1:1 Now it came to pass in the 30th year, in the 4th month, on the 5th day of the month, as I was among the captives by the Chebar River, that the cosmos were opened and I saw visions of Elohim.^1:2 On the 5th day of the month that was the 5th year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,^1:3 the Word of YHWH came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the Chebar River; and the hand of YHWH was there upon him.^1:4 And I looked, and lo, a whirlwind came out of the North, a great cloud-mass and a supernatural fire enfolding itself, and brightness was around it, and out of its center radiated the color of amber, out of the midst of the supernatural fire.^1:5 Also out of its center came the likeness of 4 living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.^1:6 And everyone had 4 faces, and everyone had 4 wings.^1:7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot^: and they sparkled like the color of polished brass.^1:8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their 4 sides; and those 4 had their faces and their wings.^1:9 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went everyone straight forward.^1:10 As for the likeness of their faces, those 4 had the face of a man, the face of a lion on the right side^: and those 4 had the face of an ox on the left side; they also had the face of an eagle.^1:11 So were their faces, and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of everyone were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.^1:12 And they went everyone straight forward^: wherever the spirit went, they went; and they turned not when they went.^1:13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of torches^: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the supernatural fire went out lightning.^1:14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.^1:15 Now as I observed the living creatures, I noted one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his 4 faces.^1:16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like the color of a precious yellowish stone^: and those 4 had one likeness^: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.^1:17 When they went, they went on their 4 sides^: and they turned not when they went.^1:18 As for their convex surfaces, they were so high that they were terrifying; and their convex surfaces were full of eyes all around those four.^1:19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them^: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.^1:20 Wherever the spirit went, they went in that direction. And the wheels rose close beside them; because the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.^1:21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up opposite them^: because the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.^1:22 And the likeness of the canopy upon the heads of the living creature was as the color of an awesome crystal, stretched out over their heads above.^1:23 And under the canopy were their wings straight, one toward the other^: everyone had two, which covered on this side, and everyone had two, which covered on that side of their bodies.^1:24 And when they went I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the Voice of Shaddai, the voice of speech, as the sound of an army^: when they stood, they let down their wings.^1:25 And there was a Voice from the canopy that was over their heads, and when they stood they let down their wings.^1:26 And above the firmament that was over their heads there was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a SAPPHIRE STONE (URIM-THUMMIM)^: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.^1:27 And I saw as the color of amber, as the appearance of fire all around within it, from the appearance of his hips even upward, and from the appearance of his hips even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of supernatural fire, and it had brightness surrounding it.^1:28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of YHWH. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face and I heard a voice of one that spoke.

2:1 And he said to me, son of man, stand on your feet and I will speak to you.^2:2 And the spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me on my feet so that I heard him that spoke to me.^2:3 Then he said to me, son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me^: they and their forefathers have revolted against me, even to this very day.^2:4 Because they are obstinate children and hardened. I will send you to them; and you will say to them, This is what Adonai YHWH declares.^2:5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will desist, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet will know that there has been a prophet among them.^2:6 And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you will reside among scorpions^: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their presence, though they are a rebellious house.^2:7 And you will speak my Words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will desist^: because they are most rebellious.^2:8 But you, son of man, hear what I say to you; Do not be rebellious like that rebellious house^: open your mouth and eat what I give you.^2:9 And when I looked, a hand was sent to me; and lo, a roll of a scroll was there;^2:10 And he spread it before me; and it was written inside and out^: and there was written in it dirges, and moaning, and woe.

3:1 Moreover he said to me, son of man, eat what you find; eat this roll and go speak to the House of Israel.^3:2 So I opened my mouth and he caused me to eat that roll.^3:3 And he said to me, son of man, cause your belly to eat and fill your bowels with this roll that I give you. Then I did eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.^3:4 And he said to me, son of man, go, get yourself to the House of Israel and speak with my Words to them.^3:5 Because you are not sent to a people of a foreign speech and of a difficult dialect, but to the House of Israel;^3:6 Not to many people of a foreign speech and of a difficult dialect, whose words you cannot understand. Certainly, had I sent you to them, they would have listened to you.^3:7 But the House of Israel will not listen to you; because they will not listen to me^: because all the House of Israel are hardened and obstinate.^3:8 See, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads.^3:9 As a sharp stone harder than flint have I made your forehead^: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their presence, though they are a rebellious house.^3:10 Moreover he said to me, son of man, all my Words that I will speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.^3:11 And go, get yourself to them of the captivity, to the children of your people and speak to them, and tell them, This is what Adonai YHWH declares; whether they will hear, or whether they will desist.^3:12 Then the spirit took me up and I heard behind me a sound of a great quaking saying, Blessed is the glory of YHWH from his Standing Place.^3:13 I heard also the sound of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the sound of the wheels opposite them, and a sound of a great quaking.^3:14 So the spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the venom of my spirit; but the hand of YHWH was strong upon me.^3:15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that lived by the Chebar River, and I sat where they sat, and remained there stunned among them for 7 days.^3:16 And it came to pass at the end of 7 days, that the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^3:17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the House of Israel^: therefore hear the Word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.^3:18 When I say to the wicked, You will certainly die; and you give him not warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked one will die in his depravity; but his blood will I require at your hand.^3:19 Still if you warn the wicked, and he turns not from his wrong, nor from his wicked way, he will die in his depravity; but you have delivered yourself.^3:20 Again, when a righteous person will turn from his righteousness and commit injustice, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteousness that he has done will not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.^3:21 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous, that the righteous sin not, and he does not sin, he will certainly live, because he is warned; also you have delivered yourself.^3:22 Then the hand of YHWH was there upon me; and he said to me, Get up, go out into the plain and I will talk with you there.^3:23 Then I got up and went out into the plain^: and lo, the glory of YHWH stood there, as the glory that I saw by the Chebar River, and I fell on my face.^3:24 Then the spirit entered into me and set me on my feet and spoke with me, and said to me, Go, shut yourself within your house.^3:25 But you, O son of man, look, they will put cords on you and will bind you with them, and you will not go out among them^:3:26 And I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth so that you will be dumb, and will not be a man that can rebuke them^: because they are a rebellious house.^3:27 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth and you will say to them, This is what Adonai YHWH declares; he that hears, let him hear; and he that desists, let him desist^: because they are a rebellious house.

4:1 You also, son of man, take yourself a brick and lay it before you, and engrave on it the city, even Jerusalem^:4:2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mound against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it all around.^4:3 Moreover take to yourself an iron pan and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city^: and set your face against it, and it will be besieged, and you will lay siege against it. This will be a sign to the House of Israel.^4:4 Lie also upon your left side, and lay the depravity of the House of Israel upon it^: according to the number of the days that you will lie upon it, you will bear their depravity.^4:5 Because I have laid on you the years of their depravity, according to the number of the days, 390 days^: so will you bear the depravity of the House of Israel.^4:6 And when you have accomplished them, lie again on your right side, and you will bear the depravity of the House of Judah 40 days^: I have appointed you each day for a year.^4:7 Therefore you will set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm will be uncovered, and you will prophesy against it.^4:8 And observe, I will lay cords on you and you will not turn yourself from one side to another, until you have ended the days of your siege.^4:9 Take also to yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make yourself bread, according to the number of the days that you will lie on your side, 390 days will you eat.^4:10 And your food that you will eat will be by weight, 20 shekels [10 ounces] a day^: from time to time you will eat it.^4:11 You will also drink water by measure, 1/6th part of an hin [2/3rd quart] from time to time you will drink it.^4:12 And you will eat it as barley cakes, and you will bake it with dung that comes out of man, in their sight.^4:13 And YHWH said, Even so will the children of Israel eat their unclean bread among the Gentiles where I will drive them.^4:14 Then I said, Ah Adonai YHWH ! note, I have not become unclean^: because from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of what dies of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there unclean flesh into my mouth.^4:15 Then he replied to me, Lo, I have given you cow's dung for man's dung, and you will prepare your bread with it.^4:16 Moreover he said to me, son of man, Look, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem^: and they will eat bread by weight, and with care; and they will drink water by measure, and with dismay^:4:17 That they may want food and water, and be appalled one with another, and consume away for their depravity.

5:1 And you, son of man, take yourself a sharp knife, take yourself a barber's razor, and cause it to pass on your head and on your beard^: then take yourself balances to weigh, and divide the hair.^5:2 You will burn with fire 1/3rd part in the center of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled^: and you will take 1/3rd part, and strike around it with a knife. And 1/3rd part you will scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.^5:3 You will also take from it a few hairs in number, and bind them in your skirts.^5:4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the middle of the fire, and burn them in the fire; because from there will a fire come out into all the House of Israel.^5:5 This is what Adonai YHWH declares; This is Jerusalem^: I have set it in the middle of the nations and countries that are all around her.^5:6 And she has changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are all around her^: because they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.^5:7 Therefore this is what Adonai YHWH declares; Because you multiplied more than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have observed my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are around you;^5:8 Therefore this is what Adonai YHWH declares; Look, I, even I, am against you, and will execute judgments in the middle of you in the sight of the nations.^5:9 And I will do in you what I have not done, and in which I will not do anymore the like, because of all your disgusting things.^5:10 Therefore the dads will eat the sons in the center of you, and the sons will eat their dads; and I will execute judgments in you, and the whole remnant of you will I scatter into all the winds.^5:11 Therefore, as I live, declares Adonai YHWH; Certainly because you have defiled my Sacred Place with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you; neither will my eye spare, neither will I have any pity.^5:12 And 1/3rd part of you will die with the plague, and with famine will they be consumed in the middle of you^: and 1/3rd part will fall by the sword all around you. And I will scatter 1/3rd part into all the winds and I will draw out a sword after them.^5:13 So will my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest on them and I will be comforted^: and they will know that I, YHWH has spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.^5:14 Moreover I will make you a place laid waste, and a scorn among the nations that are all around you, in the sight of all that pass by.^5:15 So it will be a scorn and a taunt, a correction and a devastation to the nations that are all around you, when I will execute Judgments in you in anger and in fury and in heated rebukes. I YHWH have spoken it.^5:16 When I will send on them the bad arrows of famine that will be for their destruction, and that I will send to destroy you^: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of food^:5:17 So I will send on you famine and bad organisms, and they will bereave you; and plague and blood will pass through you; and I will bring the sword on you. I YHWH have spoken it.

6:1 Then the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^6:2 Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them,^6:3 and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the Word of Adonai YHWH; This is what YHWH Elohim declares to the mountains, hills, rivers, and to the valleys; Look, I, even I, will bring a sword on you and I will destroy your worship places.^6:4 And your altars will be desolate, and your images will be broken^: and I will cast down your slain before your idols.^6:5 And I will lay the dead corpses of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones all around your altars.^6:6 In all your living places the cities will be laid waste and the worship places will be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down and your works may be obliterated.^6:7 And the slain will fall in the midst of you, and you will know that I am YHWH.^6:8 Still I will leave a remnant so that you may have some that will escape the sword among the nations, when you will be scattered through the countries.^6:9 And they that escape of you will remember me among the nations where they will be carried captives, because I am broken with their prostitutes heart that has departed from me, and with their eyes that go a whoring after their idols^: and they will loathe themselves for the badness that they have committed in all their abominations.^6:10 And they will know that I am YHWH, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this badness to them.^6:11 This is what Adonai YHWH declares; Strike with your hand and stamp with your foot, and say, Alas for all the bad abominations of the House of Israel! because they will fall by the sword, famine, and by the plague.^6:12 He that is far off will die of the plague; and he that is near will fall by the sword; and he that remains and is besieged will die by the famine^: so will I accomplish my fury on them.^6:13 Then will you know that I am YHWH, when their slain will be among their idols all around their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savor to all their idols.^6:14 So I will stretch out my hand on them and make the land desolate, yes, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations^: and they will know that I am YHWH.

7:1 Moreover the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^7:2 Also, son of man, this is what Adonai YHWH declares to the land of Israel; An end, the end has come upon the 4 extremities of the land.^7:3 Now has the end come upon you, and I will send my anger upon you, and will judge you according to your ways, and will bestow on you all your abominations.^7:4 And my eye will not spare you, neither will I have pity^: but I will ascribe your ways upon you, and your abominations will be in the midst of you^: and you will know that I am YHWH.^7:5 This is what Adonai YHWH declares; A bad, a certain bad, note, has come.^7:6 An end has come, the end has come^: it watches for you; note, it has come.^7:7 The morning has come to you, O you that live in the land^: the time has come, the day of trouble is near, and not the echoing again of the mountains.^7:8 Now will I shortly pour out my fury on you, and accomplish my anger upon you^: and I will judge you according to your ways, and will repay you for all your abominations.^7:9 And my eye will not spare, neither will I have pity^: I will repay you according to your ways and your abominations that are in the midst of you; and you will know that I am YHWH that strikes.^7:10 Observe the day, watch, it has come^: the morning has arrived; the branch has blossomed, pride has budded.^7:11 Violence has risen up into a branch of wickedness^: none of them will remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs^: neither will there be wailing for them.^7:12 The time has come, the day draws near^: let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn^: because burning anger is on the entire multitude.^7:13 Because the seller will not return to what is sold, although they were still alive^: because the vision is touching the whole multitude that will not return; neither will any strengthen himself in the depravity of his life.^7:14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goes to the battle^: because my burning anger is on the entire multitude.^7:15 The sword is outside, and the plague and the famine inside^: he that is in the field will die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and plague will devour him.^7:16 But they that escape of them will escape, and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, everyone for their depravity.^7:17 All hands will be feeble, and all knees will be weak as water.^7:18 They will also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror will cover them; and shame will be on all faces, and baldness on all of their heads.^7:19 They will cast their silver in the streets and their gold will be removed^: their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the anger of YHWH. They will not satisfy themselves, neither fill their bowels^: because it is the stumbling-block of their depravity.^7:20 As to the beauty of his ornament, for excellency he set it, and the images of their abominations, their detestable things, they made in it, therefore I have given it to them for impurity.^7:21 And I will give it into the hands of the foreigner for booty, and to the wicked of the earth for plunder; and they will desecrate it.^7:22 My face I will turn also from them, and they will desecrate my treasure^: because the robbers will enter into it, and desecrate it.^7:23 Make a chain^: because the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.^7:24 Therefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they will possess their houses^: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places will be desecrated.^7:25 Destruction comes; and they will seek peace, and there will be none.^7:26 Mischief will come upon mischief, and rumor will be upon rumor; then will they seek a vision from the prophet; but the Law will perish from the priest, and counsel from the Elder.^7:27 The king will mourn, and the chief will be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land will be troubled. I will do to them after their way, and according to their deserts I will judge them; and they will know that I am YHWH.

8:1 And it came to pass in the 6th year, in the 6th month, on the 5th day of the month as I sat in my house, and the Elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of Adonai YHWH fell there upon me.^8:2 Then I observed, and lo a likeness as the appearance of supernatural fire^: from the appearance of his hips downward, supernatural fire; and from his hips upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the color of amber.^8:3 And he put out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the spirit lifted me up between the land and the skies, and brought me in the visions of Elohim to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looks toward the North; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.^8:4 And observe, the glory of the Elohim of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.^8:5 Then he said to me, son of man, lift up your eyes now toward the road to the North. So I lifted up my eyes toward the road to the North, and behold northward at the gate of the Altar this image of jealousy in the entry.^8:6 He said furthermore to me, son of man, do you see what they do? even the great abominations that the House of Israel commits here, that I should go far off from my Sacred Place? but turn you yet again, and you will see greater abominations.^8:7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.^8:8 Then he said to me, son of man, dig now in the wall^: and when I had excavated in the wall, note, a door.^8:9 And he said to me, Go in and see the bad abominations that they do here.^8:10 So I went in and looked; and observed every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the House of Israel, engraved upon the wall all around.^8:11 And there stood before them 70 men from the Elders of the House of Israel, and in the middle of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.^8:12 Then he said to me, son of man, have you seen what the Elders of the House of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? because they say, YHWH does not see us; YHWH has forsaken the earth.^8:13 He also said to me, Turn yourself yet again, and you will see greater abominations that they do.^8:14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of YHWH's House that was toward the North; and observe, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.^8:15 Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? turn you still again, and you will see greater abominations than these.^8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of YHWH'S House, and behold, at the door of the Temple of YHWH, between the porch and the Altar, were 25 men, with their backs toward the Temple of YHWH, and their faces toward the East; and they worshipped the sun toward the East.^8:17 Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the House of Judah that they commit the abominations that they commit here? Because they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger^: and lo, they put the branch to their nose.^8:18 Therefore I will also deal in fury^: my eye will not spare, neither will I have pity^: and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, still I will not hear them.

9:1 He cried also in my ears with a loud voice saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.^9:2 And see, 6 men came from the way of the Higher Gate that lies toward the North, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side^: and they went in, and stood beside the bronze Altar.^9:3 And the glory of the Elohim of Israel was gone up from the cherub, where he was, to the threshold of the House. And he called to the man clothed with linen that had the writer's inkhorn by his side;^9:4 And YHWH said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the center of Jerusalem and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that are done in its center.^9:5 And to the others he said in my hearing, Go after him through the city, and strike^: let not your eye spare, neither have yourself pity^:9:6 Kill and destroy old and young, both virgins, and little children, and women^: but come not near anyone upon whom is the mark; and begin at my Sacred Place. Then they began with the old men that were before the House.^9:7 And he said to them, Defile the Temple, and fill the courts with the slain^: go yourself out. And they went out and killed in the city.^9:8 And it came to pass, while they were killing them, and I was left, that I fell on my face and cried, and said, Ah Adonai YHWH! will you destroy all the remnant of Israel in your pouring out of your fury upon Jerusalem?^9:9 Then he replied to me, The depravity of the House of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood and the city full of perversion^: because they say, YHWH has forsaken the earth, and YHWH sees not.^9:10 And as for me also, my eye will not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bestow their way upon their head.^9:11 And look, the man clothed with linen that had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter saying, I have done as you have commanded me.

10:1 Then I looked and observed, in the vault of the cosmos that was above the head of the cherubim there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.^10:2 And he spoke to the man clothed with linen and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill your hand with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. Then he entered in my sight.^10:3 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the Temple, when the man went in; and the cloud-mass filled the inner court.^10:4 Then the glory of YHWH went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the Temple; and the House was filled with the cloud-mass, and the court was full of the brightness of YHWH's glory.^10:5 And the sound of the cherubim's wings was heard even to the outer court, as the Voice of Shaddai El when he speaks.^10:6 Then it came to pass that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubim; then he went in and stood beside the wheels.^10:7 And one cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took of it, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen^: who took it and went out.^10:8 And there appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand under their wings.^10:9 And when I looked, the 4 wheels by the cherubim, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub^: and the appearance of the wheels was as the color of a precious yellowish gemstone.^10:10 And as for their appearances, they 4 had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the middle of a wheel.^10:11 When they went, they went on their 4 sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went.^10:12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes all around, even the wheels that those 4 had.^10:13 As for the wheels, it was cried to them in my hearing, O wheel.^10:14 And everyone had 4 faces^: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the 2nd face was the face of a man, and the 3rd the face of a lion, and the 4th the face of an eagle.^10:15 And the cherubim were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the Chebar River.^10:16 And when the cherubim went, the wheels went by them^: and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them.^10:17 When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves also^: because the spirit of the living creature was in them.^10:18 Then the glory of YHWH departed from off the threshold of the Temple and stood over the cherubim.^10:19 And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight^: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and everyone stood at the door of the East Gate of YHWH's Temple; and the glory of the Elohim of Israel was over them above.^10:20 This is the living creature that I saw under the Elohim of Israel by the Chebar River; and I knew that they were the cherubim.^10:21 Everyone had 4 faces apiece, and everyone 4 wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.^10:22 And the likeness of their faces was the same faces that I saw by the Chebar River, their appearances and themselves^: they went everyone straight forward.

11:1 Moreover the spirit lifted me up and brought me to the East Gate of the YHWH's Temple that looks eastward^: and I observed at the door of the gate 25 men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, chiefs of the people.^11:2 Then he said to me, son of man, these are the men that devise trouble, and give wicked counsel in this city^:11:3 That say, it is not near; let us build houses^: this city is the caldron and we are the flesh.^11:4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.^11:5 And the Spirit of YHWH fell upon me, and said to me, Speak; This is what YHWH declares; So have you said, O House of Israel^: because I know the things that come into your mind, everyone of them.^11:6 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled the streets in it with the slain.^11:7 Therefore this is what Adonai YHWH declares; Your slain who you have laid in the center of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron^: but I will bring you out of the middle of it.^11:8 You have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword on you, declares Adonai YHWH.^11:9 And I will bring you out of its center, and deliver you into the hands of foreigners, and will execute judgments among you.^11:10 You will fall by the sword; I will judge you in the territory of Israel; and you will know that I am YHWH.^11:11 This city will not be your caldron, neither will you be the flesh in its center; but I will judge you in the territory of Israel^:11:12 And you will know that I am YHWH^: because you have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the customs of the heathen that are all around you.^11:13 And it came to pass when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down on my face and cried with a loud voice and said, Ah Adonai YHWH! will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?^11:14 Again the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^11:15 Son of man, your brothers, even your kinship, the men of your right of redemption, and all the House of Israel wholly, are they to who the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, get you far from YHWH^: unto us is this land given in possession.^11:16 Therefore say, This is what Adonai YHWH declares; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, still I will be to them as a little Sacred Place in the countries where they will come.^11:17 Therefore say, This is what Adonai YHWH declares; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.^11:18 And they will come there, and they will take away all the detestable things in it and all the abominations in it from there.^11:19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh^:11:20 That they may walk in my statutes and observe my ordinances, and institute them^: and they will be my people, and I will be their Elohim.^11:21 But as for those whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will repay their way on their own heads, declares Adonai YHWH.^11:22 Then did the cherubim lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the Elohim of Israel was over them above.^11:23 And the glory of YHWH went up from the middle of the city, and stood upon the mountain that is on the East side of the city.^11:24 Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of Elohim into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.^11:25 Then I spoke to them of the captivity all the things that YHWH had shown me.

12:1 The Word of YHWH also came to me saying,^12:2 Son of man, you live among a rebellious house, which have eyes to see but see not; they have ears to hear but hear not^: because they are a rebellious house.^12:3 Therefore son of man, prepare yourself equipment for exile, and leave by day in their sight; and you will leave from your place to another place in their sight^: it may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.^12:4 Then you will bring out your equipment by day in their sight, as equipment for exile^: and you will go out at sunset in their sight, as they that go out into captivity.^12:5 Dig yourself through the wall in their sight, and carry your articles through it.^12:6 In their sight you will bear it on your shoulders, and carry it out in the darkness^: you will cover your face so that you see not the ground^: because I have set you for a sign for the House of Israel.^12:7 And I did so as I was commanded^: I brought out my equipment by day, as equipment for exile and at sunset I excavated through the wall with my hand; I brought it out in the twilight, and I carried it on my shoulder in their sight.^12:8 And in the morning came the Word of YHWH to me saying,^12:9 Son of man, has not the House of Israel, the rebellious house said to you, what are you doing?^12:10 You reply to them, This is what Adonai YHWH declares; This burden concerns the chiefs in Jerusalem, and all the House of Israel that are among them.^12:11 Say, I am your sign^: like I have done, so will it be done to them^: they will be removed and go into captivity.^12:12 And the chief that is among them will carry on his shoulder in the darkness, and will go out^: they will excavate through the wall to carry out. He will cover his face so that he does not see the ground with his eyes.^12:13 My net I will also spread on him, and he will be caught in my snare^: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; and it he does not see, and there does he die.^12:14 And I will scatter toward every wind all that are around him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.^12:15 And they will know that I am YHWH, when I will scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.^12:16 But I will leave a few people of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the plague; so that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen where they come; and they will know that I am YHWH.^12:17 Moreover the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^12:18 Son of man, eat your bread with quaking and drink your water with trembling and with anxiety;^12:19 And say to the people of the land, This is what Adonai YHWH declares of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel. They will eat their food with anxiety, and drink their water with dismay, so that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.^12:20 And the cities that are inhabited will be laid waste, and the land will be desolate; and you will know that I am YHWH.^12:21 Then the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^12:22 Son of man, what is that proverb that you have in the land of Israel saying, "the days are prolonged, and every vision fails?"^12:23 Tell them therefore, This is what Adonai YHWH declares; I will make this proverb to cease, and they will no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say to them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.^12:24 Because there will be no more any false vision nor flattering divination within the House of Israel.^12:25 Because I am YHWH^: I will speak, and the Word that I will speak will come to pass; it will be no more prolonged^: because in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the Word, and will perform it, declares Adonai YHWH.^12:26 Again the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^12:27 Son of man, look, they of the House of Israel say, the vision that he sees is for many days to come, and he prophesies of the times that are far off.^12:28 Therefore say to them, This is what Adonai YHWH declares; There will none of my Words be prolonged anymore, but the Word that I have spoken will be done, declares Adonai YHWH.

13:1 And the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^13:2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say to them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear the Word of YHWH;^13:3 This is what Adonai YHWH declares; Woe to the foolish prophets, that follow their own mind, and have seen nothing!^13:4 O Israel, your prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.^13:5 You have not gone up into breaches, nor do you make a fence for the House of Israel, to stand in battle in a day of YHWH.^13:6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, who are saying^: an affirmation of YHWH, And YHWH has not sent them, and they have hoped to establish a word.^13:7 Have you not seen a empty vision, and have you not spoken a lying divination, where you say, YHWH declares it; but I have not spoken?^13:8 Therefore this is what Adonai YHWH declares; Because you have spoken falsehood and seen lies, therefore take note, I am against you says YHWH Elohim.^13:9 And my hand will be upon the prophets that see falsehood, and that divine lies. They will not be in the company of my people, neither will they be written in the writing of the House of Israel, neither will they enter into the land of Israel; and you will know that I am Adonai YHWH.^13:10 Because, even because they have seduced my people saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and lo, others plastered it with untested mortar^:13:11 Say to them that plaster it with untested mortar, that it will fall^: there will be an overflowing shower; and you, O great hailstones, will fall; and a stormy wind will tear it.^13:12 Lo, when the wall has fallen, will it not be said to you, where is the plaster where you have plastered it?^13:13 Therefore this is what Adonai YHWH declares; I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there will be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.^13:14 So will I break down the wall that you have plastered with untested mortar, and bring it down to the ground so that its foundation will be discovered, and it will fall and you will be consumed in its midst^: and you will know that I am YHWH.^13:15 So will I accomplish my anger upon the wall and on them that have plastered it with untested mortar, and will say to you, The wall is no more, neither they that plastered it;^13:16 Those prophets of Israel that prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and that see visions of peace for her and there is no peace, says Adonai YHWH.^13:17 Likewise, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people that prophesy out of their own heart; and you prophesy against them.^13:18 And say, This is what Adonai YHWH declares; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make veils upon the head of every height to hunt lives! Will you hunt the lives of my people, and will you save the people alive that come to you?^13:19 And will you desecrate me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the ones that should not die, and to save the ones alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?^13:20 Therefore this is what Adonai YHWH declares; Look, I am against your covered amulets, with which you there hunt the people to make them sprout, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the people go, even the ones that you hunt to make them sprout.^13:21 Your veils I will also tear and deliver my people out of your hand, and they will be no more in your hand to be hunted; and you will know that I am YHWH.^13:22 Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, who I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the bad, that he should not return from his bad way, by promising him life^:13:23 Therefore you will see no more falsehood, nor divine divinations^: because I will deliver my people out of your hand^: and you will know that I am YHWH.

14:1 Then came some of the Elders of Israel to me and sat before me.^14:2 And the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^14:3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumbling-block of their depravity before their face^: should I be inquired of at all by them?^14:4 Therefore speak to them and say to them, This is what Adonai YHWH declares; Everyone of the House of Israel that sets up their idols in their heart, and puts the stumbling-block of his depravity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I YHWH will answer him that comes according to the multitude of his idols;^14:5 That I may seize the House of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.^14:6 Therefore say to the House of Israel, This is what Adonai YHWH declares; Change your mind, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your disgusting things.^14:7 Because everyone of the House of Israel, or of the foreigner that stays in Israel that separates himself from me, and sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumbling-block of his depravity before his face, and comes to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I YHWH will answer him by myself^:14:8 And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from among my people; and you will know that I am YHWH.^14:9 And if the prophet is deceived when he has spoken a thing, I YHWH have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from among my people Israel.^14:10 And they will bear the punishment of their depravity^: the punishment of the prophet will be even as the punishment of him that seeks him;^14:11 That the House of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be unclean anymore with all their rebellions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their Elohim, declares Adonai YHWH.^14:12 The Word of YHWH came again to me saying,^14:13 Son of man, when the land sins against me by committing a treacherous act, then I will stretch out my hand upon it, and will break the staff of its bread, and will send famine on it, and will cut off man and animal from it^:14:14 Though these 3 men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own lives by their righteousness says Adonai YHWH.^14:15 If I cause vicious beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it is wasted so that none may pass through because of the beasts^:14:16 Though these 3 men were in it, as I live, declares Adonai YHWH, they will deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only will be delivered, but the land will be waste.^14:17 Or if I bring a sword on that land and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and animal from it^:14:18 Though these 3 men were in it, as I live, declares Adonai YHWH, they will deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only will be delivered themselves.^14:19 Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out my fury on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal^:14:20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live declares Adonai YHWH, they will deliver neither son nor daughter; they will but deliver their own lives by their righteousness.^14:21 Because this is what Adonai YHWH declares; How much more when I send my 4 distressful judgments on Jerusalem, the Sword, Famine, Vicious Beast, and the Plague, to cut off from it man and animal? ^14:22 Yet take note, there will be left a remnant that will be brought out, both sons and daughters^: see, they will come out to you, and you will see their way and their practices. And you will be comforted concerning the bad that I have brought on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought on it.^14:23 Then they will comfort you, when you see their ways and their practices^: and you will know that I have not done for nothing all that I have accomplished in it, declares Adonai YHWH.

15:1 And the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^15:2 Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch that is among the trees of the forest?^15:3 Will wood be taken from it to do any work? or will men take a nail of it to hang any vessel on it? ^15:4 Lo, to the fire it has been given for fuel, its two ends had the fire eaten, and its midst has been scorched! Is it profitable for work?^15:5 Observe, when it was whole, it was ready for no work^: how much less will it be ready still for any work, when the fire has devoured it and it is scorched?^15:6 Therefore this is what Adonai YHWH declares; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest that I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.^15:7 And I will set my face against them; they will go out from one fire, and another fire will devour them; and you will know that I am YHWH, when I set my face against them.^15:8 And I will make the land waste, because they have committed an unfaithful act declares Adonai YHWH.

16:1 Again the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^16:2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,^16:3 and say, This is what Adonai YHWH declares to Jerusalem; Your birth and your nativity is of the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite, and your mother an Hittite.^16:4 And as for your nativity, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither were you washed in water to clean you; you were not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.^16:5 No eye has had pity on you, to do to you any of these, to have compassion on you, and you are cast onto the face of the field with loathing of your person, in the day you have been born, you!^16:6 And when I passed by you, and saw you trampled in your own blood, I said to you when you were in your blood, Live; yes, I said to you when you were in your blood, Live.^16:7 I have caused you to multiply as the bud of the field, and you have increased and grown great, and you are come to excellent ornaments^: your breasts are fashioned, and your hair is grown, whereas you were naked and bare before.^16:8 Now when I passed by you and looked on you, see, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness^: yes, I adjured to you, and entered into a Covenant with you, declares Adonai YHWH, and you became mine.^16:9 Then I washed you with water; yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil.^16:10 I clothed you also with embroidered work, and furnished you with badgers' skin, and I girded you around with fine linen, and I covered you with silk.^16:11 I decked you also with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck.^16:12 And I put a jewel on your forehead, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.^16:13 So were you decked with gold and silver; and your garments were of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work; you did eat fine flour, honey, and oil^: and you were exceedingly beautiful, and you did prosper into a kingdom.^16:14 And your renown went out among the heathen for your beauty^: because it was perfect through my splendor that I had put on you, says Adonai YHWH.^16:15 But you did trust in your own beauty, and played the prostitute because of your renown, and poured out your fornication on everyone that passed by; his it was.^16:16 And of your garments you did take, and decked your worship places with different colors, and played the prostitute there. They are not coming in, nor will it be! ^16:17 You have also taken your fair jewels of my gold and of my silver that I had given you, and fashioned to yourself images of men, and did commit prostitution with them,^16:18 And took your embroidered garments, and covered them^: and you have set my oil and my incense before them.^16:19 My food also that I gave you, fine flour, oil, and honey with which I fed you, you have even set it before them for a sweet savor^: and so it was, declares Adonai YHWH.^16:20 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, who you have borne to me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Is this of your prostitution a small matter,^16:21 that you have killed my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?^16:22 And in all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were trampled in your blood.^16:23 And it came to pass after all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you! says Adonai YHWH) ^16:24 that you have also built to yourself an eminent place, and have made yourself a worship place on every street.^16:25 You have built your worship place at every head of the way, and have made your beauty to be abhorred, and have opened your feet to everyone that passed by, and multiplied your prostitution.^16:26 You have also committed fornication with the Egyptians your neighbors, great of flesh; and have increased your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.^16:27 Look, therefore I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary food, and delivered you to the will of them that hate you, the daughters of the Philistines that are ashamed of your lewd ways.^16:28 You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you have played the prostitute with them, and still could not be satisfied.^16:29 You have moreover multiplied your fornication in the land of Canaan to Chaldea; and still you were not satisfied.^16:30 How weak is your heart declares Adonai YHWH, seeing you do all these things, the work of a domineering whorish woman;^16:31 In that you built your eminent place in the head of every road, and make your worship places in every street; and have not been as a whore, in that you scorned hire;^16:32 But as a woman that commits adultery that takes strangers instead of her husband! ^16:33 They give gifts to all prostitutes^: but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and hired them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.^16:34 And the contrary is in you from women in your prostitution, that after you none does go a- whoring; And in your giving a gift, and a gift has not been given to you, and you are become contrary.^16:35 Therefore, O whore, hear the Word of YHWH^:16:36 This is what Adonai YHWH declares; Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness discovered through your prostitution with your lovers, and with all the idols of your abominations, and by the blood of your children that you did give to them;^16:37 Look, therefore I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all them that you have loved, with all them that you have hated. I will even gather them around and against you, and will expose your nakedness to them so that they may see all your nakedness.^16:38 And I will judge you, as women that breaks wedlock and sheds blood are judged; and I will give you blood in fury and jealousy.^16:39 And I will also give you into their hand, and they will throw down your eminent place, and will break down your worship places^: they will strip you also of your clothes, and will take your fair jewels, and leave you naked and bare.^16:40 They will also bring up a company against you, and they will stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.^16:41 And they will burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women^: and I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute, and you also will give no hire anymore.^16:42 So I will make my fury toward you to rest, and my jealousy will depart from you, and I will be quiet and will be no more angry.^16:43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have fretted me in all these things; take note, I also will repay your way upon your head says Adonai YHWH^: and you will not commit this lewdness above all your abominations.^16:44 Look, everyone that uses proverbs will use this proverb against you saying, "as is the mother, so is her daughter".^16:45 You are your mother's daughter, that loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters that loathes their husbands and their children^: your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.^16:46 And your elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at your left hand^: and your younger sister, that dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.^16:47 Still you have not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations^: but, as if that were a very little thing, you were corrupted more than they in all your ways.^16:48 As I live declares Adonai YHWH, Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.^16:49 Look, this was the depravity of your sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.^16:50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me^: therefore I took them away as I saw good.^16:51 Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters in all your abominations that you have done.^16:52 You also that has judged your sisters, bear your own shame for your sins that you have committed more detestable than they^: they are more righteous than you^: yes, be you confounded also, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.^16:53 And I have turned back to their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of your captives in their midst,^16:54 so that you do bear your shame, and have been ashamed of all that you have done, in your comforting them.^16:55 When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters will return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former estate, then you and your daughters will return to your former estate.^16:56 Because your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride.^16:57 Before your wickedness was discovered, as at the time of your scorn from the daughters of Syria, and all that are around her, the daughters of the Philistines that despise you all around.^16:58 You have borne your lewdness and your detestable things declares YHWH.^16:59 Because this is what Adonai YHWH declares; I will even deal with you as you have done, which has despised the oath in breaking the Covenant.^16:60 Nevertheless I will remember my Covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an Age-Lasting Covenant.^16:61 Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you will receive your sisters, your elder and your younger^: and I will give them to you for daughters, but not because of your Covenant.^16:62 And I will establish my Covenant with you; and you will know that I am YHWH^:16:63 That you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I am pacified toward you for all that you have done, declares Adonai YHWH.

17:1 And the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^17:2 Son of man, put out a riddle and speak a parable to the House of Israel;^17:3 And say, So says Adonai YHWH; A great eagle with great wings, long-winged, full of feathers that had variegated colors, came to Lebanon and took the highest branch of the cedar^:17:4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of trading; he set it in a city of merchants.^17:5 He also took of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.^17:6 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him^: so it became a vine, and acquired branches and shot forth sprigs.^17:7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers^: and see, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him so that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.^17:8 It was planted in a good soil by great waters so that it might bear branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a splendid vine.^17:9 Say now, This is what Adonai YHWH declares; Will it prosper? will he not pull up the roots, and cut off the fruit so that it withers? it will wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by its roots.^17:10 Yes, now look, being planted, will it prosper? will it not wither, when the East wind touches it? it will wither in the furrows where it grew.^17:11 Moreover the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^17:12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know you not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon has come to Jerusalem, and has captured the king and the chiefs, and led them with him to Babylon;^17:13 And has taken of the king's seed, and made a treaty with him, and has taken an oath of him^: he has also captured the mighty of the land^:17:14 That the kingdom might be base so that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his treaty it might stand.^17:15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? will he escape that does such things? or will he break the treaty and be delivered?^17:16 As I live says Adonai YHWH, certainly in the place where the king resides that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose treaty he broke, even with him in the center of Babylon he will die.^17:17 Neither will Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounds and building forts, to cut off many persons^:17:18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the treaty, when lo, he had given his hand and has done all these things, he will not escape.^17:19 Therefore this is what Adonai YHWH declares; As I live, certainly my oath that he has despised, and my Covenant that he has broken, even it will I repay upon his own head.^17:20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he will be caught in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.^17:21 And all his fugitives with all his bands will fall by the sword, and they that remain will be scattered toward all winds^: and you will know that I YHWH have spoken it.^17:22 This is what Adonai YHWH declares; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it on a mountain high and lofty^:17:23 In the mountain of the height of Israel I will plant it^: and it will bear boughs, and bear fruit, and be a splendid cedar^: and under it will live all flying creatures of every wing; in the shadow of its branches will they reside.^17:24 And all the trees of the field will know that I YHWH have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree and have made the dry tree to flourish^: I YHWH have spoken and have done it.

18:1 The Word of YHWH came to me again saying,^18:2 What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel saying, "the fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge"? ^18:3 As I live declares AdonaiYHWH, you will not have occasion anymore to use this proverb in Israel.^18:4 Observe, all people are mine; as the life of the father, so also the life of the son is mine^: the person that sins, they will die.^18:5 But if a man is just, and does what is lawful and right,^18:6 and has not eaten upon the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the House of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor's wife, neither has come near to a menstruous woman.^18:7 And has not oppressed any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has spoiled none by violence, has given his food to the hungry and has covered the naked with a garment;^18:8 He that has not given out on interest, neither has taken any increase, that has withdrawn his hand from injustice, has executed true judgment between man and man,^18:9 has walked in my statutes and has observed my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he will surely live says Adonia YHWH.^18:10 And, he has begotten a son, a burglar, a shedder of blood, and he has made a brother of one of these,^18:11 and he all those has not done, for even on the mountains he has eaten, and the wife of his neighbor he has defiled.^18:12 Has oppressed the poor and needy, has spoiled by violence, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,^18:13 has given out on interest, and has taken increase^: will he then live? he will not live^: he has done all these abominations; he will certainly die; his blood will be on him.^18:14 Now lo, if he genders a son, that sees all his dad's sins that he has done, and considers, and does not do likewise,^18:15 that has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the House of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor's wife,^18:16 Neither has oppressed any, has not withheld the pledge, neither has spoiled by violence, but has given his food to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,^18:17 that has taken off his hand from the poor, that has not received interest nor increase, has executed my judgments, has walked in my statutes; he will not die for the depravity of his dad, he will certainly live.^18:18 As for his dad, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did what is not good among his people, lo, even he will die in his depravity.^18:19 Still you say, why? does not the son bear the depravity of the dad? When the son has done what is lawful and right, and has observed all my statutes and has done them, he will certainly live.^18:20 The person that sins, they will die. The son will not bear the depravity of the dad, neither will the dad bear the depravity of the son^: the righteousness of the righteous will be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked will be on him.^18:21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he has committed, and observes all my statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he will certainly live, he will not die.^18:22 All his transgressions that he has committed, they will not be mentioned to him^: in his righteousness that he has done he will live.^18:23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? says Adonai YHWH^: and not that he should turn back from his ways, and live?^18:24 But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits depravity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked does, will he live? All his righteousness that he has done will not be mentioned^: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them will he die.^18:25 Still you say, the way of Adonai is not equal. Hear now, O House of Israel; is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?^18:26 When a righteous person turns away from his righteousness, and commits depravity and dies in them; for his depravity that he has done will he die.^18:27 Again, when the wicked turns away from his wickedness that he has committed and does what is lawful and right, he will save his person alive.^18:28 Because he considers and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he will certainly live, he will not die.^18:29 Still the House of Israel says, The way of Adonai is not equal. O House of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?^18:30 Therefore I will judge you, O House of Israel, everyone according to his ways declares Adonai YHWH. Change ones mind, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so depravity will not be your ruin.^18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit^: because why will you die, O House of Israel?^18:32 Because I have no pleasure in the death of him that dies says Adonai YHWH^: therefore turn back yourselves and remain alive.

19:1 Moreover take yourself up a lamentation for the chiefs of Israel,^19:2 and say, What is your mother? A lioness^: she lay down among lions, she nourished her cubs among young lions.^19:3 And she brought up one of her cubs^: it became a young lion and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.^19:4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt.^19:5 Now when she saw that she had waited and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.^19:6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion and learned to catch the prey and devoured men.^19:7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate and its fullness, by the sound of his roaring.^19:8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him^: he was taken in their pit.^19:9 And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon^: they brought him into the stronghold, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.^19:10 Your mother is like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters^: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.^19:11 And she had strong rods for the scepters of them that ruled, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.^19:12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the East wind dried up her fruit^: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.^19:13 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.^19:14 And fire has gone out of a rod of her branches that has devoured her fruit, so that she has no strong rod to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and will be for a dirge.

20:1 And it came to pass in the 7th year, in the 5th month, on the 10th day of the month that some of the Elders of Israel came to inquire of YHWH, and sat before me.^20:2 Then came the Word of YHWH to me saying,^20:3 Son of man, speak to the Elders of Israel and say to them, This is what Adonai YHWH declares; Are you come to inquire of me? As I live says Adonai YHWH, I will not be inquired of by you.^20:4 Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their ancestors^:20:5 And say to them, This is what Adonai YHWH declares; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up my hand to the seed of the House of Jacob, and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up my hand to them saying, I am YHWH Elohim;^20:6 In the day that I lifted up my hand to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had selected for them, flowing with milk and honey that is the glory of all lands^:20:7 Then I said to them, Cast away everyone the abominations of your eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt^: I am YHWH your Elohim.^20:8 But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me, they did not everyone cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the middle of the land of Egypt.^20:9 And I do it for my name's sake, not to pollute it before the eyes of the nations, in whose midst they are, before whose eyes I became known to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.^20:10 Therefore I caused them to go out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the uninhabited land.^20:11 And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments, which if a person will observe, they will even live in them.^20:12 Moreover I also gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them so that they might know that I am YHWH that consecrates them.^20:13 But the House of Israel rebelled against me in the uninhabited land^: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a person will observe, they will even live in them. And my sabbaths they greatly polluted^: then I said, I would pour out my fury on them in the uninhabited land, to consume them.^20:14 But I acted for my Name's sake, that it should not be desecrated before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.^20:15 Yet I also lifted up my hand to them in the uninhabited land, that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;^20:16 Because they despised my judgments and walked not in my statutes, but desecrated my sabbaths^: because their heart went after their idols.^20:17 Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the uninhabited land.^20:18 But I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your ancestors, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols^:20:19 I am YHWH Elohim; walk in my statutes, and observe my judgments, and institute them;^20:20 And consecrate my sabbaths; and they will be a sign between me and you so that you may know that I am YHWH Elohim.^20:21 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me^: they walked not in my statutes, neither observed my judgments to institute them, which if a person does, they will even live in them. They desecrated my sabbaths^: then I said, I would pour out my fury on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.^20:22 Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and acted for my Name's sake, that it should not be desecrated in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.^20:23 I lifted up my hand to them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them throughout the countries;^20:24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had desecrated my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their forefathers' idols.^20:25 Therefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments in which they should not live;^20:26 And I defiled them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that opens the womb so that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am YHWH.^20:27 Therefore, son of man, speak to the House of Israel and say to them, This is what Adonai YHWH declares; Still in this your forefathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.^20:28 Because when I had brought them into the land in which I lifted up my hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering. There they also constituted their tranquilizing fragrance, and poured out there their Drink Offerings.^20:29 Then I said to them, What is the worship place where you go? And its name is called Bamah to this day.^20:30 Therefore say to the House of Israel, This is what Adonai YHWH declares; Are you defiled after the manner of your forefathers? and commit prostitution after their abominations?^20:31 Because when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, you desecrate yourselves with all your idols, even to this day^: and will I be inquired of [through Urim-Thummim] by you, O House of Israel? As I live, declares Adonai YHWH, I will not be inquired of [through Urim-Thummim] by you.^20:32 And what comes into your mind will not be at all, that you say, we will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.^20:33 As I live declares Adonai YHWH, certainly with a mighty hand and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, I will become King over you^:20:34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.^20:35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there I will plead with you face to face.^20:36 The same as I pleaded with your forefathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will plead with you declares Adonai YHWH.^20:37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the Covenant^:20:38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and those that revolt against me^: I will bring them out of the country where they sojourn, and they will not enter into the land of Israel^: and you will know that I am YHWH.^20:39 As for you, O House of Israel, this is what Adonai YHWH declares; Go you now, serve you everyone his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me^: but later you will desecrate my Holy Name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.^20:40 Because in my Holy Mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, says Adonai YHWH, there will all the House of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me. There I will accept them, and there I will require your offerings, and the first-fruits of your oblations, with all your sacred things.^20:41 I will accept you with your tranquilizing fragrance, when I bring you out from the people, and gathered you out of the countries where you have been scattered; and I will be consecrated in you before the heathen.^20:42 And you will know that I am YHWH, when I will bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for which I lifted up my hand to give it to your forefathers.^20:43 And there will you remember your ways, and all your practices, in which you have become unclean; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your badness that you have accomplished.^20:44 And you have known that I am YHWH, in my dealing with you for my Name's sake, not according to your bad ways, and according to your corrupt practices, O House of Israel, an affirmation of Adonai YHWH.^20:45 Moreover the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^20:46 Son of man, set your face toward the South, and drop your word toward the South, and prophesy against the forest of the South Field;^20:47 And say to the forest of the South, Hear the Word of YHWH; This is what Adonai YHWH declares; Look, I will kindle a fire in you and it will devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree^: the flaming flame will not be quenched, and all faces from the South to the North will be burned therein.^20:48 And all flesh will see that I YHWH have kindled it^: it will not be quenched.^20:49 Then I said, Ah Adonai YHWH! they say of me, does he not speak parables?

21:1 And the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^21:2 Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop your word toward the Sacred Place and prophesy against the land of Israel,^21:3 And say to the land of Israel, This is what YHWH declares; Look, I am against you and will draw out my sword from its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.^21:4 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore will my sword go out of its sheath against all flesh from the South to the North^:21:5 That all flesh may know that I, YHWH, have drawn out my sword from its sheath^: it will not return anymore.^21:6 Groan therefore, you son of man, with the breaking of your loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.^21:7 And it will be when they say to you, why do you groan? that you will answer, because of the news; because it arrives and every heart will melt, and all hands will be feeble, and every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water^: watch, it arrives, and will be brought to pass declares Adonai YHWH.^21:8 Again the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^21:9 Son of man, prophesy and say, This is what YHWH declares; say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished^:21:10 It is sharpened to make a slaughter; it is polished that it may glitter^: should we then make mirth? it rejects the staff of my son, as every tree.^21:11 And he has given it to be polished so that it may be handled^: this sword is sharpened, and it is polished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.^21:12 Cry and wail, son of man^: because it will be upon my people, it will be upon all the chiefs of Israel^: terrors by reason of the sword will be upon my people^: slap therefore on your sides.^21:13 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it will be no more declares Adonai YHWH.^21:14 You therefore, son of man, prophesy and hit your hands together, and let the sword be doubled the 3rd time, the sword of the slain^: it is the sword of the great men that are killed that enter into their chambers.^21:15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates so that their heart may faint, and their stumbling-blocks are multiplied^: ah! it is made as the flashing of arrow heads, it is sharpened up for the slaughter.^21:16 Take possession of the right, place yourself at the left, Where your face is appointed.^21:17 I will also hit my hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest^: I YHWH have declared it.^21:18 The Word of YHWH came to me again saying,^21:19 Also, you son of man, appoint yourself two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come^: let the two of them come out of one land, and let there be a pillar at the top of the road.^21:20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.^21:21 Because the king of Babylon stood at the intersection of the road, at the head of the two ways, to use divination^: he made his arrows swift, he inquired with teraphim, he inspected in the liver.^21:22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mound and to build a seige- wall.^21:23 And it will be to them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths^: but he will call to remembrance the depravity, that they may be captured.^21:24 Therefore this is what Adonai YHWH declares; Because you have made your depravity to be remembered, in that your rebellions are uncovered, so that in all your practices your sins do appear; because, I say, that you are come to remembrance, you will be captured with the hand.^21:25 And you, profane wicked chief of Israel, whose day has come, when depravity will have an end,^21:26 This is what Adonai YHWH declares; Remove the turban and take off the crown^: this will not be the same^: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.^21:27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it^: and it will be no more, until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it to him.^21:28 And you, son of man, prophesy and say, This is what Adonai YHWH declares concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their scorn; even say you, the sword, the sword is drawn^: because for the slaughter it is polished, to devour because of its flashing^:21:29 Your visions are a vain thing in divining for you of a lie, to put you on the necks of the wounded of the wicked, whose day had come, in the time of the depravity of the end.^21:30 Will I cause it to return into its sheath? I will judge you in the Standing Place where you were created, in the land of your origin.^21:31 And I will pour out my anger on you, I will blow against you in the supernatural fire of my outburst, and deliver you into the hand of brutish men, and skillful to destroy.^21:32 You will be for fuel to the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the land; you will be no more remembered^: because I, YHWH, have spoken it.

22:1 Moreover the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^22:2 Now, you son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? yes, you will show her all her abominations.^22:3 Then you will say, This is what Adonai YHWH declares, The city sheds blood in the middle of it, that her time may come, and makes idols against herself to defile herself.^22:4 You are become guilty in your blood so that you have shed; and have defiled yourself in your idols that you have fashioned. And you have caused your days to draw near and are gathered up in your lifetime^: therefore have I made you a scorn to the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.^22:5 Those that are near and those that are far from you, will mock you that are unclean and in panic.^22:6 Lo, chiefs of Israel, each according to his arm have been in you to shed blood.^22:7 Dad and mother made light of in you, to a sojourner they dealt oppressively among you, fatherless and widow they oppressed in you.^22:8 You have despised my Sacred Places, and have profaned my sabbaths.^22:9 In you are men that carry tales to shed blood^: and in you they eat upon the mountains^: among you they commit evil devices.^22:10 In you have they discovered their fathers' nakedness^: in you have they humbled her that was set apart for uncleanness.^22:11 And one has committed disgusting things with his neighbor's woman; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in you has humiliated [sexually] his sister, his dad's daughter.^22:12 In you have they taken gifts to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten me declares Adonai YHWH.^22:13 Look, therefore I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain that you have made, and at your blood that has been among you.^22:14 Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I will deal with you? I, YHWH, have spoken it and will do it.^22:15 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and disperse you in the countries, and will end your uncleanness.^22:16 And you will desecrate yourself in the sight of the nations, and you will know that I am YHWH.^22:17 Then the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^22:18 Son of man, the House of Israel has to me become dross^: all they are bronze, tin, iron, and lead, in the center of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.^22:19 Therefore this is what Adonai YHWH declares; Because you are all become dross, take note therefore, I will gather you into the center of Jerusalem.^22:20 As they gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin, into the center of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so I will gather you in my anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you down.^22:21 Yes, I will gather you and blow on you in the supernatural fire of my outburst, and you will be melted in the center thereof.^22:22 As silver is melted in the center of the furnace, so will you be melted in the center thereof; and you will know that I, YHWH, have poured out my fury on you.^22:23 Then the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^22:24 Son of man, say to her, You are the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of anger.^22:25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets among them, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured people; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows among her.^22:26 Her priests have violated my Law, and have desecrated my Sacred Place^: they have put no difference between the sacred and common, neither have they shown difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am desecrated among them.^22:27 Her chiefs among them are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy lives, to get dishonest gain.^22:28 And her prophets have daubed them with untested mortar, seeing vanity and divining lies to them saying, this is what Adonai YHWH declares, when YHWH has not spoken.^22:29 The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy^: yes, they have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.^22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it^: but I found none.^22:31 Therefore I have poured out my anger upon them; I have consumed them with the supernatural fire of my outburst^: their own way have I repaid upon their heads declares Adonai YHWH.

23:1 The Word of YHWH came again to me saying,^23:2 son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother^:23:3 And they committed prostitution in Egypt; they committed prostitution in their youth. There they have bruised their breasts, and there they have dealt with the loves of their virginity.^23:4 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister^: and they were mine, and they gendered sons and daughters. These were their designated names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.^23:5 And Aholah played the prostitute when she was mine; and she lusted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,^23:6 that were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.^23:7 So she committed her prostitution with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she lusted^: with all their idols she defiled herself.^23:8 Neither left she her prostitution brought from Egypt^: because in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their prostitution upon her.^23:9 Therefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she lusted.^23:10 These discovered her nakedness^: they took her sons and her daughters and killed her with the sword^: and she became famous among women; because they had executed judgment on her.^23:11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her lustfulness than she, and in her prostitution more than her sister in her whoring.^23:12 She lusted on the Assyrians her neighbors, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.^23:13 Then I saw that she was defiled so that they took both one way,^23:14 and that she increased her prostitution^: because when she saw men engraved upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans engraved with vermilion (red color),^23:15 Belted with girdles upon their hips, exceeding in dyed attire on their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their origin^:23:16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she lusted on them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.^23:17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.^23:18 So she discovered her prostitution, and discovered her nakedness^: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.^23:19 Still she multiplied her prostitution, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.^23:20 Because she lusted on their concubines, whose flesh is as the flesh of male donkeys, and whose ejaculation is like the ejaculation of horses.^23:21 You looked after the lewdness of your youth, in dealing out of Egypt your loves, for the sake of the breasts of your youth.^23:22 Therefore, O Aholibah, this is what Adonia YHWH declares; Look, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your mind is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side;^23:23 The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, and all the Assyrians with them^: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding on horses.^23:24 And they will come against you with chariots, wagons, wheels, and with a company of people that will set against you buckler and shield and helmet all around^: and I will set judgment before them, and they will judge you according to their judgments.^23:25 Then I will set my jealousy against you, and they will deal furiously with you^: they will take away your nose and your ears. And your posterity will fall by the sword^: they will take your sons and your daughters; and your Latter Times will be devoured by supernatural fire.^23:26 They will also strip you out of your clothes, and take away your fair jewels.^23:27 So will I make your lewdness to cease from you, and your prostitution brought from the land of Egypt^: so that you will not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt anymore.^23:28 Because this is what Adonai YHWH declares; Look, I will deliver you into the hand of them who you hate, into the hand of them from who your mind is alienated^:23:29 And they will deal with you hatefully, and will remove all your labor, and will leave you naked and bare^: and the nakedness of your prostitution will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your whoring.^23:30 I will do these things to you, because you have gone a whoring after the heathen, and because you have become unclean with their idols.^23:31 You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.^23:32 This is what Adonai YHWH declares; You will drink of your sister's cup deep and large^: you will be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it contains much.^23:33 You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of appalling and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.^23:34 You will even drink it and draw it off, and you will break the potsherds, and pluck off your own breasts^: because I have spoken it, declares Adonai YHWH.^23:35 Therefore this is what Adonai YHWH declares; Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore bear you also your lewdness and your prostitution.^23:36 YHWH also said to me; Son of man, will you judge Aholah and Aholibah? yes, declare to them their abominations;^23:37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, who they engendered to me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.^23:38 Moreover this they have done to me^: they have defiled my Sacred Place in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.^23:39 Because when they had killed their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my Sacred Place to profane it; and lo, so have they done in the middle of my Temple!^23:40 And furthermore, that you have sent for men to come from far, to who a messenger was sent; and lo, they came^: for who you did wash yourself, painted your eyes, and decked yourself with ornaments,^23:41 And sat upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, and there you have set my incense and my oil.^23:42 And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her^: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads.^23:43 Then I said to her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit prostitution with her, and she with them?^23:44 Still they went in to her, as they go in to a woman that plays the whore^: so went they in to Aholah and to Aholibah, the lewd women.^23:45 And the righteous men, they will judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.^23:46 Because this is what Adonai YHWH declares; I will bring up a company on them, and will give them to be removed and plundered.^23:47 And the company will stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they will slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.^23:48 So will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your licentiousness.^23:49 And they will repay your lewdness upon you, and you will bear the sins of your idols^: and you will know that I am Adonai YHWH.

24:1 Again in the 9th year, in the 10th month, on the 10th day of the month, the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^24:2 Son of man, write the name of the day, even of this same day^: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day.^24:3 And utter a parable to the rebellious house and say to them, This is what Adonai YHWH declares; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it^:24:4 Gather the pieces into it, even every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.^24:5 Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them cook the bones of it therein.^24:6 Therefore this is what Adonai YHWH declares; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum has not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no pebbles fall on it.^24:7 Because her blood is in the middle of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not on the ground, to cover it with dust;^24:8 That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood on the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.^24:9 Therefore this is what Adonai YHWH declares; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.^24:10 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, spice it well and let the bones be burned.^24:11 Then set it empty on its coals, that the bronze of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be melted in it so that the scum of it may be consumed.^24:12 She has wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not out of her^: her scum will be in the fire.^24:13 In your filthiness is lewdness^: because I have purged you, and you were not purged, you will not be purged from your filthiness anymore, until I have caused my fury to rest on you.^24:14 I, YHWH have spoken it^: it will come to pass and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I change my mind; according to your ways and according to your practices, will they judge you, declares Adonai YHWH.^24:15 Also the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^24:16 Son of man, look, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke^: yet neither will you mourn nor weep, neither will your tears run down.^24:17 Cease to groan, for the dead you will make no mourning, your bonnet bind on you and your shoes you will put on your feet, and you will not cover over the upper lip, and bread of men you will not eat.^24:18 So I spoke to the people in the morning^: and at sunset my woman died; and I did at sunrise as I was commanded.^24:19 And the people said to me, Will you not tell us what these things are to us, that you do so?^24:20 Then I answered them, the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^24:21 Speak to the House of Israel, This is what Adonai YHWH declares; Look, I will wound my Sacred Place, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and what your people pity; and your sons and your daughters who you have left will fall by the sword.^24:22 And you will do as I have done^: you will not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.^24:23 And your turban will be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet^: you will not mourn nor weep; but you will pine away for your depravities, and mourn one toward another.^24:24 So Ezekiel is to you a sign^: according to all that he has done will you do^: and when this comes, you will know that I am Adonai YHWH.^24:25 Also, you son of man, will it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes and on what they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,^24:26 that he that escapes in that day will come to you, to cause you to hear it with your ears?^24:27 In that day will your mouth be opened to him that is escaped, and you will speak, and be no more dumb^: and you will be a sign to them; and they will know that I am YHWH.

25:1 The Word of YHWH came again to me saying,^25:2 Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites and prophesy against them;^25:3 And say to the Ammonites, Hear the Word of Adonai YHWH; This is what Adonai YHWH declares; Because you said, Aha, against my Sacred Place, when it was desecrated. And against the land of Israel when it was desolate; and against the House of Judah, when they went into captivity.^25:4 Take note, therefore I will deliver you to the men of the East for a possession, and they will set their palaces in you, and make their dwellings in you^: they will eat your fruit and they will drink your milk.^25:5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couching-place for flocks^: and you will know that I am YHWH.^25:6 Because this is what Adonai YHWH declares; Because you have clapped your hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all your despite against the land of Israel;^25:7 Observe, I will stretch out my hand on you and will deliver you for a plunder to the heathen. And I will cut you off from the people, and I will cause you to perish out of the countries^: I will destroy you; and you will know that I am YHWH.^25:8 This is what Adonai YHWH declares; Because that Moab and Seir do say, look, the House of Judah has become like all the heathen;^25:9 Therefore look, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities that are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim,^25:10 to 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 on Moab; and they will know that I am YHWH.^25:12 This is what Adonai YHWH declares; Because that Edom has dealt against the House of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended and revenged himself upon them;^25:13 Therefore this is what Adonai YHWH declares; I will also stretch out my hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan will fall by the sword.^25:14 And I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel^: and they will do in Edom according to my anger and according to my fury; and they will know my vengeance declares Adonai YHWH.^25:15 This is what Adonai YHWH declares; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a heart of contempt, to destroy it for the old hatred;^25:16 Therefore this is what Adonai YHWH declares; Look, I will stretch out my hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims (executioners), and destroy the descendants of the seacoast.^25:17 And I will execute great vengeance on them with furious rebukes; and they will know that I am YHWH, when I will lay my vengeance on them.

26:1 Then it came to pass in the 11th year, on the first day of the month, that the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^26:2 Son of man, because Tyrus has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people^: she has turned to me^: I will be replenished, now she is laid waste^:26:3 Therefore this is what Adonai YHWH declares; Look, I am against you, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.^26:4 And they will 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 will be a place for the spreading of nets in the center of the sea^: because I have spoken it, declares Adonai YHWH^: and it will become a plunder to the nations.^26:6 And her daughters that are in the field will be killed by the sword; and they will know that I am YHWH.^26:7 Because this is what Adonai YHWH declares; Look, I will bring on 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 will kill with the sword your daughters in the field^: and he will make a siege-wall against you, cast a mound against you and lift up the buckler against you.^26:9 And he will set battering-rams of war against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.^26:10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the sound of the horsemen and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he will enter into your gates, as men enter into a city where there is made a breach.^26:11 With the hoofs of his horses will he tread down all your streets^: he will kill your people by the sword, and your strong garrisons will go down to the ground.^26:12 And they will make a booty of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise^: and they will break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses^: and they will lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the water.^26:13 And I will cause the sound of your songs to cease; and the sound of your lyre will be no more heard.^26:14 And I will make you like the top of a rock^: you will be a place to spread nets upon; you will be built no more^: because I YHWH have spoken it, declares Adonai YHWH.^26:15 This is what Adonai YHWH says to Tyrus; Will not the isles shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of you?^26:16 Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their embroidered garments^: they will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground and will tremble at every moment, and be appalled at you.^26:17 And they will take up a lamentation for you and say to you, how are you destroyed that was inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city that was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants that cause their terror to be on all that haunt it! ^26:18 Now will the isles tremble in the day of your fall; yes, the isles that are in the sea will be troubled at your departure.^26:19 Because this is what Adonai YHWH declares; When I will make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I will bring up the deep upon you, and great waters will cover you;^26:20 When I will bring you down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of olden times, and will set you in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit so that you are not inhabited. And I will set glory in the land of the living;^26:21 I will make you a terror and you will exist no more^: though you are sought for, still will you never be found again, declares Adonai YHWH.

27:1 The Word of YHWH came again to me saying,^27:2 Now, you son of man, take up a dirge for Tyrus;^27:3 And say to Tyrus, O you that are situated at the entry of the sea, which are a merchant of the people for many isles, this is what Adonai YHWH declares; O Tyrus, you have said, I am of perfect beauty.^27:4 Your borders are in the middle of the seas, your builders have perfected your beauty.^27:5 They have made all your ship boards of fir trees of Senir^: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for you.^27:6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars; the company of the Ashurites have made your benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.^27:7 Fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was what you spread out to be your sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was what covered you.^27:8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were your mariners^: your wise men, O Tyrus, that were in you, were your pilots.^27:9 Elders of Gebal and its wise men have been in you, strengthening your breach; All ships of the sea and their mariners have been in you to trade with your merchandise.^27:10 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in your army, your men of war^: they hanged the shield and helmet in you; they set out your ornaments.^27:11 The men of Arvad with your army were upon your walls all around, and the Gammadims were in your towers^: they hanged their shields all around on your walls; they have made your beauty perfect.^27:12 Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in your wares.^27:13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your merchants^: they traded the persons of men and vessels of bronze in your market.^27:14 They of the house of Togarmah traded in your wares with horses and horsemen and mules.^27:15 The men of Dedan were your merchants; many isles were the merchandise of your hand^: they brought you for a present, horns of ivory and ebony.^27:16 Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of your making^: they occupied in your fairs with emeralds, purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.^27:17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were your merchants^: they traded in your market wheat of Minnith, Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.^27:18 Damascus was your merchant in the multitude of the wares of your 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 your fairs^: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in your market.^27:20 Dedan was your merchant in precious clothes for chariots.^27:21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with you in lambs, rams, and goats^: in these were they your merchants.^27:22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were your merchants^: they occupied in your fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.^27:23 Haran and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were your merchants.^27:24 These were your merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes and embroidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords and made of cedar among your merchandise.^27:25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of you in your market^: and you were replenished and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.^27:26 Your rowers have brought you into great waters^: the East wind has broken you in the midst of the seas.^27:27 Your wealth and your wares, your merchandise, your mariners and your pilots, strengtheners of your breach and the traders of your merchandise, and all your men of war who are in you, and in all your assembly that is among you, fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your fall.^27:28 The suburbs will shake at the sound of the cry of your pilots.^27:29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, will come down from their ships, they will stand on the land;^27:30 And will cause their voice to be heard against you, and will cry bitterly and will cast up dust on their heads, they will wallow themselves in the ashes^:27:31 And they will make themselves bald for you and gird themselves with sackcloth, and they will weep for you with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.^27:32 And in their wailing they will take up a dirge for you and wail over you saying, what city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the center of the sea? ^27:33 When your wares went out of the seas, you filled many people; you did enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise.^27:34 In the time when you will be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters your merchandise and all your company among you will fall.^27:35 All the inhabitants of the isles will be appalled at you and their kings will be terrified with horror, they will have troubled faces.^27:36 The merchants among the people will hiss at you; you will be a terror and never will exist again.

28:1 The Word of YHWH came again to me saying,^28:2 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyrus, This is what Adonai YHWH declares; Because your heart is lifted up and you have said, I am an elohim, I sit in the seat of elohim, in the center of the seas; still you are a man, and not elohim, though you set your heart as the heart of elohim.^28:3 See, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from you^:28:4 With your wisdom and with your understanding you have obtained yourself riches and have acquired gold and silver into your treasury^:28:5 By your great wisdom and by your traffic you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches^:28:6 Therefore this is what Adonai YHWH declares; Because you have set your heart as the heart of elohim;^28:7 Take note, I will bring foreigners upon you, the terrible of the nations^: and they will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they will defile your splendor.^28:8 They will bring you down to the pit, and you will die the deaths of them that are killed in the center of the seas.^28:9 Will you still say before him that kills you, I am elohim? but you will be a man, and no elohim, in the hand of him that kills you.^28:10 You will die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of foreigners^: because I have spoken it declares Adonai YHWH.^28:11 Moreover the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^28:12 Son of man, take up a dirge upon the king of Tyrus and say to him, this is what Adonai YHWH declares; You sealed up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.^28:13 You have been in Eden the Garden of Elohim; every precious stone was your 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 your tambourines and of your settings (jeweler's work) was prepared in you in the day that you were created.^28:14 You are the anointed Guardian of Eden (Cherub) that protects; and I have set you so^: you were upon the Holy Mountain of Elohim; you have walked up and down in the middle of the stones of supernatural fire.^28:15 You were wholesome in your ways from the day that you were created, until injustice was found in you.^28:16 By the multitude of your merchandise they have filled the midst of you with violence, and you have sinned^: therefore I will exterminate you as defiled out of the Mountain of Elohim^: and I will destroy you, O protecting cherub, from the middle of the stones of supernatural fire.^28:17 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty, you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor^: I will cast you to the ground, I will lay you before kings so that they may see you.^28:18 You have desecrated your Sacred Place by the multitude of your depravities, by the injustice of your trade. Therefore I will bring out a supernatural fire from among you, it will devour you, and I will bring you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that see you.^28:19 All they that know you among the people will be appalled at you^: you will be a terror and never will you exist again.^28:20 Again the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^28:21 Son of man, set your face against Zidon and prophesy against it^28:22 and say, this is what Adonai YHWH declares; Look, I am against you, O Zidon; and I will be glorified among you^: and they will know that I am YHWH, when I will have executed judgments in her and will be consecrated in her.^28:23 Because I will send into her plague, and blood into her streets; and the wounded will be judged among her by the sword upon her on every side; and they will know that I am YHWH.^28:24 And there will be no more a pricking brier to the House of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are around them, that despised them; and they will know that I am Adonai YHWH.^28:25 This is what Adonai YHWH declares; When I will have gathered the House of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and will be consecrated in them in the sight of the heathen, then will they reside in their land that I have given to my slave Jacob.^28:26 And they will live safely there, and will build houses, and plant vineyards; yes, they will live with confidence, when I have executed judgments on all those that despise them all around; and they will know that I am YHWH Elohim.

29:1 In the 10th year, in the 10th month, on the 12th day of the month, the Word of YHWH came to me saying,^29:2 Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt^:29:3 Speak and say, This is what Adonai YHWH declares; Look, I am against you Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the middle of his rivers that has said, my river is my own and I have made it for myself.^29:4 But I will put hooks in your jaws and I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales, and I will bring you up out of the middle of your rivers, and all the fish of your rivers will stick to your scales.^29:5 And I will leave you thrown into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers^: you will fall upon the open fields; you will not be brought together, nor gathered. I have given you for meat to the beasts of the field and to the flying creatures of the sky.^29:6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am YHWH, because they have been a staff of reed to the House of Israel.^29:7 When they took hold of you by your hand, you did break, and tear all their shoulder^: and when they leaned on you, you broke and made all their hips to be at a stand.^29:8 Therefore this is what Adonai YHWH declares; Look, I will bring a sword on you, and cut off man and animal out of you.^29:9 And the land of Egypt will be desolate and waste; and they will know that I am YHWH^: because he has said, the river is mine and I have made it.^29:10 Look therefore, I am against you and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even to the border of Ethiopia.^29:11 No foot of man will pass through it, nor foot of beast will pass through it, neither will it be inhabited 40 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 will be desolate 40 years^: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.^29:13 Still this is what Adonai YHWH declares; At the end of 40 years I will gather the Egyptians from the people where they were scattered^:29:14 And I will turn back the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return to the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they will be there a base (lowly) kingdom.^29:15 It will be the basest (lowest) of the kingdoms; neither will it exalt itsel