my anger against them in the wilderness.
020:022 Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name's sake,
that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations,
in whose sight I brought them forth.
020:023 Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter
them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;
020:024 because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected
my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes
were after their fathers' idols.
020:025 Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good,
and ordinances in which they should not live;
020:026 and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused
to pass through [the fire] all that opens the womb, that I
might make them desolate, to the end that they might know
that I am Yahweh.
020:027 Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel,
and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In this moreover
have your fathers blasphemed me, in that they have committed
a trespass against me.
020:028 For when I had brought them into the land, which I swore
to give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every
thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices,
and there they presented the provocation of their offering;
there also they made their sweet savor, and they poured out
there their drink offerings.
020:029 Then I said to them, What means the high place whereunto you go?
So the name of it is called Bamah to this day.
020:030 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Do you
pollute yourselves after the manner of your fathers? and play
you the prostitute after their abominations?
020:031 and when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons
to pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all
your idols to this day? and shall I be inquired of by you,
house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will
not be inquired of by you;
020:032 and that which comes into your mind shall not be at all,
in that you say, We will be as the nations, as the families
of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
020:033 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely with a mighty hand,
and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out,
will I be king over you:
020:034 and I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out
of the countries in which you are scattered, with a mighty hand,
and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out;
020:035 and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples,
and there will I enter into judgment with you face to face.
020:036 Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness
of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you,
says the Lord Yahweh.
020:037 I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you
into the bond of the covenant;
020:038 and I will purge out from among you the rebels, and those who
disobey against me; I will bring them forth out of the land where
they sojourn, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel:
and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
020:039 As for you, house of Israel, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Go you,
serve everyone his idols, and hereafter also, if you will
not listen to me; but my holy name shall you no more profane
with your gifts, and with your idols.
020:040 For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel,
says the Lord Yahweh, there shall all the house of Israel,
all of them, serve me in the land: there will I accept them,
and there will I require your offerings, and the first fruits
of your offerings, with all your holy things.
020:041 As a sweet savor will I accept you, when I bring you out from
the peoples, and gather you out of the countries in which you
have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the sight
of the nations.
020:042 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall bring you into
the land of Israel, into the country which I swore to give
to your fathers.
020:043 There shall you remember your ways, and all your doings,
in which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall
loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils
that you have committed.
020:044 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have dealt with you
for my name's sake, not according to your evil ways,
nor according to your corrupt doings, you house of Israel,
says the Lord Yahweh.
020:045 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
020:046 Son of man, set your face toward the south, and drop [your
word] toward the south, and prophesy against the forest
of the field in the South;
020:047 and tell the forest of the South, Hear the word of Yahweh: Thus says
the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it
shall devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree:
the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from
the south to the north shall be burnt thereby.
020:048 All flesh shall see that I, Yahweh, have kindled it;
it shall not be quenched.
020:049 Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! they say of me, Isn't he a
speaker of parables?
021:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
021:002 Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop [your word]
toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel;
021:003 and tell the land of Israel, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I am
against you, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath,
and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.
021:004 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and
the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath
against all flesh from the south to the north:
021:005 and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, have drawn forth
my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.
021:006 Sigh therefore, you son of man; with the breaking of your thighs
and with bitterness shall you sigh before their eyes.
021:007 It shall be, when they tell you, Why do you sigh? that you shall say,
Because of the news, for it comes; and every heart shall melt,
and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint,
and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it comes,
and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.
021:008 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
021:009 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh: Say, A sword,
a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished;
021:010 it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished
that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth?
the rod of my son, it condemns every tree.
021:011 It is given to be furbished, that it may be handled:
the sword, it is sharpened, yes, it is furbished, to give it
into the hand of the killer.
021:012 Cry and wail, son of man; for it is on my people, it is on all
the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword
with my people; strike therefore on your thigh.
021:013 For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that condemns
shall be no more? says the Lord Yahweh.
021:014 You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together;
and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword
of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one
who is deadly wounded, which enters into their chambers.
021:015 I have set the threatening sword against all their gates,
that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied:
ah! it is made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter.
021:016 Gather you together, go to the right, set yourself in array,
go to the left, wherever your face is set.
021:017 I will also strike my hands together, and I will cause my wrath
to rest: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
021:018 The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying,
021:019 Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king
of Babylon may come; they both shall come forth out of one land:
and mark out a place, mark it out at the head of the way
to the city.
021:020 You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of
the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.
021:021 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way,
at the head of the two ways, to use divination:
he shook the arrows back and forth, he consulted the teraphim,
he looked in the liver.
021:022 In his right hand was the divination [for] Jerusalem,
to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter,
to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams
against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.
021:023 It shall be to them as a false divination in their sight,
who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory,
that they may be taken.
021:024 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have made
your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions
are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear;
because you have come to memory, you shall be taken with the hand.
021:025 You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel,
whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,
021:026 thus says the Lord Yahweh: Remove the turban, and take off the crown;
this [shall be] no more the same; exalt that which is low,
and abase that which is high.
021:027 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: this also shall be no more,
until he come whose right it is; and I will give it [him].
021:028 You, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh
concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach;
and say you, A sword, a sword is drawn, for the slaughter it
is furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;
021:029 while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you,
to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded,
whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end.
021:030 Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you
were created, in the land of your birth, will I judge you.
021:031 I will pour out my indignation on you; I will blow on you
with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand
of brutish men, skillful to destroy.
021:032 You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in
the midst of the land; you shall be no more remembered:
for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
022:001 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
022:002 You, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody
city? then cause her to know all her abominations.
022:003 You shall say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A city that
sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come,
and that makes idols against herself to defile her!
022:004 You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed,
and are defiled in your idols which you have made; and you have
caused your days to draw near, and are come even to your years:
therefore have I made you a reproach to the nations,
and a mocking to all the countries.
022:005 Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you,
you infamous one [and] full of tumult.
022:006 Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power,
have been in you to shed blood.
022:007 In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst
of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner;
in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
022:008 You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
022:009 Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you
they have eaten on the mountains: in the midst of you they
have committed lewdness.
022:010 In you have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in you
have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.
022:011 One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife;
and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another
in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
022:012 In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken
interest and increase, and you have greedily gained
of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,
says the Lord Yahweh.
022:013 Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest
gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been
in the midst of you.
022:014 Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days
that I shall deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it,
and will do it.
022:015 I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through
the countries; and I will consume your filthiness out of you.
022:016 You shall be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations;
and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
022:017 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
022:018 Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me:
all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst
of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
022:019 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you are all
become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into
the midst of Jerusalem.
022:020 As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin
into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire on it,
to melt it; so will I gather you in my anger and in my wrath,
and I will lay you there, and melt you.
022:021 Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath,
and you shall be melted in the midst of it.
022:022 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall
you be melted in the midst of it; and you shall know
that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.
022:023 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
022:024 Son of man, tell her, You are a land that is not cleansed,
nor rained on in the day of indignation.
022:025 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of it,
like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls;
they take treasure and precious things; they have made her
widows many in the midst of it.
022:026 Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned
my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy
and the common, neither have they caused men to discern
between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes
from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
022:027 Her princes in the midst of it are like wolves ravening
the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, that they
may get dishonest gain.
022:028 Her prophets have daubed for them with whitewash, seeing
false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says
the Lord Yahweh, when Yahweh has not spoken.
022:029 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery;
yes, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed
the foreigner wrongfully.
022:030 I sought for a man among them, who should build up the wall,
and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should
not destroy it; but I found none.
022:031 Therefore have I poured out my indignation on them;
I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own
way have I brought on their heads, says the Lord Yahweh.
023:001 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
023:002 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
023:003 and they played the prostitute in Egypt; they played the
prostitute in their youth; there were their breasts pressed,
and there was handled the bosom of their virginity.
023:004 The names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister:
and they became mine, and they bore sons and daughters.
As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.
023:005 Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine; and she doted
on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbors,
023:006 who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them
desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
023:007 She bestowed her prostitution on them, the choicest men of Assyria
all of them; and on whoever she doted, with all their idols
she defiled herself.
023:008 Neither has she left her prostitution since [the days of] Egypt;
for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom
of her virginity; and they poured out their prostitution on her.
023:009 Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers,
into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.
023:010 These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters;
and her they killed with the sword: and she became a byword
among women; for they executed judgments on her.
023:011 Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her
doting than she, and in her prostitution which were more than
the prostitution of her sister.
023:012 She doted on the Assyrians, governors and rulers, [her] neighbors,
clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them
desirable young men.
023:013 I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way.
023:014 She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on
the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,
023:015 girded with girdles on their waists, with flowing turbans on
their heads, all of them princes to look on, after the likeness
of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.
023:016 As soon as she saw them she doted on them, and sent messengers
to them into Chaldea.
023:017 The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled
her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them,
and her soul was alienated from them.
023:018 So she uncovered her prostitution, and uncovered her nakedness:
then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was
alienated from her sister.
023:019 Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days
of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in
the land of Egypt.
023:020 She doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh
of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
023:021 Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth,
in the handling of your bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts
of your youth.
023:022 Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will raise
up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated,
and I will bring them against you on every side:
023:023 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa,
[and] all the Assyrians with them; desirable young men,
governors and rulers all of them, princes and men of renown,
all of them riding on horses.
023:024 They shall come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons,
and with a company of peoples; they shall set themselves
against you with buckler and shield and helmet round about;
and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge
you according to their judgments.
023:025 I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal with
you in fury; they shall take away your nose and your ears;
and your residue shall fall by the sword: they shall take
your sons and your daughters; and your residue shall be devoured
by the fire.
023:026 They shall also strip you of your clothes, and take away
your beautiful jewels.
023:027 Thus will I make your lewdness to cease from you,
and your prostitution [brought] from the land of Egypt;
so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember
Egypt any more.
023:028 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will deliver you
into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of them
from whom your soul is alienated;
023:029 and they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take
away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare;
and the nakedness of your prostitution shall be uncovered,
both your lewdness and your prostitution.
023:030 These things shall be done to you, because you have played
the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted
with their idols.
023:031 You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore will I
give her cup into your hand.
023:032 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You will drink of your sister's cup,
which is deep and large; you will be ridiculed and held in derision;
it contains much.
023:033 You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of
astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.
023:034 You shall even drink it and drain it out, and you shall
gnaw the broken pieces of it, and shall tear your breasts;
for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.
023:035 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have forgotten me,
and cast me behind your back, therefore bear you also your
lewdness and your prostitution.
023:036 Yahweh said moreover to me: Son of man, will you judge Oholah
and Oholibah? then declare to them their abominations.
023:037 For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands;
and with their idols have they committed adultery;
and they have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me,
to pass through [the fire] to them to be devoured.
023:038 Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my
sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
023:039 For when they had slain their children to their idols,
then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it;
and behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house.
023:040 Furthermore you have sent for men who come from far,
to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came;
for whom you did wash yourself, paint your eyes, and deck
yourself with ornaments,
023:041 and sit on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it,
whereupon you did set my incense and my oil.
023:042 The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her:
and with men of the common sort were brought drunkards
from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on the hands
of them [twain], and beautiful crowns on their heads.
023:043 Then said I of her who was old in adulteries, Now will they
play the prostitute with her, and she [with them].
023:044 They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute:
so went they in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.
023:045 Righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment
of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood;
because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
023:046 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will bring up a company
against them, and will give them to be tossed back and
forth and robbed.
023:047 The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with
their swords; they shall kill their sons and their daughters,
and burn up their houses with fire.
023:048 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all
women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
023:049 They shall recompense your lewdness on you, and you shall
bear the sins of your idols; and you shall know that I am
the Lord Yahweh.
024:001 Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth
[day] of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
024:002 Son of man, write you the name of the day, [even] of this same day:
the king of Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this same day.
024:003 Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them,
Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Set on the caldron, set it on,
and also pour water into it:
024:004 gather the pieces of it into it, even every good piece,
the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
024:005 Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile [of wood]
for the bones under [the caldron]; make it boil well;
yes, let the bones of it be boiled in the midst of it.
024:006 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city,
to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust
is not gone out of it! take out of it piece after piece;
No lot is fallen on it.
024:007 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare rock;
she didn't pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.
024:008 That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set
her blood on the bare rock, that it should not be covered.
024:009 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city!
I also will make the pile great.
024:010 Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh,
and make thick the broth, and let the bones be burned.
024:011 Then set it empty on the coals of it, that it may be hot,
and the brass of it may burn, and that the filthiness of it
may be molten in it, that the rust of it may be consumed.
024:012 She has wearied [herself] with toil; yet her great rust doesn't
go forth out of her; her rust doesn't [go forth] by fire.
024:013 In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you
and you weren't cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your
filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward
you to rest.
024:014 I, Yahweh, have spoken it: it shall happen, and I will do it:
I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent;
according to your ways, and according to your doings,
shall they judge you, says the Lord Yahweh.
024:015 Also the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,