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text: Ezekiel
  יחזקאל
  The Koren Jerusalem Bible
  
  
  Ezekiel
  
  
  
  
  
  Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the river Kevar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
  In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of the exile of king Yoyakhin,
  the word of the Lord came to Yeĥezqel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of Kasdim by the river Kevar; and the hand of the Lord was there upon him.
  And I looked, and, behold, a storm wind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire flaring up, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst of it, as it were the colour of electrum, out of the midst of the fire.
  Also out of the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
  And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
  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 colour of burnished brass.
  And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and as for their faces and their wings (of those four)
  their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went everyone straight forward.
  As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man, and they four had the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
  Thus were their faces: and their wings were divided upwards; two wings of everyone were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
  And they went everyone straight forward: wherever the spirit was minded to go, they went; they turned not when they went.
  As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like coals of fire, burning like the appearance of torches: it flashed up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
  And the living creatures ran and returned like the appearance of a flash of lightning.
  Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.
  The appearance of the wheels and their work was like the colour of an emerald: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
  When they went, they went toward their four sides: and they turned not when they went.
  As for their rims, they were so high that they were dreadful, and their rims were full of eyes round about them four.
  And when the living creatures moved, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
  Wherever the spirit was minded to go, they moved, for the spirit was minded to go there; and the wheels were lifted up along with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
  When those moved, these moved; and when those stood still, these stood still; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up along with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
  And over the heads of the living creatures there was the likeness of a firmament, like the colour of the terrible ice, stretched out over their heads above.
  And under the firmament their wings were held straight, the one toward the other: everyone had two, which covered them, namely, everyone two, which covered their bodies.
  And when they moved, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, the noise of a tumult, like the noise of a host: when they stood still, they let down their wings.
  And there was a voice from above the firmament that was over their heads; when they stood still, they let down their wings.
  And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
  And I saw something like the colour of electrum, like the appearance of fire round about enclosing it; from what appeared to be his loins upward, and from what appeared to be his loins downward, I saw what appeared to be fire, and there was a brightness round about him.
  As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard the voice of one that spoke.
  
  
  
  And he said to me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak to thee.
  And a spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me upon my feet, and I heard him that spoke to me.
  And he said to me, Son of man, I sent thee to the children of Yisra᾽el, to rebellious tribes that have rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, to this very day.
  For the children are defiant and stiffhearted. I do send thee to them; and thou shalt say to them, Thus says the Lord God.
  And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse to hear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet they shall know that there has been a prophet among them.
  And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost sit upon scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.
  And thou shalt speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse to hear: for they are most rebellious.
  But thou, son of man, hear what I say to thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that which I give thee.
  And when I looked, behold, a hand was sent to me; and, lo, a scroll of a book was in it;
  and he spread it before me; and it was written inside and outside: and in it was written lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
  
  
  
  And he said to me, Son of man, eat what thou findest; eat this scroll, and go and speak to the house of Yisra᾽el.
  So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that scroll.
  And he said to me, Son of man, feed thy belly, and fill thy bowels with this scroll that I give thee. Then I did eat it; and it became as sweet as honey in my mouth.
  And he said to me, Son of man, go, get thee to the house of Yisra᾽el, and speak with my words to them.
  For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Yisra᾽el;
  not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened to thee.
  But the house of Yisra᾽el will not hearken to thee; for they will not hearken to me: for all the house of Yisra᾽el are defiant and hardhearted.
  Behold, I have made thy face hard against their faces, and forehead strong against their foreheads.
  Like adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be downcast at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
  Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to thee take to thy heart, and hear with thy ears.
  And go, get thee to the exiles, to the children of thy people, and speak to them, and tell them. Thus says the Lord God; whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse to hear.
  Then a spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place;
  also the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the noise of the wheels along with them, and a noise of a great rushing,
  so a spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of the Lord was strong upon me.
  Then I came to the exiles at Tel-aviv, that dwelt by the river Kevar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there overwhelmed among them for seven days.
  And it came to pass at the end of seven days    that the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house of Yisra᾽el: and when thou shalt hear a word at my mouth, thou shalt give them warning from me.
  When I say to the wicked man, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand.
  Yet if thou warn the wicked man, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast saved thy soul.
  Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand.
  Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he does not sin, then he shall surely live, because he is warned; and thou hast saved thy soul.
  And the hand of the Lord was there upon me; and he said to me, Arise, go out into the plain, and I will talk with thee there.
  Then I arose, and went out into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the Lord stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river Kevar: and I fell on my face.
  Then a spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet; and he spoke with me, and said to me, Go, shut thyself within thy house.
  But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put cords upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:
  and I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.
  But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say to them, Thus says the Lord God; He that hears, let him hear; and he that refuses to hear, let him refuse: for they are a rebellious house.
  
  
  
  Thou also, son of man, take thee a brick, and lay it before thee, and trace upon it a city, namely, Yerushalayim:
  and lay siege against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast a mound against it; set camps also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.
  And take thou an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face towards it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Yisra᾽el.
  Moreover lie thou upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Yisra᾽el upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
  For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, by an equivalent number of days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Yisra᾽el.
  And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Yehuda: I have appointed thee forty days, each day for a year.
  Therefore thou shalt set thy face towards the siege of Yerushalayim, and thy arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
  And, behold, I will lay cords upon thee, so that thou shalt not be able to turn thyself from one side to another, till thou hast completed the days of thy siege.
  Take thou also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread from them; for the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat it.
  And thy food which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: once a day shalt thou eat it.
  Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: once a day shalt thou drink.
  And thou shalt eat it like barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with human excrement, in their sight.
  And the Lord said, Thus shall the children of Yisra᾽el eat their bread, unclean, among the nations, whither I will drive them.
  Then I said, Ah Lord God, behold my soul has never been polluted: for from my youth up even till now I have not eaten that which dies of itself, or is torn by beasts, nor did loathsome meat ever come into my mouth.
  Then he said to me, Lo, I have given thee cow’s dung instead of human dung, and thou shalt pre­pare thy bread upon that.
  Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Yerushalayim: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with anxiety; and they shall drink water by measure, and in appalment:
  that they may lack bread and water, and be appalled with one another, and waste away for their iniquity.
  
  
  
  And thou, Son of man, take a sharp knife; a barber’s razor take for thyself; and pass it over thy head, and over thy beard: then take balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
  Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with the sword: and a third part thou shalt scatter to the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
  Thou shalt also take from these a small number, and bind them in thy skirts.
  Then take more of them, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; from there a fire shall come forth into all the house of Yisra᾽el.
  Thus says the Lord God; This is Yerushalayim: I have set it in the midst of the nations; and countries are round about her.
  And she has rebelled against my judgments more wickedly than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are round her: for they have refused my judgments, and as for my statutes, they have not followed them.
  Therefore thus says the Lord God; Because you have been more turbulent than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, nor have you kept my judgments, nor have you done according to the practices of the nations that are round about you;
  therefore thus says the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.
  And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and like which I will not do again, because of all thy abominations.
  Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter to all the winds.
  Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thy abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall my eye spare, neither will I have any pity.
  A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
  Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will relieve my fury upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the Lord have spoken it in my zeal, when I have spent my fury in them.
  Moreover I will make thee a desolation, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
  So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment to the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the Lord have spoken it.
  When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
  so will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the Lord have spoken.
  
  
  
  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, set thy face towards the mountains of Yisra᾽el, and prophesy against them,
  and say, You mountains of Yisra᾽el, hear the word of the Lord God; Thus says the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the ravines, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
  And your altars shall be desolate, and your sun images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
  And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Yisra᾽el before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
  In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your sun images may be cut down, and your works may be wiped out.
  And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
  Yet will I leave a remnant, that you may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when you shall be scattered through the countries.
  And your fugitives shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, when I have broken their wanton heart, which has departed from me, and their eyes, which go astray after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
  And they shall know that I am the Lord, and that not in vain did I say that I would do this evil to them.
  Thus says the Lord God; Smite with thy hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Yisra᾽el! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
  He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remains and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I spend my fury upon them.
  Then shall you know that I am the Lord, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about 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 savour to all their idols.
  So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness to Divla, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
  
  
  
  Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Also, thou son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Yisra᾽el; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.
  Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send my anger upon thee, and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and I will recompense upon thee all thy abominations.
  And my eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thy abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
  Thus says the Lord God! An evil, a singular evil, behold, is come.
  An end is come; the end is come, which he has stirred up against thee; behold, it is come.
  The dawn is come to thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time comes, it is near; the day is a day of confusion, and not of joyful shouting on the mountains.
  Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish my anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and I will recompense thee for all thy abominations.
  And my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thy abominations that are in the midst of thee; and you shall know that I the Lord do smite.
  Behold the day, behold, it is coming: the dawn has gone forth; the rod has blossomed, arrogance has budded.
  Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nothing of their multitude, nor of their splendour: neither shall there be wailing for them.
  The time is come, the day draws near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all its multitude.
  For the seller shall not return to that which he has sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision concerns their whole multitude; none returns; for every man lives in his sin: they do not hold firm.
  They have blown the trumpet, and made all ready; but none goes to the battle: for my wrath is upon all their multitude.
  The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
  And those fugitives that escape, shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one for his iniquity.
  All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall drip with water.
  They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
  They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be like an unclean thing: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
  As for the beauty of his ornament which he set in majesty: they have set up in it the images of their abominations and of their detestable things: therefore I have set it far from them.
  And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.
  My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.
  Make the chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
  And I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pride of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be profaned.
  Anguish comes; and they shall seek peace, but there shall be none.
  Calamity shall follow upon calamity, and rumour shall come upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision from the prophet; but Tora shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
  The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land shall be enfeebled: I will do to them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
  
  
  
  And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Yehuda sat before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me.
  Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from what appeared to be his loins downward, fire; and from his loins upward, as it were the appearance of brightness, something like the colour of electrum.
  And he put out the shape of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and a wind lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Yerushalayim, to the door of the inner gate that looks towards the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
  And, behold, the glory of the God of Yisra᾽el was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.
  Then he said to me, Son of man, lift up thy eyes now the way towards the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way towards the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
  And he said to me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? the great abominations that the house of Yisra᾽el commits here, to drive me far off from my sanctuary? but thou shalt see yet again greater abominations.
  And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.
  Then said he to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had dug in the wall, behold a door.
  And he said to me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they are doing here.
  So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping thing, and abominable beast, and all the idols of the house of Yisra᾽el, traced upon the wall round about.
  And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Yisra᾽el and in the midst of them stood Ya᾽azanyahu, the son of Shafan, every man with his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.
  Then he said to me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the elders of the house of Yisra᾽el are doing in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The Lord sees us not; the Lord has forsaken the land.
  He said also to me. Thou shalt see yet again greater abominations that they do.
  Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord’s house which was towards the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
  Then he said to me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? thou shalt see yet again greater abominations than these.
  And he brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty five men, with their backs towards the temple of the Lord, and their faces towards the east; and they were prostrating themselves towards the sun eastwards.
  Then he said to me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it not enough for the house of Yehuda that they commit the abominations which they commit here? but they also have filled the land with violence, and have provoked me even further to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
  Therefore I too will deal in fury: my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
  
  
  
  And he cried 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.
  And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lies towards the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed in linen, with a writer’s ink well by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brazen altar.
  And the glory of the God of Yisra᾽el had ascended from the keruv, on which it was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer’s ink well by his side;
  and the Lord said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Yerushalayim, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry on account of all the abominations that are done in her midst.
  And to the others he said in my hearing, Go after him through the city, and strike: let not your eye spare, neither have pity:
  slay utterly old and young, both maid, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began with the old men who were before the house.
  And he said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go out. And they went out, and slew in the city.
  And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord God! wilt Thou destroy all the remnant of Yisra᾽el in the pouring of Thy fury upon Yerushalayim?
  Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Yisra᾽el and Yehuda is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice: for they say, The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord sees not.
  And as for me also, my eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.
  And, behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the ink well by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as Thou hast commanded me.
  
  
  
  Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the keruvim there appeared over them something like a sapphire stone, like what appeared to be the shape of a throne.
  And he spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the wheelwork, under the keruv, and fill thy hands with coals of fire from between the keruvim, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.
  Now the keruvim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
  Then the glory of the Lord went up from the keruv, and stood above the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the Lord’s glory.
  And the sound of the wings of the keruvim was heard as far as the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaks.
  And it came to pass, when he had commanded the man clothed with linen saying, Take fire from between the wheelwork, from between the keruvim; then he went in, and stood beside the wheel.
  And one keruv stretched out his hand from between the keruvim unto the fire that was between the keruvim, and took, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed in linen: who took it, and went out.
  And the keruvim appeared to have the form of a man’s hand under their wings.
  And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the keruvim, one wheel by one keruv, and another wheel by another keruv: and the appearance of the wheels was like the colour of an emerald stone.
  And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
  When they moved, they went towards their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place where the head turned they followed it; they turned not as they went.
  And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.
  As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, Haggalgal (The wheelwork.)
  And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a keruv, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
  And the keruvim mounted up. This is the same living creature that I saw by the river Kevar.
  And when the keruvim moved, the wheels moved by them: and when the keruvim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also did not turn from beside them.
  When they stood still, these stood still; and when they mounted up, these mounted also: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.
  Then the glory of the Lord departed from above the threshold of the house, and stood over the keruvim.
  And the keruvim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight, when they went out, with the wheels beside them; and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the Lord’s house; and the glory of the God of Yisra᾽el was over them above.
  This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Yisra᾽el by the river Kevar; and I knew that they were keruvim.
  Each one had four faces, and each one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
  And as for the likeness of their faces, the faces were the same which I saw by the river Kevar, they were identical in their appearances: each one went straight forward.
  
  
  
  Then a spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of the Lord’s house, which looks eastward: and behold at the door of the gate twenty five men: among whom I saw Ya᾽azanya the son of ῾Azzur and Pelatyahu the son of Benayahu, the princes of the people.
  Then he said to me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
  who say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the cauldron, and we are the meat.
  Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
  And the spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said to me, Speak; Thus says the Lord; Thus have you said, O house of Yisra᾽el: for I know the things that come into your mind, everyone of them.
  You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled the streets of it with the slain.
  Therefore thus says the Lord God; Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the meat, and this city is the cauldron: but I will bring you out of the midst of it.
  You have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, says the Lord God.
  And I will bring you out of the midst of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
  You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Yisra᾽el; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
  The city shall not be your cauldron, neither shall you be the meat in the midst of it; but I will judge you at the border of Yisra᾽el:
  and you shall know that I am the Lord; for you have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the nations that are round about you.
  And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatyahu the son of Benaya died. Then I fell down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord God! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Yisra᾽el?
  Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, thy brethren, thy brothers, thy next of kin, and all the house of Yisra᾽el entire are they to whom the inhabitants of Yerushalayim have said, Get you far from the Lord: to us is this land given in possession.
  Therefore say, Thus says the Lord God; Although I have cast them far off among the nations, and although I have scattered them among the countries, and I have been to them a little sanctuary in the countries where they have come,
  therefore say, Thus says the Lord God; Yet will I gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Yisra᾽el.
  And they shall come there, and they shall take away all the detestable things of it, and all the abominations of it from there.
  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;
  that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
  But as for them whose heart follows after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, says the Lord God.
  Then did the keruvim lift up their wings, and the wheels along with them; and the glory of the God of Yisra᾽el was over them above.
  And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
  Afterwards a spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the spirit of God into Kasdim, to the exiles. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
  Then I related to the exiles all the things that the Lord had shown me.
  
  
  
  Then word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.
  Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee the gear for exile, and remove as though for exile by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be that they will perceive, though they are a rebellious house.
  Then shalt thou bring forth thy gear by day in their sight, as gear for exile: and thou shalt go forth at evening in their sight, as they that go out into exile.
  Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out through it.
  In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it out in the dark: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign to the house of Yisra᾽el.
  And I did as I was commanded: I brought out my gear by day, as gear for exile, and in the evening I dug through the wall with my hand; I brought it out in the dark and I bore it on my shoulder in their sight.
  And in the morning came the word of the Lord to me, saying,
  Son of man, has not the house of Yisra᾽el, the rebellious house, said to thee, What doest thou?
  Say thou to them, Thus says the Lord God; This burden concerns the prince in Yerushalayim, and all the house of Yisra᾽el that are among them.
  Say, I am your sign: as I have done, so shall it be done to them: they shall go into exile, into captivity.
  And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the dark, and shall go out: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not the ground with his eyes.
  My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Bavel to the land of the Kasdim; yet he shall not see it, though he shall die there.
  And I will scatter towards every wind all that are about him to help him, and all his troops; and I will draw out the sword after them.
  And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.
  But I will leave a few men of them over from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may confess all their abominations among the nations where they come; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
  Moreover the word of the Lord came to me saying,
  Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with anxiety;
  and say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord God of the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, and of the land of Yisra᾽el; They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink their water with appalment, that her land may be desolate, bare of its fullness, because of the violence of all that dwell in it.
  And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
  And the word of the Lord came to me saying,
  Son of man, what is that proverb that you have in the land of Yisra᾽el, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?
  Tell them therefore, Thus says the Lord God; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Yisra᾽el; but say to them, The days are at hand, and the word of every vision.
  For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Yisra᾽el.
  For I am the Lord: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, says the Lord God.
  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, behold, they of the house of Yisra᾽el say, The vision that he sees is for many days to come, and he prophesies of times that are far off.
  Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God; None of my words shall be delayed any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, says the Lord God.
  
  
  
  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Yisra᾽el that prophesy, and say to them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear the word of the Lord;
  thus says the Lord God; Woe to the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
  O Yisra᾽el, thy prophets are like foxes among ruins.
  You have not gone up into the breaches, nor have you built a fence for the house of Yisra᾽el to stand in the battle in the day of the Lord.
  They have seen vanity and lying divination; they say, The Lord says: and the Lord has not sent them: and they hope that he will confirm the word.
  Have you not seen a vain vision, and have you not spoken a lying divination, in that you say, The Lord says; yet I have not spoken?
  Therefore thus says the Lord God; Because you have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore behold, I am against you, says the Lord God,
  and my hand shall be against the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the counsel of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Yisra᾽el, neither shall they enter into the land of Yisra᾽el; and you shall know that I am the Lord God.
  Because, even because they have led my people astray, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and if anyone builds a wall, these daub it with whitewash:
  say to them who daub it with whitewash that it shall fall: there shall be a deluge of rain; and you, O you great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall break out.
  Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where is the daubing with which you daubed it?
  Therefore thus says the Lord God; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be a deluge of rain in my anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
  So will I break down the wall that you have daubed with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation shall be laid bare, and it shall fall and you shall be consumed in the midst of it: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
  Thus will I spend my wrath upon the wall, and upon those who have daubed it with whitewash, and I will say to you. The wall is no more, nor they that daubed it;
  namely, the prophets of Yisra᾽el who prophesied concerning Yerushalayim, and saw visions of peace concerning her, when there was no peace, says the Lord God.
  And thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them,
  and say, Thus says the Lord God; Woe to the women that sew bands upon all arms, and make veils upon the head of people of every height, for hunting souls! will you hunt the souls of my people, and will you save your own souls alive?
  And will you profane me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people who hear your lies?
  Therefore, thus says the Lord God; Behold, I am against your armbands, with which you hunt the souls there, whisking them off to destruction; and I will tear them from your arms, and I will let the souls go free, namely the souls that you hunt, whisking them to destruction.
  Your headveils also I will tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
  Because with lies you have cowed the heart of the righteous whom I have not grieved; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
  therefore you shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
  
  
  
  Then came certain of the elders of Yisra᾽el to me, and sat before me.
  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their faces: should I let myself be inquired of at all by them?
  Therefore speak to them, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God; Every man of the house of Yisra᾽el that sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I the Lord will answer him that comes with the multitude of his idols;
  that I may catch the house of Yisra᾽el in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
  Therefore say to the house of Yisra᾽el, Thus says the Lord God; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
  For everyone of the house of Yisra᾽el, and of the stranger that sojourns in Yisra᾽el, who separates himself from me, and sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and comes to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the Lord will answer him by myself:
  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 the midst of my people; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
  And if the prophet be deceived when he has spoken a thing, I the Lord have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Yisra᾽el.
  And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeks to him;
  that the house of Yisra᾽el may no more go astray from me, neither be defiled any more by all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says the Lord God.
  The word of the Lord came again to me, saying,
  Son of man, when the land sins against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out my hand upon it, and will break its staff of bread, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:
  though these three men, Noaĥ, Dani᾽el, and Iyyov, were in it, they should only save their own lives by their righteousness, says the Lord God.
  If I cause evil beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:
  though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they alone shall be saved, but the land shall be desolate.
  Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
  though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they alone shall be saved.
  Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
  though Noaĥ, Dani᾽el, and Iyyov, were in it, as I live, says the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but save their own lives by their righteousness.
  For thus says the Lord God; How much more when I send my four severe judgments upon Yerushalayim, namely the sword, and the famine, and the evil beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
  Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant to be brought out, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come out to you, and you shall see their way and their doings: and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Yerushalayim, even concerning all that I have brought upon it.
  And they shall console you, when you see their ways and their doings: and you shall know that not without cause have I done all that I have done in it, says the Lord God.
  
  
  
  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, that vine branch which grew up among the trees of the forest?
  Can wood be taken from it to do any work? or will men take a peg of it for hanging on it any vessel?
  Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devours both ends of it, and the middle of it is burned. Is it fit for any work?
  Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned?
  Therefore thus says the Lord God; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Yerushalayim.
  And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and you shall know that I am the Lord, when I set my face against them.
  And I will make the land desolate, because they have acted faithlessly, says the Lord God.
  
  
  
  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, cause Yerushalayim to know her abominations,
  and say, Thus says the Lord God to Yerushalayim; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Kena῾an; thy father was an Emorite, and thy mother a Ĥittite,
  and as for thy birth, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water for cleansing; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
  No eyes pitied thee, to do any of these to thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, in thy loathsomeness, in the day that thou wast born.
  And when I passed by thee, and saw thee weltering in thy blood, I said to thee, In thy blood live! yea, I said to thee, In thy blood live!
  I will cause thee to increase like the plant of the field. And thou didst increase, and grow big, and thou didst come to possess great attractions: thy breasts were firm, and thy hair was grown, and yet thou wast poorly clad and bare.
  Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness; yea, I swore to thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, says the Lord God, and thou didst become mine.
  Then I washed thee with water; indeed, I rinsed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
  I clothed thee also with embroidered cloth, and shod thee with taĥash skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
  I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck,
  and I put a ring upon thy nose, and earrings in thy ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head.
  Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered cloth; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast very very beautiful, and thou wast fit for royal estate.
  And thy renown went forth among the nations for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my splendour which I had bestowed upon thee, says the Lord God.
  But thou didst trust in thy own beauty, and didst play the harlot because of thy renown, and didst lavish thy fornications on everyone that passed by; his it was.
  And thou didst take some of thy garments, and didst make for thyself high places decked out in various colours, and on those thou didst play the harlot: such things may not come about, nor shall it continue.
  Thou hast also taken thy fair implements, made of my gold and my silver, and hast made for thyself male images, and hast committed lewdness with them,
  and thou hast taken thy embroidered garments, to cover them: and thou hast set my oil and my incense before them.
  My bread also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, with which I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, says the Lord God.
  Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast born to me, and these hast thou sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were thy harlotries so small a matter?
  And thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
  And in all thy abominations and thy harlotries thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou was poorly clad and bare, weltering in thy blood.
  And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe to thee! says the Lord God;)
  that thou hast also built to thee a platform, and hast made thee a high place in every street.
  Thou hast built thy high place on every main street, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast offered thyself to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy harlotries.
  Thou hast also played the harlot with the children of Miżrayim, thy neighbours of large flesh; and hast multiplied thy harlotry, to provoke me to anger.
  Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thy allotment, and delivered thee to the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Pelishtim, who are ashamed of thy lewd way.
  Thou hast played the harlot also with the children of Ashshur, because thou wast insatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet thou couldst not be satisfied.
  Thou hast moreover multiplied thy harlotry in the land of Kena῾an as far as Kasdim; and yet thou wast not satisfied with that.
  How weak is thy heart, says the Lord God, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an importunate harlot;
  in that thou didst build thy platform in every main street, and didst make thy high place in every street; yet thou hast not been like a harlot, for thou didst scorn payment,
  but rather like a wife that commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband!
  Men give gifts to all harlots: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come to thee on every side for thy lewd satisfaction.
  And the contrary is in thee from other women, in that thou didst solicit to harlotry, and wast not solicited; and in that thou didst give hire, and no hire was given thee: thus thou art contrary.
  Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord:
  Thus says the Lord God; Because thy shame was displayed, and thy nakedness laid bare through thy harlotries with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and because of the blood of thy children, which thou didst give to them;
  behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will uncover thy nakedness to them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
  And I will judge thee, as women are judged that break wedlock or shed blood; and I will bring upon thee the blood of anger and jealousy.
  And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thy platform, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
  They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
  And they shall burn thy houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.
  So will I relieve my fury upon thee, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
  Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy ways upon thy head, says the Lord God: for thou hast not taken thought concerning thy abominations.
  Behold, everyone that uses proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
  Thou art thy mother’s daughter, who loathed her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Ĥittite, and your father an Emorite.
  And thy elder sister is Shomeron, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwells at thy right hand, is Sedom and her daughters.
  Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: for after a very little while, thou wast more corrupt than they in all thy ways.
  As I live, says the Lord God, Sedom thy sister has not done, neither she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
  Behold this was the iniquity of thy sister Sedom: she and her daughters had pride, surfeit of bread, and abundance of idleness, and yet she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
  And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I removed them when I saw it.
  Nor did Shomeron commit half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thy abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters by all thy abominations which thou hast done.
  Thou also, bear thy own disgrace, in that thou hast given judgment for thy sisters: through thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they, they are become more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast made thy sisters seem righteous.
  When I shall bring back their captivity, the captivity of Sedom and her daughters, and the captivity of Shomeron and her daughters, then will I bring back the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:
  that thou mayst bear thy own disgrace, and mayst be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort to them.
  When thy sisters, Sedom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Shomeron and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.
  For was not thy sister Sedom a byword in thy mouth in the day of thy pride,
  before thy wickedness was laid bare, it was at the time of the taunt of the daughters of Aram, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Pelishtim, who despise thee round about?
  Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thy abominations, says the Lord.
  For thus says the Lord God; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, for thou hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
  Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
  Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thy elder and thy younger: and I will give them to thee for daughters, but not on account of the covenant with thee.
  And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord:
  that thou mayst remember, and be put to shame, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I have forgiven thee for all that thou hast done, says the Lord God.
  
  
  
  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, propound a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Yisra᾽el;
  and say, Thus says the Lord God; A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, rich in plumage of many colours, came to the Levanon, and took the top of the cedar:
  he broke off the topmost of its young twigs, and carried it into a land of trade; he set it in a city of merchants.
  He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it like a willow tree.
  And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose tendrils turned towards him, and the roots of which were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and sent out sprigs.
  But there was another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots towards him, and send out her tendrils towards him, from its plantations, that he might water it.
  It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.
  Say thou, Thus says the Lord God; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it wither? it shall wither in all its sprouting leaves; it will not need great power or many people to pluck it up by its roots.
  Yea, behold, planted though it is, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind touches it? it shall wither in the plantations where it grew.
  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Say now to the rebellious house, Know you not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Bavel is come to Yerushalayim, and has taken its king, and its princes, and has led them with him to Bavel;
  and has taken of the king’s seed, and made a covenant with him, and has put him on oath: he has also taken away the mighty of the land:
  that the kingdom might be lowly, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.
  But he rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors to Miżrayim, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he that does such things escape? or shall he break the covenant, and yet be saved?
  As I live, says the Lord God, surely in the place where the king dwells that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the midst of Bavel he shall die.
  Neither shall Par῾o with his mighty army and great company help him in the war, by casting up mounds, and building siege works, to cut off many persons:
  seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant; for, surely, having given his hand, and having done all these things, he shall not escape.
  Therefore thus says the Lord God; As I live, surely my oath that he has despised, and my covenant that he has broken, even that will I recompense upon his own head.
  And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Bavel, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.
  And all his fugitives of all his troops shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered to all the winds: and you shall know that I the Lord have spoken it.
  Thus says the Lord God; I will also take of the top of the high cedar, and will set it; I will pluck off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon a high and lofty mountain:
  in the mountain of the height of Yisra᾽el will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a stately cedar: and under it shall dwell all birds of every wing; in the shadow of its branches they shall dwell.
  And all the trees of the field shall know that I the Lord have brought down the high tree, and have exalted the low tree; have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken and have done it.
  
  
  
  The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,
  What mean you, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Yisra᾽el, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?
  As I live, says the Lord God, you shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Yisra᾽el.
  Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine; the soul that sins, it shall die.
  But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
  and has not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Yisra᾽el, nor defiled his neighbour’s wife, nor comes near to a menstruous woman,
  and does not oppress any, but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry, and covers the naked with a garment;
  does not give out money on interest, nor accepts any increase, withdraws his hand from iniquity, executes true judgment between man and man,
  walks in my statutes, and keeps my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, says the Lord God.
  If he has begotten a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that has done the like of any one of these things,
  though he has not done any of these, yet the other has even eaten on the mountains, and defiled his neighbour’s wife,
  has oppressed the poor and needy, has committed robbery, has not restored a pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
  has given out money on interest, and has accepted increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
  Now, if he has begotten a son, that sees all his father’s sins which he has done, and considers, and does not like them,
  that has not eaten upon the mountains, nor has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Yisra᾽el, nor has defiled his neighbour’s wife,
  nor has oppressed any, has not taken a pledge, nor has committed robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,
  has taken off his hand from the poor, has not accepted usury or interest, has executed my judgments, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
  As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity.
  Yet you say, Why? does not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.
  The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
  But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
  None of his transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him: in his righteousness that he has done he shall live.
  Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? says the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
  But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All his righteousness that he has done shall not be remembered: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them shall he die.
  Yet you say, The way of the Lord is unfair. Hear now, O house of Yisra᾽el; Is my way unfair? surely your ways are unfair!
  When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies in them; for his iniquity that he has done he shall die.
  Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
  Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
  Yet the house of Yisra᾽el says, The way of the Lord is not fair. O house of Yisra᾽el, are my ways unfair? surely your ways are unfair!
  Therefore I will judge you, O house of Yisra᾽el, every one according to his ways, says the Lord God. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so that iniquity shall not be your ruin.
  Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, O house of Yisra᾽el?
  For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dies, says the Lord God: therefore turn, and live.
  
  
  
  And you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Yisra᾽el,
  and say, What a lioness was thy mother! she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
  And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
  The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Miżrayim.
  Now when she saw that though she had waited, her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
  And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
  And he knew their palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land and all that was in it was appalled by the noise of his roaring.
  Then the nations set on him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
  And they put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Bavel: they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Yisra᾽el.
  Thy mother is like the vine in thy likeness, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
  And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bore rule, and its stature was exalted among the thick branches, and it appeared in its height with the multitude of its tendrils.
  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 it.
  And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
  And fire is gone out of the rod of her branches; it has devoured her fruit, so that she has no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and a lamentation it has become.
  
  
  
  And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Yisra᾽el came to inquire of the Lord, and sat before me.
  Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, speak to the elders of Yisra᾽el, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God; Are you come to inquire of me? As I live, says the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.
  Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:
  and say to them, Thus says the Lord God; In the day when I chose Yisra᾽el and lifted up my hand to the seed of the house of Ya῾aqov, and made myself known to them in the land of Miżrayim, when I lifted up my hand to them, saying, I am the Lord your God;
  in the day that I lifted up my hand to them, to bring them out of the land of Miżrayim into a land that I had spied out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is an ornament for all the lands:
  then I said to them, Cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Miżrayim: I am the Lord your God.
  But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken to me: they did not cast away every man the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Miżrayim: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Miżrayim.
  But I acted for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them out of the land of Miżrayim.
  And I caused them to go out of the land of Miżrayim, and brought them into the wilderness.
  And I gave them my statutes, and made my judgments known to them, which if a man do, he may live by them.
  Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctify them.
  But the house of Yisra᾽el rebelled against me in the wilderness: they did not follow my statutes, and they rejected my judgments, which if a man do, he may live by them; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
  But I acted for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
  Indeed, I also lifted up my hand to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, one flowing with milk and honey, which is the ornament of all the lands;
  because they rejected my judgments, and did not follow my statutes, but profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
  Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I did not destroy them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
  But I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not follow the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
  I am the Lord your God; follow my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
  and hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.
  But the children rebelled against me: they did not follow my statutes, nor did they keep my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he may live by them; they profaned my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to spend my anger against them in the wilderness.
  Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and acted for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
  I lifted up my hand to them also in the wilderness, declaring that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;
  because they had not executed my judgments, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.
  So I too gave them statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
  and I polluted them by their gifts, in that they caused to pass (through the fire) all that opens the womb, that I might blight them, that they might know that I am the Lord.
  Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Yisra᾽el, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.
  For when I had brought them into the land, about which I lifted up my hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick leaved trees, and there they offered their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocations of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and there they poured out their drink offerings.
  Then I said to them, What is the high place to which you go? And its name is called Bama to this day.
  Therefore say to the house of Yisra᾽el, Thus says the Lord God; Are you polluted after the manner of your fathers? and do you go astray after their abominations?
  For when you offer your gifts, and make your sons pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols, to this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Yisra᾽el? As I live, says the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.
  And that which comes into your mind shall never come about, that you say, We will be like the nations, like the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
  As I live, says the Lord God, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with anger poured out, will I be king over you:
  and I will bring you out from the peoples and will gather you out of the countries in which you are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with anger poured out.
  And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there will remonstrate with you face to face.
  As I remonstrated with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Miżrayim, so will I remonstrate with you, says the Lord God.
  And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the discipline of the covenant:
  and I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Yisra᾽el: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
  As for you, O house of Yisra᾽el, thus says the Lord God; Go serve every man his idols; but afterwards you will surely hearken to me, and profane my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
  For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Yisra᾽el, says the Lord God, there shall all the house of Yisra᾽el all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your gifts, with all your holy things.
  I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the peoples, and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the nations.
  And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall bring you into the land of Yisra᾽el, into the country about which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers.
  And there shall you remember your ways, and all your doings, in which you have been defiled; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.
  And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have acted with you for my name’s sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O house of Yisra᾽el, says the Lord God.
  
  
  
  Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, set thy face towards the south, and preach towards the south, and prophesy against the forest land of the Negev;
  and say to the forest of the Negev, Hear the word of the Lord; Thus says the Lord God; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree; it shall not be quenched; it shall be a flaming flame, and all faces from the Negev northwards shall be scorched by it.
  And all flesh shall see that I the Lord have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
  Then said I, Ah Lord God! they say of me. Does he not speak in allegories?
  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, set thy face toward Yerushalayim, and preach towards the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Yisra᾽el,
  and say to the land of Yisra᾽el, Thus says the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
  Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go out of its sheath: against all flesh from the south to the north:
  that all flesh may know that I the Lord, have drawn my sword out of its sheath: it shall not return any more.
  Sigh therefore, thou son of man; with the breaking of thy loins, and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
  And it shall be, when they say to thee, Why dost thou sigh? then thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it comes: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall drip with water: behold, it comes, and shall be brought to pass, says the Lord God.
  Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished:
  it is sharpened to make a sore slaughter: it is polished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it is a rod for my son; it rejects every other tree.
  And he has given it to be polished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is polished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
  Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Yisra᾽el: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.
  For there is a testing time; and what if there is also this rod of spurning? he could not continue to be, says the Lord God.
  Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thy hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great slaughter, which encompasses them.
  I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
  Go thee one way or other, either to the right hand, or the left, wherever thy edge is pointed.
  I will also smite my hands together, and I will relieve my anger: I the Lord have said it.
  The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,
  Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Bavel may come: the two of them shall come out of one land: and construct a signpost, at the head of the way to the city construct it.
  Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabba of the children of ῾Ammon, and to Yehuda in Yerushalayim, fortified though it is.
  For the king of Bavel stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways to use divination: he shook the arrows, he consulted the terafim, he looked in the liver.
  At this right hand was the divination for Yerushalayim, to set battering rams, to open the mouth for the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up a mound, to build a fort.
  And it shall be to them as a false divination in their sight, (they have sword oaths to this effect: ) but it brings their iniquity to remembrance, that they may be taken.
  Therefore thus says the Lord God; Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are laid bare, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, you are come to remembrance, you shall be seized with the hand.
  And thou, profane wicked prince of Yisra᾽el whose day is come, in the time of his final punishment,
  thus says the Lord God; Remove the turban, and take off the crown: this shall not remain the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.
  A ruin, a ruin, a ruin will I make of it. For all that it shall not be, until he come, whose right it is, and whom I have appointed.
  And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord God concerning the children of ῾Ammon, and concerning their reproach; say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is polished, for grasping, that it may glitter:
  whilst they see false visions for thee, whilst they divine lies about thee, to bring thee down on the necks of the slain, the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.
  Return it to its sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
  And I will pour out my indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee with the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, skilful to destroy.
  Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the Lord have spoken it.
  
  
  
  Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? then make known to her all her abominations.
  And thou shalt say, Thus says the Lord God, A city that sheds blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and makes idols against herself to defile herself.
  Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and art defiled in thy idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come to thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all countries.
  Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall mock thee, infamous as thou art, and full of tumult.
  Behold, the princes of Yisra᾽el, each of them amongst thee, putting out his full force, for shedding blood.
  Amongst thee, they have made light of father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
  Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
  In thee are men that did carry slander to shed blood: and in thee they did eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they have committed lewdness.
  In thee they have uncovered their father’s nakedness: in thee they have abused her who is unclean of her menstrual flow.
  One has committed a disgusting act with his neighbour’s wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee has abused his sister, his father’s daughter.
  In thee they have taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and interest, and thou hast taken unjust gain of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, says the Lord God.
  Behold, therefore I have struck my hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which has been in the midst of thee.
  Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the Lord have spoken it, and will do it.
  And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy uncleanliness out of thee.
  And thou shalt be profaned by thyself in the sight of the nations, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, the house of Yisra᾽el is to me become dross: all of them, brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.
  Therefore thus says the Lord God; Because you are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Yerushalayim.
  As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in my anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.
  And I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst of it.
  As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall you be melted in the midst of it; and you shall know that I the Lord have poured out my fury upon you.
  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, say to her, Thou art a land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
  There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in the midst of her.
  Her priests have violated my Tora, and have profaned my holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have hidden their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
  Her princes in the midst of her are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
  And her prophets have daubed them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord God, when the Lord has not spoken.
  The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery, and have wronged the poor and needy: indeed, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
  And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the breach before me the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
  Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, says the Lord God.
  
  
  
  The word of the Lord came again to me, saying,
  Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
  And they committed harlotry in Miżrayim; they committed harlotry in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there their virgin teats were handled.
  And the names of them were Ohola the elder, and Oholiva her sister: and they were mine, and they bore sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Shomeron is Ohola, and Yerushalayim is Oholiva.
  And Ohola played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on those of Ashshur her neighbours,
  who were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them charming young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
  Thus she committed her lewd practices with them, with all them that were the choice men of Ashshur, and with all on whom she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.
  Neither did she give up her lewd practices brought from Miżrayim: for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled her virgin breasts, and poured out their lust upon her.
  Therefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the children of Ashshur, upon whom she doted.
  These uncovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became notorious among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.
  And her sister Oholiva saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her harlotries more than her sister in her harlotries.
  She doted upon the children of Ashshur her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of the charming young men.
  Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both of them the same way,
  and that she increased her harlotries: for when she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Kasdim portrayed with vermilion,
  girded with girdles upon their loins, with flowing turbans upon their heads, all of them looking like captains, after the manner of the children of Bavel in Kasdim, the land of their nativity:
  and as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers to them to Kasdim.
  And the children of Bavel came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their lust, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
  So she uncovered her harlotries, and uncovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, just as my mind was alienated from her sister.
  Yet she multiplied her harlotries, recalling the days of her youth, when she had played the harlot in the land of Miżrayim.
  For she doted upon her paramours there, whose members were like those of asses, and whose issue was like that of horses.
  Thus thou didst call to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, when those of Miżrayim handled thy teats, for the breasts of thy youth.
  Therefore, O Oholiva, thus says the Lord God; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;
  the children of Bavel, and all Kasdim, Peqod, and Shoa, and Qoa, all the children of Ashshur with them: all of them charming young men, captains, and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
  And they shall come against thee, a multitude of wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, who shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will put the case before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.
  And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thy ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.
  They shall also strip thee of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
  Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy harlotry brought from the land of Miżrayim: so that thou shalt not lift up thy eyes to them, nor remember Miżrayim any more.
  For thus says the Lord God; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:
  and they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy harlotries shall be uncovered, both thy lewdness and thy harlotries.
  I will do these things to thee, because thou hast gone astray after the nations, and because thou are polluted with their idols.
  Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thy hand.
  Thus says the Lord God; Thou shalt drink of thy sister’s cup which is deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; for it contains much.
  Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and appalment, with the cup of thy sister Shomeron.
  Thou shalt drink it and drain it out, and thou shalt break its fragments in pieces, and tear thy own breasts, for I have spoken it, says the Lord God.
  Therefore thus says the Lord God; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy harlotries.
  And the Lord said to me, Son of man, wilt thou judge Ohola and Oholiva? then proclaim their disgusting deeds;
  that they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands, for with their idols they have committed adultery, and they have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass (through the fire,) to them to be devoured.
  Moreover this they did to me: they defiled my sanctuary on that day, and profaned my sabbaths.
  For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus they did in the midst of my house.
  And furthermore, you sent for men to come from far, to whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, didst paint thy eyes, and didst deck thyself with ornaments,
  and didst sit upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou didst set my incense and my oil.
  And a voice of a carefree multitude was with her: and with the men of many sorts were brought Sava᾽im from the wilderness, who put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads.
  Then I said to her that was worn out in adulteries, will they now still commit harlotries with her, and she with them?
  Yet they went in to her, as they go in to a woman that plays the harlot: so went they in to Ohola and to Oholiva, the lewd women.
  And righteous men, they shall judge them after the judgment due to adulteresses, and after the judgment due to women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.
  For thus says the Lord God; I will bring up an assembly upon them, and will make them a horror and a spoil.
  And the assembly shall stone them with stones, and cut them in pieces with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
  Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
  And your lewdness will be requited upon you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols: and you shall know that I am the Lord God.
  
  
  
  And in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, write the name of the day, of this same day: the king of Bavel has invested Yerushalayim on this very day.
  And utter a parable to the rebellious house, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God; Set on the pot, set it on, and also pour water into it:
  gather the pieces of meat into it, every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with choice bones.
  Take the choice of the flock, and also pile the bones under it; make it boil well, and let the bones of it be cooked in it.
  Therefore thus says the Lord God; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot in which there is filth, for its filth is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; no lot has fallen upon it.
  For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the bare rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;
  that it might cause fury to come, that vengeance might be taken, for I have set her blood upon the bare rock, that it should not be covered.
  Therefore thus says the Lord God; Woe to the bloody city! I too will make the pile great.
  Heap on wood, kindle the fire, boil away the meat, and mix the spices, and let the bones be reduced to ashes.
  Then set it empty upon its glowing embers, that the brass of it may be heated, and may burn, and that the impurity of it may be molten in it, that the filth of it may be consumed.
  Futile is the toil, for her great filth went not out of her: her filth is noisome.
  Because of thy lewd uncleanliness, because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have relieved my fury upon thee.
  I the Lord have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, says the Lord God.
  Also the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, behold, I am about to take away from thee the delight of thy eyes at a stroke: yet thou shalt neither mourn nor weep, nor shall thy tears run down.
  Sigh in silence; make no mourning for the dead, bind on thy turban, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, nor eat the bread of men.
  So I spoke to the people in the morning: and at evening my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
  And the people said to me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things mean to us, that thou doest?
  Then I answered them, The word of the Lord has come to me, saying,
  Speak to the house of Yisra᾽el, Thus says the Lord God; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your strength, the delight of your eyes, and the longing of your soul; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.
  And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
  And your turbans shall remain upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: you shall neither mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away for your iniquities, and groan to one another.
  Thus shall Yeĥezqel be a sign for you: according to all that he has done shall you do: and when this comes about, you shall know that I am the Lord God.
  Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,
  that on that day he that escapes shall come to thee, to cause thee to hear it with thy ears?
  On that day shall thy mouth be opened to the fugitive, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign to them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
  
  
  
  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, set thy face against the children of ῾Ammon, and prophesy against them;
  and say to the children of ῾Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord God; Because thou didst say Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Yisra᾽el, when it was made desolate; and against the house of Yehuda, when they went into exile;
  behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee; they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
  And I will make Rabba a pasture for camels, and the children of ῾Ammon a couching place for flocks: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
  For thus says the Lord God; Because thou hast clapped thy hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the disdain of thy soul against the land of Yisra᾽el;
  behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand upon thee, and I will deliver thee for a spoil to the nations; and I will cut thee off from the peoples, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
  Thus says the Lord God; Because Mo᾽av and Se῾ir do say, Behold, the house of Yehuda is like all the nations;
  therefore, behold, I will open the flank of Mo᾽av on the side of the cities, on the side of his cities which are on his frontiers, the beautiful country of Bet-hayshimot, Ba῾al-me῾on, and Qiryatayim,
  to the children of the east I will give it (along with the children of ῾Ammon) as a possession, so that the children of ῾Ammon may not be remembered among the nations.
  And I will execute judgments upon Mo᾽av; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
  Thus says the Lord God; Because Edom has dealt against the house of Yehuda by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;
  therefore thus says the Lord God; I will also stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
  And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Yisra᾽el: and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord God.
  Thus says the Lord God; Because the Pelishtim have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with disdain of soul, to destroy with everlasting hatred;
  therefore thus says the Lord God; Behold, I stretch out my hand upon the Pelishtim, and I will cut off the Keretim, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast;
  and I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
  
  
  
  And it came to pass in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, because Żor has said against Yerushalayim, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the peoples: she is turned to me: I shall be filled with her that is laid waste:
  therefore thus says the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Żor, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causes his waves to come up.
  And they shall destroy the walls of Żor, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like a bare rock.
  It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, says the Lord God: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
  And her daughters who are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
  For thus says the Lord God; Behold, I will bring upon Żor Nevukhadreżżar king of Bavel, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and a company, and much people.
  He shall slay thy daughters in the field with the sword: and he shall lay a siege work against thee, and cast a mound against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.
  And he shall set his engine of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
  By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city in which a breach is made.
  With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground.
  And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy the houses of thy delight: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
  And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy lyres shall be heard no more.
  And I will make thee like a bare rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the Lord have spoken it, says the Lord God.
  Thus says the Lord God to Żor; Shall not the islands shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?
  Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble every moment, and be appalled at thee.
  And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that was peopled from the seas, the renowned city, that was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who cause their terror to be on all those round about.
  Now shall the islands tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the islands that are in the sea shall be alarmed at thy departure.
  For thus says the Lord God; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;
  when I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, to the people of old time and shall set thee in the lowest parts of the earth (like places desolate of old,) with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set up my ornament in the land of living;
  I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more; though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, says the Lord God.
  
  
  
  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Żor;
  and say to Żor, O thou that dwellest at the entry of the sea, that art a merchant of the peoples to many islands, Thus says the Lord God; O Żor, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.
  Thy borders are in the heart of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
  They have made all thy planks of cypress trees from Senir: they have taken cedars from Levanon to make masts for thee.
  Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thy oars; they have made thy benches of ivory with box treewood brought out of the isles of the Kittiyyim.
  Fine linen with embroidered work from Miżrayim was that which thou didst spread out to be thy banner; blue and purple from the isles of Elisha was thy awning.
  The inhabitants of Żidon and Arvad were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Żor, were in thee; they were thy pilots.
  The elders of Geval and its wise men were in thee caulking thy seams: the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to exchange thy merchandise.
  They of Paras and of Lud and of Put were in thy army, thy men of war: they hung the shield and helmet in thee; they provided thy comeliness.
  The men of Arvad with thy army were upon thy walls round about, and Gammadim were on thy towers: they hung their shields upon thy walls round about; they have completed thy beauty.
  Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for thy wares.
  Yavan, Tuval, and Meshekh, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for thy merchandise.
  They of the house of Togarma traded for thy wares with horses and horsemen and mules.
  The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many islands were the market of thy domain: they brought thee horns of ivory and ebony in payment.
  Aram was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of thy works: they traded for thy wares with turquoise, purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies.
  Yehuda and the land of Yisra᾽el they were thy merchants: they traded for thy merchandise wheat of Minnit, and pastry, and honey, and oil, and balm.
  Dammeseq was thy merchant for the multitude of thy works, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Ĥelbon, and white wool.
  Dan also and Yavan gave yarn for thy wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among thy merchandise.
  Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for riding.
  ῾Arav, and all the princes of Qedar, were merchants of thy domain, in rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.
  The merchants of Sheva and Ra῾ma, they were thy merchants: they dealt in thy wares with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
  Ĥaran, and Kanne, and ῾Eden, the merchants of Sheva, Ashshur, and Kilmad, thy merchants.
  These, traded with thee in choice garments, in clothes of blue and embroidered work, and in carpets of coloured stuff, bound with ropes and made fast, for thy merchandise.
  The ships of Tarshish were thy caravans for thy wares: and thou wast replenished, and heavy laden in the heart of the seas.
  Thy rowers brought thee into great waters: the east wind has broken thee in the heart of the seas.
  Thy riches, and thy wares, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, they that caulk thy seams, and they that trade for thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, along with all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
  At the sound of the cry of thy pilots, the neighbouring districts shall quake.
  And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;
  and they shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow in the ashes:
  and they shall make themselves bald for thee, and gird themselves with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee in bitterness of soul, a bitter mourning.
  And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, Who is like Żor, like her who is brought to silence in the midst of the sea?
  When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou didst fill many peoples; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.
  Now thou art broken by the seas, in the depths of the waters; thy merchandise and all thy company are fallen in thy midst.
  All the inhabitants of the islands are appalled at thee, and their kings are horribly afraid; their faces show alarm.
  The merchants among the people hiss at thee; thou art become a terror, and never shalt be any more.
  
  
  
  The word of the Lord came again to me, saying,
  Son of man, say to the prince of Żor, Thus says the Lord God; Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the heart of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God:
  behold, thou art wiser than Dani᾽el; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:
  with thy wisdom and with thy understanding thou hast acquired riches, and hast gotten gold and silver in thy treasures:
  by thy great wisdom and by thy trading thou hast increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
  therefore thus says the Lord God; Because thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God;
  behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the most terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
  They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the heart of the seas.
  Wilt thou yet say before him that slays thee, I am God? but thou art a man, and not God, in the hand of him that slays thee.
  Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, says the Lord God.
  Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Żor, and say to him, Thus says the Lord God; Thou art a seal and a paragon, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
  Thou has been in ῾Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the ruby, the crysolithe, and the diamond, the emerald, the shoham, and the jade, the sapphire, the turquoise, and the beryl, and gold; the workmanship of thy settings and thy sockets was in thee, in the day that thou wast created they were prepared.
  Thou wast the far covering keruv; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
  Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
  By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I have cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering keruv, from the midst of the stones of fire.
  Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I have cast thee to the ground, I have laid thee before kings, that they may gaze upon thee.
  Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thy iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic; therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of thee, it has devoured thee, and I have turned thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
  All they that know thee among the peoples shall be appalled at thee: thou art become a terror, and thou shalt exist no more for ever.
  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, set thy face against Żidon, and prophesy against it,
  and say, Thus says the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Żidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
  For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall fall in heaps in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
  And there shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Yisra᾽el, nor a thorn to give pain, among all those that are round about that disdain them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
  Thus says the Lord God; When I shall have gathered the house of Yisra᾽el from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Ya῾aqov.
  And they shall dwell safely there, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and they shall dwell in security, when I have executed judgments upon all those that disdain them round about them; and they shall know that I am the Lord their God.
  
  
  
  In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, set thy face against Par῾o king of Miżrayim, and prophesy against him, and against all Miżrayim:
  speak, and say, Thus says the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, Par῾o king of Miżrayim, the great crocodile that couches in the midst of his streams, who has said, My River is my own, and I have made it for myself.
  But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy streams to stick to thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy streams, and all the fish of thy streams shall stick to thy scales.
  And I will cast thee unto the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky.
  And all the inhabitants of Miżrayim shall know that I am the Lord, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Yisra᾽el.
  When they took hold of thee by the hand, thou didst break, and tore all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou didst break, and didst make all their loins to be at a stand.
  Therefore thus says the Lord God; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.
  And the land of Miżrayim shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the Lord: because he has said, The River is mine, and I have made it.
  Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy streams, and I will make the land of Miżrayim utterly waste and desolate, from Migdol to Seven, as far as the border of Kush.
  No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited for forty years.
  And I will make the land of Miżrayim desolate in the midst of waste lands, and her cities shall be desolate among ruined cities for forty years: and I will scatter Miżrayim among the nations, and will disperse them through the lands.
  Yet thus says the Lord God; At the end of forty years I will gather Miżrayim from the people where they were scattered:
  and I will bring back the captivity of Miżrayim, and will cause them to return to the land of Patros, into the land of their origin; and they shall be there an abject kingdom.
  It shall be the most abject of the kingdoms; and it shall not exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
  And it shall be no more a safe standby for the house of Yisra᾽el, bringing their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall turn after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord God.
  And it came to pass in the twenty seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, Nevukhadreżżar king of Bavel made his army labour hard against Żor: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet he had no wages, nor his army, for Żor, for the labour that he performed against it:
  therefore thus says the Lord God; Behold, I will give the land of Miżrayim to Nevukhadreżżar king of Bavel; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.
  I have given him the land of Miżrayim for his labour with which he served against it, which they did for me, says the Lord God.
  On that day will I cause the horn of the house of Yisra᾽el to put out shoots, and I will open thy mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
  
  
  
  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord God; Howl, Alas for the day!
  For the day is near, even the day of the Lord is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the nations.
  And the sword shall come upon Miżrayim, and anguish shall be in Kush, when the slain shall fall in Miżrayim, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
  Kush, and Put, and Lud, and all ῾Erev, and Kuv, and the men of the land that is in league (with them,) shall fall with them by the sword.
  Thus says the Lord; They also that uphold Miżrayim shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from Migdol to Seven shall they fall in it by the sword, says the Lord God.
  And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be (wasted) in the midst of the cities that are wasted.
  And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have set a fire in Miżrayim, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.
  On that day shall messengers go from me in ships to terrify the confident men of Kush, and anguish shall come upon them, as in the day of Miżrayim: for, lo, it comes.
  Thus says the Lord God; I will also put an end to the multitude of Miżrayim by the hand of Nevukhadreżżar king of Bavel.
  He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Miżrayim; and fill the land with the slain.
  And I will make the streams dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land desolate, and all that is in it, by the hand of strangers: I the Lord have spoken it.
  Thus says the Lord God; I will also destroy the idols, and I will put an end to the images of Nof; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Miżrayim: and I will put a fear in the land of Miżrayim.
  And I will make Patros desolate, and will set fire in Żo῾an, and will execute judgments in No.
  And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Miżrayim; and I will cut off the multitude of No.
  And I will set a fire in Miżrayim: Sin shall be in great agony, and No shall be rent asunder, and Nof shall have enemies by day.
  The young men of Aven and of Pi-veset shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.
  At Teĥafneĥes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Miżrayim: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
  Thus will I execute judgments in Miżrayim: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
  And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, I have broken the arm of Par῾o king of Miżrayim; and, lo, it has not been bound up to be healed, to put a dressing to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.
  Therefore thus says the Lord God; Behold, I am against Par῾o king of Miżrayim and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.
  And I will scatter Miż­rayim among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
  And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Bavel, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Par῾o’s arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of deadly wounded man.
  Thus I will strengthen the arms of the king of Bavel, and the arms of Par῾o shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Bavel, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Miżrayim.
  And I will scatter Miżrayim among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
  
  
  
  And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, speak to Par῾o king of Miżrayim, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
  Behold, Ashshur was a cedar in the Levanon with fair branches, amid a shadowing forest, and of a high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.
  The waters made it great, the deep set it up on high, with her rivers running round about her plants, and she sent out her little canals to all the trees of the field.
  Therefore its height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when it shot them forth.
  All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs, and under its branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young, and under its shadow all great nations dwelt.
  Thus was it fair in its greatness, in the length of its branches: for its root was by many waters.
  The cedars in the garden of God could not obscure it: the cypress trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were not like its branches; nor did any tree in the garden of God compare with it in beauty.
  I have made it fair by the multitude of its branches: so that all the trees of ῾Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
  Therefore thus says the Lord God; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he has shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
  I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
  And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his bought were broken by all the water courses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
  Upon his ruin shall dwell all the birds of the sky, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
  so that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their height, nor shoot up their top among the thick boughs, and that their trunks do not tower on high, all that drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
  Thus says the Lord God; In the day when he went down to She᾽ol I caused the deep to mourn, to cover itself for him, I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I wrapped Levanon in gloom for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
  I made the nations shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to She᾽ol with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of ῾Eden, the choice and best of Levanon, all that drink water were comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
  They also went down into She᾽ol with him, to them that are slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of nations.
  To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of ῾Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of ῾Eden to the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword. This is Par῾o and all his multitude, says the Lord God.
  
  
  
  And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, take up a lamentation for Par῾o king of Miżrayim, and say to him, Thou didst liken thyself to a young lion among the nations; but thou art rather a crocodile in the seas, and thou dost thrust forward in thy streams, churning the water with thy feet, and fouling their channels.
  Thus says the Lord God; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many peoples, and they will bring thee up in my net.
  Then will I throw thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the birds of the sky to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.
  And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.
  I will also water with thy blood the land over which thou overflowest as far as the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.
  And when I shall extinguish thee, I will cover the heaven, and make dark the stars thereof; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
  All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, says the Lord God.
  I will also vex the hearts of many peoples, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.
  Yea, I will make many peoples appalled at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.
  For thus says the Lord God; The sword of the king of Bavel shall come upon thee.
  By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pride of Miżrayim, and all its multitude shall be destroyed.
  I will destroy also all its beasts from beside many waters; neither shall the foot of man churn them up any more, nor the hoofs of beasts make them muddy.
  Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord God.
  When I shall make the land of Miżrayim desolate and waste: the country shall be destitute of that of which it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell there, then shall they know that I am the Lord.
  It is a lamentation, and they shall make lament with it: the daughters of the nations shall keen it: they shall keen it over Miżrayim, and over all her multitude, says the Lord God.
  And it came to pass in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, wail for the multitude of Miżrayim, and cast them down, her together with the daughters of mighty nations, to the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
  Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.
  They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her down and all her multitudes.
  The mighty chiefs from the midst of She᾽ol shall speak of him and his helpers, saying, They are gone down, the uncircumcised lie slain by the sword.
  Ashshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:
  whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who struck terror into the land of the living.
  There is ῾Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, who struck terror into the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
  They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though the terror of them was spread in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that are slain.
  There is Meshekh, Tuval, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they struck their terror into the land of the living.
  And shall they not lie with the fallen mighty of the uncircumcised, who are gone down to She᾽ol with their weapons of war, their swords laid under their heads, and their iniquities having come upon their bones? For the terror of the mighty was in the land of the living.
  And thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.
  Edom is there, her kings, and all her princes, who for all their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.
  There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Żidonians, who are gone down with the slain; ashamed for the terror caused by their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.
  Par῾o shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, namely Par῾o and all his army slain by the sword, says the Lord God.
  For I have struck my terror into the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, Par῾o and all his multitude, says the Lord God.
  
  
  
  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say to them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman:
  if when he sees the sword come upon the land, he blow the shofar, and warn the people;
  then whoever hears the sound of the shofar, and takes no warning; if the sword comes, and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
  He heard the sound of the shofar, and took no warning; his blood shall be upon him. But if he had taken warning, he would have saved his life.
  But if the watchman sees the sword comes, and does not blow the shofar, and the people are not warned; if the sword comes, and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.
  So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman to the house of Yisra᾽el; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.
  When I say to the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand.
  But if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast saved thy life.
  Therefore, O thou son of man, speak to the house of Yisra᾽el; Thus you speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?
  Say to them, As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn, turn from your evil ways: for why will you die, O house of Yisra᾽el?
  And thou, son of man, say to the children of thy people. The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not stumble for that in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for that in the day that he sins.
  When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he has committed, he shall die for that.
  Again, when I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
  if the wicked restore the pledge, give back that which he had robbed, follow the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
  None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered for him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
  Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is unfair: but it is their way that is unfair.
  When the righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, then he shall die in those.
  But if the wicked man turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right he shall live in those.
  Yet you say, The way of the Lord is unfair. O house of Yisra᾽el, I will judge you every man after his ways.
  And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Yerushalayim came to me, saying, The city is smitten.
  Now the hand of the Lord was upon me in the evening, before the fugitive came; and had opened my mouth, by the time he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no longer dumb.
  Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, they that inhabit those waste places of the land of Yisra᾽el speak, saying, Avraham was one man, and yet he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
  Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God; You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?
  You stand upon your sword, you carry out disgusting deeds, and you defile every man his neighbour’s wife: and shall you possess the land?
  Say thou to them as follows: Thus says the Lord God; As I live, surely they that are in the waste places shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts for food, and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.
  For I will make the land most desolate, and the pride of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Yisra᾽el shall be blighted, so that none shall pass through.
  Then shall they know that I am the Lord, when I have made the land a total blight because of their disgusting deeds which they have committed.
  As for thee, son of man, the children of thy people who talk against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, speak one to another, everyone to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that comes from the Lord.
  And they come to thee as the people come, and they sit before thee, my people, and they hear thy words, but they do not carry them out; for it is become flute music in their mouths, whilst their heart is set on unjust gain.
  And, lo, thou art to them like a song for flutes by one who has a pleasant voice, and can play the instrument well: for they hear the words, but they do not carry them out.
  But when it comes to pass, (see, it is coming,) then they shall know that a prophet has been among them.
  
  
  
  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Yisra᾽el, prophesy, and say to them, to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord God; Woe to the shepherds of Yisra᾽el that have fed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
  You eat the fat, and clothe yourselves with the wool, you kill the fallings: but you do not feed the sheep.
  You have not strengthened the weak, nor have you healed the sick, nor have you bound the crippled, nor have you brought back the strayed, nor have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have you ruled them.
  And they were scattered, because there was no shepherd: and they became food for all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
  My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: for my flock was dispersed upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
  Therefore, shepherds, hear the word of the Lord;
  As I live, says the Lord God, surely since my flock has become a prey, and my sheep have become food for every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
  therefore, O shepherds, hear the word of the Lord;
  thus says the Lord God; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and I will put an end to their feeding the sheep; nor shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.
  For thus says the Lord God; Behold, I will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
  As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are strayed; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been dispersed in the cloudy and dark day.
  And I will bring them out from among the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and pasture them upon the mountains of Yisra᾽el by the water courses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
  I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Yisra᾽el shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good pasture, and in a fat grazing land shall they feed upon the mountains of Yisra᾽el.
  I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord God.
  I will seek that which was lost, and bring back the strayed, and will bind up the crippled, and will strengthen the sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will make them graze upon justice.
  And as for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord God; Behold, I judge between one lamb and another, the rams and the he goats.
  Is it so small a thing to you that you have eaten up the good pasture, but you must also tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture lands? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must also foul the residue with your feet?
  And as for my sheep they eat that which you have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.
  Therefore thus says the Lord God to them: Behold, I will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
  Because you have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the weak ones with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad;
  therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
  And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, namely my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
  And I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David will be a prince among them; I the Lord have spoken it.
  And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
  And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; they will be showers of blessing.
  And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be secure in their land, and shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that enslaved them.
  And they shall no more be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell in safety, and none shall make them afraid.
  And I will raise up for them a plantation for renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, nor suffer any more the insult of the nations.
  Thus shall they know that I the Lord their God am with them, and that they, the house of Yisra᾽el are my people, says the Lord God.
  But you my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says the Lord God.
  
  
  
  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, set thy face against mount Se῾ir, and prophesy against it,
  and say to it, Thus says the Lord God; Behold, O mount Se῾ir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out my hand against thee, and I will make thee a total blight.
  I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
  Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred and hast hurled the children of Yisra᾽el to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of their final punishment:
  therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, I will prepare thee to blood, and blood shall pursue thee: surely thou hast hated thy own blood; therefore blood shall pursue thee.
  Thus will I make mount Se῾ir most desolate, and cut off from it all who come and go.
  And I will fill its mountains with its slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy water courses shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
  I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not have a restoration: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
  Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; though the Lord was there:
  therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, I will do according to thy anger, and according to thy envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I shall judge thee.
  And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Yisra᾽el saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
  Thus with your mouth you have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
  Thus says the Lord God; When the whole earth rejoices, I will make thee desolate.
  As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Yisra᾽el because it was desolate, so will I do to thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Se῾ir, and all Edom, all of it: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
  
  
  
  And thou, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Yisra᾽el, and say, You mountains of Yisra᾽el hear the word of the Lord:
  thus says the Lord God; Because the enemy has said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:
  therefore prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord God; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the rest of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are become the gossip of the people:
  therefore, you mountains of Yisra᾽el, hear the word of the Lord God; Thus says the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the water courses, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which have become a prey and a derision to the residue of the nations that are round about;
  therefore thus says the Lord God; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, who have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with disdainful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
  Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Yisra᾽el, and say to the mountains, and to the hills, to the water courses, and to the valleys saying, Thus says the Lord God; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because you have suffered the insult of the nations:
  therefore thus says the Lord God; I have lifted up my hand, saying, Surely the nations that are about you, they shall bear their own insult.
  But you, O mountains of Yisra᾽el, you shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Yisra᾽el; for they will soon be coming.
  For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown:
  and I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Yisra᾽el, all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste places rebuilt:
  and I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former times, and I will do better to you than at your beginnings: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
  And I will cause men to walk upon you, my people Yisra᾽el; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no longer bereave them of children.
  Thus says the Lord God: Because they say to you, Thou art a land that devourest men, and hast bereaved thy nations;
  therefore thou shalt devour men no longer, nor any more bereave thy nations, says the Lord God.
  Neither will I allow the insult of the nations to be heard any more against thee, nor shalt thou bear the reproach of peoples, any longer, nor shalt thou cause thy nations to stumble any more, says the Lord God.
  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, when the house of Yisra᾽el dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a menstruous woman.
  So I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols with which they had defiled it:
  and I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
  And when they came to the nations, into which they came, they profaned my holy name, in that men said of them, These are the people of the Lord, and they are gone out of his land.
  But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Yisra᾽el had profaned among the nations, into which they came.
  Therefore say to the house of Yisra᾽el, Thus says the Lord God; I do not do this for your sakes, O house of Yisra᾽el, but for my holy name’s sake, which you have profaned among the nations, to which you came.
  And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, says the Lord God, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
  For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
  Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean: from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
  A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
  And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to follow my statutes, and you shall keep my judgments, and do them.
  And you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
  And I will save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will summon the corn, and make it abundant, and lay no famine upon you.
  And I will make the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field abundant, that you shall receive no longer the reproach of famine among the nations.
  Then shall you remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your disgusting deeds.
  Not for your sakes shall I do this, says the Lord God; let that be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Yisra᾽el.
  Thus says the Lord God; On the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause the cities to be inhabited, and the wastes shall be rebuilt.
  And the desolate land shall be tilled, instead of the desolation that it was in the sight of all that passed by.
  And they shall say, This land that was blighted is become like the garden of ῾Eden; and the waste and blighted and ruined cities are fortified, and inhabited.
  Then the nations that are left round about you shall know that I the Lord have rebuilt the ruined places, and have replanted that which was blighted: I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it.
  Thus says the Lord God; moreover, this request I will grant to the house of Yisra᾽el to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.
  Like the flock of sacrifices, like the flock of Yerushalayim in her appointed times; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
  
  
  
  The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
  and he caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
  And he said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowst.
  Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
  Thus says the Lord God to these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live:
  and I will lay sinews upon you, and I will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
  So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
  And as I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up on them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
  Then he said to me, Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
  So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceeding great army.
  Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Yisra᾽el: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are clean cut off.
  Therefore prophesy and say to them, Thus says the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Yisra᾽el.
  And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and have brought you up out of your graves,
  and I shall put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then you shall know that I the Lord have spoken, and performed it, says the Lord.
  And the word of the Lord came to me saying,
  And thou, son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it. For Yehuda, and for the children of Yisra᾽el his companions: then take another stick and write upon it. For Yosef, the stick of Efrayim, and for all the house of Yisra᾽el his companions:
  and join them one to the other to make one stick; and they shall become one in thy hand.
  And when the children of thy people shall speak to thee, saying, Wilt thou not tell us what thou meanest by these?
  say to them, Thus says the Lord God; Behold I will take the stick of Yosef, which is in the hand of Efrayim, and the tribes of Yisra᾽el his companions, and will put them and it together with the stick of Yehuda to form one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.
  And the sticks on which thou writest shall be in thy hand before their eyes.
  And say to them, Thus says the Lord God; Behold, I will take the children of Yisra᾽el from among the nations, into which they are gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
  and I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Yisra᾽el; and one king shall be king over them all: and they shall no more be two nations, nor shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
  nor shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them in all their dwellingplaces, where they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
  And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also follow my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
  And they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Ya῾aqov my servant, in which your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell there, they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
  Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them, which I will give them; and I will multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
  And my tabernacle shall be with them: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
  Then the nations shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Yisra᾽el, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
  
  
  
  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Son of man, set thy face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshekh and Tuval, and prophesy against him,
  and say, Thus says the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshekh and Tuval:
  and I will turn thee about and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee out, and all thy army, horses and horsemen, all of them in complete attire, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords:
  Paras, Kush, and Put with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
  Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarma of the far sides of the north, and all his bands: and many peoples with thee.
  Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard to them.
  After many days thou shalt be called upon: in the latter years thou shalt come against the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many peoples against the mountains of Yisra᾽el, which have been a continual waste: but it is brought out of the nations, and they dwell safely all of them.
  Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many peoples with thee.
  Thus says the Lord God; It shall come to pass on that day, that things shall come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil scheme:
  and thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at quiet, that dwell in safety, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates;
  to take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thy hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and against a people that are gathered out of the nations, that have acquired cattle and goods, and that dwell at the centre of the earth.
  Sheva, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all its young lions, shall say to thee. Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
  Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, Thus says the Lord God; In that day when my people of Yisra᾽el dwell safely, shalt thou not know it?
  And thou shalt come from thy place out of the far sides of the north, thou, and many peoples with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
  and thou shalt come up against my people of Yisra᾽el, like a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified by thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
  Thus says the Lord God; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Yisra᾽el, who prophesied in those days for many years that I would bring thee against them?
  And it shall come to pass on that day, when Gog shall come against the land of Yisra᾽el, says the Lord God, that my fury shall glare out.
  For in my jealousy and in the fire of my anger have I spoken saying, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Yisra᾽el;
  so that the fishes of the sea, and the birds of the sky, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
  And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, says the Lord God: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.
  And I will contend with him by pestilence and by blood; and I will rain down upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many peoples that are with him, a torrential rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
  Thus will I magnify myself and sanctify myself; and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
  
  
  
  And thou, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshekh and Tuval:
  and I will turn thee about, and entice thee on, and will cause thee to come up from the far sides of the north, and will bring thee against the mountains of Yisra᾽el:
  and I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thy arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
  Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Yisra᾽el, thou, and all thy bands, and the peoples that are with thee: I will give thee to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
  Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, says the Lord God.
  And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell securely in the coastlines: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
  So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Yisra᾽el; and I will not allow my holy name to be profaned any more: and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Yisra᾽el.
  Behold, it comes, and it is accomplished, says the Lord God; this is the day of which I have spoken.
  And they that dwell in the cities of Yisra᾽el shall go forth, and shall set fire to the weapons, and burn them, both shield and buckler, bow and arrows, and the staves, and the spears, and they shall make fires with them for seven years.
  So that they shall take no wood out of the field, nor cut down any out of the forests; for they shall make fire with the weapons: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, says the Lord God.
  And it shall come to pass on that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Yisra᾽el, the valley of those who travel to the east of the sea: and it shall block the path of the travellers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The Valley of Hamon-gog (the Multitude of Gog).
  And seven months shall the house of Yisra᾽el be burying them, that they may cleanse the land.
  And all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown on the day that I shall be glorified, says the Lord God.
  And permanent officers shall despatch men to range the land and with these rangers they shall bury those that remain above the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months they will make their search.
  And the rangers that pass through the land, when any sees a human bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog.
  And also the name of the city shall be Hamona. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
  And, thou son of man, thus says the Lord God; Speak to every feathered bird, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my festive meal that I prepare for you, a great feast upon the mountains of Yisra᾽el, that you may eat meat, and drink blood.
  You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
  And you shall eat fat till you are full, and drink blood till you are drunken, of my feast which I have prepared for you.
  Thus you shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, says the Lord God.
  And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
  So the house of Yisra᾽el shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day onwards.
  And the nations shall know that the house of Yisra᾽el went into exile for their iniquity: because they broke faith with me, therefore I hid my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so they fell by the sword all of them.
  According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done to them, and I hid my face from them.
  Therefore thus says the Lord God; Now will I bring back the captivity of Ya῾aqov, and have mercy upon the whole house of Yisra᾽el, and will be zealous for my holy name;
  and they will be quit of their shame, and of all their faithlessness in which they have been faithless to me, when they dwell securely on their land, with none to make them afraid.
  When I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
  then shall they know that I am the Lord their God, who caused them to be led into exile among the nations: but I have gathered them to their own land, and have left none of them there any more.
  Nor will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Yisra᾽el, says the Lord God.
  
  
  
  In the twenty fifth year of our exile, in the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was smitten, on that very day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me there.
  In the visions of God he brought me into the land of Yisra᾽el, and set me upon a very high mountain, upon which was something like the structure of a city to the south.
  And he brought me there, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a thread of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood at the gate.
  And the man said to me, Son of man, behold with thy eyes, and hear with thy ears, and put thy mind to all that I shall show thee; for thou wast brought here, in order that they might be shown to thee: declare all that thou seest to the house of Yisra᾽el.
  And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed of six cubits long, of a cubit and a hand breadth each: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
  Then he came to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up by its stairs, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad.
  And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and the space between the little chambers was five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed.
  He measured also the porch of the gate from within, one reed.
  Then he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts two cubits; and the porch of the gate was on the inside.
  And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.
  And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.
  And there was a border of one cubit before the little chambers on this side, and a border, one cubit on that side: and the little chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.
  And he measured the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was twenty five cubits, from door to door.
  And he made his measure of the posts, sixty cubits; also for the posts of the courts, round about the gate.
  And from the forefront of the gate of the entrance to the front of the inner porch of the gate was a space of fifty cubits.
  And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the porches; and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.
  Then he brought me into the outer court, and, lo, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement.
  And the pavement was by the side of the gates corresponding to the length of the gates; that was the lower pavement.
  Then he measured the breadth from the front of the lower gate to the front of the inner court without, a hundred cubits both eastward and northward.
  And the gate of the outer court that looked towards the north, he measured its length and its breadth.
  And its little chambers were three on this side and three on that side; and its posts and its porches were after the measure of the first gate: its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty five cubits.
  And its windows, and its porch, and its palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looked toward the east; and it was ascended by seven steps; and its porch lay before them.
  And there was a gate of the inner court over against the other gate towards the north, and towards the east; and he measured from gate to gate a hundred cubits.
  After that he brought me towards the south, and behold a gate towards the south: and he measured its posts and its porch according to these measures.
  And there were windows in it and in its porch round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty five cubits.
  And there were seven steps to go up to it, and its porch lay before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon its posts.
  And there was a gate in the inner court towards the south: and he measured from gate to gate towards the south a hundred cubits.
  And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;
  and its little chambers, and its posts, and its porch, according to these measurers: and there were windows in it and in its porch round about: it was fifty cubits long, and twenty five cubits broad.
  And there were porches round about, twenty five cubits long, and five cubits broad.
  And its porch was towards the court; and palm trees were upon its posts: and it was ascended by eight steps.
  And he brought me into the inner court towards the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures.
  And its little chambers, and its posts, and its porch were according to these measures: and it had windows in it and also in its porch round about: it was fifty cubits long, and twenty five cubits broad.
  And its porch lay towards the outer court; and palm trees were upon its posts, on this side, and on that side: and its was ascended by eight steps.
  And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these measures;
  its little chambers, its posts, and its porch, and it had windows round about: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty five cubits.
  And its posts were towards the outer court; and palm trees were upon its posts, on this side, and on that side: and it was ascended by eight steps.
  And there was a chamber with its door by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.
  And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side and two tables on that side, on which to slaughter the burnt offering and the sin offering and the guilt offering.
  And on the outside, as one goes up to the entry of the north gate, were two tables; and on the other side, which was at the porch of the gate, were two tables.
  Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, on which they slaughtered their sacrifices.
  And there were four tables of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high: on which also they laid the instruments with which they slaughtered the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
  And the hooks, of one hand breadth, were fastened within round about: and upon the tables was to be the meat of the offering.
  And outside the inner gate were the chambers for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and they faced towards the south: one at the side of the east gate facing the direction of the north.
  And he said to me, This chamber, which faces the direction of the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.
  And the chamber which faces the direction of the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Żadoq, who from among the sons of Levi, come near to the Lord to minister to him.
  So he measured the court, a hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar was in front of the house.
  And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.
  The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and it was ascended by steps: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.
  
  
  
  Then he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tent.
  And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured its length, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.
  Then he came to the interior, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits.
  So he measured its length, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, according to the breadth of the temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place.
  Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.
  And the side chambers were one over another thirty three times; and there were recesses in the wall of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, so that they were not fastened into the wall of the house.
  And the side chambers were broader as one circled higher and higher: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth let in to the house continued upward; and thus one ascended from the lowest level to the topmost level by the middle.
  I saw also that the house had a platform round about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six long cubits.
  The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber on the outside, was five cubits: and so was that which was left by the place of the side chambers of the house.
  And between the chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.
  And the doors of the side chambers were towards the place that was left, one door towards the north, and another door towards the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about.
  Now the building that was before the main wing on the side towards the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and its length was ninety cubits.
  So he measured the house, a hundred cubits long; including the main wing and the building, with its walls, a hundred cubits long;
  also the breadth of the front of the house and of the main wing towards the east, a hundred cubits.
  And he measured the length of the building in front of the main wing which was behind it, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, a hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court:
  the thresholds, and the narrow windows, and the galleries were round about those three: opposite the threshold there was a wooden panelling all round, so the space from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;
  likewise to the space above the door even to the inner house, and outside, and on all the wall round about inside and outside by measure.
  And it was made with keruvim and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between one keruv and another; and every keruv had two faces:
  so that the face of a man was towards the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion towards the palm tree on the other side: thus was it made through all the house round about.
  From the ground to above the door were fashioned keruvim and palm trees, and so on the wall of the temple.
  The posts of the temple were squared, and likewise the front of the sanctuary; the appearance of the latter was like the appearance of the former.
  The altar, three cubits high, and two cubits long was of wood; and it had corners; and its length and its walls were of wood: and he said to me, This is the table that is before the Lord.
  And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
  And the doors had two leaves each, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.
  And there were fashioned on them, on the doors of the temple, keruvim and palm trees, such as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks on the front of the porch outside.
  And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, and on the thick planks.
  
  
  
  Then he brought me out into the outer court, the way towards the north: and brought me into the chamber that was over against the main wing, and which was before the building towards the north,
  to the front of which the length was a hundred cubits with the door on the north, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
  Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the outer court, with gallery against gallery in three stories.
  And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were towards the north.
  Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower, and the middlemost, in the building.
  For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore it was set back from the ground more than the lowest and the middlemost.
  And the wall that was outside opposite the chambers, toward the outer court on the forefront of the chambers, the length of it was fifty cubits.
  For the length of the chambers that belonged to the outer court was fifty cubits: and, lo, in front of the temple was an extent of a hundred cubits.
  And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court.
  Chambers were set in the thickness of the wall of the court towards the east, over against the main wing, and over against the building, with a way before them;
  like the appearance of the chambers which were towards the north, as long as they, and as broad as they, with all their exits, and according to their fashions;
  and as their doors, so were also the doors of the chambers that were towards the south; there was a door in the head of the way, the way directly before the wall towards the east, as one enters into them.
  Then he said to me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the main wing, they are holy chambers, where the priests that approach to the Lord shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the guilt offering; for the place is holy.
  When the priests enter there, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments in which they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those things which belong to the people.
  Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me out towards the gate whose prospect is towards the east, and measured it round about.
  He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
  He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
  He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.
  He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
  He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the holy and the common.
  
  
  
  Then he brought me to the gate, the gate that looks towards the east:
  and, behold, the glory of the God of Yisra᾽el came from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of many waters: and the earth shone with his glory.
  And the appearance of the vision which I saw, was like the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Kevar, and I fell upon my face.
  And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is towards the east.
  And a spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house.
  And I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man stood by me.
  And he said to me, Son of man, behold the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Yisra᾽el for ever; and the house of Yisra᾽el shall no more profane my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their harlotry, nor by the carcasses of their kings in their high places.
  In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their doorpost by my posts, and only the wall between me and them, they have defiled my holy name by their disgusting deeds which they have committed: and so I have consumed them in my anger.
  Now let them put away their harlotry, and the carcasses of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
  Thou son of man, describe the house to the house of Yisra᾽el, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern.
  And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and its ordinances, and all its shapes, and all its Torot: and write it in their sight, that they may keep its whole form, and all its ordinances, and do them.
  This is the Tora of the house; Upon the top of the mountain its whole limit round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the Tora of the house.
  And these are the measures of the altar by cubits: the cubit is a cubit and a hand breadth; the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and its border by its edge round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher part of the altar.
  And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.
  And the altar hearth shall be four cubits high; and from the altar hearth and upwards shall be four horns.
  And the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve broad, square in its four sides.
  And the ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen broad its four sides, and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom of it shall be a cubit about; and its stairs shall look towards the east.
  And he said to me, Son of man, thus says the Lord God; These are the ordinances of the altar on the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings upon it, and to sprinkle blood upon it.
  And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that are of the seed of Żadoq, who come near to me, to minister to me, says the Lord God, a young bullock for a sin offering.
  And thou shalt take of its blood, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the ledge, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou purify and make atonement for it.
  Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and it shall be burnt in the appointed place of the house, outside the sanctuary.
  And on the second day thou shalt offer a he goat without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall purify the altar, as they did purify it with the bullock.
  When thou hast made an end of purifying it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
  And thou shalt present them before the Lord, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to the Lord.
  Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.
  Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; and they shall consecrate it.
  And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the eighth day, and onwards, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, says the Lord God.
  
  
  
  Then he brought me back the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary which looks towards the east; and it was shut.
  Then the Lord said to me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the Lord, the God of Yisra᾽el, has entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
  As for the prince, he, being a prince, shall sit in it to eat bread before the Lord; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.
  Then he brought me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord: and I fell upon my face.
  And the Lord said to me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thy eyes, and hear with thy ears all that I say to thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the Lord, and all its Torot; and mark well the entrance of the house, with all the exits of the sanctuary.
  And thou shalt say to the rebellious ones, to the house of Yisra᾽el, Thus says the Lord God; O house of Yisra᾽el, enough now of all your disgusting deeds,
  in that you have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your disgusting deeds;
  and you have not kept the charge of my holy things: but you have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary to please yourselves.
  Thus says the Lord God; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Yisra᾽el.
  But the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Yisra᾽el went astray, that went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity:
  and they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.
  Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling flock of iniquity to the house of Yisra᾽el; therefore I have lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord God, and they shall bear their iniquity.
  And they shall not come near to me, to do the office of a priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to the most holy things: but they shall bear their shame, and their disgusting deeds which they have committed.
  And I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all its service, and for all that shall be done in it.
  But the priests the Levites, the sons of Żadoq, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Yisra᾽el went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me, and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord God:
  they shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.
  And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whilst they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
  They shall have linen turbans upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with anything that causes sweat.
  And when they go out into the outer court, into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; so as not to hallow the people with their garments.
  Nor shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; but they shall crop their heads.
  Nor shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
  Nor shall they take a widow, or a divorced woman for wives: but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Yisra᾽el, or a widow that is the widow of a priest.
  And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
  And in a controversy they shall stand in judgment and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my Torot and my statutes in all my appointed times; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.
  And they shall come near no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that has had no husband, they may defile themselves.
  And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.
  And in the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, says the Lord God.
  And it shall be to them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and you shall give them no possession in Yisra᾽el: I am their possession.
  They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the guilt offering: and every devoted thing in Yisra᾽el shall be theirs.
  And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every heave offering of all your heave offerings, shall belong to the priests: you shall also give to the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause a blessing to rest on thy house.
  The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or beast.
  
  
  
  And when you divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall designate a portion to the Lord, a holy area of the land: the length shall be the length of twenty five thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all its border round about.
  Of this there shall be a square plot for the sanctuary, five hundred by five hundred round about; and there shall be an open space for it of fifty cubits round about.
  And of this measure shalt thou measure a length of twenty five thousand, and a breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy.
  The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to the Lord: and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary.
  And an area of twenty five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession, twenty districts.
  And you shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and twenty five thousand long, adjoining the designated portion of the holy area: it shall be for the whole house of Yisra᾽el.
  And the prince’s portion shall be on either side of the designated holy area, and of the possession of the city, in front of the designated holy area, and in front of the possession of the city, on the west side westward, and on the east side eastward: and the length shall correspond to one of the portions, from the western boundary to the eastern boundary.
  It shall be his possession of the land in Yisra᾽el: and my princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall give to the house of Yisra᾽el the rest of the land according to their tribes.
  Thus said the Lord God; Enough now, you princes of Yisra᾽el: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, says the Lord God.
  You shall have just balances, and a just efa, and a just bat.
  The efa and the bat shall be of one measure, that the bat may contain the tenth part of a ĥomer, and the efa the tenth part of a ĥomer: its measure shall be after the ĥomer.
  And the shekel shall be twenty gera: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your mane.
  This is the offering that you shall set apart; the sixth part of an efa of a ĥomer of wheat, and you shall give the sixth part of an efa of a ĥomer of barley:
  concerning the ordinance of oil, the bat of oil, you shall offer the tenth part of a bat out of the kor, which is a ĥomer of ten bats; for ten bats are a ĥomer:
  and one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the well watered pastures of Yisra᾽el; for a meal offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to atone for them, says the Lord God.
  All the people of the land shall give this offering for the prince in Yisra᾽el.
  And it shall be the prince’s part to give burnt offerings, and meal offerings, and drink offerings, on the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the sabbaths, at all appointed times of the house of Yisra᾽el: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meal offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Yisra᾽el.
  Thus says the Lord God; In the first month, on the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and purify the sanctuary:
  and the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the doorposts of the house, and upon the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and upon the doorpost of the gate of the inner court.
  And so thou shalt do on the seventh day of the month for everyone that sins in error or in ignorance: so shall you make atonement for the house.
  In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
  And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.
  And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the Lord, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily for the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.
  And he shall prepare a meal offering of an efa for a bullock, and an efa for a ram, and a hin of oil for an efa.
  In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, shall he do the like the seven days; both as to the sin offering, as to the burnt offering, and as to the meal offering, and as to the oil.
  
  
  
  Thus says the Lord God; The gate of the inner court that looks towards the east shall be shut for the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
  And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate from outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering, and his peace offerings, and he shall bow down at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go out; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.
  Likewise the people of the land shall bow down at the door of this gate before the Lord on the sabbaths and on the new moons.
  And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer to the Lord on the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.
  And the meal offering shall be an efa for a ram, and the meal offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and a hin of oil to every efa.
  And on the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish.
  And he shall prepare a meal offering, an efa for a bullock, and an efa for a ram, and for the lambs according as his means extend, and a hin of oil to an efa.
  And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go out by the same way.
  But when the people of the land shall come before the Lord on the appointed seasons, he that enters in by the way of the north gate to bow down shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that enters by the way of the south gate shall go out by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the same gate through which he came in, but shall go out straight ahead.
  And the prince shall be in the midst of them; when they go in, he shall go in; and when they go out, they shall go out together.
  And on the feasts and on the appointed seasons the meal offering shall be an efa for a bullock, and an efa for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil with every efa.
  Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily to the Lord, the gate that looks towards the east shall be opened for him, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he shall do on the sabbath day: then he shall go out; and after his going out the gate shall be shut.
  And thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering to the Lord of a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every morning.
  And thou shalt prepare a meal offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an efa, and the third part of a hin of oil, to moisten the fine flour; a meal offering continually by perpetual ordinances to the Lord.
  Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meal offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering.
  Thus says the Lord God; if the prince give a gift to any of his sons, it shall be his inheritance, it shall be his sons’; it shall be their possession by inheritance.
  But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons’ for them.
  Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance to thrust them wrongfully out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.
  Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked towards the north: and, behold, there was a place on the far side westward.
  Then he said to me, This is the place where the priests shall cook the guilt offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meal offering; so that they do not carry them out into the outer court, to hallow the people.
  Then he brought me out into the outer court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court.
  In the four corners of the court there were roofless courts, forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure.
  And there was a row of masonry round about in them, round about those four, and it was made with cooking hearths under the rows round about.
  Then he said to me, These are the places of them that cook, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.
  
  
  
  Then he brought me back to the door of the house; and, behold, water issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house looked towards the east, and the water came down from beneath, from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.
  Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me round the way outside to the outer gate by the way what looks eastward; and, behold, there ran out water on the right side.
  And when the man that had the line in his hand went out eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he made me pass through the water; the water was up to the ankles.
  Again he measured a thousand, and made me pass through the water; the water was up to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and made me pass through water up to the loins.
  And he measured a further thousand; and it was a stream that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a stream that could not be passed over.
  And he said to me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the edge of the stream.
  Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the stream were very many trees on the one side and on the other.
  Then he said to me, These waters issue out towards the eastern region, and go down into the ῾Arava; and on their entering the sea, the sea of issuing waters, the waters shall be healed.
  And it shall come to pass, that every living thing, with which it swarms, wherever the streams shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: so that everything shall be healed, and shall live where that stream comes.
  And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from ῾En-gedi as far as ῾En-῾eglayim; there shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be of various kinds, like the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
  But its miry places and its marshes shall not be healed; they shall be given for salt.
  And by the stream upon its bank, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall its fruit fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every month, because their waters have issued out of the sanctuary: and its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for medicine.
  Thus says the Lord God; This shall be the border, according to which you shall divide the land for inheritance to the twelve tribes of Yisra᾽el: Yosef shall have two portions.
  And you shall inherit it, one as well as another: that concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers: and this land shall fall to you for inheritance.
  And this shall be the border of the land towards the north side, from the great sea, by the way of Ĥetlon, as you go to Żedad;
  Ĥamat, Berota, Sivrayim, which is between the border of Dammeseq and the border of Ĥamat; the middle Ĥażer, which is by the border of Ĥavran.
  And the border from the sea shall be Ĥażar-῾enon, the border of Dammeseq, and the north northward, and the border of Ĥamat. That is the north side.
  And the east side, between Ĥavran, and Dammeseq and Gil῾ad, and between the land of Yisra᾽el and the Yarden, from the border to the eastern sea shall you measure. That is the east side.
  And the Negev side southward from Tamar to the waters of Merivot-qadesh to the wadi, as far as the great sea. That is the south side towards the Negev.
  The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, as far as over against the entrance of Ĥamat. That is the west side.
  So shall you divide this land for yourselves according to the tribes of Yisra᾽el.
  And it shall come to pass, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, who shall beget children among you: and they shall be to you as those born in the country among the children of Yisra᾽el; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Yisra᾽el.
  And it shall come to pass, that in whatever tribe the stranger may sojourn, there shall you give him his inheritance, says the Lord God.
  
  
  
  Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end beside the way to Ĥetlon, as one goes to Ĥamat, Ĥażar-῾enan, the border of Dammeseq northward beside Ĥamat; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan.
  And by the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side a portion for Asher.
  And by the border of Asher, from the east side to the west side, a portion for Naftali.
  And by the border of Naftali, from the east side to the west side, a portion for Menashshe.
  And by the border of Menashshe, from the east side to the west side, a portion for Efrayim.
  And by the border of Efrayim, from the east side to the west side a portion for Re᾽uven.
  And by the border of Re᾽uven, from the east side to the west side, a portion for Yehuda.
  And by the border of Yehuda, from the east side to the west side, shall be the designated portion which you shall designate of twenty five thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side to the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
  The portion that you shall designate to the Lord shall be of twenty five thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth.
  And they, the priests, shall have this holy portion; towards the north twenty five thousand in length, and towards the west ten thousand in breadth, and towards the east ten thousand in breadth, and towards the south twenty five thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the Lord shall be in the midst of it.
  It shall belong to the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Żadoq; who have kept my charge, who went not astray when the children of Yisra᾽el went astray, as the other Levities went astray.
  And it shall be to them a section set apart from the designated portion of the land, a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.
  And over against the border of the priests, the Levites shall have an area twenty five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be twenty five thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
  And they shall not sell any of it, nor exchange, nor alienate that choice portion of the land: for it is holy to the Lord.
  And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth in front of the twenty five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling, and for open land: and the city shall be in the midst of it.
  And these shall be its measures; the north side four thousand five hundred, and the south side four thousand five hundred, and on the east side four thousand five hundred, and the west side four thousand five hundred.
  And the city shall have open lands, to the north two hundred and fifty, and to the south two hundred and fifty, and to the east two hundred and fifty, and to the west two hundred and fifty.
  And the residue in the length corresponding to the designated holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be alongside the designated holy portion; and its produce shall be for food for those that work in the city.
  And those who work in the city shall work in it of all the tribes of Yisra᾽el.
  And the designated portion shall be twenty five thousand by twenty five thousand: you shall designate the holy portion foursquare, including the possession of the city.
  And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city; in front of the twenty five thousand of the designated area to the east border, and westward in front of the twenty five thousand to the west border: corresponding to the portions of the tribes shall be the area for the prince: and the holy area set apart, and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst of it.
  Thus the possession of the Levites, and the possession of the city, shall be in the midst of that which is the prince’s; between the border of Yehuda and the border of Binyamin, shall be the portion of the prince.
  As for the rest of the tribes from the east side to the west side, Binyamin shall have a portion.
  And by the border of Binyamin; from the east side to the west side, Shim῾on shall have a portion.
  And by the border of Shim῾on. from the east side to the west side, Yissakhar shall have a portion.
  And by the border of Yissakhar, from the east side to the west side, Zevulun shall have a portion.
  And by the border of Zevulun, from the east side to the west side. Gad shall have one portion.
  And by the border of Gad, at the Negev side southward, the border shall be from Tamar by the waters Merivat-qadesh, to the wadi, as far as the great sea.
  This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Yisra᾽el for inheritance, and these are their portions, says the Lord God.
  And these are the exits of the city. On the north side, there is measure of four thousand five hundred.
  And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Yisra᾽el: three gates northward; one gate of Re᾽uven, one gate of Yehuda, one gate of Levi.
  And at the east side there is a measure of four thousand five hundred: and three gates; one gate of Yosef, one gate of Binyamin, one gate of Dan.
  And at the south side there is a measure of four thousand five hundred; and three gates; one gate of Shim῾on, one gate of Yissakhar, one gate of Zevulun.
  At the west side there is a measure of four thousand five hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naftali.
  It shall be round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The Lord is there.