Ezekiel 24 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, a word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² Son of man write down for thyself for a day, from this day on which the king of Babylon hath determinately set himself against Jerusalem; even from this very day; ³ and speak a parable against that provoking family, and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord, Set on the cauldron and pour water into it; ⁴ and throw into it the pieces of meat, every choice piece, the flesh of the thigh and the shoulder separated from the bones, ⁵ and these of the choicest cattle; and burn the bones under them. It hath boiled and the bones have been sodden in it. ⁶ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Ah! bloody city! a kettle, in which there is verdigrease in its very substance, and that verdigrease is not gone out of it. She hath brought it out on every member of her: no lot fell upon her. ⁷ Because her blood is in the midst of her; I have ordered it to be poured out on a smooth stone: I have not poured it on the ground for the earth to cover it. ⁸ That wrath may be kindled and vengeance executed, I have ordered the blood to be poured out on a smooth stone, that it may not be concealed. ⁹ Therefore thus saith the Lord, I will enlarge the pile, ¹⁰ and heap on wood and cause the fire to burn, that the flesh may be consumed and the broth evaporated: ¹¹ and it shall stand on the coals that the brass may be heated red hot and melted in the midst of its impurity and its verdigrease quite destroyed; ¹² so that this its abundant verdigrease may not proceed from it. ¹³ Its verdigrease shall be exposed to shame. Because thou wast polluted what else could be done, since thou wouldst not be cleansed till I filled up my wrath? ¹⁴ I the Lord have spoken. He shall come: and I will act. I will not defer; nor will I shew compassion. According to thy ways and according to thy lusts I will judge thee, saith the Lord, therefore I will judge thee according to thy blood guiltiness; and I will judge thee according to thine inordinate lusts, corrupt, infamous and very provoking city. ¹⁵ Then a word of the Lord came to me, saying, ¹⁶ Son of man, Behold I take from thee the desires of thine eyes with a stroke. Thou must not mourn, nor utter lamentation. ¹⁷ Let sighing for blood and grief of loins be suppressed. Thy hair shall be platted on thy head and thy sandals shall be on thy feet. Thou must not receive comfort from their lips, nor eat funeral bread. ¹⁸ So I spoke to the people in the morning as he had ordered me in the evening. And when I did in the morning as I was commanded, ¹⁹ the people said to me, Why dost thou not tell us what these things mean which thou art doing? ²⁰ Thereupon I said to them, A word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²¹ Say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, Behold I will profane my sanctuary, the boast of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and for which your souls are moved with compassion; and your sons and your daughters whom you left shall fall by the sword: ²² and you shall do as I have done. You shall not receive comfort from their mouth nor eat funeral bread; ²³ your locks of hair shall be on your head, and your sandals on your feet; you shall neither utter lamentations nor shed tears; but shall pine away for your iniquities and exhort one another. ²⁴ And Ezekiel shall be for a sign to you, [according to all that he hath done you shall do when these things happen] and you shall know that I am the Lord. ²⁵ And with regard to thee son of man, will not this be the case? On the day when I take from them their strength; that which was their exultation and boast and the desire of their eyes and the pride of their soul; their sons and their daughters; ²⁶ on that day one who escapeth shall come to thee to tell thee the news; ²⁷ on that day thy mouth shall be opened to him who escapeth. Thou shalt speak and no more be dumb and thou shalt be a sign to them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

¹² Joachim king of Juda, went out to the king of Babylon, he and his servants and his mother and his chiefs and his officers; and the king of Babylon in the eighth year of his reign, took him,

² On the fifth of that month [this was the fifth year of the captivity of king Jechonias]

¹ Again in the sixth year in the fifth month, on the fifth of the month as I was sitting at home, and the elders of Juda, were sitting before me, the hand of the Lord came upon me.

¹ And it came to pass in the seventh year, on the fifth month and tenth day of the month, that some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the Lord, and while they were sitting before me

¹ Again it came to pass in the eleventh year on the first of the month, a word of the Lord came to me, saying,

¹ In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, a word of the Lord came to me, saying,

¹⁷ Again it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year on the first day of the first month, that a word of the Lord came to me, saying,

¹ Again in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, a word of the Lord came to me, saying,

¹ Now it came to pass in the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, that a word of the Lord came to me, saying,

¹⁷ Again in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the first month a word of the Lord came to me, saying,

²¹ Now it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the twelfth month, on the fifth of the month, that one who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, The city is taken.

¹ In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the first month, on the tenth day of the month; the fourteenth year after the city was taken; on that day the hand of the Lord came upon me

¹ Nabuchodonosar the king of Babylon came up with his whole army against Jerusalem, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, and encamped against it and built a circumvallation against it,

¹ Again the Lord said to me, "Take thee a strip of a large new roll and write thereon with a man's pen "Speed quickly to the plunder of the spoil", for it is at hand.

⁸ Now therefore sit down and write these things in a tablet and make a book that they may be for the appointed time; even for the time to come. ⁹ Because this is a rebellious people; lying children, who would not hear the law of God,

¹ Now it came to pass that in the ninth year and ninth month of Sedekias king of Juda, Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon with all his army came against Jerusalem and besieged it.

⁴ And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon, came with his whole army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it and built a wall around it of square stones,

² And the Lord answered and said, [J] Write a vision: write it distinctly in a book that the reader may trace these things; ³ for the vision is for a time yet to come. But it will spring up at last and will not be vain. Though he may tarry, wait for him; for he will assuredly come and will not fail.

² I will open my mouth with parables; I will utter dark sayings of old;

² Hearken, heaven! and hear earth! what the Lord hath spoken. "I have begotten children and brought them up; and they have rebelled against me.

¹ "AH rebellious children! saith the Lord, you have formed a design, but not by me: and thou hast made convenants, but not by my spirit, that you may add sins to sins.

⁹ Because this is a rebellious people; lying children, who would not hear the law of God,

¹⁰ But they rebelled and provoked his holy spirit; so he became their enemy. He fought against them;

¹³ Again a word of the Lord came to me a second time saying: "What dost thou see?" And I said, "A kettle; its bottom glowing hot; and its mouth from the north.

¹³ a desert because of the wrath of the Lord, she shall not be inhabited; but shall be entirely a desolation. Sorrow will cover the countenance of all who travel through Babylon; and at all their calamity they will express pity. ¹⁴ Set yourselves in array all around against Babylon. All ye who bend the bow shoot at her: spare not your arrows,

³ Son of man, I am about to send thee to the house of Israel, to them who are provoking me; who have provoked me, both they and their fathers even to this day.

⁶ And thou son of man, be not afraid of them nor daunted at their presence. Because they will sting thee and rise up against thee on all sides and thou dwellest in the midst of scorpions, be not afraid of their words nor terrified at their looks; because they are a provoking house,

⁸ Because they are a provoking house, thou therefore, son of man, hear him who is speaking to thee and be not thou rebellious like this rebellious house. Open thy mouth and eat what I give thee.

⁹ and it shall be on all occasions firmer than a rock. Be not afraid of them nor daunted at their countenance, because they are a provoking house.

³ who say, Are not the houses lately rebuilt? This is the cauldron, but we are the flesh.

⁷ therefore thus saith the Lord, your dead men whom you have slain in the midst of it, they are the flesh and it is the cauldron. As for you I will drag you out of the midst of it.

¹¹ [Omitted]

² Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of these unrighteous men, who have eyes to see but do not see; and have ears to hear, but do not hear. Because they are a rebellious house,

²⁵ for I the Lord will speak my words; I will speak and perform, and no more put off to a distant time; for in these your days, rebellious house, I will speak a word and perform it, saith the Lord.

² Son of man, relate a fable and speak a parable to the house of Israel

¹² Say, When the king of Babylon hath come to Jerusalem, and shall take the king thereof and the chiefs thereof, and hath caused them to be brought to him to Babylon;

² and thou shalt say, What was thy mother? She was a lioness among lions. In the midst of lions she multiplied her young. ³ And one of her young lions sallied forth; he became a lion and learned to prowl. He devoured men ⁴ and the nations heard of him; in their trap he was taken and carried in a cage to the land of Egypt. ⁵ When she saw that her main support was removed from her, was lost; she took another of her young lions and made him lion. ⁶ And he roamed about among lions. He became a lion and learned to seize prey. He devoured men ⁷ and prowled with fierceness, and made their cities a desolation and laid waste the land, and the fulness thereof by the sound of his roaring. ⁸ Then the nations set upon him from the countries around: they spread their nets for him; in their trap he was taken. ⁹ So they chained him and in a cage he came to the king of Babylon, who put him in prison that his voice should not be heard on the mountains of Israel. ¹⁰ Thy mother was like a vine or a flowery pomegranate planted by water. It was fruitful and full of buds by being plentifully watered. ¹¹ And it became a sceptre for them who bear rule over tribes, and became distinguished for its greatness among other stocks, and was conscious of its greatness by the multitude of its branches. ¹² But it is broken in wrath and thrown on the ground; and a burning wind hath blasted its choice branches. Vengeance hath been taken on them: and the rod of its strength is withered; a fire hath consumed it. ¹³ And now when they had planted it in a desert, in a land without water, ¹⁴ a fire hath issued forth from a rod of her choice shoots, and consumed her and she hath no more in her a sceptre of power. The tribe is become a parable in the song of Woe and shall be for a subject of lamentation.

⁴⁹ And when I said, "O Lord, Lord, forbid" they said to me, Is not this a parable which is spoken?

⁶ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Ah! bloody city! a kettle, in which there is verdigrease in its very substance, and that verdigrease is not gone out of it. She hath brought it out on every member of her: no lot fell upon her.

⁴ a parable will in that day be taken up against you, and a song of lamentation will be sung, saying, "With affliction we have been afflicted! the portion of my people have been measured with a line, and there was none to hinder or turn it aside." Your fields have been parcelled out,

¹² Upon this they sought to lay hold of him, but were afraid of the people. For they knew that he had spoken the parable against them. So they left him and went away,

¹⁰ he said, To you it is granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, which to others are couched under parables, so that they see and do not see, and they hear and do not understand.

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

¹⁸ son of man, Behold to me the house of Israel are all become mixed with brass and iron and tin and lead with a mixture of silver. ¹⁹ Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, Because you are become one mass, I will therefore gather you into the midst of Jerusalem: ²⁰ as silver and brass and iron and tin and lead are put in a furnace, that the fire may be blown on it and that it may be melted; So will I take you in my wrath and gather you and melt you. ²¹ And I will blow upon you with the fire of my wrath and you shall be melted in the midst of it. ²² As silver is melted in the midst of a furnace; so shall you be melted in the midst of it; and you shall know that I the Lord have poured out my wrath on you.

² As for them who hate good and seek evil, who tear off the skin from these and the flesh from their bones: ³ as they have devoured the flesh of my people and have flayed off their skin from them; and have broken their bones and chopped them up, as flesh for a kettle and as pieces of meat for a pot:

² for as you judge, you shall be judged: and the measure which you mete, shall be measured to you again.

⁶ [Omitted]

¹⁰ And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedekias before his eyes. He slew also all the chiefs of Juda at Deblatha.

²⁴ And the chief cook took the chief priest, and the priest who was second to him, and the three who guarded the way; ²⁵ and a eunuch who was over the men of war, and seven men of renown who attended in the king's presence, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the armies, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty chief men, of the people of the country, who were found in the city. ²⁶ These Nabuzardan the chief cook, took and brought to the king of Babylon at Deblatha. ²⁷ And the king of Babylon slew them at Deblatha in the land of Aimath.

⁴⁷ and thou shalt say to the forest of Nageb, hear a word of the Lord, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, behold I am kindling a fire in thee, and it shall devour in thee every green tree and every dry tree; and the flame which is kindled shall not be extinguished; and by it the whole surface from south to north shall be burned up.

⁹ Therefore thus saith the Lord, I will enlarge the pile, ¹⁰ and heap on wood and cause the fire to burn, that the flesh may be consumed and the broth evaporated:

¹⁶ I will seek the lost, and bring back the stray; and bind up the bruised and strengthen the weak: and I will watch the strong, and feed them with judgment. ¹⁷ And as for you sheep, thus saith the Lord, Lord, Behold I will judge between sheep and sheep; rams and he goats.

²⁰ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Lord, Behold I will judge between the strong sheep and the weak.

²⁰ And the beast was taken and with him the false prophet who did these signs before him by which he led astray them who had received the mark of the beast, and them who worshipped his image. Both these were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone;

¹⁶ Accordingly Joshua arose early in the morning, and brought forward the people by tribes, and the tribe of Juda was pointed out. ¹⁷ And when it was presented by communities, the community of the Zaraites was pointed out; ¹⁸ and when it was presented man by man, Achar son of Zambri, son of Zara, was pointed out.

²² Then Joshua said, Open the cave, and bring out the five kings out of the cave.

⁴⁰ Then he said to all the men of Israel, You shall be one lot, and I and my son Jonathan shall be the other lot. And the people said to Saul, Do what seemeth good in thy sight. ⁴¹ Then Saul said, Lord the God of Israel, why hast thou not answered thy servant this day? If the fault be in me, or in Jonathan my son, Lord God of Israel make us manifest. And when he said these words, Give I beseech thee to thy people Israel, Give I beseech thee Sanctity, the lot fell on Jonathan and Saul; and the people escaped. ⁴² Then Saul said, Cast the lot between me, and Jonathan my son, and against whomsoever the Lord shall decide by lot, let him be put to death. But the people said to Saul, This is not confirmed. But Saul prevailed over the people, so they cast the lot between him and his son Jonathan; and the lot fell on Jonathan.

² David also smote Moab, and measured them with lines, having caused them to dwell in the country, and there were two lines to be put to death, and two lines to be saved alive. So Moab became servants to David, and brought him gifts.

¹⁶ Moreover Manasses shed innocent blood in great abundance till he filled Jerusalem, from one end to the other, in addition to the sins by which he caused Juda to sin, by doing evil in the sight of the Lord. 2Ki 21: Now the rest of the acts of Manasses and all that he did, and the sins which he committed are they not written in the journal of the kings of Juda?

⁴ Joakim shed innocent blood, and filled Jerusalem with it. Therefore the Lord would not be pacified.

²⁹ The bellows could not stand the fire: the lead is consumed. In vain doth the silversmith try to extract silver. Their wickedness was not to be melted.

⁵ and to the others he said in my hearing, Go ye after him into the city and smite and spare not with your eyes nor shew compassion. ⁶ Destroy utterly old men and young, virgins and infants and married women; but go not near any of those who have the mark on them. Begin at my sanctuary. So they began with the men the elders who were in the house.

⁶ you have multiplied your dead in this city, and filled the highways with the slain: ⁷ therefore thus saith the Lord, your dead men whom you have slain in the midst of it, they are the flesh and it is the cauldron. As for you I will drag you out of the midst of it. ⁸ You are afraid of the sword, therefore I will bring a sword against you, saith the Lord, ⁹ and drag you out of the midst of it and deliver you into the hands of strangers and execute judgment upon you.

² Now, son of man, if thou will judge this bloody city, then point out to it all its iniquities

⁶ Behold in thee the princes of the house of Israel banded themselves, every one with his relations, that they might shed blood. ⁷ In thee they reviled father and mother; and in thee practised injustice against the stranger. They oppressed the widow and the orphan; ⁸ and in thee they despised my holy things and profaned my sabbaths. ⁹ In thee men became robbers, that in thee they might shed blood. And they ate upon the mountains near thee; and in the midst of thee committed abominable things.

¹² In thee they received bribes to shed blood. In thee they took interest and usury, and thou hast completed thy wickedness by oppression. And me thou hast forgotten, saith the Lord.

²⁷ Its chiefs in the midst of it were like wolves, ravening prey, to the shedding of innocent blood, that they may glut their greediness.

³⁷ That they have committed adultery and there is blood on their hands? They have committed adultery with their idols; and caused their children whom they bore to me to pass through fire for them. ³⁸ And when they had done this to me, they polluted my holy things and profaned my sabbaths; ³⁹ for when they had slaughtered their children to their idols, they went into my sanctuary to profane it. Now because they have acted thus in my house; ⁴⁰ and because, for the men who came from afar, to whom messengers had been despatched, thou didst immediately on their coming, anoint thyself with oil and paint thine eyes with stibium, and ⁴¹ adorn thyself with sumptuous attire, and sit on a covered sopha with a table set before it; and they were regaled with mine ⁴² incense and mine oil, and joined in the harmonious song, even with men of the common herd who had come from the wilderness; [though they had put bracelets on their hands and a ⁴³ crown of exquisite beauty on their heads; I said, surely they do not commit adultery with these! But she acted the harlot ⁴⁴ and they went in unto her: in the same manner as they go in to a common woman, so did they go in unto Oola and to Ooliba to commit iniquity ⁴⁵ therefore these are righteous men and they will punish them with the punishment of an adulteress and with the punishment for blood. Because they are adulteresses and there is blood on their hands,

⁹ Therefore thus saith the Lord, I will enlarge the pile,

¹¹ and it shall stand on the coals that the brass may be heated red hot and melted in the midst of its impurity and its verdigrease quite destroyed; ¹² so that this its abundant verdigrease may not proceed from it. ¹³ Its verdigrease shall be exposed to shame. Because thou wast polluted what else could be done, since thou wouldst not be cleansed till I filled up my wrath?

³ and cast lots for my people; they gave my boys to harlots and sold my girls for wine and drank it.

¹¹ From the day that thou didst become an adversary, whenever the Philistines captivated his army, or strangers entered his gates and cast lots on Jerusalem, thou also wast as one of them.

⁷ Then they said, one to another, Come let us cast lots and know on whose account this calamity is come on us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonas.

² that the pious is perished from the land, and among men there is not an upright man left! [J] They are all indicted for capital crimes: they grievously afflict every man his neighbour:

¹ bloody city, wholly perfidious and full of lies! shall not thy prey be handled?

¹⁰ Yet she is to go captive into banishment; and her infants shall be dashed to the ground at the head of all the streets]; and for all her splendid treasures lots shall be cast; and all her grandees shall be bound with fetters.

³⁵ that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth; from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

⁷ And when they shall be performing their testimony the beast which ascendeth out of the bottomless gulf will come to battle with them, and overcome them, and kill them, ⁸ and their corpses will be in the broad street of the great city which is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt where our Lord was crucified;

⁶ And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus; and when I saw her I expressed my astonishment with great amaze.

²⁴ And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints and of all who were slain on the earth.

¹³ And be the man who he may of the children of Israel, or of the proselytes who dwell among yon, who in hunting shall catch a wild beast, or a bird, which may be eaten, he shall pour out the blood, and cover it in the ground.

¹⁶ but you must not eat the blood: that you shall pour on the ground like water.

²⁴ You must not eat it. You must pour it out on the ground, like water.

¹⁹ And thou shalt speak to him, and say, Thus saith the Lord, As thou hast murdered and taken possession, therefore thus saith the Lord, In every place where the swine and dogs have licked the blood of Nabuthi, there shall the dogs lick thy blood, and harlots shall bathe themselves in thy blood.

¹⁸ O earth, cover not the blood of my flesh, nor let there be a place for this cry of mine.

⁹ Because their glory is now humbled; and the shame of their countenance is risen up against them: their sin therefore, like the Sodomites, they proclaimed and openly avowed.

²¹ For behold the Lord from his sanctuary is about to bring wrath on the inhabitants of this land; and the land will disclose the blood on it, and will no longer cover the slain.

³⁴ And on thy hands hath been found the blood of innocent souls. These I did not find in breaches into houses, but in every grove of oaks.

¹⁵ Were they ashamed because they failed? even in that case they were not ashamed; nor were they sensible of their infamy; therefore they shall fall in the common ruin; and in the time of visitation they shall perish, saith the Lord.

²² And when the generations to come; your children who shall rise up after yon, and the stranger who may come from a far distant country, will say; when they shall see the plagues of that land, and the diseases thereof, which the Lord hath sent upon it; ²³ brimstone and burnt salt; when through the whole land there shall be no sowing; no natural productions, no verdure on it, a destruction like that of Sodom and Gomorra, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord overthrew with wrath and indignation; ²⁴ When all the nations shall say, Why hath the Lord dealt thus with this land? What hath occasioned this great fierceness of indignation? ²⁵ Then they will say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with their fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, ²⁶ and went and served strange gods, which they did not know, and which he had not arranged for them, ²⁷ therefore the Lord was provoked to wrath against this land, to bring upon it all the curses which are written in the book of the law; ²⁸ and the Lord rooted them out from their land, with wrath, and anger, and very great indignation, and cast them out into another land, as at this day.

²¹ They have provoked me by what is not God; Have exasperated me with their idols; I therefore will provoke them by what is not a nation, By a foolish nation I will vex them. ²² Since a fire is kindled because of my wrath, It shall burn down to the lowest Hades; It shall consume the land, and the products thereof; It shall set on fire the foundations of mountains:

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

²⁵ Because they have forsaken me, and burned incense to strange gods, to provoke me to wrath with all the works of their hands, therefore my anger is kindled against this place and cannot be quenched.

¹⁶ But they continued to deride his messengers, and to despise his words, and insult his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord ascended against his people; until there was no remedy. ¹⁷ Therefore he brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, and had no compassion on Sedekias, nor pity for their virgins. And they carried away their elders. He delivered all into their hands;

¹⁸ Their sons are collecting wood; and their fathers are kindling a fire: and their wives are kneading dough to make cakes for the host of heaven: and they have poured out libations to strange gods, to vex me. Do they vex me? Saith the Lord:

²⁰ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold my anger and my fury is poured upon this place and on these men; and on the cattle and on every tree of their field and on all the products of the ground, and it shall burn and shall not be quenched.

¹ Then the Lord said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My soul is not towards them. Send away this people and let them go. ² And if they say to thee, Whither shall we go? then thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord, such as are for pestilence, to pestilence, and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for famine, to famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity. ³ For I will send against them four kinds of avengers, saith the Lord, the sword to slay; and the dogs to tear; and the wild beasts of the earth, and the birds of the air to devour and destroy. ⁴ And I will deliver them up to distress in all the kingdoms of the earth, on account of Manasses son of Ezekias king of Juda-for all that he did in Jerusalem.

⁸ And when nations shall pass by this city, they will say, every one to his neighbour, "Why hath the Lord dealt thus with this great city?" ⁹ To which it will be said in reply, "Because they forsook the Lord their God and worshipped strange gods and served them."

¹³ And my wrath shall be spent, and mine indignation, on them; and thou shalt know why I the Lord have spoken in my zeal, when I have executed mine indignation on them.

¹⁷ And he said to me, Hast thou seen? Son of man. Is it a light thing for the house of Juda to commit the transgressions, which they have committed here? Because they have filled the land with iniquity, and lo! they are as it were insulting me to my face.[Note: Here something seems to be wanting. I apprehend; it was the people sacrificing to idols on the house tops.] ¹⁸ therefore I will deal with them with wrath. Mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have compassion.

³⁷ for this behold I will assemble all thy lovers with whom thou hast had connexion, both all whom thou hast loved and all whom thou hatedst, and I will gather against thee them from all around; and lay open thy wickedness before them, that they may see all thy shame. ³⁸ And I will punish thee with the punishment of an adulteress, and involve thee in the blood of wrath and jealousy;

³⁰ Though I sought among them for a man of integrity and for one who stood uprightly before me in the time of indignation that I might utterly destroy it, yet I found none: ³¹ therefore I poured out my wrath upon it, to destroy it utterly with the fire of mine indignation. Their ways I have requited on their heads, saith the Lord, Lord.

⁴⁵ therefore these are righteous men and they will punish them with the punishment of an adulteress and with the punishment for blood. Because they are adulteresses and there is blood on their hands,

⁵ So pass no judgment prematurely, until the Lord come, who will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and expose to view the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise for every one will be from God.

¹ Then one of the seven angels who had the seven vials came to me and talked with me, saying to me, Come let me shew thee the judgment of the great harlot that sitteth on the many waters, ² with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. ³ And he carried me away in spirit to a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast full of blasphemous names, which had seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ And the woman was clad in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls; and she had in her hand a golden cup full of the abominations and impurity of her fornication; ⁵ and on her forehead there was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, the mother of the harlots and the abominations of the earth. ⁶ And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus; and when I saw her I expressed my astonishment with great amaze.

⁵ Because her sins have reached to heaven and God hath remembered her acts of injustice, ⁶ render to her as she hath rendered to you and requite her double according to her works. In the cup in which she mingled, mingle for her a double portion. ⁷ In proportion to her ostentation and luxury inflict on her torment and grief. Because she saith in her heart, I am enthroned a queen and am not a widow, and shall not see sorrow; ⁸ therefore in one day these calamities shall come upon her, pestilence and sorrow and famine; and she shall be consumed with fire; for the Lord God who judgeth her is mighty. ⁹ And the kings of the earth who have committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her will wail and beat their breasts for her, when they see the smoke of her burning ¹⁰ standing afar off for fear of her torment, saying, Alas! Alas! that great city Babylon! that 'mighty city! for in one hour thy judgment is come.

¹⁶ and saying, Alas! Alas! the great city! she that was clothed with cotton and purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls!

³³ Of thee he will previously demand [and hast thou not provided for his reign] a deep valley and wood laid up in piles; the wrath of the Lord will be fire and wood in abundance like a valley burning with brimstone.

⁹ For with a rock they shall be enclosed as with a rampart, and shall be subdued; and he who fleeth shall be taken. Thus saith the Lord; Happy he who hath a seed in Sion and a family in Jerusalem!

³¹ therefore I poured out my wrath upon it, to destroy it utterly with the fire of mine indignation. Their ways I have requited on their heads, saith the Lord, Lord.

¹² Woe to him who buildeth a city with blood and furbisheth up a city with iniquities!

³⁴ O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! thou that killest the prophets and stonest them who are sent to thee! How often would I have gathered thy children, as a hen doth her brood under her wings; and ye would not. ³⁵ Behold your house is left for you a desolation. And verily I say to you, You shall not see me until the time come when you will say, Blessed he, who is coming in the name of the Lord!

⁸ executing, with flaming fire, vengeance on them who know not God, and on them who hearken not to the glad tidings of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁷ but the heavens and the earth which now exist are, by the same word, treasured up for fire, being kept for the day of judgment, and destruction of these impious men. ⁸ Now let not this one thing, my beloved, escape you, That with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. ⁹ The Lord is not slack with regard to his promise, as some reckon slackness. But he is long suffering towards us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to a reformation. ¹⁰ Now the day of the Lord will come, as a thief at night, when the heavens with a crashing roar shall pass away, and the elements shall be dissolved by fire, and the earth, and all the works thereon, shall be burned up. ¹¹ Therefore as all these things are to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conversation and godliness, ¹² expecting, and eagerly desiring, the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens, all on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with intense heat,

⁷ As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, which, in like manner with them, abandoned themselves to licentiousness, and went after strange flesh, were made an example of, suffering the vengeance of everlasting fire;

²⁰ and the wine press was trodden without the city; and blood flowed out of the wine press up to the bridles of the horses for a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

⁶ Because they poured out the blood of thy saints and prophets, therefore thou hast given them blood to drink, for they deserve it.

¹⁹ And the great city was divided into three parts; and the cities of the nations fell; and Babylon the great came into remembrance before God "to give her the cup of the venemous wine of his indignation;

⁸ but the cowards and the unbelieving and abominable and murderers and prostitutes, and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their portion in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone. This is the second death.

³ [Omitted]

⁵ And I will deliver all the strength of this city and all the labours thereof and all the treasures of the king of Juda into the hands of his enemies and they shall carry them to Babylon.

¹⁰ On all the objects of her desire the oppressor hath laid his hand; for into her sanctuary she saw nations entering, concerning whom thou hast commanded that they should not come into thy congregation.

¹⁶ Against thee all thine enemies opened their mouth; they hissed and gnashed their teeth and said, We have swallowed her up; but this is the day we looked for; we have found it; we have seen it.

²⁵ and I will bring my hand over thee, and purify thee with fire. Them who are disobedient I will destroy; and I will take away from thee all transgressors,

⁴ Because the Lord will wash away the filth of the sons and the daughters of Sion, and cleanse the blood entirely from among them; by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of burning;

⁹ [J] By means of this the iniquity of Jacob will be removed: and this will be to him a subject of thanksgiving, when I take away his sin: when they grind to powder all the hewn stones of their altars, and their groves no longer remain, and their idols hacked to pieces like a forest are far away.

¹⁰ For I have set my face against this city for evils and not for good. It shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon and he will burn it with fire.

²⁹ And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come and burn this city with fire; and they will burn those houses on the tops of which they have offered incense to Baal and poured out libations to strange gods, to provoke me.

¹⁰ Nay, though you should smite all the army of the Chaldeans who are warring against you and only some wounded men should be left, every one in his place; these shall rise up and burn this city with fire.

¹⁸ But if thou wilt not go out, this city will be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans and they will burn it with fire; and thou shalt not escape.

⁸ [Omitted]

¹³ and burned the house of the Lord and the king's house. He burned also with fire all the public buildings of the city and every stately house.

³⁸ and select from among you the wicked and the apostates; [for out of their captivity I will bring even these, but into the land of Israel they shall not come] and you shall know that I am the Lord, Lord.

¹⁵ I will scatter thee among the nations and disperse thee through the countries, and when thine impurity shall be consumed out of thee, ¹⁶ I will take possession of thee in the sight of all the nations; and you shall know that I am the Lord. ¹⁷ Again a word of the Lord came to me, saying, ¹⁸ son of man, Behold to me the house of Israel are all become mixed with brass and iron and tin and lead with a mixture of silver. ¹⁹ Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, Because you are become one mass, I will therefore gather you into the midst of Jerusalem: ²⁰ as silver and brass and iron and tin and lead are put in a furnace, that the fire may be blown on it and that it may be melted; So will I take you in my wrath and gather you and melt you. ²¹ And I will blow upon you with the fire of my wrath and you shall be melted in the midst of it. ²² As silver is melted in the midst of a furnace; so shall you be melted in the midst of it; and you shall know that I the Lord have poured out my wrath on you. ²³ Again a word of the Lord came to me, saying;

²⁶ And they shall strip thee of thy raiment, and take those jewels which are thy boast. ²⁷ And I will remove thine impieties which spring from thyself, and thy fornication which sprang from the land of Egypt; and thou shalt never lift up thine eyes to them, nor shalt thou any more remember Egypt.

⁴⁷ and stone them with the stones of tumultuous crowds; and stab them with their swords. Let their sons and their daughters be slain and their houses burned with fire, ⁴⁸ that I may remove impiety out of the land and that all women may take warning, and not commit the impieties which these have done.

²⁵ then I will sprinkle upon you pure water, and you shall be cleansed from all your impurities and from all your idols; and when I have cleansed you,

¹¹ and I will root out the cities of thy land and demolish thy fortifications. ¹² And I will cut off thy sorceries out of thy hands and in thee shall be no diviners. ¹³ And I will cut off thy graven images and thy pillars from the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the works of thy hands. ¹⁴ And I will cut down the groves from amidst thee and utterly destroy thy cities;

¹ In that day every place will be opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for the removal and for the separation. ² And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land; and there shall no more be a remembrance of them. And I will remove the false prophets and the unclean spirit out of the land.

⁸ And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts of it shall be cut off and die and the third part shall be left in it. ⁹ And when I have passed this third part through fire, and tried them as silver is tried, and proved them as gold is proved; this people will invoke My name and I will hear them and say, this is my people, and they will say, the Lord is my God.

¹ For behold a day is coming, heated like an oven, which shall set them on fire. And all aliens and all workers of iniquity shall be like stubble. The day which is coming shall blaze upon them, saith the Lord Almighty, and of them neither root nor branch shall be left.

¹² His winnowing instrument is in his hand. He will thoroughly clean his floor, and gather his wheat for the granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."

¹² Now if upon this foundation any one buildeth gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; ¹³ the work of every one will be made manifest; for the day will shew it: Because it is revealed with fire, therefore the fire will prove every one's work of what sort it is.

⁵ So when the Lord God saw that the wickedness of the men on the earth was multiplied, and that every one was in his heart studiously and continually bent upon evils, ⁶ God was grieved that he had made man on the earth. ⁷ And God came to a determination and said, "I will blot out from the face of this earth the man I have made, both man and beast; both reptiles and birds of the air. For I am grieved that I made them.

²¹ And the Lord God smelled a sweet savour, and the Lord God having come to a determination, said, "I will no more curse the ground on account of the works of men. Though the imagination of man is studiously bent upon evils from his youth, I will not on that account again smite all living flesh, as I have done.

⁵ What! must you persisting in iniquity be smitten still more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint:

¹³ Thou hast wearied thyself with thy counsels: let the astrologers now stand up and save thee; let them who gaze on the stars tell thee what is instantly coming upon thee.

⁹ and multiplied thy fornication with them, and hast done it with many who are far from thee; and hast sent ambassadors beyond thy borders; and humbled thyself even to Hades; ¹⁰ With thy long journies thou hast wearied thyself and hast not said, "I will take some rest." Because in thy full strength thou hast done this; therefore thou shouldst not supplicate me.

¹³ Because my people did two things which are both evil: they forsook me, the fountain of living water; and hewed out for themselves broken cisterns which cannot hold water.

³ [p] Lord, thine eyes look for faithfulness. Thou hast chastised them: but they have not grieved. Thou hast consumed them and they would not receive instruction. They have made their faces harder than a rock and refused to return.

⁵ every one will treat his friend with contempt. They cannot speak truth; their tongue hath learned to speak lies. They have done injustice, and have not stopped to rectify it.

¹⁴ Every man on account of knowledge became foolish. Every melter of gold was put to shame for his graven images, because he cast falsities and there is no breath in them. ¹⁵ These ridiculous works are vain; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

¹⁶ In regard to this word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, ¹⁷ we will not hearken to thee; for we will continue to perform every word which shall proceed from our mouth to burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out libations to her; as we and our fathers and our kings and our chiefs did in the cities of Juda and in the streets of Jerusalem; for we had then plenty of bread and were in happy circumstances and saw no evils:

⁵⁸ Thus saith the Lord, The wall of Babylon was made broad; It shall be totally demolished and her lofty gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall not labour in vain, though the nations may at first fail.

¹³ Its verdigrease shall be exposed to shame. Because thou wast polluted what else could be done, since thou wouldst not be cleansed till I filled up my wrath?

¹³ According to what is written in the law of Moses all those evils have come upon us. We indeed did not supplicate the favour of the Lord our God, by turning from all our wickedness, therefore that we might be made sensible of all thy truth, ¹⁴ the Lord hath indeed been watchful and hath brought upon us these things. For the Lord our God is righteous in every act of his which he hath done, and we have not hearkened to his voice.

¹ But this Ephraim is an evil spirit, he pursued a blasting wind the whole day. He multiplied emptiness and vanity. Though he made a covenant with the Assyrians, yet oil went continually to Egypt.

¹³ Are not these things from the Lord Almighty? When many nations have fainted by fire, and many peoples have been dispirited,

¹⁸ Of what avail is a graven thing, that they have engraved it? Did one cause a molten mass, a false fantasy, to be cast, because the caster had a confidence that by casting he would make dumb idols? ¹⁹ Woe to him who saith to Wood, Awake; arise. And to stone, be thou exalted. The one is indeed a fantasy; and the other, a plating of gold and silver: there is no breath in it.

¹⁴ Now all the nobles of Juda, and the priests, and the people of the land abounded in the commission of the wicked abominations of the Gentiles, and had polluted the house of the Lord in Jerusalem. ¹⁵ And the Lord the God of their fathers had sent to them by the ministry of his prophets, rising early, and sending his messengers, because he compassionated his people and his sanctuary. ¹⁶ But they continued to deride his messengers, and to despise his words, and insult his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord ascended against his people; until there was no remedy.

⁴ What more could I do for my vineyard that I have not done for it? Because I expected that it would produce grapes, and it hath produced poisonous berries; ⁵ now therefore I will tell you, what I purpose to do with my vineyard; I take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be exposed to plunder; and I will demolish its wall, and it shall be for a common walk; ⁶ and I will abandon my vineyard that it may neither be pruned nor digged; and brambles shall overrun it as a waste; and I will give a charge to the clouds not to shed rain upon it.

¹³ The people did not turn till they were smitten; as they indeed did not seek the Lord; ¹⁴ therefore the Lord cut off from Israel, head and tail, great and little in one day; ¹⁵ the aged and the honourable, this was the head; and the prophet who teacheth falsehood, he is the tail. ¹⁶ Still there will be deceivers, who will call this people happy, and lead them astray, that they may devour them; ¹⁷ therefore the Lord will have no pleasure in their young men; and on their orphans and their widows he will have no compassion; because they are all wicked and regardless of law, and every mouth speaketh perversely. For all this his wrath is not turned away but still his hand is lifted high.

²⁸ They are all disobedient and walk perversely. Being brass and iron they are all utterly consumed. ²⁹ The bellows could not stand the fire: the lead is consumed. In vain doth the silversmith try to extract silver. Their wickedness was not to be melted. ³⁰ You shall call them rejected silver, for the Lord hath rejected them.

³ [J] From the thirteenth year of Josias son of Amos king of Juda even to this day, for three and twenty years I have spoken to you rising early and speaking: ⁴ and I have sent to you my servants the prophets; rising early and sending them, though you have not hearkened nor inclined your ears; ⁵ saying, Turn ye every one from his evil way, and from your wicked pursuits and you shall dwell in this land, which I gave to you and your fathers from age to age. ⁶ Go not after strange gods to serve them, and worship them, that you may not provoke me by the works of your hands to bring evils upon you. ⁷ But you hearkened not to me.

¹⁸ I have heard the voice of Ephraim moaning, "Thou hast chastised me and I have been chastised. I like a bullock was uninstructed, bring me back that I may return; for thou art the Lord my God.

¹⁸ therefore I will deal with them with wrath. Mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have compassion.

⁴² Then I will cause my wrath against thee to abate, and my jealousy shall be removed from thee, and I will be quiet and no more care for thee.

²⁴ Son of man say to this land, Thou art a land which was not watered with showers; nor did rain fall upon thee in the day of indignation.

³⁶ Again the Lord said to me, Son of man, wilt thou not arraign Oola and Ooliba, and announce to them their iniquities? ³⁷ That they have committed adultery and there is blood on their hands? They have committed adultery with their idols; and caused their children whom they bore to me to pass through fire for them. ³⁸ And when they had done this to me, they polluted my holy things and profaned my sabbaths; ³⁹ for when they had slaughtered their children to their idols, they went into my sanctuary to profane it. Now because they have acted thus in my house; ⁴⁰ and because, for the men who came from afar, to whom messengers had been despatched, thou didst immediately on their coming, anoint thyself with oil and paint thine eyes with stibium, and ⁴¹ adorn thyself with sumptuous attire, and sit on a covered sopha with a table set before it; and they were regaled with mine ⁴² incense and mine oil, and joined in the harmonious song, even with men of the common herd who had come from the wilderness; [though they had put bracelets on their hands and a ⁴³ crown of exquisite beauty on their heads; I said, surely they do not commit adultery with these! But she acted the harlot ⁴⁴ and they went in unto her: in the same manner as they go in to a common woman, so did they go in unto Oola and to Ooliba to commit iniquity ⁴⁵ therefore these are righteous men and they will punish them with the punishment of an adulteress and with the punishment for blood. Because they are adulteresses and there is blood on their hands, ⁴⁶ thus saith the Lord, Lord, Bring up a multitude against them and expose them to tumult and rapine;

¹¹ and it shall stand on the coals that the brass may be heated red hot and melted in the midst of its impurity and its verdigrease quite destroyed;

¹ When I have healed Israel, then shall be disclosed the iniquity of Ephraim and the wickedness of Samaria. Because they have framed lies, therefore a thief shall come in to him, a sculking robber shall be in his way:

⁹ Strangers devoured his strength and he did not know it; grey hairs grew upon him and he did not perceive it. ¹⁰ [p] Though it was evident that the haughtiness of Israel would be humbled, yet they did not turn to the Lord their God, nor seek him diligently for all this. ¹¹ [J] Ephraim indeed was like a silly dove which had no understanding; he called upon Egypt: and they went to the Assyrians. ¹² Let them go where they will, I will spread my net for them, and bring them down like the birds of the air, and instruct them with the report of one another's affliction. ¹³ Alas! for them, because they have departed from me. They are faint hearted, because they have transgressed against me. Though I redeemed them, yet they spoke lies against me. ¹⁴ Their hearts do not cry to me; but only make moans on their beds; for corn and wine they were deeply affected. ¹⁵ By me they were instructed; I indeed strengthened their arms; but they devised evils against me. ¹⁶ They were turned back to no purpose. They were like a bended bow. Let their chiefs fall by the sword for the folly of their tongue; let the derision they endured in the land of Egypt come into their bosoms like dirt, like an eagle darting upon the house of the Lord.

⁶ But as for me, I will give you gnashing of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places. When you returned not to me, saith the Lord, ⁷ I withheld from you the rain three months before harvest; with an intent to rain on one city and on another city not to rain. One part was to be watered, and the part on which I did not rain, to be dried up; ⁸ so that two or three cities should crowd to one city for drink and not be satisfied. And when you turned not to me, saith the Lord, ⁹ I smote you with blasting and mildew: you multiplied your gardens; the caterpillar devoured your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive orchards. When even for this you turned not to me, saith the Lord, ¹⁰ I sent death among you by the way of Egypt, and slew your young men with the sword and gave up your horses to capture: and by your rage I involved your camps in fire. And when even for this you turned not to me, saith the Lord, ¹¹ I overthrew you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorra; and you became like a brand plucked out of fire. Now as even for this you have not turned to me, saith the Lord, ¹² therefore in this manner will I deal with thee, Israel. But because I will deal thus with thee, prepare, Israel, to invoke thy God:

² This dove hearkened not to a voice. She received not instruction: she trusted not in the Lord; nor did she draw near to her God:

⁷ I have spoken. Nevertheless fear me, and receive instruction and you shall not be cut off out of her sight. All that I have inflicted on her, repair thou. Arise betimes. [p] All the gleanings of them are spoiled.

³⁷ O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! thou that killest the prophets and stonest them who are sent to thee! how often have I desired to gather thy children even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings; but you would not! ³⁸ behold this house of yours is left desolate

⁷ Whereupon he said to the vine dresser, Behold this is the third year that I have come, seeking fruit on this fig tree, without finding any. Cut it down. Why doth it cumber the ground? ⁸ To which he replied, Master, let it alone one year longer, until I dig about it and dung it. ⁹ Perhaps it may bear fruit: if not; then cut it down.

⁸ but for them who are contentious and disobedient to the truth and in subjection to unrighteousness, there will be indignation and wrath, ⁹ tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man who doth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;

¹ Having therefore, beloved, these promises, let us purify ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

¹¹ Let him who is unjust be unjust still and him who is polluted be polluted still; and let the just be still just and the holy still holy.

¹⁹ God is not like a man to be deceived; Nor like a son of man to be threatened. When he hath spoken, will he not perform? When he shall speak, will he not stand to it?

²⁹ and Israel shall be rent in twain. He will not change, nor alter his mind, for he is not a man, that he should change his mind.

⁹ for he spake and they were brought into being: he commanded and they were created.

¹¹ Alas for the wicked! according to the works of his hands evils shall befal him. my people!

¹¹ so shall it be with my word: when it hath proceeded from my mouth, it shall not be reversed, till all are accomplished which I willed; and till I prosper thy ways and my commandments.

¹⁸ thy ways and thy devices have done these things to thee. It is owing to thy wickedness that they are bitter; that they have reached thy very heart.

¹⁴ And I will scatter them, their heads of families and their brethren, both fathers and their sons at the same time. I will not have compassion, saith the Lord, nor will I spare, nor pity them for their destruction.

²⁰ and from the purpose of his heart the wrath of the Lord will not turn away; until it hath executed it; and until he hath established it. In the last of these days they shall perceive this.

¹¹ For this cause, as I live saith the Lord, Because thou hast polluted my holy things with all thine abominations; therefore I will cast thee off; mine eye shall not spare nor will I have compassion.

⁴ [7] The day hath approached, not with commotions nor with pangs.

⁹ [5]For thus saith the Lord, Lo! the end is coming.

¹⁰ therefore mine eye shall not spare nor will I have compassion. I have requited their ways upon their heads.

⁴³ Because thou hast not remembered thy youth and hast grieved me with all these things; therefore behold I have requited thy ways on thy head, saith the Lord.

³⁰ I will judge you, saith the Lord, house of Israel, every one according to his way. Be converted and turn from all your acts of wickedness, and they shall not bring upon you the punishment of iniquity.

²⁴ And they shall come against thee from the north with chariots and wheeled carriages, and a multitude of peoples with bucklers and shields. And when a guard is set on thee round about, I will give judgment before them and they shall punish thee by their judgments.

²⁹ and they shall deal spitefully with thee, and take all those things for which thou hast laboured and toiled: and thou shalt be naked and in disgrace and the shame of thy whoredom shall be made public.

¹⁹ and dispersed them through the countries: according to their way and according to their sin I judged them.

²⁷ For the son of man will come in the glory of his father, with his angels, and will then render to every one according to his actions.

³⁵ The heaven and the earth shall fail; but my words shall not fail.

⁵ Indeed according to this obduracy, and impenitent heart of thine thou art treasuring up for thyself wrath against a day of the wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God, ⁶ who will render to every one according to his works

² upon which a fire darted forth from the Lord, and destroyed them, and they died before the Lord. ³ Whereupon Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord spoke, saying, I will be hallowed by them who come near me, and glorified by all the congregation; and Aaron was pierced with anguish.

¹⁸ But there shall be wrath against the ungodly, on account of the wicked bribes which they received for injustice.

¹⁹ Let thy loving hind and graceful fawn converse with thee; and let her be accounted peculiarly thine, and be with thee on all occasions. For ravished with her love thou wilt become a numerous family.

¹⁰ I am my dear brother's; and towards me is his desire.

¹ O that my head were water! and mine eyes a fountain of tears! That I might weep day and night for this people of mine; for the slain of the daughter of my people!

¹⁸ and take up a mournful lamentation for you: and let your eyes collect tears, and your eye lids gush out water.

¹⁷ But if you will not hearken, your soul shall weep in secret for your haughtiness; and tears shall gush from your eyes; because the flock of the Lord is destroyed.

⁵ Thus saith the Lord: Join not in their funeral entertainments; go not to make lamentation nor bewail them.

¹⁰ Weep not for him who is dead, nor utter lamentations for him, weep bitterly for him who is going away; for he shall never return, nor see any more his native country.

¹⁸ Therefore thus saith the Lord respecting Joakim son of Josias, king of Juda, even concerning this man, they shall not utter for him the lamentation "Alas Brother" nor shall they bewail him saying, "Alas lord"

¹⁸ Their heart cried to the Lord.! walls of Sion cause tears to flow down like a torrent day and night. Give thyself no rest; let not the daughter of thine eyes be silent.

¹⁸ So I spoke to the people in the morning as he had ordered me in the evening. And when I did in the morning as I was commanded,

²¹ Say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, Behold I will profane my sanctuary, the boast of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and for which your souls are moved with compassion; and your sons and your daughters whom you left shall fall by the sword: ²² and you shall do as I have done. You shall not receive comfort from their mouth nor eat funeral bread; ²³ your locks of hair shall be on your head, and your sandals on your feet; you shall neither utter lamentations nor shed tears; but shall pine away for your iniquities and exhort one another. ²⁴ And Ezekiel shall be for a sign to you, [according to all that he hath done you shall do when these things happen] and you shall know that I am the Lord. ²⁵ And with regard to thee son of man, will not this be the case? On the day when I take from them their strength; that which was their exultation and boast and the desire of their eyes and the pride of their soul; their sons and their daughters;

¹³ Now I would not, brethren, have you ignorant in respect to them who are composed to rest, that you may not be afflicted with grief, like others who have no hope.

⁶ Then Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar, and Ithamar, his surviving sons, Uncover not your heads, nor rend your garments, lest you die, and wrath come on the whole congregation: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail this burning with which the Lord hath burned them.

⁴⁵ Now the leper who hath the touch, must have his clothes rent, and his head uncovered, but he must cover his mouth, and he shall be proclaimed unclean. All the time the touch shall be upon him, being unclean, he shall be unclean,

¹⁰ And with regard to the priest, who is great above his brethren, the oil of the anointed one having been poured on his head, and he having been consecrated to put on the garments, he must not take the tiara from his head, nor rend his garments,

³⁰ And David went up by the ascent of the olive orchards, weeping as he went up, and having his head covered, and walking barefoot. And all the people who were with him covered, every one, his head, and went up weeping as they went.

⁷ Submit thyself to the Lord, and supplicate him; fret not at the man who prospereth in his way; at the man who committeth iniquity.

⁹ I was dumb and opened not my mouth: because thou art he who didst make me.

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

⁴ by a direful death they shall die; they shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried; they shall be for a spectacle on the face of the earth; they shall be for the wild beasts of the earth, and the birds of the air. By the sword they shall fall, and by famine they shall be consumed. ⁵ Thus saith the Lord: Join not in their funeral entertainments; go not to make lamentation nor bewail them. ⁶ Since I have taken away My peace from this people, no lamentation shall be made for them; nor shall any cut themselves nor be shaved. ⁷ There shall neither be bread broken in their mourning, to comfort them for the dead; nor shall a cup of consolation be given to any one for his father or mother.

²² and you shall do as I have done. You shall not receive comfort from their mouth nor eat funeral bread; ²³ your locks of hair shall be on your head, and your sandals on your feet; you shall neither utter lamentations nor shed tears; but shall pine away for your iniquities and exhort one another.

⁴ They did not pour out wine to the Lord nor offer him sweet incense; their sacrifices shall be to them like the bread of affliction; all that eat thereof shall be polluted. Seeing their funeral loaves cannot come into the house of the Lord,

³ In that day indeed the vaulted cielings of this temple shall resound with cries of Woe, saith the Lord, Lord. Multitudes are fallen every where, I will bring on silence.

⁷ and the seers of dreams shall be put to shame; and the diviners shall be laughed to scorn, and reviled by all; for none will hearken to them.

²⁰ But the Lord is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be awed at his presence.

²⁹ and say this, brethren, that the time with regard to what remaineth, is shortened, so that they who have wives should be as if they had them not; ³⁰ and they who weep, as if they wept not; and they who rejoice, as if they rejoiced not; and they who buy, as not possessing; and they

⁹ Son of man, Did not the house of Israel, that rebellious house, say to thee, What art thou doing?

⁷ And if they say to thee, Why art thou groaning? Then thou shalt say, Because of the news: for it is coming: and every heart shall be broken, and all hands enfeebled; and all flesh and every spirit shall faint; and all thighs shall be polluted with filth. Behold it is coming! saith the Lord."

¹⁸ And when the children of thy people say to thee, Why dost thou not tell us, what thou meanest by these?

⁷ but you the sons of Jacob do not abstain from the iniquities of your fathers: you have turned aside my statutes and have not kept them: turn to me and I will turn to you, saith the Lord Almighty. Do you say, Wherein shall we turn? ⁸ Will a man supplant God? For you supplant me: and will you say, "wherein have we supplanted thee?" Because the tythes and the first fruits are with you,

¹³ You have brought heavy accusations against me, saith the Lord. Do you say, in what instance have we spoken against thee?

⁴ One favour I have asked of the Lord; and this I will earnestly seek; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord, all the days of my life; that I may contemplate the delight of the Lord; and visit his temple.

⁷ They burned thy sanctuary to the ground with fire: they profaned the habitation of thy name.

¹ A Psalm by Asaph. GOD, nations are come into thine inheritance: they have polluted thy holy temple. They have made Jerusalem a depository for summer fruits.

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm for the wine presses. For the sons of Kore. LORD of hosts, how lovely are thine abodes!

⁶ Honour and comeliness are before him, holiness and majesty in his temple.

⁴ Seek the Lord and be confirmed in strength; seek his face continually.

⁸ Arise, Lord, and go up to thy rest, thou and the ark of thy holiness.

¹¹ But as for you, who forsake me and forget my holy mountain, and who prepare a table for the Demon, and fill up a mixed potion for Fortune,

¹¹ Therefore my wrath, which I filled up and restrained that I might not destroy them, I now pour out on infants in the streets, and on the congregation of youths at the same time. Because husband and wife shall be comprehended; the elder with him who is full of days;

¹⁴ I therefore will do to this house which is called by my name, and in which you have placed your confidence; and to this place which I gave to you and your fathers; as I did to Selo.

²¹ For death is gone up through your windows: it is come into your land, to destroy infants at home and young men in the streets:

³ For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters born in this place, and concerning the mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who begot them in this land; ⁴ by a direful death they shall die; they shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried; they shall be for a spectacle on the face of the earth; they shall be for the wild beasts of the earth, and the birds of the air. By the sword they shall fall, and by famine they shall be consumed.

⁶ He laid open like a vineyard his own dwelling; he marred his own festivals. The Lord forgot the festivals and sabbaths which he had established in Sion, and by the rebuke of his anger vexed king and priest and chief. ⁷ The Lord hath cast off his altar; he hath shaken off his sanctuary. With the hand of an enemy he hath demolished the wall of her palaces. They uttered a shout in the house of the Lord as on the day of a festival.

²⁰ With their choice apparel which was laid by for ostentation; even with this they adorned the images of their abominations; therefore I have given it to them for defilement; ²¹ even into the hand of strangers I will deliver it for plunder, and to be a spoil for the ravagers of the earth; and they shall defile it. ²² And I will turn away my face from them; and they shall pollute the places under my peculiar inspection, and come into them unobserved, and profane them

⁷ And he said to them, Defile this house and fill the ways with dead as you are going out and continue the slaughter.

²⁵ And I will give a loose to my jealousy; and they shall deal with thee with furious wrath, they shall cut off thy nose and thine ears; and the remains of thee they shall hack with a sword. They shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and a fire shall devour the residue of thee.

⁴⁷ and stone them with the stones of tumultuous crowds; and stab them with their swords. Let their sons and their daughters be slain and their houses burned with fire,

¹⁶ Son of man, Behold I take from thee the desires of thine eyes with a stroke. Thou must not mourn, nor utter lamentation.

³¹ And seeds out of him will spring up, and the sanctuary of the dominion will be polluted; and the daily sacrifice will be removed; and there will be set up an abomination which hath caused desolation,

¹³ and set up false witnesses, who said, This man is incessantly speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law; ¹⁴ for we heard him saying that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and change the customs which Moses delivered to us.

¹⁵ Those who are about him shall die by pestilence: and their widows none shall compassionate.

⁶⁴ Their priests fell by the sword and their widows are not to bewail them.

³ At the sound of his impetuous onset; at the armour of his infantry; at the rushing of his chariots; the rumbling of his wheels; fathers looked not back on their children, by reason of the feebleness of their hands.

¹⁶ Son of man, Behold I take from thee the desires of thine eyes with a stroke. Thou must not mourn, nor utter lamentation. ¹⁷ Let sighing for blood and grief of loins be suppressed. Thy hair shall be platted on thy head and thy sandals shall be on thy feet. Thou must not receive comfort from their lips, nor eat funeral bread.

⁹ And it shall come to pass that if ten head men be left in one family, they shall die ¹⁰ and the residue shall be left and their domestics shall succeed them. And when they are pressed to bring their bones out of the house, one will say to them who are over the family, Are there any more yet with thee? And when one will say, There is no more: then will one say, Forbear to mention the name of the Lord on this account;

³⁹ And those of you who are left shall pine away for their sins, and for the sins of their fathers; In the land of their enemies they shall pine away,

¹¹ When dying they will groan like a bear and mourn like a dove; and at their departing say, "We waited for judgment and there is none: and as for safety, it is far from us.

¹⁷ that they may be in want of bread and water and perish, one and all, and be wasted away for their iniquities.

¹⁰ Now son of man, say to the house of Israel, Thus have you spoken, saying, Our errors and our iniquities are upon us; and in them we are pining away; how then can we live?

² Soon as thou shalt depart from me to-day, thou wilt meet two men at Rachel's tomb, on mount Benjamin, coming in haste, and they will say to thee, The asses which you went to seek, are found; and behold thy father hath left off caring for the asses, and is anxiously concerned for you, saying, What shall I do for my son? ³ And when thou shalt go thence, and from that place come to the Oaks of Thabor, thou wilt there meet three men going up to God to Baithel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three baskets of bread, and the other carrying a flagon of wine. ⁴ And they will salute thee courteously, and give thee two of the best loaves, which thou shalt receive at their hand. ⁵ And after that thou shalt go to the mount of God, where there is a garrison of the Philistines under Nasib the Philistine; And when you there enter the city, thou wilt meet a choir of prophets coming down from the Bama, with nablas, and tympanums, and pipes, and kinaras before them, and they will be prophesying; ⁶ and the Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and be changed into another man. ⁷ Now when these signs are come to thee; do thou as the occasion may require; for God is with thee.

¹⁸ Here am I and the children whom God hath given me." Now when there shall be signs and wonders in the house of Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwelleth on Mount Sion;

³ And the Lord said, "As my servant Esaias hath walked stripped and bare foot, three years; three years he shall be for signs and wonders to the Egyptians, and Ethiopians,

¹⁵ Where is the word of the Lord? Let it come.

³ Then take thee an iron pan and place it as an iron wall between thee and the city and set thy face against it and it shall be besieged and thou shalt besiege it. This is a sign for the children of Israel.

⁷ and your wounded shall fall in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the lord.

²⁷ the chief shall be clothed with darkness; and the hands of the people of the land shall be weakened. According to their ways I will deal with them; and for their crimes I will punish them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

⁶ Thou shalt be taken up upon shoulders and shalt go out in a secret manner. Thou shalt cover thy face and not see the ground, for I have made thee a sign for the house of Israel.

¹¹ say, I am acting signs. As I have done, so shall it be with them. They shall go into banishment and captivity.

²⁴ and all the trees of the plain shall know that I am the Lord who bringeth down the lofty tree, and exalteth the tree which is low, and who causeth the green tree to wither, and the withered tree to flourish. I the Lord have spoken and I will perform.

⁵ And I will make the city of Ammon feeding places for camels; and the land of the Ammonites a pasture for sheep; and you shall know that I am the Lord.

⁷ therefore I will stretch forth my hand against thee, and deliver thee up for a spoil to the nations: and I will utterly destroy thee from among the peoples, and cause thee to perish out of the countries, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

¹¹ and upon Moab I will execute vengeance; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

¹⁴ And I will execute vengeance on Idumea by the hand of my people Israel who shall deal with Idumea according to mine indignation, and according to my wrath; and they shall know my vengeance saith the Lord. For the same cause,

¹⁷ and inflict on them great punishments; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I execute my vengeance on them.

² The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. When the Lord said to Hosea, "Go, take thee a wife of whoredom, and children of whoredoms, since the land is going and will go a whoring from the Lord;" ³ He then went and took Gomer a daughter of Debelaim: and when she conceived and bore him a son, ⁴ the Lord said to him, "Call his name Jezrael; for yet a little while and I will avenge the blood of Jezrael on the house of Jehu, and cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease. ⁵ And it shall come to pass in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezrael." ⁶ And when she conceived again and bore a daughter, he said to him, "Call her name, Not compassionated; for I will no longer continue to have compassion on the house of Israel, but will set myself against them. ⁷ But on the children of Juda I will have compassion and I will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow nor by sword nor by battle nor by horses nor by horsemen." ⁸ And when she had weaned "Not compassionated", she conceived again and bore a son, ⁹ and he said, "Call his name "Not my people", since you are not my people and I am not your God."

¹ Again the Lord said to me, Still go and love a woman who loveth wickedness, even an adulteress, as God loveth the children of Israel, though they look to strange gods and love cakes with dried grapes. ² So I hired one for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a gomar of barley and a nebel of wine, ³ and said to her, "Thou shalt continue many days for me and shalt not play the harlot nor have commerce with man, then I will be for thee; ⁴ for the children of Israel shall continue many days without a king and without a chief, and without a sacrifice and without an altar and without a priesthood, and without manifestations;

²⁹ Now the crowds being collected in a body, he took occasion to say, This is a wicked generation. It seeketh a sign; but to it no sign shall be given, save the sign of the prophet Jonas. ³⁰ For as Jonas was a sign to the Ninevites, so will the son of man be to this generation.

¹³ But this will give scope for your testimony.

¹⁹ This I tell you now before it happeneth, that when it cometh to pass you may believe me to be what I am.

²⁹ Now I have told you before it come to pass, that when it is come to pass you may believe.

⁴ But I have spoken these things to you, that, when that time cometh, you may remember that I mentioned them to you. I did not tell you them from the beginning, because I was with you.

³² thy sons, and thy daughters, will be given to another nation, and thine eyes will melt in looking at them; there will be no strength in thy hand.

² To the great joy of the whole earth, he is establishing firmly Sion's mountains. On the sides to the north is the city of the great king.

² Out of Sion the perfection of his comeliness;

¹ A Song of the steps. I was rejoiced when they said to me; "Let us go to the house of the Lord." ² Our feet have been standing in thy courts, Jerusalem. ³ Jerusalem is built like a city; with regard to which, the participation of it is for this very purpose: ⁴ for thither the tribes have come up; the tribes of the Lord, a testimony to Israel; that they may give thanks to the name of the Lord: ⁵ because there the thrones for judgment are set: thrones for the house of David. ⁶ Pray, I beseech you, for the peace of Jerusalem; and for prosperity to them who love thee. ⁷ let there be peace in thine army and prosperity in thy palaces! ⁸ For the sake of my brethren and neighbours, I have expressed a wish of peace for thee; ⁹ For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I have earnestly sought thy good.

⁴ Trust not in yourselves; in lying words: for you will derive no benefit from them who say, "The temple of the Lord! it is the temple of the Lord!"

²² "Behold I will punish them. Their young men shall die by the sword. And their sons and their daughters shall die by famine.

²¹ Say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, Behold I will profane my sanctuary, the boast of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and for which your souls are moved with compassion; and your sons and your daughters whom you left shall fall by the sword:

¹² And there ran a Jeminite from the battle, and came to Selom the same day, with his clothes rent and dust on his head. ¹³ And when he came, lo! Eli was sitting on his seat, by the gate, watching the way; for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man went into the city, and told the news, the city raised a cry. ¹⁴ And upon hearing the sound of the cry, Eli said, What noise of crying is this? Then the man came in haste, and told Eli. ¹⁵ Now Eli was ninety years of age, and his eyes were dim so that he could not see. ¹⁶ And just as Eli said to the men who stood round him, What noise of crying is this? The man came in haste to Eli, and said to him, I am he who came from the army, and fled to-day from the engagement. Whereupon Eli said, What was the issue, my son? ¹⁷ And the young man in reply, said, Israel fled before the face of the Philistines, and there was a great slaughter among the people, and both thy sons are dead, and the ark of God is taken. ¹⁸ Soon as he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward from his seat by the gate, and his back was broken, and he died; for he was an old man and heavy. Now he had judged Israel twenty years.

¹⁵ and the plunderers came and carried them off. Thy servants also they slew with the sword, and I alone having escaped, am come to tell thee. ¹⁶ While he was yet speaking, another messenger came, and said to Job; Fire hath fallen from heaven and burned up the sheep, and devoured the shepherds likewise; and I, alone having escaped, am come to tell thee. ¹⁷ While this one was still speaking, another messenger came and said to Job, The horsemen, having formed three bands against us, surrounded the camels and have carried them off, and slain thy servants with the sword; and I, alone having escaped, am come to tell thee. ¹⁸ While he was still speaking, another messenger came, and said to Job, While thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking at their eldest brother's, ¹⁹ a great blast of wind came up suddenly from the wilderness, and took the four corners of the house, so that the house fell upon thy children, and they are dead, and I, alone having escaped, am come to tell thee.

²¹ Now it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the twelfth month, on the fifth of the month, that one who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, The city is taken. ²² Now the hand of the Lord had been upon me the evening before he arrived, and had opened my mouth. So when he came to me in the morning my mouth was opened and no more shut.

¹¹ Go in; speak to Pharao king of Egypt that he may send the children of Israel out of his land. ¹² Upon which Moses spoke before the Lord saying, Behold the Israelites have not hearkened to me, how then should Pharao hearken to me, incapable as I am of speaking?

¹⁵ Lord, open my lips, that my mouth may proclaim thy praise.

²⁶ And I will bind up thy tongue, that thou mayst be dumb and not be to them a reprover, because they are a rebellious house. ²⁷ And when I speak to thee, I will open thy mouth and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord, whoso heareth let him hear; and let him who is disobedient, be disobedient, since they are a rebellious house.

²¹ In that day there shall spring up a horn for the whole house of Israel, and I will give thee an open mouth in the midst of them, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

²² Now the hand of the Lord had been upon me the evening before he arrived, and had opened my mouth. So when he came to me in the morning my mouth was opened and no more shut.

¹⁵ For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to contradict or withstand.

¹⁹ particularly for me, that to me a word may be given, that with the opening of my mouth, and with freedom am plainness of speech, I may make known the secret of the glad tidings,