God's promise to gather Israel. CHAP. XXI. Destruction of Jerusalem shewn. 21 Notwithstanding, the children rebelled against me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept your gifts, and with your idols. my judgments to do them, which if a man do, 40 For in my holy mountain, in the mountais he shall even live in them: they polluted my sab- of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there baths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness. shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the first 22 Nevertheless, I withdrew my hand, and fruits of your oblations, with all your holy things. wrought for my name's sake, that it should not 41 I will accept you with your sweet savour, be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose when I bring you out from the people, and gather sight I brought them forth. you out of the countries wherein ye have been 23 I lifted up my hand unto them also in the scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before wilderness, that I would seatter them among the the heathen. heathen, and disperse them through the countries; 42 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when 24 Because they had not executed my judg-I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the ments, but had despised my statutes, and had country for the which I lifted up my hand to polluted my sabbathis, and their eyes were after give it to your fathers. their fathers' idols. 43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and 25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that all your doings wherein ye have been defiled; were not good, and judgments whereby they and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight should not live; for all your evils that ye have committed. 44 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have wrought with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord God. 26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD. 45 | Morcover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, Yet in this your fathers have blas- 46 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, phemed me, in that they have committed a tres- and drop thy word toward the south, and prophe pass against me. sy against the forest of the south field; 28 For when I had brought them into the land, 47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the for the which I lifted up my hand to give it to word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; them, then they saw every high hill, and all the Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall thick trees, and they offered there their sacri-devour every green tree in thee, and every dry fices, and there they presented the provocation of tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and their offering: there also they made their sweet all faces from the south to the north shall be savour, and poured out there their drink-offer-burned therein. ings. 48 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have 29 Then I said unto them, What is the high kindled it: it shall not be quenched. 30 Wherefore, say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Gon; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations? 31 For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute your selves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you. 32 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone. 33 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched-out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you: 49 Then said 1, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables? CHAP. XXI. A prophecy against Jerusalem. AND the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel, 3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked. 4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north 5 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more. 34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein 6 Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out. before their eyes. to face. 35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of 7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, the people, and there will I plead with you face Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shait answer, For the tidings, because it cometh and every 36 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall with you, saith the Lord GoD. be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall 37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, be brought to pass, saith the Lord God. and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant: 8 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, 38 And I will purge out from among you the re-saying, bels, and them that transgress against me: I will 9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the bring them forth out of the country where they LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of also furbished: Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter, it 39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the is furbished that it may glitter; should we then Lord Gon; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto as every tree. The sharp and bright sword. EZEKIEL. God's judgment on Jerusalem 11 And he hath given it to be furbished, that it wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it men, and skilful to destroy. Is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer. 32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood 12 Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes no more remembered: for I the LORD have of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be spoken it. upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh. 13 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword CHAP. XXII. contenim even the rod ? it shall be no more, MOREOVER the word of the LORD came saith the Lord God. unto me, saying, 14 Thou, therefore, son of man, prophesy, and 2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt smite thine hands together, and let the sword thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: her all her abominations. it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers. 15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter. 16 Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set. 17 I will also smite my hands together, and will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it. 18 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying, 19 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city. 20 Appoint a way, that the sword may conie to Rabbath of the Animonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced. 3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself. 4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thon hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries. 5 Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed. 6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood. 7 In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow. 8 Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths. 21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting 9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in divination; he made his arrows bright, he con- the midst of thee they commit lewdness. sulted with images, he looked in the liver. 10 In thee have they discovered their fathers' 22 At his right hand was the divination for Je-nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that rusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth was set apart for pollution. in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shout- 11 And one hath committed abomination with ing, to appoint battering rams against the gates, his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly to cast a mount, and to build a fort. defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in thee 23 And it shall be unto them as a false divina-bath humbled his sister, his father's daughter. tion in their sight, to them that have sworn 12 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; oaths: but he will call to remembrance the ini-thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast quity, that they may be taken. greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, 24 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD. ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, 13 Behold, therefore I have smitten my hand in that your transgressions are discovered, so at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and that in all your doings your sins do appear; be-at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee. cause, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, 14 Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be ye shall be taken with the hand. strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? 25 % And thou, profane wicked prince of Is-I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it. rael, whose day is come, when iniquity shall 15 And I will scatter thee among the heathen, have an end, and disperse thee in the countries, and will con26 Thus saith the Lord Gon; Remove the dia-sume thy filthiness out of thee. dem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. 27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: and It shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him. 16 And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD. 17 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 18 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me be28 1! And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, come dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, Thus saith the Lord GoD concerning the Am-and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are monites, and concerning their reproach; even even the dross of silver, say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GoD, Because the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will of the glittering: 23 While they see vanity unto thee, while they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end. gather you into the midst of Jerusalein. 20 As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will 1 gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you. 30 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? 21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you I will judge thee in the place where thou wast in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted created, in the land of thy nativity. in the midst thereof. 31 And I will pour out inine indignation upon 2 As silver is melted in the midst of the furthee, I will blow against thee in the fire of mylnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; Corruption of the prophets, &e. CHAP. XXIII. Judgments on Aholibak. and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured geously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of out my fury upon you. them desirable young men. 23 1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation. 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. 26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. 27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. 28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken. 13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way; 14 And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, 15 Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity: 16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaidea. 17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them. 18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister. 19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, where29 The people of the land have used oppres-in she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. sion, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. 30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. 31 Therefore, have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD. CHAP. XXIII. 20 For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. 21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth. 22 1 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side; 23 The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses. 24 And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assem3 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; biy of people, which shall set against thee buckler they committed whoredoms in their youth: there and shield and helmet round about: and I will were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised set judgment before them, and they shall judge the teats of their virginity. thee according to their judgments. Aholah and Aholibah reproved. word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, THE 2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: 4 And the names of them were Aholah the 25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, elder, and Aholibah her sister; and they were and they shall deal furiously with thee: they mine, and they bare sous and daughters. Thus shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and were their names; Samaria is Aliolali, and Je-thy remnant shall fail by the sword: they shal take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy resi due shall be devoured by the fire. rusalem Aholibah. 5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours, 26 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels. 6 Which were clothed with blue, captains and 27 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease rulers, all of them desirable young men, horse-from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the men riding upon horses. 7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted; with all their idols she defiled herself. land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more. 28 For thus saith the Lord Gop; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated: 8 Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and 29 And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave poured their whoredom upon her. thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy 9 Wherefore, I have delivered her into the hand whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdof her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, ness and thy whoredoms. upon whom she doted. 30 I will do these things unto thee, because 10 These discovered her nakedness: they took thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and her sons and her daughters, and slew her with because thou art polluted with their idols. the sword and she became famous among wo- 31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; men; for they had executed judgment upon her. therefore will I give her cup into thy hand. 11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she 32 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink was more corrupt in her inordinate love than of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister laughed to scorn and had in derision; it conin her whoredoms. taineth much. 12 She doted upon the Assyrians her neigh- 33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and bours, captains and rulers clothed most gor-sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and de Aholah and Aholibah reproved. EZEKIEL. The grievous calamity of the Jews solation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria. 6 ¶ Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Wo 34 Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is thereand thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and in, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it. it, saith the Lord GOD. 7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set 35 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy the ground, to cover it with dust; back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. 36 The LORD said, moreover, unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations; 37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them. 38 Moreover, this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths. 39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and lo, thus have they done in the midst of my house. 8 That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered. 9 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Wo to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great. 10 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned. 11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed. 12 She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire. 13 In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have 40 And furthermore, that ye have sent for men purged thee, and thou wast not parged, thou to come from far, unto whom a messenger was shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more sent; and lo, they came: for whom thou didst till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee. wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst 14 I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come thyself with ornaments, 41 And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil. 42 And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads. 43 Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them? 44 Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlót: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women. 45 And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. 46 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled. to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD. 15 Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down. 17 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thy head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men. 18 So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded. 19 ¶ And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so? 20 Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith 47 And the company shall stone them with the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sancstones, and despatch them with their swords; tuary, the excellency of your strength, the de they shall slay their sons and their daughters, sire of your eyes, and that which your soul and burn up their houses with fire. pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword. 22 And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men. 23 And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another. 48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. 49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord God. CHAP. XXIV. Jerusalem's destruction foretold. the LORD came unto me, saying, to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when 24 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD. 2 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon set 25 Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the himself against Jerusalem this same day. day when I take from them their strength, the 3 And utter a parable unto the rebellious joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord that whereupon they set their minds, their sons GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water and their daughters, into it: 26 That he that escapeth in that day shall come 4 Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it ears? with the choice bones. 27 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to 5 Take the choice of the flock, and burn also him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and the bones under it, and make it boil well, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto let them seethe the bones of it therein. Ithem; and they shall know that I am the Lord God's vengeance on the Ammonites. CHAP. XXV, XXVI. The power of Nebuchadrezzar. THE CHAP. XXV. God's vengeance on Moab, &c. I am against thee O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea THE word of the LORD came again unto me, causeth his waves to come up. saying, 4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and 2 Son of man, set thy face against the Ammon-break down her towers: I will also scrape her ites, and prophesy against them; dust from her, and make her like the top of a 3 And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word rock. of the Lord Gon; Thus saith the Lord GOD; 5 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctua- the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith ry, when it was profaned; and against the land the Lord GOD: and it shall beconie a spoil to the of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the nations. house of Judah, when they went into captivity; 6 And her daughters which are in the field 4 Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know men of the east for a possession, and they shall that I am the LORD. set their palaces in thee, and make their dwell- 7 For thus saith the Lord GoD; Behold, 1 ings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they will bring upon Tyrus, Nebuchadrezzar king of shall drink thy milk. Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with 5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and the Ammonites a couching-place for flocks: and companies, and much people. and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 6 For thus saith the Lord GoD; Because thou hast clapped thy hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel; 8 Ile shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee. 9 And he shall set engines of war against thy 7 Behold, therefore I will stretch out my hand walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the towers. heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, 10 By reason of the abundance of his horses, and I will cause thee to perish out of the coun- their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake tries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, that I am the LORD. and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy 8 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Ju- a breach. dah is like unto all the heathen; 11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread 9 Therefore, behold, I will open the side of down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people Moab from the cities, from his cities which are by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth- down to the ground. jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim, 10 Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations. 11 And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD. 12 1 Thus saith the Lord Gon; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them; 12 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones, and thy timber, and thy dust, in the midst of the water. 13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to ccase; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard. 14 And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I will also stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make 15 Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when shall fall by the sword. the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in 14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom the midst of thee? by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall 16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come do in Edom according to mine anger and accord-down from their thrones, and lay away their ing to my fury; and they shall know my ven-robes, and put off their broidered garments: they geance, saith the Lord GOD. shaft clothe themselves with trembling; they 15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have every moment, and be astonished at thee. taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to de- 17 And they shall take up a lamentation for stroy it for the old hatred; thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, that wast inhabited of seafaring inen, the reI will stretch out my hand upon the Philistines, nowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to the remnant of the sea coasts. be on all that haunt it! 17 And I will execute great vengeance upon 18 Now, shall the isles tremble in the day of them with furious rebukes; and they shall know thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my ven- be troubled at thy departure. geance upon them. CHAP. XXVI. The fall of Tyrus threatened. 19 For thus saith the Lord God; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep AND it came to pass in the eleventh year, in upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee; the first day of the month, that the word of 20 When I shall bring thee down with them the LORD came unto me, saying, that descend into the pit, with the people of old 2 Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was earth, in places desolate of old, with them that the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: and I shall set glory in the land of the living; 3 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, 21 I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be 20 U 457 |