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Ezekiel, starting at chapter 31
{31:1} It happened in the eleventh year, in the third [month], in
the first [day] of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me,
saying, {31:2} Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his
multitude: Whom are you like in your greatness? {31:3} Behold, the
Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a
forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the
thick boughs. {31:4} The waters nourished it, the deep made it to
grow: its rivers ran all around its plantation; and it sent out its
channels to all the trees of the field. {31:5} Therefore its stature
was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were
multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters,
when it shot [them] forth. {31:6} All the birds of the sky made their
nests in its boughs; and under its branches all the animals of the
field brought forth their young; and all great nations lived under its
shadow. {31:7} Thus was it beautiful in its greatness, in the length
of its branches; for its root was by many waters. {31:8} The cedars in
the garden of God could not hide it; the fir trees were not like its
boughs, and the plane trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree
in the garden of God like it in its beauty. {31:9} I made it beautiful
by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that
were in the garden of God, envied it. {31:10} Therefore thus said the
Lord GOD: Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top
among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
{31:11} I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the
nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his
wickedness. {31:12} Strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut
him off, and have left him: on the mountains and in all the valleys
his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the
watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone
down from his shadow, and have left him. {31:13} On his ruin all the
birds of the sky shall dwell, and all the animals of the field shall
be on his branches; {31:14} to the end that none of all the trees by
the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top
among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their
height, [even] all who drink water: for they are all delivered to
death, to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children
of men, with those who go down to the pit. {31:15} Thus says the Lord
GOD: In the day when he went down to [1>]Sheol[<1] I caused a
mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers; and
the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him,
and all the trees of the field fainted for him. {31:16} I made the
nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to
[2>]Sheol[<2] with those who descend into the pit; and all the trees
of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were
comforted in the lower parts of the earth. {31:17} They also went down
into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those
who were his arm, [that] lived under his shadow in the midst of the
nations. {31:18} To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness
among the trees of Eden? yet you will be brought down with the trees
of Eden to the lower parts of the earth: you shall lie in the midst of
the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. This is
Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord GOD.
{32:1} It happened in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the
first [day] of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me,
saying, {32:2} Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and tell him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations:
yet you are as a monster in the seas; and you broke out with your
rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their
rivers. {32:3} Thus says the Lord GOD: I will spread out my net on you
with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my net.
{32:4} I will leave you on the land, I will cast you forth on the open
field, and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you, and I
will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you. {32:5} I will
lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your
height. {32:6} I will also water with your blood the land in which you
swim, even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of
you. {32:7} When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and
make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon
shall not give its light. {32:8} All the bright lights of the sky will
I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord
GOD. {32:9} I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I
shall bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries
which you have not known. {32:10} Yes, I will make many peoples amazed
at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall
brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment,
every man for his own life, in the day of your fall. {32:11} For thus
says the Lord GOD: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come on you.
{32:12} By the swords of the mighty will I cause your multitude to
fall; the terrible of the nations are they all: and they shall bring
to nothing the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall be
destroyed. {32:13} I will destroy also all its animals from beside
many waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor
the hoofs of animals trouble them. {32:14} Then will I make their
waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord
GOD. {32:15} When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, a
land destitute of that of which it was full, when I shall strike all
those who dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD.
{32:16} This is the lamentation with which they shall lament; the
daughters of the nations shall lament therewith; over Egypt, and over
all her multitude, shall they lament therewith, says the Lord GOD.
{32:17} It happened also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth [day]
of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying, {32:18}
Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even
her, and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of
the earth, with those who go down into the pit. {32:19} Whom do you
pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised. {32:20}
They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword: she
is delivered to the sword; draw her away and all her multitudes.
{32:21} The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the
midst of [3>]Sheol[<3] with those who help him: they are gone down,
they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword. {32:22}
Asshur is there and all her company; her graves are all around her;
all of them slain, fallen by the sword; {32:23} whose graves are set
in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is around her
grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in
the land of the living. {32:24} There is Elam and all her multitude
around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone
down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their
terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with
those who go down to the pit. {32:25} They have set her a bed in the
midst of the slain with all her multitude; her graves are around her;
all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was
caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with
those who go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of those who are
slain. {32:26} There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude; their
graves are around them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword;
for they caused their terror in the land of the living. {32:27} They
shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who
are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their
swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for
[they were] the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
{32:28} But you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and
shall lie with those who are slain by the sword. {32:29} There is
Edom, her kings and all her princes, who in their might are laid with
those who are slain by the sword: they shall lie with the
uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit. {32:30} There
are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who
are gone down with the slain; in the terror which they caused by their
might they are put to shame; and they lie uncircumcised with those who
are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to
the pit. {32:31} Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over
all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword,
says the Lord GOD. {32:32} For I have put his terror in the land of
the living; and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised,
with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his
multitude, says the Lord GOD.
{33:1} The word of the LORD came to me, saying, {33:2} Son of man,
speak to the children of your people, and tell them, When I bring the
sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among
them, and set him for their watchman; {33:3} if, when he sees the
sword come on the land, he blow the [4>]shofar[<4], and warn the
people; {33:4} then whoever hears the sound of the [5>]shofar[<5], and
doesn't take warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his blood
shall be on his own head. {33:5} He heard the sound of the
[6>]shofar[<6], and didn't take warning; his blood shall be on him;
whereas if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his soul.
{33:6} But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn't blow the
[7>]shofar[<7], and the people aren't warned, and the sword comes, and
take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but
his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. {33:7} So you, son of
man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear
the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. {33:8} When I
tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you don't
speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in
his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand. {33:9}
Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and
he doesn't turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you
have delivered your soul. {33:10} You, son of man, tell the house of
Israel: Thus you speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on
us, and we pine away in them; how then can we live? {33:11} Tell them,
As I live, says the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the
wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn, turn
from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Israel? {33:12}
You, son of man, tell the children of your people, The righteousness
of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his disobedience;
and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in
the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall he who is
righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sins. {33:13}
When I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to
his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds
shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he has committed,
therein shall he die. {33:14} Again, when I say to the wicked, You
shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful
and right; {33:15} if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that
which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life,
committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
{33:16} None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered
against him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall
surely live. {33:17} Yet the children of your people say, The way of
the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
{33:18} When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits
iniquity, he shall even die therein. {33:19} When the wicked turns
from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall
live thereby. {33:20} Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal.
House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways. {33:21}
It happened in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth
[month], in the fifth [day] of the month, that one who had escaped out
of Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city has been struck. {33:22} Now
the hand of the LORD had been on me in the evening, before he who was
escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the
morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more mute. {33:23} The
word of the LORD came to me, saying, {33:24} Son of man, they who
inhabit those waste places in Eretz-Israel speak, saying, Abraham was
one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us
for inheritance. {33:25} Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord GOD:
You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed
blood: and shall you possess the land? {33:26} You stand on your
sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his
neighbor's wife: and shall you possess the land? {33:27} You shall
tell them, Thus says the Lord GOD: As I live, surely those who are in
the waste places shall fall by the sword; and him who is in the open
field will I give to the animals to be devoured; and those who are in
the strongholds and in the caves shall die of the pestilence. {33:28}
I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment; and the pride
of her power shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be
desolate, so that none shall pass through. {33:29} Then shall they
know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a desolation and an
astonishment, because of all their abominations which they have
committed. {33:30} As for you, son of man, the children of your people
talk of you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one
to another, everyone to his brother, saying, Please come and hear what
is the word that comes forth from the LORD. {33:31} They come to you
as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they
hear your words, but don't do them; for with their mouth they show
much love, but their heart goes after their gain. {33:32} Behold, you
are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and
can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they
don't do them. {33:33} When this comes to pass, (behold, it comes),
then shall they know that a prophet has been among them.
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Footnotes:
[1] {31:15} Sheol is the place of the dead.
[2] {31:16} Sheol is the place of the dead.
[3] {32:21} Sheol is the place of the dead.
[4] {33:3} or, trumpet
[5] {33:4} or, trumpet
[6] {33:5} or, trumpet
[7] {33:6} or, trumpet
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