Book 26 Ezekiel

26:001:001 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth

month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by

the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of

God.

26:001:002 In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of

king Jehoiachin's captivity,

26:001:003 The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest,

the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and

the hand of the LORD was there upon him.

26:001:004 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the

north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was

about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of

the midst of the fire.

26:001:005 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four

living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness

of a man.

26:001:006 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.

26:001:007 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their

feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the

colour of burnished brass.

26:001:008 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their

four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.

26:001:009 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when

they went; they went every one straight forward.

26:001:010 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face

of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had

the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an

eagle.

26:001:011 Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched

upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two

covered their bodies.

26:001:012 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit

was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.

26:001:013 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their

appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of

lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was

bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.

26:001:014 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance

of a flash of lightning.

26:001:015 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon

the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.

26:001:016 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto

the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their

appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a

wheel.

26:001:017 When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they

turned not when they went.

26:001:018 As for their rings, they were so high that they were

dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.

26:001:019 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them:

and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels

were lifted up.

26:001:020 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was

their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them:

for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

26:001:021 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 over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was

in the wheels.

26:001:022 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the

living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched

forth over their heads above.

26:001:023 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one

toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and

every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.

26:001:024 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like

the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of

speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their

wings.

26:001:025 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their

heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.

26:001:026 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the

likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon

the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man

above upon it.

26:001:027 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire

round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward,

and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were

the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.

26:001:028 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 the LORD. And when I saw

it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.

26:002:001 And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I

will speak unto thee.

26:002:002 And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and

set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me.

26:002:003 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children

of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they

and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very

day.

26:002:004 For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send

thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.

26:002:005 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will

forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there

hath been a prophet among them.

26:002:006 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be

afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou

dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be

dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

26:002:007 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will

hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.

26:002:008 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou

rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I

give thee.

26:002:009 And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and,

lo, a roll of a book was therein;

26:002:010 And he spread it before me; and it was written within and

without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and

woe.

26:003:001 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest;

eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.

26:003:002 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.

26:003:003 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and

fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and

it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.

26:003:004 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house

of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.

26:003:005 For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of

an hard language, but to the house of Israel;

26:003:006 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard

language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent

thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.

26:003:007 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they

will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and

hardhearted.

26:003:008 Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and

thy forehead strong against their foreheads.

26:003:009 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead:

fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a

rebellious house.

26:003:010 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I

shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.

26:003:011 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children

of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord

GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

26:003:012 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of

a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his

place.

26:003:013 I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures

that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against

them, and a noise of a great rushing.

26:003:014 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in

bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was

strong upon me.

26:003:015 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt

by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there

astonished among them seven days.

26:003:016 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word

of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:003:017 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of

Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from

me.

26:003:018 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou

givest him not warning, nor speakest 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 thine hand.

26:003:019 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his

wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but

thou hast delivered thy soul.

26:003:020 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his

righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before

him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall

die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be

remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

26:003:021 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the

righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because

he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.

26:003:022 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto

me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.

26:003:023 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold,

the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the

river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.

26:003:024 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet,

and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine

house.

26:003:025 But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon

thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among

them:

26:003:026 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth,

that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they

are a rebellious house.

26:003:027 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou

shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth, let him

hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a

rebellious house.

26:004:001 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before

thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:

26:004:002 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and

cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set

battering rams against it round about.

26:004:003 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a

wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it,

and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This

shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

26:004:004 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of

the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that

thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.

26:004:005 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity,

according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so

shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

26:004:006 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right

side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty

days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.

26:004:007 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of

Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy

against it.

26:004:008 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not

turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of

thy siege.

26:004:009 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and

lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make

thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt

lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat

thereof.

26:004:010 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty

shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.

26:004:011 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an

hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.

26:004:012 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake

it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

26:004:013 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel

eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.

26:004:014 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been

polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that

which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there

abominable flesh into my mouth.

26:004:015 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for

man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.

26:004:016 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break

the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight,

and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with

astonishment:

26:004:017 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with

another, and consume away for their iniquity.

26:005:001 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a

barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy

beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

26:005:002 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the

city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a

third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou

shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.

26:005:003 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them

in thy skirts.

26:005:004 Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the

fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth

into all the house of Israel.

26:005:005 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in

the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.

26:005:006 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than

the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round

about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they

have not walked in them.

26:005:007 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied

more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in

my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done

according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;

26:005:008 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am

against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the

sight of the nations.

26:005:009 And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and

whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine

abominations.

26:005:010 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of

thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute

judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into

all the winds.

26:005:011 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because

thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with

all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither

shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.

26:005:012 A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with

famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part

shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third

part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.

26:005:013 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my

fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know

that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my

fury in them.

26:005:014 Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the

nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.

26:005:015 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an

astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall

execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes.

I the LORD have spoken it.

26:005:016 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which

shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you:

and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of

bread:

26:005:017 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they

shall bereave thee: and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee;

and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.

26:006:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:006:002 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and

prophesy against them,

26:006:003 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord

GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the

rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon

you, and I will destroy your high places.

26:006:004 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be

broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

26:006:005 And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel

before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your

altars.

26:006:006 In all your dwellingplaces 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 images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

26:006:007 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall

know that I am the LORD.

26:006:008 Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall

escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through

the countries.

26:006:009 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the

nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken

with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their

eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe

themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their

abominations.

26:006:010 And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not

said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.

26:006:011 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp

with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house

of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the

pestilence.

26:006:012 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that

is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged

shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.

26:006:013 Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men

shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high

hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and

under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to

all their idols.

26:006:014 So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land

desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all

their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

26:007:001 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:007:002 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land

of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.

26:007:003 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger

upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will

recompense upon thee all thine abominations.

26:007:004 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity:

but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall

be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

26:007:005 Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is

come.

26:007:006 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee;

behold, it is come.

26:007:007 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the

land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the

sounding again of the mountains.

26:007:008 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and

accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy

ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.

26:007:009 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I

will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that

are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that

smiteth.

26:007:010 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone

forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.

26:007:011 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them

shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of their's: neither

shall there be wailing for them.

26:007:012 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer

rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude

thereof.

26:007:013 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold,

although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole

multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen

himself in the iniquity of his life.

26:007:014 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but

none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude

thereof.

26:007:015 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine

within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that

is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.

26:007:016 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on

the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every

one for his iniquity.

26:007:017 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as

water.

26:007:018 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror

shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon

all their heads.

26:007:019 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold

shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to

deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not

satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the

stumblingblock of their iniquity.

26:007:020 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but

they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable

things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.

26:007:021 And 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

pollute it.

26:007:022 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute

my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

26:007:023 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the

city is full of violence.

26:007:024 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they

shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to

cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.

26:007:025 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there

shall be none.

26:007:026 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon

rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall

perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.

26:007:027 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 unto them after their way, and according to their deserts

will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

26:008:001 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month,

in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders

of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon

me.

26:008:002 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire:

from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his

loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of

amber.

26:008:003 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock

of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the

heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door

of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of

the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.

26:008:004 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there,

according to the vision that I saw in the plain.

26:008:005 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the

way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the

north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of

jealousy in the entry.

26:008:006 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what

they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel

committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn

thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.

26:008:007 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I

looked, behold a hole in the wall.

26:008:008 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and

when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.

26:008:009 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked

abominations that they do here.

26:008:010 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping

things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of

Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.

26:008:011 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of

the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son

of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of

incense went up.

26:008:012 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the

ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the

chambers of his imagery? for they say, the LORD seeth us not; the LORD

hath forsaken the earth.

26:008:013 He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt

see greater abominations that they do.

26:008:014 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's

house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping

for Tammuz.

26:008:015 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man?

turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than

these.

26:008:016 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house,

and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch

and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward

the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they

worshipped the sun toward the east.

26:008:017 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O 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 returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put

the branch to their nose.

26:008:018 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not

spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with

a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.

26:009:001 He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause

them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with

his destroying weapon in his hand.

26:009:002 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate,

which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his

hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's

inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen

altar.

26:009:003 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the

cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called

to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his

side;

26:009:004 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the

city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads

of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done

in the midst thereof.

26:009:005 And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him

through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye

pity:

26:009:006 Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children,

and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin

at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before

the house.

26:009:007 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts

with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.

26:009:008 And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was

left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt

thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury

upon Jerusalem?

26:009:009 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel

and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the

city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the

earth, and the LORD seeth not.

26:009:010 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I

have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.

26:009:011 And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the

inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou

hast commanded me.

26:010:001 Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above

the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a

sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

26:010:002 And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go

in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with

coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the

city. And he went in in my sight.

26:010:003 Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when

the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

26:010:004 Then the glory of the LORD went 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 the LORD's

glory.

26:010:005 And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the

outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.

26:010:006 And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man

clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from

between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.

26:010:007 And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the

cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and took

thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen:

who took it, and went out.

26:010:008 And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand

under their wings.

26:010:009 And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims,

one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the

appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone.

26:010:010 And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as

if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.

26:010:011 When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned

not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they

followed it; they turned not as they went.

26:010:012 And 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.

26:010:013 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O

wheel.

26:010:014 And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of

a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the

face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

26:010:015 And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living

creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.

26:010:016 And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and

when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth,

the same wheels also turned not from beside them.

26:010:017 When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up,

these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the living creature

was in them.

26:010:018 Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold

of the house, and stood over the cherubims.

26:010:019 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from

the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside

them, and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD's

house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

26:010:020 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of

Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims.

26:010:021 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings;

and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.

26:010:022 And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I

saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went

every one straight forward.

26:011:001 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the

east gate of the LORD's house, which looketh eastward: and behold at

the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah

the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the

people.

26:011:002 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that

devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:

26:011:003 Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is

the caldron, and we be the flesh.

26:011:004 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.

26:011:005 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me,

Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I

know the things that come into your mind, every one of them.

26:011:006 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have

filled the streets thereof with the slain.

26:011:007 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have

laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the

caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.

26:011:008 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you,

saith the Lord GOD.

26:011:009 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver

you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.

26:011:010 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border

of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

26:011:011 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the

flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of

Israel:

26:011:012 And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked

in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the

manners of the heathen that are round about you.

26:011:013 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the

son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a

loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the

remnant of Israel?

26:011:014 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:011:015 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy

kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the

inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us

is this land given in possession.

26:011:016 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast

them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them

among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the

countries where they shall come.

26:011:017 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather

you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye

have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

26:011:018 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all

the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from

thence.

26:011:019 And 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 an heart of flesh:

26:011:020 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances,

and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

26:011:021 But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their

detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way

upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.

26:011:022 Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels

beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

26:011:023 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the

city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the

city.

26:011:024 Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision

by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the

vision that I had seen went up from me.

26:011:025 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that

the LORD had shewed me.

26:012:001 The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying,

26:012:002 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious

house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and

hear not: for they are a rebellious house.

26:012:003 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing,

and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place

to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though

they be a rebellious house.

26:012:004 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight,

as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight,

as they that go forth into captivity.

26:012:005 Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out

thereby.

26:012:006 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and

carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou

see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of

Israel.

26:012:007 And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by

day, as stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through the wall

with mine hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bare it upon

my shoulder in their sight.

26:012:008 And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me,

saying,

26:012:009 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious

house, said unto thee, What doest thou?

26:012:010 Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This burden

concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that

are among them.

26:012:011 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be

done unto them: they shall remove and go into captivity.

26:012:012 And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his

shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through

the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not

the ground with his eyes.

26:012:013 My net also will I spread upon 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.

26:012:014 And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him

to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after

them.

26:012:015 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter

them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.

26:012:016 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 heathen whither they come; and they shall know

that I am the LORD.

26:012:017 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

26:012:018 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water

with trembling and with carefulness;

26:012:019 And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD

of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall

eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with

astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein,

because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

26:012:020 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and

the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

26:012:021 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:012:022 Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of

Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?

26:012:023 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make

this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in

Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of

every vision.

26:012:024 For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering

divination within the house of Israel.

26:012:025 For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall

speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your

days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it,

saith the Lord GOD.

26:012:026 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying.

26:012:027 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The

vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of

the times that are far off.

26:012:028 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There

shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have

spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD.

26:013:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:013:002 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that

prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts,

Hear ye the word of the LORD;

26:013:003 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that

follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

26:013:004 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.

26:013:005 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge

for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.

26:013:006 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD

saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to

hope that they would confirm the word.

26:013:007 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a

lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I have not

spoken?

26:013:008 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken

vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the

Lord GOD.

26:013:009 And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity,

and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly 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 ye shall know

that I am the Lord GOD.

26:013:010 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying,

Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others

daubed it with untempered morter:

26:013:011 Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it

shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great

hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.

26:013:012 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you,

Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?

26:013:013 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with

a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in

mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.

26:013:014 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with

untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that the

foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall

be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

26:013:015 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them

that have daubed it with untempered morter, and will say unto you, The

wall is no more, neither they that daubed it;

26:013:016 To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning

Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no

peace, saith the Lord GOD.

26:013:017 Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the

daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and

prophesy thou against them,

26:013:018 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew

pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every

stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye

save the souls alive that come unto you?

26:013:019 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of

barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die,

and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my

people that hear your lies?

26:013:020 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your

pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will

tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls

that ye hunt to make them fly.

26:013:021 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

ye shall know that I am the LORD.

26:013:022 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous

sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the

wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him

life:

26:013:023 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine

divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye

shall know that I am the LORD.

26:014:001 Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat

before me.

26:014:002 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:014:003 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their

heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face:

should I be enquired of at all by them?

26:014:004 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the

Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in

his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his

face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh

according to the multitude of his idols;

26:014:005 That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart,

because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

26:014:006 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord

GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your

faces from all your abominations.

26:014:007 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger

that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and

setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of

his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him

concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:

26:014:008 And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a

sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people;

and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

26:014:009 And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing,

I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand

upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

26:014:010 And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the

punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that

seeketh unto him;

26:014:011 That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me,

neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that

they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.

26:014:012 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,

26:014:013 Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing

grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break

the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will

cut off man and beast from it:

26:014:014 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it,

they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith

the Lord GOD.

26:014:015 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they

spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because

of the beasts:

26:014:016 Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord

GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be

delivered, but the land shall be desolate.

26:014:017 Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go

through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:

26:014:018 Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord

GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall

be delivered themselves.

26:014:019 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my

fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:

26:014:020 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, saith

the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall

but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

26:014:021 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my

four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the

noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?

26:014:022 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be

brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth

unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be

comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even

concerning all that I have brought upon it.

26:014:023 And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their

doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I

have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.

26:015:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:015:002 Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, or

than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?

26:015:003 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take

a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?

26:015:004 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire

devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it

meet for any work?

26:015:005 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much

less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it,

and it is burned?

26:015:006 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; 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.

26:015:007 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from

one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I

am the LORD, when I set my face against them.

26:015:008 And I will make the land desolate, because they have

committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.

26:016:001 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:016:002 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,

26:016:003 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth

and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite,

and thy mother an Hittite.

26:016:004 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel

was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou

wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

26:016:005 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have

compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the

lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.

26:016:006 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine

own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I

said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.

26:016:007 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and

thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent

ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas

thou wast naked and bare.

26:016:008 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy

time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered

thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with

thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.

26:016:009 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away

thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.

26:016:010 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with

badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered

thee with silk.

26:016:011 I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon

thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.

26:016:012 And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine

ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.

26:016:013 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment

was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine

flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou

didst prosper into a kingdom.

26:016:014 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty:

for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee,

saith the Lord GOD.

26:016:015 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the

harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on

every one that passed by; his it was.

26:016:016 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high

places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like

things shall not come, neither shall it be so.

26:016:017 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my

silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men,

and didst commit whoredom with them,

26:016:018 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and

thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.

26:016:019 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and

honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a

sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD.

26:016:020 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom

thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be

devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,

26:016:021 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to

cause them to pass through the fire for them?

26:016:022 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast

not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare,

and wast polluted in thy blood.

26:016:023 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto

thee! saith the LORD GOD;)

26:016:024 That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and

hast made thee an high place in every street.

26:016:025 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and

hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every

one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.

26:016:026 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy

neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to

provoke me to anger.

26:016:027 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee,

and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the

will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which

are ashamed of thy lewd way.

26:016:028 Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because

thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and

yet couldest not be satisfied.

26:016:029 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of

Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied therewith.

26:016:030 How weak is thine heart, saith the LORD GOD, seeing thou

doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;

26:016:031 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of

every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not

been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;

26:016:032 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh

strangers instead of her husband!

26:016:033 They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to

all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every

side for thy whoredom.

26:016:034 And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy

whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that

thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou

art contrary.

26:016:035 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:

26:016:036 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured

out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy

lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of

thy children, which thou didst give unto them;

26:016:037 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom

thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all

them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against

thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all

thy nakedness.

26:016:038 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed

blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.

26:016:039 And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall

throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places:

they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair

jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.

26:016:040 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they

shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their

swords.

26:016:041 And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute

judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee

to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any

more.

26:016:042 So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy

shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.

26:016:043 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but

hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will

recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt

not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.

26:016:044 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb

against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

26:016:045 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and

her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed

their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your

father an Amorite.

26:016:046 And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters

that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at

thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

26:016:047 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after

their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast

corrupted more than they in all thy ways.

26:016:048 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not

done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.

26:016:049 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride,

fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her

daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

26:016:050 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me:

therefore I took them away as I saw good.

26:016:051 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou

hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified

thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.

26:016:052 Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own

shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they:

they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and

bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.

26:016:053 When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of

Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her

daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the

midst of them:

26:016:054 That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be

confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto

them.

26:016:055 When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to

their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to

their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your

former estate.

26:016:056 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the

day of thy pride,

26:016:057 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy

reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her,

the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.

26:016:058 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith

the LORD.

26:016:059 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as

thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

26:016:060 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the

days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting

covenant.

26:016:061 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou

shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give

them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.

26:016:062 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt

know that I am the LORD:

26:016:063 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open

thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee

for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.

26:017:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:017:002 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the

house of Israel;

26:017:003 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great

wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came

unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:

26:017:004 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it

into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.

26:017:005 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a

fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow

tree.

26:017:006 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature,

whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him:

so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

26:017:007 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many

feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and

shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the

furrows of her plantation.

26:017:008 It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might

bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a

goodly vine.

26:017:009 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall

he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that

it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even

without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.

26:017:010 Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not

utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the

furrows where it grew.

26:017:011 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:017:012 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these

things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to

Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof,

and led them with him to Babylon;

26:017:013 And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with

him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of

the land:

26:017:014 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift

itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.

26:017:015 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into

Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he

prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the

covenant, and be delivered?

26:017:016 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the

king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose

covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.

26:017:017 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company

make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to

cut off many persons:

26:017:018 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when,

lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not

escape.

26:017:019 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine

oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even

it will I recompense upon his own head.

26:017:020 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in

my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him

there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.

26:017:021 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the

sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye

shall know that I the LORD have spoken it.

26:017:022 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest

branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top

of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high

mountain and eminent:

26:017:023 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and

it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and

under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the

branches thereof shall they dwell.

26:017:024 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD

have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried

up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD

have spoken and have done it.

26:018:001 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,

26:018:002 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land

of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the

children's teeth are set on edge?

26:018:003 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion

any more to use this proverb in Israel.

26:018:004 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so

also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

26:018:005 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,

26:018:006 And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted

up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled

his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,

26:018:007 And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor

his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the

hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;

26:018:008 He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken

any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed

true judgment between man and man,

26:018:009 Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to

deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.

26:018:010 If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and

that doeth the like to any one of these things,

26:018:011 And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten

upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,

26:018:012 Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence,

hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols,

hath committed abomination,

26:018:013 Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall

he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations;

he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

26:018:014 Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins

which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,

26:018:015 That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted

up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his

neighbour's wife,

26:018:016 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge,

neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the

hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,

26:018:017 That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not

received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in

my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall

surely live.

26:018:018 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his

brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people,

lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.

26:018:019 Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the

father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath

kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.

26:018:020 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear

the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity

of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and

the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

26:018:021 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath

committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and

right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

26:018:022 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall

not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he

shall live.

26:018:023 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith

the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?

26:018:024 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness,

and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations

that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he

hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath

trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

26:018:025 Yet ye say, The way of the LORD is not equal. Hear now, O

house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?

26:018:026 When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness,

and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he

hath done shall he die.

26:018:027 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness

that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he

shall save his soul alive.

26:018:028 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his

transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall

not die.

26:018:029 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the LORD is not

equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways

unequal?

26:018:030 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one

according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves

from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

26:018:031 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have

transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will

ye die, O house of Israel?

26:018:032 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith

the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

26:019:001 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of

Israel,

26:019:002 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among

lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

26:019:003 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young

lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

26:019:004 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit,

and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.

26:019:005 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost,

then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

26:019:006 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young

lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.

26:019:007 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their

cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the

noise of his roaring.

26:019:008 Then the nations set against him on every side from the

provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.

26:019:009 And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the

king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no

more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

26:019:010 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the

waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

26:019:011 And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare

rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she

appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

26:019:012 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the

ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were

broken and withered; the fire consumed them.

26:019:013 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and

thirsty ground.

26:019:014 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath

devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to

rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

26:020:001 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month,

the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came

to enquire of the LORD, and sat before me.

26:020:002 Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,

26:020:003 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto

them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to enquire of me? As I live,

saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.

26:020:004 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them?

cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:

26:020:005 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when

I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of

Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I

lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God;

26:020:006 In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring

them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them,

flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:

26:020:007 Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the

abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of

Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

26:020:008 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me:

they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes,

neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour

out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst

of the land of Egypt.

26:020:009 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be

polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I

made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of

Egypt.

26:020:010 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of

Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.

26:020:011 And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments,

which if a man do, he shall even live in them.

26:020:012 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between

me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify

them.

26:020:013 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the

wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my

judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my

sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury

upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

26:020:014 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be

polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.

26:020:015 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness,

that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them,

flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

26:020:016 Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my

statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their

idols.

26:020:017 Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them,

neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

26:020:018 But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye

not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments,

nor defile yourselves with their idols:

26:020:019 I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my

judgments, and do them;

26:020:020 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me

and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.

26:020:021 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they

walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which

if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths:

then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger

against them in the wilderness.

26:020:022 Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's

sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in

whose sight I brought them forth.

26:020:023 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that

I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the

countries;

26:020:024 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised

my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after

their fathers' idols.

26:020:025 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and

judgments whereby they should not live;

26:020:026 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused

to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make

them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.

26:020:027 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and

say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have

blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.

26:020:028 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I

lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill,

and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and

there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they

made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.

26:020:029 Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye

go? And the name whereof is called Bamah unto this day.

26:020:030 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord

GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye

whoredom after their abominations?

26:020:031 For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass

through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto

this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I

live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.

26:020:032 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all,

that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the

countries, to serve wood and stone.

26:020:033 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand,

and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule

over you:

26:020:034 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather

you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand,

and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.

26:020:035 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and

there will I plead with you face to face.

26:020:036 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the

land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.

26:020:037 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring

you into the bond of the covenant:

26:020:038 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them

that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country

where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel:

and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

26:020:039 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go

ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not

hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts,

and with your idols.

26:020:040 For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of

Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of

them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I

require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all

your holy things.

26:020:041 I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you

out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye

have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the

heathen.

26:020:042 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you

into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up

mine hand to give it to your fathers.

26:020:043 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings,

wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own

sight for all your evils that ye have committed.

26:020:044 And ye shall know that I am the LORD when I have wrought

with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor

according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord

GOD.

26:020:045 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:020:046 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word

toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;

26:020:047 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the

LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee,

and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the

flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to

the north shall be burned therein.

26:020:048 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it

shall not be quenched.

26:020:049 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak

parables?

26:021:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:021:002 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word

toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,

26:021:003 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold,

I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and

will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.

26:021:004 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and

the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against

all flesh from the south to the north:

26:021:005 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my

sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.

26:021:006 Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy

loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.

26:021:007 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest

thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: 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 cometh,

and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.

26:021:008 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:021:009 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A

sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:

26:021:010 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished

that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod

of my son, as every tree.

26:021:011 And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be

handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into

the hand of the slayer.

26:021:012 Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it

shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword

shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.

26:021:013 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even

the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.

26:021:014 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands

together and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the

slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth

into their privy chambers.

26:021:015 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates,

that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is

made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.

26:021:016 Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on

the left, whithersoever thy face is set.

26:021:017 I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my

fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.

26:021:018 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,

26:021:019 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword

of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one

land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the

city.

26:021:020 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the

Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.

26:021:021 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at

the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright,

he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.

26:021:022 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to

appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the

voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to

cast a mount, and to build a fort.

26:021:023 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their

sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance

the iniquity, that they may be taken.

26:021:024 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your

iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered,

so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye

are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.

26:021:025 And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is

come, when iniquity shall have an end,

26:021:026 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the

crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him

that is high.

26:021:027 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no

more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.

26:021:028 And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord

GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say

thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished,

to consume because of the glittering:

26:021:029 Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie

unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the

wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.

26:021:030 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge

thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.

26:021:031 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow

against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of

brutish men, and skilful to destroy.

26:021:032 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in

the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the LORD

have spoken it.

26:022:001 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:022:002 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the

bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.

26:022:003 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth

blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols

against herself to defile herself.

26:022:004 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and

hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast

caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years:

therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking

to all countries.

26:022:005 Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall

mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.

26:022:006 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to

their power to shed blood.

26:022:007 In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the

midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee

have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

26:022:008 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my

sabbaths.

26:022:009 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee

they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.

26:022:010 In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in

thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.

26:022:011 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's

wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another

in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

26:022:012 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken

usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by

extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.

26:022:013 Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest

gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the

midst of thee.

26:022:014 Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the

days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and will

do it.

26:022:015 And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee

in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.

26:022:016 And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the

sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

26:022:017 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:022:018 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all

they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the

furnace; they are even the dross of silver.

26:022:019 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become

dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

26:022:020 As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and

tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt

it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave

you there, and melt you.

26:022:021 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my

wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst therof.

26:022:022 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye

be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have

poured out my fury upon you.

26:022:023 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:022:024 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not

cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.

26:022:025 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof,

like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they

have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many

widows in the midst thereof.

26:022:026 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine

holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane,

neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean,

and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

26:022:027 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening

the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

26:022:028 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter,

seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord

GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.

26:022:029 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised

robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed

the stranger wrongfully.

26:022:030 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the

hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not

destroy it: but I found none.

26:022:031 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I

have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I

recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.

26:023:001 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

26:023:002 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one

mother:

26:023:003 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed

whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there

they bruised the teats of their virginity.

26:023:004 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah

her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus

were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.

26:023:005 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she

doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,

26:023:006 Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of

them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.

26:023:007 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them

that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted:

with all their idols she defiled herself.

26:023:008 Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in

her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her

virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.

26:023:009 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers,

into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.

26:023:010 These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her

daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among

women; for they had executed judgment upon her.

26:023:011 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt

in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her

sister in her whoredoms.

26:023:012 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and

rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of

them desirable young men.

26:023:013 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one

way,

26:023:014 And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men

pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with

vermilion,

26:023:015 Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed

attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the

manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:

26:023:016 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon

them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.

26:023:017 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and

they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them,

and her mind was alienated from them.

26:023:018 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her

nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was

alienated from her sister.

26:023:019 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance

the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of

Egypt.

26:023:020 For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the

flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

26:023:021 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth,

in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.

26:023:022 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I

will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated,

and I will bring them against thee on every side;

26:023:023 The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and

Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men,

captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon

horses.

26:023:024 And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and

wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee

buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment

before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.

26:023:025 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal

furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and

thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy

daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.

26:023:026 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away

thy fair jewels.

26:023:027 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy

whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up

thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.

26:023:028 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee

into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom

thy mind is alienated:

26:023:029 And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away

all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness

of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy

whoredoms.

26:023:030 I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a

whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their

idols.

26:023:031 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I

give her cup into thine hand.

26:023:032 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's

cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision;

it containeth much.

26:023:033 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the

cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

26:023:034 Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt

break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have

spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

26:023:035 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast

forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy

lewdness and thy whoredoms.

26:023:036 The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge

Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;

26:023:037 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their

hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also

caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the

fire, to devour them.

26:023:038 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my

sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

26:023:039 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then

they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus

have they done in the midst of mine house.

26:023:040 And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far,

unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst

wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments,

26:023:041 And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before

it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.

26:023:042 And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and

with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the

wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns

upon their heads.

26:023:043 Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they

now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?

26:023:044 Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that

playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the

lewd women.

26:023:045 And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the

manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood;

because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

26:023:046 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon

them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.

26:023:047 And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch

them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters,

and burn up their houses with fire.

26:023:048 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that

all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

26:023:049 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye

shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord

GOD.

26:024:001 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth

day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:024:002 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this

same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same

day.

26:024:003 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto

them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour

water into it:

26:024:004 Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece,

the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.

26:024:005 Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under

it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.

26:024:006 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city,

to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it!

bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.

26:024:007 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the

top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with

dust;

26:024:008 That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I

have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be

covered.

26:024:009 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I

will even make the pile for fire great.

26:024:010 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice

it well, and let the bones be burned.

26:024:011 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of

it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be

molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.

26:024:012 She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went

not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.

26:024:013 In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee,

and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness

any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.

26:024:014 I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will

do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent;

according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge

thee, saith the Lord GOD.

26:024:015 Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:024:016 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of

thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep,

neither shall thy tears run down.

26:024:017 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire

of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover

not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.

26:024:018 So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my

wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

26:024:019 And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what

these things are to us, that thou doest so?

26:024:020 Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me,

saying,

26:024:021 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD;

Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength,

the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your

sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.

26:024:022 And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your

lips, nor eat the bread of men.

26:024:023 And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon

your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your

iniquities, and mourn one toward another.

26:024:024 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he

hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am

the Lord GOD.

26:024:025 Also, thou 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 minds, their sons and

their daughters,

26:024:026 That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to

cause thee to hear it with thine ears?

26:024:027 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is

escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a

sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

26:025:001 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

26:025:002 Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy

against them;

26:025:003 And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD;

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my

sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when

it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into

captivity;

26:025:004 Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east

for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make

their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink

thy milk.

26:025:005 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the

Ammonites a couching place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the

LORD.

26:025:006 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine

hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy

despite against the land of Israel;

26:025:007 Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee,

and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee

off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the

countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

26:025:008 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say,

Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;

26:025:009 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, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim,

26:025:010 Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give

them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the

nations.

26:025:011 And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know

that I am the LORD.

26:025:012 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt

against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly

offended, and revenged himself upon them;

26:025:013 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out

mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will

make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.

26:025:014 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my

people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and

according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord

GOD.

26:025:015 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt

by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to

destroy it for the old hatred;

26:025:016 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch

out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims,

and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.

26:025:017 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious

rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my

vengeance upon them.

26:026:001 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day

of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:026:002 Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem,

Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto

me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:

26:026:003 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against

thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as

the sea causeth his waves to come up.

26:026:004 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down

her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the

top of a rock.

26:026:005 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst

of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall

become a spoil to the nations.

26:026:006 And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by

the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

26:026:007 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus

Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with

horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much

people.

26:026:008 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and

he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and

lift up the buckler against thee.

26:026:009 And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with

his axes he shall break down thy towers.

26:026:010 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall

cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of

the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as

men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.

26:026:011 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy

streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong

garrisons shall go down to the ground.

26:026:012 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey

of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy

thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and

thy dust in the midst of the water.