute
judgments on you; and the whole remnant of you will I scatter
to all the winds.
005:011 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely, because you
have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things,
and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish [you];
neither shall my eye spare, and I also will have no pity.
005:012 A third part of you shall die with the pestilence,
and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you;
and a third part shall fall by the sword round about you;
and a third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will
draw out a sword after them.
005:013 Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause
my wrath toward them to rest, and I shall be comforted;
and they shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal,
when I have accomplished my wrath on them.
005:014 Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among
the nations that are round about you, in the sight of all
that pass by.
005:015 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and
an astonishment, to the nations that are round about you,
when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath,
and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Yahweh, have spoken it;)
005:016 when I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine,
that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you:
and I will increase the famine on you, and will break your
staff of bread;
005:017 and I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they shall
bereave you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you;
and I will bring the sword on you: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
006:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
006:002 Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel,
and prophesy to them,
006:003 and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the
Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains
and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys:
Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will
destroy your high places.
006:004 Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars
shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men
before your idols.
006:005 I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel
before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round
about your altars.
006:006 In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste,
and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars
may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be
broken and cease, and your incense altars may be hewn down,
and your works may be abolished.
006:007 The slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know
that I am Yahweh.
006:008 Yet will I leave a remnant, in that you shall have some that
escape the sword among the nations, when you shall be scattered
through the countries.
006:009 Those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations
where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been
broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me,
and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols:
and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils
which they have committed in all their abominations.
006:010 They shall know that I am Yahweh: I have not said in vain
that I would do this evil to them.
006:011 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Smite with your hand, and stamp with
your foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations
of the house of Israel; for they shall fall by the sword,
by the famine, and by the pestilence.
006:012 He who is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he who is
near shall fall by the sword; and he who remains and is
besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish
my wrath on them.
006:013 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when their slain men shall be
among their idols round about their altars, on every high hill,
on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree,
and under every thick oak, the places where they offered
sweet savor to all their idols.
006:014 I will stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate
and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all
their habitations: and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
007:001 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
007:002 You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh to the land
of Israel, An end: the end is come on the four corners
of the land.
007:003 Now is the end on you, and I will send my anger on you,
and will judge you according to your ways; and I will bring
on you all your abominations.
007:004 My eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity;
but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations shall
be in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
007:005 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: An evil, an only evil; behold, it comes.
007:006 An end is come, the end is come; it awakes against you;
behold, it comes.
007:007 Your doom is come to you, inhabitant of the land:
the time is come, the day is near, [a day of] tumult,
and not [of] joyful shouting, on the mountains.
007:008 Now will I shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my
anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways;
and I will bring on you all your abominations.
007:009 My eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity:
I will bring on you according to your ways; and your
abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know
that I, Yahweh, do strike.
007:010 Behold, the day, behold, it comes: your doom is gone forth;
the rod has blossomed, pride has budded.
007:011 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness; none of them
[shall remain], nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth:
neither shall there be eminency among them.
007:012 The time is come, the day draws near: don't let the buyer rejoice,
nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all the multitude of it.
007:013 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold,
although they be yet alive: for the vision is touching
the whole multitude of it, none shall return; neither shall
any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
007:014 They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but none
goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all the multitude of it.
007:015 The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within:
he who is in the field shall die with the sword:
and he who is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
007:016 But those of those who escape shall escape, and shall be on
the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning,
every one in his iniquity.
007:017 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
007:018 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall
cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness
on all their heads.
007:019 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold
shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall
not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Yahweh:
they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels;
because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.
007:020 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty;
but they made the images of their abominations [and] their
detestable things therein: therefore have I made it to them
as an unclean thing.
007:021 I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey,
and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they
shall profane it.
007:022 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane
my secret [place]; and robbers shall enter into it,
and profane it.
007:023 Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes,
and the city is full of violence.
007:024 Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall
possess their houses: I will also make the pride of the strong
to cease; and their holy places shall be profaned.
007:025 Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there
shall be none.
007:026 Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor;
and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law
shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
007:027 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation,
and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled:
I will do to them after their way, and according to their
own judgments will I judge them; and they shall know that
I am Yahweh.
008:001 It happened in the sixth year, in the sixth [month], in the fifth
[day] of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders
of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord Yahweh fell
there on me.
008:002 Then I saw, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire;
from the appearance of his waist and downward, fire; and from
his waist and upward, as the appearance of brightness,
as it were glowing metal.
008:003 He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head;
and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky,
and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem,
to the door of the gate of the inner [court] that looks toward
the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy,
which provokes to jealousy.
008:004 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to
the appearance that I saw in the plain.
008:005 Then said he to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way
toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way toward
the north, and see, northward of the gate of the altar this
image of jealousy in the entry.
008:006 He said to me, Son of man, see you what they do? even the great
abominations that the house of Israel do commit here,
that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but you shall
again see yet other great abominations.
008:007 He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked,
behold, a hole in the wall.
008:008 Then said he to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall:
and when I had dug in the wall, behold, a door.
008:009 He said to me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that
they do here.
008:010 So I went in and saw; and see, every form of creeping things,
and abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel,
portrayed on the wall round about.
008:011 There stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house
of Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah
the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand;
and the odor of the cloud of incense went up.
008:012 Then said he to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders
of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his
chambers of imagery? for they say, Yahweh doesn't see us;
Yahweh has forsaken the land.
008:013 He said also to me, You shall again see yet other great
abominations which they do.
008:014 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh's house
which was toward the north; and see, there sat the women
weeping for Tammuz.
008:015 Then said he to me, Have you seen [this], son of man? you
shall again see yet greater abominations than these.
008:016 He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh's house; and see,
at the door of the temple of Yahweh, between the porch
and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs
toward the temple of Yahweh, and their faces toward the east;
and they were worshipping the sun toward the east.
008:017 Then he said to me, Have you seen [this], son of man?
Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the
abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land
with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger:
and behold, they put the branch to their nose.
008:018 Therefore will I also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare,
neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears
with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
009:001 Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause you
them that have charge over the city to draw near, every man
with his destroying weapon in his hand.
009:002 Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate,
which lies toward the north, every man with his slaughter
weapon in his hand; and one man in the midst of them
clothed in linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side.
They went in, and stood beside the bronze altar.
009:003 The glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub,
whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house:
and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer's
inkhorn by his side.
009:004 Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of the city,
through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads
of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations
that are done in the midst of it.
009:005 To the others he said in my hearing, Go you through
the city after him, and strike: don't let your eye spare,
neither have you pity;
009:006 kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin,
and little children and women; but don't come near any
man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary.
Then they began at the old men that were before the house.
009:007 He said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts
with the slain: go you forth. They went forth, and struck
in the city.
009:008 It happened, while they were smiting, and I was left,
that I fell on my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh!
will you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring
out of your wrath on Jerusalem?
009:009 Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and
Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood,
and the city full of perversion: for they say, Yahweh has
forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn't see.
009:010 As for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity,
but I will bring their way on their head.
009:011 Behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by
his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as you
have commanded me.
010:001 Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head
of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire{or,
lapis lazuli} stone, as the appearance of the likeness
of a throne.
010:002 He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between
the whirling [wheels], even under the cherub, and fill both
your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim,
and scatter them over the city. He went in as I watched.
010:003 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house,
when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
010:004 The glory of Yahweh mounted up from the cherub, [and stood]
over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled
with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness
of Yahweh's glory.
010:005 The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to
the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.
010:006 It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen,
saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between
the cherubim, that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.
010:007 The cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim
to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took [of it],
and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen,
who took it and went out.
010:008 There appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand
under their wings.
010:009 I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel
beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub;
and the appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone.
010:010 As for their appearance, they four had one likeness,
as if a wheel have been within a wheel.
010:011 When they went, they went in their four directions:
they didn't turn as they went, but to the place where the head
looked they followed it; they didn't turn as they went.
010:012 Their whole body, and their backs, and their hands,
and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about,
[even] the wheels that they four had.
010:013 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing,
the whirling [wheels].
010:014 Every one had four faces: the first face was the face
of the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man,
and the third face the face of a lion, and the fourth the face
of an eagle.
010:015 The cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I
saw by the river Chebar.
010:016 When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when
the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth,
the wheels also didn't turn from beside them.
010:017 When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up,
these mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living
creature was in them.
010:018 The glory of Yahweh went forth from over the threshold of the house,
and stood over the cherubim.
010:019 The cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth
in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels beside them:
and they stood at the door of the east gate of Yahweh's house;
and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
010:020 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel
by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.
010:021 Every one had four faces, and every one four wings;
and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
010:022 As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I
saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves;
they went every one straight forward.
011:001 Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to
the east gate of Yahweh's house, which looks eastward:
and see, at the door of the gate twenty-five men;
and I saw in the midst of them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur,
and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
011:002 He said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity,
and who give wicked counsel in this city;
011:003 who say, [The time] is not near to build houses:
this [city] is the caldron, and we are the flesh.
011:004 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.
011:005 The Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me,
Speak, Thus says Yahweh: Thus have you said, house of Israel;
for I know the things that come into your mind.
011:006 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled
the streets of it with the slain.
011:007 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Your slain whom you
have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this
[city] is the caldron; but you shall be brought forth out
of the midst of it.
011:008 You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you,
says the Lord Yahweh.
011:009 I will bring you forth out of the midst of it, and deliver you
into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
011:010 You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border
of Israel; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
011:011 This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall you be the flesh
in the midst of it; I will judge you in the border of Israel;
011:012 and you shall know that I am Yahweh: for you have not walked
in my statutes, neither have you executed my ordinances,
but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are
round about you.
011:013 It happened, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son
of Benaiah died. Then fell I down on my face, and cried
with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will you make
a full end of the remnant of Israel?
011:014 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
011:015 Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men
of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them,
[are they] to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said,
Get you far from Yahweh; to us is this land given for a possession.
011:016 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Whereas I have removed
them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered
them among the countries, yet will I be to them a sanctuary
for a little while in the countries where they are come.
011:017 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will gather you
from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you
have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
011:018 They shall come there, and they shall take away all the detestable
things of it and all the abominations of it from there.
011:019 I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you;
and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will
give them a heart of flesh;
011:020 that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances,
and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will
be their God.
011:021 But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their
detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their
way on their own heads, says the Lord Yahweh.
011:022 Then did the cherubim lift up their wings, and the wheels
were beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was
over them above.
011:023 The glory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city,
and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
011:024 The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by
the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity.
So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
011:025 Then I spoke to them of the captivity all the things that Yahweh
had shown me.
012:001 The word of Yahweh also came to me, saying,
012:002 Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house,
who have eyes to see, and don't see, who have ears to hear,
and don't hear; for they are a rebellious house.
012:003 Therefore, you son of man, prepare you stuff for removing,
and remove by day in their sight; and you shall remove from
your place to another place in their sight: it may be they
will consider, though they are a rebellious house.
012:004 You shall bring forth your stuff by day in their sight,
as stuff for removing; and you shall go forth yourself at
even in their sight, as when men go forth into exile.
012:005 Dig you through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
012:006 In their sight shall you bear it on your shoulder,
and carry it forth in the dark; you shall cover your face,
that you don't see the land: for I have set you for a sign
to the house of Israel.
012:007 I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day,
as stuff for removing, and in the even I dug through the wall
with my hand; I brought it forth in the dark, and bore it
on my shoulder in their sight.
012:008 In the morning came the word of Yahweh to me, saying,
012:009 Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house,
said to you, What do you?
012:010 Say you to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This burden
[concerns] the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel
among whom they are.
012:011 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done
to them; they shall go into exile, into captivity.
012:012 The prince who is among them shall bear on his shoulder
in the dark, and shall go forth: they shall dig through
the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face,
because he shall not see the land with his eyes.
012:013 My net also will I spread on him, and he shall be taken in my snare;
and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans;
yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
012:014 I will scatter toward every wind all who are round about
him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out
the sword after them.
012:015 They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall disperse them
among the nations, and scatter them through the countries.
012:016 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword,
from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare
all their abominations among the nations where they come;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
012:017 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
012:018 Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water
with trembling and with fearfulness;
012:019 and tell the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Yahweh
concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land
of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness,
and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate,
[and despoiled] of all that is therein, because of the violence
of all those who dwell therein.
012:020 The cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land
shall be a desolation; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
012:021 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
012:022 Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land
of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?
012:023 Tell them therefore, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will
make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it
as a proverb in Israel; but tell them, The days are at hand,
and the fulfillment of every vision.
012:024 For there shall be no more any false vision nor flattering
divination within the house of Israel.
012:025 For I am Yahweh; I will speak, and the word that I shall
speak shall be performed; it shall be no more deferred:
for in your days, rebellious house, will I speak the word,
and will perform it, says the Lord Yahweh.
012:026 Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
012:027 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision
that he sees is for many day to come, and he prophesies
of times that are far off.
012:028 Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: There shall
none of my words be deferred any more, but the word which I
shall speak shall be performed, says the Lord Yahweh.
013:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
013:002 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy,
and say you to those who prophesy out of their own heart,
Hear you the word of Yahweh:
013:003 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Woe to the foolish prophets,
who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
013:004 Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.
013:005 You have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up
the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle
in the day of Yahweh.
013:006 They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say,
Yahweh says; but Yahweh has not sent them: and they have made
men to hope that the word would be confirmed.
013:007 Haven't you seen a false vision, and haven't you spoken
a lying divination, in that you say, Yahweh says; but I
have not spoken?
013:008 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have spoken
falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you,
says the Lord Yahweh.
013:009 My hand shall be against the prophets who see false visions,
and who divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people,
neither shall they be written in the writing of the house
of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel;
and you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
013:010 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace;
and there is no peace; and when one builds up a wall, behold,
they daub it with whitewash:
013:011 tell those who daub it with whitewash, that it shall fall:
there shall be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones,
shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it.
013:012 Behold, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said to you,
Where is the daubing with which you have daubed it?
013:013 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will even tear it with
a stormy wind in my wrath; and there shall be an overflowing
shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.
013:014 So will I break down the wall that you have daubed with whitewash,
and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation of it
shall be uncovered; and it shall fall, and you shall be consumed
in the midst of it: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
013:015 Thus will I accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on those
who have daubed it with whitewash; and I will tell you,
The wall is no more, neither those who daubed it;
013:016 [to wit], the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem,
and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace,
says the Lord Yahweh.
013:017 You, son of man, set your face against the daughters
of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart;
and prophesy you against them,
013:018 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the women who sew
pillows on all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head
of [persons of] every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt
the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves?
013:019 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley
and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die,
and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying
to my people who listen to lies.
013:020 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am
against your pillows, with which you there hunt the souls
to make [them] fly, and I will tear them from your arms;
and I will let the souls go, even the souls who you hunt
to make [them] fly.
013:021 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of
your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted;
and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
013:022 Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous,
whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of
the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way,
and be saved alive:
013:023 Therefore you shall no more see false visions, nor
practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand;
and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
014:001 Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me, and sat before me.
014:002 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
014:003 Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart,
and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face:
should I be inquired of at all by them?
014:004 Therefore speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: Every man of the house of Israel who takes
his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block
of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet;
I Yahweh will answer him therein according to the multitude
of his idols;
014:005 that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart,
because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
014:006 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: Return you, and turn yourselves from your idols;
and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
014:007 For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who
sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes
his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his
iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire
for himself of me; I Yahweh will answer him by myself:
014:008 and I will set my face against that man, and will make him
an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut
him off from the midst of my people; and you shall know
that I am Yahweh.
014:009 If the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I, Yahweh, have
deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him,
and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
014:010 They shall bear their iniquity: the iniquity of the prophet
shall be even as the iniquity of him who seeks [to him];
014:011 that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me,
neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions;
but that they may be my people, and I may be their God,
says the Lord Yahweh.
014:012 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
014:013 Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass,
and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of
the bread of it, and send famine on it, and cut off from it
man and animal;
014:014 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it,
they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness,
says the Lord Yahweh.
014:015 If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they
ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass
through because of the animals;
014:016 though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh,
they should deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only
should be delivered, but the land should be desolate.
014:017 Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, Sword, go through
the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal;
014:018 though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh,
they should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they
only should be delivered themselves.
014:019 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath
on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal;
014:020 though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the
Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither son nor daughter;
they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
014:021 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: How much more when I send my
four sore judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine,
and the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it
man and animal!
014:022 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be
carried forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come
forth to you, and you shall see their way and their doings;
and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I
have brought on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have
brought on it.
014:023 They shall comfort you, when you see their way and their doings;
and you shall know that I have not done without cause all
that I have done in it, says the Lord Yahweh.
015:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
015:002 Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree,
the vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest?
015:003 Shall wood be taken of it to make any work? or will men take
a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
015:004 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has
devoured both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned:
is it profitable for any work?
015:005 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work:
how much less, when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned,
shall it yet be meet for any work!
015:006 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As the vine tree among
the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel,
so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
015:007 I will set my face against them; they shall go forth from the fire,
but the fire shall devour them; and you shall know that I
am Yahweh, when I set my face against them.
015:008 I will make the land desolate, because they have committed
a trespass, says the Lord Yahweh.
016:001 Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
016:002 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations;
016:003 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: Your birth
and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite