to put a bandage to bind it, that it be strong to hold the sword.
030:022 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against Pharaoh
king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong [arm],
and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall
out of his hand.
030:023 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse
them through the countries.
030:024 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put
my sword in his hand: but I will break the arms of Pharaoh,
and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a
deadly wounded man.
030:025 I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms
of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am Yahweh,
when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon,
and he shall stretch it out on the land of Egypt.
030:026 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them
through the countries; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
031:001 It happened in the eleventh year, in the third [month],
in the first [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came
to me, saying,
031:002 Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude:
Whom are you like in your greatness?
031:003 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful
branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature;
and its top was among the thick boughs.
031:004 The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow:
the rivers of it ran round about its plantation; and it sent
out its channels to all the trees of the field.
031:005 Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field;
and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long
by reason of many waters, when it shot [them] forth.
031:006 All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs;
and under its branches did all the animals of the field bring
forth their young; and under its shadow lived all great nations.
031:007 Thus was it beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches;
for its root was by many waters.
031:008 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir
trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were
not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God
like it in its beauty.
031:009 I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches,
so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden
of God, envied it.
031:010 Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because you are exalted
in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs,
and his heart is lifted up in his height;
031:011 I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of
the nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven
him out for his wickedness.
031:012 Strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off,
and have left him: on the mountains and in all the valleys
his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all
the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth
are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
031:013 On his ruin all the birds of the sky shall dwell, and all
the animals of the field shall be on his branches;
031:014 to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves
in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs,
nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height,
[even] all who drink water: for they are all delivered to death,
to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children
of men, with those who go down to the pit.
031:015 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when he went down to
Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I
restrained the rivers of it; and the great waters were stayed;
and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees
of the field fainted for him.
031:016 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I
cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit;
and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon,
all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts
of the earth.
031:017 They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain
by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, [that] lived
under his shadow in the midst of the nations.
031:018 To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees
of Eden? yet shall you be brought down with the trees of Eden
to the lower parts of the earth: you shall lie in the midst
of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword.
This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.
032:001 It happened in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month,
in the first [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came
to me, saying,
032:002 Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and tell him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations:
yet are you as a monster in the seas; and you did break forth
with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet,
and fouled their rivers.
032:003 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will spread out my net on you
with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up
in my net.
032:004 I will leave you on the land, I will cast you forth on the open field,
and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you,
and I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you.
032:005 I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys
with your height.
032:006 I will also water with your blood the land in which you swim,
even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of you.
032:007 When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make
the stars of it dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud,
and the moon shall not give its light.
032:008 All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you,
and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.
032:009 I will also vex the hearts of many peoples, when I shall
bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries
which you have not known.
032:010 Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings
shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my
sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment,
every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.
032:011 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: The sword of the king of Babylon
shall come on you.
032:012 By the swords of the mighty will I cause your multitude to fall;
the terrible of the nations are they all: and they shall
bring to nothing the pride of Egypt, and all the multitude
of it shall be destroyed.
032:013 I will destroy also all the animals of it from beside many waters;
neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more,
nor the hoofs of animals trouble them.
032:014 Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers
to run like oil, says the Lord Yahweh.
032:015 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and waste,
a land destitute of that of which it was full, when I shall
strike all those who dwell therein, then shall they know
that I am Yahweh.
032:016 This is the lamentation with which they shall lament;
the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith; over Egypt,
and over all her multitude, shall they lament therewith,
says the Lord Yahweh.
032:017 It happened also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth [day]
of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
032:018 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down,
even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower
parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.
032:019 Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid
with the uncircumcised.
032:020 They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword:
she is delivered to the sword; draw her away and all her multitudes.
032:021 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst
of Sheol with those who help him: they are gone down,
they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
032:022 Asshur is there and all her company; her graves are round about her;
all of them slain, fallen by the sword;
032:023 whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit,
and her company is round about her grave; all of them slain,
fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.
032:024 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave;
all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down
uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused
their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their
shame with those who go down to the pit.
032:025 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain
with all her multitude; her graves are round about her;
all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their
terror was caused in the land of the living, and they
have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit:
he is put in the midst of those who are slain.
032:026 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude; their graves are
round about them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword;
for they caused their terror in the land of the living.
032:027 They shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of
the uncircumcised, who are gone down to Sheol with their
weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads,
and their iniquities are on their bones; for [they were]
the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
032:028 But you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised,
and shall lie with those who are slain by the sword.
032:029 There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who in their
might are laid with those who are slain by the sword:
they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go
down to the pit.
032:030 There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all
the Sidonians, who are gone down with the slain; in the terror
which they caused by their might they are put to shame;
and they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword,
and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.
032:031 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all
his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword,
says the Lord Yahweh.
032:032 For I have put his terror in the land of the living;
and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised,
with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all
his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.
033:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
033:002 Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them,
When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land
take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;
033:003 if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the trumpet,
and warn the people;
033:004 then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn't
take warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his blood
shall be on his own head.
033:005 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn't take warning;
his blood shall be on him; whereas if he had taken warning,
he would have delivered his soul.
033:006 But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn't blow the trumpet,
and the people aren't warned, and the sword comes, and take
any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity,
but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
033:007 So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house
of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them
warning from me.
033:008 When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die,
and you don't speak to warn the wicked from his way;
that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood
will I require at your hand.
033:009 Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it,
and he doesn't turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity,
but you have delivered your soul.
033:010 You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: Thus you speak,
saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we
pine away in them; how then can we live?
033:011 Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure
in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from
his way and live: turn you, turn you from your evil ways;
for why will you die, house of Israel?
033:012 You, son of man, tell the children of your people,
The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day
of his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked,
he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from
his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be able
to live thereby in the day that he sins.
033:013 When I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live;
if he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity,
none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his
iniquity that he has committed, therein shall he die.
033:014 Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die;
if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
033:015 if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken
by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity;
he shall surely live, he shall not die.
033:016 None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered
against him: he has done that which is lawful and right;
he shall surely live.
033:017 Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord
is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
033:018 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity,
he shall even die therein.
033:019 When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which
is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
033:020 Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal.
House of Israel, I will judge you everyone after his ways.
033:021 It happened in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the
tenth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, that one
who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city
has been struck.
033:022 Now the hand of Yahweh had been on me in the evening,
before he who was escaped came; and he had opened my mouth,
until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened,
and I was no more mute.
033:023 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
033:024 Son of man, they who inhabit those waste places in the land of
Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land:
but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
033:025 Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You eat with
the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood:
and shall you possess the land?
033:026 You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and you defile
everyone his neighbor's wife: and shall you possess the land?
033:027 Thus shall you tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: As I live,
surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword;
and him who is in the open field will I give to the animals
to be devoured; and those who are in the strongholds and in
the caves shall die of the pestilence.
033:028 I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment;
and the pride of her power shall cease; and the mountains
of Israel shall be desolate, so that none shall pass through.
033:029 Then shall they know that I am Yahweh, when I have made
the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all
their abominations which they have committed.
033:030 As for you, son of man, the children of your people talk
of you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak
one to another, everyone to his brother, saying, Please come
and hear what is the word that comes forth from Yahweh.
033:031 They come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you
as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them;
for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart
goes after their gain.
033:032 Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has
a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument;
for they hear your words, but they don't do them.
033:033 When this comes to pass, (behold, it comes), then shall they
know that a prophet has been among them.
034:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
034:002 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel,
prophesy, and tell them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves!
Shouldn't the shepherds feed the sheep?
034:003 You eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool, you kill
the fatlings; but you don't feed the sheep.
034:004 You haven't strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed
that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which
was broken, neither have you brought back that which was
driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost;
but with force and with rigor have you ruled over them.
034:005 They were scattered, because there was no shepherd;
and they became food to all the animals of the field,
and were scattered.
034:006 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill:
yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth;
and there was none who searched or sought.
034:007 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:
034:008 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became
a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field,
because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds
search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves,
and didn't feed my sheep;
034:009 therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:
034:010 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against the shepherds;
and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them
to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds
feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from
their mouth, that they may not be food for them.
034:011 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I,
will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.
034:012 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among
his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep;
and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been
scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
034:013 I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from
the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I
will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses,
and in all the inhabited places of the country.
034:014 I will feed them with good pasture; and on the mountains
of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall
they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they
feed on the mountains of Israel.
034:015 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause
them to lie down, says the Lord Yahweh.
034:016 I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back
that which was driven away, and will bind up that which
was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick:
but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed
them in justice.
034:017 As for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I judge
between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.
034:018 Seems it a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture,
but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your
pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must
foul the residue with your feet?
034:019 As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet,
and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.
034:020 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh to them: Behold, I, even I,
will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
034:021 Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all
the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad;
034:022 therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey;
and I will judge between sheep and sheep.
034:023 I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them,
even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall
be their shepherd.
034:024 I, Yahweh, will be their God, and my servant David prince
among them; I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
034:025 I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause
evil animals to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell
securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
034:026 I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing;
and I will cause the shower to come down in its season;
there shall be showers of blessing.
034:027 The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall
yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken
the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand
of those who made slaves of them.
034:028 They shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall
the animals of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell securely,
and none shall make them afraid.
034:029 I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they shall
be no more consumed with famine in the land, neither bear
the shame of the nations any more.
034:030 They shall know that I, Yahweh, their God am with them,
and that they, the house of Israel, are my people,
says the Lord Yahweh.
034:031 You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,
says the Lord Yahweh.
035:001 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
035:002 Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
035:003 and tell it, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you,
Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you,
and I will make you a desolation and an astonishment.
035:004 I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate;
and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
035:005 Because you have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over
the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time
of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;
035:006 therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare
you to blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have
not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.
035:007 Thus will I make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation;
and I will cut off from it him who passes through and
him who returns.
035:008 I will fill its mountains with its slain: in your hills
and in your valleys and in all your watercourses shall they
fall who are slain with the sword.
035:009 I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall
not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
035:010 Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries
shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Yahweh was there:
035:011 therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will do according
to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown
out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known
among them, when I shall judge you.
035:012 You shall know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your insults
which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying,
They are laid desolate, they are given us to devour.
035:013 You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth,
and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard it.
035:014 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When the whole earth rejoices,
I will make you desolate.
035:015 As you did rejoice over the inheritance of the house
of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you:
you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
036:001 You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say,
You mountains of Israel, hear the word of Yahweh.
036:002 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the enemy has said against you,
Aha! and, The ancient high places are ours in possession;
036:003 therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even
because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up
on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue
of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers,
and the evil report of the people;
036:004 therefore, 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,
to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken,
which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations
that are round about;
036:005 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Surely in the fire of my
jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations,
and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves
for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite
of soul, to cast it out for a prey.
036:006 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell
the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to
the valleys, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I have spoken