Israel's idolatry threatened. W B. C. 594. w De.32.23. EZEKIEL.-CHAP. VI., VII. 16 When I shall send upon them the evil | A. M. 3410. 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. 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. x Le.26.22. y c.38.22. a c.20.46. c Le.26.30. e give. f 1 Ki.13.2. 16. images. h ver. 13. i Is.6.13. J Ps. 137.1. Da.9.2,3 Is. 43.24. Je.3.6,13. c. 14.4..7. n Job 42.6. o c.21.14. PC.5.12,13 q Is.57.5,7. 12.5.25. s or, deso late from the wild- 6 In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall ber 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. 7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 8 ¶ Yet will I leave a i remnant, that ye may b give. have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries. a La. 1.9. 6.5.11. d Ho.9.7. against. 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. 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 recompense 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. 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. 7 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains. 8 Now will I shortly pour out my 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. i h 9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that smiteth. 10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded. 11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wick edness: none of them shall remain, nor o their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them. m 12 The time is come, the day draweth near: 9 And they that escape of you shall rememberme among the nations whither they shall f Zep.1.14, let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: 11 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with or, their thy hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for P they shall fall by the 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. for 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 their life city, famine and pestilence shall devour him. among 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. the living. p Ec.8.8. qor, whose life is in rhia ini- La.1.20. v for a se- w Pr.114. 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 silOver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: 14 So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more de- or their they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill solate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD. iniquity eturabling y c.14.3,4. their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity. 20 ¶ As for the beauty of his ornament, he 21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the bor, burg earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it. lars. c. 2Ki.21.16. d Ps. 106.41. e or, they 22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the b robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. 23 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.2 24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: e holy Ch.7.20. Ps. 83.12. g cutting of I will also make the pomp of the strong to God's wrath for idolatry 11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients P 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. r 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 cham bers 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 with their weeping for Tammuz. La.2.9. judgments a c.20.1. b c.3.14,22. cc.1.26,27. 8 P8.73.11. 3 And he put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Je-vc11. rusalem, to the door of the inner gate that w Je.2.27. looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy. 4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw I in the plain. € 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 shalte c.3.23. 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 the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. m 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. loins. f mark. Ex.127. Re. 7.3. h Ps. 119. Je. 13.17. i ears. Ex278 257.8 1K.18.40. to de struction. 1 Re.9.4. m Je.25.29. 1 Pe.4.17. 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 these. 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 twenty men, with their backs toward the 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? 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. 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. a CHAPTER IX. 1 A vision, whereby is showed the preservation of some, 5 and the destruction of the HE b a 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 d by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brazen 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; 4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and í 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 my hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: 6 Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin mat my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house. 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 Vision of the coals of fire. EZEKIEL-CHAP. X., B. C. 594. n Ge.18.23, o Je.5.1. eagle. XI. Presumption of the princes. 15 And the cherubims were lifted up. This of Chebar. is the living creature that I saw by the river slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon | AM 30 | face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an 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 Jerusalem ? 9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD Seeth not. ५ 10 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head. q 2 Ki.24.4. r or, wrest Jument ing of P. 10.11. returned the word. a c.1.22,26. b c.9.2,3. of thine. 16 And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them 17 When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the living creature was in them. 11 And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the hollow off the threshold of the house, and stood over 18 Then the glory of the LORD departed from the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me. CHAPTER X. 1 The vision of the coals of fire, to be scattered over the city. 8 The vision of the cherubima. d c.1.13. Re.8.5. the cherubims. 19 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, Ex 9.8.10 and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and every one stood at the door of f Nu.16.19. HEN I looked, and, behold, in the firma- was lifted the east gate of the LORD's house; and the 11. c. 43.5. i c.1.21. j Ps.80.1. 99.1. 20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims. 21 Every one had four faces a-piece, and k sent forth. every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings. 1 ver.21. me.l.15,&e n flesh. o or, they were called in my hearing, wheel, or, galgal. 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 P.6,10. cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD's glory. 5 And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh. 9 c.1.5. r life. a c.8.3. 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 cherubims; then he went in, and b c.10.19. stood beside the wheels. c c.8.16. d Is. 1.10,23. for, for us 7 And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clo-e Mi.21. thed with linen: who took it, and went out. 8 And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand under their wings. 9 And when I looked, " behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone. m 10 And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel. g1222,77 h Je.1.13. 2 Pe.3.4. c. 24.3,&c. i 18.58.1. P23 Jn.2.24,25. 11 When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the 1.15. place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went. n 12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had. Je.2.34. c.7 23. 22.3.4. Ho. 4.2. Mi.3.2,3. De.23.36. 2 KL.24.4. Ne 9.36,37 PB. 106.41. 13 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them mc.16.38. in my hearing, O wheel. n Je.52. 10. o 2Ki.14.25. 14 And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the p P.9.16. 5 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them. 6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain. 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Your they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it. 8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD. 9 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of I strangers, and will execute judgments among m you. 13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord God! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel? 14 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 15 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession. B. C. 594. q or, which. r Ezr.9.7. Ne. 9.34. f 5 Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby. 6 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: 2KL.18.12. thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not Le 18.3, the ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto De.12.30, the house of Israel. &c. 31. 7 And I did so as I was commanded: I c.8.10,&c brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through the wall with my hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bare it upon my shoulder in their sight. Pr.6.15. c.9.8. w Le.26.44. x Ps.90.1. y Je.30.18. 36.24. 16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them c.37.23 among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come. 17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. 18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence. 19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will b с 8 And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, saying, 9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, What i doest thou? 10 Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among them. 11 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done. so shall it be done unto them: they shall remove and go into captivity. take the stony heart out of their flesh, and He 1038 deans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall will give them a heart of flesh: 21 But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD. 22 Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the a 2T1225 glory of the God of Israel was over theme the goings above. forth of 23 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city. 15 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations and disperse them in the countries. 16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD. 17 ¶ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 18 Son of man, eat "thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness, 19 And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord Gop of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink captivity. their water with astonishment, that her land m2 Ki 25.4, may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein. & C. n Je.39.4. o La.1.13. 1320 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. Je. 52.8, &c. 9 c.17.16. 3 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare theer stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be a rebellious house. 4 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity. c.5.10,12 number. 21 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 22 Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days y are prolonged, and every vision faileth? 23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at x Ps. 107.34. hand, and the effect of every vision. ness w the ful- y Am.6.3. 24 For there shall be no more any vain vi The reproof of lying prophets. EZEKIEL-CHAP. XIII., XIV. Prophetesses and their pillows. sion nor flattering divination within the house | A. M. 3410. of Israel. 25 For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord God. B. C. 594. z Is. 14.24. a 2 Pe.3.4. b Je.44.28. prophets. 26 Again the word of the LORD came to re me, saying, 27 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off. 28 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD. b Je.14.14. o walk after. d or, things not seen. 17 Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them, 18 And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Wo to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the f Ps. 106.23 souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you? e or, g hedged. h Ep.6.13, i Re.6.17. La214. 23,21. b 19 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies? 20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GoD; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls a to make them fly, and I or council will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly. 11 Ti.4.1,2 m Pa. 101.7. nor, secret, Ge. 49.6. o Ezr. 2.62. Re. 20.12. p Ho.9.3. 8.11. 5 Ye have not gone up into the ef gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD. Je.6.14. 6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word. 7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I have not spoken? 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen 1 lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD. 21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 22 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands ofthe wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, f by promising him life: 23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them? 4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto Pr.19.27. them, Thus saith the Lord GoD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols; e Je.23.14. 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it. 14 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered mortar, and bring it a down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall ▾ fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. W should save his life. ing him. h c.12.24. i Ma.13.22 Jude 24. c.8.L bc.7.19. e Pa. 101.3. 14. e 5 That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols. 6 ¶ Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GoD; Repent, and turn f yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations. 7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which 2K13.13, separateth himself from me, and setteth up his Ja. 42.20, idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and coGa.6.7. meth to a prophet to inquire of him concernfor, others.ing me; I the LORD will answer him by myself: 21. |