eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep,
neither shall your tears run down.
024:017 Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead;
bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet,
and don't cover your lips, and don't eat men's bread.
024:018 So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at even my wife died;
and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
024:019 The people said to me, Won't you tell us what these things
are to us, that you do so?
024:020 Then I said to them, The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
024:021 Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I
will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power,
the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities;
and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind
shall fall by the sword.
024:022 You shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips,
nor eat the bread of men.
024:023 Your tires shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet:
you shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away
in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.
024:024 Thus shall Ezekiel be to you a sign; according to all that he has
done shall you do: when this comes, then shall you know
that I am the Lord Yahweh.
024:025 You, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take
from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire
of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart,
their sons and their daughters,
024:026 that in that day he who escapes shall come to you, to cause
you to hear it with your ears?
024:027 In that day shall your mouth be opened to him who is escaped,
and you shall speak, and be no more mute: so shall you
be a sign to them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
025:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
025:002 Son of man, set your face toward the children of Ammon,
and prophesy against them:
025:003 and tell the children of Ammon, Hear the word of the
Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because you
said, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned;
and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate;
and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity:
025:004 therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of the east
for a possession, and they shall set their encampments in you,
and make their dwellings in you; they shall eat your fruit,
and they shall drink your milk.
025:005 I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children
of Ammon a resting place for flocks: and you shall know
that I am Yahweh.
025:006 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have clapped your hands,
and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the despite
of your soul against the land of Israel;
025:007 therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand on you,
and will deliver you for a spoil to the nations;
and I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause
you to perish out of the countries: I will destroy you;
and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
025:008 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because Moab and Seir say, Behold,
the house of Judah is like all the nations;
025:009 therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities,
from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory
of the country, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim,
025:010 to the children of the east, [to go] against the children of Ammon;
and I will give them for a possession, that the children
of Ammon may not be remembered among the nations.
025:011 and I will execute judgments on Moab; and they shall know
that I am Yahweh.
025:012 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because Edom has dealt against
the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended,
and revenged himself on them;
025:013 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, I will stretch out my
hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it;
and I will make it desolate from Teman; even to Dedan shall
they fall by the sword.
025:014 I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel;
and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and
according to my wrath; and they shall know my vengeance,
says the Lord Yahweh.
025:015 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the Philistines have dealt
by revenge, and have taken vengeance with despite of soul
to destroy with perpetual enmity;
025:016 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will stretch out
my hand on the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites,
and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
025:017 I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my
vengeance on them.
026:001 It happened in the eleventh year, in the first [day] of the month,
that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
026:002 Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha,
she is broken: the gate of the peoples; she is turned to me;
I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste:
026:003 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I am against you,
Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you,
as the sea causes its waves to come up.
026:004 They shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers:
I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.
026:005 She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst
of the sea; for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh;
and she shall become a spoil to the nations.
026:006 Her daughters who are in the field shall be slain with the sword:
and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
026:007 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will bring
on Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings,
from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen,
and a company, and much people.
026:008 He shall kill with the sword your daughters in the field;
and he shall make forts against you, and cast up a mound
against you, and raise up the buckler against you.
026:009 He shall set his battering engines against your walls,
and with his axes he shall break down your towers.
026:010 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover you:
your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen,
and of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall enter
into your gates, as men enter into a city in which is
made a breach.
026:011 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all your streets;
he shall kill your people with the sword; and the pillars
of your strength shall go down to the ground.
026:012 They shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey
of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls,
and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones
and your timber and your dust in the midst of the waters.
026:013 I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound
of your harps shall be no more heard.
026:014 I will make you a bare rock; you shall be a place
for the spreading of nets; you shall be built no more:
for I Yahweh have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.
026:015 Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Tyre: shall not the islands
shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan,
when the slaughter is made in the midst of you?
026:016 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones,
and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments:
they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall
sit on the ground, and shall tremble every moment, and be
astonished at you.
026:017 They shall take up a lamentation over you, and tell you,
How are you destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men,
the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and
her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all
who lived there!
026:018 Now shall the islands tremble in the day of your fall;
yes, the islands that are in the sea shall be dismayed
at your departure.
026:019 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall make you
a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited;
when I shall bring up the deep on you, and the great waters
shall cover you;
026:020 then will I bring you down with those who descend into the pit,
to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the lower
parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old,
with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited;
and I will set glory in the land of the living:
026:021 I will make you a terror, and you shall no more have any being;
though you are sought for, yet shall you never be found again,
says the Lord Yahweh.
027:001 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
027:002 You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;
027:003 and tell Tyre, you who dwell at the entry of the sea,
who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands,
thus says the Lord Yahweh: You, Tyre, have said, I am
perfect in beauty.
027:004 Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders
have perfected your beauty.
027:005 They have made all your planks of fir trees from Senir;
they have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.
027:006 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars;
they have made your benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood,
from the islands of Kittim.
027:007 Of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was your sail,
that it might be to you for a banner; blue and purple from
the islands of Elishah was your awning.
027:008 The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers:
your wise men, Tyre, were in you, they were your pilots.
027:009 The old men of Gebal and the wise men of it were in you your
repairers of ship seams: all the ships of the sea with their
mariners were in you to deal in your merchandise.
027:010 Persia and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war:
they hanged the shield and helmet in you; they set
forth your comeliness.
027:011 The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls round about,
and valorous men were in your towers; they hanged their shields
on your walls round about; they have perfected your beauty.
027:012 Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude
of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead,
they traded for your wares.
027:013 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traffickers;
they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass
for your merchandise.
027:014 They of the house of Togarmah traded for your wares with horses
and war horses and mules.
027:015 The men of Dedan were your traffickers; many islands were
the market of your hand: they brought you in exchange horns
of ivory and ebony.
027:016 Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of
your handiworks: they traded for your wares with emeralds, purple,
and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies.
027:017 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were your traffickers:
they traded for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, and confections,
and honey, and oil, and balm.
027:018 Damascus was your merchant for the multitude of your handiworks,
by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with the wine
of Helbon, and white wool.
027:019 Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares:
bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among your merchandise.
027:020 Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths for riding.
027:021 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they were the merchants
of your hand; in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were
they your merchants.
027:022 The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were your traffickers;
they traded for your wares with the chief of all spices,
and with all precious stones, and gold.
027:023 Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur
[and] Chilmad, were your traffickers.
027:024 These were your traffickers in choice wares, in wrappings
of blue and embroidered work, and in chests of rich clothing,
bound with cords and made of cedar, among your merchandise.
027:025 The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise:
and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the heart
of the seas.
027:026 Your rowers have brought you into great waters:
the east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.
027:027 Your riches, and your wares, your merchandise, your mariners,
and your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, and the dealers
in your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you,
with all your company which is in the midst of you, shall fall
into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.
027:028 At the sound of the cry of your pilots the suburbs shall shake.
027:029 All who handled the oar, the mariners, [and] all the pilots
of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they shall
stand on the land,
027:030 and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall
cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads,
they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
027:031 and they shall make themselves bald for you, and gird them
with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you in bitterness
of soul with bitter mourning.
027:032 In their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you,
and lament over you, [saying], Who is there like Tyre,
like her who is brought to silence in the midst of the sea?
027:033 When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filled many peoples;
you did enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude
of your riches and of your merchandise.
027:034 In the time that you were broken by the seas in the depths
of the waters, your merchandise and all your company did fall
in the midst of you.
027:035 All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you,
and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled
in their face.
027:036 The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you are become
a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.
028:001 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
028:002 Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said,
I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas;
yet you are man, and not God, though you did set your heart
as the heart of God--
028:003 behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is
hidden from you;
028:004 by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten you riches,
and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;
028:005 by your great wisdom [and] by your traffic have you increased
your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches--
028:006 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have set
your heart as the heart of God,
028:007 therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible
of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty
of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness.
028:008 They shall bring you down to the pit; and you shall die the death
of those who are slain, in the heart of the seas.
028:009 Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am God? but you
are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.
028:010 You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand
of strangers: for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.
028:011 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
028:012 Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre,
and tell him, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You seal up the sum,
full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
028:013 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone
adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx,
jasper, sapphire{or, lapis lazuli}, turquoise, and beryl.
Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you.
In the day that you were created they were prepared.
028:014 You were the anointed cherub who covers: and I set you,
[so that] you were on the holy mountain of God; you have walked
up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
028:015 You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created,
until unrighteousness was found in you.
028:016 By the abundance of your traffic they filled the midst of you
with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I have cast you
as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you,
covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
028:017 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have
corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness:
I have cast you to the ground; I have laid you before kings,
that they may see you.
028:018 By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness
of your traffic, you have profaned your sanctuaries;
therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of you;
it has devoured you, and I have turned you to ashes on the earth
in the sight of all those who see you.
028:019 All those who know you among the peoples shall be astonished at you:
you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.
028:020 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
028:021 Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,
028:022 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against
you, Sidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of you;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall have executed
judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
028:023 For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets;
and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with the sword
on her on every side; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
028:024 There shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel,
nor a hurting thorn of any that are round about them,
that did despite to them; and they shall know that I am
the Lord Yahweh.
028:025 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall have gathered the house
of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered,
and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the nations,
then shall they dwell in their own land which I gave to
my servant Jacob.
028:026 They shall dwell securely therein; yes, they shall build houses,
and plant vineyards, and shall dwell securely, when I have executed
judgments on all those who do them despite round about them;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh their God.
029:001 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day
of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
029:002 "Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.
029:003 Speak and say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Behold, I am
against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies
in the midst of his rivers, that has said, 'My river is my own,
and I have made it for myself.'
029:004 I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish
of your rivers stick to your scales; and I will bring you up
out of the midst of your rivers, with all the fish of your
rivers which stick to your scales.
029:005 I'll cast you forth into the wilderness, you and all
the fish of your rivers. You'll fall on the open field.
You won't be brought together, nor gathered. I have given
you for food to the animals of the earth and to the birds
of the sky.
029:006 All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh,
because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
029:007 When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore
all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you broke,
and paralyzed all of their thighs."
029:008 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Behold, I will bring
a sword on you, and will cut off from you man and animal.
029:009 The land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh. Because he has said,
'The river is mine, and I have made it;'
029:010 therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your rivers,
and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation,
from the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia.
029:011 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of animal shall
pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
029:012 I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst
of the countries that are desolate; and her cities among
the cities that are laid waste shall be a desolation forty years;
and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will
disperse them through the countries."
029:013 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "At the end of forty years will I
gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered;
029:014 and I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them
to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth;
and they shall be there a base kingdom.
029:015 It shall be the base of the kingdoms; neither shall it any more
lift itself up above the nations: and I will diminish them,
that they shall no more rule over the nations.
029:016 It shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel,
bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after them:
and they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh."'"
029:017 It came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first [month],
in the first [day] of the month, the word of Yahweh came
to me, saying,
029:018 Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to
serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald,
and every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army,
from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.
029:019 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will give
the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon;
and he shall carry off her multitude, and take her spoil,
and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.
029:020 I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which
he served, because they worked for me, says the Lord Yahweh.
029:021 In that day will I cause a horn to bud forth to the house of Israel,
and I will give you the opening of the mouth in the midst of them;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
030:001 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
030:002 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Wail, Alas
for the day!
030:003 For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh is near;
it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.
030:004 A sword shall come on Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia,
when the slain shall fall in Egypt; and they shall take away
her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
030:005 Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mixed people, and Cub,
and the children of the land that is in league, shall fall
with them by the sword.
030:006 Thus says Yahweh: They also who uphold Egypt shall fall;
and the pride of her power shall come down:
from the tower of Seveneh shall they fall in it by the sword,
says the Lord Yahweh.
030:007 They shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that
are desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities
that are wasted.
030:008 They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have set a fire in Egypt,
and all her helpers are destroyed.
030:009 In that day shall messengers go forth from before me in ships
to make the careless Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be
anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes.
030:010 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also make the multitude of
Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
030:011 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations,
shall be brought in to destroy the land; and they shall draw
their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
030:012 I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into
the hand of evil men; and I will make the land desolate,
and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers:
I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
030:013 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also destroy the idols,
and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis;
and there shall be no more a prince from the land of Egypt:
and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
030:014 I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan,
and will execute judgments on No.
030:015 I will pour my wrath on Sin, the stronghold of Egypt;
and I will cut off the multitude of No.
030:016 I will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great anguish,
and No shall be broken up; and Memphis [shall have] adversaries
in the daytime.
030:017 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword;
and these [cities] shall go into captivity.
030:018 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself, when I shall
break there the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her power
shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her,
and her daughters shall go into captivity.
030:019 Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt; and they shall know
that I am Yahweh.
030:020 It happened in the eleventh year, in the first [month],
in the seventh [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh
came to me, saying,
030:021 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt;