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11 Thus were their faces: and their wings from the appearance of his loins even upwere stretched upward: two wings of every ward, and from the appearance of his loins one were joined one to another, and two even downward, I saw as it were the appearcovered their bodies. ance of fire, and it had brightness round about.

28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the

12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went. 13 As for the likeness of the living crea- appearance of the brightness round about. tures, their appearance was like burning This was the appearance of the likeness of coals of fire, and like the appearance of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, lamps: it went up and down among the I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of living creatures; and the fire was bright, one that spake. and out of the fire went forth lightning.

CHAP. II.

14 And the living creatures ran and return

15 Now, as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.

ed as the appearance of a flash of lightning.AND he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon 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.

3 And he said unto 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 unto this very day.

4 For they are impudent children, and stiff-hearted: I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto 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 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear,or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.

8 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee, Be not thou rebellions like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee.

9 ¶ And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and lo, a roll of a book was therein;

10 And he spread it before me; and it was 23 And under the firmament were their written within and withou.: and there was wings straight; the one toward the other: written therein lamentations, and mourning, every one had two, which covered on this and woe. side, and every one had two, which covered] on that side, their bodies.

CHAP. III.

24 And when they went, I heard the noise MOREOVER, he said unto me, Son of

of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.

man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel. 2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.

25 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.

26 ¶ 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 appearance of a man above upon it. 27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it

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16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a 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.

17 When they went, they went upon their four sides; and they turned not when they

went.

18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of 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.

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 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 of the living creature was in the wheels.

22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the 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 I 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 words unto them.

5 For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech, and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel.

6 Not to many people of a strange speech

and of an hard language, whose words thou is warned: also thou hast delivered thy soul canst not understand: surely, had I sent thee 22 And the hand of the LORD was there to them, they would have bearkened unto upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go thee. forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.

23 Then I arose, and went forth into the

7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impu-plain; and behold, the glory of the LORD dent and hard-hearted. stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.

24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.

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 be a rebellious house.

25 But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee 10 Moreover, he said unto me, Son of with them, and thou shalt not go out among

man, all my words that I shall speak unto them:
thee receive in thine heart, and hear with
thine ears.

11 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord Gon, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, swing, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.

13 I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one an- on other, 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. 15% Then I came to them of the captivity the city; and set thy face against it, and it shall at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the river of Che-be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against bar, and I sat where they sat, and remained it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. there astonished among them seven days. 4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: ac cording to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.

16 And it came to pass, at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

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18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou 6 And when thou hast accomplished them, shalt surely die and thou givest him not lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: from his wicked way, to save his life; the bave appointed thee each day for a year. same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; 7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward but his blood will I require at thine hand. the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it 8 And behold, I will lay bands upon thee,and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to an other, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege. 9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet,

19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not 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 righteousness and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and him, he shall die because thou hast not make thee bread thereof, according to the given him warning, he shall die in his sin, number of the days that thou shalt lie upon and his righteousness which he hath done thy side; three hundred and ninety days shall not be remembered; but his blood will shalt thou eat thereof. I require at thine hand.

10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat 21 Nevertheless, if thou warn the righte-shall be by weight, twenty shekels a-day: ous mun, that the righteous sin not, and he from time to time shalt thou eat it.

doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he! 11 Thou shalt drink also water by mea

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 a reprover; for they are a rebellious house.

27 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto 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.

HOU also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upit 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 batteringrams against it round about.

3 Moreover, take thon unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and

sure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to their fathers: and I will execute judgments time shalt thou drink. in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will

12 And thou shalt eat it as barley-cakes, I scatter into all the winds. and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

11 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, Surely, because thou hast defiled my 13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and children of Israel eat their defiled bread a- with all thine abominations, therefore will mong the Gentiles, whither I will drive them. I also diminish thee: neither shal! mine eye

14 Then said 1, Ah Lord GoD! Behold, spare, neither will have any pity. my soul hath not been polluted for from 12 A third part of thee shall die with my youth up, even till now, have I not eaten the pestilence, and with famine shail they be of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in consumed in the midst of thee; and a third pieces; neither came there abominable flesh part shall fall by the sword round about thee; into my mouth. and I will scatter a third part into all the winds; and I will draw out a sword after them.

13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: aud they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.

14 Moreover, I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.

15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I

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.

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 astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity. CHAP. V.

thou, son of man, take thee a

knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head, and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

2 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife; and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind: and I will draw out a sword after them. 3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.

shall execute
in fury, and in furious rebukes. I the LORD
have spoken it.

in thee in

16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread.

17 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it. CHAP. VI.

AND the word of the LORD came unto

4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in

the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth

me, saying,

into all the house of Israel.

5 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. 3 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear

2 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,

6 And she hath changed my judgments in- the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the to wickedness more than the nations, and my Lord GOD to the mountains and to the hills, statutes more than the countries that are to the rivers and to the valleys, Behold, I, round about her; for they have refused my even I, will bring a sword upon you, and Í judgments and my statutes, they have not will destroy your high places: walked in them.

4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not 5 And I will lay the dead carcases of the walked in my statutes, neither have kept children of Israel before their idols; and I my judgments, neither have done according will scatter your bones round about your alto the judgments of the nations that are tars. round about you;

6 In all your dwelling-places the cities shall

8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Be-be laid waste, and the high places shall be dehold I, even I, am against thee, and will ex-solate; that your altars may be laid waste ecute judgments in the midst of thee, in the and made desolate, and your idols may be sight of the nations. broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

9 And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.

7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you; and ye shall know that I am the LORD

10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat

8¶ Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword

EZEKIEL.

Long the nations, when ye shall be scatterthrough the countries.

10 Behold the day, behold, it is come; the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossom

Il Violence is risen up into a rod of wick

And they that escape of you shall remem-ed; pride hath budded. me among the nations whither they shail carried captives, because I am broken with edness: none of them shall remain, nor of eir whorish heart, which hath departed from their multitude, nor of any of theirs; neither e, and with their eyes, which go a whoring shall there be wailing for them. ter their idols and they shall loathe themIves for the evils which they have commitd in all their abominations.

12 The time is come, the day draweth 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 that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither

10 And they shall know that I am the ORD, and that I have not said in vain that would do this evil unto them. 11 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD, Smite with nine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity ay, Alas for all the evil abominations of the of his life. 14 They have blown the trumpet, even house of Israel! for they shall fall by the word, by the famine, and by the pestilence. to make all ready; but none goeth to the 12 He that is far off shall die of the pesti- battle for my wrath is upon all the multilence; and he that is near shall fall by the tude thereof. sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will accomplish my fury upon them.

15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and be that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him. 16 But they that escape of them shall

13 Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every escape, and shall be on the mountains like high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, and under every green tree, and under eve-every one for his iniquity.

ry thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.

17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver

MOREOVER the word of the LORD came and their gold shall not be able to deliver

unto me, saying,

2 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel, An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.

them in
of the wrath of the LORD:
they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill
their bowels; because it is the stumbling-
block of their iniquity.

3 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will
send mine anger upon thee, and will judge
thee according to thy ways, and will recom-
pense upon thee all thine abominations.

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 know that I am the LORD.

14 So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate; yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations; and they shall know that I am the LORD. CHAP. VII.

20 ¶ As for the beauty of his ornament, be set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations, and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.

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 into it, and defile it.

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 come.

23 Make a chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of vio

24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the

7 The morning is come upon thee, O thou lence.
that dwellest in the land: the time is come,
the day of trouble is near, and not the sound-heathen, and they shall possess their houses:
I will also make the pomp of the strong to
ing again of the mountains.
cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.

8 Now will I shortly pour out my fury up-
on thee, and accomplish mine anger upon
thee; and I will judge thee according to thy
ways, and will recompense thee for all thine
abominations.

25 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and
rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall

9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither they seek a vision of the prophet: but the
will I have pity: I will recompense thee ac-law shall perish from the priest, and counsel
cording to thy ways and thine abominations from the ancients.
that are in the midst of thee, and ye shall

know that I am the LORD that smiteth.

27 The king shall mourn, and the prince Ishall be clothed with desolation, and the bands

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of the people of the land shall be troubled: the north; and behold, there sat women I will do unto them after their way, and ac- weeping for Tammuz.

cording to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD. CHAP. VIII.

15 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than

AND it came to pass in the sixth year, in these.

the sixth the fifth 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.

16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house; and behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and

2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the twenty men, with their backs toward the appearance of fire; from the appearance of temple of the LORD, and their faces toward his loins, even downward, fire; and from the east; and they worshipped the sun tohis loins, even upward, as the appearance of ward the east. brightness, as the colour of amber.

3 And he put forth the form of an 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 north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.

17 ¶ Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger; and lo, they put the branch to their nose.

4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.

18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them. CHAP. IX.

5 Then said he unto me, Son of man, cried also in mine ears with a loud lift up thine eyes now the way toward the voice, saying, Cause them that have north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way to-charge over the city to draw near, even ward the north, and behold northward at the every man with his destroying weapon in 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 of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in

the wall.

8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in wail: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.

his hand.

2 And behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter-weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.

3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house: and he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side

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4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

5 And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city,

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, pourtrayed upon the wall round about. 11 And there stood before them seventy and smite; let not your eye spare, neither men of the ancients of the house of Israel, have ye pity: and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the 6 Slay utterly old and young, both maids, son of Shaphan, with every man his censer and little children, and women; but come in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before

went up.

12 Then said he unto me, Son of man,

hast thou seen what the ancients of the house 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.

9 And he said unto me, Go in, and bebold the wicked abominations that they do here.

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.

8 ¶ And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel, in thy pouring out of thy fury upon

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 Jerusalem?

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