Yechezkel, starting at chapter 4
{4:1} You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before you, and
portray on it a city, even Yerushalayim: {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 round
about. {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 Yisra'el. {4:4} Moreover lie you on your left
side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Yisra'el 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
shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Yisra'el. {4:6} Again,
when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side,
and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Yehudah: forty days, each
day for a year, have I appointed it to you. {4:7} You shall set your
face toward the siege of Yerushalayim, 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 you bread of it; [according to] the
number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred
ninety days, shall you eat of it. {4:10} Your food which you shall eat
shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shall you
eat it. {4:11} You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a
hin: from time to time shall you 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 Yisra'el eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will
drive them. {4:14} Then said I, 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 Yerushalayim: 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; [as] a barber's razor
shall you take it 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 shall you 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 round about 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 shall you 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 Yisra'el. {5:5} Thus says the Lord GOD: This is
Yerushalayim; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and
countries are round about 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 round about 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 round about you, and have
not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither
have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about
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 round about 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 round about 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 round about 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 Yisra'el, and prophesy to them,
{6:3} and say, You mountains of Yisra'el, 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 sun-images 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 Yisra'el before their idols; and I will
scatter your bones round about 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 sun-images
may be hewn 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 they 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: Smite with your hand, and
stamp with your foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil
abominations of the house of Yisra'el; 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 round
about 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 sweet savor 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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