GetPassageurn:cts:pbc:bible.parallel.eng.kingjames:26urn:cts:pbc:bible.parallel.eng.kingjames:26Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year , in the fourth month , in the fifth day of the month , as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar , that the heavens were opened , and I saw visions of God . In the fifth day of the month , which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity , The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest , the son of Buzi , in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar ; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him . And I looked , and , behold , a whirlwind came out of the north , a great cloud , and a fire infolding itself , and a brightness was about it , and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber , out of the midst of the fire . Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures . And this was their appearance ; they had the likeness of a man . And every one had four faces , and every one had four wings . And their feet were straight feet ; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot : and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass . And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides ; and they four had their faces and their wings . Their wings were joined one to another ; they turned not when they went ; they went every one straight forward . As for the likeness of their faces , they four had the face of a man , and the face of a lion , on the right side : and they four had the face of an ox on the left side ; they four also had the face of an eagle . Thus were their faces : and their wings were stretched upward ; two wings of every one were joined one to another , and two covered their bodies . And they went every one straight forward : whither the spirit was to go , they went ; and they turned not when they went . As for the likeness of the living creatures , their appearance was like burning coals of fire , and like the appearance of lamps : it went up and down among the living creatures ; and the fire was bright , and out of the fire went forth lightning . And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning . Now as I beheld the living creatures , behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures , with his four faces . The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl : and they four had one likeness : and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel . When they went , they went upon their four sides : and they turned not when they went . As for their rings , they were so high that they were dreadful ; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four . And when the living creatures went , the wheels went by them : and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth , the wheels were lifted up . Whithersoever the spirit was to go , they went , thither was their spirit to go ; and the wheels were lifted up over against them : for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels . When those went , these went ; and when those stood , these stood ; and when those were lifted up from the earth , the wheels were lifted up over against them : for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels . And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal , stretched forth over their heads above . And under the firmament were their wings straight , the one toward the other : every one had two , which covered on this side , and every one had two , which covered on that side , their bodies . And when they went , I heard the noise of their wings , like the noise of great waters , as the voice of the Almighty , the voice of speech , as the noise of an host : when they stood , they let down their wings . And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads , when they stood , and had let down their wings . And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne , as the appearance of a sapphire stone : and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it . And I saw as the colour of amber , as the appearance of fire round about within it , from the appearance of his loins even upward , and from the appearance of his loins even downward , I saw as it were the appearance of fire , and it had brightness round about . As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain , so was the appearance of the brightness round about . This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD . And when I saw it , I fell upon my face , and I heard a voice of one that spake . And he said unto me , Son of man , stand upon thy feet , and I will speak unto thee . And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me , and set me upon my feet , that I heard him that spake unto me . And he said unto me , Son of man , I send thee to the children of Israel , to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me : they and their fathers have transgressed against me , even unto this very day . For they are impudent children and stiffhearted . I do send thee unto them ; and thou shalt say unto them , Thus saith the Lord GOD . And they , whether they will hear , or whether they will forbear , ( for they are a rebellious house , ) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them . And thou , son of man , be not afraid of them , neither be afraid of their words , though briers and thorns be with thee , and thou dost dwell among scorpions : be not afraid of their words , nor be dismayed at their looks , though they be a rebellious house . And thou shalt speak my words unto them , whether they will hear , or whether they will forbear : for they are most rebellious . But thou , son of man , hear what I say unto thee ; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house : open thy mouth , and eat that I give thee . And when I looked , behold , an hand was sent unto me ; and , lo , a roll of a book was therein ; And he spread it before me ; and it was written within and without : and there was written therein lamentations , and mourning , and woe . Moreover he said unto me , Son of man , eat that thou findest ; eat this roll , and go speak unto the house of Israel . So I opened my mouth , and he caused me to eat that roll . And he said unto me , Son of man , cause thy belly to eat , and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee . Then did I eat it ; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness . And he said unto me , Son of man , go , get thee unto the house of Israel , and speak with my words unto them . For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language , but to the house of Israel ; Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language , whose words thou canst not understand . Surely , had I sent thee to them , they would have hearkened unto thee . But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee ; for they will not hearken unto me : for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted . Behold , I have made thy face strong against their faces , and thy forehead strong against their foreheads . As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead : fear them not , neither be dismayed at their looks , though they be a rebellious house . Moreover he said unto me , Son of man , all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart , and hear with thine ears . And go , get thee to them of the captivity , unto the children of thy people , and speak unto them , and tell them , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; whether they will hear , or whether they will forbear . Then the spirit took me up , and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing , saying , Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place . I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another , and the noise of the wheels over against them , and a noise of a great rushing . So the spirit lifted me up , and took me away , and I went in bitterness , in the heat of my spirit ; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me . Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib , that dwelt by the river of Chebar , and I sat where they sat , and remained there astonished among them seven days . And it came to pass at the end of seven days , that the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Son of man , I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel : therefore hear the word at my mouth , and give them warning from me . When I say unto the wicked , Thou shalt surely die ; and thou givest him not warning , nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way , to save his life ; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity ; but his blood will I require at thine hand . Yet if thou warn the wicked , and he turn not from his wickedness , nor from his wicked way , he shall die in his iniquity ; but thou hast delivered thy soul . Again , When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness , and commit iniquity , and I lay a stumblingblock before him , he shall die : because thou hast not given him warning , he shall die in his sin , and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered ; but his blood will I require at thine hand . Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man , that the righteous sin not , and he doth not sin , he shall surely live , because he is warned ; also thou hast delivered thy soul . And the hand of the LORD was there upon me ; and he said unto me , Arise , go forth into the plain , and I will there talk with thee . Then I arose , and went forth into the plain : and , behold , the glory of the LORD stood there , as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar : and I fell on my face . Then the spirit entered into me , and set me upon my feet , and spake with me , and said unto me , Go , shut thyself within thine house . But thou , O son of man , behold , they shall put bands upon thee , and shall bind thee with them , and thou shalt not go out among them : And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth , that thou shalt be dumb , and shalt not be to them a reprover : for they are a rebellious house . But when I speak with thee , I will open thy mouth , and thou shalt say unto them , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; He that heareth , let him hear ; and he that forbeareth , let him forbear : for they are a rebellious house . Thou also , son of man , take thee a tile , and lay it before thee , and pourtray upon it the city , even Jerusalem : And lay siege against it , and build a fort against it , and cast a mount against it ; set the camp also against it , and set battering rams against it round about . Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan , and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city : and set thy face against it , and it shall be besieged , and thou shalt lay siege against it . This shall be a sign to the house of Israel . Lie thou also upon thy left side , and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it : according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity . For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity , according to the number of the days , three hundred and ninety days : so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel . And when thou hast accomplished them , lie again on thy right side , and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days : I have appointed thee each day for a year . Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem , and thine arm shall be uncovered , and thou shalt prophesy against it . And , behold , I will lay bands upon thee , and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another , till thou hast ended the days of thy siege . Take thou also unto thee wheat , and barley , and beans , and lentiles , 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 . And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight , twenty shekels a day : from time to time shalt thou eat it . Thou shalt drink also water by measure , the sixth part of an hin : from time to time shalt thou drink . And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes , and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man , in their sight . And the LORD said , Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles , whither I will drive them . Then said I , Ah Lord GOD ! behold , my soul hath not been polluted : for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself , or is torn in pieces ; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth . Then he said unto me , Lo , I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung , and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith . Moreover he said unto me , Son of man , behold , I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem : and they shall eat bread by weight , and with care ; and they shall drink water by measure , and with astonishment : That they may want bread and water , and be astonied one with another , and consume away for their iniquity . And thou , son of man , take thee a sharp knife , take thee a barber's rasor , and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard : then take thee balances to weight , and divide the hair . Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city , when the days of the siege are fulfilled : and thou shalt take a third part , and smite about it with a knife : and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind ; and I will draw out a sword after them . Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number , and bind them in thy skirts . Then take of them again , and cast them into the midst of the fire , and burn them in the fire ; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel . Thus saith the Lord GOD ; This is Jerusalem : I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her . And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations , and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her : for they have refused my judgments and my statutes , they have not walked in them . Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you , and have not walked in my statutes , neither have kept my judgments , neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you ; Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ; Behold , I , even I , am against thee , and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations . And I will do in thee that which I have not done , and whereunto I will not do any more the like , because of all thine abominations . Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee , and the sons shall eat their fathers ; and I will execute judgments in thee , and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds . Wherefore , as I live , saith the Lord GOD ; Surely , because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things , and with all thine abominations , therefore will I also diminish thee ; neither shall mine eye spare , neither will I have any pity . A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence , and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee : and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee and I will scatter a third part into all the winds , and I will draw out a sword after them . Thus shall mine anger be accomplished , and I will cause my fury 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 have accomplished my fury in them . Moreover I will make thee waste , and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee , in the sight of all that pass by . So it shall be a reproach and a taunt , an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee , when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes . I the LORD have spoken it . When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine , which shall be for their destruction , and which I will send to destroy you : and I will increase the famine upon you , and will break your staff of bread : So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts , and they shall bereave thee ; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee ; and I will bring the sword upon thee . I the LORD have spoken it . And the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Son of man , set thy face toward the mountains of Israel , and prophesy against them , And say , Ye mountains of Israel , hear the word of the Lord GOD ; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains , and to the hills , to the rivers , and to the valleys ; Behold , I , even I , will bring a sword upon you , and I will destroy your high places . And your altars shall be desolate , and your images shall be broken : and I will cast down your slain men before your idols . And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols ; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars . In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste , and the high places shall be desolate ; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate , and your idols may be broken and cease , and your images may be cut down , and your works may be abolished . And the slain shall fall in the midst of you , and ye shall know that I am the LORD . Yet will I leave a remnant , that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations , when ye shall be scattered through the countries . And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives , because I am broken with their whorish heart , which hath departed from me , and with their eyes , which go a whoring after their idols : and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations . And they shall know that I am the LORD , and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them . Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Smite with thine hand , and stamp with thy foot , and say , Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel ! for they shall fall by the sword , by the famine , and by the pestilence . He that is far off shall die of the pestilence ; and he that is near shall fall by the sword ; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine : thus will I accomplish my fury upon them . Then shall ye know that I am the LORD , when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars , upon every high hill , in all the tops of the mountains , and under every green tree , and under every thick oak , the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols . So will I stretch out my hand upon them , and make the land desolate , yea , more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath , in all their habitations : and they shall know that I am the LORD . Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Also , thou son of man , thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel ; An end , the end is come upon the four corners of the land . Now is the end come upon thee , and I will send mine anger upon thee , and will judge thee according to thy ways , and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations . And mine eye shall not spare thee , neither will I have pity : but I will recompense thy ways upon thee , and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee : and ye shall know that I am the LORD . Thus saith the Lord GOD ; An evil , an only evil , behold , is come . An end is come , the end is come : it watcheth for thee ; behold , it is come . The morning is come unto thee , O thou that dwellest in the land : the time is come , the day of trouble is near , and not the sounding again of the mountains . Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee , and accomplish mine anger upon thee : and I will judge thee according to thy ways , and will recompense thee for all thine abominations . And mine eye shall not spare , neither will I have pity : I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee ; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that smiteth . Behold the day , behold , it is come : the morning is gone forth ; the rod hath blossomed , pride hath budded . Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness : none of them shall remain , nor of their multitude , nor of any of theirs : neither shall there be wailing for them . The time is come , the day draweth near : let not the buyer rejoice , nor the seller mourn : for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof . For the seller shall not return to that which is sold , although they were yet alive : for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof , which shall not return ; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life . They have blown the trumpet , even to make all ready ; but none goeth to the battle : for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof . The sword is without , and the pestilence and the famine within : he that is in the field shall die with the sword ; and he that is in the city , famine and pestilence shall devour him . But they that escape of them shall escape , and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys , all of them mourning , every one for his iniquity . All hands shall be feeble , and all knees shall be weak as water . They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth , and horror shall cover them ; and shame shall be upon all faces , and baldness upon all their heads . They shall cast their silver in the streets , and their gold shall be removed : their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD : they shall not satisfy their souls , neither fill their bowels : because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity . As for the beauty of his ornament , he set it in majesty : but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein : therefore have I set it far from them . And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey , and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil ; and they shall pollute it . My face will I turn also from them , and they shall pollute my secret place : for the robbers shall enter into it , and defile it . Make a chain : for the land is full of bloody crimes , and the city is full of violence . Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen , and they shall possess their houses : I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease ; and their holy places shall be defiled . Destruction cometh ; and they shall seek peace , and there shall be none . Mischief shall come upon mischief , and rumour shall be upon rumour ; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet ; but the law shall perish from the priest , and counsel from the ancients . The king shall mourn , and the prince shall be clothed with desolation , and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled : I will do unto them after their way , and according to their deserts will I judge them ; and they shall know that I am the LORD . And it came to pass in the sixth year , in the sixth month , in the fifth day of the month , as I sat in mine house , and the elders of Judah sat before me , that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me . Then I beheld , and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire : from the appearance of his loins even downward , fire ; and from his loins even upward , as the appearance of brightness , as the colour of amber . And he put forth the form of an hand , and took me by a lock of mine head ; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven , and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem , to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north ; where was the seat of the image of jealousy , which provoketh to jealousy . And , behold , the glory of the God of Israel was there , according to the vision that I saw in the plain . Then said he unto me , Son of man , lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north . So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north , and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry . He said furthermore unto me , Son of man , seest thou what they do ? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here , that I should go far off from my sanctuary ? but turn thee yet again , and thou shalt see greater abominations . And he brought me to the door of the court ; and when I looked , behold a hole in the wall . Then said he unto me , Son of man , dig now in the wall : and when I had digged in the wall , behold a door . And he said unto me , Go in , and behold the wicked abominations that they do here . So I went in and saw ; and behold every form of creeping things , and abominable beasts , and all the idols of the house of Israel , pourtrayed upon the wall round about . And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel , and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan , with every man his censer in his hand ; and a thick cloud of incense went up . Then said he unto me , Son of man , hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark , every man in the chambers of his imagery ? for they say , The LORD seeth us not ; the LORD hath forsaken the earth . He said also unto me , Turn thee yet again , and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do . Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's house which was toward the north ; and , behold , there sat women weeping for Tammuz . Then said he unto me , Hast thou seen this , O son of man ? turn thee yet again , and thou shalt see greater abominations than these . And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house , and , behold , at the door of the temple of the LORD , between the porch and the altar , were about five and twenty men , with their backs toward the temple of the LORD , and their faces toward the east ; and they worshipped the sun toward the east . Then he said unto me , Hast thou seen this , O son of man ? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here ? for they have filled the land with violence , and have returned to provoke me to anger : and , lo , they put the branch to their nose . Therefore will I also deal in fury : mine eye shall not spare , neither will I have pity : and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice , yet will I not hear them . He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice , saying , Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near , even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand . And , behold , six men came from the way of the higher gate , which lieth toward the north , and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand ; and one man among them was clothed with linen , with a writer's inkhorn by his side : and they went in , and stood beside the brasen altar . And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub , whereupon he was , to the threshold of the house . And he called to the man clothed with linen , which had the writer's inkhorn by his side ; And the LORD said unto him , Go through the midst of the city , through the midst of Jerusalem , and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof . And to the others he said in mine hearing , Go ye after him through the city , and smite : let not your eye spare , neither have ye pity : Slay utterly old and young , both maids , and little children , and women : but come not near any man upon whom is the mark ; and begin at my sanctuary . Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house . And he said unto them , Defile the house , and fill the courts with the slain : go ye forth . And they went forth , and slew in the city . And it came to pass , while they were slaying them , and I was left , that I fell upon my face , and cried , and said , Ah Lord GOD ! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem ? Then said he unto me , The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great , and the land is full of blood , and the city full of perverseness : for they say , The LORD hath forsaken the earth , and the LORD seeth not . And as for me also , mine eye shall not spare , neither will I have pity , but I will recompense their way upon their head . And , behold , the man clothed with linen , which had the inkhorn by his side , reported the matter , saying , I have done as thou hast commanded me . Then I looked , and , behold , in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone , as the appearance of the likeness of a throne . And he spake unto the man clothed with linen , and said , Go in between the wheels , even under the cherub , and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims , and scatter them over the city . And he went in in my sight . Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house , when the man went in ; and the cloud filled the inner court . Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub , and stood over the threshold of the house ; and the house was filled with the cloud , and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD's glory . And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court , as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh . And it came to pass , that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen , saying , Take fire from between the wheels , from between the cherubims ; then he went in , and stood beside the wheels . And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims , and took thereof , and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen : who took it , and went out . And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand under their wings . And when I looked , behold the four wheels by the cherubims , one wheel by one cherub , and another wheel by another cherub : and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone . And as for their appearances , they four had one likeness , as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel . When they went , they went upon their four sides ; they turned not as they went , but to the place whither the head looked they followed it ; they turned not as they went . And their whole body , and their backs , and their hands , and their wings , and the wheels , were full of eyes round about , even the wheels that they four had . As for the wheels , it was cried unto them in my hearing , O wheel . And every one had four faces : the first face was the face of a cherub , and the second face was the face of a man , and the third the face of a lion , and the fourth the face of an eagle . And the cherubims were lifted up . This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar . And when the cherubims went , the wheels went by them : and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth , the same wheels also turned not from beside them . When they stood , these stood ; and when they were lifted up , these lifted up themselves also : for the spirit of the living creature was in them . Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house , and stood over the cherubims . And the cherubims lifted up their wings , and mounted up from the earth in my sight : when they went out , the wheels also were beside them , and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD's house ; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above . This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar ; and I knew that they were the cherubims . Every one had four faces apiece , and every one four wings ; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings . And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar , their appearances and themselves : they went every one straight forward . Moreover the spirit lifted me up , and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD's house , which looketh eastward : and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men ; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur , and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah , the princes of the people . Then said he unto me , Son of man , these are the men that devise mischief , and give wicked counsel in this city : Which say , It is not near ; let us build houses : this city is the caldron , and we be the flesh . Therefore prophesy against them , prophesy , O son of man . And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me , and said unto me , Speak ; Thus saith the LORD ; Thus have ye said , O house of Israel : for I know the things that come into your mind , every one of them . Ye have multiplied your slain in this city , and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain . Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it , they are the flesh , and this city is the caldron : but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it . Ye have feared the sword ; and I will bring a sword upon you , saith the Lord GOD . And I will bring you out of the midst thereof , and deliver you into the hands of strangers , and will execute judgments among you . Ye shall fall by the sword ; I will judge you in the border of Israel ; and ye shall know that I am the LORD . This city shall not be your caldron , neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof ; but I will judge you in the border of Israel : And ye shall know that I am the LORD : for ye have not walked in my statutes , neither executed my judgments , but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you . And it came to pass , when I prophesied , that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died . Then fell I down upon my face , and cried with a loud voice , and said , Ah Lord GOD ! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel ? Again the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Son of man , thy brethren , even thy brethren , the men of thy kindred , and all the house of Israel wholly , are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said , Get you far from the LORD : unto us is this land given in possession . Therefore say , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen , and although I have scattered them among the countries , yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come . Therefore say , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; I will even gather you from the people , and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered , and I will give you the land of Israel . And they shall come thither , and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence . And I will give them one heart , and I will put a new spirit within you ; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh , and will give them an heart of flesh : That they may walk in my statutes , and keep mine ordinances , and do them : and they shall be my people , and I will be their God . But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations , I will recompense their way upon their own heads , saith the Lord GOD . Then did the cherubims lift up their wings , and the wheels beside them ; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above . And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city , and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city . Afterwards the spirit took me up , and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea , to them of the captivity . So the vision that I had seen went up from me . Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shewed me . The word of the LORD also came unto me , saying , Son of man , thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house , which have eyes to see , and see not ; they have ears to hear , and hear not : for they are a rebellious house . Therefore , thou son of man , prepare thee stuff for removing , and remove by day in their sight ; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight : it may be they will consider , though they be a rebellious house . Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight , as stuff for removing : and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight , as they that go forth into captivity . Dig thou through the wall in their sight , and carry out thereby . In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders , and carry it forth in the twilight : thou shalt cover thy face , that thou see not the ground : for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel . And I did so as I was commanded : I brought forth my stuff by day , as stuff for captivity , and in the even I digged through the wall with mine hand ; I brought it forth in the twilight , and I bare it upon my shoulder in their sight . And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me , saying , Son of man , hath not the house of Israel , the rebellious house , said unto thee , What doest thou ? Say thou unto them , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem , and all the house of Israel that are among them . Say , I am your sign : like as I have done , so shall it be done unto them : they shall remove and go into captivity . And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight , and shall go forth : they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby : he shall cover his face , that he see not the ground with his eyes . My net also will I spread upon him , and he shall be taken in my snare : and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans ; yet shall he not see it , though he shall die there . And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to help him , and all his bands ; and I will draw out the sword after them . And they shall know that I am the LORD , when I shall scatter them among the nations , and disperse them in the countries . But I will leave a few men of them from the sword , from the famine , and from the pestilence ; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come ; and they shall know that I am the LORD . Moreover the word of the LORD came to me , saying , Son of man , eat thy bread with quaking , and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness ; And say unto the people of the land , Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem , and of the land of Israel ; They shall eat their bread with carefulness , and drink their water with astonishment , that her land may be desolate from all that is therein , because of the violence of all them that dwell therein . And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste , and the land shall be desolate ; and ye shall know that I am the LORD . And the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Son of man , what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel , saying , The days are prolonged , and every vision faileth ? Tell them therefore , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; I will make this proverb to cease , and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel ; but say unto them , The days are at hand , and the effect of every vision . For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel . For I am the LORD : I will speak , and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass ; it shall be no more prolonged : for in your days , O rebellious house , will I say the word , and will perform it , saith the Lord GOD . Again the word of the LORD came to me , saying , Son of man , behold , they of the house of Israel say , The vision that he seeth is for many days to come , and he prophesieth of the times that are far off . Therefore say unto them , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more , but the word which I have spoken shall be done , saith the Lord GOD . And the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Son of man , prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy , and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts , Hear ye the word of the LORD ; Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Woe unto the foolish prophets , that follow their own spirit , and have seen nothing ! O Israel , thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts . Ye have not gone up into the gaps , neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD . They have seen vanity and lying divination , saying , The LORD saith : and the LORD hath not sent them : and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word . Have ye not seen a vain vision , and have ye not spoken a lying divination , whereas ye say , The LORD saith it ; albeit I have not spoken ? Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ; Because ye have spoken vanity , and seen lies , therefore , behold , I am against you , saith the Lord GOD . And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity , and that divine lies : they shall not be in the assembly of my people , neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel , neither shall they enter into the land of Israel ; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD . Because , even because they have seduced my people , saying , Peace ; and there was no peace ; and one built up a wall , and , lo , others daubed it with untempered morter : Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter , that it shall fall : there shall be an overflowing shower ; and ye , O great hailstones , shall fall ; and a stormy wind shall rend it . Lo , when the wall is fallen , shall it not be said unto you , Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it ? Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury ; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger , and great hailstones in my fury to consume it . So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered morter , and bring it down to the ground , so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered , and it shall fall , and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof : and ye shall know that I am the LORD . Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall , and upon them that have daubed it with untempered morter , and will say unto you , The wall is no more , neither they that daubed it ; To wit , the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem , and which see visions of peace for her , and there is no peace , saith the Lord GOD . Likewise , thou son of man , set thy face against the daughters of thy people , which prophesy out of their own heart ; and prophesy thou against them , And say , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes , and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls ! Will ye hunt the souls of my people , and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you ? And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread , to slay the souls that should not die , and to save the souls alive that should not live , by your lying to my people that hear your lies ? Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD ; Behold , I am against your pillows , wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly , and I will tear them from your arms , and will let the souls go , even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly . Your kerchiefs also will I tear , and deliver my people out of your hand , and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted ; and ye shall know that I am the LORD . Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad , whom I have not made sad ; and strengthened the hands of the wicked , that he should not return from his wicked way , by promising him life : Therefore ye shall see no more vanity , nor divine divinations : for I will deliver my people out of your hand : and ye shall know that I am the LORD . Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me , and sat before me . And the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Son of man , these men have set up their idols in their heart , and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face : should I be inquired of at all by them ? Therefore speak unto them , and say unto them , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart , and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face , and cometh to the prophet ; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols ; That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart , because they are all estranged from me through their idols . Therefore say unto the house of Israel , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Repent , and turn yourselves from your idols ; and turn away your faces from all your abominations . For every one of the house of Israel , or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel , which separateth himself from me , and setteth up his idols in his heart , and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face , and cometh to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me ; I the LORD will answer him by myself : And I will set my face against that man , and will make him a sign and a proverb , and I will cut him off from the midst of my people ; and ye shall know that I am the LORD . And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing , I the LORD have deceived that prophet , and I will stretch out my hand upon him , and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel . And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity : the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him ; That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me , neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions ; but that they may be my people , and I may be their God , saith the Lord GOD . The word of the LORD came again to me , saying , Son of man , when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously , then will I stretch out mine hand upon it , and will break the staff of the bread thereof , and will send famine upon it , and will cut off man and beast from it : Though these three men , Noah , Daniel , and Job , were in it , they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness , saith the Lord GOD . If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land , and they spoil it , so that it be desolate , that no man may pass through because of the beasts : Though these three men were in it , as I live , saith the Lord GOD , they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters ; they only shall be delivered , but the land shall be desolate . Or if I bring a sword upon that land , and say , Sword , go through the land ; so that I cut off man and beast from it : Though these three men were in it , as I live , saith the Lord GOD , they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters , but they only shall be delivered themselves . Or if I send a pestilence into that land , and pour out my fury upon it in blood , to cut off from it man and beast : Though Noah , Daniel , and Job , were in it , as I live , saith the Lord GOD , they shall deliver neither son nor daughter ; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness . For thus saith the Lord GOD ; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem , the sword , and the famine , and the noisome beast , and the pestilence , to cut off from it man and beast ? Yet , behold , therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth , both sons and daughters : behold , they shall come forth unto you , and ye shall see their way and their doings : and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem , even concerning all that I have brought upon it . And they shall comfort you , when ye see their ways and their doings : and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it , saith the Lord GOD . And the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Son of man , What is the vine tree more than any tree , or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest ? Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work ? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon ? Behold , it is cast into the fire for fuel ; the fire devoureth both the ends of it , and the midst of it is burned . Is it meet for any work ? Behold , when it was whole , it was meet for no work : how much less shall it be meet yet for any work , when the fire hath devoured it , and it is burned ? Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest , which I have given to the fire for fuel , so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem . And I will set my face against them ; they shall go out from one fire , and another fire shall devour them ; and ye shall know that I am the LORD , when I set my face against them . And I will make the land desolate , because they have committed a trespass , saith the Lord GOD . Again the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Son of man , cause Jerusalem to know her abominations , And say , Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem ; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan ; thy father was an Amorite , and thy mother an Hittite . And as for thy nativity , in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut , neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee ; thou wast not salted at all , nor swaddled at all . None eye pitied thee , to do any of these unto thee , to have compassion upon thee ; but thou wast cast out in the open field , to the lothing of thy person , in the day that thou wast born . And when I passed by thee , and saw thee polluted in thine own blood , I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood , Live ; yea , I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood , Live . I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field , and thou hast increased and waxen great , and thou art come to excellent ornaments : thy breasts are fashioned , and thine hair is grown , whereas thou wast naked and bare . Now when I passed by thee , and looked upon thee , behold , thy time was the time of love ; and I spread my skirt over thee , and covered thy nakedness : yea , I sware unto thee , and entered into a covenant with thee , saith the Lord GOD , and thou becamest mine . Then washed I thee with water ; yea , I throughly washed away thy blood from thee , and I anointed thee with oil . I clothed thee also with broidered work , and shod thee with badgers' skin , and I girded thee about with fine linen , and I covered thee with silk . I decked thee also with ornaments , and I put bracelets upon thy hands , and a chain on thy neck . And I put a jewel on thy forehead , and earrings in thine ears , and a beautiful crown upon thine head . Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver ; and thy raiment was of fine linen , and silk , and broidered work ; thou didst eat fine flour , and honey , and oil : and thou wast exceeding beautiful , and thou didst prosper into a kingdom . And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty : for it was perfect through my comeliness , which I had put upon thee , saith the Lord GOD . But thou didst trust in thine own beauty , and playedst the harlot because of thy renown , and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by ; his it was . And of thy garments thou didst take , and deckedst thy high places with divers colours , and playedst the harlot thereupon : the like things shall not come , neither shall it be so . Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver , which I had given thee , and madest to thyself images of men , and didst commit whoredom with them , And tookest thy broidered garments , and coveredst them : and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them . My meat also which I gave thee , fine flour , and oil , and honey , wherewith I fed thee , thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour : and thus it was , saith the Lord GOD . Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters , whom thou hast borne unto me , and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured . Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter , That thou hast slain my children , and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them ? And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth , when thou wast naked and bare , and wast polluted in thy blood . And it came to pass after all thy wickedness , ( woe , woe unto thee ! saith the Lord GOD ; ) That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place , and hast made thee an high place in every street . Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way , and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred , and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by , and multiplied thy whoredoms . Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours , great of flesh ; and hast increased thy whoredoms , to provoke me to anger . Behold , therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee , and have diminished thine ordinary food , and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee , the daughters of the Philistines , which are ashamed of thy lewd way . Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians , because thou wast unsatiable ; yea , thou hast played the harlot with them , and yet couldest not be satisfied . Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea ; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith . How weak is thine heart , saith the Lord GOD , seeing thou doest all these things , the work of an imperious whorish woman ; In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way , and makest thine high place in every street ; and hast not been as an harlot , in that thou scornest hire ; But as a wife that committeth adultery , which taketh strangers instead of her husband ! They give gifts to all whores : but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers , and hirest them , that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom . And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms , whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms : and in that thou givest a reward , and no reward is given unto thee , therefore thou art contrary . Wherefore , O harlot , hear the word of the LORD : Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Because thy filthiness was poured out , and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers , and with all the idols of thy abominations , and by the blood of thy children , which thou didst give unto them ; Behold , therefore I will gather all thy lovers , with whom thou hast taken pleasure , and all them that thou hast loved , with all them that thou hast hated ; I will even gather them round about against thee , and will discover thy nakedness unto them , that they may see all thy nakedness . And I will judge thee , as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged ; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy . And I will also give thee into their hand , and they shall throw down thine eminent place , and shall break down thy high places : they shall strip thee also of thy clothes , and shall take thy fair jewels , and leave thee naked and bare . They shall also bring up a company against thee , and they shall stone thee with stones , and thrust thee through with their swords . And they shall burn thine houses with fire , and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women : and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot , and thou also shalt give no hire any more . So will I make my fury toward thee to rest , and my jealousy shall depart from thee , and I will be quiet , and will be no more angry . Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth , but hast fretted me in all these things ; behold , therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head , saith the Lord GOD : and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations . Behold , every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee , saying , As is the mother , so is her daughter . Thou art thy mother's daughter , that lotheth her husband and her children ; and thou art the sister of thy sisters , which lothed their husbands and their children : your mother was an Hittite , and your father an Amorite . And thine 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 . Yet hast thou not walked after their ways , nor done after their abominations : but , as if that were a very little thing , thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways . As I live , saith the Lord GOD , Sodom thy sister hath not done , she nor her daughters , as thou hast done , thou and thy daughters . Behold , this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom , pride , fulness of bread , and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters , neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy . And they were haughty , and committed abomination before me : therefore I took them away as I saw good . Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins ; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they , and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done . Thou also , which hast judged thy sisters , bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they : they are more righteous than thou : yea , be thou confounded also , and bear thy shame , in that thou hast justified thy sisters . When I shall bring again their captivity , the captivity of Sodom and her daughters , and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters , then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them : That thou mayest bear thine own shame , and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done , in that thou art a comfort unto them . When thy sisters , Sodom and her daughters , shall return to their former estate , and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate , then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate . For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride , Before thy wickedness was discovered , as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria , and all that are round about her , the daughters of the Philistines , which despise thee round about . Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations , saith the LORD . For thus saith the Lord GOD ; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done , which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant . Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth , and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant . Then thou shalt remember thy ways , and be ashamed , when thou shalt receive thy sisters , thine elder and thy younger : and I will give them unto thee for daughters , but not by thy covenant . And I will establish my covenant with thee ; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD : That thou mayest remember , and be confounded , and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame , when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done , saith the Lord GOD . And the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Son of man , put forth a riddle , and speak a parable unto the house of Israel ; And say , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; A great eagle with great wings , longwinged , full of feathers , which had divers colours , came unto Lebanon , and took the highest branch of the cedar : He cropped off the top of his young twigs , and carried it into a land of traffick ; he set it in a city of merchants . He took also of the seed of the land , and planted it in a fruitful field ; he placed it by great waters , and set it as a willow tree . And it grew , and became a spreading vine of low stature , whose branches turned toward him , and the roots thereof were under him : so it became a vine , and brought forth branches , and shot forth sprigs . There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers : and , behold , this vine did bend her roots toward him , and shot forth her branches toward him , that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation . It was planted in a good soil by great waters , that it might bring forth branches , and that it might bear fruit , that it might be a goodly vine . Say thou , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Shall it prosper ? shall he not pull up the roots thereof , and cut off the fruit thereof , that it wither ? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring , even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof . Yea , behold , being planted , shall it prosper ? shall it not utterly wither , when the east wind toucheth it ? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew . Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Say now to the rebellious house , Know ye not what these things mean ? tell them , Behold , the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem , and hath taken the king thereof , and the princes thereof , and led them with him to Babylon ; And hath taken of the king's seed , and made a covenant with him , and hath taken an oath of him : he hath also taken the mighty of the land : That the kingdom might be base , that it might not lift itself up , but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand . But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt , that they might give him horses and much people . Shall he prosper ? shall he escape that doeth such things ? or shall he break the covenant , and be delivered ? As I live , saith the Lord GOD , surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king , whose oath he despised , and whose covenant he brake , even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die . Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war , by casting up mounts , and building forts , to cut off many persons : Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant , when , lo , he had given his hand , and hath done all these things , he shall not escape . Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ; As I live , surely mine oath that he hath despised , and my covenant that he hath broken , even it will I recompense upon his own head . And I will spread my net upon him , and he shall be taken in my snare , and I will bring him to Babylon , and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me . And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword , and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds : and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it . Thus saith the Lord GOD ; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar , and will set it ; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one , and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent : In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it : and it shall bring forth boughs , and bear fruit , and be a goodly cedar : and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing ; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell . And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree , have exalted the low tree , have dried up the green tree , and have made the dry tree to flourish : I the LORD have brought down the high tree , have exalted the low tree , have dried up the green tree , and have made the dry tree to flourish : I the LORD have spoken and have done it . The word of the LORD came unto me again , saying , What mean ye , that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel , saying , The fathers have eaten sour grapes , and the children's teeth are set on edge ? As I live , saith the Lord GOD , ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel . Behold , all souls are mine ; as the soul of the father , so also the soul of the son is mine : the soul that sinneth , it shall die . But if a man be just , and do that which is lawful and right , And hath not eaten upon the mountains , neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel , neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife , neither hath come near to a menstruous woman , And hath not oppressed any , but hath restored to the debtor his pledge , hath spoiled none by violence , hath given his bread to the hungry , and hath covered the naked with a garment ; He that hath not given forth upon usury , neither hath taken any increase , that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity , hath executed true judgment between man and man , Hath walked in my statutes , and hath kept my judgments , to deal truly ; he is just , he shall surely live , saith the Lord GOD . If he beget a son that is a robber , a shedder of blood , and that doeth the like to any one of these things , And that doeth not any of those duties , but even hath eaten upon the mountains , and defiled his neighbour's wife , Hath oppressed the poor and needy , hath spoiled by violence , hath not restored the pledge , and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols , hath committed abomination , Hath given forth upon usury , and hath taken increase : shall he then live ? he shall not live : he hath done all these abominations ; he shall surely die ; his blood shall be upon him . Now , lo , if he beget a son , that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done , and considereth , and doeth not such like , That hath not eaten upon the mountains , neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel , hath not defiled his neighbour's wife , Neither hath oppressed any , hath not withholden the pledge , neither hath spoiled by violence , but hath given his bread to the hungry , and hath covered the naked with a garment , That hath taken off his hand from the poor , that hath not received usury nor increase , hath executed my judgments , hath walked in my statutes ; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father , he shall surely live . As for his father , because he cruelly oppressed , spoiled his brother by violence , and did that which is not good among his people , lo , even he shall die in his iniquity . Yet say ye , Why ? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father ? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right , and hath kept all my statutes , and hath done them , he shall surely live . The soul that sinneth , it shall die . The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father , neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son : the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him , and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him . But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed , and keep all my statutes , and do that which is lawful and right , he shall surely live , he shall not die . All his transgressions that he hath committed , they shall not be mentioned unto him : in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live . Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die ? saith the Lord GOD : and not that he should return from his ways , and live ? But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness , and committeth iniquity , and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth , shall he live ? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned : in his trespass that he hath trespassed , and in his sin that he hath sinned , in them shall he die . Yet ye say , The way of the Lord is not equal . Hear now , O house of Israel ; Is not my way equal ? are not your ways unequal ? When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness , and committeth iniquity , and dieth in them ; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die . Again , when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed , and doeth that which is lawful and right , he shall save his soul alive . Because he considereth , and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed , he shall surely live , he shall not die . Yet saith the house of Israel , The way of the Lord is not equal . O house of Israel , are not my ways equal ? are not your ways unequal ? Therefore I will judge you , O house of Israel , every one according to his ways , saith the Lord GOD . Repent , and turn yourselves from all your transgressions ; so iniquity shall not be your ruin . Cast away from you all your transgressions , whereby ye have transgressed ; and make you a new heart and a new spirit : for why will ye die , O house of Israel ? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth , saith the Lord GOD : wherefore turn yourselves , and live ye . Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel , And say , What is thy mother ? A lioness : she lay down among lions , she nourished her whelps among young lions . And she brought up one of her whelps : it became a young lion , and it learned to catch the prey ; it devoured men . The nations also heard of him ; he was taken in their pit , and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt . Now when she saw that she had waited , and her hope was lost , then she took another of her whelps , and made him a young lion . And he went up and down among the lions , he became a young lion , and learned to catch the prey , and devoured men . And he knew their desolate palaces , and he laid waste their cities ; and the land was desolate , and the fulness thereof , by the noise of his roaring . Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces , and spread their net over him : he was taken in their pit . And they put him in ward in chains , and brought him to the king of Babylon : they brought him into holds , that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel . Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood , planted by the waters : she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters . And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule , and her stature was exalted among the thick branches , and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches . But she was plucked up in fury , she was cast down to the ground , and the east wind dried up her fruit : her strong rods were broken and withered ; the fire consumed them . And now she is planted in the wilderness , in a dry and thirsty ground . And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches , which hath devoured her fruit , so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule . This is a lamentation , and shall be for a lamentation . And it came to pass in the seventh year , in the fifth month , the tenth day of the month , that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD , and sat before me . Then came the word of the LORD unto me , saying , Son of man , speak unto the elders of Israel , and say unto them , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Are ye come to inquire of me ? As I live , saith the Lord GOD , I will not be inquired of by you . Wilt thou judge them , son of man , wilt thou judge them ? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers : And say unto them , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; In the day when I chose Israel , and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob , and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt , when I lifted up mine hand unto them , saying , I am the LORD your God ; In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them , to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them , flowing with milk and honey , which is the glory of all lands : Then said I unto them , Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes , and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt : I am the LORD your God . But they rebelled against me , and would not hearken unto me : they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes , neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt : then I said , I will pour out my fury upon them to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt . But I wrought for my name's sake , that it should not be polluted before the heathen , among whom they were , in whose sight I made myself known unto them , in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt . Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt , and brought them into the wilderness . And I gave them my statutes , and shewed them my judgments , which if a man do , he shall even live in them . Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths , to be a sign between me and them , that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them . But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness : they walked not in my statutes , and they despised my judgments , which if a man do , he shall even live in them ; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted : then I said , I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness , to consume them . But I wrought for my name's sake , that it should not be polluted before the heathen , in whose sight I brought them out . Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness , that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them , flowing with milk and honey , which is the glory of all lands ; Because they despised my judgments , and walked not in my statutes , but polluted my sabbaths : for their heart went after their idols . Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them , neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness . But I said unto their children in the wilderness , Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers , neither observe their judgments , nor defile yourselves with their idols : I am the LORD your God ; walk in my statutes , and keep my judgments , and do them ; And hallow my sabbaths ; and they shall be a sign between me and you , that ye may know that I am the LORD your God . Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me : they walked not in my statutes , neither kept my judgments to do them , which if a man do , he shall even live in them ; they polluted my sabbaths : then I said , I would pour out my fury upon them , to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness . Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand , and wrought for my name's sake , that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen , in whose sight I brought them forth . I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness , that I would scatter them among the heathen , and disperse them through the countries ; Because they had not executed my judgments , but had despised my statutes , and had polluted my sabbaths , and their eyes were after their fathers' idols . Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good , and judgments whereby they should not live ; And I polluted them in their own gifts , in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb , that I might make them desolate , to the end that they might know that I am the LORD . Therefore , son of man , speak unto the house of Israel , and say unto them , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me , in that they have committed a trespass against me . For when I had brought them into the land , for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them , then they saw every high hill , and all the thick trees , and they offered there their sacrifices , and there they presented the provocation of their offering : there also they made their sweet savour , and poured out there their drink offerings . Then I said unto them , What is the high place whereunto ye go ? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day . Wherefore say unto the house of Israel , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers ? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations ? For when ye offer your gifts , when ye make your sons to pass through the fire , ye pollute yourselves with all your idols , even unto this day : and shall I be inquired of by you , O house of Israel ? As I live , saith the Lord GOD , I will not be inquired of by you . And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all , that ye say , We will be as the heathen , as the families of the countries , to serve wood and stone . As I live , saith the Lord GOD , surely with a mighty hand , and with a stretched out arm , and with fury poured out , will I rule over you : And I will bring you out from the people , and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered , with a mighty hand , and with a stretched out arm , and with fury poured out . And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people , and there will I plead with you face to face . Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt , so will I plead with you , saith the Lord GOD . And I will cause you to pass under the rod , and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant : And I will purge out from among you the rebels , and them that transgress against me : I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn , and they shall not enter into the land of Israel : and ye shall know that I am the LORD . As for you , O house of Israel , thus saith the Lord GOD ; Go ye , serve ye every one his idols , and hereafter also , if ye will not hearken unto me : but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts , and with your idols . For in mine holy mountain , in the mountain of the height of Israel , saith the Lord GOD , there shall all the house of Israel , all of them in the land , serve me : there will I accept them , and there will I require your offerings , and the firstfruits of your oblations , with all your holy things . I will accept you with your sweet savour , when I bring you out from the people , and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered ; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen . And ye shall know that I am the LORD , when I shall bring you into the land of Israel , into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers . And there shall ye remember your ways , and all your doings , wherein ye have been defiled ; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed . And ye shall know that I am the LORD , when I have wrought with you for my name's sake , not according to your wicked ways , nor according to your corrupt doings , O ye house of Israel , saith the Lord GOD . Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Son of man , set thy face toward the south , and drop thy word toward the south , and prophesy against the forest of the south field ; And say to the forest of the south , Hear the word of the LORD ; Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Behold , I will kindle a fire in thee , and it shall devour every green tree in thee , and every dry tree : the flaming flame shall not be quenched , and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein . And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it : it shall not be quenched . Then said I , Ah Lord GOD ! they say of me , Doth he not speak parables ? And the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Son of man , set thy face toward Jerusalem , and drop thy word toward the holy places , and prophesy against the land of Israel , 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 . 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 : That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath : it shall not return any more . Sigh therefore , thou son of man , with the breaking of thy loins ; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes . And it shall be , when they say 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 . Again the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Son of man , prophesy , and say , Thus saith the LORD ; Say , A sword , a sword is sharpened , and also furbished : 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 . And he hath give 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 . 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 . Because it is a trial , and what if the sword contemn even the rod ? it shall be no more , saith the Lord GOD . 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 . 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 . Go thee one way or other , either on the right hand , or on the left , whithersoever thy face is set . I will also smite mine hands together , and I will cause my fury to rest : I the LORD have said it . The word of the LORD came unto me again , saying , 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 . Appoint a way , that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites , and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . And thou , profane wicked prince of Israel , whose day is come , when iniquity shall have an end , 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 . 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 . 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 : 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Now , thou son of man , wilt thou judge , wilt thou judge the bloody city ? yea , thou shalt shew her all her abominations . 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 . 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 . Those that be near , and those that be far from thee , shall mock thee , which art infamous and much vexed . Behold , the princes of Israel , every one were in thee to their power to shed blood . 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 . Thou hast despised mine holy things , and hast profaned my sabbaths . 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 . In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness : in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . And I will scatter thee among the heathen , and disperse thee in the countries , and will consume thy filthiness out of thee . And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen , and thou shalt know that I am the LORD . And the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , 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 . Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ; Because ye are all become dross , behold , therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem . 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 . Yea , I will gather you , and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath , and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof . 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 . And the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Son of man , say unto her , Thou art the land that is not cleansed , nor rained upon in the day of indignation . There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof , like a roaring lion ravening the prey ; they have devoured souls ; they have taken the treasure and precious things ; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof . 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 . Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey , to shed blood , and to destroy souls , to get dishonest gain . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . The word of the LORD came again unto me , saying , Son of man , there were two women , the daughters of one mother : 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 . 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 . And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine ; and she doted on her lovers , on the Assyrians her neighbours , Which were clothed with blue , captains and rulers , all of them desirable young men , horsemen riding upon horses . 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 . 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 . Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers , into the hand of the Assyrians , upon whom she doted . 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 . 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 . She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours , captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously , horsemen riding upon horses , all of them desirable young men . Then I saw that she was defiled , that they took both one way , And that she increased her whoredoms : for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall , the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion , 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 : And as soon as she saw them with her eyes , she doted upon them , and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea . 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 . 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 . 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 . For she doted upon their paramours , whose flesh is as the flesh of asses , and whose issue is like the issue of horses . Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth , in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth . There , 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 ; 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 . 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 . 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 . They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes , and take away thy fair jewels . 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 . 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 : 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 . I will do these things unto thee , because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen , and because thou art polluted with their idols . Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister ; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand . 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 . Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow , with the cup of astonishment and desolation , with the cup of thy sister Samaria . 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 . 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 . The LORD said moreover unto me ; Son of man , wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah ? yea , declare unto them their abominations ; 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 . Moreover this they have done unto me : they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day , and have profaned my sabbaths . For when they had slain their children to their idols , then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it ; and , lo , thus have they done in the midst of mine house . 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 , And satest upon a stately bed , and a table prepared before it , whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil . 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 . Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries , Will they now commit whoredoms with her , and she with them ? 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 . 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 . For thus saith the Lord GOD ; I will bring up a company upon them , and will give them to be removed and spoiled . 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 . Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land , that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness . 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 . 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 , 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 . 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 : Gather the pieces thereof into it , even every good piece , the thigh , and the shoulder ; fill it with the choice bones . 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 . 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 up on it . 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 ; 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 . Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ; Woe to the bloody city ! I will even make the pile for fire great . Heap on wood , kindle the fire , consume the flesh , and spice it well , and let the bones be burned . 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 . She hath wearied herself with lies , and her great scum went not forth out of her : her scum shall be in the fire . 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 . 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 . Also the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , 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 . 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 . 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 . And the people said unto me , Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us , that thou doest so ? Then I answered them , The word of the LORD came unto me , saying , 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 . And ye shall do as I have done : ye shall not cover your lips , nor eat the bread of men . 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 . 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 . 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 , That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee , to cause thee to hear it with thine ears ? 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 . The word of the LORD came again unto me , saying , Son of man , set thy face against the Ammonites , and prophesy against them ; 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 ; Behold , therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession , and they shall set their palaces in thee , and make their dwellings in thee : they shall eat thy fruit , and they shall drink thy milk . And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels , and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks : and ye shall know that I am the LORD . 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 ; 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 . Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Because that Moab and Seir do say , Behold , the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen ; Therefore , behold , I will open the side of Moab from the cities , from his cities which are on his frontiers , the glory of the country , Beth-jeshimoth , Baal-meon , and Kiriathaim , 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 . And I will execute judgments upon Moab ; and they shall know that I am the LORD . 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 ; 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 . 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 . 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 ; 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 . And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes ; and they shall know that I am the LORD , when I shall lay my vengeance upon them . And it came to pass in the eleventh year , in the first day of the month , that the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , 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 : 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 . 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 . 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 . And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword ; and they shall know that I am the LORD . 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 . 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 . And he shall set engines of war against thy walls , and with his axes he shall break down thy towers . By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee : thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen , and of the wheels , and of the chariots , when he shall enter into thy gates , as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach . With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets : he shall slay thy people by the sword , and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground . And they shall make a spoil of thy riches , and make a prey of thy merchandise : and they shall break down thy walls , and destroy thy pleasant houses : and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water . And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease ; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard . 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 . 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 ? 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 . 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 ! 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 . 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 ; 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 ; 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 . The word of the LORD came again unto me , saying , Now , thou son of man , take up a lamentation for Tyrus ; 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 . Thy borders are in the midst of the seas , thy builders have perfected thy beauty . They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir : they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee . 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 . 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 . The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners : thy wise men , O Tyrus , that were in thee , were thy pilots . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . Javan , Tubal , and Meshech , they were thy merchants : they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market . They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs : bright iron , cassia , and calamus , were in thy market . Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots . Arabia , and all the princes of Kedar , they occupied with thee in lambs , and rams , and goats : in these were they thy merchants . 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 . Haran , and Canneh , and Eden , the merchants of Sheba , Assur , and Chilmad , were thy merchants . 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 . 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 . Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters : the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas . 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 . The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots . And all that handle the oar , the mariners , and all the pilots of the sea , shall come down from their ships , they shall stand upon the land ; And 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 : 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 . 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 ? 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 . 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 . 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 . The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee ; thou shalt be a terror , and never shalt be any more . The word of the LORD came again unto me , saying , 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 : Behold , thou art wiser than Daniel ; there is no secret that they can hide from thee : With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches , and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures : By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches , and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches : Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God ; 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 . 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 . 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 . Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers : for I have spoken it , saith the Lord GOD . Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , 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 . 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 . 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 . Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created , till iniquity was found in thee . By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence , and thou hast sinned : therefore I 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . Again the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Son of man , set thy face against Zidon , and prophesy against it , 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . In the tenth year , in the tenth month , in the twelfth day of the month , the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Son of man , set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt , and prophesy against him , and against all Egypt : 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ; Behold , I will bring a sword upon thee , and cut off man and beast out of thee . 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 . 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 . No foot of man shall pass through it , nor foot of beast shall pass through it , neither shall it be inhabited forty years . 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 . Yet thus saith the Lord GOD ; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered : 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 , 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 : 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 . 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 . 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 . The word of the LORD came again unto me , saying , Son of man , prophesy and say , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Howl ye , Woe worth the day For the day is near , even the day of the LORD is near , a cloudy day ; it shall be the time of the heathen . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . Thus saith the Lord GOD ; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon . 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 . 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 . 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 . And I will make Pathros desolate , and will set fire in Zoan , and will execute judgments in No . And I will pour my fury upon Sin , the strength of Egypt ; and I will cut off the multitude of No . And I will set fire in Egypt : Sin shall have great pain , and No shall be rent asunder , and Noph shall have distresses daily . The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword : and these cities shall go into captivity . 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 . Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt : and they shall know that I am the LORD . 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 , 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 . 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 . And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations , and will disperse them through the countries . 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 . 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 . And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations , and disperse them among the countries ; and they shall know that I am the LORD . And it came to pass in the eleventh year , in the third month , in the first day of the month , that the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Son of man , speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt , and to his multitude ; Whom art thou like in thy greatness ? Behold , the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches , and with a shadowing shroud , and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs . The waters made him great , the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants , and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field . Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field , and his boughs were multiplied , and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters , when he shot forth . All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs , and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young , and under his shadow dwelt all great nations . Thus was he fair in his greatness , in the length of his branches : for his root was by great waters . The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him : the fir trees were not like his boughs , and the chestnut trees were not like his branches ; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty . I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches : so that all the trees of Eden , that were in the garden of God , envied him . Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height , and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs , and his heart is lifted up in his height ; I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen ; he shall surely deal with him : I have driven him out for his wickedness . And strangers , the terrible of the nations , have cut him off , and have left him : upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen , and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land ; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow , and have left him . Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain , and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches : To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height , neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs , neither their trees stand up in their height , all that drink water : for they are all delivered unto death , to the nether parts of the earth , in the midst of the children of men , with them that go down to the pit . Thus saith the Lord GOD ; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning : I covered the deep for him , and I restrained the floods thereof , and the great waters were stayed : and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him , and all the trees of the field fainted for him . I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall , when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit : and all the trees of Eden , the choice and best of Lebanon , all that drink water , shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth . They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword ; and they that were his arm , that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen . To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden ? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth : thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword . This is Pharaoh and all his multitude , saith the Lord GOD . And it came to pass in the twelfth year , in the twelfth month , in the first day of the month , that the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Son of man , take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt , and say unto him , Thou art like a young lion of the nations , and thou art as a whale in the seas : and thou camest forth with thy rivers , and troubledst the waters with thy feet , and fouledst their rivers . Thus saith the Lord GOD ; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people ; and they shall bring thee up in my net . Then will I leave thee upon the land , I will cast thee forth upon the open field , and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee , and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee . And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains , and fill the valleys with thy height . I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest , even to the mountains ; and the rivers shall be full of thee . And when I shall put thee out , I will cover the heaven , and make the stars thereof dark ; I will cover the sun with a cloud , and the moon shall not give her light . All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee , and set darkness upon thy land , saith the Lord GOD . I will also vex the hearts of many people , when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations , into the countries which thou hast not known . Yea , I will make many people amazed at thee , and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee , when I shall brandish my sword before them ; and they shall tremble at every moment , every man for his own life , in the day of thy fall . For thus saith the Lord GOD ; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee . By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall , the terrible of the nations , all of them : and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt , and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed . I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters ; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more , nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them . Then will I make their waters deep , and cause their rivers to run like oil , saith the Lord GOD . When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate , and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full , when I shall smite all them that dwell therein , then shall they know that I am the LORD . This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her : the daughters of the nations shall lament her : they shall lament for her , even for Egypt , and for all her multitude , saith the Lord GOD . It came to pass also in the twelfth year , in the fifteenth day of the month , that the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Son of man , wail for the multitude of Egypt , and cast them down , even her , and the daughters of the famous nations , unto the nether parts of the earth , with them that go down into the pit . Whom dost thou pass in beauty ? go down , and be thou laid with the uncircumcised . They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword : she is delivered to the sword : draw her and all her multitudes . The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him : they are gone down , they lie uncircumcised , slain by the sword . Asshur is there and all her company : his graves are about him : all of them slain , fallen by the sword : Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit , and her company is round about her grave : all of them slain , fallen by the sword , which caused terror in the land of the living . There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave , all of them slain , fallen by the sword , which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth , which caused their terror in the land of the living ; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit . They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude : her graves are round about him : all of them uncircumcised , slain by the sword : though their terror was caused in the land of the living , yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit : he is put in the midst of them that be slain . There is Meshech , Tubal , and all her multitude : her graves are round about him : all of them uncircumcised , slain by the sword , though they caused their terror in the land of the living . And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised , which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war : and they have laid their swords under their heads , but their iniquities shall be upon their bones , though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living . Yea , thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised , and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword . There is Edom , her kings , and all her princes , which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword : they shall lie with the uncircumcised , and with them that go down to the pit . There be the princes of the north , all of them , and all the Zidonians , which are gone down with the slain ; with their terror they are ashamed of their might ; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword , and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit . Pharaoh shall see them , and shall be comforted over all his multitude , even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword , saith the Lord GOD . For I have caused my terror in the land of the living : and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword , even Pharaoh and all his multitude , saith the Lord GOD . Again the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Son of man , speak to the children of thy people , and say unto them , When I bring the sword upon a land , if the people of the land take a man of their coasts , and set him for their watchman : If when he seeth the sword come upon the land , he blow the trumpet , and warn the people ; Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet , and taketh not warning ; if the sword come , and take him away , his blood shall be upon his own head . He heard the sound of the trumpet , and took not warning ; his blood shall be upon him . But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul . But if the watchman see the sword come , and blow not the trumpet , and the people be not warned ; if the sword come , and take any person from among them , he is taken away in his iniquity ; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand . So thou , O son of man , I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel ; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth , and warn them from me . When I say unto the wicked , O wicked man , thou shalt surely die ; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way , that wicked man shall die in his iniquity ; but his blood will I require at thine hand . Nevertheless , if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it ; if he do not turn from his way , he shall die in his iniquity ; but thou hast delivered thy soul . Therefore , O thou son of man , speak unto the house of Israel ; Thus ye speak , saying , If our transgressions and our sins be upon us , and we pine away in them , how should we then live ? Say unto them , As I live , saith the Lord GOD , I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked ; but that the wicked turn from his way and live : turn ye , turn ye from your evil ways ; for why will ye die , O house of Israel ? Therefore , thou son of man , say unto the children of thy people , The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression : as for the wickedness of the wicked , he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness ; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth . When I shall say to the righteous , that he shall surely live ; if he trust to his own righteousness , and commit iniquity , all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered ; but for his iniquity that he hath committed , he shall die for it . Again , when I say unto the wicked , Thou shalt surely die ; if he turn from his sin , and do that which is lawful and right ; If the wicked restore the pledge , give again that he had robbed , walk in the statutes of life , without committing iniquity ; he shall surely live , he shall not die . None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him : he hath done that which is lawful and right ; he shall surely live . Yet the children of thy people say , The way of the Lord is not equal : but as for them , their way is not equal . When the righteous turneth from his righteousness , and committeth iniquity , he shall even die thereby . But if the wicked turn from his wickedness , and do that which is lawful and right , he shall live thereby . Yet ye say , The way of the Lord is not equal . O ye house of Israel , I will judge you every one after his ways . And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity , in the tenth month , in the fifth day of the month , that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me , saying , The city is smitten . Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening , afore he that was escaped came ; and had opened my mouth , until he came to me in the morning ; and my mouth was opened , and I was no more dumb . Then the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Son of man , they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak , saying , Abraham was one , and he inherited the land : but we are many ; the land is given us for inheritance . Wherefore say unto them , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Ye eat with the blood , and lift up your eyes toward your idols , and shed blood : and shall ye possess the land ? Ye stand upon your sword , ye work abomination , and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife : and shall ye possess the land ? Say thou thus unto them , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; As I live , surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword , and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured , and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence . For I will lay the land most desolate , and the pomp of her strength shall cease ; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate , that none shall pass through . Then shall they know that I am the LORD , when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed . Also , thou son of man , the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses , and speak one to another , every one to his brother , saying , Come , I pray you , and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the LORD . And they come unto thee as the people cometh , and they sit before thee as my people , and they hear thy words , but they will not do them : for with their mouth they shew much love , but their heart goeth after their covetousness . And , lo , thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice , and can play well on an instrument : for they hear thy words , but they do them not . And when this cometh to pass , ( lo , it will come , ) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them . And the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Son of man , prophesy against the shepherds of Israel , prophesy , and say unto them , Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds ; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves ! should not the shepherds feed the flocks ? Ye eat the fat , and ye clothe you with the wool , ye kill them that are fed : but ye feed not the flock . The diseased have ye not strengthened , neither have ye healed that which was sick , neither have ye bound up that which was broken , neither have ye brought again that which was driven away , neither have ye sought that which was lost ; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them . And they were scattered , because there is no shepherd : and they became meat to all the beasts of the field , when they were scattered . My sheep wandered through all the mountains , and upon every high hill : yea , my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth , and none did search or seek after them . Therefore , ye shepherds , hear the word of the LORD ; As I live , saith the Lord GOD , surely because my flock became a prey , and my flock became meat to every beast of the field , because there was no shepherd , neither did my shepherds search for my flock , but the shepherds fed themselves , and fed not my flock ; Therefore , O ye shepherds , hear the word of the LORD ; Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Behold , I am against the shepherds ; and I will require my flock at their hand , and cause them to cease from feeding the flock ; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more ; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth , that they may not be meat for them . For thus saith the Lord GOD ; Behold , I , even I , will both search my sheep , and seek them out . As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered ; so will I seek out my sheep , and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day . And I will bring them out from the people , and gather them from the countries , and will bring them to their own land , and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers , and in all the inhabited places of the country . I will feed them in a good pasture , and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be : there shall they lie in a good fold , and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel . I will feed my flock , and I will cause them to lie down , saith the Lord GOD . I will seek that which was lost , and bring again that which was driven away , and will bind up that which was broken , and will strengthen that which was sick : but I will destroy the fat and the strong ; I will feed them with judgment . And as for you , O my flock , thus saith the Lord GOD ; Behold , I judge between cattle and cattle , between the rams and the he goats . Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture , but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures ? and to have drunk of the deep waters , but ye must foul the residue with your feet ? And as for my flock , they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet ; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet . Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them ; Behold , I , even I , will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle . Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder , and pushed all the diseased with your horns , till ye have scattered them abroad ; Therefore will I save my flock , and they shall no more be a prey ; and I will judge between cattle and cattle . And I will set up one shepherd over them , and he shall feed them , even my servant David ; he shall feed them , and he shall be their shepherd . And I the LORD will be their God , and my servant David a prince among them ; I the LORD have spoken it . And I will make with them a covenant of peace , and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land : and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness , and sleep in the woods . And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing ; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season ; there shall be showers of blessing . And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit , and the earth shall yield her increase , and they shall be safe in their land , and shall know that I am the LORD , when I have broken the bands of their yoke , and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them . And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen , neither shall the beast of the land devour them ; but they shall dwell safely , and none shall make them afraid . And I will raise up for them a plant of renown , and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land , neither bear the shame of the heathen any more . Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them , and that they , even the house of Israel , are my people , saith the Lord GOD . And ye my flock , the flock of my pasture , are men , and I am your God , saith the Lord GOD . Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Son of man , set thy face against mount Seir , and prophesy against it , And say unto it , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Behold , O mount Seir , I am against thee , and I will stretch out mine hand against thee , and I will make thee most desolate . I will lay thy cities waste , and thou shalt be desolate , and thou shalt know that I am the LORD . Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred , and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity , in the time that their iniquity had an end : Therefore , as I live , saith the Lord GOD , I will prepare thee unto blood , and blood shall pursue thee : sith thou hast not hated blood , even blood shall pursue thee . Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate , and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth . And I will fill his mountains with his slain men : in thy hills , and in thy valleys , and in all thy rivers , shall they fall that are slain with the sword . I will make thee perpetual desolations , and thy cities shall not return : and ye shall know that I am the LORD . Because thou hast said , These two nations and these two countries shall be mine , and we will possess it ; whereas the LORD was there : Therefore , as I live , saith the Lord GOD , I will even do according to thine anger , and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them ; and I will make myself known among them , when I have judged thee . And thou shalt know that I am the LORD , and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel , saying , They are laid desolate , they are given us to consume . Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me , and have multiplied your words against me : I have heard them . Thus saith the Lord GOD ; When the whole earth rejoiceth , I will make thee desolate . As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel , because it was desolate , so will I do unto thee : thou shalt be desolate , O mount Seir , and all Idumea , even all of it : and they shall know that I am the LORD . Also , thou son of man , prophesy unto the mountains of Israel , and say , Ye mountains of Israel , hear the word of the LORD : Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Because the enemy hath said against you , Aha , even the ancient high places are ours in possession : Therefore prophesy and say , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Because they have made you desolate , and swallowed you up on every side , that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen , and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers , and are an infamy of the people : Therefore , ye mountains of Israel , hear the word of the Lord GOD ; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains , and to the hills , to the rivers , and to the valleys , to the desolate wastes , and to the cities that are forsaken , which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about ; Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen , and against all Idumea , which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart , with despiteful minds , to cast it out for a prey . Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel , and say unto the mountains , and to the hills , to the rivers , and to the valleys , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Behold , I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury , because ye have borne the shame of the heathen : Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ; I have lifted up mine hand , Surely the heathen that are about you , they shall bear their shame . But ye , O mountains of Israel , ye shall shoot forth your branches , and yield your fruit to my people of Israel ; for they are at hand to come . For , behold , I am for you , and I will turn unto you , and ye shall be tilled and sown : And I will multiply men upon you , all the house of Israel , even all of it : and the cities shall be inhabited , and the wastes shall be builded : And I will multiply upon you man and beast ; and they shall increase and bring fruit : and I will settle you after your old estates , and will do better unto you than at your beginnings : and ye shall know that I am the LORD . Yea , I will cause men to walk upon you , even my people Israel ; and they shall possess thee , and thou shalt be their inheritance , and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men . Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Because they say unto you , Thou land devourest up men , and hast bereaved thy nations ; Therefore thou shalt devour men no more , neither bereave thy nations any more , saith the Lord GOD . Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more , neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more , neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more , saith the Lord GOD . Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Son of man , when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land , they defiled it by their own way and by their doings : their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman . Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land , and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it : And I scattered them among the heathen , and they were dispersed through the countries : according to their way and according to their doings I judged them . And when they entered unto the heathen , whither they went , they profaned my holy name , when they said to them , These are the people of the LORD , and are gone forth out of his land . But I had pity for mine holy name , which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen , whither they went . Therefore say unto the house of Israel , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; I do not this for your sakes , O house of Israel , but for mine holy name's sake , which ye have profaned among the heathen , whither ye went . And I will sanctify my great name , which was profaned among the heathen , which ye have profaned in the midst of them ; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD , saith the Lord GOD , when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes . For I will take you from among the heathen , and gather you out of all countries , and will bring you into your own land . Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you , and ye shall be clean : from all your filthiness , and from all your idols , will I cleanse you . A new heart also will I give you , and a new spirit will I put within you : and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh , and I will give you an heart of flesh . And I will put my spirit within you , and cause you to walk in my statutes , and ye shall keep my judgments , and do them . And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers ; and ye shall be my people , and I will be your God . I will also save you from all your uncleannesses : and I will call for the corn , and will increase it , and lay no famine upon you . And I will multiply the fruit of the tree , and the increase of the field , that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen . Then shall ye remember your own evil ways , and your doings that were not good , and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations . Not for your sakes do I this , saith the Lord GOD , be it known unto you : be ashamed and confounded for your own ways , O house of Israel . Thus saith the Lord GOD ; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities , and the wastes shall be builded . And the desolate land shall be tilled , whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by . And they shall say , This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden ; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced , and are inhabited . Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places , and plant that that was desolate : I the LORD have spoken it , and I will do it . Thus saith the Lord GOD ; I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel , to do it for them ; I will increase them with men like a flock . As the holy flock , as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts ; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men : and they shall know that I am the LORD . The hand of the LORD was upon me , and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD , and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones , And caused me to pass by them round about : and , behold , there were very many in the open valley ; and , lo , they were very dry . And he said unto me , Son of man , can these bones live ? And I answered , O Lord GOD , thou knowest . Again he said unto me , Prophesy upon these bones , and say unto them , O ye dry bones , hear the word of the LORD . Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones ; Behold , I will cause breath to enter into you , and ye shall live : And I will lay sinews upon you , and will bring up flesh upon you , and cover you with skin , and put breath in you , and ye shall live ; and ye shall know that I am the LORD . So I prophesied as I was commanded : and as I prophesied , there was a noise , and behold a shaking , and the bones came together , bone to his bone . And when I beheld , lo , the sinews and the flesh came up upon them , and the skin covered them above : but there was no breath in them . Then said he unto me , Prophesy unto the wind , prophesy , son of man , and say to the wind , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Come from the four winds , O breath , and breathe upon these slain , that they may live . So I prophesied as he commanded me , and the breath came into them , and they lived , and stood up upon their feet , an exceeding great army . Then he said unto me , Son of man , these bones are the whole house of Israel : behold , they say , Our bones are dried , and our hope is lost : we are cut off for our parts . Therefore prophesy and say unto them , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Behold , O my people , I will open your graves , and cause you to come up out of your graves , and bring you into the land of Israel . And ye shall know that I am the LORD , when I have opened your graves , O my people , and brought you up out of your graves , And shall put my spirit in you , and ye shall live , and I shall place you in your own land : then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it , and performed it , saith the LORD . The word of the LORD came again unto me , saying , Moreover , thou son of man , take thee one stick , and write upon it , For Judah , and for the children of Israel his companions : then take another stick , and write upon it , For Joseph , the stick of Ephraim , and for all the house of Israel his companions : And join them one to another into one stick ; and they shall become one in thine hand . And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee , saying , Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these ? Say unto them , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Behold , I will take the stick of Joseph , which is in the hand of Ephraim , and the tribes of Israel his fellows , and will put them with him , even with the stick of Judah , and make them one stick , and they shall be one in mine hand . And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes . And say unto them , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Behold , I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen , whither they be gone , and will gather them on every side , and bring them into their own land : And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel ; and one king shall be king to them all : and they shall be no more two nations , neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all : Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols , nor with their detestable things , nor with any of their transgressions : but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces , wherein they have sinned , and will cleanse them : so shall they be my people , and I will be their God . And David my servant shall be king over them ; and they all shall have one shepherd : they shall also walk in my judgments , and observe my statutes , and do them . And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant , wherein your fathers have dwelt ; and they shall dwell therein , even they , and their children , and their children's children for ever : and my servant David shall be their prince for ever . Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them ; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them : and I will place them , and multiply them , and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore . My tabernacle also shall be with them : yea , I will be their God , and they shall be my people . And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel , when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore . And the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , Son of man , set thy face against Gog , the land of Magog , the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal , and prophesy against him , And say , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Behold I am against thee , O Gog , the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal : And I will turn thee back , and put hooks into thy jaws , and I will bring thee forth , and all thine army , horses and horsemen , all of them clothed with all sorts of armour , even a great company with bucklers and shields , all of them handling swords : Persia , Ethiopia , and Libya with them ; all of them with shield and helmet : Gomer , and all his bands ; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters , and all his bands : and many people with thee . Be thou prepared , and prepare for thyself , thou , and all thy company that are assembled unto thee , and be thou a guard unto them . After many days thou shalt be visited : in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword , and is gathered out of many people , against the mountains of Israel , which have been always waste : but it is brought forth out of the nations , and they shall dwell safely all of them . Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm , thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land , thou , and all thy bands , and many people with thee . Thus saith the Lord GOD ; It shall also come to pass , that at the same time shall things come into thy mind , and thou shalt think an evil thought : And thou shalt say , I will go up to the land of unwalled villages ; I will go to them that are at rest , that dwell safely , all of them dwelling without walls , and having neither bars nor gates , To take a spoil , and to take a prey ; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited , and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations , which have gotten cattle and goods , that dwell in the midst of the land . Sheba , and Dedan , and the merchants of Tarshish , with all the young lions thereof , shall say unto thee , Art thou come to take a spoil ? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey ? to carry away silver and gold , to take away cattle and goods , to take a great spoil ? Therefore , son of man , prophesy and say unto Gog , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely , shalt thou not know it ? And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts , thou , and many people with thee , all of them riding upon horses , a great company , and a mighty army : And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel , as a cloud to cover the land ; it shall be in the latter days , and I will bring thee against my land , that the heathen may know me , when I shall be sanctified in thee , O Gog , before their eyes . Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel , which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them ? And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel , saith the Lord GOD , that my fury shall come up in my face . For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken , Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel ; So that the fishes of the sea , and the fowls of the heaven , and the beasts of the field , and all creeping things that creep upon the earth , and all the men that are upon the face of the earth , shall shake at my presence , and the mountains shall be thrown down , and the steep places shall fall , and every wall shall fall to the ground . And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains , saith the Lord GOD : every man's sword shall be against his brother . And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood ; and I will rain upon him , and upon his bands , and upon the many people that are with him , an overflowing rain , and great hailstones , fire , and brimstone . Thus will I magnify myself , and sanctify myself ; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations , and they shall know that I am the LORD . Therefore , thou son of man , prophesy against Gog , and say , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Behold , I am against thee , O Gog , the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal : And I will turn thee back , and leave but the sixth part of thee , and will cause thee to come up from the north parts , and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel : And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand , and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand . Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel , thou , and all thy bands , and the people that is with thee : I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort , and to the beasts of the field to be devoured . Thou shalt fall upon the open field : for I have spoken it , saith the Lord GOD . And I will send a fire on Magog , and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles : and they shall know that I am the LORD . So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel ; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more : and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD , the Holy One in Israel . Behold , it is come , and it is done , saith the Lord GOD ; this is the day whereof I have spoken . And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth , and shall set on fire and burn the weapons , both the shields and the bucklers , the bows and the arrows , and the handstaves , and the spears , and they shall burn them with fire seven years : So that they shall take no wood out of the field , neither cut down any out of the forests ; for they shall burn the weapons with fire : and they shall spoil those that spoiled them , and rob those that robbed them , saith the Lord GOD . And it shall come to pass in that day , that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel , the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea : and it shall stop the noses of the passengers : and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude : and they shall call it The valley of Hamon-gog . And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them , that they may cleanse the land . Yea , all the people of the land shall bury them ; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified , saith the Lord GOD . And they shall sever out men of continual employment , passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth , to cleanse it : after the end of seven months shall they search . And the passengers that pass through the land , when any seeth a man's bone , then shall he set up a sign by it , till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog . And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah . Thus shall they cleanse the land . And , thou son of man , thus saith the Lord GOD ; Speak unto every feathered fowl , and to every beast of the field , Assemble yourselves , and come ; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you , even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel , that ye may eat flesh , and drink blood . Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty , and drink the blood of the princes of the earth , of rams , of lambs , and of goats , of bullocks , all of them fatlings of Bashan . And ye shall eat fat till ye be full , and drink blood till ye be drunken , of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you . Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots , with mighty men , and with all men of war , saith the Lord GOD . And I will set my glory among the heathen , and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed , and my hand that I have laid upon them . So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward . And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity : because they trespassed against me , therefore hid I my face from them , and gave them into the hand of their enemies : so fell they all by the sword . According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them , and hid my face from them . Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob , and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel , and will be jealous for my holy name ; After that they have borne their shame , and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me , when they dwelt safely in their land , and none made them afraid . When I have brought them again from the people , and gathered them out of their enemies' lands , and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations ; Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God , which cause them to be led into captivity among the heathen : but I have gathered them unto their own land , and have left none of them any more there . Neither will I hide my face any more from them : for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel , saith the Lord GOD . In the five and twentieth year of our captivity , in the beginning of the year , in the tenth day of the month , in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten , in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me , and brought me thither . In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel , and set me upon a very high mountain , by which was as the frame of a city on the south . And he brought me thither , and , behold , there was a man , whose appearance was like the appearance of brass , with a line of flax in his hand , and a measuring reed ; and he stood in the gate . And the man said unto me , Son of man , behold with thine eyes , and hear with thine ears , and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew thee ; for to the intent that I might shew them unto thee art thou brought hither : declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel . And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about , and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth : so he measured the breadth of the building , one reed ; and the height , one reed . Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east , and went up the stairs thereof , and measured the threshold of the gate , which was one reed broad ; and the other threshold of the gate , which was one reed broad . And every little chamber was one reed long , and one reed broad ; and between the little chambers were five cubits ; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed . He measured also the porch of the gate within , one reed . Then measured he the porch of the gate , eight cubits ; and the posts thereof , two cubits ; and the porch of the gate was inward . And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this side , and three on that side ; they three were of one measure : and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side . And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate , ten cubits ; and the length of the gate , thirteen cubits . The space also before the little chambers was one cubit on this side , and the space was one cubit on that side : and the little chambers were six cubits on this side , and six cubits on that side . He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of another : the breadth was five and twenty cubits , door against door . He made also posts of threescore cubits , even unto the post of the court round about the gate . And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits . And there were narrow windows to the little chambers , and to their posts within the gate round about , and likewise to the arches : and windows were round about inward : and upon each post were palm trees . Then brought he me into the outward court , and , lo , there were chambers , and a pavement made for the court round about : thirty chambers were upon the pavement . And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement . Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without , an hundred cubits eastward and northward . And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the north , he measured the length thereof , and the breadth thereof . And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side ; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate : the length thereof was fifty cubits , and the breadth five and twenty cubits . And their windows , and their arches , and their palm trees , were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east ; and they went up unto it by seven steps ; and the arches thereof were before them . And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward the north , and toward the east ; and he measured from gate to gate an hundred cubits . After that he brought me toward the south , and behold a gate toward the south : and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures . And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about , like those windows : the length was fifty cubits , and the breadth five and twenty cubits . And there were seven steps to go up to it , and the arches thereof were before them : and it had palm trees , one on this side , and another on that side , upon the posts thereof . And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south : and he measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits . And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate : and he measured the south gate according to these measures ; And the little chambers thereof , and the posts thereof , and the arches thereof , according to these measures : and there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about : it was fifty cubits long , and five and twenty cubits broad . And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long , and five cubits broad . And the arches thereof were toward the utter court ; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof : and the going up to it had eight steps . And he brought me into the inner court toward the east : and he measured the gate according to these measures . And the little chambers thereof , and the posts thereof , and the arches thereof , were according to these measures : and there were windows therein and in the arches thereof round about : it was fifty cubits long , and five and twenty cubits broad . And the arches thereof were toward the outward court ; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof , on this side , and on that side : and the going up to it had eight steps . And he brought me to the north gate , and measured it according to these measures ; The little chambers thereof , the posts thereof , and the arches thereof , and the windows to it round about : the length was fifty cubits , and the breadth five and twenty cubits . And the posts thereof were toward the utter court ; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof , on this side , and on that side : and the going up to it had eight steps . And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates , where they washed the burnt offering . And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side , and two tables on that side , to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering . And at the side without , as one goeth up to the entry of the north gate , were two tables ; and on the other side , which was at the porch of the gate , were two tables . Four tables were on this side , and four tables on that side , by the side of the gate ; eight tables , whereupon they slew their sacrifices . And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering , of a cubit and an half long , and a cubit and an half broad , and one cubit high : whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice . And within were hooks , an hand broad , fastened round about : and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering . And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the inner court , which was at the side of the north gate ; and their prospect was toward the south : one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north . And he said unto me , This chamber , whose prospect is toward the south , is for the priests , the keepers of the charge of the house . And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests , the keepers of the charge of the altar : these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi , which come near to the LORD to minister unto him . So he measured the court , an hundred cubits long , and an hundred cubits broad , foursquare ; and the altar that was before the house . And he brought me to the porch of the house , and measured each post of the porch , five cubits on this side , and five cubits on that side : and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side , and three cubits on that side . The length of the porch was twenty cubits , and the breadth eleven cubits ; and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to it : and there were pillars by the posts , one on this side , and another on that side . Afterward he brought me to the temple , and measured the posts , six cubits broad on the one side , and six cubits broad on the other side , which was the breadth of the tabernacle . And the breadth of the door was ten cubits ; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side , and five cubits on the other side : and he measured the length thereof , forty cubits : and the breadth , twenty cubits . Then went he inward , and measured the post of the door , two cubits ; and the door , six cubits ; and the breadth of the door , seven cubits . So he measured the length thereof , twenty cubits ; and the breadth , twenty cubits , before the temple : and he said unto me , This is the most holy place . After he measured the wall of the house , six cubits ; and the breadth of every side chamber , four cubits , round about the house on every side . And the side chambers were three , one over another , and thirty in order ; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about , that they might have hold , but they had not hold in the wall of the house . And there was an enlarging , and a winding about still upward to the side chambers : for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house : therefore the breadth of the house was still upward , and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst . I saw also the height of the house round about : the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits . The thickness of the wall , which was for the side chamber without , was five cubits : and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within . And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side . And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was left , one door toward the north , and another door toward the south : and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about . Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad ; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about , and the length thereof ninety cubits . So he measured the house , an hundred cubits long ; and the separate place , and the building , with the walls thereof , an hundred cubits long ; Also the breadth of the face of the house , and of the separate place toward the east , an hundred cubits . And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it , and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side , an hundred cubits , with the inner temple , and the porches of the court ; The door posts , and the narrow windows , and the galleries round about on their three stories , over against the door , cieled with wood round about , and from the ground up to the windows , and the windows were covered ; To that above the door , even unto the inner house , and without , and by all the wall round about within and without , by measure . And it was made with cherubims and palm trees , so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub ; and every cherub had two faces ; So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side , and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side : it was made through all the house round about . From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees made , and on the wall of the temple . The posts of the temple were squared , and the face of the sanctuary ; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other . The altar of wood was three cubits high , and the length thereof two cubits ; and the corners thereof , and the length thereof , and the walls thereof , were of wood : and he said unto me , This is the table that is before the LORD . And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors . And the doors had two leaves apiece , two turning leaves ; two leaves for the one door , and two leaves for the other door . And there were made on them , on the doors of the temple , cherubims and palm trees , like as were made upon the walls ; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without . And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side , on the sides of the porch , and upon the side chambers of the house , and thick planks . Then he brought me forth into the utter court , the way toward the north : and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place , and which was before the building toward the north . Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door , and the breadth was fifty cubits . Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court , and over against the pavement which was for the utter court , was gallery against gallery in three stories . And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward , a way of one cubit ; and their doors toward the north . Now the upper chambers were shorter : for the galleries were higher than these , than the lower , and than the middlemost of the building . For they were in three stories , but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts : therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground . And the wall that was without over against the chambers , toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers , the length thereof was fifty cubits . For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits : and , lo , before the temple were an hundred cubits . And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side , as one goeth into them from the utter court . The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east , over against the separate place , and over against the building . And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north , as long as they , and as broad as they : and all their goings out were both according to their fashions , and according to their doors . And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way , even the way directly before the wall toward the east , as one entereth into them . Then said he unto me , The north chambers and the south chambers , which are before the separate place , they be holy chambers , where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things : there shall they lay the most holy things , and the meat offering , and the sin offering , and the trespass offering ; for the place is holy . When the priests enter therein , then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court , but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister ; for they are holy ; and shall put on other garments , and shall approach to those things which are for the people . Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house , he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east , and measured it round about . He measured the east side with the measuring reed , five hundred reeds , with the measuring reed round about . He measured the north side , five hundred reeds , with the measuring reed round about . He measured the south side , five hundred reeds , with the measuring reed . He turned about to the west side , and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed . He measured it by the four sides : it had a wall round about , five hundred reeds long , and five hundred broad , to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place . Afterward he brought me to the gate , even the gate that looketh toward the east : And , behold , the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east : and his voice was like a noise of many waters : and the earth shined with his glory . And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw , even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city : and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar ; and I fell upon my face . And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east . So the spirit took me up , and brought me into the inner court ; and , behold , the glory of the LORD filled the house . And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house ; and the man stood by me . And he said unto me , Son of man , the place of my throne , and the place of the soles of my feet , where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever , and my holy name , shall the house of Israel no more defile , neither they , nor their kings , by their whoredom , nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places . In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds , and their post by my posts , and the wall between me and them , they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed : wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger . Now let them put away their whoredom , and the carcases of their kings , far from me , and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever . Thou son of man , shew the house to the house of Israel , that they may be ashamed of their iniquities : and let them measure the pattern . And if they be ashamed of all that they have done , shew them the form of the house , and the fashion thereof , and the goings out thereof , and the comings in thereof , and all the forms thereof , and all the ordinances thereof , and all the forms thereof , and all the laws thereof : and write it in their sight , that they may keep the whole form thereof , and all the ordinances thereof , and do them . This is the law of the house ; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy . Behold , this is the law of the house . And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits : The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth ; even the bottom shall be a cubit , and the breadth a cubit , and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span : and this shall be the higher place of the altar . And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits , and the breadth one cubit ; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits , and the breadth one cubit . So the altar shall be four cubits ; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns . And the altar shall be twelve cubits long , twelve broad , square in the four squares thereof . And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof ; and the border about it shall be half a cubit ; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about ; and his stairs shall look toward the east . And he said unto me , Son of man , thus saith the Lord GOD ; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it , to offer burnt offerings thereon , and to sprinkle blood thereon . And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok , which approach unto me , to minister unto me , saith the Lord GOD , a young bullock for a sin offering . And thou shalt take of the blood thereof , and put it on the four horns of it , and on the four corners of the settle , and upon the border round about : thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it . Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering , and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house , without the sanctuary . And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering ; and they shall cleanse the altar , as they did cleanse it with the bullock . When thou hast made an end of cleansing it , thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish , and a ram out of the flock without blemish . And thou shalt offer them before the LORD , and the priests shall cast salt upon them , and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD . Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin offering : they shall also prepare a young bullock , and a ram out of the flock , without blemish . Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it ; and they shall consecrate themselves . And when these days are expired , it shall be , that upon the eighth day , and so forward , the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar , and your peace offerings ; and I will accept you , saith the Lord GOD . Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east ; and it was shut . Then said the LORD unto me ; This gate shall be shut , it shall not be opened , and no man shall enter in by it ; because the LORD , the God of Israel , hath entered in by it , therefore it shall be shut . It is for the prince ; the prince , he shall sit in it to eat bread before the LORD ; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate , and shall go out by the way of the same . Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house : and I looked , and , behold , the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD : and I fell upon my face . And the LORD said unto me , Son of man , mark well , and behold with thine eyes , and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD , and all the laws thereof ; and mark well the entering in of the house , with every going forth of the sanctuary . And thou shalt say to the rebellious , even to the house of Israel , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; O ye house of Israel , let it suffice you of all your abominations , In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers , uncircumcised in heart , and uncircumcised in flesh , to be in my sanctuary , to pollute it , even my house , when ye offer my bread , the fat and the blood , and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations . And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things : but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves . Thus saith the Lord GOD ; No stranger , uncircumcised in heart , nor uncircumcised in flesh , shall enter into my sanctuary , of any stranger that is among the children of Israel . And the Levites that are gone away far from me , when Israel went astray , which went astray away from me after their idols ; they shall even bear their iniquity . Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary , having charge at the gates of the house , and ministering to the house : they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people , and they shall stand before them to minister unto them . Because they ministered unto them before their idols , and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity ; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them , saith the Lord GOD , and they shall bear their iniquity . And they shall not come near unto me , to do the office of a priest unto me , nor to come near to any of my holy things , in the most holy place : but they shall bear their shame , and their abominations which they have committed . But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house , for all the service thereof , and for all that shall be done therein . But the priests the Levites , the sons of Zadok , that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me , they shall come near to me to minister unto me , and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood , saith the Lord GOD : They shall enter into my sanctuary , and they shall come near to my table , to minister unto me , and they shall keep my charge . And it shall come to pass , that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court , they shall be clothed with linen garments ; and no wool shall come upon them , whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court , and within . They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads , and shall have linen breeches upon their loins ; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat . And when they go forth into the utter court , even into the utter court to the people , they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered , and lay them in the holy chambers , and they shall put on other garments ; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments . Neither shall they shave their heads , nor suffer their locks to grow long ; they shall only poll their heads . Neither shall any priest drink wine , when they enter into the inner court . Neither shall they take for their wives a widow , nor her that is put away : but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel , or a widow that had a priest before . And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane , and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean . And in controversy they shall stand in judgment ; and they shall judge it according to my judgments : and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies ; and they shall hallow my sabbaths . And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves : but for father , or for mother , or for son , or for daughter , for brother , or for sister that hath had no husband , they may defile themselves . And after he is cleansed , they shall reckon unto him seven days . And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary , unto the inner court , to minister in the sanctuary , he shall offer his sin offering , saith the Lord GOD . And it shall be unto them for an inheritance : I am their inheritance : and ye shall give them no possession in Israel : I am their possession . They shall eat the meat offering , and the sin offering , and the trespass offering ; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs . And the first of all the firstfruits of all things , and every oblation of all , of every sort of your oblations , shall be the priest's : ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough , that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house . The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself , or torn , whether it be fowl or beast . Moreover , when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance , ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD , an holy portion of the land : the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds , and the breadth shall be ten thousand . This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about . Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length , with five hundred in breadth , square round about ; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof . And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand , and the breadth of ten thousand : and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place . The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary , which shall come near to minister unto the LORD : and it shall be a place for their houses , and an holy place for the sanctuary . And the five and twenty thousand of length , and the ten thousand of breadth , shall also the Levites , the ministers of the house , have for themselves , for a possession for twenty chambers . And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad , and five and twenty thousand long , over against the oblation of the holy portion : it shall be for the whole house of Israel . And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion , and of the possession of the city , before the oblation of the holy portion , and before the possession of the city , from the west side westward , and from the east side eastward : and the length shall be over against one of the portions , from the west border unto the east border . In the land shall be his possession in Israel : and my princes shall no more oppress my people ; and the rest of the land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes . Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Let it suffice you , O princes of Israel : remove violence and spoil , and execute judgment and justice , take away your exactions from my people , saith the Lord GOD . Ye shall have just balances , and a just ephah , and a just bath . I The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure , that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer , and the ephah the tenth part of an homer : the measure thereof shall be after the homer . And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs : twenty shekels , five and twenty shekels , fifteen shekels , shall be your manneh . This is the oblation that ye shall offer ; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat , and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley : Concerning the ordinance of oil , the bath of oil , ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor , which is an homer of ten baths ; for ten baths are an homer : And one lamb out of the flock , out of two hundred , out of the fat pastures of Israel ; for a meat offering , and for a burnt offering , and for peace offerings , to make reconciliation for them , saith the Lord GOD . All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in Israel . And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings , and meat offerings , and drink offerings , in the feasts , and in the new moons , and in the sabbaths , in all solemnities of the house of Israel : he shall prepare the sin offering , and the meat offering , and the burnt offering , and the peace offerings , to make reconciliation for the house of Israel . Thus saith the Lord GOD ; In the first month , in the first day of the month , thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish , and cleanse the sanctuary : And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering , and put it upon the posts of the house , and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar , and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court . And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth , and for him that is simple : so shall ye reconcile the house . In the first month , in the fourteenth day of the month , ye shall have the passover , a feast of seven days ; unleavened bread shall be eaten . And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering . And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD , seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days ; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering . And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock , and an ephah for a ram , and an hin of oil for an ephah . In the seventh month , in the fifteenth day of the month , shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days , according to the sin offering , according to the burnt offering , and according to the meat offering , and according to the oil . Thus saith the Lord GOD ; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days ; but on the sabbath it shall be opened , and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened . And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without , and shall stand by the post of the gate , and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings , and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate : then he shall go forth ; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening . Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons . And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish , and a ram without blemish . And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram , and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give , and an hin of oil to an ephah . And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish , and six lambs , and a ram : they shall be without blemish . And he shall prepare a meat offering , an ephah for a bullock , and an ephah for a ram , and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto , and an hin of oil to an ephah . And when the prince shall enter , he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate , and he shall go forth by the way thereof . But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts , he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate ; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate : he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in , but shall go forth over against it . And the prince in the midst of them , when they go in , shall go in ; and when they go forth , shall go forth . And in the feast and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock , and ephah to a ram , and to the lambs as he is able to give , and an hin of oil to an ephah . Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD , one shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east , and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings , as he did on the sabbath day : then he shall go forth ; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate . Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish : thou shalt prepare it every morning . And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning , the sixth part of an ephah , and the third part of an hin of oil , to temper with the fine flour ; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD . Thus shall they prepare the lamb , and the meat offering , and the oil , every morning for a continual burnt offering . Thus saith the Lord GOD ; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons , the inheritance thereof shall be his sons' ; it shall be their possession by inheritance . But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants , then it shall be his to the year of liberty ; after it shall return to the prince : but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them . Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression , to thrust them out of their possession ; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession : that my people be not scattered every man from his possession . After he brought me through the entry , which was at the side of the gate , into the holy chambers of the priests , which looked toward the north : and , behold , there was a place on the two sides westward . Then said he unto me , This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering , where they shall bake the meat offering ; that they bear them not out into the utter court , to sanctify the people . Then he brought me forth into the utter court , and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court ; and , behold , in every corner of the court there was a court . In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad : these four corners were of one measure . And there was a row of building round about in them , round about them four , and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about . Then said he unto me , These are the places of them that boil , where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people . Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house ; and , behold , waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward : for the forefront of the house stood toward the east , and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house , at the south side of the altar . Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward , and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward ; and , behold , there ran out waters on the right side . And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward , he measured a thousand cubits , and he brought me through the waters ; the waters were to the ancles . Again he measured a thousand , and brought me through the waters ; the waters were to the knees . Again he measured a thousand , and brought me through ; the waters were to the loins . Afterward he measured a thousand ; and it was a river that I could not pass over : for the waters were risen , waters to swim in , a river that could not be passed over . And he said unto me , Son of man , hast thou seen this ? Then he brought me , and caused me to return to the brink of the river . Now when I had returned , behold , at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other . Then said he unto me , These waters issue out toward the east country , and go down into the desert , and go into the sea : which being brought forth into the sea , the waters shall be healed . And it shall come to pass , that every thing that liveth , which moveth , whithersoever the rivers shall come , shall live : and there shall be a very great multitude of fish , because these waters shall come thither : for they shall be healed ; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh . And it shall come to pass , that the fishers shall stand upon it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim ; they shall be a place to spread forth nets ; their fish shall be according to their kinds , as the fish of the great sea , exceeding many . But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed ; they shall be given to salt . And by the river upon the bank thereof , on this side and on that side , shall grow all trees for meat , whose leaf shall not fade , neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed : it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months , because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary : and the fruit thereof shall be for meat , and the leaf thereof for medicine . Thus saith the Lord GOD ; This shall be the border , whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel : Joseph shall have two portions . And ye shall inherit it , one as well as another : concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers : and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance . And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side , from the great sea , the way of Hethlon , as men go to Zedad ; Hamath , Berothah , Sibraim , which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath ; Hazar-hatticon , which is by the coast of Hauran . And the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enan , the border of Damascus , and the north northward , and the border of Hamath . And this is the north side . And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran , and from Damascus , and from Gilead , and from the land of Israel by Jordan , from the border unto the east sea . And this is the east side . And the south side southward , from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh , the river to the great sea . And this is the south side southward . The west side also shall be the great sea from the border , till a man come over against Hamath . This is the west side . So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Israel . And it shall come to pass , that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you , and to the strangers that sojourn among you , which shall beget children among you : and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel ; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel . And it shall come to pass , that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth , there shall ye give him his inheritance , saith the Lord GOD . Now these are the names of the tribes . From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon , as one goeth to Hamath , Hazar-enan , the border of Damascus northward , to the coast of Hamath ; for these are his sides east and west ; a portion for Dan . And by the border of Dan , from the east side unto the west side , a portion for Asher . And by the border of Asher , from the east side even unto the west side , a portion for Naphtali . And by the border of Naphtali , from the east side unto the west side , a portion for Manasseh . And by the border of Manasseh , from the east side unto the west side , a portion for Ephraim . And by the border of Ephraim , from the east side even unto the west side , a portion for Reuben . And by the border of Reuben , from the east side unto the west side , a portion for Judah . And by the border of Judah , from the east side unto the west side , shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth , and in length as one of the other parts , from the east side unto the west side : and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it . The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of five and twenty thousand in length , and of ten thousand in breadth . And for them , even for the priests , shall be this holy oblation ; toward the north five and twenty thousand in length , and toward the west ten thousand in breadth , and toward the east ten thousand in breadth , and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length : and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the midst thereof . It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok ; which have kept my charge , which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray , as the Levites went astray . And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites . And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length , and ten thousand in breadth : all the length shall be five and twenty thousand , and the breadth ten thousand . And they shall not sell of it , neither exchange , nor alienate the firstfruits of the land : for it is holy unto the LORD . And the five thousand , that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand , shall be a profane place for the city , for dwelling , and for suburbs : and the city shall be in the midst thereof . And these shall be the measures thereof ; the north side four thousand and five hundred , and the south side four thousand and five hundred , and on the east side four thousand and five hundred , and the west side four thousand and five hundred . And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty , and toward the south two hundred and fifty , and toward the east two hundred and fifty , and toward the west two hundred and fifty . And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward , and ten thousand westward : and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion ; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city . And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel . All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand : ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare , with the possession of the city . And the residue shall be for the prince , on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation , and of the possession of the city , over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border , and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border , over against the portions for the prince : and it shall be the holy oblation ; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof . Moreover from the possession of the Levites , and from the possession of the city , being in the midst of that which is the prince's , between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin , shall be for the prince . As for the rest of the tribes , from the east side unto the west side , Benjamin shall have a portion . And by the border of Benjamin , from the east side unto the west side , Simeon shall have a portion . And by the border of Simeon , from the east side unto the west side , Issachar a portion . And by the border of Issachar , from the east side unto the west side , Zebulun a portion . And by the border of Zebulun , from the east side unto the west side , Gad a portion . And by the border of Gad , at the south side southward , the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh , and to the river toward the great sea . This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance , and these are their portions , saith the Lord GOD . And these are the goings out of the city on the north side , four thousand and five hundred measures . And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel : three gates northward ; one gate of Reuben , one gate of Judah , one gate of Levi . And at the east side four thousand and five hundred : and three gates ; and one gate of Joseph , one gate of Benjamin , one gate of Dan . And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures : and three gates ; one gate of Simeon , one gate of Issachar , one gate of Zebulun . At the west side four thousand and five hundred , with their three gates ; one gate of Gad , one gate of Asher , one gate of Naphtali . It was round about eighteen thousand measures : and the name of the city from that day shall be , The LORD is there .