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God's judgments on Jerufalem Chap. xvii. gainst thee, and will difcover thy nakednefs unto them, that they may fee all thy nakedness.

38 And I will judge thee as women that break wedlock and thed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.

39 And I will alfo give thee into their band, and they fhall throw down thine eminent place, and fhall break down thy high places: they ball ftrip thee alfo of thy clothes, and hall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.

40 They fhall alfo bring up a company against thee, and they hall ftone thee with flones, and thrust thee through with their fwords.

41 Andthey hall burn thine houfes with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the fight of many women: and I will caufe thee to cease from playing the hai lot, and thou alfo fhalt give no hire any more.

42 So will make my fury toward thee to reft, and my jealousy fhall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.

43 Because thou haft not remembered! the days of thy youth, but haft fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore, I alfo will recompenfe thy way upon thine head, faith the Lord GOD: and thou halt not commit this lewdnefs above all thine abominations.

44 Behold,every one that usethproverbs fhall ufe bis proverb against thee, faying, As is the mother, fo is her daughter.

45 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that loatheth her husband and her children; and thou art the fifter of thy fifters, which loathed their husbands and their! children : : your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

46 And thine elder fifter is Samaria, the and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand and tny younger fifter, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

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47 Yet haft thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations : but, as if that were a very little thing, thou waft corrupted more than they in all thy ways.

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thine abominations more than they, and haft juftified thy fillers in all thine abominations which thou hast done.

52 Thou alfo, which haft judged thy fitters, bear thine own fhame for thy fins that thou haft committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea,be thou confounded alfo, and bear thy fhame, in that thou haft juftified thy fifters.

53 When I fhall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daugh ters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midft of them:

54 That thou mayeft bear thine own thame, and mayeft be confounded in all that thou haft done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.

55 When thy fifters, Sodom and her daughters, hall return to their former eftate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former eftate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former eftate.

56 For thy fifter Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth intheday of thy pride,

57 Before thy wickednefs was difcovcred, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Phi liftines, which defpife thee round about.

58 Thou haft borne thy lewdnefs and thine aborsinations, faith the LORD.

59 For thus faith the Lord Gon, I will even deal with thee as thou haft done, which haft defpifed the oath in breaking the covenant.

60 Neverthelefs, I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlafting covenant.

61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be afhamed, when thou shalt receive thy fifters, thine elder and thy younger : and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.

62 And I will eftablifh my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:

65 That thou mayeft remember, and 48 As I live, faith the Lord GOD, Sod-be confounded, and never open thy mouth om thy fifter hath not done, the nor her any more becaule of thy thame, when I daughters, as thou haft done, thou and am pacified toward thee for all that thou thy daughters. hall dene, faith the Lord God. CHAP. XVII.

49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy fitter Sodom, pride, fulnefs of bread, and abundance of idlenefs was in her and in her daughters, neither did the strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

1 By to eagles and a vine, 11 is few. ed God's judgments upon Jerufalem. 22 God promijeth to plant the cedar of the gospel.

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50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore to me, faying, I took them away as I faw good.

2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and 51 Neither hath Samaria committed fpeak a parable unto the houfe of Hack; balf of thy fins: but thou haft multiplied¦"3 And fay, Thus faith the Lord GOD,

A great

658. The two eagles and the wine. EZEKIEL. The cedar of the gospel promised.

A great eagle with great wings, long-ty army and great company make for hira winged, full of feathers, which had divers in the war, by cafting up mounts, and colours, came unto Lebanon, and took building forts, to cut off many perfons: the highest branch of the cedar ;

4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he fet it in a city of merchants.

5 He took alfo of the feed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.

6 And it grew, and became a fpreading vine of low ftature, whofe branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: foit became a vine, and brought forth branches, and thot forth fprigs.

7 There was alfo another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and hot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.

8 It was planted in a good foil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

9 Say thou, Thus faith the Lord GOD, Shall it profper? Shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit there of, 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.

10 Yea, behold, being planted, Shall it profper? Shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? It fhall wither in the furrows where it grew.

11 ¶ Moreover, the word of the LORD came unto me, laying,

12 Say now to the rebellious houfe, Know ye not what these things mean? Tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerufalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;

13 And hath taken of the king's feed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath alfo taken the mighty of the land:

14 That the kingdom might be bafe, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.

15 But he rebelled againft him in fending his ambaffadors into Egypt, that they might give him horfes and much people. Shall he profper? Shall he efcape that doeth fuch things? or, Shall he break the covenant and be delivered?

16 As I live, faith the Lord GOD, furely in the place where the king dwell eth that made him king, whofe oath he defpifed, and whofe covenant he brake, evin with him in the midst of Babylon he thall die.

18 Seeing he defpifed the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he thall not escape.

19 Therefore thus faith the Lord GOD, As I live, furely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompenfe upon his own head.

20 And I will fpread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my fnare, and İ will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trefpafs that he hath trefpaffed against me.

21 And all his fugitives with all his bands fhall fall by the fword, and they that remain fhall be feattered toward all winds and ye thall know that I the LORD have spoken it.

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2: Ihus faith the Lord GOD, I will alfo take of the higheft branch of the high cedar, and will fet it, I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant / upon an high mountan and eminent :

23 In the mountain of the height of fiael will I plant it: and it fall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the fhadow of the branches thereof thall they dwell.

24 And all the trees of the field fhall 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 ir.

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CHAP. XVIII.

God reproveth the unjust parable of four grapes. 25 He defendeth bis juftice, 31 and exborieth to repentance. THE word of the LORD came unte me again, faying,

2 What mean ye, that ye ufe this proverb concerning the land of Ifrael, faying, The fathers have eaten four grapes, and the children's teeth are fet on edge?

3 As I live, faith the Lord GOD, ye fhall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Ifrael.

Behold, all fouls are mine; as the foul of the father, fo alfo the foul of the fon is mine: the foul that finneth it thall die.

5 But if a man be juft, and do that which is lawful and right,

6 And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Ifrael, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wite, neither hath come near to a menftruous woman,

7 And hath not oppreised any, but hath reftored to the debtor his pledge, hath 17 Neither fhall Pharaoh with bis migh-spoiled none by violence, hath given his

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bread to the hungry, and hath covered committed, they fhall not be mentioned unto him in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.

the naked with a garment;

8 He that hath not given forth upon ufury, neither hath taken any increafe, ibat hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,

9 Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; heis juft, he hall furely live, faith the Lord GOD. 10 If he beget a fon that is a robber, a fhedder of blood, and that doeth the like to any one of these things,

11 And that doeth not any of thofe duties, but even hath eaten upon the moun tains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,

12 Hath oppreffed the poor and needy, hath fpoiled by violence, hath not reftored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination, 13 Hath given forth upon ufury, and hath taken increafe: Shall he then live He fhall not live: he hath done all thefe abominations; he fhall furely die; his blood thall be upon him.

14 Now, lo, he beget a fon, that feeth all his father's fins which he hath done, and confidereth, and doth not fuch like, 15 That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Ifrael, hath not defiled his neighbour's wife,

23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked fhould die? faith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?

24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteoufnefs, and com mitteth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, Shall he live All his rightcoufnefs that he hath done thall not be mentioned in his trefpafs that he hath trefpalled, and in his fin that he hath finned, in them fhall he die.

25 q Yet ye fay, The way of the LORD is not equal. Hear now, Ó house of If rael; Is not my way equal? Are not your ways unequal?

26 When a righteous man turneth away from his righteoufnefs, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done fhall he die.

27 Again, wheo the wicked man turneth away from his wickednefs that he hath conmitted, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he fhall fave his foul alive:

22 Because he confidereth, and turneth away from all his trangreffions that he hath committed he shall furely live, he thall not die.

16 Neither hath oppreffed any, hath 29 Yet faith the houfe of Ifrael, The not withholden the pledge, neither hath way of the LORD is not equal. O'houle fpoiled by violence, but hath given his of Ifrael, Are not my way's equal? Are bread to the hungry, and hath covered not your ways unequal? the naked with a garment,

30 Therefore I will judge you, O house

17 That hath taken off his hand from of Ifrael, every one according to his the poor, that hath not received ufury ways, faith the Lord GOD. Repent, and nor increase, hath executed my judg-turn yourselves from all your tranfgrefments, hath walked in my ftatutes; he fions; fo iniquity fhall not be your ruin. fhall not die for the iniquity of his father, 31 Caft away from you all your he hall furely live. tranfgreffions, whereby ye have tranf18 As for his father, because he cruellygreffed; and make you a new heart and oppreffed, fpoiled his brother by vio-a new fpirit: for, Why will ye de, lence, and did that which is not good houfe of Ifrael? among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.

19 Yet fay ye, Why? Doth not the fon bear the iniquity of the father? When the fon hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall furely live. 20 The foul that finneth, it shall die. The fon fhall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither hall the father bear the iniquity of the fon: the righteousness of the righteous fhall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked fhall be upon him.

32 For I have no pleafure in the death of him that dieth, faith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye. CHAP. XIX.

A lamentation of the princes for Ifrael, under the parable of lion's whelps taken in a pit.

MOREOVER, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Ifrael,

2 And fay, What is thy mother? Alioness: the lay down among lions. the nourifhed her whelps among young lions.

3 And the brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

21 But if the wicked will turn from all his fins that he hath committed, and keep 4 The nations alfo heard of him; he all my ftatutes, and do that which is law-was takes in their pit, and they brought ful and right, he shall furely live, he fhall him with chains unto the land of Egypt. not die. 5 Now, when the faw that he had waited, and her hope was loft, then the

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655. The two eagles and the wine. EZEKIEL. The cedar of the gospel promised. A great eagle with great wings, long-ty army and great company make for hira winged, full of feathers, which had divers in the war, by cafting up mounts, and colours, came unto Lebanon, and took building forts, to cut off many perfons : the highest branch of the cedar : 18 Seeing he defpifed the oath by

He cropped off the top of his young breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had twigs, and carried it into a land of traf-given his hand, and hath done all these fick; he fet it in a city of merchants. things, he thall not efcape.

5 He took alfo of the feed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed in by great waters, and fet it as a willow tree.

6 And it grew, and became a fpreading vine of low ftature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: foit became a vine, and brought forth branches, and thot forth fprigs.

19 Therefore thus faith the Lord GOD, As I live, furely mine oath that he hath defpifed, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompenfe upon his own head.

20 And I will fpread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my fnare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trefpafs that he hath trefpaffed against me.

7 There was also another great eagle 21 And all his fugitives with all his with great wings and many feathers: and, bands fhall fall by the fword, and they behold, this vine did bend her roots to-that remain shall be scattered toward all ward him, and hot forth her branches winds and ye thall know that I the LORD toward him, that he might water it by have fpoken it. the furrows of her plantation.

8 It was planted in a good foil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

9 Say thou, Thus faith the Lord GOD, Shall it profper Shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit there of, that it wither? It shall wither in al the leaves of her fpring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.

10 Yea, behold, being planted, Shall it profper? Shall it not utterly wither, when the caft wind toucheth it? It fhall wither in the furrows where it grew.

11 ¶ Moreover, the word of the LORD came unto me, laying,

12 Say now to the rebellious houfe, Know ye not what these things mean Tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerufalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;

13 And hath taken of the king's feed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him he hath alfo taken the mighty of the land:

14 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.

15 But he rebelled againft him in fending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horfes and much people. Shall he profper? Shall he efcape that doeth fuch things? or, Shall he break the covenant and be delivered?

16 As I live, faith the Lord GOD, furely in the place where the king dwell eth that made him king, whofe oath he defpited, and whofe covenant he brake, vin with him in the midit of Babylon

he hall die.

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22 Thus faith the Lord God, I will alfo take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will let it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant / upon an high mountain and eminent :

23 In the mountain of the height of fiael will I plant it: and it fhall 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 thall they dwell.

24 And all the trees of the field fhall 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: the LORD have spoken and have done it.

CHAP. XVIII.

1 God reproveth the unjust parable of four
grapes. 25 He defendeth bis juftice,
31 and exborieth to repentance.
THE word of the LORD came unte
me again, faying,

2 What mean ye, that ye ufe this proverb concerning the land of Ifrael, faying, The fathers have eaten four grapes, and the children's teeth are fet on edge?

3 As I live, faith the Lord God, ye fhall not have occafon any more to use this proverb in Ifrael.

Behold, all fouls are mine; as the foul of the father, fo alfo the foul of the fon is mine: the foul that finneth it thall die.

5 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,

6 And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the houfe of Ifrael, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menftruous woman,

7 And hath not oppreised any, but hath reftored to the debtor his pledge, hath 17 Neither shall Pharaoh with bis migh-fpoiled none by violence, hath given his

bread

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bread to the hungry, and hath covered committed, they fhall not be mentioned unto him in his righteousness that he hath done he hall live.

the naked with a garment;

8 He that hath not given forth upon ufury,neither hath taken any increafe, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,

9 Hath walked in my ftatutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly ;heis juft, he hall furely live, faith the Lord GOD. 10 If he beget a son that is a robber, a hedder of blood, and that doeth the like to any one of these things,

11 And that doeth not any of thofe duties, but even hath eaten upon the moun tains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,

12 Hath oppreffed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not reftored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination, 18 Hath given forth upon ufury, and hath taken increase: Shall he then live He shall not live: he hath done all thefe abominations; he fhall furely die; his blood fhall be upon him.

14 Now, lo, if he beget a fon, that feeth all his father's fins which he hath done, and confidereth, and doth not fuch like, 15 That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the houfe of Ifrael, hath not defiled his neighbour's wife,

16 Neither hath oppreffed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath fpoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,

23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked thould die? faith the Lord GoD: And not that he should return from his ways, and live?

24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteoufnefs, and com mitteth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, Shall he live All his rightcoufnefs that he hath done thall not be mentioned: in his trefpafs that he hath trefpaffed, and in his fin that he hath finned, in them fhall he die.

25 Yet ye fay, The way of the LORD is not equal. Hear now, Ó house of If rael; Is not my way equal? Are not your ways unequal?

26 When a righteous man turneth away from his righteoufnefs, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done fhall he die.

27 Again,when the wicked man turneth away from his wickednefs that he hath coinmitted, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he fhall fave his foul alive:

22 Because he confidereth, and turneth away from all his trangreffions that he hath committed he thall furely live, he hall not die.

29 Yet faith the houfe of Ifrael, The way of the LORD is not equal. O'houle of Ifrael, Are not my way's equal? Are not your ways unequal?

30 Therefore I will judge you, O house 17 That hath taken off his hand from of Ifrael, every one according to his the poor, that hath not received ufury ways, faith the Lord Gov. Repent, and nor increase, hath executed my judg-turn yourselves from all your tranfgrefments, hath walked in my ftatutes; he fions; fo iniquity shall not be your ruin. fhall not die for the iniquity of his father, 31 Caft away from you all your he hall furely live. tranfgreffions, whereby ye have tranf18 4 for his father, because he cruellygreffed; and make you a new heart and oppretted, fpoiled his brother by vio-a new fpirit: for, Why will ye de, G lence, and did that which is not good house of Ifrael: among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.

19 Yet fay ye, Why? Doth not the fon bear the iniquity of the father? When the fon hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall furely live.

20 The foul that finneth, it shall die. The fon fhall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither hall the father bear the iniquity of the fon: the righteoufnefs of the righteous fhall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked fhall be upon him.

32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, faith the Lord GoD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye. CHAP. XIX.

A lamentation of the princes for Ifrael, under the parable of lion's whelps táken in a pit.

MOREOVER, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Ifrael,

2 And fay, What is thy mother? Alionefs: the lay down among lions. the nourished her whelps among young lions.

3 And he brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

21 But if the wicked will turn from all his fins that he hath committed, and keep The nations alfo heard of him; he all my ftatutes, and do that which is law-was taken in their pit, and they brought ful and right, he shall furely live, he fhall him with chains unto the land of Egypt. not die. 5 Now, when the faw that he had waited, and her hope was loft, then the

22 All his tranfgreflions that he hath

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