spirit of the living creature was in 18 them. And the glory of the LORD Iwent forth from over the threshold of the house, and stood over the 'cheru19 bim. And the 'cherubim lifted' up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went 'forth, and the wheels beside them : and they stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD's house; and the glory of the God of Israel was (20 over them above. This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim'. * 21 °Every one had four faces apiece,

and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was (22 under their wings. And as for the

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likeness of their faces, 'they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one straight forward.

Moreover the spirit 'lifted' me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD's house, which looketh eastward and behold, at the door of the gate five and twenty men; 'and' I saw in the midst of them' Jaazaniah the son of Azzurꞌ, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. 2)And he said unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise liniquity', and that give wicked counsel in this 3 city which say, The time is not near to build houses: this city is the 4 caldron, and we be the flesh. Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, (5 O son of man. And the spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and he said unto me, Speak, Thus saith the LORD: Thus have ye said, O house of Israel; for I know the things that come into 6 your mind. "Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain. 7 °Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron : but ye shall be brought forth out of the midst of 8 it. Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword upon you, 9 saith the Lord GOD. And I will bring you forth out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands

1 Or, of life See ch. i. 21.

2 Or, lover against

Or, Is not the time near &c.?

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of strangers, and will execute judge10 ments among you. Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know (11 that I am the LORD. This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; I will judge you in the border of Israel; 12 and ye shall know that I am the LORD for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither have ye executed my judgements, but have done after the lordinances of the nations that 13 are round about you. And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?

14 And the word of the LORD came 15 unto me, saying, Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel, all of them', are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you! far from the LORD; unto us is this land given 'for al 16) possession: therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD: Whereas I have Iremoved them far off among the Inations', and 'whereas I have scattered them among the countries, Tyet will I be to them a sanctuary 'for a1 little while in the countries where (17 they are come. "Therefore say,

Thus saith the Lord GOD: I will gather you from the peoples', and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. 18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abomina19 tions thereof from thence. And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them 'an' heart of 20 flesh that they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my 21 people, and I will be their God. as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way upon their own heads, saith

But

6 Heb. redemption. See Lev. xxv. 25, &c. [have been Or, yet have I been Or, land

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22 the Lord GOD. "Then did the 'cherubim lift up their wings, and the wheels were 1beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over 23 them above. And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city. 24 And the spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that 25 I had seen went up from me.

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I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shewed

me.

121 The word of the LORD also came 2 unto me, saying, Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of the rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not, which have ears to hear, and hear not; for they are a rebellious 3 house. Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be 4) a rebellious house. And thou shalt bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth thyself at even in their sight, as when men go forth into 5 lexile. Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby. 6 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy 'shoulder, and carry it forth in the 'dark'; thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of (7 Israel. And I did so as I was commanded I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for removing', and in the even I digged through the wall with mine hand; I brought it forth in the 'dark', and bare it upon my shoulder 8 in their sight. And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, 9 saying, Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, 10) said unto thee, What doest thou? Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD: This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel among whom they are. 11 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them: they shall go into exile!, into captivity.

12) And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the 'dark', and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby he shall cover his face, 'because he shall not see the "ground 13 with his eyes. My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, 14 though he shall die there. And I will scatter toward every wind all that are round about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the 15) sword after them. And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the coun16 tries. But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the nations whither they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

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Moreover the word of the LORD 18 came to me, saying, °Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with careful(19 ness; and say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD Iconcerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of 20 all them that dwell therein. And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be la desolation; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

21 And the word of the LORD came unto 22 me, saying, "Son of man, what is 'this! proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, 23 and every vision faileth? Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD: I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every 24 vision. For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination 25 within the house of Israel. For I am the LORD; I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be performed1;

7 Heb. the fulness thereof. 8 Heb. word.

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it shall be no more deferred: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I Ispeak the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.

Again the word of the LORD came (27 to me, saying, "Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of times 28 that are far off. Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD: There shall none of my words be 'deferred' any more, but the word which I shall speak shall be performed', saith the Lord GOD.

131 And the word of the LORD came 2 unto me, saying, "Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own 'heart', 3 Hear ye the word of the LORD; "Thus saith the Lord GOD: Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own (4 spirit, 1and have seen nothing! °O

Israel, thy prophets have been like *5 foxes in the waste places'. "Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the fence for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the *6 day of the LORD. They have seen vanity and lying divination, 'that sayꞌ, The LORD saith; and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made 'men' to hope that the word 'should (1 be confirmed'. Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith; albeit I have not spoken?

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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD. 9 °And mine hand shall be against the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD. 10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there is no peace; and 'when' one 'buildeth' up a wall, 'behold, they daub it with untempered mortar: 11 say unto them which daub it with

untempered mortar, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall 'rend' it. 12 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed (13 it? Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in 14 fury to consume it. So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered: and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof; and ye 15 shall know that I am the LORD. "Thus will I accomplish my 'fury upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered mortar; and 'I' will say unto you, The wall is no more, 16 neither they that daubed it; to wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord GOD.

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And thou, son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; (18 and prophesy thou against them, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD: Woe to the women that sew pillows Tupon! all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head of persons of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive 19 91for yourselves!? And ye have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that 'hearken unto lies. 20 °Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against your pillows, 10 wherewith ye there hunt the souls 11to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms; and 'I' will let the souls go, even the souls that ye 21 hunt 11to make them fly. Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am

8 Or, Ye hunt. . . and ye save &c.

9 Or, that lare yours

10 Or, where ye hunt

11 Or, las birds

22 the LORD. "Because with lies ye have 'grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved 23) alive therefore ye shall no more see vanity, nor divine divinations: land! I will deliver my people out of your hand; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

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Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before 2 me. And the word of the LORD 3 came unto me, saying, Son of man, these men have taken their idols

into their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face should I be inquired of 4 at all by them? Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD: Every man of the house of Israel that taketh' his idols into his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols; 5 that I may take the house of Israel

in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their 6 idols. Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD: 'Return yeꞌ, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces 7 from all your abominations. For every one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that 'sojourn in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and taketh his idols into his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to 'the' prophet to inquire 4 for himself of me; I the LORD will 8 answer him by myself and I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the 9 LORD. And if the prophet be "deceived and speaketh' a 'word', I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the (10 midst of my people Israel. °And

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they shall bear their iniquity: the iniquity of the prophet shall be even as the iniquity of him that seeketh 11 unto him; that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither defile themselves! any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.

12 And the word of the LORD came (13) 'unto me, saying, Son of man, when lal land sinneth against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out mine hand upon it, and break the staff of the bread thereof, and send famine upon it, and cut off from it 14 man and beast; though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith 15 the Lord GOD. If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts; 16 though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be deso17) late. Or if I bring a sword upon

that land, and say, "Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it 18 man and beast; though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only 19 shall be delivered themselves. °Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and 20 beast: though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their right21 eousness. For thus saith the Lord GOD: How much more when I send my four sore judgements upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beasts', and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and 22 beast? Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be 'carried' forth, both sons and daughters:

5 Or,

6 Or, the punishment of their iniquity Or, bereave

8 Or, Let the sword go Heb. they that escape.

behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon 23 it. And they shall comfort you, when ye see their way and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.

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And the word of the LORD came 2 unto me, saying, "Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, 'the vine branch which is among the 3 trees of the forest? Shall wood be taken thereof to make any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang 4 any vessel thereon? Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel: the fire hath devoured both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned'; is it 5) profitable for any work? Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned, shall it yet be meet for any work? 6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the in7 habitants of Jerusalem. And I will set my face against them; they shall go 'forth' from 'the fire, but the fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I set my 8 face against them. And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.

161 Again the word of the LORD came 2 unto me, saying, °Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, 3) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was thy father, and 4thy mother was an Hittite. And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to 'cleanse thee; thou wast not salted 5 at all, nor swaddled at all. None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon

thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, for that thy person was abhorred', in the day that thou wast 6 born. And when I passed by thee, and saw thee weltering' in 'thy' blood, I said unto thee, 'Though thou 'art' in thy blood, live; yea, I said unto thee, Though thou art in thy blood, *(7 live. I caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou didst increase and wax great, and thou lattainedst to excellent ornament'; thy breasts were1 fashioned, and thine hair was grown; yet thou wast 8 naked and bare. Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine. 9 °Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with (10 oil. I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with sealskin', and I 10girded thee about with fine linen, and covered thee with silk. 11 °I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, 12 and a chain on thy neck. And I put

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a ring upon thy nose, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown 13 upon thine head. "Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper 'unto royal estatel. 14 And thy renown went forth among the nations for thy beauty; for it was perfect, through my 'majesty' which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.

Or, porpoise\-skin 10 Or, bound thee with la tire of fine linen