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CHAP. V. prophet's hair. 12 And thou shalt eat it as barley-for they have refused my judgmenta cakes, and thou shalt bake it with and my statutes, they bave not walked dung that cometh out of man, in their in them. sight.

7 Therefore thus saith the Lord Goo, 13 And the LORD said, Even thus Because ye multiplied more than the shall the children of Israel eat their nations that are round about you, and defiled bread among the Geutiles, have not walked in my statutes, neiwhither I will drive them. ther have kept my judgments, neither 14 Then said 1, Ah Lord GOD! be-have done according to the judgments hold, my soul hath not been polluted; of the nations that are round about for from my youth up, even till now, you: have I not eaten of that which dieth 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither Behold, I, even I, am against thee, came there abominable flesh into my and will execute judgments in the mouth. midst of thee, in the sight of the nations.

15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, 9 And I will do in thee that which and thou shalt prepare thy bread I have not done, and whereunto I will therewith. not do any more the like, because of

16 Moreover, he said unto me, Son all thine abominations. of man, behold, I will break the staff 10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall sons in the midst of thee, and the sons eat bread by weight, and with care; shall cat their fathers; and I will exand they shall drink water by meas-Jecute judgments in thee, and the whole ure, and with astonishment: remnant of thee will I scatter into all

17 That they may want bread and the winds. water, and be astonished one with an- 11 Wherefore, as I live, saith the other, and consume away for their in-Lord God; Surely, because thou hast iquity. defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine

CHAP. V.

AND thon, sou of man, take thee a abominations, therefore will I also

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sharp knife, take thee a barber's] diminish thee; neither shall mine eye razor, and cause it to pass upon thy spare, neither will I have any pity. head, and upon thy beard: then take 12 T A third part of thee shall die thee balances to weigh, and divide the with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst 2 Thou shalt burn with fire a third of thee: and a third part shall fall by part in the midst of the city, when the sword round about thee; and I the days of the siege are fulfilled: will scatter a third part into all the and thou shalt take a third part, and winds, and I will draw out a sword emite about it with a knife; and a after them. third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.

13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comfort3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few[ed: and they shall know that I the in number, and bind them in thy LoRD have spoken it in my zeal, when have accomplished my fury in them. 14 Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of

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4 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 fall that pass by. honge of Israel.

15 So it shall be a reproach and a 5 T Thus saith the Lord GOD, This is taunt, and instruction and an astonishJerusalem: I have set it in the midst ment unto the nations that are round of the nations and countries that are about thee, when I shall execute round about her. judgments in thee in anger and in fu

6 And she hath changed my judg-ry and in furious rebukes. I the LORD ments into wickedness more than the have spoken it.

nations, and my statules more than 16 When I shall send upon them the the countries that are round about her;[evil arrows of famine, which shall be

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EZEKIEL. desolation of Israel. for their destruction, and which I willțin vain that I would do this evil unto send to destroy you: and 1 will in them.

crease the famine upon you, and will 11 T Thus saith the Lord Gon, Smite break your staff of bread. with thy hand, and stamp with thy

17 So will I send upon you famine foot, and say, Alas, for all the evil and evil beasts, and they shall bereave abominations of the house of Israel! thee; and pestilence and blood shall for they shall fall by the sword, by pass through thee; and I will bring the famine, and by the pestilence. the sword upon thee. I the Lond 12 He that is far off shall die of the have spoken it. pestilence; and be that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the fury upon them.

CHAP. VI.

AND the word of the LORD came famine; thus will I accomplish my

unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face toward. 13 Then shall ye know that I am the mountains of Israel, and prophesy the LoRD, when their slain men shall against them, be among their idols round about their 3 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, altars, upon every high hill, in all the hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus tops of the mountains,and under every saith the Lord God to the mountains green tree, and under every thick oak, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the place where they did offer sweet the valleys, Behold, 1, even 1, will savour to all their idols. bring a sword upon you, and I will 14 So will 1 stretch out my hand upon destroy your high places. them, and make the land desolate; 4 And your altars shall be desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness and your images shall be broken; and toward Diblath, in all their habitaI will cast down your slain men before tions; and they shall know that I am your idols. the LORD.

CHAP. VII.

5 And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their MOREOVER, the word of the

came unto me, saying,

idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. 2 Also, thou son of man, thus saith 6 In all your dwelling-places the cit the Lord God unto the land of Israel, ies shall be laid waste, and the high An end, the end is come upon the four places shall be desolate; that your al-corners of the land. tars may be laid waste and made des- 3 Now is the end come upon thee, olate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you; and ye shall know that I am

the LORD.

S¶ Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ve shall be scattered through the coun tries.

and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations.

4 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.

5 Thus saith the Lord God, An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.

come.

9 And they that escape of you shall 6 An end is come, the end is come : remember me among the nations, it watcheth for thee; behold, it is whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whor 7 The morning, is come upon thee, ish heart, which hath departed from 0 thou that dwellest in the land: the me, and with their eyes, which go a time is come, the day of trouble is whoring after their idols: and they near, and not the sounding again of shall loathe themselves for the evils the mountains. which they have committed in all 8 Now will I shortly pour out my their abominations. fury upon thee, and accomplish mine 10 And they shall know that I am anger upon thee; and 1 will judge the Long, and that I have not said thee according to thy ways, and will

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CHAP. VIII.

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The type of recompense thee for all thine abomin-made the images of their abomina tions and of their detestable things 9 And mine eye shall not spare, nei- therein: therefore have I set it fär ther will I have pity: I will recom- from them. pense 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.

21 And 1 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.

10 Behold the day, behold, it is 22 My face will I turn also from come the morning is gone forth; them, and they shall pollute my secret the rod hath blossomed,pride hath bud-place: for the robbers shall enter into ded. it, and defile it.

11 Violence is risen up into a rod of 23 T Make a chain: for the land is wickedness: none of them shall re-full of bloody crimes, and the city is nain, nor of their multitude, nor of full of violence. any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them.

24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess 12 The time is come, the day draw-their houses: I will also make the eth near let not the buyer rejoice, pomp of the strong to cease; and their nor the seller mourn; for wrath is up-holy places shall be defiled.

on all the multitude thereof.

25 Destruction cometh; and they

13 For the seller shall not return to shall seek peace, and there shall be that which is sold, although they were none.

yet alive for the vision is touching 26 Mischief shall come upon misthe whole multitude thereof, which|chief, and rumour shall be upon rushall not return; neither shall any!mour: then shall they seek a vision of strengthen himself in the iniquity of his the prophet; but the law shall perish life. from the priest, and counsel from the

14 They have blown the trumpet,even|ancients. to make all ready ; but none goeth to 27 The king shall mourn, and the the battle for my wrath is upon all prince shall be clothed with desolation, the multitude thereof. and the hands of the people of the

15 The sword is without, and the land shall be troubled: I will do unto pestilence and the famine within: be them alter their way, and according that is in the field shall die with the to their deserts will I judge them ; sword; and he that is in the city, and they shall know that I am the famine and pestilence shall devour LORD.

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CHAP. VIII.

16 7. But they that escape of them AND it came to pass in the sixtl shall escape, and shall be on the moun- year, in the sixth month, in the tains like doves of the valleys, all of fifth day of the month, as I sat in my them mourning, every one for his ini-house, and the elders of Judah sat bequity. fore me,that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me.

17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

18 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.

2 Then 1 beheld, and, lo, a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even down ward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.

19 They shall cast their silver in the 3 And he put forth the form of a streets, and their gold shall be remov-[hand, and took me by a lock of my ed their silver and their gold shall head; and the spirit lifted me up bènot be able to deliver them in the day tween the earth and the heaven,” and of the wrath of the LORD: they shall brought me in the visions of God to not satisfy their souls, neither fill their Jerusalem, to the door of the inner bowels: because it is the stumbling-gate that looketh toward the north; block of their iniquity. where was the seat of the image of 20 As for the beauty of his orua- jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy ment, he set it in majesty; but they] 4 And, behold, the glory of the Goz

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5 T Then said be unto me, Son of 17 ¶ Then he said unto me,Hást thou mian, lift up thine eyes now the way seen this, O son of man? Is it a light toward the north. So I lifted up mine thing to the house of Judah, that they eyes the way toward the north, and commit the abominations which they behold northward at the gate of the al- commit here? for they have filled the tar this image of jealousy in the entry,[land with violence, and have returned 6 He said furthermore unto me, Son to provoke me to anger: aud, lo, they of man,seest thou what they do? even put the branch to their nose. the great abominations that the house 18 Therefore will also deal in fury: of Israel committeth here,that I should mine eye shall not spare, neither will go far off from my sanctuary ? but I have pity; and though they cry in Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt mine ears with a loud voice, yet will see greater abominations. I not hear them.

7 ¶ And he brought me to the door! of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.

S Then said he unto me,Son of man,{ dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. 9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.

10 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, portrayed upon the wall round about.

CHAP. IX.

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that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his des troying weapon in his hand.

2 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which li eth 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 11 And there stood before them sev-beside the brasen altar. enty men of the ancients of the house 3 And the glory of the God of Israel of Israel, and in the midst of them was gone up from the cherub, wherestood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, upon he was, to the threshold of the with every man his censerin bis hand: house: and he called to the man clothand a thick cloud of incense went up.ed with linen, which had the writer's 12. Then said he unto me,Son of man, inkhorn by his side; hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of iis imagery ? for they say, The Lond aceth us not; the Lord hath forsaken the earth.

13 ↑ He said also unto me,Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.

4 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, 5 1 And to the others he said in my hearing, Go ye after him through the city,and smite; let not your eyes spare, neither have ye pity:

14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lonn's house, which was toward the north; and, behold, 6 Slay utterly old and young, both there sat women weeping for Tam- maids, and little children, and women; but come not near anyman upon 15 ¶ Then said he unto me, Hast|whom is the mark; and begin at my thou seen this, O son of man ? turn sanctuary. Then they began at the an thee yet again, and thou shalt see cient men which were before the house. greater abominations than these. 7 And he said unto them, Defile the

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16 And he brought me into the inner house, and fill the courts with the court of the LORD's house,and,behold, slain; go ye forth. And they went at the door of the temple of the Lond, forth, and slew in the city. between the porch and the altar, were 8 And it came to pass, while they about five and twenty men, with their were slaying them, and I was left,that backs toward the temple of the LORD, I fell upon my face, and cried, and and their faces toward the east; and said,Ali Lord God! wilt thou destroy

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CHAP. X.

coais and cherubima. all the residue of Israel in thy pouring| 9 And when I looked, behold the out thy fury upon Jerusalem? four wheels by the cherubimus, one

9 Then said he unto me, The ini-wheel by one cherub, and another quity of the house of Israel and Judah wheel by another cherub: and the apis exceeding great, and the land is full pearance of the wheels was as the of blood, and the city full of perverse-colour of a beryl-stone. ness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth

not.

10 And as for their appearancee,they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel. 10 And as for me also, mine eye shall 11 When they went, they went upon not spare, neither will I have pity; their four sides; they turned not as but I will recompense their way up-they went, but to the place whither on their head. the bead looked they followed it; they

11 And, behold, the man clothed turned not as they went. with linen, which had the inkborn by 12 And their whole body, and their bis side, reported the matter, saying,1 backs, and their hands, and their have done as thou hast commandedme. wings, and the wheels, where full of CHAP. X. eyes round about, even the wheels

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the head of the cherubims there spunto them in my hearing, O wheel! peared over them as it were a sap-And every one had four faces: phire-stone, as the appearance of the the first face was the face of a cherub, likeness of a throne. and the second face was the face of a

2 And he spake unto the man clothed man, and the third the face of a lion, with linen, and said, Go in between and the fourth the face of an eagle. the wheels, even under the cherub, 15 And the cherubims were lifted up. and fill thy hand with coals of fire This is the living creature that 1 saw from between the cherubims, and scat-[by the river of Chebar.

ter them over the city. And he went] 16 And when the cherubims went, In in my sight. the wheels went by them; and when

Now the cherubims stood on the the cherubims lifted up their wings to night side of the house when the man mount up from the earth, the same went in; and the cloud filled the in-wheels also turned not from beside them.

Mer court.

4 Then the glory of the Lond 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.

17 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. 18 Then the glory of the Lond departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims. 19 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the 6 And it came to pass, that when he wheels also were beside them, and had commanded the man clothed with every one stood at the door of the east linen, saying, Take fire from between gate of the LORD's house; and the the wheels, from between the cheru-glory of the God of Israel was over bims; then he went iu, and stood be-firem above.

5 And the sound of the cherubimo' wings was heard even to the outer Court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.

side the wheels.

20 This is the living creature that 1 7 And one cherub stretched forth his saw under the God of Israel by the hand from between the cherubims un-river of Chebar; and I knew that to the fire that was between the cher-they were the cherubims, ubims, and took thereof, and put it in 21 Every one had four faces apiece, to the hands of him that was clothed and every one four wings; and the with linen; who took it, and went out. likeness of the bands of a man was 8 T And there appeared in the cher-under their wings. ubima the form of a man's hand un- 22 And the likeness of their faces der their wings. was the same faces which I saw by the

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