Yechezkel, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the
head of the Keruvim there appeared above them as it were a sappir
stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. {10:2} He spoke
to the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the whirling
[wheels], even under the Keruv, and fill both your hands with coals of
fire from between the Keruvim, and scatter them over the city. He went
in as I watched. {10:3} Now the Keruvim stood on the right side of the
house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
{10:4} The glory of the LORD mounted up from the Keruv, [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.
{10:5} The sound of the wings of the Keruvim was heard even to the
outer court, as the voice of El Shaddai when he speaks. {10:6} It came
to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire
from between the whirling wheels, from between the Keruvim, that he
went in, and stood beside a wheel. {10:7} The Keruv stretched forth
his hand from between the Keruvim to the fire that was between the
Keruvim, and took [of it], and put it into the hands of him who was
clothed in linen, who took it and went out. {10:8} There appeared in
the Keruvim the form of a man's hand under their wings. {10:9} I
looked, and behold, four wheels beside the Keruvim, one wheel beside
one Keruv, and another wheel beside another Keruv; and the appearance
of the wheels was like a bareket stone. {10:10} As for their
appearance, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel have been within
a wheel. {10:11} When they went, they went in their four directions:
they didn't turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked
they followed it; they didn't turn as they went. {10:12} 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. {10:13} As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing,
the whirling [wheels]. {10:14} Every one had four faces: the first
face was the face of the Keruv, and the second face was the face of a
man, and the third face the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of
an eagle. {10:15} The Keruvim mounted up: this is the living creature
that I saw by the river Kevar. {10:16} When the Keruvim went, the
wheels went beside them; and when the Keruvim lifted up their wings to
mount up from the [1>]eretz[<1], the wheels also didn't turn from
beside them. {10:17} When they stood, these stood; and when they
mounted up, these mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living
creature was in them. {10:18} The glory of the LORD went forth from
over the threshold of the house, and stood over the Keruvim. {10:19}
The Keruvim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the
[2>]eretz[<2] in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels beside
them: and they stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD's house;
and the glory of the God of Yisra'el was over them above. {10:20} This
is the living creature that I saw under the God of Yisra'el by the
river Kevar; and I knew that they were Keruvim. {10:21} Every one had
four faces, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of
a man was under their wings. {10:22} As for the likeness of their
faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Kevar, their
appearances and themselves; they went every one straight forward.
{11:1} Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east
gate of the LORD's house, which looks eastward: and see, at the door
of the gate twenty-five men; and I saw in the midst of them Ya`azanyah
the son of Azur, and Pelatyah the son of Benayah, princes of the
people. {11:2} He said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise
iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city; {11:3} who say,
[The time] is not near to build houses: this [city] is the caldron,
and we are the flesh. {11:4} Therefore prophesy against them,
prophesy, son of man. {11:5} The Spirit of the LORD fell on me, and he
said to me, Speak, Thus says the LORD: Thus have you said, house of
Yisra'el; for I know the things that come into your mind. {11:6} You
have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled the
streets of it with the slain. {11:7} Therefore thus says the Lord GOD:
Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh,
and this [city] is the caldron; but you shall be brought forth out of
the midst of it. {11:8} You have feared the sword; and I will bring
the sword on you, says the Lord GOD. {11:9} I will bring you forth out
of the midst of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and
will execute judgments among you. {11:10} You shall fall by the sword;
I will judge you in the border of Yisra'el; and you shall know that I
am the LORD. {11:11} This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither
shall you be the flesh in the midst of it; I will judge you in the
border of Yisra'el; {11:12} and you shall know that I am the LORD: for
you have not walked in my statutes, neither have you executed my
ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are
round about you. {11:13} It happened, when I prophesied, that Pelatyah
the son of Benayah died. Then fell I down on my face, and cried with a
loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! will you make a full end of the
remnant of Yisra'el? {11:14} The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
{11:15} Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your
relatives, and all the house of Yisra'el, all of them, [are they] to
whom the inhabitants of Yerushalayim have said, Get you far from the
LORD; to us is this land given for a possession. {11:16} Therefore
say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Whereas I have removed them far off among
the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries,
yet will I be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries
where they are come. {11:17} Therefore say, Thus says the Lord GOD: I
will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the
countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you
Eretz-Yisra'el. {11:18} They shall come there, and they shall take
away all the detestable things of it and all the abominations of it
from there. {11:19} I will give them one heart, and I will put a new
spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh,
and will give them a heart of flesh; {11:20} that they may walk in my
statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my
people, and I will be their God. {11:21} But as for them whose heart
walks after the heart of their detestable things and their
abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads, says the Lord
GOD. {11:22} Then did the Keruvim lift up their wings, and the wheels
were beside them; and the glory of the God of Yisra'el was over them
above. {11:23} The glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the
city, and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
{11:24} The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the
Spirit of God into Kasdim, to them of the captivity. So the vision
that I had seen went up from me. {11:25} Then I spoke to them of the
captivity all the things that the LORD had shown me.
{12:1} The word of the LORD also came to me, saying, {12:2} Son of
man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to
see, and don't see, who have ears to hear, and don't hear; for they
are a rebellious house. {12:3} Therefore, you son of man, prepare you
stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and you shall
remove from your place to another place in their sight: it may be they
will consider, though they are a rebellious house. {12:4} You shall
bring forth your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing;
and you shall go forth yourself at even in their sight, as when men go
forth into exile. {12:5} Dig you through the wall in their sight, and
carry out thereby. {12:6} In their sight shall you bear it on your
shoulder, and carry it forth in the dark; you shall cover your face,
that you don't see the land: for I have set you for a sign to the
house of Yisra'el. {12:7} I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth
my stuff by day, as stuff for removing, and in the even I dug through
the wall with my hand; I brought it forth in the dark, and bore it on
my shoulder in their sight. {12:8} In the morning came the word of the
LORD to me, saying, {12:9} Son of man, has not the house of Yisra'el,
the rebellious house, said to you, What do you? {12:10} Say you to
them, Thus says the Lord GOD: This burden [concerns] the prince in
Yerushalayim, and all the house of Yisra'el among whom they are.
{12:11} Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done
to them; they shall go into exile, into captivity. {12:12} The prince
who is among them shall bear on his shoulder in the dark, and shall go
forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall
cover his face, because he shall not see the land with his eyes.
{12:13} My net also will I spread on him, and he shall be taken in my
snare; and I will bring him to Bavel to the land of the Kasdim; yet
shall he not see it, though he shall die there. {12:14} I will scatter
toward every wind all who are round about him to help him, and all his
bands; and I will draw out the sword after them. {12:15} They shall
know that I am the LORD, when I shall disperse them among the nations,
and scatter them through the countries. {12:16} 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 nations where
they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD. {12:17} Moreover
the word of the LORD came to me, saying, {12:18} Son of man, eat your
bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with
fearfulness; {12:19} and tell the people of the land, Thus says the
Lord GOD concerning the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, and
Eretz-Yisra'el: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink
their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, [and despoiled]
of all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell
therein. {12:20} The cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste,
and the land shall be a desolation; and you shall know that I am the
LORD. {12:21} The word of the LORD came to me, saying, {12:22} Son of
man, what is this proverb that you have in Eretz-Yisra'el, saying, The
days are prolonged, and every vision fails? {12:23} Tell them
therefore, Thus says the Lord GOD: I will make this proverb to cease,
and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Yisra'el; but tell them,
The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision. {12:24} For
there shall be no more any false vision nor flattering divination
within the house of Yisra'el. {12:25} For I am the LORD; I will speak,
and the word that I shall speak shall be performed; it shall be no
more deferred: for in your days, rebellious house, will I speak the
word, and will perform it, says the Lord GOD. {12:26} Again the word
of the LORD came to me, saying, {12:27} Son of man, behold, they of
the house of Yisra'el say, The vision that he sees is for many day to
come, and he prophesies of times that are far off. {12:28} Therefore
tell them, Thus says the Lord GOD: There shall none of my words be
deferred any more, but the word which I shall speak shall be
performed, says the Lord GOD.
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Footnotes:
[1] {10:16} earth
[2] {10:19} earth
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