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The vision of jealousy, and

CHAP. VIII, IX.

the chambers of imagery.

26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of and rumour shall be upon rumour; then incense went up.

shall they seek a vision of the prophet; 12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, but the law shall perish from the priest, hast thou seen what the ancients of the and counsel from the ancients. house of Israel do in the dark, every man

27 The king shall mourn, and the prince in the chambers of his imagery? for they shall be clothed with desolation, and the say,The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath hands of the people of the land shall be forsaken the earth. troubled I will do unto them after their :

13 He said also unto me, Turn thee way, and according to their deserts will I yet again, and thou shalt see greater abojudge them, and they shall know that I am minations that they do. the LORD.

CHAP. VIII. ·

14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's house which was toAND in sith day of women ND it came to pass in the sixth year, ward the north; and behold, there sat

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the month, as I sat in mine house, and the 15 T Then said he unto me, Hast thou elders of Judah sat before me, that the seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me. again, and thou shalt see greater abomina2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the tions than these. appearance of fire: from the appearance 16 And he brought me into the inner of his loins even downward, fire; and from court of the LORD's house, and behold, at his loins even upward, as the appearance the door of the temple of the LORD, beof brightness, as the colour of amber. tween the porch and the altar, were about 3 And he put forth the form of a hand, five and twenty men, with their backs toand took me by a lock of mine head; and ward the temple of the LORD, and their the spirit lifted me up between the earth faces toward the east; and they worshipand the heaven, and brought me in the ped the sun toward the east. visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of 17 ¶ Then he said unto me, Hast thou the inner gate that looketh toward the seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing north; where was the seat of the image of to the house of Judah that they commit the jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy. abominations which they commit here? for 4 And behold, the glory of the God of they have filled the land with violence, and Israel was there, according to the vision have returned to provoke me to anger: that I saw in the plain. and lo, they put the branch to their nose.

5 ¶ Then said he unto me, Son of man, 18 Therefore will I also deal in fury : lift up thine eyes now the way toward the mine eye shall not spare, neither will I north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way have pity: and though they cry in mine toward the north, and behold northward ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear at the gate of the altar this image of jea-them.

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CHAP. IX.

6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of TTE cried also in mine ears with a loud man, seest thou what they do? even the voice, saying, Cause them that have great abominations that the house of Israel charge over the city to draw near, even committeth here, that I should go far off every man with his destroying weapon in from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet his hand. again, and thou shalt see greater abomina- 2 And behold, six men came from the

tions.

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

way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughterweapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a wri8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, ter's inkhorn by his side: and they went dig now in the wall: and when I had dig-in and stood beside the brazen altar. ged in the wall, behold a door. 3 And the glory of the God of Israel was 9 And he said unto me, Go in, and be-gone up from the cherub whereupon he hold the wicked abominations that they do was, to the threshold of the house. And here. he called to the man clothed with linen,

10 So I went in and saw; and behold which had the writer's inkhorn by his side; every form of creeping things, and abo- 4 And the LORD said unto him, Go minable beasts, and all the idols of the through the midst of the city, through the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon round about. the foreheads of the men that sigh and that

11 And there stood before them seventy cry for all the abominations that be done in men of the ancients of the house of Israel, the midst thereof. and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah 5 T And to the others he said in mine the son of Shaphan, with every man his hearing, Go ye after him through the city,

Vision of the coals of fire,

EZEKIEL.

and of the cherubims. and smite let not your eye spare, neither him that was clothed with linen: who took have ye pity: it, and went out.

6 Slay utterly old and young, both 8 T And there appeared in the cherumaids, and little children, and women: but bims the form of a man's hand under their come not near any man upon whom is the wings.

mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then 9 And when I looked, behold the four they began at the ancient men which were wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one before the house.

7 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.

cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone.

10 And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel..

3¶ And it came to pass while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell 11 When they went, they went upon their upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah four sides; they turned not as they went,but Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the resi- to the place whither the head looked they due of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury followed it; they turned not as they went. upon Jerusalem? 12 And their whole body, and their

9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity backs, and their hands, and their wings, of the house of Israel and Judah is exceed- and the wheels, were full of eyes round ing great, and the land is full of blood, and about, even the wheels that they four had. the city full of perverseness: for they say, 13 As for the wheels, it was cried unto

The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and them in my hearing, O wheel. the LORD seeth not. 14 And every one had four faces: the

10 And as for me also, mine eye shall first face was the face of a cherub, and the not spare, neither will I have pity, but I second face was the face of a man, and the will recompense their way upon their third the face of a lion, and the fourth the head. face of an eagle.

11 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.

CHAP. X.

HEN I looked, and behold, in the

the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

15 And the cherubims were lifted up This is the living crcature that I saw by the river of Chebar.

16 And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up not from beside them.

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.

2 And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill 18 Then the glory of the LORD departthine hand with coals of fire from between ed from off the threshold of the house, and the cherubims, and scatter them over the stood over the cherubims. city. And he went in in my sight.

19 And the cherubims lifted up their 3 Now the cherubims stood on the right wings, and mounted up from the earth in side of the house, when the man went in; my sight: when they went out, the wheels and the cloud filled the inner court. also were beside them, and every one stood 4 Then the glory of the LORD went up at the door of the east gate of the LORD'S from the cherub, and stood over the thresh-house; and the glory of the God of Israel old of the house; and the house was filled was over them above.

with the cloud, and the court was full of 20 This is the living creature that I saw the brightness of the LORD's glory. under the God of Israel by the river of 5 And the sound of the cherubims' wings Chebar; and I knew that they were the was heard even to the outer court, as cherubims. the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.

21 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of G And it came to pass, that when he had the hands of a man was under their wings. commanded the man clothed with linen, 22 And the likeness of their faces was saying, Take fire from between the wheels, the same faces which I saw by the river of from between the cherubims; then he went Chebar, their appearances and themselves: in, and stood beside the wheels. they went every one straight forward. CHAP. XI.

7 T And one cherub stretched forth his

hand from between the cherubims unto the

fire that was between the cherubims, and

and brought me unto the east gate OREOVER,the spirit lifted me up,

took thereof, and put it into the hands of of the Lonn's house, which looketh east

The princes' sin and judgment. CHAP. XII.

Type of Ezekiel's removing. ward: and behold, at the door of the gate GoD; I will even gather you from the peofive and twenty men; among whom I saw ple, and assemble you out of the countries Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah where ye have been scattered, and I will the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. give you the land of Israel.

2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, 18 And they shall come thither, and these are the men that devise mischief, they shall take away all the detestable and give wicked counsel in this city: things thereof, and all the abominations thereof from thence.

3 Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.

4 T Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.

19 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 a heart of flesh:

5 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon 20 That they may walk in my statutes, me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith and keep mine ordinances, and do them: the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of and they shall be my people, and I will be Israel: for I know the things that come their God. into your mind, every one of them.

6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.

21 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.

7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GoD: Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst 22 Then did the cherubims lift up their of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the wings, and the wheels beside them; and caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the glory of the God of Israel was over the midst of it. them above.

8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will 23 And the glory of the LORD went up bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord from the midst of the city, and stood upon GOD. the mountain which is on the east side of

9 And I will bring you out of the midst the city. thereof, and deliver you into the hands of 24 Afterwards the spirit took me up, strangers, and will execute judgments and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of among you. God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity.

10 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will So the vision that I had seen went up judge you in the border of Israel; and ye from me. shall know that I am the LORD.

25 Then I spake unto them of the cap

11 This city shall not be your caldron, tivity all the things that the LORD had neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst shewed me. thereof; but I will judge you in the border

of Israel:

CHAP. XII.

HE 12 And ye shall know that I am the word of the LORD also came unto me, saying, LORD: for ye have not walked in my sta- 2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst tutes, neither executed my judgments, but of a rebellious house, which have eyes to have done after the manners of the heathen see, and see not; they have ears to hear, that are round about you. and hearnot: for they are a rebellious house. 13 ¶ And it came to pass, when I pro- 3 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare phesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah thee stuff for removing, and remove by died. Then fell down upon my face, day in their sight; and thou shalt remove and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah from thy place to another place in their Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of sight; it may be they will consider, though the remnant of Israel? they be a rebellious house.

14 Again the word of the LORD came 4 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff unto me, saying, by day in their sight, as stuff for removing: 15 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy and thou shalt go forth at even in their brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all sight, as they that go forth into captivity. the house of Israel wholly, are they unto 5 Dig thou through the wall in their whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have sight, and carry out thereby. said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession.

6 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the 16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, hat GOD; Although I have cast them far off thou see not the ground: for I have set among the heathen, and although I have thee for a sign unto the house of Israel. scattered them among the countries, yet 7 And I did so as I was commanded: I will I be to them as a little sanctuary in brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for the countries where they shall come. captivity, and in the even I digged through 17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord the wall with mine hand; I brought it

Desolation of the Jews showed.

EZEKIEL. The reproof of lying prophets.

forth in the twilight, and I bare it upon vision nor flattering divination within the my shoulder in their sight.

8 T And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,

house of Israel.

25 For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come 9 Son of man, hath not the house of to pass; it shall be no more prolonged for Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, in your days, O rebellious house, will I say What doest thou? the word, and will perform it, saith the

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Again the word of the LORD came

10 Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord Gov. Lord GoD; This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of to me, saying, Israel that are among them.

27 Son of man, behold, they of the house 11 Say, I am your sign: like as I have of Israel say, The vision that he seeth is done, so shall it be done unto them: they for many days to come, and he prophesieth shall remove and go into captivity. of the times that are far off.

12 And the prince that is among them 28 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, the Lord Gon; There shall none of my and shall go forth: they shall dig through words be prolonged any more, but the word the wall to carry out thereby he shall which I have spoken shall be done, saith cover his face, that he see not the ground the Lord GOD. with his eyes.

13 My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and

will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans, yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.

14 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.

CHAP. XIII.

AND the word of the LORD came unto

me, saying,

2 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;

3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Wo unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.

15 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries. 5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, 16 But I will leave a few men of them neither made up the hedge for the house of from the sword, from the famine, and from Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the pestilence; that they may declare all the LORD.

their abominations among the heathen 6 They have seen vanity and lying whither they come; and they shall know divination, saying, The LORD saith: an i that I am the LORD. the LORD hath not sent them and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.

17 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

18 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;

19 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.

20 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.

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7 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?

8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD.

9 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 21 And the word of the LORD came ye shall know that I am the Lord God. unto me, saying, 10 Because, even because they have 22 Son of man, what is that proverb that seduced my people, saying, Peace; and ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The there was no peace; and one built up a days are prolonged, and every vision faileth? wall, and lo, others daubed it with untem23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the pered mortar:

Lord Gop; I will make this proverb to 11 Say unto them which daub it with cease, and they shall no more use it as a pro- untempered mortar, that it shall fall: there verb in Israel; but say unto them, The days shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O are at hand, and the effect of every vision. great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy 24 For there shall be no more any vain wind shall rend it.

Of the prophetesses.

CHAP. XIV.

Idolaters exhorted to repent.
Son of man, these men have set up

4 Therefore speak unto them, and say

12 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing their idols in their heart, and put the stumbling-block of their iniquity before wherewith ye have daubed it? 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord Gop; their face: should I be inquired of at all I will even rend it with a stormy wind in by them? my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setin my fury to consume it. 14 So will I break down the wall that teth up his idols in his heart, and putteth ye have daubed with untempered mortar, the stumbling-block of his iniquity before and bring it down to the ground, so that his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the the foundation thereof shall be discovered, LORD will answer him that cometh accordand it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed ing to the multitude of his idols; in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

5 That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all 15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath estranged from me through their idols. 6 Therefore say unto the house of upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered mortar, and Israel, Thus saith the Lord GoD; Repent, will say unto you, The wall is no more, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abomineither they that daubed it;

16 To wit, the prophets of Israel which nations. prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which

7 For every one of the house of Israel, see visions of peace for her, and there is or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and no peace, saith the Lord God. 17 Likewise, thou son of man, set setteth up his idols in his heart, and putthy face against the daughters of thy people, teth the stumbling-block of his iniquity which prophesy out of their own heart; before his face, and cometh to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the LORD and prophesy thou against them, will answer him by myself:

18 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; 8 And I will set my face against that Wo to the women that sew pillows to all arm-holes, and make kerchiefs upon the man, and will make him a sign and a prohead of every stature to hunt souls! Will verb, and I will cut him off from the midst ye hunt the souls of my people, and will of my people; and ye shall know that I Je save the souls alive that come unto you? am the LORD. 9 And if the prophet be deceived when 19 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have of bread, to slay the souls that should not deceived that prophet, and I will stretch die, and to save the souls alive that should out my hand upon him, and will destroy not live, by your lying to my people that him from the midst of my people Israel. hear your lies?

20 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.

21 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.

10 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;

11 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.

12 T The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,

13 Son of man, when the land sinneth 22 Because with lies ye have made the against me by trespassing grievously, then heart of the righteous sad, whom I have will I stretch out my hand upon it, and not made sad; and strengthened the hands will break the staff of the bread thereof, of the wicked, that he should not return and will send famine upon it, and will cut from his wicked way, by promising him life; off man and beast from it: 23 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.

CHAP. XIV.

Noah, 14 Though these three men, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God.

15 If I cause noisome beasts to pass man may pass HEN came certain of the elders of through the land, and they spoil it, so that Israel unto me, and sat before me.

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