21:1 |
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
21:2 |
Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places,
and prophesy against the land of Israel, |
21:3 |
And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and
will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and
the wicked. |
21:4 |
Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore
shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north: |
21:5 |
That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath:
it shall not return any more. |
21:6 |
Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness
sigh before their eyes. |
21:7 |
And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt
answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands
shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water:
behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD. |
21:8 |
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
21:9 |
Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is
sharpened, and also furbished: |
21:10 |
It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should
we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree. |
21:11 |
And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened,
and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer. |
21:12 |
Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the
princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore
upon thy thigh. |
21:13 |
Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no
more, saith the Lord GOD. |
21:14 |
Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together. and let the
sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men
that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers. |
21:15 |
I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint,
and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter. |
21:16 |
Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy
face is set. |
21:17 |
I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD
have said it. |
21:18 |
The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying, |
21:19 |
Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon
may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it
at the head of the way to the city. |
21:20 |
Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in
Jerusalem the defenced. |
21:21 |
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways,
to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the
liver. |
21:22 |
At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the
mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams
against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort. |
21:23 |
And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have
sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken. |
21:24 |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your iniquity to be
remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your
sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with
the hand. |
21:25 |
And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have
an end, |
21:26 |
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be
the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. |
21:27 |
I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose
right it is; and I will give it him. |
21:28 |
And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the
Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn:
for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering: |
21:29 |
Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee
upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their
iniquity shall have an end. |
21:30 |
Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou
wast created, in the land of thy nativity. |
21:31 |
And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire
of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy. |
21:32 |
Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou
shalt be no more remembered: for I the LORD have spoken it. |
22:1 |
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
22:2 |
Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou
shalt shew her all her abominations. |
22:3 |
Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it,
that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself. |
22:4 |
Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in
thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come
even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking
to all countries. |
22:5 |
Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art
infamous and much vexed. |
22:6 |
Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood. |
22:7 |
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt
by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow. |
22:8 |
Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths. |
22:9 |
In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the
mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness. |
22:10 |
In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her
that was set apart for pollution. |
22:11 |
And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly
defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's
daughter. |
22:12 |
In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and
thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the
Lord GOD. |
22:13 |
Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made,
and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee. |
22:14 |
Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal
with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it. |
22:15 |
And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and
will consume thy filthiness out of thee. |
22:16 |
And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou
shalt know that I am the LORD. |
22:17 |
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
22:18 |
Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin,
and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver. |
22:19 |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore
I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. |
22:20 |
As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the
furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in
my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you. |
22:21 |
Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be
melted in the midst therof. |
22:22 |
As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst
thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured out my fury upon you. |
22:23 |
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
22:24 |
Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in
the day of indignation. |
22:25 |
There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion
ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious
things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. |
22:26 |
Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no
difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the
unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among
them. |
22:27 |
Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and
to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. |
22:28 |
And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining
lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken. |
22:29 |
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the
poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. |
22:30 |
And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap
before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. |
22:31 |
Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the
fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD. |
23:1 |
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, |
23:2 |
Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: |
23:3 |
And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there
were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity. |
23:4 |
And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were
mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and
Jerusalem Aholibah. |
23:5 |
And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the
Assyrians her neighbours, |
23:6 |
Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men,
horsemen riding upon horses. |
23:7 |
Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of
Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself. |
23:8 |
Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her,
and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her. |
23:9 |
Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the
Assyrians, upon whom she doted. |
23:10 |
These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her
with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon
her. |
23:11 |
And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love
than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms. |
23:12 |
She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most
gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men. |
23:13 |
Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way, |
23:14 |
And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall,
the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, |
23:15 |
Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all
of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of
their nativity: |
23:16 |
And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers
unto them into Chaldea. |
23:17 |
And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their
whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them. |
23:18 |
So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was
alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister. |
23:19 |
Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth,
wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. |
23:20 |
For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose
issue is like the issue of horses. |
23:21 |
Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by
the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth. |
23:22 |
Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers
against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every
side; |
23:23 |
The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the
Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and
renowned, all of them riding upon horses. |
23:24 |
And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an
assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round
about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their
judgments. |
23:25 |
And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they
shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they
shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire. |
23:26 |
They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels. |
23:27 |
Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the
land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any
more. |
23:28 |
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom
thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated: |
23:29 |
And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall
leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both
thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. |
23:30 |
I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen,
and because thou art polluted with their idols. |
23:31 |
Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine
hand. |
23:32 |
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou
shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much. |
23:33 |
Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and
desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria. |
23:34 |
Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and
pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. |
23:35 |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind
thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. |
23:36 |
The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea,
declare unto them their abominations; |
23:37 |
That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols
have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to
pass for them through the fire, to devour them. |
23:38 |
Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day,
and have profaned my sabbaths. |
23:39 |
For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day
into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house. |
23:40 |
And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was
sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and
deckedst thyself with ornaments, |
23:41 |
And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set
mine incense and mine oil. |
23:42 |
And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common
sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and
beautiful crowns upon their heads. |
23:43 |
Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with
her, and she with them? |
23:44 |
Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went
they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women. |
23:45 |
And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and
after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in
their hands. |
23:46 |
For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them
to be removed and spoiled. |
23:47 |
And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords;
they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. |
23:48 |
Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not
to do after your lewdness. |
23:49 |
And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your
idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD. |
24:1 |
Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word
of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
24:2 |
Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon
set himself against Jerusalem this same day. |
24:3 |
And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it: |
24:4 |
Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder;
fill it with the choice bones. |
24:5 |
Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well,
and let them seethe the bones of it therein. |
24:6 |
Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is
therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot
fall upon it. |
24:7 |
For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it
not upon the ground, to cover it with dust; |
24:8 |
That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the
top of a rock, that it should not be covered. |
24:9 |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile
for fire great. |
24:10 |
Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones
be burned. |
24:11 |
Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may
burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be
consumed. |
24:12 |
She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her
scum shall be in the fire. |
24:13 |
In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged,
thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest
upon thee. |
24:14 |
I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go
back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to
thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD. |
24:15 |
Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
24:16 |
Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet
neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down. |
24:17 |
Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee,
and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men. |
24:18 |
So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the
morning as I was commanded. |
24:19 |
And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that
thou doest so? |
24:20 |
Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
24:21 |
Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my
sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your
soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword. |
24:22 |
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of
men. |
24:23 |
And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not
mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another. |
24:24 |
Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and
when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD. |
24:25 |
Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their
strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set
their minds, their sons and their daughters, |
24:26 |
That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with
thine ears? |
24:27 |
In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak,
and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the
LORD. |
25:1 |
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, |
25:2 |
Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them; |
25:3 |
And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land
of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into
captivity; |
25:4 |
Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and
they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy
fruit, and they shall drink thy milk. |
25:5 |
And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couching place for
flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. |
25:6 |
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with
the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel; |
25:7 |
Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a
spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to
perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD. |
25:8 |
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah
is like unto all the heathen; |
25:9 |
Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which
are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim, |
25:10 |
Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that
the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations. |
25:11 |
And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD. |
25:12 |
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by
taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them; |
25:13 |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and
will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of
Dedan shall fall by the sword. |
25:14 |
And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall
do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my
vengeance, saith the Lord GOD. |
25:15 |
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken
vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred; |
25:16 |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the
Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast. |
25:17 |
And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know
that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them. |
26:1 |
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word
of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
26:2 |
Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that
was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is
laid waste: |
26:3 |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause
many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. |
26:4 |
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also
scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. |
26:5 |
It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have
spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations. |
26:6 |
And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall
know that I am the LORD. |
26:7 |
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with
horsemen, and companies, and much people. |
26:8 |
He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort
against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee. |
26:9 |
And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break
down thy towers. |
26:10 |
By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall
shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall
enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach. |
26:11 |
With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy
people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground. |
26:12 |
And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and
they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy
stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water. |
26:13 |
And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be
no more heard. |
26:14 |
And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets
upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. |
26:15 |
Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall,
when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? |
26:16 |
Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their
robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling;
they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at
thee. |
26:17 |
And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou
destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in
the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it! |
26:18 |
Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea
shall be troubled at thy departure. |
26:19 |
For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities
that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall
cover thee; |
26:20 |
When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of
old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old,
with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in
the land of the living; |
26:21 |
I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet
shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD. |
27:1 |
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, |
27:2 |
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus; |
27:3 |
And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a
merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I
am of perfect beauty. |
27:4 |
Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty. |
27:5 |
They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from
Lebanon to make masts for thee. |
27:6 |
Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have
made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim. |
27:7 |
Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be
thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee. |
27:8 |
The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were
in thee, were thy pilots. |
27:9 |
The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships
of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise. |
27:10 |
They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged
the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness. |
27:11 |
The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims
were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made
thy beauty perfect. |
27:12 |
Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with
silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs. |
27:13 |
Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and
vessels of brass in thy market. |
27:14 |
They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules. |
27:15 |
The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand:
they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony. |
27:16 |
Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they
occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and
coral, and agate. |
27:17 |
Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market
wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm. |
27:18 |
Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the
multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool. |
27:19 |
Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and
calamus, were in thy market. |
27:20 |
Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots. |
27:21 |
Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and
goats: in these were they thy merchants. |
27:22 |
The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs
with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. |
27:23 |
Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy
merchants. |
27:24 |
These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work,
and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
|
27:25 |
The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and
made very glorious in the midst of the seas. |
27:26 |
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the
midst of the seas. |
27:27 |
Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers,
and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all
thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the
day of thy ruin. |
27:28 |
The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. |
27:29 |
And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come
down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land; |
27:30 |
And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and
shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: |
27:31 |
And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth,
and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing. |
27:32 |
And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee,
saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea? |
27:33 |
When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst
enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise. |
27:34 |
In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy
merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall. |
27:35 |
All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be
sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance. |
27:36 |
The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never
shalt be any more. |
28:1 |
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, |
28:2 |
Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart
is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of
the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of
God: |
28:3 |
Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: |
28:4 |
With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast
gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: |
28:5 |
By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine
heart is lifted up because of thy riches: |
28:6 |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of
God; |
28:7 |
Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and
they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy
brightness. |
28:8 |
They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are
slain in the midst of the seas. |
28:9 |
Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and
no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee. |
28:10 |
Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have
spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. |
28:11 |
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
28:12 |
Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. |
28:13 |
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the
sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the
emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was
prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. |
28:14 |
Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the
holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. |
28:15 |
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was
found in thee. |
28:16 |
By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence,
and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God:
and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. |
28:17 |
Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by
reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings,
that they may behold thee. |
28:18 |
Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the
iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it
shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them
that behold thee. |
28:19 |
All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a
terror, and never shalt thou be any more. |
28:20 |
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
28:21 |
Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it, |
28:22 |
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be
glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have
executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her. |
28:23 |
For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall
be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know
that I am the LORD. |
28:24 |
And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving
thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am
the Lord GOD. |
28:25 |
Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the
people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the
heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob. |
28:26 |
And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea,
they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that
despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God. |
29:1 |
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of
the LORD came unto me, saying, |
29:2 |
Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and
against all Egypt: |
29:3 |
Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of
Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river
is mine own, and I have made it for myself. |
29:4 |
But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick
unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish
of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales. |
29:5 |
And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers:
thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I
have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven. |
29:6 |
And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been
a staff of reed to the house of Israel. |
29:7 |
When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their
shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be
at a stand. |
29:8 |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off
man and beast out of thee. |
29:9 |
And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the
LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it. |
29:10 |
Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land
of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of
Ethiopia. |
29:11 |
No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither
shall it be inhabited forty years. |
29:12 |
And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are
desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty
years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through
the countries. |
29:13 |
Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians
from the people whither they were scattered: |
29:14 |
And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the
land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base
kingdom. |
29:15 |
It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above
the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. |
29:16 |
And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth their
iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them: but they shall know that I am
the Lord GOD. |
29:17 |
And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first
day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
29:18 |
Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service
against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no
wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it: |
29:19 |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and
take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. |
29:20 |
I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it,
because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD. |
29:21 |
In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give
thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the
LORD. |
30:1 |
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, |
30:2 |
Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the day! |
30:3 |
For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the
time of the heathen. |
30:4 |
And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the
slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations
shall be broken down. |
30:5 |
Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of
the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword. |
30:6 |
Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her
power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith
the Lord GOD. |
30:7 |
And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her
cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted. |
30:8 |
And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all
her helpers shall be destroyed. |
30:9 |
In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians
afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh. |
30:10 |
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand
of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon. |
30:11 |
He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy
the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the
slain. |
30:12 |
And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I
will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD
have spoken it. |
30:13 |
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images
to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will
put a fear in the land of Egypt. |
30:14 |
And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute
judgments in No. |
30:15 |
And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the
multitude of No. |
30:16 |
And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder,
and Noph shall have distresses daily. |
30:17 |
The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall
go into captivity. |
30:18 |
At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of
Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover
her, and her daughters shall go into captivity. |
30:19 |
Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the LORD. |
30:20 |
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of
the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
30:21 |
Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be
bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword. |
30:22 |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and
will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to
fall out of his hand. |
30:23 |
And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the
countries. |
30:24 |
And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand:
but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a
deadly wounded man. |
30:25 |
But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall
fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand
of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt. |
30:26 |
And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the
countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD. |