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Ezekiel, starting at chapter 19
{19:1} Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
{19:2} and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among
lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs. {19:3}
She brought up one of her cubs: he became a young lion, and he learned
to catch the prey; he devoured men. {19:4} The nations also heard of
him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the
land of Egypt. {19:5} Now when she saw that she had waited, and her
hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young
lion. {19:6} He went up and down among the lions; he became a young
lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men. {19:7} He
knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was
desolate, and its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.
{19:8} Then the nations set against him on every side from the
provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their
pit. {19:9} They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the
king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice
should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel. {19:10} Your
mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters: it was
fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. {19:11} It had
strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and their stature
was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height
with the multitude of their branches. {19:12} But it was plucked up in
fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its
fruit: its strong rods were broken off and withered; the fire consumed
them. {19:13} Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and
thirsty land. {19:14} Fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it
has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a
scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
{20:1} It happened in the seventh year, in the fifth [month], the
tenth [day] of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to
inquire of the LORD, and sat before me. {20:2} The word of the LORD
came to me, saying, {20:3} Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel,
and tell them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Is it to inquire of me that you
have come? As I live, says the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by
you. {20:4} Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them?
Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers; {20:5} and tell
them, Thus says the Lord GOD: In the day when I chose Israel, and
swore to the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known to them
in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, I am the LORD your
God; {20:6} in that day I swore to them, to bring them forth out of
the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them,
flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands. {20:7} I
said to them, Cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, and
don't defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your
God. {20:8} But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me;
they each didn't throw away the abominations of their eyes, neither
did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my
wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the
land of Egypt. {20:9} But I worked for my name's sake, that it should
not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in
whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them forth out of
the land of Egypt. {20:10} So I caused them to go forth out of the
land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. {20:11} I gave
them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does,
he shall live in them. {20:12} Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths,
to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the
LORD who sanctifies them. {20:13} But the house of Israel rebelled
against me in the wilderness: they didn't walk in my statutes, and
they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in
them; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour
out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them. {20:14} But I
worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight
of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out. {20:15} Moreover
also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them
into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey,
which is the glory of all lands; {20:16} because they rejected my
ordinances, and didn't walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths:
for their heart went after their idols. {20:17} Nevertheless my eye
spared them, and I didn't destroy them, neither did I make a full end
of them in the wilderness. {20:18} I said to their children in the
wilderness, Don't walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither
observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
{20:19} I am the LORD your God: walk in my statutes, and keep my
ordinances, and do them; {20:20} and make my Sabbaths holy; and they
shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the
LORD your God. {20:21} But the children rebelled against me; they
didn't walk in my statutes, neither kept my ordinances to do them,
which if a man do, he shall live in them; they profaned my Sabbaths.
Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger
against them in the wilderness. {20:22} Nevertheless I withdrew my
hand, and worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in
the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them forth. {20:23}
Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them
among the nations, and disperse them through the countries; {20:24}
because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my
statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after
their fathers' idols. {20:25} Moreover also I gave them statutes that
were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live; {20:26}
and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass
through [the fire] all that opens the womb, that I might make them
desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD. {20:27}
Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them,
Thus says the Lord GOD: In this moreover have your fathers blasphemed
me, in that they have committed a trespass against me. {20:28} For
when I had brought them into the land, which I swore to give to them,
then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered
there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of
their offering; there also they made their pleasant aroma, and they
poured out there their drink offerings. {20:29} Then I said to them,
What does the high place where you go mean? So its name is called
Bamah to this day. {20:30} Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus
says the Lord GOD: Do you pollute yourselves in the way of your
fathers? and do you play the prostitute after their abominations?
{20:31} and when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass
through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols to
this day? and shall I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I
live, says the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you; {20:32} and
that which comes into your mind shall not be at all, in that you say,
We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve
wood and stone. {20:33} As I live, says the Lord GOD, surely with a
mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out,
will I be king over you: {20:34} and I will bring you out from the
peoples, and will gather you out of the countries in which you are
scattered, with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with
wrath poured out; {20:35} and I will bring you into the wilderness of
the peoples, and there will I enter into judgment with you face to
face. {20:36} Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the
wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with
you, says the Lord GOD. {20:37} I will cause you to pass under the
rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant; {20:38} and I
will purge out from among you the rebels, and those who disobey
against me; I will bring them forth out of the land where they live,
but they shall not enter into Eretz-Israel: and you shall know that I
am the LORD. {20:39} As for you, house of Israel, thus says the Lord
GOD: Go, serve everyone his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not
listen to me; but my holy name you shall no more profane with your
gifts, and with your idols. {20:40} For in my holy mountain, in the
mountain of the height of Israel, says the Lord GOD, there shall all
the house of Israel, all of them, serve me in the land: there will I
accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the first
fruits of your offerings, with all your holy things. {20:41} As a
pleasant aroma will I accept you, when I bring you out from the
peoples, and gather you out of the countries in which you have been
scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the
nations. {20:42} You shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring
you into Eretz-Israel, into the country which I swore to give to your
fathers. {20:43} There you shall remember your ways, and all your
doings, in which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall loathe
yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have
committed. {20:44} You shall know that I am the LORD, when I have
dealt with you for my name's sake, not according to your evil ways,
nor according to your corrupt doings, you house of Israel, says the
Lord GOD. {20:45} The word of the LORD came to me, saying, {20:46} Son
of man, set your face toward the south, and drop [your word] toward
the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South;
{20:47} and tell the forest of the South, Hear the word of the LORD:
Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it
shall devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree: the flaming
flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north
shall be burnt thereby. {20:48} All flesh shall see that I, the LORD,
have kindled it; it shall not be quenched. {20:49} Then I said, Ah
Lord GOD! they say of me, Isn't he a speaker of parables?
{21:1} The word of the LORD came to me, saying, {21:2} Son of man,
set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop [your word] toward the
sanctuaries, and prophesy against Eretz-Israel; {21:3} and tell
Eretz-Israel, Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am against you, and will
draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the
righteous and the wicked. {21:4} Seeing then that I will cut off from
you the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth
out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
{21:5} and all flesh shall know that I, the LORD, have drawn forth my
sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more. {21:6} Sigh
therefore, you son of man; with the breaking of your thighs and with
bitterness you will sigh before their eyes. {21:7} It shall be, when
they tell you, Why do you sigh? that you shall say, Because of the
news, for it comes; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be
feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as
water: behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord GOD.
{21:8} The word of the LORD came to me, saying, {21:9} Son of man,
prophesy, and say, Thus says the LORD: Say, A sword, a sword, it is
sharpened, and also furbished; {21:10} it is sharpened that it may
make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall
we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it condemns every tree. {21:11}
It is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it is
sharpened, yes, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the
killer. {21:12} Cry and wail, son of man; for it is on my people, it
is on all the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword
with my people; strike therefore on your thigh. {21:13} For there is a
trial; and what if even the rod that condemns shall be no more? says
the Lord GOD. {21:14} You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike
your hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the
sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one who is
deadly wounded, which enters into their rooms. {21:15} I have set the
threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt,
and their stumblings be multiplied: ah! it is made as lightning, it is
pointed for slaughter. {21:16} Gather yourselves together, go to the
right, set yourselves in array, go to the left, wherever your face is
set. {21:17} I will also strike my hands together, and I will cause my
wrath to rest: I, the LORD, have spoken it. {21:18} The word of the
LORD came to me again, saying, {21:19} Also, you son of man, appoint
two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; they both
shall come forth out of one land: and mark out a place, mark it out at
the head of the way to the city. {21:20} You shall appoint a way for
the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in
Jerusalem the fortified. {21:21} For the king of Babylon stood at the
parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he
shook the arrows back and forth, he consulted the teraphim, he looked
in the liver. {21:22} In his right hand was the divination [for]
Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter,
to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the
gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts. {21:23} It shall be to them
as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them;
but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken. {21:24}
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have made your iniquity
to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that
in all your doings your sins appear; because you have come to memory,
you shall be taken with the hand. {21:25} You, deadly wounded wicked
one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the
iniquity of the end, {21:26} thus says the Lord GOD: Remove the
turban, and take off the crown; this [shall be] no more the same;
exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high. {21:27} I will
overturn, overturn, overturn it: this also shall be no more, until he
come whose right it is; and I will give it [him]. {21:28} You, son of
man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the children
of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and say, A sword, a sword is
drawn, for the slaughter it is furbished, to cause it to devour, that
it may be as lightning; {21:29} while they see for you false visions,
while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked
who are deadly wounded, whose day has come in the time of the iniquity
of the end. {21:30} Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place
where you were created, in the land of your birth, will I judge you.
{21:31} I will pour out my indignation on you; I will blow on you with
the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand of brutish
men, skillful to destroy. {21:32} You shall be for fuel to the fire;
your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be remembered
no more: for I, the LORD, have spoken it.
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