dren and the sucklings & swoon in the streets of the city. 12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned: as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom. Before CHRIST, 588. 6 or, faint. Jer. 2. 8. & 14. & 23. 16. 5. 31. & 14. 7 Heb. by the heavy. 13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee? 14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not revealed thy iniquity, to turn away & Ps. 48. 2. thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment. way. 8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. 9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. 10 He was to me as a bear lying in 15 All that pass 7 by, clap their hands Lev. 26. 16. wait, and as a lion in secret places. € Deut. 28.15. f Jer. 14. 17. at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call a the Perfection of beauty, the Joy of the whole earth? 16 All thy enemies have opened their c. 1. 16. mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it. s or, swad. dled with their 17 The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied and he hath caused thy enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn Heb. sons. of thy adversaries. 18 Their heart cried to the LORD, O 11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. 12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. 13 He hath caused the 1 arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. a 14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day. 15 He hath filled me with 2 bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. 16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath 3 covered me with ashes. 17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat 4 prosperity. 18 And I said, My strength and my wall of the daughter of Zion, flet tears a Jer. 20. 7. hope hath perished from the LORD: run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thy eye cease. 19 5 Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. 20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is 6 humbled in me. 21 This I 7 recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. 22 ¶ It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. 24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. 25 The LORD is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. 26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. 27 It is good for a man that he should bear the yoke in his youth. 28 He sitteth alone, and keepeth si day my terrors around, so that in the day 7 Heb. make lence, because he hath borne it upon Am the man that hath seen affliction 8 Heb. from will he have compassion according to by the rod of his wrath. 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. his heart. the multitude of his mercies. 33 For he doth not afflict 8 willingly nor grieve the children of men. LORD 10 approveth not. 37 Who is he that saith, and it 9 or, a supe-1 Zion bewaileth her pitiful state: 13 She cometh to pass, when the LORD command eth it not? 38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? 39 Why doth a living man 11 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 heart with our hands to God in the heavens. 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled thou hast not pardoned. τίοτ. 10 or, seeth c Ps. 33. 9. d Amos 3. 6. murmur. 43 Thou hast covered with anger, and 11 or, persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. confesseth her sins. 21 Edom is threatened. 22 Zion is comforted. HOW is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street. 2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! 3 Even the sea-monsters draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. 4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask break, and 1 Cor. 4. 13. no man breaketh it to them. 5 They that fed delicately are desooff- Is. 24. 17. late in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. 45 Thou hast made us as the scouring and refuse in the midst of the people. 46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. 12 Heb. my 47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, 13 or, more desolation and destruction. 48 My eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 49 My eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, 50 Till the LORD shall look down, and behold from heaven. 51 My eye affecteth 12 my heart 13 because of all the daughters of my city. 52 My enemies chased me fiercely, like a bird without cause. 53 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 am cut off. 55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. 56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thy ear at my breathing, at my cry. 57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. 58 O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. 59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause. than all. 14 or, obsti heart. Ps. 8.3. 1 6 For the 2 punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the in of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her. 7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire: 8 Their visage is 3 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 are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field. 10 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people. 11 The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anthan black-ger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured her foundations. darker ness. Heb. flow out. inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy would have entered into the gates of Jerusalem. 12 The kings of the earth, and all the 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. 60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance & 23. 21. and all their imginations against me. 61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O 14 They have wandered as blind men LORD, and all their imaginations against they could in the streets, they have polluted them 門 them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favored not the elders. 17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for Before CHRIST, 588. 5 2 Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest. 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not d Gen. 2. 7. satisfied with bread. save us. 18 They 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 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 Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through to thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked. 22 The punishment of thy iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thy iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will disclose thy sins. CHAP. V. A piteous complaint of Zion, in prayer to God. REMEMBER, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. 4 We have drank our water for money; our wood 1 is sold to us. 7 a Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. 8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. 9 We procured 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 3 terrible famine. 11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. 12 Princes were hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored. 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 hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. 164 The crown is fallen from our head: woe to 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 Why dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us 5 so long time? 21 d Turn thou us to thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. 226 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. TEZEKIEL. day of the month, as I was among the 1tivity. captives by the river of Kebar, that the 2 Heb. heavens were opened, and I saw visions Jehezkel. of God. 2 In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity, 3 The word of the LORD came expressly to 2 Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Kebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him. 4 And I looked, and behold, a whirl 3 Heb. catching it self. 4 Heb. a straight foot. wind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire 3 infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and from the midst of it as the color of amber, from the midst of the fire. 5 Also from the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man. 6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings. 7 And their feet were 4 straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the color 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. 9 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they 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. Before CHRIST, 595. 5 or,divided. above. 6 Heb. Tar 11 Thus were their faces: and their wings were 5 stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies. 12 And they went every one straight shish. forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went. host: when they stood, they let down their wings. 25 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had 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 sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the ap pearance of a man above upon it. 27 And I saw as the color of amber, as the appearance of fire around within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his 7 or, streaks. loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness on all sides. 13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the ap-8 or, of life. pearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire 28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness around. was bright, and out of the fire went forth 9 or, of life. This was the appearance of the likeness lightning. 14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of 10 or, exlightning. 15 T Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces. 16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like the color of a 6 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. panse. 1 Heb. 17 When they went, they went upon nations. their four sides: and they returned not when they went. 18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their 7 rings were full of eyes around them four. 19 And when the living creatures 2 Heb. hard went, the wheels went by them: and of face. when the living creatures were flifted 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 8 of the living creature 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 against them: for the spirit 9 of the living creature was in the wheels. 22 And the likeness of the 10 firmament 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 towards the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies. 24 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 a 3 or, rebels. 4 Heb. rebellion. 4 Rev. 10. 9. of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one speaking. CHAP. II. 1 Ezekiel's commission: 6 His instruction: 9 The roll of his heavy prophecy. AND he said to me, Son of man, stand thee. upon thy feet, and I will speak to 2 And the spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spoke to me. 3 And he said to 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 to this very day. 4 For they are 2 impudent children and obstinate in heart. I send thee to them; and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord 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 a briers and thorns are with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house. And thou shalt speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are 4 most rebellious. 8 But thou, son of man, hear what I say to thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that which I give thee. 9 ¶ And when I looked, behold, a hand was sent to me; and lo, a roll of a book was in it; 10 And he spread it before me: and it was written within and without: and there was written in it lamentations, and mourning, and woe. CHAP. III. 1 Ezekiel eateth the roll. 4 God encourageth kim. 15 God showeth him the rule of proph ecy. 22 God shutteth and openeth the proph et's mouth. M OREOVER he said to me, Son of man, eat what thou findest; eat this roll, and go, speak to the house of Israel. 2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll. 3 And he said to 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 And he said to me, Son of man, depart, go to the house of Israel, and speak with my words to them. 5 For thou art not sent to a people 1 of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel; Before 595. a Rev. 10. 9. 1 Heb. deep 2 3 4 Heb. deep of lip, and heavy of language. or, If I had 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 thy hand. 19 Yet if thou shalt warn the wicked, and he shall not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. 20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his 8 righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock 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 rememhave heark-bered; but his blood will I require at thy hand. sent thee, they not ened to thee? 21 Nevertheless if thou shalt warn the Heb. stiff righteous man, that the righteous sin of forehead 6 Not to many people 2 of a strange and hardnot, and he doth not sin, he shall surely speech and of a hard language, whose of heart. live, because he is warned; also thou words thou canst not understand. 3 Sure-b Jer. 1. 8. hast delivered thy soul. ly, had I sent thee to them, they would 5 Heb. have hearkened to thee. kissed. 7 But the house of Israel will not 6 Heb. hearken to thee'; for they will not hearken to me for all the house of Israel are 4 impudent and hard-hearted. 8 Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads. 9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house. 10 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to thee receive in thy heart, and hear with thy ears. bitter. 7 Heb. hot c c. 33. 7. d c. 18.-24. 22 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said to 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 Kebar: and I fell on my face. 24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spoke with me, and said to 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: 26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them 9 a reprover: for they are a rebellious house. 27 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say to 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. CHAP. IV. 1 Under the type of a siege, is shown the time from the defection of Jeroboam to the captivity. 9 By the provision of the siege is shown the severity of the famine. proving.THOU also, son of man, take thee a 15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the river 1 or, chief of Kebar, and I sat where they sat, and leaders. remained there astonished among them came to me, saying, 17 Son of man, I have made thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem; 2 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 i battering rams against it on every side. 3 Moreover take thou to thee 2 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 watchman to the house of Israel: there 2 or, a flat lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. 4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the |