| 25:1: |
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, |
| 25:2: |
Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against
them; |
| 25:3: |
And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith
the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was
profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and
against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity; |
| 25:4: |
Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a
possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their
dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy
milk. |
| 25:5: |
And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a
couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. |
| 25:6: |
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands,
and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite
against the land of Israel; |
| 25:7: |
Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will
deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the
people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will
destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD. |
| 25:8: |
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold,
the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen; |
| 25:9: |
Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from
his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country,
Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim, |
| 25:10: |
Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in
possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the
nations. |
| 25:11: |
And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am
the LORD. |
| 25:12: |
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt against the
house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and
revenged himself upon them; |
| 25:13: |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand
upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it
desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword. |
| 25:14: |
And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people
Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according
to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord GOD. |
| 25:15: |
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by
revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it
for the old hatred; |
| 25:16: |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine
hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy
the remnant of the sea coast. |
| 25:17: |
And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes;
and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance
upon them. |
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| 26:1: |
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the
month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| 26:2: |
Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she
is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I
shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: |
| 26:3: |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O
Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea
causeth his waves to come up. |
| 26:4: |
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers:
I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a
rock. |
| 26:5: |
It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the
sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a
spoil to the nations. |
| 26:6: |
And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword;
and they shall know that I am the LORD. |
| 26:7: |
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with
horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much
people. |
| 26:8: |
He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall
make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the
buckler against thee. |
| 26:9: |
And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes
he shall break down thy towers. |
| 26:10: |
By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee:
thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels,
and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter
into a city wherein is made a breach. |
| 26:11: |
With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he
shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go
down to the ground. |
| 26:12: |
And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy
merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy
pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy
dust in the midst of the water. |
| 26:13: |
And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of
thy harps shall be no more heard. |
| 26:14: |
And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to
spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken
it, saith the Lord GOD. |
| 26:15: |
Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the
sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in
the midst of thee? |
| 26:16: |
Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones,
and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they
shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground,
and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee. |
| 26:17: |
And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How
art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned
city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause
their terror to be on all that haunt it! |
| 26:18: |
Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles
that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure. |
| 26:19: |
For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city,
like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep
upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee; |
| 26:20: |
When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit,
with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the
earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that
thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the
living; |
| 26:21: |
I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be
sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD. |
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| 27:1: |
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, |
| 27:2: |
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus; |
| 27:3: |
And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea,
which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty. |
| 27:4: |
Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected
thy beauty. |
| 27:5: |
They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have
taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee. |
| 27:6: |
Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the
Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of
Chittim. |
| 27:7: |
Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou
spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah
was that which covered thee. |
| 27:8: |
The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O
Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots. |
| 27:9: |
The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy
calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to
occupy thy merchandise. |
| 27:10: |
They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of
war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy
comeliness. |
| 27:11: |
The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and
the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy
walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect. |
| 27:12: |
Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of
riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs. |
| 27:13: |
Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the
persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market. |
| 27:14: |
They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and
horsemen and mules. |
| 27:15: |
The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise
of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and
ebony. |
| 27:16: |
Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy
making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered
work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate. |
| 27:17: |
Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded
in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and
balm. |
| 27:18: |
Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy
making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white
wool. |
| 27:19: |
Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright
iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market. |
| 27:20: |
Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots. |
| 27:21: |
Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in
lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants. |
| 27:22: |
The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they
occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious
stones, and gold. |
| 27:23: |
Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Assur, and
Chilmad, were thy merchants. |
| 27:24: |
These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and
broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made
of cedar, among thy merchandise. |
| 27:25: |
The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast
replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas. |
| 27:26: |
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath
broken thee in the midst of the seas. |
| 27:27: |
Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy
pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy
men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the
midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy
ruin. |
| 27:28: |
The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. |
| 27:29: |
And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the
sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the
land; |
| 27:30: |
And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry
bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow
themselves in the ashes: |
| 27:31: |
And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them
with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and
bitter wailing. |
| 27:32: |
And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and
lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in
the midst of the sea? |
| 27:33: |
When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people;
thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches
and of thy merchandise. |
| 27:34: |
In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of
the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall
fall. |
| 27:35: |
All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and
their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their
countenance. |
| 27:36: |
The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a
terror, and never shalt be any more. |
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| 28:1: |
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, |
| 28:2: |
Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit
in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not
God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: |
| 28:3: |
Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can
hide from thee: |
| 28:4: |
With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee
riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: |
| 28:5: |
By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy
riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches: |
| 28:6: |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart
as the heart of God; |
| 28:7: |
Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of
the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy
wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. |
| 28:8: |
They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths
of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. |
| 28:9: |
Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou
shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee. |
| 28:10: |
Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of
strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. |
| 28:11: |
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| 28:12: |
Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say
unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of
wisdom, and perfect in beauty. |
| 28:13: |
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was
thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx,
and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold:
the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in
the day that thou wast created. |
| 28:14: |
Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so:
thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in
the midst of the stones of fire. |
| 28:15: |
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created,
till iniquity was found in thee. |
| 28:16: |
By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of
thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as
profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering
cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. |
| 28:17: |
Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted
thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I
will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. |
| 28:18: |
Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine
iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth
a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring
thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold
thee. |
| 28:19: |
All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee:
thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more. |
| 28:20: |
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| 28:21: |
Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it, |
| 28:22: |
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon;
and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I
am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be
sanctified in her. |
| 28:23: |
For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and
the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on
every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD. |
| 28:24: |
And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel,
nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised
them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD. |
| 28:25: |
Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of
Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be
sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in
their land that I have given to my servant Jacob. |
| 28:26: |
And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and
plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have
executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and
they shall know that I am the LORD their God. |
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| 29:1: |
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the
month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| 29:2: |
Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy
against him, and against all Egypt: |
| 29:3: |
Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee,
Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his
rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for
myself. |
| 29:4: |
But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy
rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the
midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy
scales. |
| 29:5: |
And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the
fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not
be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the
beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven. |
| 29:6: |
And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD,
because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. |
| 29:7: |
When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend
all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and
madest all their loins to be at a stand. |
| 29:8: |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon
thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee. |
| 29:9: |
And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall
know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I
have made it. |
| 29:10: |
Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I
will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of
Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia. |
| 29:11: |
No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass
through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years. |
| 29:12: |
And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the
countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are
laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the
Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the
countries. |
| 29:13: |
Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather
the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered: |
| 29:14: |
And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to
return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and
they shall be there a base kingdom. |
| 29:15: |
It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exal elf
any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no
more rule over the nations. |
| 29:16: |
And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which
bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them:
but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD. |
| 29:17: |
And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first
month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying, |
| 29:18: |
Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a
great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder
was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service
that he had served against it: |
| 29:19: |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of
Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her
multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the
wages for his army. |
| 29:20: |
I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served
against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD. |
| 29:21: |
In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud
forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of
them; and they shall know that I am the LORD. |
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| 30:1: |
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, |
| 30:2: |
Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe
worth the day |
| 30:3: |
For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day;
it shall be the time of the heathen. |
| 30:4: |
And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in
Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away
her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down. |
| 30:5: |
Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub,
and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the
sword. |
| 30:6: |
Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the
pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they
fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD. |
| 30:7: |
And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are
desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are
wasted. |
| 30:8: |
And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in
Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed. |
| 30:9: |
In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the
careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in
the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh. |
| 30:10: |
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to
cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon. |
| 30:11: |
He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be
brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against
Egypt, and fill the land with the slain. |
| 30:12: |
And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of
the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by
the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it. |
| 30:13: |
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will
cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a
prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of
Egypt. |
| 30:14: |
And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will
execute judgments in No. |
| 30:15: |
And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will
cut off the multitude of No. |
| 30:16: |
And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall
be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily. |
| 30:17: |
The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword: and
these cities shall go into captivity. |
| 30:18: |
At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break
there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in
her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into
captivity. |
| 30:19: |
Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am
the LORD. |
| 30:20: |
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the
seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying, |
| 30:21: |
Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo,
it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to
make it strong to hold the sword. |
| 30:22: |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king
of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken;
and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand. |
| 30:23: |
And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse
them through the countries. |
| 30:24: |
And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my
sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall
groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man. |
| 30:25: |
But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms
of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when
I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall
stretch it out upon the land of Egypt. |
| 30:26: |
And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them
among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD. |
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| 31:1: |
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the
first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying, |
| 31:2: |
Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude;
Whom art thou like in thy greatness? |
| 31:3: |
Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and
with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among
the thick boughs. |
| 31:4: |
The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her
rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers
unto all the trees of the field. |
| 31:5: |
Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field,
and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of
the multitude of waters, when he shot forth. |
| 31:6: |
All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his
branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and
under his shadow dwelt all great nations. |
| 31:7: |
Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for
his root was by great waters. |
| 31:8: |
The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees
were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his
branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his
beauty. |
| 31:9: |
I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all
the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him. |
| 31:10: |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up
thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs,
and his heart is lifted up in his height; |
| 31:11: |
I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the
heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his
wickedness. |
| 31:12: |
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and
have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are
fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all
the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left
him. |
| 31:13: |
Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the
beasts of the field shall be upon his branches: |
| 31:14: |
To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves
for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs,
neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for
they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in
the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit. |
| 31:15: |
Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I
caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the
floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon 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 hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of
Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be
comforted in the nether parts of the earth. |
| 31:17: |
They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with
the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the
midst of the heathen. |
| 31:18: |
To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees
of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the
nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the
uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and
all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD. |
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| 32:1: |
And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the
first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying, |
| 32:2: |
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say
unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a
whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst
the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers. |
| 32:3: |
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee
with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my
net. |
| 32:4: |
Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the
open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon
thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee. |
| 32:5: |
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys
with thy height. |
| 32:6: |
I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even
to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee. |
| 32:7: |
And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the
stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall
not give her light. |
| 32:8: |
All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set
darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD. |
| 32:9: |
I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy
destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not
known. |
| 32:10: |
Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be
horribly afraid for thee, 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 thy fall. |
| 32:11: |
For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall
come upon thee. |
| 32:12: |
By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the
terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of
Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed. |
| 32:13: |
I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great
waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the
hoofs of beasts trouble them. |
| 32:14: |
Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run
like oil, saith the Lord GOD. |
| 32:15: |
When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall
be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them
that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD. |
| 32:16: |
This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the
daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her,
even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD. |
| 32:17: |
It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the
month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| 32:18: |
Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even
her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of
the earth, with them that go down into the pit. |
| 32:19: |
Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the
uncircumcised. |
| 32:20: |
They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she
is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes. |
| 32:21: |
The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of
hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised,
slain by the sword. |
| 32:22: |
Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of
them slain, fallen by the sword: |
| 32:23: |
Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is
round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which
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, which are gone down uncircumcised into
the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of
the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that 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 him: all of them uncircumcised,
slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the
living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the
pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain. |
| 32:26: |
There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round
about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they
caused their terror in the land of the living. |
| 32:27: |
And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the
uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and
they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall
be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the
land of the living. |
| 32:28: |
Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and
shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword. |
| 32:29: |
There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might
are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the
uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit. |
| 32:30: |
There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the
Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are
ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be
slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the
pit. |
| 32:31: |
Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his
multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the
Lord GOD. |
| 32:32: |
For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall
be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with
the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD. |
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| 33:1: |
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| 33:2: |
Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them,
When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man
of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: |
| 33:3: |
If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet,
and warn the people; |
| 33:4: |
Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not
warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon
his own head. |
| 33:5: |
He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood
shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his
soul. |
| 33:6: |
But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and
the people be not warned; if the sword come, 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 thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of
Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them
from me. |
| 33:8: |
When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if
thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man
shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine
hand. |
| 33:9: |
Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if
he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast
delivered thy soul. |
| 33:10: |
Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye
speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine
away in them, how should we then live? |
| 33:11: |
Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in
the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live:
turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of
Israel? |
| 33:12: |
Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The
righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his
transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall
thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the
righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he
sinneth. |
| 33:13: |
When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he
trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his
righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he
hath committed, he shall die for it. |
| 33:14: |
Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt 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 he had robbed, walk
in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely
live, he shall not die. |
| 33:16: |
None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him:
he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live. |
| 33:17: |
Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal:
but as for them, their way is not equal. |
| 33:18: |
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth
iniquity, he shall even die thereby. |
| 33:19: |
But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is
lawful and right, he shall live thereby. |
| 33:20: |
Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I
will judge you every one after his ways. |
| 33:21: |
And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the
tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out
of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten. |
| 33:22: |
Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he that
was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the
morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb. |
| 33:23: |
Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| 33:24: |
Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel
speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are
many; the land is given us for inheritance. |
| 33:25: |
Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the
blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall
ye possess the land? |
| 33:26: |
Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every
one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land? |
| 33:27: |
Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely
they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in
the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be
in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence. |
| 33:28: |
For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength
shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none
shall pass through. |
| 33:29: |
Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land
most desolate because of all their abominations which they have
committed. |
| 33:30: |
Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking
against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one
to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear
what is the word that cometh forth from the LORD. |
| 33:31: |
And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before
thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them:
for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after
their covetousness. |
| 33:32: |
And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a
pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy
words, but they do them not. |
| 33:33: |
And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they
know that a prophet hath been among them. |
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| 34:1: |
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| 34:2: |
Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and
say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the
shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds
feed the flocks? |
| 34:3: |
Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that
are fed: but ye feed not the flock. |
| 34:4: |
The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that
which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither
have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought
that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled
them. |
| 34:5: |
And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they
became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were
scattered. |
| 34:6: |
My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high
hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and
none did search or seek after them. |
| 34:7: |
Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD; |
| 34:8: |
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey,
and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was
no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the
shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock; |
| 34:9: |
Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD; |
| 34:10: |
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I
will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding
the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I
will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for
them. |
| 34:11: |
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my
sheep, and seek them out. |
| 34:12: |
As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his
sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver
them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and
dark day. |
| 34:13: |
And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the
countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the
mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the
country. |
| 34:14: |
I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of
Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a
fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel. |
| 34:15: |
I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the
Lord GOD. |
| 34:16: |
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was
driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen
that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will
feed them with judgment. |
| 34:17: |
And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge
between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats. |
| 34:18: |
Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture,
but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and
to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your
feet? |
| 34:19: |
And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your
feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet. |
| 34:20: |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will
judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle. |
| 34:21: |
Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all
the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad; |
| 34:22: |
Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and
I will judge between cattle and cattle. |
| 34:23: |
And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them,
even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their
shepherd. |
| 34:24: |
And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among
them; I the LORD have spoken it. |
| 34:25: |
And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the
evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the
wilderness, and sleep in the woods. |
| 34:26: |
And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing;
and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be
showers of blessing. |
| 34:27: |
And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall
yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know
that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and
delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of
them. |
| 34:28: |
And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the
beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none
shall make them afraid. |
| 34:29: |
And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no
more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the
heathen any more. |
| 34:30: |
Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that
they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord GOD. |
| 34:31: |
And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,
saith the Lord GOD. |
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| 35:1: |
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| 35:2: |
Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against
it, |
| 35:3: |
And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am
against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will
make thee most desolate. |
| 35:4: |
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou
shalt know that I am the LORD. |
| 35:5: |
Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of
the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their
calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end: |
| 35:6: |
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto
blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even
blood shall pursue thee. |
| 35:7: |
Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him
that passeth out and him that returneth. |
| 35:8: |
And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and
in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain
with the sword. |
| 35:9: |
I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not
return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. |
| 35:10: |
Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries
shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there: |
| 35:11: |
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to
thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy
hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have
judged thee. |
| 35:12: |
And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy
blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel,
saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume. |
| 35:13: |
Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied
your words against me: I have heard them. |
| 35:14: |
Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make
thee desolate. |
| 35:15: |
As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel,
because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate,
O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall know that I
am the LORD. |
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| 36:1: |
Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and
say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD: |
| 36:2: |
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you,
Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession: |
| 36:3: |
Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they
have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might
be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in
the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people: |
| 36:4: |
Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD;
Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the
rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities
that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the
heathen that are round about; |
| 36:5: |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy
have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea,
which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all
their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey. |
| 36:6: |
Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the
mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury,
because ye have borne the shame of the heathen: |
| 36:7: |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely
the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame. |
| 36:8: |
But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches,
and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to
come. |
| 36:9: |
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be
tilled and sown: |
| 36:10: |
And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all
of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be
builded: |
| 36:11: |
And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase
and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will
do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am
the LORD. |
| 36:12: |
Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and
they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou
shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men. |
| 36:13: |
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou land
devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations; |
| 36:14: |
Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations
any more, saith the Lord GOD. |
| 36:15: |
Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any
more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more,
neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord
GOD. |
| 36:16: |
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| 36:17: |
Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they
defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me
as the uncleanness of a removed woman. |
| 36:18: |
Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed
upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it: |
| 36:19: |
And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed
through the countries: according to their way and according to their
doings I judged them. |
| 36:20: |
And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they
profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of
the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land. |
| 36:21: |
But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had
profaned among the heathen, whither they went. |
| 36:22: |
Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do
not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's
sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went. |
| 36:23: |
And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the
heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen
shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be
sanctified in you before their eyes. |
| 36:24: |
For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all
countries, and will bring you into your own land. |
| 36:25: |
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean:
from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse
you. |
| 36:26: |
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within
you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will
give you an heart of flesh. |
| 36:27: |
And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my
statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. |
| 36:28: |
And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye
shall be my people, and I will be your God. |
| 36:29: |
I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for
the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you. |
| 36:30: |
And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the
field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the
heathen. |
| 36:31: |
Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were
not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your
iniquities and for your abominations. |
| 36:32: |
Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto
you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel. |
| 36:33: |
Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you
from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities,
and the wastes shall be builded. |
| 36:34: |
And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the
sight of all that passed by. |
| 36:35: |
And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the
garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become
fenced, and are inhabited. |
| 36:36: |
Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the
LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the
LORD have spoken it, and I will do it. |
| 36:37: |
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of by the
house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a
flock. |
| 36:38: |
As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so
shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know
that I am the LORD. |
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|
| 37:1: |
The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of
the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of
bones, |
| 37:2: |
And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were
very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. |
| 37:3: |
And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I
answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. |
| 37:4: |
Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them,
O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. |
| 37:5: |
Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath
to enter into you, and ye shall live: |
| 37:6: |
And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and
cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye
shall know that I am the LORD. |
| 37:7: |
So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a
noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his
bone. |
| 37:8: |
And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them,
and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them. |
| 37:9: |
Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man,
and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O
breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. |
| 37:10: |
So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them,
and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great
army. |
| 37:11: |
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of
Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we
are cut off for our parts. |
| 37:12: |
Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up
out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. |
| 37:13: |
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves,
O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, |
| 37:14: |
And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place
you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it,
and performed it, saith the LORD. |
| 37:15: |
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, |
| 37:16: |
Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it,
For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take
another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and
for all the house of Israel his companions: |
| 37:17: |
And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become
one in thine hand. |
| 37:18: |
And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying,
Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these? |
| 37:19: |
Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick
of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his
fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and
make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand. |
| 37:20: |
And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before
their eyes. |
| 37:21: |
And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the
children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will
gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: |
| 37:22: |
And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of
Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more
two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at
all: |
| 37:23: |
Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor
with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I
will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned,
and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their
God. |
| 37:24: |
And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have
one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my
statutes, and do them. |
| 37:25: |
And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my
servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein,
even they, and their children, and their children's children for
ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. |
| 37:26: |
Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an
everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them,
and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. |
| 37:27: |
My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and
they shall be my people. |
| 37:28: |
And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when
my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore. |
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| 38:1: |
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| 38:2: |
Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief
prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, |
| 38:3: |
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold I am against thee, O Gog,
the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: |
| 38:4: |
And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will
bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them
clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and
shields, all of them handling swords: |
| 38:5: |
Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and
helmet: |
| 38:6: |
Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north
quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee. |
| 38:7: |
Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company
that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them. |
| 38:8: |
After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt
come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered
out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been
always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall
dwell safely all of them. |
| 38:9: |
Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud
to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with
thee. |
| 38:10: |
Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same
time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil
thought: |
| 38:11: |
And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I
will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling
without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, |
| 38:12: |
To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the
desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are
gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that
dwell in the midst of the land. |
| 38:13: |
Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young
lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast
thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold,
to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? |
| 38:14: |
Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not
know it? |
| 38:15: |
And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and
many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company,
and a mighty army: |
| 38:16: |
And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to
cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee
against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified
in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. |
| 38:17: |
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old
time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those
days many years that I would bring thee against them? |
| 38:18: |
And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come
against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come
up in my face. |
| 38:19: |
For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely
in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; |
| 38:20: |
So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the
beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth,
and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my
presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places
shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. |
| 38:21: |
And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains,
saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his
brother. |
| 38:22: |
And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I
will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are
with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and
brimstone. |
| 38:23: |
Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known
in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD. |
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| 39:1: |
Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of
Meshech and Tubal: |
| 39:2: |
And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and
will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon
the mountains of Israel: |
| 39:3: |
And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine
arrows to fall out of thy right hand. |
| 39:4: |
Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy
bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the
ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be
devoured. |
| 39:5: |
Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the
Lord GOD. |
| 39:6: |
And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly
in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD. |
| 39:7: |
So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel;
and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen
shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel. |
| 39:8: |
Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the
day whereof I have spoken. |
| 39:9: |
And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall
set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the
bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall
burn them with fire seven years: |
| 39:10: |
So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down
any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and
they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them,
saith the Lord GOD. |
| 39:11: |
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a
place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east
of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there
shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The
valley of Hamon-gog. |
| 39:12: |
And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that
they may cleanse the land. |
| 39:13: |
Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to
them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD. |
| 39:14: |
And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through
the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of
the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they
search. |
| 39:15: |
And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a
man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have
buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog. |
| 39:16: |
And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they
cleanse the land. |
| 39:17: |
And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every
feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and
come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice
for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may
eat flesh, and drink blood. |
| 39:18: |
Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the
princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all
of them fatlings of Bashan. |
| 39:19: |
And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be
drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. |
| 39:20: |
Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with
mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD. |
| 39:21: |
And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall
see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon
them. |
| 39:22: |
So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from
that day and forward. |
| 39:23: |
And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into
captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me,
therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their
enemies: so fell they all by the sword. |
| 39:24: |
According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions
have I done unto them, and hid my face from them. |
| 39:25: |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the
captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and
will be jealous for my holy name; |
| 39:26: |
After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses
whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their
land, and none made them afraid. |
| 39:27: |
When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out
of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of
many nations; |
| 39:28: |
Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which cause them
to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto
their own land, and have left none of them any more there. |
| 39:29: |
Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out
my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD. |
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| 40:1: |
In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of
the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after
that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was
upon me, and brought me thither. |
| 40:2: |
In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set
me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the
south. |
| 40:3: |
And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose
appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his
hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate. |
| 40:4: |
And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and
hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew
thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto thee art thou brought
hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel. |
| 40:5: |
And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the
man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an
hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and
the height, one reed. |
| 40:6: |
Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up
the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one
reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed
broad. |
| 40:7: |
And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and
between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the
gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed. |
| 40:8: |
He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed. |
| 40:9: |
Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts
thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward. |
| 40:10: |
And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this side,
and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had
one measure on this side and on that side. |
| 40:11: |
And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and
the length of the gate, thirteen cubits. |
| 40:12: |
The space also before the little chambers was one cubit on this side,
and the space was one cubit on that side: and the little chambers were
six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side. |
| 40:13: |
He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the
roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty cubits, door against
door. |
| 40:14: |
He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the
court round about the gate. |
| 40:15: |
And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of the
porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits. |
| 40:16: |
And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their
posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and
windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees. |
| 40:17: |
Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were
chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers
were upon the pavement. |
| 40:18: |
And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of
the gates was the lower pavement. |
| 40:19: |
Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate
unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward
and northward. |
| 40:20: |
And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the north, he
measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof. |
| 40:21: |
And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on
that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the
measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the
breadth five and twenty cubits. |
| 40:22: |
And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after
the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they went up
unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them. |
| 40:23: |
And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward the
north, and toward the east; and he measured from gate to gate an hundred
cubits. |
| 40:24: |
After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward
the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof
according to these measures. |
| 40:25: |
And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about,
like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and
twenty cubits. |
| 40:26: |
And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof
were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on
that side, upon the posts thereof. |
| 40:27: |
And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south: and he
measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits. |
| 40:28: |
And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he
measured the south gate according to these measures; |
| 40:29: |
And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the
arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows in it
and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five
and twenty cubits broad. |
| 40:30: |
And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long, and five
cubits broad. |
| 40:31: |
And the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees
were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight steps. |
| 40:32: |
And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he
measured the gate according to these measures. |
| 40:33: |
And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the
arches thereof, were according to these measures: and there were windows
therein and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long,
and five and twenty cubits broad. |
| 40:34: |
And the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and palm trees
were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the
going up to it had eight steps. |
| 40:35: |
And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to
these measures; |
| 40:36: |
The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches
thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length was fifty cubits,
and the breadth five and twenty cubits. |
| 40:37: |
And the posts thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees
were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the
going up to it had eight steps. |
| 40:38: |
And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the
gates, where they washed the burnt offering. |
| 40:39: |
And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two
tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin
offering and the trespass offering. |
| 40:40: |
And at the side without, as one goeth up to the entry of the north
gate, were two tables; and on the other side, which was at the porch of
the gate, were two tables. |
| 40:41: |
Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the
side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew their
sacrifices. |
| 40:42: |
And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a
cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit
high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the
burnt offering and the sacrifice. |
| 40:43: |
And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon
the tables was the flesh of the offering. |
| 40:44: |
And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the
inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect
was toward the south: one at the side of the east gate having the
prospect toward the north. |
| 40:45: |
And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the
south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house. |
| 40:46: |
And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the
priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of
Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD to minister
unto him. |
| 40:47: |
So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred
cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house. |
| 40:48: |
And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post
of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and
the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits
on that side. |
| 40:49: |
The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven
cubits; and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to it: and
there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that
side. |
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|
| 41:1: |
Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six
cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side,
which was the breadth of the tabernacle. |
| 41:2: |
And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door
were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and
he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty
cubits. |
| 41:3: |
Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits;
and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits. |
| 41:4: |
So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth,
twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most
holy place. |
| 41:5: |
After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth
of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every
side. |
| 41:6: |
And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in
order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side
chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in
the wall of the house. |
| 41:7: |
And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the
side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round
about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and
so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst. |
| 41:8: |
I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of
the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits. |
| 41:9: |
The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without,
was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side
chambers that were within. |
| 41:10: |
And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round
about the house on every side. |
| 41:11: |
And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was
left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and
the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about. |
| 41:12: |
Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward
the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five
cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits. |
| 41:13: |
So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate
place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits
long; |
| 41:14: |
Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place
toward the east, an hundred cubits. |
| 41:15: |
And he measured the length of the building over against the separate
place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and
on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the
porches of the court; |
| 41:16: |
The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about
on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round
about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were
covered; |
| 41:17: |
To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and
by all the wall round about within and without, by measure. |
| 41:18: |
And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree
was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces; |
| 41:19: |
So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side,
and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it
was made through all the house round about. |
| 41:20: |
From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees
made, and on the wall of the temple. |
| 41:21: |
The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary;
the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other. |
| 41:22: |
The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two
cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls
thereof, were of wood: and he said unto me, This is the table that is
before the LORD. |
| 41:23: |
And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors. |
| 41:24: |
And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves
for the one door, and two leaves for the other door. |
| 41:25: |
And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims
and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick
planks upon the face of the porch without. |
| 41:26: |
And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on
the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of
the house, and thick planks. |
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| 42:1: |
Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the
north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the
separate place, and which was before the building toward the north. |
| 42:2: |
Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the
breadth was fifty cubits. |
| 42:3: |
Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and
over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery
against gallery in three stories. |
| 42:4: |
And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a
way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north. |
| 42:5: |
Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher
than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building. |
| 42:6: |
For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of
the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest
and the middlemost from the ground. |
| 42:7: |
And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the
utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty
cubits. |
| 42:8: |
For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty
cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits. |
| 42:9: |
And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one
goeth into them from the utter court. |
| 42:10: |
The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward
the east, over against the separate place, and over against the
building. |
| 42:11: |
And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which
were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all
their goings out were both according to their fashions, and according to
their doors. |
| 42:12: |
And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south
was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall
toward the east, as one entereth into them. |
| 42:13: |
Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers,
which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the
priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there
shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin
offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy. |
| 42:14: |
When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the
holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments
wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other
garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the
people. |
| 42:15: |
Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought
me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured
it round about. |
| 42:16: |
He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred
reeds, with the measuring reed round about. |
| 42:17: |
He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring
reed round about. |
| 42:18: |
He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring
reed. |
| 42:19: |
He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds
with the measuring reed. |
| 42:20: |
He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five
hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between
the sanctuary and the profane place. |
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| 43:1: |
Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh
toward the east: |
| 43:2: |
And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the
east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined
with his glory. |
| 43:3: |
And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw,
even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city:
and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and
I fell upon my face. |
| 43:4: |
And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate
whose prospect is toward the east. |
| 43:5: |
So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and,
behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house. |
| 43:6: |
And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood
by me. |
| 43:7: |
And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the
place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the
children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel
no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by
the carcases of their kings in their high places |
| 43:8: |
In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post
by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my
holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I
have consumed them in mine anger. |
| 43:9: |
Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their
kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever. |
| 43:10: |
Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may
be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern. |
| 43:11: |
And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form
of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and
the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances
thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write
it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the
ordinances thereof, and do them. |
| 43:12: |
This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole
limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of
the house. |
| 43:13: |
And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit
is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the
breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about
shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar. |
| 43:14: |
And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be
two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to
the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit. |
| 43:15: |
So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward
shall be four horns. |
| 43:16: |
And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in
the four squares thereof. |
| 43:17: |
And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in
the four squares thereof; and the border abou hall be half a cubit;
and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look
toward the east. |
| 43:18: |
And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; These are
the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer
burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon. |
| 43:19: |
And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of
Zad |