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Ezekiel, starting at chapter 4
{4:1} You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before
yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem: {4:2} and lay
siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound
against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams
against it all around. {4:3} Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it
for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward
it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This
shall be a sign to the house of Israel. {4:4} Moreover lie on your
left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it;
according to the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you
shall bear their iniquity. {4:5} For I have appointed the years of
their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred
ninety days: so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
{4:6} Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your
right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty
days, each day for a year, have I appointed it to you. {4:7} You shall
set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered;
and you shall prophesy against it. {4:8} Behold, I lay bands on you,
and you shall not turn you from one side to the other, until you have
accomplished the days of your siege. {4:9} Take for yourself also
wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and
put them in one vessel, and make bread of it; according to the number
of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety
days, you shall eat of it. {4:10} Your food which you shall eat shall
be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time you shall eat
it. {4:11} You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin:
from time to time you shall drink. {4:12} You shall eat it as barley
cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out
of man. {4:13} The LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel
eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.
{4:14} Then I said, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul has not been
polluted; for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that
which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there
abominable flesh into my mouth. {4:15} Then he said to me, Behold, I
have given you cow's dung for man's dung, and you shall prepare your
bread thereon. {4:16} Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I
will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread
by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by
measure, and in dismay: {4:17} that they may want bread and water, and
be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
{5:1} You, son of man, take a sharp sword; You shall take it as a
barber's razor to you, and shall cause it to pass on your head and on
your beard: then take balances to weigh, and divide the hair. {5:2} A
third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when
the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third part,
and strike with the sword around it; and a third part you shall
scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them. {5:3} You
shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in your skirts. {5:4}
Of these again you shall take, and cast them into the midst of the
fire, and burn them in the fire; from it shall a fire come forth into
all the house of Israel. {5:5} Thus says the Lord GOD: This is
Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries
are around her. {5:6} She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing
wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than
the countries that are around her; for they have rejected my
ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.
{5:7} Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are turbulent more
than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my
statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have done after the
ordinances of the nations that are around you; {5:8} therefore thus
says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will
execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.
{5:9} I will do in you that which I have not done, and whereunto I
will not do any more the like, because of all your abominations.
{5:10} Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of you,
and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on
you; and the whole remnant of you will I scatter to all the winds.
{5:11} Therefore as I live, says the Lord GOD, surely, because you
have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with
all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish you; neither
shall my eye spare, and I also will have no pity. {5:12} A third part
of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be
consumed in the midst of you; and a third part shall fall by the sword
around you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will
draw out a sword after them. {5:13} Thus shall my anger be
accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I
shall be comforted; and they shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken
in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them. {5:14} Moreover
I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are
around you, in the sight of all that pass by. {5:15} So it shall be a
reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the
nations that are around you, when I shall execute judgments on you in
anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, the LORD, have spoken
it;) {5:16} when I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, that
are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will
increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread; {5:17}
and I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they shall bereave
you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring
the sword on you: I, the LORD, have spoken it.
{6:1} The word of the LORD came to me, saying, {6:2} Son of man,
set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy to them,
{6:3} and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD:
Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and to the hills, to the
watercourses and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword
on you, and I will destroy your high places. {6:4} Your altars shall
become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken; and I will
cast down your slain men before your idols. {6:5} I will lay the dead
bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will
scatter your bones around your altars. {6:6} In all your dwelling
places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be
desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and
your idols may be broken and cease, and your incense altars may be cut
down, and your works may be abolished. {6:7} The slain shall fall in
the midst of you, and you shall know that I am the LORD. {6:8} Yet
will I leave a remnant, in that you shall have some that escape the
sword among the nations, when you shall be scattered through the
countries. {6:9} Those of you that escape shall remember me among the
nations where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been
broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with
their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols: and they
shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they
have committed in all their abominations. {6:10} They shall know that
I am the LORD: I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to
them. {6:11} Thus says the Lord GOD: Strike with your hand, and stamp
with your foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations of
the house of Israel; for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine,
and by the pestilence. {6:12} He who is far off shall die of the
pestilence; and he who is near shall fall by the sword; and he who
remains and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I
accomplish my wrath on them. {6:13} You shall know that I am the LORD,
when their slain men shall be among their idols around their altars,
on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every
green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered
pleasant aroma to all their idols. {6:14} I will stretch out my hand
on them, and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness
toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations: and they shall know
that I am the LORD.
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