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38 Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good ? 39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

41 Let us lift up our beart with our hands unto God in the heavens. 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud,that our prayers should not pass through.

her pitiful estate.

63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music. 64 Render unto them a recompense, O Lond, according to the work of their hands.

65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them,

66 Persecute and destroy thera in anger from under the heavens of the Lond. CHAP. IV

HOW is most fine gold changed! is the gold become dim! how the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.

2 The precious sons of Zion, com. parable to fine gold, how are they es 45 Thou hast made us as the off-teemed as earthen pitchers, the work couring and refuse in the midst of the fof, the hands of the potter.

3 Even the sea-nousters draw out

people. 16 All our enemics have opcued their the breast, they give suck to their mouths against us. young ones: the daughter of my peo47 Fear and a snare is come upon us,|ple is become cruel, like the ostriches desolation and destruction. in the wilderness.

18 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

19 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, 50 Till the Lond look down, and behold from heaven.

4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no mau breaketh it unto them. 5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets; they that weÏ'E brought up in scarlet embrace dung

51 Mine eye aflicteth my heart, be-hills. cause of all the daughters of my city. 62 Mine enemies chase me core, like a bird, without cause.

63 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. 54 Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I ain cut off.

55 TI called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is great er than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her. 7 Her Nazarites were purer than enow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire: 8 Their visage is blacker than a coal ; [they are not known in the streets : their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. 9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with 58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the hunger: for these pine away, stricken causes of my soul; thou hast redeem-through for want of the fruits of the ed my life.

56 Thou hast heard my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my

cry.

67 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear

not.

59 Ó LORD, thou hast seen my wrong; Judge thou my cause.

60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance, and all their imaginations against me. 61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against ine;

field.

10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

11 The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, 62 The lips of those that rose up and it hath devoured the foundations against me, and their device against thereof. me all the day.

12 The kings of the earth, and ali

Zion's complaint

CHAP V.

to God

the inhabitants of the world, would | 2 Our inheritance is turned to stran not have believed that the adversary gers, our houses to aliens. and the enemy should have entered 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our into the gates of Jerusalem. mothers are as widows.

13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,

14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they bave polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there. 16 The anger of the Lord hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders. 17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: m our watching we nave watched for a nation that could not save us,

18They hunt our steps,that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled: for our end is come. 19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid] wait for us in the wilderness.

20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.

21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edoin, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.

22 T The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity; he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.

CHAP. V.

4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. 6 We have given the band to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

8 Servants nave ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

10. Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. 11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. 12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the [wood.

14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music. 15 The joy of our heart is censed; four dauce is turned into mourning.

16 The crown is fallen from our head: wo unto us, that we have sinned!

17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim, 18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

19 Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? 21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Lond, and we shall be turned; renew our

REMEMBER, O LOnn, what is days as of old.

come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; Ithou art very wroth against us.

¶ The Book of the Prophet EZEKIEL.

CHAP. 1.

in the fifth day of the month, as I

Now

OW it came to pass in the thir-was among the captives by the rivet ueth year, in the fourth month,lof Chebar, that the heavens were

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epened, and I saw visions of God. [tures, behold, one wheel upon the 2 In the fifth day of the month, earth by the living creatures, with his which was the fifth year of king Je- four faces.

hoiachin's captivity,

16 The appearance of the wheels and 3 The word of the LORD came cx-their work was like unto the colour pressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the of a beryl: and they four had one sou of Buzi, in the land of the Chal-likeness; and their appearance and deans by the river Chebar; and the their work was as it were a wheel in hand of the LORD was there upon the middle of a wheel. him.

4 T 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 the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out the midst of the fire.

5 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they aad the likeness of a man.

6 And every oue had four faces, and every one had four wings.

7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the ple of a call's foot: and they sparkled ke the colour of burnished brass. 8. And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.

17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.

18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.

19 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.

20 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 creatures was in the wheels. 21 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 9 Their wings were joined one to against them: for the spirit of the livanother; they turned not when theying creature was in the wheels. went; they went every one straight| forward.

10 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.

11 Thus weře their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their ɔodies.

12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.

13 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.

22 And the likeness of the firmanent upon the heads of the living creature was as the color of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.

23 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on thus side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.

24 And when they went, I beard 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 a host: when they stood, they let down their wings.

26 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and bad let down their wings.

26 T And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a 14 And the living creatures ran and sapphire-stone; and upon the likeness returned as the appearance of a flash of the throne was the likeness as the of lightning. appearance of a man above upon it. 27 And I saw as the colour of amber

15 ¶ Now as I beheld the living crea

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CHAP. II, III. as the appearance of fire round about

le cateth the roll. CHAP. 111.

OREOVER he said unto me,Son

within it; from the appearance of his Man, cat that thou findest;

loins even upward, aud from the ap

pearance of his loins even downward, eat this roil, and go speak unto the I saw as it were the appearance of fire,house of Israel.

and it had brightness round about. 2 So I opened my mouth, and he 23 As the appearance of the bow that caused me to eat that roll. is in the cloud in the day of raio, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appear ance 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. CHAP. II.

AND he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee.

3 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. 4 T And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them. 6 For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech aud of a hard lan guage, in to the house of Israel; 6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, Surely, bad I sent thee to them, they I send thee to the children of Israel,10] would bave hearkened unto thee. a rebellious nation that hath rebelled] 7 But the house of Israel will not against me they and their fathers bearken unto thee; for they will not have transgressed against me, even hearken unto me for all the house unto this very day. of Israel are impudent and hard-heart

2 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.

4 For they are impudent children[ed. and stiff-hearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Loud God.

5. 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.

6 T 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.

7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.

S 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 1 give thee.

9 ¶ And when I looked, behold, a hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;

8 Behold, I have made thy face strong against their facce, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.

9 As an adamant harder than fint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thy heart,and hear with the ears.

11 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.

12 Then the epirit took me up, and heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.

13 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.

14 So the spirit lifted me up, and 10 And be spread it before me and took me away, and 1 went in bitterit was written within and without:ness, in the beat of my spirit; but the and there was written therein lamen-hand of the LORD was strong upon tations, and mourning, and woe.

me.

The type of

EZEKIEL.

Sen usacom's siege. 15 T Then I came to them of the 27 But when I speak with thee, I captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by will open thy mouth, and thou shalt the river of Chebar, and I sat where say unto thein, Thus saith the Lord they sat, and remained there astonish-GOD; He that heareth, let him hear; ed among them seven days. and he that forbeareth,let him forbear:

16 And it came to pass at the end of for they are a rebellious house.
seven days, that the word of the LORD
CHAP. IV.

came unto me, saying,

HOU son

Son of a bave made thee a Tatile, and fog of man, take thee

watchman unto the house of Israel: portray upon it the city, even Jerugatherefore hear the word at my mouth, lem:

and give them warning from me.

2 And lay siege against it, and build 18 When I say unto the wicked, a fort against it, and cast a mount Thou shalt surely die; and thou giv-against it; set the camp also against est him not warning, nor speakest to it, and set battering rams against it warn the wicked from his wicked round about. way, to save his life; the same wick-] 3 Moreover take thou unto thee an ed man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy band. 19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he tum not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

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. 4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, aud lay the iniquity of the house of 20 Again, When a righteous man Israel upon it: according to the numdoth turn from his righteousness and ber of the days that thou shalt lie upon commit iniquity, and I lay a stum-it thou shalt bear their iniquity. bling-block before him, he shall die: 5 For I have laid upon thee the years because thou hast not given him warn of their iniquity, according to the nuising, he shall die in his sin, and his ber of the days, three hundred and righteousness which he hath done ninety days: so shalt thou bear the shall not be remembered; but his iniquity of the house of Israel. blood will I require at thy hand. 6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the bouse of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.

21 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.

22 ¶ 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.

23 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.

24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thy house.

25 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:

7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.

S 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.

9 7 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 there of, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side; three bundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels & 26 And I will make thy tongue cleave[day; from time to time shalt thou eat to the roof of thy mouth, that thou it.

shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to 11 Thou shalt drink also water by them a reprover: for they are ar 4.4 measure, the sixth part of a hin; from lions house. time to time shalt thou drink.

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