THE HOLY BIBLE
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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET EZECHIEL
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 1
1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth
month, on the fifth day of the month, when I was in the
midst of the captives by the river Chobar, the heavens
were opened, and I saw the visions of God.
2 On the fifth day of the month, the same was the fifth year
of the captivity of king Joachin,
3 The word of the Lord came to Ezechiel the priest the son
of Bud in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Chobar:
and the hand of the Lord was there upon him.
4 And I saw, and behold a whirlwind came out of the north:
and a great cloud, and a fire infolding it, and brightness
was about it: and out of the midst thereof, that is, out
of the midst of the fire, as it were the resemblance of
amber:
5 And in the midst thereof the likeness of four living
creatures: and this was their appearance: there was the
likeness of a man in them.
6 Every one had four faces, and every one four wings.
7 Their feet were straight feet, and the sole of their foot
was like the sole of a calf's foot, and they sparkled like
the appearance of glowing brass.
8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their
four sides: and they bad faces, and wings on the four
sides,
9 And the wings of one were joined to the wings of another.
They turned not when they went: but every one went
straight forward.
10 And as for the likeness of their faces: there was the face
of a man, and the face of a lion on the right side of all
the four: and the face of an ox, on the left side of all
the four: and the face of an eagle over all the four.
11 And their faces, and their wings were stretched upward:
two wings of every one were joined, and two covered their
bodies:
12 And every one of them went straight forward: whither the
impulse of the spirit was to go, thither they went: and
they turned not when they went.
13 And as for the likeness of the living creatures, their
appearance was like that of burning coals of fire, and
like the appearance of lamps. This was the vision running
to and fro in the midst of the living creatures, a bright
fire, and lightning going forth from the fire.
14 And the living creatures ran and returned like flashes of
lightning.
15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, there appeared upon
the earth by the living creatures one wheel with four
faces.
16 And the appearance of the wheels, and the work of them was
like the appearance of the sea: and the four had all one
likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it
were a wheel in the midst of a wheel.
17 When they went, they went by their four parts: and they
turned not when they went.
18 The wheels had also a size, and a height, and a dreadful
appearance: and the whole body was full of eyes round
about all the four.
19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels also went
together by them: and when the living creatures were
lifted up from the earth, the wheels also were lifted up
with them.
20 Whithersoever the spirit went, thither as the spirit went
the wheels also were lifted up withal, and followed it:
for the spirit of life was in the wheels.
21 When those went these went, and when those stood these
stood, and when those were lifted up from the earth, the
wheels also were lifted up together, and followed them:
for the spirit of life was in the wheels.
22 And over the heads of the living creatures was the
likeness of the firmament, as the appearance of crystal
terrible to behold, and stretched out over their heads
above.
23 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one
toward the other, every one with two wings covered his
body, and the other was covered in like manner.
24 And I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of
many waters, as it were the voice of the most high God:
when they walked, it was like the voice of a multitude,
like the noise of an army, and when they stood, their
wings were let down.
25 For when a voice came from above the firmament, that was
over their heads, they stood, and let down their wings.
26 And above the firmament that was over their heads, was the
likeness of a throne, as the appearance of the sapphire
stone, and upon the likeness of the throne, was a likeness
as of the appearance of a man above upon it.
27 And I saw as it were the resemblance of amber as the
appearance of fire within it round about: from his loins
and upward, and from his loins downward, I saw as it were
the resemblance of fire shining round about.
28 As the appearance of the rainbow when it is in a cloud on
a rainy day: this was the appearance of the brightness
round about.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 2
1 This was the vision of the likeness of the glory of the
Lord. And I saw, and 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.
2 And the spirit entered into me after that he spoke to me,
and he set me upon my feet: and I heard him speaking to
me,
3 And saying: Son of man, I send thee to the children of
Israel, to a rebellious people, that hath revolted from
me, they, and their fathers, have transgressed my covenant
even unto this day.
4 And they to whom I send thee are children of a hard face,
and of an obstinate heart: and thou shalt say to them:
Thus saith the Lord God:
5 If so be they at least will hear, and if so be they will
forbear, for they are a provoking house: and they shall
know that there hath been a prophet in the midst of them.
6 And thou, O son of man, fear not, neither be thou afraid
of their words: for thou art among unbelievers and
destroyers, and thou dwellest with scorpions. Fear not
their words, neither be thou dismayed at their looks: for
they are a provoking house.
7 And thou shalt speak my words to them, if perhaps they
will hear, and forbear: for they provoke me to anger.
8 But thou, O son of man, hear all that I say to thee: and
do not thou provoke me, as that house provoketh me: open
thy mouth, and eat what I give thee.
9 And I looked, and behold, a hand was sent to me, wherein
was a book rolled up: and he spread it before me, and it
was written within and without: and there were written in
it lamentations, and canticles, and woe.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 3
1 And he said to me: Son of man, eat all that thou shalt
find: eat this book, and go speak to the children of
Israel.
2 And I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that book:
3 And he said to me: Son of man, thy belly shall eat, and
thy bowels shall be filled with this book, which I give
thee. And I did eat it: and it was sweet as honey in my
mouth.
4 And he said to me: Son of man, go to the house of Israel,
and thou shalt speak my words to them.
5 For thou art not sent to a people of a profound speech,
and of an unknown tongue, but to the house of Israel:
6 Nor to many nations of a strange speech, and of an unknown
tongue, whose words thou canst not understand: and if thou
wert sent to them, they would hearken to thee.
7 But the house of Israel will not hearken to thee: because
they will not hearken to me: for all the house of Israel
are of a hard forehead and an obstinate heart.
8 Behold I have made thy face stronger than their faces: and
thy forehead harder than their foreheads.
9 I have made thy face like an adamant and like flint: fear
them not, neither be thou dismayed at their presence: for
they are a provoking house.
10 And he said to me: Son of man, receive in thy heart, and
hear with thy ears, all the words that I speak to thee:
11 And go get thee in to them of the captivity, to the
children of thy people, and thou shalt speak to them, and
shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: If so be they will
hear and will forbear.
12 And the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me the voice
of a great commotion, saying: Blessed be the glory of the
Lord, from his place.
13 And the noise of the wings of the living creatures
striking one against another, and the noise of the wheels
following the living creatures, and the noise of a great
commotion.
14 The spirit also lifted me, and took me up: and I went away
in bitterness in the indignation of my spirit: for the
hand of the Lord was with me, strengthening me.
15 And I came to them of the captivity, to the heap of new
corn, to them that dwelt by the river Chobar, and I sat
where they sat: and I remained there seven days mourning
in the midst of them.
16 And at the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:
17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house of
Israel: and thou shalt hear the word out of my mouth, and
shalt tell it them from me.
18 If, when I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die: thou
declare it not to him, nor speak to him, that he may be
converted from his wicked way, and live: the same wicked
man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his
blood at thy hand.
19 But if thou give warning to the wicked, and he be not
converted from his wickedness, and from his evil way: he
indeed shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered
thy soul.
20 Moreover if the just man shall turn away from his justice,
and shall commit iniquity: I will lay a stumblingblock
before him, he shall die, because thou hast not given him
warning: he shall die in his sin, and his justices which
he hath done, shall not be remembered: but I will require
his blood at thy hand.
21 But if thou warn the just man, that the just may not sin,
and he doth not sin: living he shall live, because thou
hast warned him, and thou hast delivered thy soul.
22 And the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he said to me:
Rise and go forth into the plain, and there I will speak
to thee.
23 And I rose up, and went forth into the plain: and behold
the glory of the Lord stood there, like the glory which I
saw by the river Chobar: and I fell upon my face.
24 And the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet:
and he spoke to me, and said to me: Go in; and shut
thyself up in the midst of thy house.
25 And thou, O son of man, behold they shall put bands upon
thee, and they shall bind thee with them: and thou shalt
not go forth from the midst of them.
26 And I will make thy tongue stick fast to the roof of thy
mouth, and thou shalt be dumb, and not as a man that
reproveth: because they are a provoking house.
27 But when I shall speak to thee, I will open thy mouth, and
thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: He that
heareth, let him hear: and he that forbeareth, let him
forbear: for they are a provoking house.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 4
1 And thou, O son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it
before thee: and draw upon it the plan of the city of
Jerusalem.
2 And lay siege against it, and build forts, and cast up a
mount, and set a camp against it, and place battering rams
round about it.
3 And take unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of
iron between thee and the city: and set thy face
resolutely against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou
shalt lay siege against it: it is a sign to the house of
Israel.
4 And thou shalt sleep upon thy left side, and shalt lay the
iniquities of the house of Israel upon it, according to
the number of the days that thou shalt sleep upon it, and
thou shalt take upon thee their iniquity.
5 And I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity,
according to the number of the days three hundred and
ninety days: and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house
of Israel.
6 And when thou hast accomplished this, thou shalt sleep
again upon thy right side, and thou shalt take upon thee
the iniquity of the house of Juda forty days: a day for it
year, yea, a day for a year I have appointed to thee.
7 And thou shalt turn thy face to the siege of Jerusalem,
and thy arm shall be stretched out: and thou shalt
prophesy against it.
8 Behold I have encompassed thee with bands: and thou shalt
not turn thyself from one side to the other, till thou
hast ended the days of thy siege.
9 And take to thee wheat and barley, and beans, and lentils,
and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and
make thee bread thereof according to the number of the
days that thou shalt lie upon thy side: three hundred and
ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
10 And thy meat that thou shalt eat, shall be in weight
twenty staters a day: from time to time thou shalt eat it.
11 And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of
a hin: from time to time thou shalt drink it,
12 And thou shalt eat it as barley bread baked under the
ashes: and thou shalt cover it, in their sight, with the
dung that cometh out of a man.
13 And the Lord said: So shall the children of Israel Beat
their bread all filthy among the nations whither I will
cast them out.
14 And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, behold my soul hath
not been defiled, and from my infancy even till now, I
have not eaten any thing that died of itself, or was torn
by beasts, and no unclean flesh hath entered into my
mouth.
15 And he said to me: Behold I have given thee neat's dung
for man's dung, and thou shalt make thy bread therewith.
16 And he said to me: Son of man: Behold, I will break in
pieces the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat
bread by weight, and with care: and they shall drink water
by measure, and in distress.
17 So that when bread and water fail, every man may fall
against his brother, and they may pine away in their
iniquities.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 5
1 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife that shaveth
the hair: and cause it to pass over thy head, and over thy
beard: and take thee a balance to weigh in, and divide the
hair.
2 A third part thou shalt burn with fire in the midst of the
city, according to the fulfilling of the days of the
siege: and thou shalt take a third part, and cut it in
pieces with the knife all round about: and the other third
part thou shalt scatter in the wind, and I will draw out
the sword after them.
3 And thou shalt take thereof a small number: and shalt bind
them in the skirt of thy cloak.
4 And thou shalt take of them again, and shalt cast them in
the midst of the fire, and shalt burn them with fire: and
out of it shall come forth a fire into all the house of
Israel.
5 Thus saith the Lord God: This is Jerusalem, I have set her
in the midst of the nations, and the countries round about
her.
6 And she hath despised my judgments, so as to be more
wicked than the Gentiles; and my commandments, more than
the countries that are round about her: for they have cast
off my judgments, and have not walked in my commandments.
7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have
surpassed the Gentiles that are round about you, and have
not walked in my commandments, and have not kept my
judgments, and have not done according to the judgments of
the nations that are round about you:
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against
thee, and I myself will execute judgments in the midst of
thee in the sight of the Gentiles.
9 And I will do in thee that which I have not done: and the
like to which I will do no more, because of all thy
abominations.
10 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 I will scatter thy whole
remnant into every wind.
11 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God: Because thou hast
violated my sanctuary with all thy offences, and with ail
thy abominations: I will also break thee in pieces, and my
eye shall not spare, and I will not have any pity.
12 A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and
shall be consumed with famine in the midst of thee: and a
third part of thee shall fall by the sword round about
thee: and a third part of thee will I scatter into every
wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.
13 And I will accomplish my fury, and will cause my
indignation to rest upon them, and I will be comforted:
and they shall know that I the Lord have spoken it in my
zeal, when I shall have accomplished my indignation in
them.
14 And I will make thee desolate, and a reproach among the
nations that are round about thee, in the sight of every
one that passeth by.
15 And thou shalt be a reproach, and a scoff, an example, and
an astonishment amongst the nations that are round about
thee, when I shall have executed judgments in thee in
anger, and in indignation, and in wrathful rebukes.
16 I the Lord have spoken it: When I shall send upon them the
grievous arrows of famine, which shall bring death, and
which I will send to destroy you: and I will gather
together famine against you: and I will break among you
the staff of bread.
17 And I will send in upon you famine, and evil beasts unto
utter destruction: and pestilence, and blood shall pass
through thee, and I will bring in the sword upon thee. I
the Lord have spoken it.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 6
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, set thy face towards the mountains of Israel,
and prophesy against them.
3 And say: Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord
God: Thus Faith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the
hills, and to the rocks, and the valleys: Behold, I will
bring upon you the sword, and I will destroy your high
places.
4 And I will throw down your altars, and your idols shall be
broken in pieces: and I will cast down your slain before
your idols.
5 And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of
Israel before your idols: and I will scatter Sour bones
round about your altars,
6 In all your dwelling places. The cities shall be laid
waste, and the high places shall be thrown down, and
destroyed, and your altars shall be abolished, and shall
be broken in pieces: and your idols shall be no more, and
your temples shall be destroyed, and your works shall be
defaced.
7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you: and you
shall know that I am the Lord.
8 And I will leave in you some that shall escape the sword
among the nations, when I shall have scattered you,
through the countries.
9 And they that are saved of you shall remember me amongst
the nations to which they are carried captives: because I
have broken their heart that was faithless, and revolted
from me: and their eyes that went a fornicating after
their idols: and they shall be displeased with themselves
because of the evils which they have committed in all
their abominations.
10 And they shall know that I the Lord have not spoken in
vain that I would do this evil to them.
11 Thus saith the Lord God: Strike with thy hand, and stamp
with thy foot, and say: Alas, for all the abominations of
the evils of the house of Israel: for they shall fall by
the sword, by the famine and by the pestilence.
12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence: and he
that is near, shall fall by the sword: and he that
remaineth, and is besieged, shall die by the famine: and
I will accomplish my indignation upon them.
13 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when your slain
shall be amongst your idols, round about your altars, in
every high hill, and on all the tops of mountains, and
under every woody tree, and under every thick oak, the
place where they burnt sweet smelling frankincense to all
their idols.
14 And I will stretch forth my hand upon them: and I will
make the land desolate, and abandoned from the desert of
Deblatha in all their dwelling places: and they shall know
that I am the Lord.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 7
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 And thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God to the land
of Israel: The end is come, the end is come upon the four
quarters of the land.
3 Now is an end come upon thee, and I will send my wrath
upon thee, and I will judge thee according to thy ways:
and I will set all thy abominations against thee.
4 And my eye shall not spare thee, and I will shew thee no
pity: but I will lay thy ways upon thee, and thy
abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and you shall
know that I am the Lord.
5 Thus saith the Lord God: One affliction, behold an
affliction is come.
6 An end is come, the end is come, it hath awaked against
thee: behold it is come.
7 Destruction is come upon thee that dwellest in the land:
the time is come, the day of slaughter is near, and not of
the joy of mountains.
8 Now very shortly I will pour out my wrath upon thee, and
I will accomplish my anger in thee: and I will judge thee
according to thy ways, and I will lay upon thee all thy
crimes.
9 And my eye shall not spare, neither will I shew mercy: but
I will lay thy ways upon thee, and thy abominations shall
be in the midst of thee: and you shall know that I am the
Lord that strike.
10 Behold the day, behold it is come: destruction is gone
forth, the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
11 Iniquity is risen up into a rod of impiety: nothing of
them shall remain, nor of their people, nor of the noise
of them: and there shall be no rest among them.
12 The time is come, the day is at hand: let not the buyer
rejoice: nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the
people thereof.
13 For the seller shall not return to that which he hath
sold, although their life be yet among the living. For the
vision which regardeth all the multitude thereof, shall
not go back: neither shall man be strengthened in the
iniquity of his life.
14 Blow the trumpet, let all be made ready, yet there is none
to go to the battle: for my wrath shall be upon all the
people thereof.
15 The sword without: and the pestilence, and the famine
within: he that is in the field shall die by the sword:
and they that are in the city, shall be devoured by the
pestilence, and the famine.
16 And such of them as shall flee shall escape: and they
shall be in the mountains like doves of the valleys, all
of them trembling, every one for his iniquity.
17 All hands shall be made feeble, and all knees shall run
with water.
18 And they shall gird themselves with haircloth, and fear
shall cover them, and shame shall be upon every face, and
baldness upon all their heads.
19 Their silver shall be cast forth, and their gold shall
become a dunghill. 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 soul, and their bellies
shall not be filled: because it hath been the
stumblingblock of their iniquity.
20 And they have turned the ornament of their jewels into
pride, and have made of it the images of their
abominations, and idols: therefore I have made it an
uncleanness to them.
21 And I will give it into the hands of strangers for spoil,
and to the wicked of the earth for a prey, and they shall
defile it.
22 And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall
violate my secret place: and robbers shall enter into it,
and defile it.
23 Make a shutting up: for the land is full of the judgment
of blood, and the city is full of iniquity.
24 And I will bring the worse of the nations, and they shall
possess their houses: and I will make the pride of the
mighty to cease, and they shall possess their sanctuary.
25 When distress cometh upon them, they will seek for peace
and there shall be none.
26 Trouble shall come upon trouble, and rumour upon rumour,
and they shall seek a vision of the prophet, and the law
shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the
ancients.
27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with
sorrow, and the hands of the people of the land shall be
troubled. I will do to them according to their way, and
will judge them according to their judgments: and they
shall know that I am the Lord.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 8
1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month,
in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and
the ancients of Juda sat before me, that the hand of the
Lord God fell there upon me.
2 And I saw, and behold a likeness as the appearance of
fire: from the appearance of his loins, and downward,
fire: and from his loins, and upward, as the appearance of
brightness, as the appearance of amber.
3 And the likeness of a hand was put forth and took me by a
lock of my head: and the spirit lifted me up between the
earth and the heaven, and brought me in the vision of God
into Jerusalem, near the inner gate, that looked toward
the north, where was set the idol of jealousy to provoke
to jealousy.
4 And behold the glory of the God of Israel was there,
according to the vision which I had seen in the plain.
5 And he said to me: Son of man, lift up thy eyes towards
the way of the north. And I lifted up my eyes towards the
way of the north: and behold on the north side of the gate
of the altar the idol of jealousy in the very entry.
6 And he said to me: Son of man, dost thou see, thinkest
thou, what these are doing, the great abominations that
the house of Israel committeth here, that I should depart
far off from my sanctuary? and turn thee yet again and
thou shalt see greater abominations.
7 And he brought me in to the door of the court: and I saw,
and behold a hole in the wall.
8 And he said to me: Son of man, dig in the wall. And when
I had digged in the wall, behold a door.
9 And he said to me: Go in, and see the wicked abominations
which they commit here.
10 And I went in and saw, and behold every form of creeping
things, and of living creatures, the abomination, and all
the idols of the house of Israel, were painted on the wall
all round about.
11 And seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel,
and Jezonias the son of Saaphan stood in the midst of
them, that stood before the pictures: and every one had a
censer in his hand: and a cloud of smoke went up from the
incense.
12 And he add to me: Surely thou seest. O son of man, what
the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every
one in private in his chamber: for they say: The Lord
seeth us not, the Lord hath forsaken the earth.
13 And he said to me: If thou turn thee again, thou shalt see
greater abominations which these commit.
14 And he brought me in by the door of the gate of the Lord's
house, which looked to the north: and behold women sat
there mourning for Adonis.
15 And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen, O son of man:
but turn thee again: and thou shalt see greater
abominations than these.
16 And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the
Lord: and behold at the door of the temple of the Lord,
between the porch and the altar, were about five and
twenty men having their backs towards the temple of the
Lord, and their faces to the east: and they adored towards
the rising of the sun.
17 And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen, O son of man: is
this a light thing to the house of Juda, that they should
commit these abominations which they have committed here:
because they have filled the land with iniquity, and have
turned to provoke me to anger? and behold they put a
branch to their nose.
18 Therefore I also will deal with them in my wrath: my eye
shall not spare them, neither will I shew mercy: and when
they shall cry to my ears with a loud voice, I will not
hear them.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 9
1 And he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying: The
visitations of the city are at hand, and every one hath a
destroying weapon in his hand.
2 And behold six men came from the way of the upper gate,
which looketh to the north: and each one had his weapon of
destruction in his hand: and there was one man in the
midst of them clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn
at his reins: and they went in, and stood by the brazen
altar.
3 And the glory of the Lord of Israel went up from the
cherub, upon which he was, to the threshold of the house:
and he called to the man that was clothed with linen, and
had a writer's inkhorn at his loins.
4 And the Lord said to him: Go through the midst of the
city, through the midst of Jerusalem: and mark Thau upon
the foreheads of the men that sigh, and mourn for all the
abominations that are committed in the midst thereof.
5 And to the others he said in my hearing: Go ye after him
through the city, and strike: let not your eyes spare, nor
be ye moved with pity.
6 Utterly destroy old and young, maidens, children and
women: but upon whomsoever you shall see Thau, kill him
not, and begin ye at my sanctuary. So they began at the
ancient men who mere before the house.
7 And he said to them: Defile the house, and ill the courts
with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew
them that were in the city.
8 And the slaughter being ended I was left: and I fell upon
my face, and crying, I said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God,
wilt thou then destroy all the remnant of Israel, by
pouring out thy fury upon Jerusalem?
9 And he said to me: The iniquity of the house of Israel,
and of Juda, is exceeding great, and the land is filled
with blood, and the city is filled with perverseness: for
they have said: The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the
Lord seeth not.
10 Therefore neither shall my eye spare, nor will I have
pity: I will requite their way upon their head.
11 And behold the man that was clothed with linen, that had
the inkhorn at his back, returned the word, saying: I have
done as thou hast commanded me.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 10
1 And saw and behold in the firmament that was over the
heads of the cherubims, there appeared over them as it
were the sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness
of a throne.
2 And he spoke to the man, that was clothed with linen, and
said: Go in between the wheels that are under the
cherubims and fill thy hand with the coals of fire that
are between the cherubims, and pour them out upon the
city. And he went in, in my sight:
3 And the cherubims stood on the right side of the house,
when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.
4 And the glory of the Lord was lifted up from above the
cherub to the threshold of the house: and the house was
filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the
brightness of the glory of the Lord.
5 And the sound of the wings of the cherubims was heard even
to the out- ward court as the voice of God Almighty
speaking.
6 And when he had commanded the man that was clothed with
linen, saying: Take fire from the midst of the wheels that
are between the cherubims: he went in and stood beside the
wheel,
7 And one cherub stretched out his arm from the midst of the
cherubims to the fire that was between the cherubims: and
he took, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed
with linen: who took it and went forth.
8 And there appeared in the cherubims the likeness of a
man's hand under their wings.
9 And I saw, and behold there were four wheels by the
cherubims: one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by
an- other cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was to
the sight like the chrysolite stone:
10 And as to their appearance, all four were alike: as if a
wheel were in the midst of a wheel.
11 And when they went, they went by four ways: and they
turned not when they went: but to the place whither they
first turned, the rest also followed, and did not turn
back.
12 And their whole body, and their necks, and their hands,
and their wings, and the circles were full of eyes, round
about the four wheels.
13 And these wheels he called voluble, in my hearing.
14 And every one had four faces: one face was the face of a
cherub, and the second face, the face of a man: and in the
third was the face of a lion: and in the fourth the face
of an eagle.
15 And the cherubims were lifted up: this is the living
creature that I had seen by the river Chobar.
16 And when the cherubims went, the wheels also went by them:
and when the cherubims lifted up their wings, to mount up
from the earth, the wheels stayed not behind, but were by
them.
17 When they stood, these stood: and when they were lifted
up, these were lifted up: for the spirit of life was in
them.
18 And the glory of the Lord went forth from the threshold of
the temple: and stood over the cherubims.
19 And the cherubims lifting up their wings, were raised from
the earth before me: and as they went out, the wheels also
followed: and it stood in the entry of the east gate of
the house of the Lord: and the glory of the God of Israel
was over them.
20 This is the living creature, which I saw under the God of
Israel by the river Chobar: and I understood that they
were cherubims.
21 Each one had four faces, and each one had four wings: and
the likeness of a man's hand was under their wings.
22 And as to the likeness of their faces, they were the same
faces which I had seen by the river Chobar, and their
looks, and the impulse of every one to go straight
forward.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 11
1 And the spirit lifted me up, and brought me into the east
gate of the house of the Lord, which looketh towards the
rising of the sun: and behold in the entry of the gate
five and twenty men: and I saw in the midst of them
Jezonias the son of Azur, and Pheltias the son of Banaias,
princes of the people.
2 And he said to me: Son of man, these are the men that
study iniquity, and frame a wicked counsel in this city,
3 Saying: Were not houses lately built? This city is the
caldron, and we the flesh.
4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, thou son of
man.
5 And the spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said to me:
Speak: Thus saith the Lord: Thus have you spoken, O house
of Israel, for I know the thoughts of your heart.
6 You have killed a great many in this city, and you have
filled the streets thereof with the slain.
7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Your slain, whom you
have laid in the midst thereof, they are the flesh, and
this is the caldron: and I will bring you forth out of the
midst thereof.
8 You have feared the sword, and I will bring the sword upon
you, saith the Lord God.
9 And I will cast you out of the midst thereof, and I will
deliver you into the hand of the enemies, and I will
execute judgments upon you.
10 You shall fall by the sword: I will judge you in the
borders of Israel, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
11 This shall not be as a caldron to you, and you shall not
be as flesh in the midst thereof: I will judge you in the
borders of Israel.
12 And you shall know that I am the Lord: because you have
not walked in my commandments, and have not done my
judgments, but you have done according to the judgments of
the nations that; are round about you.
13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pheltias the
son of Banaias died: and I fell down upon my face, and
cried with a loud voice: and said: Alas, alas, alas, O
Lord God: wilt thou make an end of all the remnant of
Israel?
14 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
15 Son of man, thy brethren, thy brethren, thy kinsmen, and
all the house of Israel, all they to whom the inhabitants
of Jerusalem have said: Get ye far from the Lord, the land
is given in possession to us.
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because I have removed
them far off among the Gentiles, and because I have
scattered them among the countries: I will be to them a
little sanctuary in the countries whither they are come.
17 Therefore speak to them: Thus saith the Lord God: I will
gather you from among the peoples, and assemble you out of
the countries wherein you are scattered, and I will give
you the land of Israel.
18 And they shall go in thither, and shall take away all the
scandals, and all the abominations thereof from thence.
19 And I will give them one heart, and will put a new spirit
in their bowels: and I will take away the stony heart out
of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh:
20 That they may walk in my commandments, and keep my
judgments, and do them: and that they may be my people,
and I may be their God.
21 But as for them whose heart walketh after their scandals
and abominations, I will lay their way upon their head,
saith the Lord God.
22 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and the wheels
with them: and the glory of the God of Israel was over
them.
23 And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the
city, and stood over the mount that is on the east side of
the city.
24 And the spirit lifted me up, and brought me into Chaldea,
to them of the captivity, in vision, by the spirit of God:
and the vision which I had seen was taken up from me.
25 And I spoke to them of the captivity all the words of the
Lord, which he had shewn me.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 12
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a provoking
house: who have eyes to see, and see not: and ears to
hear, and hear not: for they are a provoking house.
3 Thou, therefore, O son of man, prepare thee all
necessaries for removing, and remove by day in their
sight: and thou shalt remove out of thy place to another
place in their sight, if so be they will regard it: for
they are a provoking house.
4 And thou shalt bring forth thy furniture as the furniture
of one that is removing by day in their sight: and thou
shalt go forth in the evening in their presence, as one
goeth forth that removeth his dwelling.
5 Dig thee a way through the wall before their eyes: and
thou shalt go forth through it.
6 In their sight thou shalt be carried out upon men's
shoulders, thou shalt be carried out in the dark: thou
shalt cover thy face, and shalt not see the ground: for I
have set thee for a sign of things to come to the house of
Israel.
7 I did therefore as he had commanded me: I brought forth my
goods by day, as the goods of one that removeth: and in
the evening I digged through the wall with my hand: and I
went forth in the dark, and was carried on men's shoulders
in their sight.
8 And the word of the Lord came to me in the morning,
saying:
9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the provoking
house, said to thee: What art thou doing?
10 Say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: This burden
concerneth my prince that is in Jerusalem, and all the
house of Israel, that are among them.
11 Say: I am a sign of things to come to you: as I have done,
so shall it be done to them: they shall be removed from
their dwellings, and go into captivity.
12 And the prince that is in the midst of them, shall be
carried on shoulders, he shall go forth in the dark: they
shall dig through the wall to bring him out: his face
shall be covered, that he may not see the ground with his
eyes.
13 And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken
in my net: and I will bring him into Babylon, into the
land of the Chaldeans, and he shall not see it, and there
he shall die.
14 And all that are about him, his guards, and his troops I
will scatter into every wind: and I will draw out the
sword after them.
15 And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have
dispersed them among the nations, and scattered them in
the countries.
16 And I will leave a few men of them from the sword, and
from the famine, and from the pestilence: that they may
declare all their wicked deeds among the nations whither
they shall go: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
17 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
18 Son of man, eat thy bread in trouble: and drink thy water
in hurry and sorrow.
19 And say to the people of the land: Thus saith the Lord God
to them that dwell in Jerusalem in the land of Israel:
They shall eat their bread in care, and drink their water
in desolation: that the land may become desolate from the
multitude that is therein, for the iniquity of all that
dwell therein.
20 And the cities that are now inhabited shall be laid waste,
and the land shall be desolate: and you shall know that I
am the Lord.
21 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
22 Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land
of Israel? saying: The days shall be prolonged, and every
vision shall fail.
23 Say to them therefore: Thus saith the Lord God: I will
make this proverb to cease, neither shall it be any more
a common saying in Israel: and tell them that the days are
at hand, and the effect of every vision.
24 For there shall be no more any vain visions, nor doubtful
divination in the midst of the children of Israel.
25 For I the Lord will speak: and what word soever I shall
speak, it shall come to pass, and shall not be prolonged
any more: but in your days, ye provoking house, I will
speak the word, and will do it, saith the Lord God.
26 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
27 Son of man, behold the house of Israel, they that say: The
vision that this man seeth, is for many days to come: and
this men prophesieth of times afar off.
28 Therefore say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Not one
word of mine shall be prolonged any more: the word that I
shall speak shall be accomplished, saith the Lord God.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 13
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, prophesy thou against the prophets of Israel
that prophesy: and thou shalt say to them that prophesy
out of their own heart: Hear ye the word of the Lord:
3 Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the foolish prophets that
follow their own spirit, and see nothing.
4 Thy prophets, O Israel, were like foxes in the deserts.
5 You have not gone up to face the enemy, nor have you set
up a wall for the house of Israel, to stand in battle in
the day of the Lord.
6 They see vain things, and they foretell lies, saying: The
Lord saith: whereas the Lord hath not sent them: and they
have persisted to confirm what they have said.
7 Have you not seen a vain vision and spoken a lying
divination: and you say: The Lord saith: whereas I have
not spoken.
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have spoken
vain things, and have seen lies: therefore behold I come
against you, saith the Lord God.
9 And my hand shall be upon the prophets that see vain
things, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the
council of my people, nor shall they be written in the
writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter
into the land of Israel, and you shall know that I am the
Lord God.
10 Because they have deceived my people, saying: Peace, and
there is no peace: and the people built up a wall, and
they daubed it with dirt without straw.
11 Say to them that daub without tempering, that it shall
fall: for there shall be an overflowing shower, and I will
cause great hailstones to fall violently from above, and
a stormy wind to throw it down.
12 Behold, when the wall is fallen: shall it not be said to
you: Where is the daubing wherewith you have daubed it?
13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Lo, I will cause a
stormy wind to break forth in my indignation, and there
shall be an overflowing shower in my anger: and great
hailstones in my wrath to consume.
14 And I will break down the wall that you have daubed with
untempered mortar: and I will make it even with the
ground, and the foundation thereof shall be laid bare: and
it shall fall, and shall be consumed in the midst thereof:
and you shall know that I am the Lord.
15 And I will accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon
them that daub it without tempering the mortar, and I will
say to you: The wall is no more, and they that daub it are
no more.
16 Even the prophets of Israel that prophesy to Jerusalem,
and that see visions of peace for her: and there is no
peace, saith the Lord God.
17 And thou, son of man, set thy face against the daughters
of thy people that prophesy out of their own heart: and do
thou prophesy against them,
18 And say: Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to them that sew
cushions under every elbow: and make pillows for the heads
of persons of every age to catch souls: and when they
caught the souls of my people, they gave life to their
souls.
19 And they violated me among my people, for a handful of
barley, and a piece of bread, to kill souls which should
not die, and to save souls alive which should not live,
telling lies to my people that believe lies.
20 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I declare
against your cushions, wherewith you catch flying souls:
and I will tear them off from your arms: and I will let go
the souls that you catch, the souls that should fly.
21 And I will tear your pillows, and will deliver my people
out of your hand, neither shall they be any more in your
hands to be a prey: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
22 Because with lies you have made the heart of the just to
mourn, whom I have not made sorrowful: and have
strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not
return from his evil way, and live.
23 Therefore you shall not see vain things, nor divine
divinations any more, and I will deliver my people out of
your hand: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 14
1 And some of the ancients of Israel came to me, and sat
before me.
2 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
3 Son of man, these men have placed their uncleannesses in
their hearts, and have set up before their face the
stumblingblock of their iniquity: and shall I answer when
they inquire of me?
4 Therefore speak to them, and say to them: Thus saith the
Lord God: Man, man of the house of Israel that shall place
his uncleannesses in his heart, and set up the
stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and shall
come to the prophet inquiring of me by him: I the Lord
will answer him according to the multitude of his
uncleannesses:
5 That the house of Israel may be caught in their own heart,
with which they have departed from me through all their
idols.
6 Therefore say to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord
God: Be converted, and depart from your idols, and turn
away your faces from all your abominations.
7 For every man of the house of Israel, and every stranger
among the proselytes in Israel, if he separate himself
from me, and place his idols in his heart, and set the
stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and come
to the prophet to inquire of me by him: I the Lord will
answer him by myself.
8 And I will set my face against that man, and will make him
an example, and a proverb, and will cut him off from the
midst of my people: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
9 And when the prophet shall err, and speak a word: I the
Lord have deceived that prophet: and I will stretch forth
my hand upon him, and will cut him off from the midst of
my people Israel.
10 And they shall bear their iniquity: according to the
iniquity of him that inquireth, so shall the iniquity of
the prophet be.
11 That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me,
nor be polluted with all their transgressions: but may be
my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord of
hosts.
12 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
13 Son of man, when a land shall sin against me, so as to
transgress grievously, I will stretch forth my hand upon
it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof: and I
will send famine upon it, and will destroy man and beast
out of it.
14 And if these three men, Noe, Daniel, and Job, shall be in
it: they shall deliver their own souls by their justice,
saith the Lord of hosts.
15 And if I shall bring mischievous beasts also upon the land
to waste it, and it be desolate, so that there is none
that can pass because of the beasts:
16 If these three men shall be in it, as I live, saith the
Lord, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters: but
they only shall be delivered, and the land shall be made
desolate.
17 Or if I bring the sword upon that land, and say to the
sword: Pass through the land: and I destroy man and beast
out of it:
18 And these three men be in the midst thereof: as I live,
saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor
daughters, but they themselves alone shall be delivered.
19 Or if I also send the pestilence upon that land, and pour
out my indignation upon it in blood, to cut off from it
man and beast:
20 And Noe, and Daniel, and Job be in the midst thereof: as
I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son
nor daughter: but they shall only deliver their own souls
by their justice.
21 For thus saith the Lord: Although I shall send in upon
Jerusalem my four grievous judgments, the sword, and the
famine, and the mischievous beasts, and the pestilence, to
destroy out of it man and beast,
22 Yet there shall be left in it some that shall be saved,
who shall bring away their sons and daughters: behold they
shall come among you, and you shall see their way, and
their doings: and you shall be comforted concerning the
evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, in all things
that I have brought upon it.
23 And they shall comfort you, when you shall see their ways,
and their doings: and you shall know that I have not done
without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord
God.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 15
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, what shall be made of the wood of the vine,
out of all the trees of the woods that are among the trees
of the forests?
3 Shall wood be taken of if, to do any work, or shall a pin
be made of it for any vessel to hang thereon?
4 Behold it is cast into the fire for fuel: the fire hath
consumed both ends thereof, and the midst thereof is
reduced to ashes: shall it be useful for any work?
5 Even when it was whole it was not fit for work: how much
less, when the fire hath devoured and consumed it, shall
any work be made of it?
6 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: As the vine tree among
the trees of the forests which I have given to the fire to
be consumed, so will I deliver up the inhabitants of
Jerusalem.
7 And I will set my face against them: they shall go out
from fire, and fire shall consume them: and you shall know
that I am the Lord, when I shall have set my face against
them.
8 And I shall have made their land a wilderness, and
desolate, because they have been transgressors, saith the
Lord God.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 16
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations.
3 And thou shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God to Jerusalem:
Thy root, and thy nativity is of the land of Chanaan, thy
father was an Amorrhite, and thy mother a Cethite.
4 And when thou wast born, in the day of thy nativity thy
navel wits not cut, neither wast thou washed with water
for thy health, nor salted with salt, nor swaddled with
clouts.
5 No eye had pity on thee to do any of these things for
thee, out of compassion to thee: but thou wast cast out
upon the face of the earth in the abjection of thy soul,
in the day that thou wast born.
6 And passing by thee, I saw that thou wast trodden under
foot in thy own blood. and I said to thee when thou wast
in thy blood: Live: I have said to thee: Live in thy
blood.
7 I caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field: and
thou didst increase and grow great, and advancedst, and
camest to woman's ornament: thy breasts were fashioned,
and thy hair grew: and thou wast naked, and full of
confusion.
8 And I passed by thee, and saw thee: and behold thy time
was the time of lovers: and I spread my garment over thee,
and covered thy ignominy. And I swore to thee, and I
entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God: and
thou becamest mine.
9 And I washed thee with water, and cleansed away thy blood
from thee: and I anointed thee with oil.
10 And I clothed thee with embroidery, and shed thee with
violet coloured shoes: and I girded thee about with fine
linen, and clothed thee with fine garments.
11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and put bracelets on
thy hands, and a chain about thy neck.
12 And I put a jewel upon thy forehead and earrings in thy
ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head.
13 And thou wast adorned with gold, and silver, and wast
clothed with fine linen, and embroidered work, and many
colours: thou didst eat fine hour, and honey, and oil, and
wast made exceeding beautiful: and wast advanced to be a
queen.
14 And thy renown went forth among the nations for thy
beauty: for thou wast perfect through my beauty, which I
had put upon thee, saith the Lord God.
15 But trusting in thy beauty, thou playedst the harlot
because of thy renown, and thou hast prostituted thyself
to every passenger, to be his.
16 And taking of thy garments thou hast made thee high places
sewed together on each side: and hast played the harlot
upon them, as hath not been done before, nor shall be
hereafter.
17 And thou tookest thy beautiful vessels, of my gold, and my
silver, which I gave thee, and thou madest thee images of
men, and hast committed fornication with them.
18 And thou tookest thy garments of divers colours, and
coveredst them: and settest my oil and my sweet incense
before them.
19 And my bread which I gave thee, the fine flour, and oil,
and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast set before them
for a sweet odour; and it was done, saith the Lord God.
20 And thou hast taken thy sons, and thy daughters, whom thou
hast borne to me: and best sacrificed the same to them to
be devoured. Is thy fornication small?
21 Thou hast sacrificed and given my children to them,
consecrating them by fire.
22 And after all thy abominations, and fornications, thou
hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast
naked, and full of confusion, trodden under foot in thy
own blood.
23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness (woe, woe to
thee, saith the Lord God)
24 That thou didst also build thee a common stew, and madest
thee a brothel house in every street.
25 At every head of the way thou hast set up a sign of thy
prostitution: and hast made thy beauty to be abominable:
and hast prostituted thyself to every one that passed by,
and hast multiplied thy fornications.
26 And thou hast committed fornication with the Egyptians thy
neighbours, men of large bodies, and hast multiplied thy
fornications to provoke me.
27 Behold, I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and will
take away thy justification: and I will deliver thee up to
the will of the daughters of the Philistines that hate
thee, that are ashamed of thy wicked way.
28 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Assyrians,
because thou wast not yet satisfied: and after thou hadst
played the harlot with them, even so thou wast not
contented.
29 Thou hast also multiplied thy fornications in the land of
Chanaan with the Chaldeans: and neither so wast then
satisfied.
30 Wherein shall I cleanse thy heart, saith the Lord God:
seeing thou dost all these the works of a shameless
prostitute?
31 Because thou hast built thy brothel house at the head of
every way, and thou hast made thy high place in every
street: and wast not as a harlot that by disdain enhanceth
her price,
32 But as an adulteress, that bringeth in strangers over her
husband.
33 Gifts are given to all harlots: but thou hast given hire
to all thy lovers, and thou hast given them gifts to come
to thee from every side, to commit fornication with thee.
34 And it hath happened in thee contrary to the custom of
women in thy fornications, and after thee there shall be
no such fornication: for in that thou gavest rewards, and
didst not take rewards, the contrary hath been done in
thee.
35 Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord.
36 Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy money hath been
poured out, and thy shame discovered through thy
fornications with thy lovers, and with the idols of thy
abominations, by the blood of thy children whom thou
gavest them:
37 Behold, I will gather together all thy lovers with whom
thou hast taken pleasure, and all whom thou hast loved,
with all whom thou hast hated: and I will gather them
together against thee on every side, and will discover thy
shame in their sight, and they shall see all thy
nakedness.
38 And I will judge thee as adulteresses, and they that shed
blood are judged: and I will give thee blood in fury and
jealousy.
39 And I will deliver thee into their hands, and they shall
destroy thy brothel house, and throw down thy stews: and
they shall strip thee of thy garments, and shall take away
the vessels of thy beauty: and leave thee naked, and full
of disgrace.
40 And they shall bring upon thee a multitude, and they shall
stone thee with stones, and shall slay thee with their
swords.
41 And they shall burn thy houses with fire, and shall
execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women:
and thou shalt cease from fornication, and shalt give no
hire any more.
42 And my indignation shall rest in thee: and my jealousy
shall depart from thee, and I will cease and be angry no
more.
43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth,
but hast provoked me in all these things: wherefore I also
have turned thy ways upon thy head, saith the Lord God,
and I have not done according to thy wicked deeds in all
thy abominations.
44 Behold every one that useth a common proverb, shall use
this against thee, saying: As the mother was, so also is
her daughter.
45 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that cast off her husband,
and her children: and thou art the sister of thy sisters,
who cast off their husbands, and their children: your
mother was a Cethite, and your father an Amorrhite.
46 And thy elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters
that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister that
dwelleth at thy right hand is Sodom, and her daughters.
47 But neither hast thou walked in their ways, nor hast thou
done a little less than they according to their
wickednesses: thou hast done almost more wicked things
than they in all thy ways
48 as I live, saith the Lord God, thy sister Sodom herself,
and her daughters, have not done as thou hast done, and
thy daughters.
49 Behold this was the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, pride,
fulness of bread, and abundance, and the idleness of her,
and of her daughters: and they did not put forth their
hand to the needy, and to the poor.
50 And they were lifted up, and committed abominations before
me: and I took them away as thou hast seen.
51 And Samaria committed not half thy sins: but thou hast
surpassed them with thy crimes, and hast justified thy
sisters by all thy abominations which thou hast done.
52 Therefore do thou also bear thy confusion, thou that hast
surpassed thy sisters with thy sine, doing more wickedly
than they: for they are justified above thee, therefore be
thou also confounded, and bear thy shame, thou that hast
justified thy sisters.
53 And I will bring back and restore them by bringing back
Sodom, with her daughters, and by bringing back Samaria,
and her daughters: and I will bring those that return of
thee in the midst of them.
54 That thou mayest bear thy shame, and mayest be confounded
in all that thou hast done, comforting them.
55 And thy sister Sodom and her daughters shall return to
their ancient state: and Samaria and her daughters shall
return to their ancient state: and thou and thy daughters
shall return to your ancient state.
56 And Sodom thy sister was not heard of in thy mouth, in the
day of thy pride,
57 Before thy malice was laid open: as it is at this time,
making thee a reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of
all the daughters of Palestine round about thee, that
encompass thee on all sides.
58 Thou hast borne thy wickedness, and thy disgrace, saith
the Lord God.
59 For thus saith the Lord God: I will deal with thee, as
thou hast despised the oath, in breaking the covenant:
60 And I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of
thy youth: and I will establish with thee an everlasting
covenant.
61 And 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 by thy
covenant.
62 And I will establish my covenant with thee: and thou shalt
know that I am the Lord,
63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and mayest
no more open thy mouth because of thy confusion, when I
shall be pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done,
saith the Lord God.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 17
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the
house of Israel,
3 And say: Thus saith the Lord God: A large eagle with great
wings, long-limbed, full of feathers, and of variety, came
to Libanus, and took away the marrow of the cedar.
4 He cropped off the top of the twigs thereof: and carried
it away into the land of Chanaan, and he set it in a city
of merchants.
5 And he took of the seed of the land, and put it in the
ground for seed, that it might take a firm root over many
waters: he planted it on the surface of the earth.
6 And it sprung up and grew into a spreading vine of low
stature, and the branches thereof looked towards him: and
the roots thereof were under him. So it became a vine, and
grew into branches, and shot forth sprigs.
7 And there was another large eagle, with great wings, and
many feathers: and behold this vine, bending as it were
her roots towards him, stretched forth her branches to
him, that he might water it by the furrows of her
plantation.
8 It was planted in a good ground upon many waters, that it
might bring forth branches, and bear fruit, that it might
become a large vine.
9 Say thou: Thus saith the Lord God: Shall it prosper then?
shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and strip off its
fruit, and dry up all the branches it hath shot forth, and
make it wither: and this without a strong arm, or many
people, to pluck it up by the root?
10 Behold, it is planted: shall it prosper then? shall it not
be dried up when the burning wind shall touch it, and
shall it not wither in the furrows where it grew?
11 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
12 Say to the provoking house: Know you not what these things
mean? Tell them: Behold the king of Babylon cometh to
Jerusalem: and he shall take away the king and the princes
thereof, and carry them with him to Babylon.
13 And he shall take one of the king's seed, and make a
covenant with him, and take an oath of him. Yea, and he
shall take away the mighty men of the land,
14 That it may be a low kingdom and not lift itself up, but
keep his covenant, and observe it.
15 But he hath revolted from him and sent ambassadors to
Egypt, that it might give him horses, and much people. And
shall he that hath done thus prosper, or be saved? and
shall he escape that hath broken the covenant?
16 As I live, saith the Lord God: In the place where the king
dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he hath made void,
and whose covenant he broke, even in the midst of Babylon
shall he die.
17 And not with a great army, nor with much people shall
Pharao fight against him: when he shall cast up mounts,
and build forts, to cut off many souls.
18 For he had despised the oath, breaking his covenant, and
behold he hath given his hand: and having done all these
things, he shall not escape.
19 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: As I live, I will lay
upon his head the oath he hath despised, and the covenant
he hath broken.
20 And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken
in my net: and I will bring him into Babylon, and will
judge him there for the transgression by which he hath
despised me.
21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the
sword: and the residue shall be scattered into every wind:
and you shall know that I the Lord have spoken.
22 Thus saith the Lord God: I myself will take of the marrow
of the high cedar, and will set it: I will crop off a
tender twig from the top of the branches thereof, and I
will plant it on a mountain high and eminent.
23 On the high mountains of Israel will I plant it, and it
shall shoot forth into branches, and shall bear fruit, and
it shall become a great cedar: and all birds shall dwell
under it, and every fowl shall make its nest under the
shadow of the branches thereof.
24 And all the trees of the country shall know that I the
Lord have brought down the high tree, and exalted the low
tree: and have dried up the green tree, and have caused
the dry tree to flourish. I the Lord have spoken and have
done it.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 18
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: What is the
meaning?
2 That you use among you this parable as a proverb in the
land of Israel, saying: The fathers have eaten sour
grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.
3 As I live, saith the Lord God, this parable shall be no
more to you a proverb in Israel.
4 Behold all souls are mine: as the soul of the father, so
also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth,
the same shall die.
5 And if a man be just, and do judgment and justice,
6 And hath not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his
eyes to the idols of the house of Israel: and hath not
defiled his neighbour's wife, nor come near to a
menstruous woman:
7 And hath not wronged any man: but hath restored the pledge
to the debtor, hath taken nothing away by violence: hath
given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked
with a garment:
8 Hath not lent upon usury, nor taken any increase: hath
withdrawn his hand from iniquity, and hath executed true
judgment between man and man:
9 Hath walked in my commandments, and kept my judgments, to
do truth: he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord
God.
10 And if he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of
blood, and that hath done some one of these things:
11 Though he doth not all these things, but that eateth upon
the mountains, and that defileth his neighbour's wife:
12 That grieveth the needy and the poor, that taketh away by
violence, that restoreth not the pledge, and that lifteth
up his eyes to idols, that committeth abomination:
13 That giveth upon usury, and that taketh an increase: shall
such a one live? he shall not live. Seeing he hath done
all these detestable things, he shall surely die, his
blood shall be upon him.
14 But if he beget a son, who, seeing all his father's sine,
which he hath done, is afraid, and shall not do the like
to them:
15 That hath not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his
eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and hath not
defiled his neighbour's wife:
16 And hath not grieved any man, nor withholden the pledge,
nor taken away with violence, but hath given his bread to
the hungry, and covered the naked with a garment:
17 That hath turned away his hand from injuring the poor,
hath not taken usury and increase, but hath executed my
judgments, and hath walked in my commandments: this man
shall not die for the iniquity of his father, but living
he shall live.
18 As for his father, because he oppressed and offered
violence to his brother, and wrought evil in the midst of
his people, behold he is dead in his own iniquity.
19 And you say: Why hath not the son borne the iniquity of
his father? Verily, because the son hath wrought judgment
and justice, hath kept all my commandments, and done them,
living, he shall live.
20 The soul that sinneth, the same shall die: the son shall
not bear the iniquity of the father, and the father shall
not bear the iniquity of the son: the justice of the just
shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall
be upon him.
21 But if the wicked do penance for all his sins which he
hath committed, and keep all my commandments, and do
judgment, and justice, living he shall live, and shall not
die.
22 I will not remember all his iniquities that he hath done:
in his justice which he hath wrought, he shall live.
23 Is it my will that a sinner should die, saith the Lord
God, and not that he should be converted from his ways,
and live?
24 But if the just man turn himself away from his justice,
and do iniquity according to all the abominations which
the wicked man useth to work, shall he live? all his
justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: in
the prevarication, by which he hath prevaricated, and in
his sin, which he hath committed, in them he shall die.
25 And you have said: The way of the Lord is not right. Hear
ye, therefore, O house of Israel: Is it my way that is not
right, and are not rather your ways perverse?
26 For when the just turneth himself away from his justice,
and committeth iniquity, he shall die therein: in the
injustice that he hath wrought he shall die.
27 And when the wicked turneth himself away from his
wickedness, which he hath wrought, and doeth judgment, and
justice: he shall save his soul alive.
28 Because he considereth and turneth away himself from all
his iniquities which he hath wrought, he shall surely
live, and not die.
29 And the children of Israel say: The way of the Lord is not
right. Are not my ways right, O house of Israel, and are
not rather your ways perverse?
30 Therefore will I judge every man according to his ways, O
house of Israel, saith the Lord God. Be converted, and do
penance for all your iniquities: and iniquity shall not be
your ruin.
31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you
have transgressed, and make to yourselves a new heart, and
a new spirit: and why will you die, O house of Israel?
32 For I desire not the death of him that dieth, saith the
Lord God, return ye and live.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 19
1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of
Israel,
2 And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the
lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young
lions?
3 And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a
lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.
4 And the nations heard of him, and took him, but not
without receiving wounds: and they brought him in chains
into the land of Egypt.
5 But she seeing herself weakened, and that her hope was
lost, took one of her young lions, and set him up for a
lion.
6 And he went up and down among the lions, and became a
lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.
7 He learned to make widows, and to lay waste their cities:
and the land became desolate, and the fulness thereof by
the noise of his roaring.
8 And the nations Game together against him on every side
out of the provinces, and they spread their net over him,
in their wounds he was taken.
9 And they put him into a cage, they brought him in chains
to the king of Babylon: and they cast him into prison,
that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains
of Israel.
10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the
water: her fruit and her branches have grown out of many
waters.
11 And she hath strong rods to make sceptres for them that
bear rule, and her stature was exalted among the branches:
and she saw her height in the multitude of her branches.
12 But she was plucked up in wrath, and cast on the ground,
and the burning wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods
are withered, and dried up: the fire hath devoured her.
13 And now she is transplanted into the desert, in a land not
passable, and dry.
14 And a fire is gone out from a rod of her branches, which
hath devoured her fruit: so that she now hath no strong
rod, to be a sceptre of rulers. This is a lamentation, and
it shall be for a lamentation.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 20
1 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth
month, the tenth day of the month: there came men of the
ancients of Israel to inquire of the Lord, and they sat
before me.
2 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
3 Son of man, speak to the ancients of Israel, and say to
them: Thus saith the Lord God: Are you come to inquire of
me? As I live, I will not answer you, saith the Lord God.
4 If thou judgest them, if thou judgest, son of man, declare
to them the abominations of their fathers.
5 And say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: In the day when
I chose Israel, and lifted up my hand for the race of the
house of Jacob: and appeared to them in the land of Egypt,
and lifted up my hand for them, saying: I am the Lord your
God:
6 In that day I lifted up my hand for them, to bring them
out of the land of Egypt, into a land which I had provided
for them, flowing with milk and honey, which excelleth
amongst all lands.
7 And I said to them: Let every man cast away the scandals
of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of
Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
8 But they provoked me, and would not hearken to me: they
did not every man cast away the abominations of his eyes,
neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: and I said I
would pour out my indignation upon them, and accomplish my
wrath against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
9 But I did otherwise for my name's sake, that it might not
be violated before the nations, in the midst of whom they
were, and among whom I made myself known to them, to bring
them out of the land of Egypt.
10 Therefore I brought them out from the land of Egypt, and
brought them into the desert.
11 And I gave them my statutes, and I shewed them my
judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them.
12 Moreover I gave them also my sabbaths, to be a sign
between me and them: and that they might know that I am
the Lord that sanctify them.
13 But the house of Israel provoked me in the desert: they
walked not in my statutes, and they cast away my
judgments, which if a man do he shall live in them: and
they grievously violated my sabbaths. I said therefore
that I would pour out my indignation upon them in the
desert, and would consume them.
14 But I spared them for the sake of my name, lest it should
be profaned before the nations, from which I brought them
out, in their sight.
15 So I lifted up my hand over them in the desert, not to
bring them into the land which I had given them flowing
with milk and honey, the best of all lands.
16 Because they cast off my judgments, and walked not in my
statutes, and violated my sabbaths: for their heart went
after idols.
17 Yet my eye spared them, so that I destroyed them not:
neither did I consume them in the desert.
18 And I said to their children in the wilderness: Walk not
in the statutes of your fathers, and observe not their
judgments, nor be ye defiled with their idols:
19 I am the Lord your God: walk ye in my statutes, and
observe my judgments, and do them.
20 And sanctify my sabbaths, that they may be a sign between
me and you: and that you may know that I am the Lord your
God.
21 But their children provoked me, they walked not in my
commandments, nor observed my judgments to do them: which
if a man do, he shell live in them: and they violated my
sabbaths: and I threatened to pour out my indignation upon
them, and to accomplish my wrath in them in the desert.
22 But I turned away my hand, and wrought for my name's sake,
that it might not be violated before the nations, out of
which I brought them forth in their sight.
23 Again I lifted up my hand upon them in the wilderness, to
disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through
the countries:
24 Because they had not done my judgments, and had cast off
my statutes, and had violated my sabbaths, and their eyes
had been after the idols of their fathers.
25 Therefore I also gave them statutes that were not good,
and judgments, in which they shall not live.
26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, when they offered
all that opened the womb, for their offences: and they
shall know that I am the Lord.
27 Wherefore speak to the house of Israel, O son of man, and
say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Moreover in this
also your fathers blasphemed me, when they had despised
and contemned me;
28 And I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted
up my hand to give it them: they saw every high hill, and
every shady tree, and there they sacrificed their victims:
and there they presented the provocation of their
offerings, and there they set their sweet odours, and
poured forth their libations.
29 And I said to them: What meaneth the high place to which
you go? and the name thereof was called High-place even to
this day.
30 Wherefore say to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord
God: Verily, you are defiled in the way of your fathers,
and you commit fornication with their abominations.
31 And you defile yourselves with all your: idols unto this
day, in the offering of your gifts, when you make your
children pass through the fire: and shall I answer you, O
house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord God, I will not
answer you.
32 Neither shall the thought of your mind come to pass, by
which you say: We will be as the Gentiles, and as the
families of the earth, to worship stocks and stones.
33 As I live, saith the Lord God, I will reign over you with
a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury
poured out.
34 And I will bring you out from the people, and I will
gather you out of the countries, in which you are
scattered, I will reign over you with a strong hand, and
with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of people, and
there will I plead with you face to face.
36 As I pleaded against your fathers in the desert of the
land of Egypt; even so will I judge you, saith the Lord
God.
37 And I will make you subject to my sceptre, and will bring
you into the bands of the covenant.
38 And I will pick out from among you the transgressors, and
the wicked, and will bring them out of the land where they
sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel:
and you shall know that I am the Lord.
39 And as for you, O house of Israel: thus saith the Lord
God: Walk ye every one after your idols, and serve them.
But if in this also you hear me not, but defile my holy
name any more with your gifts, and with your idols;
40 In my holy mountain, in the high mountain of Israel, saith
the Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel serve
me; all of them I say, in the land in which they shall
please me, and there will I require your firstfruits, and
the chief of your tithes with all your sanctifications.
41 I will accept of you for an odour of sweetness, when I
shall have brought you out from the people, and shall have
gathered you out of the lands into which you are
scattered, and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of
the nations.
42 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have
brought you into the land of Israel, into the land for
which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers.
43 And there you shall remember your ways, and all your
wicked doings with which you have been defiled; and you
shall be displeased with yourselves in your own sight, for
all your wicked deeds which you committed.
44 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have
done well by you for my own name's sake, and not according
to your evil ways, nor according to your wicked deeds, O
house of Israel, saith the Lord God.
45 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
46 Son of man, set thy face against the way of the south, and
drop towards the south, and prophesy against the forest of
the south field.
47 And any to the south forest: Hear the word of the Lord:
Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will kindle a fire in
thee, and will burn in thee every green tree, and every
dry tree: the dame of the fire shall not be quenched: and
every face shall be burned in it, from the south even to
the north.
48 And all flesh shall see, that I the Lord have kindled it,
and it shall not be quenched.
49 And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God: they say of me: Doth
not this man speak by parables?
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 21
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and let thy
speech flow towards the holy places, and prophesy against
the land of Israel:
3 And say to the land of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God:
Behold I come against thee, and I will draw forth my sword
out of its sheath, and will cut off in thee the just, and
the wicked.
4 And forasmuch as I have cut off in thee the just, and the
wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its
sheath against all flesh, from the south even to the
north.
5 That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn my
sword out of its sheath not to be turned back.
6 And thou, son of man, mourn with the breaking of thy
loins, and with bitterness sigh before them.
7 And when they shall say to thee: Why mournest thou? thou
shalt say: For that which I hear: because it cometh, and
every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be made
feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and water shall run
down every knee: behold it cometh, and it shall be done,
saith the Lord God.
8 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
9 Son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God:
Say: The sword, the sword is sharpened, and furbished.
10 It is sharpened to kill victims: it is furbished that it
may glitter: thou removest the sceptre of my son, thou
hast cut down every tree.
11 And I have given it to be furbished, that it may be
handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished,
that it may be in the hand of the slayer.
12 Cry, and howl, 0
son of man, for this sword is upon my people, it is upon
all the princes of Israel, that are fled: they are
delivered up to the sword with my people, strike therefore
upon thy thigh,
13 Because it is tried: and that when it shall overthrow the
sceptre, and it shall not be, saith the Lord God.
14 Thou therefore, O son of man, prophesy, and strike thy
hands together, and let the sword be doubled, and let the
sword of the slain be tripled: this is the sword of a
great slaughter, that maketh them stand amazed,
15 And languish in heart, and that multiplieth ruins. In all
their gates I have set the dread of the sharp sword, the
sword that is furbished to glitter, that is made ready for
slaughter.
16 Be thou sharpened, go to the right hand, or to the left,
which way soever thou hast a mind to set thy face.
17 And I will clap my hands together, and will satisfy my
indignation: I the Lord have spoken.
18 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
19 And thou son of man, set thee two ways, for the sword of
the king of Babylon to come: both shall come forth out of
one land: and with his hand he shall draw lots, he shall
consult at the head of the way of the city.
20 Thou shalt make a way that the sword may come to Rabbath
of the children of Ammon, and to Juda unto Jerusalem the
strong city.
21 For the king of Babylon stood in the highway, at the head
of two ways, seeking divination, shuffling arrows: he
inquired of the idols, and consulted entrails.
22 On his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to set
battering rams, to open the mouth in slaughter, to lift up
the voice in howling, to set engines against the gates, to
cast up a mount, to build forts.
23 And he shall be in their eyes as one consulting the oracle
in vain, and imitating the leisure of sabbaths: but he
will call to remembrance the iniquity that they may be
taken.
24 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have
remembered your iniquity, and have discovered your
prevarications, and your sins have appeared in all your
devices: because, I say, you have remembered, you shall be
taken with the hand.
25 But thou profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is
come that hath been appointed in the time of iniquity:
26 Thus saith the Lord God: Remove the diadem, take off the
crown: is it not this that hath exalted the low one, and
brought down him that was high?
27 I will shew it to be iniquity, iniquity, iniquity: but
this was not done till he came to whom judgment belongeth,
and I will give it him.
28 And thou son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the
Lord God concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning
their reproach, and thou shalt say: sword, O sword, come
out of the scabbard to kill, be furbished to destroy, and
to glitter,
29 Whilst they see vain things in thy regard, and they divine
lies: to bring thee upon the necks of the wicked that are
wounded, whose appointed day is come in the time of
iniquity.
30 Return into thy sheath. I will judge thee in the place
wherein thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
31 And I will pour out upon thee my indignation: in the fire
of my rage will I blow upon thee, and will give thee into
the hands of men that are brutish and contrive thy
destruction.
32 Thou shalt be fuel for the fire, thy blood shall be in the
midst of the land, thou shalt be forgotten: for I the Lord
have spoken it.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 22
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 And thou son of man, dost thou not judge, dost thou not
judge the city of blood?
3 And thou shalt shew her all her abominations, and shalt
say: Thus saith the Lord God: This is the city that
sheddeth blood in the midst of her, that her time may
come: and that hath made idols against herself, to defile
herself.
4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood which thou hast shed:
and thou art defiled in thy idols which thou hast made:
and thou hast made thy days to draw near, and hast brought
on the time of thy years: therefore have I made thee a
reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to all countries.
5 Those that are near, and those that are far from thee,
shall triumph over thee: thou filthy one, infamous, great
in destruction.
6 Behold the princes of Israel, every one hath employed his
arm in thee to shed blood.
7 They have abused father and mother in thee, they have
oppressed the stranger in the midst of thee, they have
grieved the fatherless and widow in thee.
8 Thou hast despised my sanctuaries, and profaned my
sabbaths.
9 Slanderers have been in thee to shed blood, and they have
eaten upon the mountains in thee, they have committed
wickedness in the midst of thee.
10 They have discovered the nakedness of their father in
thee, they have humbled the uncleanness of the menstruous
woman in thee.
11 And every one hath committed abomination with his
neighbour's wife, and the father in law hath wickedly
defiled his daughter in law, the brother hath oppressed
his sister the daughter of his father in thee.
12 They have taken gifts in thee to shed blood: thou hast
taken usury and increase, and hast covetously oppressed
thy neighbours: and then hast forgotten me, saith the Lord
God.
13 Behold, I have clapped my hands at thy covetousness, which
thou hast exercised and at the blood that hath been shed:
In the midst of thee.
14 Shall thy heart endure, or shall thy hands prevail ill the
days which I will bring upon thee: I the Lord have spoken,
and will do it.
15 And I will disperse thee in the nations, and will scatter
thee among the countries, and I will put an end to thy
uncleanness in thee.
16 And I will possess thee in the sight of the Gentiles, and
thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
17 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
18 Son of man, the house of Israel is become dress to me: all
these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst
of the furnace: they are become the dress of silver.
19 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you are all
turned into dress, therefore behold I will gather you
together in the midst of Jerusalem.
20 As they gather silver, and brass, and tin, and iron, and
lead in the midst of the furnace: that I may kindle a fire
in it to melt it: so will I gather you together in my fury
and in my wrath, and will take my rest, and I will melt
you down.
21 And I will gather you together, and will burn you in the
fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst
thereof.
22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall
you be in the midst thereof: and you shall know that I am
the Lord, when I have poured out my indignation upon you.
23 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24 Son of man, say to her: Thou art a land that is unclean,
and not rained upon in the day of wrath.
25 There is a conspiracy of prophets in the midst thereof:
like a lion that roareth and catcheth the prey, they have
devoured souls, they have taken riches and hire, they have
made many widows in the midst thereof.
26 Her priests have despised my law, and have defiled my
sanctuaries: they have put no difference between holy and
profane: nor have distinguished between the polluted and
the clean: and they have turned away their eyes from my
sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them.
27 Her princes in the midst of her, are like wolves ravening
the prey to shed blood, and to destroy souls, and to run
after gains through covetousness.
28 And her prophets have daubed them without tempering the
mortar, seeing vain things, and divining lies unto them,
saying: Thus saith the Lord God: when the Lord hath not
spoken.
29 The people of the land have used oppression, and committed
robbery: they afflicted the needy and poor, and they
oppressed the stranger by calumny without judgment.
30 And I sought among them for a man that might set up a
hedge, and stand in the gap before me in favour of the
land, that I might not destroy it: and I found none.
31 And I poured out my indignation upon them, in the fire of
my wrath I consumed them: I have rendered their way upon
their own head, saith the Lord God.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 23
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man,
there were two women, daughters of one mother.
3 And they committed fornication in Egypt, in their youth
they committed fornication: there were their breasts
pressed down, and the teats of their virginity were
bruised.
4 And their names were Oolla the elder, and Ooliba her
younger sister: and I took them, and they bore sons and
daughters. Now for their names, Samaria is Oolla, and
Jerusalem is Ooliba.
5 And Oolla committed fornication against me, and doted on
her lovers, on the Assyrians that came to her,
6 Who were clothed with blue, princes, and rulers, beautiful
youths, all horsemen, mounted upon horses.
7 And she committed her fornications with those chosen men,
all sons of the Assyrians: and she defiled herself with
the uncleanness of all them on whom she doted.
8 Moreover also she did not forsake her fornications which
she had committed in Egypt: for they also lay with her in
her youth, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity,
and poured out their fornication upon her.
9 Therefore have I delivered her into the hands of her
lovers, into the hands of the sons of the Assyrians, upon
whose lust she doted.
10 They discovered her disgrace, took away her sons and
daughters, and slew her with the sword: and they became
infamous women, and they executed judgments in her.
11 And when her sister Ooliba saw this, she was mad with lust
more than she: and she carried her fornication beyond the
fornication of her sister.
12 Impudently prostituting herself to the children of the
Assyrians, the princes, and rulers that came to her,
clothed with divers colours, to the horsemen that rode
upon horses, and to young men all of great beauty.
13 And I saw that she was defiled, and that they both took
one way.
14 And she increased her fornications: and when she had seen
men painted on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans set
forth in colours,
15 And girded with girdles about their reins, and with dyed
turbans on their heads, the resemblance of all the
captains, the likeness of the sons of Babylon, and of the
land of the Chaldeans wherein they were born,
16 She doted upon them with the lust of her eyes, and she
sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
17 And when the sons of Babylon were come to her to the bed
of love, they defiled her with their fornications, and she
was polluted by them, and her soul was glutted with them.
18 And she discovered her fornications, and discovered her
disgrace: and my soul was alienated from her, as my soul
was alienated from her sister.
19 For she multiplied her fornications, remembering the days
of her youth, in which she played the harlot in the land
of Egypt.
20 And she was mad with lust after lying with them whose
flesh is as the flesh of asses: and whose issue as the
issue of horses.
21 And thou hast renewed the wickedness of thy youth, when
thy breasts were pressed in Egypt, and the papa of thy
virginity broken.
22 Therefore, Ooliba, thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will
raise up against thee all thy lovers with whom thy soul
hath been glutted: and I will gather them together against
thee round about.
23 The children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, the
nobles, and the kings, and princes, all the sons of the
Assyrians, beautiful young men, all the captains, and
rulers, the princes of princes, and the renowned horsemen.
24 And they shall come upon thee well appointed with chariot
and wheel, a multitude of people: they shall be armed
against thee on every side with breastplate, and buckler,
and helmet: and I will set judgment before them, and they
shall judge thee by their judgments.
25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, which they shall
execute upon thee with fury: they shall cut off thy nose
and thy ears: and what remains shall fall by the sword:
they shall take thy sons, and thy daughters, and thy
residue shall be devoured by fire.
26 And they shall strip thee of thy garments, and take away
the instruments of thy glory.
27 And I will put an end to thy wickedness in thee, and thy
fornication brought out of the land of Egypt: neither
shalt thou lift up thy eyes to them, nor remember Egypt
any more.
28 For thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will deliver thee
into the hands of them whom thou hatest, into their hands
with whom thy soul hath been glutted.
29 And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and they shall
take away all thy labours, and shall let thee go naked,
and full of disgrace, and the disgrace of thy fornication
shall be discovered, thy wickedness, and thy fornications.
30 They have done these things to thee, because thou hast
played the harlot with the nations among which thou wast
defiled with their idols.
31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister, and I will give
her cup into thy hand.
32 Thus saith the Lord God: Thou shalt drink thy sister's
cup, deep, and wide: thou shalt be had in derision and
scorn, which containeth very much.
33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness, and sorrow: with
the cup of grief, and sadness, with the cup of thy sister
Samaria.
34 And thou shalt drink it, and shalt drink it up even to the
dregs, and thou shalt devour the fragments thereof, thou
shalt rend thy breasts: because I have spoken it, saith
the Lord God.
35 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because thou hast
forgotten me, and hast cast me off behind thy back, bear
thou also thy wickedness, and thy fornications.
36 And the Lord spoke to me, saying: Son of man, dost thou
judge Oolla, and Ooliba, and dost thou declare to them
their wicked deeds?
37 Because they have committed adultery, and blood is in
their hands, and they have committed fornication with
their idols: moreover also their children, whom they bore
to me, they have offered to them to be devoured.
38 Yea, and they have done this to me. They polluted my
sanctuary on the same day, and profaned my sabbaths.
39 And when they sacrificed their children to their idols,
and went into my sanctuary the same day to profane it:
they did these things even in the midst of my house.
40 They sent for men coming from afar, to whom they had sent
a messenger: and behold they came: for whom thou didst
wash thyself, and didst paint thy eyes, and wast adorned
with women's ornaments.
41 Thou sattest on a very fine bed, and a table was decked
before thee: whereupon thou didst set my incense, and my
ointment.
42 And there was in her the voice of a multitude rejoicing:
and to some that were brought of the multitude of men, and
that came from the desert, they put bracelets on their
hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads.
43 And I said to her that was worn out in her adulteries: Now
will this woman still continue in her fornication.
44 And they went in to her, as to a harlot: so went they in
unto Oolla, and Ooliba, wicked women.
45 They therefore are k just men: these shall judge them as
adulteresses are judged, and as shedders of blood are
judged: because they are adulteresses, and blood is in
their hands.
46 For thus saith the Lord God: Bring a multitude upon them,
and deliver them over to tumult and rapine:
47 And lee the people stone them with stones, and let them be
stabbed with their swords: they shall kill their sons and
daughters, and their houses they shall burn with fire.
48 And I will take away wickedness out of the land: and all
women shall learn, not to do according to the wickedness
of them.
49 And they shall render your wickedness upon you, and you
shall bear the sins of your idols: and you shall know that
I am the Lord God.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 24
1 And the word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in
the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, saying:
2 Son of man, write thee the name of this day, on which the
king of Babylon hath set himself against Jerusalem to day.
3 And thou shalt speak by a figure a parable to the
provoking house, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God:
Set on a pot, set it on, I say, and put water into it.
4 Heap together into if the pieces thereof, every good
piece, the thigh and the shoulder, choice pieces and full
of bones.
5 Take the fattest of the flock, and lay together piles of
bones under it: the seething thereof is boiling hot, and
the bones thereof are thoroughly sodden in the midst of
it.
6 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city,
to the pot whose rust is in it, and its rust is not gone
out of it: cast it out piece by piece, there hath no lot
fallen upon it.
7 For her blood is in the midst of her, she hath shed it
upon the smooth rock: she hath not shed it upon the
ground, that it might be covered with dust.
8 And that I might bring my indignation upon her, and take
my vengeance: I have shed her blood upon the smooth rock,
that it should not be covered.
9 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city,
of which I will make a great bonfire.
10 Heap together the bones, which I will burn with Are: the
flesh shall be consumed, and the whole composition shall
be sodden, and the bones shall be consumed.
11 Then set it empty upon burning coals, that it may be hot,
and the brass thereof may be melted: and let the filth of
it be melted in the midst thereof, and let the rust of it
be consumed.
12 Great pains have been taken, and the great rust thereof is
not gone out, not even by fire.
13 Thy uncleanness is execrable: be- cause I desired to
cleanse thee, and thou art not cleansed from thy
filthiness: neither shalt thou be cleansed, before I cause
my indignation to rest in thee.
14 I the Lord have spoken: it shall come to pass, and I will
do it: I will not pass by, nor spare, nor be pacified: I
will judge thee according to thy ways, and according to
thy doings, saith the Lord.
15 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
16 Son of man, behold I take from thee the desire of thy eyes
with a stroke: and thou shalt not lament, nor weep:
neither shall thy tears run down.
17 Sigh in silence, make no mourning for the dead: let the
tire of thy head be upon thee, and thy shoes on thy feet,
and cover not thy face, nor eat the meat of mourners.
18 So I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died
in the evening: and I did in the morning as he had
commanded me.
19 And the people said to me: Why dost thou not tell us what
these things mean that thou doest?
20 And I said to them: The word of the Lord came to me,
saying:
21 Speak to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God:
Behold I will profane my sanctuary, the glory of your
realm, and the thing that your eyes de sire, and for which
your soul feareth: your sons, and your daughters, whom you
have left, shall fall by the sword.
22 And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your
faces, nor shall you eat the meat of mourners.
23 You shall have crowns on your heads, and shoes on your
feet: you shall not lament nor weep, but you shall pine
away for your iniquities, and every one shall sigh with
his brother.
24 And Ezechiel shall be unto you for a sign of things to
come: according to all that he hath done, so shall you do,
when this shall come to pass: and you shall know that I am
the Lord God.
25 And thou, O son of man, behold in the day wherein I will
take away from them their strength, and the joy of their
glory, and the desire of their eyes, upon which their
souls rest, their sons and their daughters.
26 In that day when he that escapeth shall come to thee, to
tell thee:
27 In that day, I say, shall thy mouth be opened to him that
hath escaped, and thou shalt speak, and shalt be silent no
more: and thou shalt be unto them for a sign of things to
come, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 25
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, set thy face against the children of Ammon,
and thou shalt prophesy of them.
3 And thou shalt say to the children of Ammon: Hear ye the
word of the Lord God: Thus saith the Lord God: Because
thou hast said: Ha, ha, upon my sanctuary, because it was
profaned: and upon the land of Israel, because it was laid
waste: and upon the house of Juda, because they are led
into captivity:
4 Therefore will I deliver thee to the men of the east for
an inheritance, and they shall place their sheepcotes in
thee, and shall set up their tents in thee: they shall eat
thy fruits: and they shall drink thy milk.
5 And I will make Rabbath a stable for camels, and the
children of Ammon a couching place for flocks: and you
shall know that I am the Lord.
6 For thus saith the Lord God: Because thou hast clapped thy
hands and stamped with thy foot, and hast rejoiced with
all thy heart against the land of Israel:
7 Therefore behold I: will stretch forth my hand upon thee,
and will deliver thee to be the spoil of nations, and will
cut thee off from among the people, and destroy thee out
of the lands, and break thee in pieces: and thou shalt
know that I am the Lord.
8 Thus saith the Lord God: Because Moab and Seir have said:
Behold the house of Juda is like all other nations:
9 Therefore behold I will open the shoulder of Moab from the
cities, from his cities, I say, and his borders, the noble
cities of the land of Bethiesimoth, and Beelmeon, and
Cariathaim,
10 To the people of the east with the children of Ammon, and
I will give it them for an inheritance: that there may be
no more any remembrance of the children of Ammon among the
nations.
11 And I will execute judgments in Moab: and they shall know
that I am the Lord.
12 Thus saith the Lord God: Because Edom hath taken vengeance
to revenge herself of the children of Juda, and hath
greatly offended, and hath sought revenge of them:
13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I will stretch forth my
hand upon Edom, and will take away out of it man and
beast, and will make it desolate from the south: and they
that are in Dedan shall fall by the sword.
14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my
people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to my
wrath, and my fury: and they shall know my vengeance,
saith the Lord God.
15 Thus saith the Lord God: Because the Philistines have
taken vengeance, and have revenged themselves with all
their mind, destroying and satisfying old enmities:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will stretch
forth my hand upon the Philistines, and will kill the
killers, and will destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them, rebuking
them in fury: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when
I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 26
1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, the first day of
the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, because Tyre hath said of Jerusalem: Aha, the
gates of the people are broken, she is turned to me: I
shall be filled, now she is laid waste.
3 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against
thee, O Tyre, and I will cause many nations to come up to
thee, as the waves of the sea rise up.
4 And they shall break down the walls of Tyre, and destroy
the towers thereof: and I will scrape her dust from her,
and make her like a smooth rock.
5 She shall be a drying place for nets in the midst of the
sea, because I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and she
shall be a spoil to the nations.
6 Her daughters also that are in the field, shall be slain
by the sword: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
7 For thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will bring against
Tyre Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, the king of kings,
from the north, with horses, and chariots, and horsemen,
and companies, and much people.
8 Thy daughters that are in the field, he shall kill with
the sword: and he shall compass thee with forts, and shall
cast up a mount round about: and he shall lift up the
buckler against thee.
9 And he shall set engines of mar and battering rams against
thy walls, and shall destroy thy towers with his arms.
10 By reason of the multitude of his horses, their dust shall
cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the
horsemen, and wheels, and chariots, when they shall go in
at thy gates, as by the entrance of a city that is
destroyed.
11 With the hoofs of his horses he shall tread down all thy
streets: thy people he shall kill with the sword, and thy
famous statues shall fall to the ground.
12 They shall waste thy riches, they shall make a spoil of
thy merchandise: and they shall destroy thy walls, and
pull down thy fine houses: and they shall lay thy stones
and thy timber, and thy dust in the midst of the waters.
13 And I will make the multitude of thy songs to cease, and
the sound of thy harps shall be heard no more.
14 And I will make thee like a naked rock, then shalt be a
drying place for nets, neither shalt thou be built any
more: for I have spoken it, saith. the Lord God.
15 Thus saith the Lord God to Tyre: Shall not the islands
shake at the sound of thy fall, and the groans of thy
slain when they shall be killed in the midst of thee?
16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their
thrones: and take off their robes, and cast away their
broidered garments, and be clothed with astonishment: they
shall sit on the ground, and with amazement shall wonder
at thy sudden fall.
17 And taking up a lamentation over thee, they shall sag to
thee: How art thou fallen, that dwellest in the sea,
renowned city that wast strong in the sea, with thy
inhabitants whom all did dread?
18 Now shall the ships be astonished in the day of thy
terror: and the islands in the sea shall be troubled
because no one cometh out of thee.
19 For thus saith the Lord God: When I shall make thee a
desolate city like the cities that are not inhabited: and
shall bring the deep upon thee, and many waters shall
cover thee:
20 And when I shall bring thee down with those that descend
into the pit to the everlasting people, and shall set thee
in the lowest parts of the earth, as places desolate of
old, with them that are brought down into the pit, that
thou be not inhabited: and when I shall give glory in the
land of the living,
21 I will bring thee to nothing, and thou shalt not be, and
if thou be sought for, thou shalt not be found any more
for ever, saith the Lord God.
The Book of Ezechiel, Chapter 27
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Thou therefore, O son of man, take up a lamentation for
Tyre:
3 And say to Tyre that dwelleth at the entry of the sea,
being the mart of the people for many islands: Thus saith
the Lord God: O Tyre, thou hast said: I am of perfect
beauty,
4 And situate in the heart of the sea. Thy neighbours, that
built thee, have perfected thy beauty:
5 With fir trees of Sanir they have built thee with all sea
planks: they have taken cedars from Libanus to make thee
masts.
6 They have cut thy oars out of the oaks of Basan: and they
have made thee benches of Indian ivory and cabins with
things brought from the islands of Italy.
7 Fine broidered linen from Egypt was woven for thy sail, to
be spread on thy mast: blue and purple from the islands of
Elisa, were made thy covering.
8 The inhabitants of Sidon, and the Arabians were thy
rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, were thy pilots.
9 The ancients of Gebal, and the wise men thereof furnished
mariners for the service of thy various furniture: all the
ships of the sea, and their mariners were thy factors.
10 The Persians, and Lydians, and the Libyans were thy
soldiers in thy army: they hung up the buckler and the
helmet in thee for thy ornament.
11 The men of Arad were with thy army upon thy walls round
about: the Pygmeans also that were in thy towers, hung up
their quivers on thy walls round about: they perfected thy
beauty.
12 The Carthaginians thy merchants supplied thy fairs with a
multitude of all kinds of riches, with silver, iron, tin,
and lead.
13 Greece, Thubal, and Mosoch, they were thy merchants: they
brought to thy people slaves and vessels of brass.
14 From the house of Thogorma they brought horses, and
horsemen, and mules to thy market.
15 The men of Dedan were thy merchants: many islands were the
traffic of thy hand, they exchanged for thy price teeth of
ivory and ebony.
16 The Syrian was thy merchant: by reason of the multitude of
thy works, they set forth precious stones, and purple, and
broidered works, and fine linen, and silk, and chodchod in
thy market.
17 Juda and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants with
the best corn: they set forth balm, and honey, and oil,
and rosin in thy fairs.
18 The men of Damascus were thy merchants in the multitude of
thy works, in the multitude of divers riches, in rich
wine, in wool of the best colour.
19 Dan, and Greece, and Mosel have set forth in thy marts
wrought iron: stacte, and calamus were in thy market.
20 The men of Dedan were thy merchants in tapestry for seats.
21 Arabia, and all the princes of Cedar, they were the
merchants of thy hand: thy merchants came t |