side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it, thou shalt bear their iniquity. (5) For I have appointed' the years of their iniquity to be unto thee al number of days, even three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6)And again, when thou hast accomplished these, thou shalt lie on thy right side, and shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed 7 it unto thee. And thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, Iwith thine arm uncovered; and thou (8 shalt prophesy against it. And, behold, I lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast accomplished 9 the days of thy siege. Take thou

also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt', and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof; according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, even three hundred and ninety days, shalt 10 thou eat thereof. And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to 11 time shalt thou eat it. And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to 12) time shalt thou drink. And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with 13 dung that cometh out of man. °And

the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread 'unclean', among the nations' whither I 14 will drive them. Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn of beasts; neither came there abomina15 ble flesh into my mouth. Then he said unto me, 'See', I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt 16 prepare thy bread thereon'. °More

over he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with carefulness; and they shall drink water by measure, 17 and with astonishment: that they may want bread and water, and be

astonied one with another, and 'pine' away in their iniquity.

5 1) And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp sword, as a barber's razor 'shalt thou take it unto thee, and shalt cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and 'divide 2) the hair. A third part shalt thou burn 'in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and thou shalt take a third part, and smite with the sword round! about it; and a third part thou shalt scatter to the wind, and I will draw 3 out a sword after them. And thou shalt take thereof a few in number, 4) and bind them in thy skirts. And of these again shalt thou' take, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; therefrom' shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.

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Thus saith the Lord GOD: This is Jerusalem: I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries 6 are round about her. And she hath rebelled against my judgements in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are round about her for they have 'rejected' my judgements, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them. 7 °Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because ye are turbulent more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgements, neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round 8 about you; therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I, even I, am against thee; and I will execute judgements in the midst of thee in 9 the sight of the nations. And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all 10 thine abominations. Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgements in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter Junto all the 11) winds. Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine

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abominations, therefore will I also 'diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, and I also will have 'no' pity. (12) A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee; and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and a third part I will scatter 'unto' all the winds, and will draw out a sword after *(13 them. "Thus shall mine anger be

accomplished, and I will satisfy my fury upon them, and I will be comforted and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury 14 upon them. Moreover I will make thee la desolation and a reproach, among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that 15 pass by. So it shall be a reproach

and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgements in thee in anger and in fury, and in furious rebukes : (16 I the LORD have spoken it: when I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you; and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread; 17) and I will send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee: I the LORD have spoken it.

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And the word of the LORD came 2 unto me, saying, °Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, 3 and prophesy unto them, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will 4 destroy your high places. And your altars shall become desolate, ́and your sun-images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men (5 before your idols. And I will lay the carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

6 In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your sunimages may be 'hewn' down, and your 7 works may be abolished. And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD. (8) Yet will I leave a remnant, 'in' that ye shall have some that escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the coun*9 tries. And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, how that I have been broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves 'in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abom(10 inations. And they shall know that I am the LORD: I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.

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Thus saith the Lord GOD: Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel: for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pes12 tilence. He that is far off shall die

of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish 13) my fury upon them. And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick 10oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to 14) all their idols. And I will stretch out 'my' hand upon them, and make the land desolate land waste', 11 from1 the wilderness Itoward Diblah, throughout all their habitations and they shall know that I am the LORD. 71 Moreover the word of the LORD 2 came unto me, saying, "And thou, son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD

unto the land of Israel, An end: the end is come upon the four corners of (3 the land. Now is the end upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways; and I will bring upon thee 4 all thine abominations. And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither 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 the LORD.

5 Thus saith the Lord GOD: An evil, 6 an only evil; behold, 'it cometh'. An end is come, the end is come, it 'awaketh against thee; behold, it 7 cometh. Thy doom' is come unto thee, O inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the day is near; 1a day of tumult', and not 'of joyful shouting, 8) 2upon the mountains. Now will I

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shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger against thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways; and I will 'bring upon thee 9 all thine abominations. And mine eye shall not spare, neither 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 the LORD 10 do smite. Behold, the day, behold,

it cometh thy doom' is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath 11 budded. "Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness; none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth': neither shall there be eminency among them. 12 The time is come, the day draweth near let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all 13 the multitude thereof. For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they be yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, none' shall return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the 14 iniquity of his life. They have blown the trumpet, 'and have made all ready; but none goeth to the battle for my wrath is upon all the 15 multitude thereof. The sword is without, and the pestilence and the

famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence 16 shall devour him. But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every 17 one in his iniquity. All hands shall

be feeble, and all knees shall be weak 18 as water. They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their 19 heads. They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be las an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD; they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it hath been the stumbling(20 block of their iniquity. As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things 10therein: therefore have I made it unto them as an 21 unclean thing'. 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! 22 it. My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profanel my 11secret place and robbers shall 23 enter into it, and 'profane it. Make

the chain: for the land is full of 12bloody crimes, and the city is full of 24 violence. Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pride of the strong to cease; and 18their holy places shall 25 be 'profaned'. °14 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there 26) shall be none. "Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; 'and' they shall seek a vision of the prophet: but the law shall perish from the priest, and 27 counsel from the ancients. °The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to

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10 Or, thereof 11 Or, secret Itreasure! 12 Heb. judgement of blood.

13 Or, they that sanctify them\ 14 Or, Distress}

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their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord * 2 GOD fell there upon me. "Then I beheld, and, lo, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his loins and downward, fire: and from his loins 'and' upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the 3) colour of 2amber. And he put forth the form of 'an' hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court' that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, 4 which provoketh to jealousy.

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behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the appear5 ance that I saw in the plain. Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. (6) And he said unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel 'do commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but thou shalt again see yet other 7 great abominations. And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the 8 wall. Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall and when I had digged in the wall, be9 hold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and 'see the wicked abom10 inations that they do here. °So I

went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the 11 wall round about. And there stood before them seventy men of the 'elders of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and the

1 Or, as amber to look upon 2 See ch. i. 4.

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odour of the cloud of incense went (12) up. Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the elders! of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chambers of imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken (13) the earth. He said also unto me, Thou shalt again see yet other great! 14 abominations which they do. Then

he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's house which was Itoward the north; and behold, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz. (15) °Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? thou shalt again see yet greater abominations 16 than these. And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house, and behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces Itoward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. 17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have 'turned again' to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose. 18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will

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I have pity and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.

Then he cried in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, 'Cause ye1 them that have charge over the city to draw near, every man with his destroying (2 weapon in his hand. And behold, six men came from the way of the 'upper' gate, which lieth toward the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man in the midst of them clothed 'in' linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side. And they went in, and stood beside the 3 brasen altar. And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house: and he called to the man clothed in linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side.

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4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst 5) thereof. And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye through the city after him, and smíte: let not your * 6) eye spare, neither have ye pity: slay 1utterly 'the' old man, the young 'man' and the maiden', and little children and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were 7 before the house. And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and 'smote in 8 the city. And it came to pass, while they were smiting', and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusa9 lem? Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of wresting of judgement: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the 10 earth, and the LORD seeth not. And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way upon their head. 11 And behold, the man clothed in linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded

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firmament that was lover the head of the 'cherubim', there appeared above! them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a 2 throne. And he spake unto the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the whirling wheels, even under the cherub, and fill both thine hands with coals of fire from between the 'cherubim', and 'scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight. 3 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner 4 court. And the glory of the LORD

Imounted up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the bright(5) ness of the LORD's glory. And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when (6 he speaketh. And it came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the 'cherubim, that he went 7 in, and stood beside la wheel'. And 'the' cherub stretched forth his hand from between the Icherubim unto the fire that was between the cherubim', and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed in 8 linen, who took it and went out. And there appeared in the cherubimꞌ the form of a man's hand under their (9 wings. And I looked, 'and' behold, four wheels beside the 'cherubim', one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone. 10 And as for their appearance', they

four had one likeness, as if a wheel 11 had been within a wheel. When they went, they went 10upon their four sides they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned 12 not as they went. And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the 13 wheels that they four had. As for

the wheels, "they were called in my 14 hearing, the whirling wheels'. °And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of 'the' cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and (15 the fourth the face of an eagle. And

the 'cherubim mounted' up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river (16 Chebar. And when the cherubim1 went, the wheels went 'beside them: and when the 'cherubim lifted' up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also turned not from beside 17 them. When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up, these Imounted up with them': for the