Yechezkel, 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 Par`oh king of Mitzrayim, and to his
multitude: Whom are you like in your greatness? {31:3} Behold, the
Ashshur was a cedar in Levanon 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: the rivers of it ran round about 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 did all the
animals of the field bring forth their young; and under its shadow
lived all great nations. {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 [1>]eretz[<1] 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
[2>]eretz[<2], 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 She'ol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him,
and I restrained the rivers of it; and the great waters were stayed;
and I caused Levanon 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 She'ol with those who descend into
the pit; and all the trees of `Eden, the choice and best of Levanon,
all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the
[3>]eretz[<3]. {31:17} They also went down into She'ol 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 shall you be brought down with the trees of `Eden to the lower
parts of the [4>]eretz[<4]: you shall lie in the midst of the
uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. This is Par`oh
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 Par`oh king of
Mitzrayim, and tell him, You were likened to a young lion of the
nations: yet are you as a monster in the seas; and you did break forth
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 [1>]eretz[<1] 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 the stars of it 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 vex 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 Bavel 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 Mitzrayim, and all
the multitude of it shall be destroyed. {32:13} I will destroy also
all the animals of it 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
Mitzrayim desolate and waste, a land destitute of that whereof 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 Mitzrayim, 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 Mitzrayim, and cast them down, even her, and the
daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the
[2>]eretz[<2], 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 She'ol with those who help him: they are gone down,
they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword. {32:22}
Ashshur is there and all her company; her graves are round about 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 round about 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
round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are
gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the [3>]eretz[<3], 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
round about 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 Meshekh, Tuval, and all their
multitude; their graves are round about 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 She'ol 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 Tzidonim, 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} Par`oh shall see
them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Par`oh 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 Par`oh 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 [1>]shofar[<1], and warn the
people; {33:4} then whoever hears the sound of the [2>]shofar[<2], 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
[3>]shofar[<3], 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
[4>]shofar[<4], 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 Yisra'el; 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
Yisra'el: 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 you,
turn you from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Yisra'el?
{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 Yisra'el, I will judge you everyone 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 Yerushalayim 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-Yisra'el speak, saying, Avraham
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 you defile everyone his neighbor's
wife: and shall you possess the land? {33:27} Thus shall you 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 Yisra'el 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 comes, 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] {31:12} earth
[2] {31:14} earth
[3] {31:16} earth
[4] {31:18} earth
[1] {32:4} earth
[2] {32:18} earth
[3] {32:24} earth
[1] {33:3} trumpet
[2] {33:4} trumpet
[3] {33:5} trumpet
[4] {33:6} trumpet
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