Zedekiah's sufferings. LAMENTATIONS. Advancement of Jehoiachin. the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and also and the pomegranates were like unto these. carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison 23 And there were ninety and six pomegranates till the day of his death. on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the 12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day net-work were a hundred round about. of the month, which was the nineteenth year of 24 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebu- the chief priest, ard Zephaniah the second priest, zar-adan, captain of the guard, which served the and the three keepers of the door : king of Babylon, into Jerusalem, 13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire: 14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about. 25 He took also out of the city a eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which were found in the city; and the princi. pal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city. 15 Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard 26 So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard earried away captive certain of the poor of the took them, and brought them to the king of Bapeople, and the residue of the people that re-bylon to Riblah. mained in the city, and those that fell away, that 27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and fel. to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamultitude. math. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land. 16 But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen. 28 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty: 29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight 17 Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to hundred thirty and two persons: Babylon. 30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebu18 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the chadrezzar. Nebuzar-adan the captain of the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all guard carried away captive of the Jews seven the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, hundred forty and five persons: all the persons took they away. were four thousand and six hundred. 19 And the basins, and the fire-pans, and the 31 T And it came to pass in the seven and thirbowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, tieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of and the spoons, and the cups; that which was of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and gold in gold, and that which was of silver in sil-twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach ver, took the captain of the guard away. king of Babylon in the first year of his reign 20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brazen lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, bulls that were under the bases, which king So- and brought him forth out of prison, lomon had made in the house of the LORD: the 32 And spake kindly unto him, and set his brass of all these vessels was without weight. throne above the throne of the kings that were 21 And concerning the pillars, the height of with him in Babylon, one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of 33 And changed his prison garments: and he twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness did continually eat bread before him all the days thereof was four fingers: it was hollow. of his life. 22. And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and 34 And for his diet, there was a continual diet the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with given him of the king of Babylon, every day a net-work and pomegranates upon the chapiters portion until the day of his death, all the days of round about, all of brass. The second pillar his life. that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer. ¶ The Lamentations of JEREMIAH. CHAP. I. Jerusalem's misery for her sins. [OW doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! Ho 7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did 2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears mock at her sabbaths. are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she 8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore hath none to comfort her: all her friends have she is removed: all that honoured her despise dealt treacherously with her, they are become her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea her enemies. she sigheth, and turneth backward. 3 Judah is gone into captivity because of afflic- 9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remember tion, and because of great servitude: she dwell-eth not her last end; therefore she came down eth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, all her persecutors overtook her between the behold my affliction: for the enemy hath mag straits. nified himself. 4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness. 10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not 5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies enter into thy congregation. prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the 11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they multitude of her transgressions: her children have given their pleasant things for meat to reare gone into captivity before the enemy. lieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I 6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beau-am become vile. ty is departed: her princes are become like harts' 12 ¶ Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Jerusalem bemoans her afflictions. CHAP. II. Jeremiah's complaina behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto ed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forthe LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his gotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indigfierce anger. nation of his anger the king and the priest. 7 The LORD hath cast off his altar,, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast. 13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones. and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day. 14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon 8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out LORD hath delivered me into their hands, from a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from whom I am not able to rise up. destroying therefore he made the rampart and 15 The LORD hath trodden under foot all my the wall to lament; they languished together. mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called 9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath an assembly against me to crush my young men: destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her the LORD bath trodden the virgin, the daughter princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no of Judah, as in a wine-press. more: her prophets also find no vision from the LORD. 16 For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed. 17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath command ed concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them. 18 The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity. 19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls. 20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; my heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death. 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence; they have cast up dust upon their heads: they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. 11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children 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. 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 21 They have heard that I sigh: there is none things for thee: and they have not discovered. to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; bu? my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done have seen for thee false burdens and causes of it thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me. 22 Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint. CHAP. II. Jerusalem's misery lamented. banishment. 15 All that pass by, clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call the Perfection of beauty, the Joy of the whole earth? 16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: HOW hath the LORD covered the daughter of they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast this is the day that we looked for; we have down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of found, we have scen it. Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the 17 The LORD hath done that which he had deday of his anger! vised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had 2 The LORD hath swallowed up all the habita- commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown tions of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath down, and hath not pitiéd: and he hath caused thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them the horn of thine adversaries. down to the ground: he hath polluted the king- 18 Their heart cried unto the LORD, O wall of dom and the princes thereof. the daughter of Zion, Let tears run down like a 3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn river day and night give thyself no rest; let of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand not the apple of thine eye cease. from before the enemy, and he burned against 19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning. Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round of the watches pour out thy heart like water beabout. fore the face of the LORD: lift up thy hands to 4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: heward him for the life of thy young children, stood with his right hand as an adversary and that faint for hunger in the top of every street. slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the ta- 20 T Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom bernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their his fury like fire. fruit, and children of a. span long? shall the 5 The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallow-priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary ed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her pa- of the LORD? laces he hath destroyed his strong holds, and 21 The young and the old lie on the ground in hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourn- the streets; my virgins and my young men are ing and lamentation. fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in 6 And he hath violently taken away his taber the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and nacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroy-not pitied. They acknowledge God 8 justice 37 T Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the LORD commandeth it not? 38 Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good? The faithful hope in God's mercies. LAMENTATIONS I Jeremiah bewaileth his calamities. AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. 8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. 9 He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. 10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. 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 arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. 14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day. 15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. 16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravelstones, he hath covered me with ashes. 17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. 18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: 19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. 20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and .s humbled in me. 21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have 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 unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. 26 It is good that a man should both hope and 28 He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon 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 heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: 43 Thou hast covered with anger, and perse- 46 All our enemies have opened their mouths 47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, 50 Fill the LORD look down, and behold from heaven. 51 Mine eye affecteth my heart because of all the daughters of my city. 52 Mine enemies chased me sore, 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 thine 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. 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 me; 62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. 63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music. 64 T Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. 65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. 66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from ay fe putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be H most fine gend changed: the stouts of the there may be hope. sanctuary are poured out in the top of every 30 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth street. him he is filled full with reproach. 31 For the LORD will not cast off for ever: 32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. 33 For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men. 34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, 35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High, 36 To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not. 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 give suck to 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 bread, and no man breaketh it unto them. 5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scar. let embrace dunghills. Zion confesseth her sins. CHAP. V. She is comforted. 6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the 21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, daughter of my people is greater than the pun-that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also ishment of the sin of Sodom, that was over-shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be thrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed drunken, and shalt make thyself naked. on her. 22 The punishment of thine iniquity is ac7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they complished, O daughter of Zion; he will no were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy more carry thee away into captivity: he will in body than rubies, their polishing was of sap-visit thine iniquity, Ŏ daughter of Edoin; he phire: will discover thy sins. 8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to CHAP. V. their bones; it is withered, it is become like a Rus: consider, and behold our reproach. stick. 9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field. 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 drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. 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 kin-6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, aled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. foundations thereof. 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and 12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabi-we have borne their iniquities. tants of the world, would not have believed that 8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none the adversary and the enemy should have enter- that doth deliver us out of their hand. ed into the gates of Jerusalem. 9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives 13 For the sins of her prophets, and the ini-because of the sword of the wilderness. quities 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 have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments. 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. children fell under the wood. 12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the 15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is un-faces of elders were not honoured. clean; depart, depart, touch not: when they 13 They took the young men to grind, and the 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: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us. 14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music. 15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance 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 jour eyes are dim. 18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in 18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfill-desolate, the foxes walk upon it. ed; 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. 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 LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. 22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. The Book of The Prophet EZEKIEL. Vision of the cherubim, &c. N sole war like sole a calf's 7 And their feet were straight feet; and the foot; and they sparkled like 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. 9 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward. 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 unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him. 10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four 4 ¶ And I looked, and behold, a whirlwind had the face of a man and the face of a lion, on came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire the right side: and they four had the face of an Infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, ox on the left side; they four also had the face and out of the midst thereof as the colour of of an eagle. amber, out of the midst of the fire. | 11 Thus were their faces: and their wings were 5 Also out of the midst thereof came the like-stretched upward; two wings of every one were ness of four living creatures. And this was joined one to another, and two covered their their appearance; they had the likeness of a bodies. man. 12 And they went every one straight forward; Fision of the glory of God. EZEKIEL. Ezekiel eateth the roll. whither the spirit was to go, they went; and that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathey turned not when they went. thers have transgressed against me, even unto 13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, this very day. their appearance was like burning coals of fire, 4 For they are impudent children and stiffand like the appearance of lamps: it went up hearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou and down among the living creatures; and the shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD. fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth 5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether lightning. they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. 14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning. 15 ¶ Now as I beheld the living creatures, be- 6 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, hold one wheel upon the earth by the living neither be afraid of their words, though briers creatures, with his four faces. and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell 16 The appearance of the wheels and their among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a they four had one likeness: and their appear-rebellious house. ance and their work was as it were a wheel in 7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, the middle of a wheel. whether they will hear, or whether they will for 17 When they went, they went upon their four bear: for they are most rebellious. sides: and they turned not when they went. 8 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto 18 As for their rings, they were so high that thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious they were dreadful; and their rings were full of house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee. 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. 9 ¶ And when I looked, behold, a band was sent unto me; and lo, a roll of a book was therein; 10 And he spread it before me: and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and wo. CHAP. III. MOR 20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the God encourageth Ezekiel. wheels were lifted up over against them: for the OREOVER he said unto me, Son of man, spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go 21 When those went, these went; and when speak unto the house of Israel. those stood, these stood; and when those were 2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted eat that roll. up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. 22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the I heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness. 4¶ And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my 23 And under the firmament were their wings words unto them. straight, the one toward the other: every one 5 Fcr thou art not sent to a people of a strange had two, which covered on this side, and every speech and of a hard language, but to the house one had two, which covered on that side, their of Israel; bodies. 6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of 24 And when they went, I heard the noise of a hard language, whose words thou canst not their wings, like the noise of great waters, as understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, they would have hearkened unto thee. as the noise of a host: when they stood, they 7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto let down their wings. thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for 25 And there was a voice from the firmament all the house of Israel are impudent and hardthat was over their heads, when they stood, and hearted. had let down their wings. 8 Behold, I have made thy face strong against 26 1 And above the firmament that was over their faces, and thy forehead strong against their their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the foreheads. appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the 9 As an adamant, harder than flint have I made likeness of the throne was the likeness as the ap-thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed pearance of a man above upon it. at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. 27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the ap- 10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all pearance of fire round about within it, from the my words that I shall speak unto thee receive appearance of his loins even upward, and from in thy heart, and hear with thine ears. the appearance of his loins even downward, I 11 And go, get thee to them of the captivity saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had unto the children of thy people, and speak unto brightness round about. them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. 28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the ap- 12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard bepearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. hind me a voice of a great ushing, saying, BlessAnd when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and Ied be the glory of the LORD from his place.. heard a voice of one that spake. CHAP. II. Ezekiel's commission to Israel. ND he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon A thy feet, and I will speak unto thee. 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. 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 took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee 15 T Then I came to them of the captivity at to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation Tel-abib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and |