Ezekiel 24 Cross References - ACV

¹ Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of LORD came to me, saying, ² Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this selfsame day; the king of Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this selfsame day. ³ And utter a parable to the rebellious house, and say to them, Thus says the lord LORD: Set on the caldron. Set it on, and also pour water into it. ⁴ Gather the pieces of it into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones. ⁵ Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile of wood for the bones under the caldron. Make it boil well, yea, let the bones of it be boiled in the midst of it. ⁶ Therefore thus says the lord LORD: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece. No lot has fallen upon it. ⁷ For her blood is in the midst of her. She set it upon the bare rock. She did not pour it upon the ground to cover it with dust. ⁸ That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood upon the bare rock, that it should not be covered. ⁹ Therefore thus says the lord LORD: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great. ¹⁰ Heap on the wood; make the fire hot. Boil the flesh well, and make the broth thick. And let the bones be burned. ¹¹ Then set it empty upon the coals of it, that it may be hot, and the brass of it may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed. ¹² She has wearied herself with toil, yet her great scum does not go forth out of her, her scum by fire. ¹³ In thy filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed thee and thou were not cleansed, thou shall not be cleansed from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my wrath toward thee to rest. ¹⁴ I, LORD, have spoken it. It shall come to pass, and I will do it. I will not go back. I will neither spare, nor will I relent. According to thy ways, and according to thy doings, they shall judge thee, says the lord LORD. ¹⁵ Also the word of LORD came to me, saying, ¹⁶ Son of man, behold, I take the desire of thine eyes away from thee with a stroke. Yet thou shall neither mourn nor weep. Neither shall thy tears run down. ¹⁷ Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for the dead. Bind thy headdress upon thee, and put thy shoes upon thy feet. And do not cover thy lips, and do not eat the bread of men. ¹⁸ So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died. And I did in the morning as I was commanded. ¹⁹ And the people said to me, Will thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou do so? ²⁰ Then I said to them, The word of LORD came to me, saying, ²¹ Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the lord LORD: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul has compassion. And your sons and your daughters whom ye have left behind shall fall by the sword. ²² And ye shall do as I have done. Ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men. ²³ And your coverings shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet. Ye shall not mourn nor weep, but ye shall pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another. ²⁴ Thus Ezekiel shall be to you a sign, according to all that he has done ye shall do. When this comes, then ye shall know that I am the lord LORD. ²⁵ And 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 upon which they set their heart-their sons and their daughters- ²⁶ that in that day he who escapes shall come to thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears? ²⁷ In that day thy mouth shall be opened to him who is escaped, and thou shall speak, and no more be mute. So thou shall be a sign to them, and they shall know that I am LORD.

¹² And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers. And the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

² In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,

¹ And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the lord LORD fell there upon me.

¹ 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 LORD, and sat before me.

¹ And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of LORD came to me, saying,

¹ In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of LORD came to me, saying,

¹⁷ And it came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of LORD came to me, saying,

¹ And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of LORD came to me, saying,

¹ And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of LORD came to me, saying,

¹⁷ It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of LORD came to me, saying,

²¹ And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that a man who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city is smitten.

¹ In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was smitten, in the selfsame day, the hand of LORD was upon me, and he brought me there.

¹ And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it. And they built forts against it round about.

¹ And LORD said to me, Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it with the pen of a man, For Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

⁸ Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it on a scroll, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever. ⁹ For it is a rebellious people, lying sons, sons who will not hear the law of LORD,

¹ And it came to pass when Jerusalem was taken, in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and besieged it.

⁴ And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army against Jerusalem, and encamped against it. And they built forts against it round about.

² And LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run who reads it. ³ For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hastens toward the end, and shall not lie. Though it tarry, wait for it, because it will surely come. It will not delay.

² I will open my mouth in parables. I will utter dark sayings of old,

² Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for LORD has spoken. I have nourished and brought up sons, and they have rebelled against me.

¹ Woe to the rebellious sons, says LORD, who take counsel, but not of me, and who make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

⁹ For it is a rebellious people, lying sons, sons who will not hear the law of LORD,

¹⁰ But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit. Therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.

¹³ And the word of LORD came to me the second time, saying, What do thou see? And I said, I see a boiling caldron, and the face of it is from the north.

¹³ Because of the wrath of LORD she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues. ¹⁴ Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all ye who bend the bow. Shoot at her; spare no arrows. For she has sinned against LORD.

³ And he said to me, Son of man, I send thee to the sons of Israel, to nations that are rebellious, which have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day.

⁶ And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with thee, and thou dwell among scorpions. Be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

⁸ But thou, son of man, hear what I say to thee. Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house. Open thy mouth, and eat that which I give thee.

⁹ As an adamant, harder than flint, I have made thy forehead. Fear them not, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

³ who say, The time is not near to build houses. This city is the caldron, and we are the flesh.

⁷ Therefore thus says the lord LORD: Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron, but ye shall be brought forth out of the midst of it.

¹¹ This city shall not be your caldron, nor shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof. I will judge you in the border of Israel,

² Son of man, thou dwell in the midst of the rebellious house, that have eyes to see, and see not, that have ears to hear, and hear not, for they are a rebellious house.

²⁵ For I am LORD. I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be performed. It shall be no more deferred. For in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word, and will perform it, says the lord LORD.

² Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel,

¹² Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? Tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took the king of it, and the rulers of it, and brought them to him to Babylon.

² and say, What was thy mother? A lioness. She couched among lions. In the midst of the young lions she nourished her whelps. ³ And she brought up one of her whelps. He became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey. He devoured men. ⁴ The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt. ⁵ 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. ⁶ And he went up and down among the lions. He became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey. He devoured men. ⁷ And he knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities. And the land was desolate, and the fullness of it, because of the noise of his roaring. ⁸ Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and they spread their net over him. He was taken in their pit. ⁹ And they put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel. ¹⁰ Thy mother was like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters. It was fruitful and full of branches because of many waters. ¹¹ And it had strong twigs for the scepters of those who bore rule. And their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches. ¹² But it was plucked up in fury. It was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong twigs were broken off and withered. The fire consumed them. ¹³ And now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land. ¹⁴ And fire has gone out of the twigs of its branches. It has devoured its fruit, so that there is no strong twig in it to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

⁴⁹ Then I said, Ah lord LORD! They say of me, Is he not a speaker of parables?

⁶ Therefore thus says the lord LORD: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece. No lot has fallen upon it.

⁴ In that day they shall take up a taunt against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation. And say, We are utterly ruined. He changes the portion of my people. How he removes it from me! He divides our fields to the rebellious.

¹² And they sought to seize him. And they feared the multitude, for they knew that he spoke the parable against them. And having left him, they went away.

¹⁰ And he said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the others in parables, so that seeing they would not see, and hearing they would not understand.

⁵¹ Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers, ye also.

¹⁸ Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace. They are the dross of silver. ¹⁹ Therefore thus says the lord LORD: Because ye have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem ²⁰ as they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it. So I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you. ²¹ Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you with the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst of it. ²² As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so ye shall be melted in the midst of it. And ye shall know that I, LORD, have poured out my wrath upon you.

² Ye who hate the good, and love the evil, who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones, ³ who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

² For by what criticism ye criticize, ye will be criticized, and by what measure ye measure, it will be measured to you.

⁶ Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes. Also the king of Babylon killed all the nobles of Judah.

¹⁰ And the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. He also killed all the rulers of Judah in Riblah.

²⁴ And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold. ²⁵ And from the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war, and seven men of those who saw the king's face, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the captain of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city. ²⁶ And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. ²⁷ And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.

⁴⁷ And say to the forest of the South, Hear the word of LORD. Thus says the lord LORD: 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 burnt by it.

⁹ Therefore thus says the lord LORD: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great. ¹⁰ Heap on the wood; make the fire hot. Boil the flesh well, and make the broth thick. And let the bones be burned.

¹⁶ I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back 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 in justice. ¹⁷ And as for you, O my flock, thus says the lord LORD: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the he-goats.

²⁰ Therefore thus says the lord LORD to them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

²⁰ And the beast was taken, and the false prophet with it who did the signs in its sight by which he led astray those who received the mark of the beast and those who worship its image. The two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with brimstone.

¹⁶ So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel near by their tribes, and the tribe of Judah was taken. ¹⁷ And he brought near the family of Judah, and he took the family of the Zerahites. And he brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was taken. ¹⁸ And he brought near his household man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.

²² Then Joshua said, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring forth those five kings to me out of the cave.

⁴⁰ Then he said to all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said to Saul, Do what seems good to thee. ⁴¹ Therefore Saul said to LORD, the God of Israel, Show the right. And Jonathan and Saul were taken by lot, but the people escaped. ⁴² And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken.

² And he smote Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground. And he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. And the Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.

¹⁶ Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin in doing that which was evil in the sight of LORD.

⁴ and also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and LORD would not pardon.

²⁹ The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed of the fire. In vain do they go on refining, for the wicked are not plucked away.

⁵ And to the others he said in my hearing, Go ye through the city after him, and smite. Let not your eye spare, nor have ye pity. ⁶ Kill utterly the old man, the young man, and the virgin, and little sons, and women, but come not near any man upon whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men who were before the house.

⁶ Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain. ⁷ Therefore thus says the lord LORD: Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron, but ye shall be brought forth out of the midst of it. ⁸ Ye have feared the sword, and I will bring the sword upon you, says the lord LORD. ⁹ And I will bring you forth out of the midst of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.

² And thou, son of man, will thou judge, will thou judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.

⁶ Behold, the rulers of Israel, each one according to his power, have been in thee to shed blood. ⁷ In thee they have made light of father and mother. In the midst of thee they have dealt with the sojourner by oppression. In thee they have wronged the fatherless and the widow. ⁸ Thou have despised my holy things, and have profaned my sabbaths. ⁹ Slanderous men have been in thee to shed blood, and in thee they have eaten upon the mountains. In the midst of thee they have committed lewdness.

¹² In thee they have taken bribes to shed blood. Thou have taken interest and increase. And thou have greedily gained from thy neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the lord LORD.

²⁷ Her rulers in the midst of it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

³⁷ For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands. And with their idols they have committed adultery. And they have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire for them to be devoured. ³⁸ Moreover they have done this to me: They have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths. ³⁹ For when they had slain their sons to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it, and, lo, thus they have done in the midst of my house. ⁴⁰ And furthermore ye have sent for men who come from far, to whom a messenger was sent. And, lo, they came, for whom thou washed thyself, painted thine eyes, and decked thyself with ornaments, ⁴¹ and sat upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon thou did set my incense and my oil. ⁴² And the voice of a multitude being at ease was with her. And with men of the common sort, were brought drunkards from the wilderness, and they put bracelets upon the hands of those two women, and beautiful crowns upon their heads. ⁴³ Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, Now they will play the harlot with her, and she with them. ⁴⁴ And they went in to her, as they go in to a harlot. So they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women. ⁴⁵ And righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.

⁹ Therefore thus says the lord LORD: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.

¹¹ Then set it empty upon the coals of it, that it may be hot, and the brass of it may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed. ¹² She has wearied herself with toil, yet her great scum does not go forth out of her, her scum by fire. ¹³ In thy filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed thee and thou were not cleansed, thou shall not be cleansed from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my wrath toward thee to rest.

³ and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

¹¹ In the day that thou stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou were as one of them.

⁷ And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

² The devout man has perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood. They hunt every man his brother with a net.

¹ Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and rapine. The prey departs not.

¹⁰ Yet she was carried away. She went into captivity. Her young sons also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets. And they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

³⁵ so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

⁷ And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the abyss will make war with them, and he will overcome them and kill them. ⁸ And their corpses are in the thoroughfare of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

⁶ And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the sanctified, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And having seen her, I wondered with great amazement.

²⁴ And in her was found blood of prophets, and of the sanctified, and of all who have been killed upon the earth.

¹³ And whatever man there is of the sons of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who takes any beast or bird in hunting that may be eaten, he shall pour out the blood of it, and cover it with dust.

¹⁶ Only ye shall not eat the blood. Thou shall pour it out upon the ground as water.

²⁴ Thou shall not eat it. Thou shall pour it out upon the ground as water.

¹⁹ And thou shall speak to him, saying, Thus says LORD, Have thou killed and also taken possession? And thou shall speak to him, saying, Thus says LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.

¹⁸ O earth, do not cover thou my blood, and let my cry have no resting place.

⁹ The show of their countenance witnesses against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have done evil to themselves.

²¹ For, behold, LORD comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

³⁴ Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor. Thou did not find them breaking in. But it is because of all these things.

¹⁵ Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, nor could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall. At the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, says LORD.

²² And the generation to come, your sons who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the calamities of that land, and the sicknesses with which LORD has made it sick. ²³ The whole land of it is brimstone, and salt, a burning. It is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath, ²⁴ even all the nations shall say, Why has LORD done thus to this land? What is the meaning of the heat of this great anger? ²⁵ Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of LORD, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, ²⁶ and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they knew not, and that he had not given to them. ²⁷ Therefore the anger of LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book. ²⁸ And LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day.

²¹ They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities, and I will move them to jealousy with a non-nation. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. ²² For a fire is kindled in my anger, and burns to the lowest Sheol, and devours the earth with its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

¹⁷ Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it shall not be quenched.

²⁵ Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands. Therefore my wrath is poured out upon this place, and it shall not be quenched.

¹⁶ But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy. ¹⁷ Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or virgin, old man or hoary-headed. He gave them all into his hand.

¹⁸ The sons gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

²⁰ Therefore thus says the lord LORD: Behold, my anger and my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground. And it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

¹ Then LORD said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth. ² And it shall come to pass, when they say to thee, Where shall we go forth? Then thou shall tell them, Thus says LORD: Such as are for death, to death, and such as are for the sword, to the sword, and such as are for the famine, to the famine, and such as are for captivity, to captivity. ³ And I will appoint over them four kinds, says LORD: the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and to destroy. ⁴ And I will cause them to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.

⁸ And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say each man to his neighbor, Why has LORD done thus to this great city? ⁹ Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant of LORD their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them.

¹³ Thus my anger shall be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I shall be comforted. And they shall know that I, LORD, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath upon them.

¹⁷ Then he said to me, Have 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 turned again to provoke me to anger. And, lo, they put the branch to their nose. ¹⁸ Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.

³⁷ therefore, behold, I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou have taken pleasure, and all those whom thou have loved, with all those whom thou have hated, I will even gather them against thee on every side. And I will uncover thy nakedness to them, that they may see all thy nakedness. ³⁸ And I will judge thee, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged. And I will bring upon thee the blood of wrath and jealousy.

³⁰ And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none. ³¹ Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way upon their heads, says the lord LORD.

⁴⁵ And righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.

⁵ Therefore do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make public the deliberations of the hearts. And then praise will come to each man from God.

¹ And one of the seven agents who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, Come, I will show thee the judgment of the great whore who sits upon the many waters ² with whom the kings of the earth fornicated, and those who inhabit the earth were made drunken with the wine of her fornication. ³ And he carried me away in spirit into a wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored beast containing names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold and precious stone and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup containing abominations and the filthy things of her fornication, ⁵ and upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF WHORES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. ⁶ And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the sanctified, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And having seen her, I wondered with great amazement.

⁵ Because her sins have reached as far as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. ⁶ Render to her as she also rendered to you, and double to her two-fold according to her works. In the cup that she mixed, mix two-fold for her. ⁷ In an amount she glorified herself and lived wantonly, give her so much torment and grief, because she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will, no, not see grief. ⁸ Because of this her plagues will come in one day, death, and grief, and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, because strong is the Lord, the God who judged her. ⁹ And the kings of the earth who fornicated and lived wantonly with her, will weep and will beat their breasts for her when they see the smoke of her burning, ¹⁰ having stood from afar because of the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, the great city, Babylon, the mighty city! Because thy judgment has come in one hour.

¹⁶ and saying, Alas, alas, the great city, which was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stone and pearls!

³³ For a Topheth is prepared of old, yea, it is made ready for the king. He has made it deep and large. The pile of it is fire and much wood. The breath of LORD kindles it, like a stream of brimstone.

⁹ And his rock shall pass away because of terror, and his rulers shall be dismayed at the ensign, says LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

³¹ Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way upon their heads, says the lord LORD.

¹² Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

³⁴ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather thy children together as a hen does her brood under her wings, and ye would not. ³⁵ Behold, your house is left to you desolate. And I say to you, that ye will, no, not see me, until it will come when ye say, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

⁸ in a fire of flame rendering vengeance to those who have not known God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁷ But now the heavens and the earth, which have been stored up by the same word, are being preserved for fire in a day of judgment and destruction of irreverent men. ⁸ But beloved, let not this one thing be ignored by you, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. ⁹ The Lord is not slack about his promise, as some regard slackness, but is patient toward us, not wanting any to perish, but all to go forward to repentance. ¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, during which the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the elements, being intensely hot, will be disintegrated, and the earth and the works in it will be destroyed by fire. ¹¹ Therefore, all these things being disintegrated, what kind ought ye to be in holy actions and pieties, ¹² anticipating and hastening the coming of the day of God, by which the heavens, being made fiery hot, will be disintegrated, and the elements dissolve, being intensely hot?

⁷ As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, the same kind of way with these who indulged in fornication, and who went rear of queer flesh, are set forth an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

²⁰ And the winepress was trampled outside the city, and blood came out from the winepress, up to the bridles of the horses, as far as a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

⁶ Because they poured out the blood of the sanctified and prophets, and thou have given them blood to drink; they are deserving.

¹⁹ And the great city became in three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And the great Babylon was remembered before God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the wrath of his anger.

⁸ But for the cowards, and unbelieving, and sinful, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

³ O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures for a spoil, and thy high places, because of sin, throughout all thy borders.

⁵ Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all the gains of it, and all the precious things of it, yea, all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give into the hand of their enemies. And they shall make them a prey, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.

¹⁰ The adversary has spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things. For she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom thou commanded that they should not enter into thine assembly.

¹⁶ All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee. They hiss and gnash the teeth. They say, We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found, we have seen it.

²⁵ And I will turn my hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge away thy dross, and will take away all thy tin.

⁴ when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst of it, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning.

⁹ Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob shall be forgiven. And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten apart, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.

¹⁰ For I have set my face upon this city for evil, and not for good, says LORD. It shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

²⁹ And the Chaldeans, who fight against this city, shall come and set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses upon whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.

¹⁰ For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yea they would rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.

¹⁸ But if thou will not go forth to the king of Babylon's rulers, then this city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shall not escape out of their hand.

⁸ And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

¹³ And he burned the house of LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. Even every great house, he burned with fire.

³⁸ And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and those who transgress against me. I will bring them forth out of the land where they sojourn, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel. And ye shall know that I am LORD.

¹⁵ And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee through the countries, and I will consume thy filthiness out of thee. ¹⁶ And thou shall be profaned in thyself, in the sight of the nations. And thou shall know that I am LORD. ¹⁷ And the word of LORD came to me, saying, ¹⁸ Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace. They are the dross of silver. ¹⁹ Therefore thus says the lord LORD: Because ye have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem ²⁰ as they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it. So I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you. ²¹ Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you with the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst of it. ²² As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so ye shall be melted in the midst of it. And ye shall know that I, LORD, have poured out my wrath upon you. ²³ And the word of LORD came to me, saying,

²⁶ They shall also strip thee of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels. ²⁷ Thus I will make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom from the land of Egypt, so that thou shall not lift up thine eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.

⁴⁷ And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. ⁴⁸ Thus I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do according to your lewdness.

²⁵ And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.

¹¹ and I will cut off the cities of thy land, and will throw down all thy strongholds. ¹² And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy hand, and thou shall have no more soothsayers. ¹³ And I will cut off thy graven images and thy pillars out of the midst of thee, and thou shall no more worship the work of thy hands. ¹⁴ And I will pluck up thine Asherim out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy cities.

¹ In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness. ² And it shall come to pass in that day, says LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered. And I will also cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

⁸ And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, says LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die, but the third shall be left in it. ⁹ And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, It is my people, and they shall say, LORD is my God.

¹ For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace, and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, shall be stubble. And the day that comes shall burn them up, says LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

¹² Whose winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. And he will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.

¹² And if any man builds upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, ¹³ each man's work will become manifest. For the day will make it known, because it is revealed by fire. And the fire will test each man's work of what kind it is.

⁵ And LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ⁶ And LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart. ⁷ And LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground, from man, to beast, to creeping things, and birds of the heavens, for I regret that I have made them.

²¹ And LORD smelled the sweet savor. And LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I again any more smite everything living, as I have done.

⁵ Why will ye still be stricken, that ye revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

¹³ Thou are wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from the things that shall come upon thee.

⁹ And thou went to the king with oil, and increased thy perfumes, and sent thine ambassadors far off, and debased thyself even to Sheol. ¹⁰ Thou were wearied with the length of thy way, yet thou did not say, It is in vain. Thou found a quickening of thy strength, therefore thou were not faint.

¹³ For my people have committed two evils: They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

³ O LORD, do not thine eyes look upon truth? Thou have stricken them, but they were not grieved. Thou have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

⁵ And they will deceive each one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves to commit iniquity.

¹⁴ Every man has become brutish, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image. For his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. ¹⁵ They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they shall perish.

¹⁶ As for the word that thou have spoken to us in the name of LORD, we will not hearken to thee. ¹⁷ But we will certainly perform every word that has gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our rulers, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.

⁵⁸ Thus says LORD of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire. And the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire, and they shall be weary.

¹³ In thy filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed thee and thou were not cleansed, thou shall not be cleansed from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my wrath toward thee to rest.

¹³ As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come upon us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of LORD our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in thy truth. ¹⁴ Therefore LORD has watched over the evil, and brought it upon us, for LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

¹ Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. And they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

¹³ Behold, is it not of LORD of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

¹⁸ What profits the graven image, that the maker of it has engraved it, the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make dumb idols? ¹⁹ Woe to him who says to the wood, Awake, to the dumb stone, Arise! Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

¹⁴ Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. ¹⁵ And LORD, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling-place. ¹⁶ But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

⁴ What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, it brought forth wild grapes? ⁵ And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge of it, and it shall be eaten up. I will break down the wall of it, and it shall be trodden down. ⁶ And I will lay it waste. It shall not be pruned nor hoed, but there shall come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

¹³ Yet the people have not turned to him who smote them, nor have they sought LORD of hosts. ¹⁴ Therefore LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day. ¹⁵ The elder and the honorable man, he is the head. And the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail. ¹⁶ For those who lead this people cause them to err, and those who are led by them are destroyed. ¹⁷ Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, nor will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows. For everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

²⁸ They are all grievous revolters, going about with slanders. They are brass and iron. They all of them deal corruptly. ²⁹ The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed of the fire. In vain do they go on refining, for the wicked are not plucked away. ³⁰ Waste silver, men shall call them, because LORD has rejected them.

³ From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, the word of LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking. But ye have not hearkened. ⁴ And LORD has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, (but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear), ⁵ saying, Return ye now each one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that LORD has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even for evermore. ⁶ And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the work of your hands. And I will do you no hurt. ⁷ Yet ye have not hearkened to me, says LORD, that ye may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.

¹⁸ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself saying, Thou have chastised me, and I was chastised as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke. Turn thou me back, and I shall be turned back, for thou are LORD my God.

¹⁸ Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.

⁴² So I will cause my wrath toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will no more be angry.

²⁴ Son of man, say to her, Thou are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.

³⁶ LORD said moreover to me, Son of man, will thou judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations. ³⁷ For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands. And with their idols they have committed adultery. And they have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire for them to be devoured. ³⁸ Moreover they have done this to me: They have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths. ³⁹ For when they had slain their sons to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it, and, lo, thus they have done in the midst of my house. ⁴⁰ And furthermore ye have sent for men who come from far, to whom a messenger was sent. And, lo, they came, for whom thou washed thyself, painted thine eyes, and decked thyself with ornaments, ⁴¹ and sat upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon thou did set my incense and my oil. ⁴² And the voice of a multitude being at ease was with her. And with men of the common sort, were brought drunkards from the wilderness, and they put bracelets upon the hands of those two women, and beautiful crowns upon their heads. ⁴³ Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, Now they will play the harlot with her, and she with them. ⁴⁴ And they went in to her, as they go in to a harlot. So they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women. ⁴⁵ And righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands. ⁴⁶ For thus says the lord LORD: I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed to and fro and robbed.

¹¹ Then set it empty upon the coals of it, that it may be hot, and the brass of it may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.

¹ When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria. For they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the troop of robbers ravages outside.

⁹ Strangers have devoured his strength, and he does not know. Yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he does not know. ¹⁰ And the pride of Israel testifies to his face. Yet they have not returned to LORD their God, nor sought him for all this. ¹¹ And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria. ¹² When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them. I will bring them down as the birds of the heavens. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard. ¹³ Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me. ¹⁴ And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howl upon their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They rebel against me. ¹⁵ Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they devise mischief against me. ¹⁶ They return, but not to him on high. They are like a deceitful bow. Their rulers shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

⁶ And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places, yet ye have not returned to me, says LORD. ⁷ And I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest. And I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city. One piece was rained upon, and the piece upon which it did not rain withered. ⁸ So two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied. Yet ye have not returned to me, says LORD. ⁹ I have smitten you with blasting and mildew. The multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees the palmer-worm has devoured. Yet ye have not returned to me, says LORD. ¹⁰ I have sent among you the pestilence according to the manner of Egypt. I have slain your young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses, and I have made the stench of your camp to come up even into your nostrils. Yet ye have not returned to me, says LORD. ¹¹ I have overthrown cities among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning. Yet ye have not returned to me, says LORD. ¹² Therefore thus I will do to thee, O Israel, and because I will do this to thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

² She obeyed not the voice. She received not correction. She trusted not in LORD. She did not draw near to her God.

⁷ I said, Only fear thou me. Receive correction, so her dwelling shall not be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her. But they rose early and corrupted all their doings.

³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who have been sent to her. How often I wanted to gathered thy children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and ye would not. ³⁸ Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

⁷ And he said to the vine workman, Behold, three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none. Cut it down, why also waste the ground? ⁸ And having answered, he says to him, Sir, allow it this year also until I may dig around it and cast manure. ⁹ Although surely it should bear fruit, and if not, in the coming year thou will cut it down.

⁸ but to those of self-interest, and who indeed disobey the truth but have confidence in unrighteousness-anger and wrath, ⁹ pressure and restriction, upon every soul of man who produces evil, both of the Jew first, and of the Greek,

¹ Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in fear of God.

¹¹ Let the man doing wrong still do wrong, and let the filthy man still be filthy. And let the righteous man still do righteousness, and let the holy man still be holy.

¹⁹ God is not a man, that he should lie, neither the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

²⁹ And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent, for he is not a man that he should repent.

⁹ For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood fast.

¹¹ Woe to the wicked! It is ill with him, for what his hands have done shall be done to him.

¹¹ so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth. It shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please. And it shall prosper in the thing to which I sent it.

¹⁸ Thy way and thy doings have procured these things to thee. This is thy wickedness, for it is bitter, for it reaches to thy heart.

¹⁴ And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says LORD. I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.

²⁰ The anger of LORD shall not return until he has executed, and till he has performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days ye shall understand it perfectly.

¹¹ Therefore, as I live, says the lord LORD, surely, because thou have defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore I also will diminish thee, nor shall my eye spare. And I also will have no pity.

⁴ And my eye shall not spare thee, nor will I have pity. But I will bring thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee. And ye shall know that I am LORD.

⁹ And my eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity. I will bring upon thee according to thy ways. And thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee. And ye shall know that I, LORD, do smite.

¹⁰ And as for me also, my eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity, but I will bring their way upon their head.

⁴³ Because thou have not remembered the days of thy youth, but have raged against me in all these things, therefore, behold, I also will bring thy way upon thy head, says the lord LORD. And thou shall not commit this lewdness with all thine abominations.

³⁰ Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each one according to his ways, says the lord LORD. Return ye, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions, so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

²⁴ And they shall come against thee with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples. They shall set themselves against thee with buckler and shield and helmet round about. And I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.

²⁹ And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take away all thy labor, and shall leave thee naked and bare. And the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be uncovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

¹⁹ And I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. I judged them according to their way and according to their doings.

²⁷ For the Son of man is going to come in the glory of his Father with his agents, and then he will reward each man according to his actions.

³⁵ The sky and the earth will pass away, but my words may, no, not pass away.

⁵ But according to thy hardness, and thy impenitent heart, thou store up wrath to thyself in the day of wrath, and revelation, and righteous judgment of God, ⁶ who will render to each man according to his works,

² And there came forth fire from before LORD, and devoured them, and they died before LORD. ³ Then Moses said to Aaron, This is it that LORD spoke, saying, I will be sanctified in those who come near me. And I will be glorified before all the people. And Aaron remained silent.

¹⁸ and there shall be wrath upon the impious because of the ungodliness of bribes which the unrighteous receive.

¹⁹ a loving hind and a pleasant doe. Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always with her love.

¹⁰ I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.

¹ Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

¹⁸ And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

¹⁷ But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride. And my eye shall weep greatly, and run down with tears, because LORD's flock is taken captive.

⁵ For thus says LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, nor go to lament, nor bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, says LORD, even loving kindness and tender mercies.

¹⁰ Weep ye not for him who is dead, nor bemoan him. But weep greatly for him who goes away, for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

¹⁸ Therefore thus says LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah. They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! They shall not lament for him, saying Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!

¹⁸ Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give thyself no respite. Let not the apple of thine eye cease.

¹⁸ So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died. And I did in the morning as I was commanded.

²¹ Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the lord LORD: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul has compassion. And your sons and your daughters whom ye have left behind shall fall by the sword. ²² And ye shall do as I have done. Ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men. ²³ And your coverings shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet. Ye shall not mourn nor weep, but ye shall pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another. ²⁴ Thus Ezekiel shall be to you a sign, according to all that he has done ye shall do. When this comes, then ye shall know that I am the lord LORD. ²⁵ And 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 upon which they set their heart-their sons and their daughters-

¹³ But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who are asleep, so that ye may not grieve, as also the others who have no hope.

⁶ And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, Let not the hair of your heads go loose, neither tear your clothes, that ye not die, and that he not be angry with all the congregation, but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which LORD has kindled.

⁴⁵ And the man with a leprous disease in whom the disease is, his clothes shall be torn, and the hair of his head shall go loose, and he shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.

¹⁰ And he who is the high priest among his brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and who is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head go loose, nor tear his clothes,

³⁰ And David went up by the ascent of the mount of Olives, and wept as he went up, and he had his head covered, and went barefoot. And all the people who were with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

⁷ Rest in LORD, and wait patiently for him. Fret not thyself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.

⁹ I was mute. I opened not my mouth, because thou did it.

¹⁰ Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.

⁴ They shall die grievous deaths. They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried; they shall be as dung upon the face of the ground. And they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine. And their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth. ⁵ For thus says LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, nor go to lament, nor bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, says LORD, even loving kindness and tender mercies. ⁶ Both great and small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, nor shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them, ⁷ nor shall men break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead, nor shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

²² And ye shall do as I have done. Ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men. ²³ And your coverings shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet. Ye shall not mourn nor weep, but ye shall pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.

⁴ They shall not pour out wine offerings to LORD, nor shall they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices shall be to them as the bread of mourners. All who eat of it shall be polluted, for their bread shall be for their appetite. It shall not come into the house of LORD.

³ And the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day, says the lord LORD. The dead bodies shall be many. In every place they shall cast them forth with silence.

⁷ And the seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners confounded. Yea, they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.

²⁰ But LORD is in his holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before him.

²⁹ But this I say, brothers, the time is shortened. It is the remaining, so that also those who have wives may be as not having, ³⁰ and those who weep, as not weeping, and those who rejoice, as not rejoicing, and those who buy, as not possessing,

⁹ Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to thee, What are thou doing?

⁷ And it shall be, when they say to thee, Why do thou sigh? That thou shall say, Because of the news. For it comes, 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 comes, and it shall be done, says the lord LORD.

¹⁸ And when the sons of thy people shall speak to thee, saying, Will thou not show us what thou mean by these?

⁷ From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says LORD of hosts. But ye say, How shall we return? ⁸ Will a man rob God? Yet ye rob me. But ye say, How have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

¹³ Your words have been stout against me, says LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?

⁴ One thing I have asked of LORD, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

⁷ They have set thy sanctuary on fire. They have profaned the dwelling-place of thy name to the ground.

¹ O God, the nations have come into thine inheritance. They have defiled thy holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

¹ How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

⁶ Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

⁴ Seek ye LORD and his strength. Seek his face evermore.

⁸ Arise, O LORD, into thy resting-place, thou, and the ark of thy strength.

¹¹ But ye who forsake LORD, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mingled wine to Destiny,

¹¹ Therefore I am full of the wrath of LORD. I am weary with holding in. Pour it out upon the sons in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together. For even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.

¹⁴ therefore I will do to the house, which is called by my name, in which ye trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

²¹ For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces, to cut off the sons from outside, the young men from the streets.

³ For thus says LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who begot them in this land: ⁴ They shall die grievous deaths. They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried; they shall be as dung upon the face of the ground. And they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine. And their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.

⁶ And he has taken away his tabernacle violently, as a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. LORD has caused solemn assembly and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. And in the indignation of his anger has despised the king and the priest. ⁷ The Lord has cast off his altar. He has abhorred his sanctuary. He has given up the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of LORD, as in the day of a solemn assembly.

²⁰ As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty, but they made the images of their abominations, and their detestable things in it. Therefore I have made it as an unclean thing to them. ²¹ And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil, and they shall profane it. ²² I will also turn my face from them, and they shall profane my secluded place. And robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.

⁷ And he said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go ye forth. And they went forth, and smote in the city.

²⁵ And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal with thee in fury. They shall take away thy nose and thine ears, and thy residue shall fall by the sword. They shall take thy sons and thy daughters, and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.

⁴⁷ And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

¹⁶ Son of man, behold, I take the desire of thine eyes away from thee with a stroke. Yet thou shall neither mourn nor weep. Neither shall thy tears run down.

³¹ And forces shall stand on his part, and they shall profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and shall take away the continual burnt offering, and they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.

¹³ And they put forward false witnesses who said, This man does not cease speaking blasphemous sayings against the holy place, and the law. ¹⁴ For we have heard him saying that this Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place, and will change the customs that Moses delivered to us.

¹⁵ Those who remain of him shall be buried in death, and his widows shall make no lamentation.

⁶⁴ Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.

³ at the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels. The fathers do not look back to their sons for feebleness of hands,

¹⁶ Son of man, behold, I take the desire of thine eyes away from thee with a stroke. Yet thou shall neither mourn nor weep. Neither shall thy tears run down. ¹⁷ Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for the dead. Bind thy headdress upon thee, and put thy shoes upon thy feet. And do not cover thy lips, and do not eat the bread of men.

⁹ And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die. ¹⁰ And when a man's uncle shall take him up, even he who burns him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No, then he shall say, Hold thy peace, for we may not make mention of the name of LORD.

³⁹ And those who are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands, and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.

¹¹ We all roar like bears, and moan greatly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.

¹⁷ that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

¹⁰ And thou, son of man, say to the house of Israel, Thus ye speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we pine away in them. How then can we live?

² When thou are departed from me today, then thou shall find two men by Rachel's sepulcher in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah. And they will say to thee, The donkeys which thou went to seek are found, and, lo, thy father has left off caring for the donkeys, and is anxious for you, saying, What shall I do for my son? ³ Then thou shall go on forward from there, and thou shall come to the oak of Tabor. And there shall meet thee there three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine. ⁴ And they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread, which thou shall receive from their hand. ⁵ After that thou shall come to the hill of God where is the garrison of the Philistines. And it shall come to pass, when thou have come there to the city, that thou shall meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a timbrel, and a pipe, and a harp, before them, and they will be prophesying. ⁶ And the Spirit of LORD will come mightily upon thee, and thou shall prophesy with them, and shall be turned into another man. ⁷ And let it be, when these signs have come to thee, that thou do as occasion shall serve thee, for God is with thee.

¹⁸ Behold, I and the children whom LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from LORD of hosts, who dwells in mount Zion.

³ And LORD said, Just as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia,

¹⁵ Behold, they say to me, Where is the word of LORD? Let it come now.

³ And take thou to thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city. And set thy face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

⁷ And the slain shall fall in the midst of you. And ye shall know that I am LORD.

²⁷ The king shall mourn, and the ruler shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled. I will do to them according to their way, and according to their deserts I will judge them. And they shall know that I am LORD.

⁶ Thou shall bear it upon thy shoulder in their sight, and carry it forth in the dark. Thou shall cover thy face, that thou not see the land. For I have set thee for a sign to the house of Israel.

¹¹ Say, I am your sign. Just as I have done, so shall it be done to them. They shall go into exile, into captivity.

²⁴ And all the trees of the field shall know that I, 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, LORD, have spoken and have done it.

⁵ And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the sons of Ammon a couching-place for flocks. And ye shall know that I am LORD.

⁷ therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the nations. And I will cut thee off from the peoples, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries. I will destroy thee, and thou shall know that I am LORD.

¹¹ And I will execute judgments upon Moab, and they shall know that I am LORD.

¹⁴ And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath. And they shall know my vengeance, says the lord LORD.

¹⁷ And I will execute great vengeance upon them with wrathful rebukes. And they shall know that I am LORD when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.

² When LORD spoke at the first by Hosea, LORD said to Hosea, Go, take to thee a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom, departing from LORD. ³ So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived, and bore him a son. ⁴ And LORD said to him, Call his name Jezreel, for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease. ⁵ And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel. ⁶ And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And LORD said to him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah, for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them. ⁷ But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen. ⁸ Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son. ⁹ And LORD said, Call his name Lo-ammi, for ye are not my people, and I will not be yours.

¹ And LORD said to me, Go again, love a woman beloved of her friend, and an adulteress, even as LORD loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins. ² So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley. ³ And I said to her, Thou shall abide for me many days. Thou shall not play the harlot, and thou shall not be any man's wife. So I will also be toward thee. ⁴ For the sons of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without ruler, and without sacrifice, and without pillar, and without ephod or teraphim.

²⁹ And when the multitudes gathered together he began to say, This generation is evil. They seek a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah, the prophet. ³⁰ For as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also the Son of man will be to this generation.

¹³ But it will go out from you for testimony.

¹⁹ From henceforth I tell you before it happens, so that when it happens, ye may believe that I am.

²⁹ And now I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, ye might believe.

⁴ But I have told you these things, so that when the hour comes, ye may remember that I told you of them. But I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you.

³² Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given to another people. And thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day, and there shall be nothing in the power of thy hand.

² Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

² Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth.

¹ I was glad when they said to me, Let us go to the house of LORD. ² Our feet are standing inside thy gates, O Jerusalem. ³ Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together, ⁴ where the tribes go up, even the tribes of LORD, for an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to the name of LORD. ⁵ For there thrones are set for judgment, the thrones of the house of David. ⁶ Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. They shall prosper who love thee. ⁷ Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. ⁸ For my brothers and companions' sakes I will now say, Peace be within thee. ⁹ For the sake of the house of LORD our God I will seek thy good.

⁴ Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of LORD, the temple of LORD, the temple of LORD, are these.

²² Therefore thus says LORD of hosts: Behold, I will punish them. The young men shall die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters shall die by famine,

²¹ Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the lord LORD: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul has compassion. And your sons and your daughters whom ye have left behind shall fall by the sword.

¹² And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn, and with dirt upon his head. ¹³ And when he came, lo, Eli was sitting upon his seat by the wayside watching, for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out. ¹⁴ And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What does the noise of this tumult mean? And the man hastened, and came and told Eli. ¹⁵ Now Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes were dim so that he could not see. ¹⁶ And the man said to Eli, I am he who came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army. And he said, How did the matter go, my son? ¹⁷ And he who brought the news answered and said, Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. And thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken. ¹⁸ And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate. And his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

¹⁵ and the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away. Yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee. ¹⁶ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God fell from heaven, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee. ¹⁷ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have taken them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee. ¹⁸ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house. ¹⁹ And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee.

²¹ And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that a man who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city is smitten. ²² Now the hand of LORD had been upon me in the evening, before he who escaped came. And he had opened my mouth until he came to me in the morning. And my mouth was opened, and I was no more mute.

¹¹ Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the sons of Israel go out of his land. ¹² And Moses spoke before LORD, saying, Behold, the sons of Israel have not hearkened to me, how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?

¹⁵ O Lord, open thou my lips, and my mouth shall show forth thy praise.

²⁶ And I will make thy tongue cling to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shall be mute, and shall not be a reprover to them, for they are a rebellious house. ²⁷ But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shall say to them, Thus says the lord LORD. He who hears, let him hear, and he who forbears, let him forbear, for they are a rebellious house.

²¹ In that day I will cause a horn to bud forth to the house of Israel, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them. And they shall know that I am LORD.

²² Now the hand of LORD had been upon me in the evening, before he who escaped came. And he had opened my mouth until he came to me in the morning. And my mouth was opened, and I was no more mute.

¹⁵ For I will give you a mouth and wisdom that all those who oppose you will not be able to contradict or to resist.

¹⁹ and for me, so that utterance may be given to me in boldness in opening my mouth to make known the mystery of the good news,