Yechezkel, starting at chapter 19
{19:1} Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Yisra'el,
{19:2} and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among
lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her whelps.
{19:3} She brought up one of her whelps: 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 Mitzrayim. {19:5} Now when she saw that she had
waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps,
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 the fullness of it, 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 Bavel; they brought him into strongholds, that his
voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Yisra'el. {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 Zakenim of Yisra'el 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 Zakenim of
Yisra'el, 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
Yisra'el, and swore to the seed of the house of Ya`akov, and made
myself known to them in the land of Mitzrayim, 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 Mitzrayim 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 you away every man the
abominations of his eyes, and don't defile yourselves with the idols
of Mitzrayim; I am the LORD your God. {20:8} But they rebelled against
me, and would not listen to me; they did not every man cast away the
abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of
Mitzrayim. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to
accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of
Mitzrayim. {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 Mitzrayim. {20:10} So I caused them to go forth out of the
land of Mitzrayim, and brought them into the wilderness. {20:11} I
gave them my statutes, and shown them my ordinances, which if a man
do, he shall live in them. {20:12} Moreover also I gave them my
Shabbatot, 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 Yisra'el
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 Shabbatot 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 Shabbatot: 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 you 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 Shabbatot
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
Shabbatot. 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
Shabbatot, 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 Yisra'el, 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 sweet savor, and they poured out there their
drink-offerings. {20:29} Then I said to them, What means the high
place whereunto you go? So the name of it is called Bamah to this day.
{20:30} Therefore tell the house of Yisra'el, Thus says the Lord GOD:
Do you pollute yourselves after the manner of your fathers? and play
you 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 Yisra'el? 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
Mitzrayim, 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 sojourn, but they shall not enter
into Eretz-Yisra'el: and you shall know that I am the LORD. {20:39} As
for you, house of Yisra'el, thus says the Lord GOD: Go you, serve
everyone his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me;
but my holy name shall you no more profane with your gifts, and with
your idols. {20:40} For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the
height of Yisra'el, says the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of
Yisra'el, 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 sweet savor 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-Yisra'el, into
the country which I swore to give to your fathers. {20:43} There shall
you 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 Yisra'el, 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 said I, 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 Yerushalayim, and drop [your word] toward the
sanctuaries, and prophesy against Eretz-Yisra'el; {21:3} and tell
Eretz-Yisra'el, 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 loins and with
bitterness shall you 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 Yisra'el: 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 chambers. {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 you together,
go to the right, set yourself 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 Bavel 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
Yehudah in Yerushalayim the fortified. {21:21} For the king of Bavel
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
terafim, he looked in the liver. {21:22} In his right hand was the
divination [for] Yerushalayim, 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 do appear; because
you have come to memory, you shall be taken with the hand. {21:25}
You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Yisra'el, whose day is
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 you, 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 is 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 no more remembered: for I, the LORD, have
spoken it.
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