Yechezkel, starting at chapter 25
{25:1} The word of the LORD came to me, saying, {25:2} Son of man,
set your face toward the children of `Ammon, and prophesy against
them: {25:3} and tell the children of `Ammon, Hear the word of the
Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD, Because you said, Aha, against my
sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against Eretz-Yisra'el, when it
was made desolate; and against the house of Yehudah, when they went
into captivity: {25:4} therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the
children of the east for a possession, and they shall set their
encampments in you, and make their dwellings in you; they shall eat
your fruit, and they shall drink your milk. {25:5} I will make Rabbah
a stable for camels, and the children of `Ammon a couching-place for
flocks: and you shall know that I am the LORD. {25:6} For thus says
the Lord GOD: Because you have clapped your hands, and stamped with
the feet, and rejoiced with all the despite of your soul against
Eretz-Yisra'el; {25:7} therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand
on you, and will deliver you for a spoil to the nations; and I will
cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish out of
the countries: I will destroy you; and you shall know that I am the
LORD. {25:8} Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Mo'av and Se`ir say,
Behold, the house of Yehudah is like all the nations; {25:9}
therefore, behold, I will open the side of Mo'av from the cities, from
his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country,
Beth-jeshimoth, Ba`al-Me`on, and Kiryatayim, {25:10} to the children
of the east, [to go] against the children of `Ammon; and I will give
them for a possession, that the children of `Ammon may not be
remembered among the nations. {25:11} and I will execute judgments on
Mo'av; and they shall know that I am the LORD. {25:12} Thus says the
Lord GOD: Because Edom has dealt against the house of Yehudah by
taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and revenged himself on
them; {25:13} therefore thus says the Lord GOD, I will stretch out my
hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it; and I will make
it desolate from Teman; even to Dedan shall they fall by the sword.
{25:14} I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people
Yisra'el; and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and
according to my wrath; and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord
GOD. {25:15} Thus says the Lord GOD: Because the Pelishtim have dealt
by revenge, and have taken vengeance with despite of soul to destroy
with perpetual enmity; {25:16} therefore thus says the Lord GOD,
Behold, I will stretch out my hand on the Pelishtim, and I will cut
off the Kereti, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast. {25:17} I
will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they
shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance on them.
{26:1} It happened in the eleventh year, in the first [day] of the
month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying, {26:2} Son of
man, because Tzor has said against Yerushalayim, Aha, she is broken:
the gate of the peoples; she is turned to me; I shall be replenished,
now that she is laid waste: {26:3} therefore thus says the Lord GOD,
Behold, I am against you, Tzor, and will cause many nations to come up
against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up. {26:4} They shall
destroy the walls of Tzor, and break down her towers: I will also
scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock. {26:5} She shall
be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea; for I
have spoken it, says the Lord GOD; and she shall become a spoil to the
nations. {26:6} Her daughters who are in the field shall be slain with
the sword: and they shall know that I am the LORD. {26:7} For thus
says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring on Tzor Nevukhadretztzar king
of Bavel, king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with
chariots, and with horsemen, and a company, and much people. {26:8} He
shall kill with the sword your daughters in the field; and he shall
make forts against you, and cast up a mound against you, and raise up
the buckler against you. {26:9} He shall set his battering engines
against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.
{26:10} By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall
cover you: your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of
the wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into your gates,
as men enter into a city in which is made a breach. {26:11} With the
hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all your streets; he shall
kill your people with the sword; and the pillars of your strength
shall go down to the ground. {26:12} They shall make a spoil of your
riches, and make a prey of your merchandise; and they shall break down
your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your
stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the waters.
{26:13} I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound
of your harps shall be no more heard. {26:14} I will make you a bare
rock; you shall be a place for the spreading of nets; you shall be
built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, says the Lord GOD.
{26:15} Thus says the Lord GOD to Tzor: shall not the isles shake at
the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is
made in the midst of you? {26:16} Then all the princes of the sea
shall come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and
strip off their embroidered garments: they shall clothe themselves
with trembling; they shall sit on the ground, and shall tremble every
moment, and be astonished at you. {26:17} They shall take up a
lamentation over you, and tell you, How are you destroyed, who were
inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the
sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who
lived there! {26:18} Now shall the isles tremble in the day of your
fall; yes, the isles that are in the sea shall be dismayed at your
departure. {26:19} For thus says the Lord GOD: When I shall make you a
desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall
bring up the deep on you, and the great waters shall cover you;
{26:20} then will I bring you down with those who descend into the
pit, to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the
lower parts of the [1>]eretz[<1], in the places that are desolate of
old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and
I will set glory in the land of the living: {26:21} I will make you a
terror, and you shall no more have any being; though you are sought
for, yet shall you never be found again, says the Lord GOD.
{27:1} The word of the LORD came again to me, saying, {27:2} You,
son of man, take up a lamentation over Tzor; {27:3} and tell Tzor, you
who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples
to many isles, thus says the Lord GOD: You, Tzor, have said, I am
perfect in beauty. {27:4} Your borders are in the heart of the seas;
your builders have perfected your beauty. {27:5} They have made all
your planks of fir trees from Senir; they have taken a cedar from
Levanon to make a mast for you. {27:6} Of the oaks of Bashan have they
made your oars; they have made your benches of ivory inlaid in
boxwood, from the isles of Kittiyim. {27:7} Of fine linen with
embroidered work from Mitzrayim was your sail, that it might be to you
for an ensign; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was your
awning. {27:8} The inhabitants of Tzidon and Arvad were your rowers:
your wise men, Tzor, were in you, they were your pilots. {27:9} The
old men of Geval and the wise men of it were in you your repairers of
ship seams: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you
to deal in your merchandise. {27:10} Paras and Lud and Put were in
your army, your men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in you;
they set forth your comeliness. {27:11} The men of Arvad with your
army were on your walls round about, and valorous men were in your
towers; they hanged their shields on your walls round about; they have
perfected your beauty. {27:12} Tarshish was your merchant by reason of
the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and
lead, they traded for your wares. {27:13} Yavan, Tuval, and Meshekh,
they were your traffickers; they traded the persons of men and vessels
of brass for your merchandise. {27:14} They of the house of Togarmah
traded for your wares with horses and war-horses and mules. {27:15}
The men of Dedan were your traffickers; many isles were the market of
your hand: they brought you in exchange horns of ivory and ebony.
{27:16} Aram was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your
handiworks: they traded for your wares with emeralds, purple, and
embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies. {27:17}
Yehudah, and Eretz-Yisra'el, they were your traffickers: they traded
for your merchandise wheat of Minnit, and confections, and honey, and
oil, and balm. {27:18} Dammesek was your merchant for the multitude of
your handiworks, by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches,
with the wine of Helbon, and white wool. {27:19} Dan and Yavan traded
with yarn for your wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among
your merchandise. {27:20} Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths
for riding. {27:21} `Arav, and all the princes of Kedar, they were the
merchants of your hand; in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were
they your merchants. {27:22} The traffickers of Sheva and Ra`mah, they
were your traffickers; they traded for your wares with the chief of
all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. {27:23} Haran and
Kanneh and `Eden, the traffickers of Sheva, Ashshur [and] Kilmad, were
your traffickers. {27:24} These were your traffickers in choice wares,
in wrappings of blue and embroidered work, and in chests of rich
clothing, bound with cords and made of cedar, among your merchandise.
{27:25} The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise:
and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the
seas. {27:26} Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east
wind has broken you in the heart of the seas. {27:27} Your riches, and
your wares, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your
repairers of ship seams, and the dealers in your merchandise, and all
your men of war, who are in you, with all your company which is in the
midst of you, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your
ruin. {27:28} At the sound of the cry of your pilots the suburbs shall
shake. {27:29} All who handled the oar, the mariners, [and] all the
pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they shall stand
on the land, {27:30} and shall cause their voice to be heard over you,
and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads, they
shall wallow themselves in the ashes: {27:31} and they shall make
themselves bald for you, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall
weep for you in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning. {27:32} In
their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament
over you, [saying], Who is there like Tzor, like her who is brought to
silence in the midst of the sea? {27:33} When your wares went forth
out of the seas, you filled many peoples; you did enrich the kings of
the [1>]eretz[<1] with the multitude of your riches and of your
merchandise. {27:34} In the time that you were broken by the seas in
the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company did
fall in the midst of you. {27:35} All the inhabitants of the isles are
astonished at you, and their kings are horribly afraid; they are
troubled in their face. {27:36} The merchants among the peoples hiss
at you; you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any
being.
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Footnotes:
[1] {26:20} earth
[1] {27:33} earth
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