of Jerusalem typified. B. C. 595. + Heb. from thy side to thy side. ch. 3. 25. 1 Or, spelt. 4 Hos. 9. 3. e Acts 10. 14. (Ex. 22. 31. Lev. 11. 40. & 17. 15 C EZEKIEL. 8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege. 9¶ Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side; three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. 10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day from time to time shalt thou eat it. 11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink. 12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. 13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them. 14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten off that which dieth of itself, or is torn in Deut. 14. 3. pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth. 15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith. Ls. 65. 4. 16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment: 17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonished one with another, and consume away for their iniquity. CHAPTER V. Under the type of hair, are shewn the judgments of God upon Jerusalem for her rebellion. e Her terrible punishment. 3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts. B. C. 594. + Heb. wings. e Jer. 40. 6. & 52. 16. &c. & 44. 14. 4 Then take of them again, and 'cast them into the midst of the fire, Jer. 41. 1, 2, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel. 5 T Thus saith the Lord GoD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her. 6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them. AND thou, son of man, take thee shall they be consumed in the midst a a sharp knife, take thee a barSee Lev. 21. ber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair. 5. I. 7. 20. ch. 44. 20. ch. 7. 20. & 8. 5, &c. & 23. 38. m ch. 11. 21. n ch. 7. 4, 9. & 8. 18. & 9. 10. o See ver. 2. Jer. 15. 2. & 21. 9. ch. 6. Judgments upon B. C. 594. y Deut. 28. 37. 1 Kings 9. 7. Lam. 2. 15. z ch. 25. 17. a Deut. 32. 23, 24. b Lev. 26. 26. ch. 4. 16. & 14. 13. c Lev. 26. 22. Deut. 32. 24. ch. 14. 21. & 33. 27. & 34. 25. d ch. 38. 22. a ch. 20. 46. & 21. 2. & 25. 2. b ch. 36. 1. © Lev. 26. 30. || Or, sun images, and so ver. 6. d Lev, 26, 30. + Heb. give. e ver. 13. ch. 10, 12 & 12. 7. 4, 9. & 11. 15. f Jer. 44. 28. ch. 5. 2, 12. & 12. 16. & 14. 22 EZEKIEL. Israel y for their wickedness. B. C. 594. Is. 7. 13. & 43. 24. & 63. 10. because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which & Ps. 78. 40, 15 So it shall be a reproach and a go a whoring after their idols: and taunt, an instruction and an astonish-they shall loathe themselves for the ment unto the nations that are round evils which they have committed in about thee, when I shall execute all their abominations. judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp k ch. 21. 14. with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the 1ch. 5. 12 sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. 12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them. m m ch. 5. 13. 13 Then shall ye know that I am a ver. 7. the LORD, when their slain men shall AND the word of the LORD came be among their idols round about unto me, saying, a 2 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, 3 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains and to the hills, to the rivers and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places. 4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. 5 And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. 6 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished. their altars, upon every high_hill, | • Jer. 2. 20, 14 So will I 'stretch out my hand 3 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thyb ver. 8, §. ways, and will recompense upon + Heb. give. thee all thine abominations. ever. ch. 5. 11. & 8 18. & 9, 10, 4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall ver. 27. ch. know that I am the LORD. 6.7.& 12. 20. 5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. 6 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is Heb come. eth against thee. The desolation of Israel. B. C. 594. ⚫ ver. 10. Or, echo. ! ver. 12. Zeph. 1. 14, 15. ver. 3. 7 The morning is come unto thee, it is the stumblingblock of their ini- 8 Now will I shortly pour out my ch. 20. 8, 21. fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations. ver. 4. + Heb. upon thee. I ver. 4. I ver. 7. Jer. 6. 7. 1 Or, tumult 1 Or, their Lumultuous persons. Jer. 16. 5, 6. ⚫ ver. 7. 9 And mine eye shall not spare, 11 Violence is risen up into a rod B. C. 594. I ch. 14. 3, 4. 20 T As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far Or, made it unto them an from them. unclean thing. 21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it. 22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter Or, burglars. into it, and defile it. 12° The time is come, the day draw-none. h. 24. 16, 22. eth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. 13 For the seller shall not return to Heb. though that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which 27 The king shall mourn, and the shall not return; neither shall any prince shall be clothed with desostrengthen himself in the iniquitylation, and the hands of the people 26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision b Ps. 74. 9. of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. 14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. 15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him. 16 ¶ But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity. 17 All hands shall be feeble, and Heb, go into all knees shall be weak as water. Lam. 2. 9. ch. 20. 1, 3. of the land shall be troubled: I will CHAPTER VIII. AND it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me. C 2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber. 3 And he put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and 'the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the their judg ments. c ver. 4. a ch. 14. 1. & 20. 1. & 33. 31. b ch. 1. 3. & 3. 22. c ch. 1. 26, 27. d ch. 1. 4. ch. 3. 14. 8 ch. 11. 1, 24. & 40, 2. north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy. 4 And, behold, the glory of the God i Deut. 32. 16, of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain. 21. k ch. 1. 28. & 3. 22, 23. 1 ch. 9. 9. m Joel 2. 17. n ch. 11. 1. o Jer. 2. 27. & 32. 33. 5 T Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. 6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations. 7 ¶ And he brought me to the door The godly to be preserved. temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. 17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? B. C. 594. Is it Or, Is there any thing lighter than to commit? P Deut. 4. 19. a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they 2 Kings 23 have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch 9 ch. 9. 9. to their nose. 5, 11. Job $1. 26. Jer. 44. 17. 16. 42. & 24. 13. 18 Therefore will I also deal inrch. 5. 13. & fury: mine 'eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and thoughch. 5. 11. & they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them. t CHAPTER IX. A vision typifying the preservation of some of the people, 5 and the destruction of the rest. 8 God will not be entreated for them. 7. 4, 9. & 9. 5, 10. t Prov. 1. 28. Is. 1. 15. Jer. 11. 11. & 14. 12. Mic. 3. 4. Zech. 7. 13. of the court; and when I looked, HE cried also, in mine ears with about 594. behold a hole in the wall. 8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. 9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. 10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about. 11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up. 12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, 'The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth. 13 He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. 14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tam The vision of coals of fire. B. C. EZEKIEL. destroy all the residue of Israel in about 594. thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem ? ch. 9. 2, 3. Love of thine me. CHAPTER X. The vision of the coals of fire, to be scattered over the city. 8 The vision of the cherubim. WHEN I looked, and, behold, in the head of the cherubim there appeared 2 And he spake unto the man 5. ch. 1. 13. ⚫ See ver. 18. + Heb. was f 1 Kings 8. 10, 11. ch. 43. 5. 8 ch. 1. 24. e 4 Then the glory of the LORD † went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and 'the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD's glory. 5 And the sound of the cherubim's wings was heard even to the outer Ps. 29.3, &c. court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh. ↑ Heb. sent forth ch. 1. 8. ver. 21. ch. 1. 15. 6 And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubim; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels. 7 And one cherub † stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim unto the fire that was between the cherubim, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen; who took it, and went out. 8 And there appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand under their wings. The vision of the cherubim. four wheels by the cherubim, one 10 And as for their appearances, 11 When they went, they went 13 As for the wheels, it was cried a man, and the third the face of a B. C. 594. 1 ch. 1. 16. m ch. 1. 17. Heb. flesh. a ch. 1. 18. Or, they were called in my hearing, wheel, or, galgal. o ch. 1. 6, 10. 15 And the cherubim were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw P ch. 1. 5. by the river of Chebar. 16 And when the cherubim went, a ch. 1. 19. the wheels went by them: and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them. 21 Every one had four faces apiece, z ch. 1.6. and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings. 22 And the likeness of their faces bch. 1. 10. was the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every 9 * And when I looked, behold the one straight forward. |
