The desolation of Egypt, Chap. xxx. and her helpers. nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith shall it be inhabited forty years. the Lord GOD. 12 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. 7 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted. 8 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed. 9 In that day shall messengers go forth from 13 Yet thus saith the Lord GoD: At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyp-me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians tians from the people whither they were scattered: 15 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. 16 And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance when they shall look after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD. 17 ¶ And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 18 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus; every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled; yet had be no wages, nor his army for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it: 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord Gop; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. 20 I have given him the land of Egypt for bis labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord God. 21 In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD. Tsaying 2 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith. the Lord Goo; Howlye, Wo worth the day 3 For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen. 4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down. 5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword. 6 Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for lo, it cometh. 10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon. 11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain. 12 And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and ! will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it. 13 Thus saith the Lord Gon; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt. 14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No. 15 And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No. 16 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily. 17 The young men of Aven and of Phibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity. 18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity. 19 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the LORD. 20 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword. 22 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand. 23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. 24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man 25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword inte The glory and EZEKIEL fall of Assyria the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall, mourning: I covered the deep for him, and stretch it out upon the land of Egypt. I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. 26 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD. CHAP. XXXI. 1 A relation unto Pharaoh, 3 of the glory of Assyria, 10 and the fall thereof for pride: 18 the like destruction of Egypt. AND it came to pass in the eleventh year, the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto the, saying, 2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness! 16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth. 17 They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen. 18 To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? 3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadow-of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: ing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. 4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field. thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumeised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God. CHAP. XXXII. A lamentation for the fearful fall of Egypt. 5 Therefore his height was exalted above AND it came to pass in the twelfth year, in all the trees of the field, and his boughs were the twelfth month, in the first day of the multiplied, and his branches became long be-mooth, that the word of the LORD came unto cause of the multitude of waters when he shot me, saying, forth. 6 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations. 7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters. 8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir-trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut-trees were not like 2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers. 3 Thus saith the Lord God; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net. 4 Then will I leave thee upon the land, I field, and his branches; not any tree in the garden of will cast thee forth upon the oven to re God was like unto him in his beauty. 91 have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him. 10 Therefore thus saith the Lord GoD: Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; 11 I have therefore delivered him into the band of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness. 12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and bis boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him. 13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches. will cause all the fowls of the main upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee. 5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the moun tains, and fill the valleys with thy height. 6 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee. 7 And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. 8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God. 9 I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known. 10 Yen, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall. 14 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand 11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The up in their height, all that drink water: sword of the king of Babylon shall come upou for they are all delivered unto death, to the thee. nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit. 15. Thus saith the Lord God; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a 12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed. A lamentation for the Chap. xxxili. destruction of Egypt 13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with from beside the great waters; neither shall them that go down to the pit. the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them. 14 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD. 15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD. 16 This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD. 17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit. 30 There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit. 31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD. 32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living and he shall be laid in the midet of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD. CHAP. XXXIII. 1 By the duty of a watchman, 7 Esekiel is admonished of his day. 10 God sheweth the justice of his ways. AGAIN the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy 19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? Go people, and say unto them, When I bring the down, and be thou laid with the uncircum-sword upon a land, if the people of the land cised. take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: 20 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes. 3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; 21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that 4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the help him: they are gone down, they lie un-trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword circumcised, slain by the sword. come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. 22 Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword : 23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living 24 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, faller by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit. 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. 6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. 7¶ So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; there fore thou shalt bear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me. 25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves 8 When I say unto the wicked, O wickare round about him: all of them uncircum-ed man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost cise, slain by the sword, though their terror not speak to warn the wicked from his was caused in the land of the living, yet have way, that wicked man shall die in his inithey borne their shame with them that go quity; but his blood will I require at thine down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them hand. that be slain. 23 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living. 27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. 29 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword. 9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. 10 Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live? 11 Say unto them. As I live, saith the Lord GoD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? 12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto 29 There is Edom, her kings, and all her the children of thy people. The righteousprinces, which with their might are laid by ness of the righteous shall not deliver him them that were slain by the sword: they in the day of his transgression: as for tire The justice of God's ways. EZEKIEL. Bad shepherds reproved. wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall, the walls, and in the doors of the houses thereby in the day that he turneth from his and speak one to another, every one to his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and bear able to live for his righteousness in the day what is the word that cometh forth from the that he sinneth. LORD. 13 When I shall say to the righteous, that 31 And they come unto thee as the people he shall surely live, if he trust to his own cometh, and they sit before thee as my peorighteousness, and commit iniquity, all his ple, and they hear thy words, but they will righteousness shall not be remembered; but not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness. for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it. 14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou ehalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; 15 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. 16 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live. 17 Yet the children of thy people say, 32 Ana lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not. 33 And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them. CHAP. XXXIV, 1 The shepherds reproved: 7 their judgment. 11 God's providence for his flock. 20 The kingdom of Christ. The way of the LORD is not equal: but, as for AND the word of the LORD came unto me, them, their way is not equal. 18 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby. saying, 2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Wo be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed 19 But if the wicked turn from his wicked-themselves! Should not the shepherds feed ness, and do that which is lawful and right, he the flocks? shall live thereby. 20 Yet ye say, The way of the LORD is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways. 21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten. 22 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb. 23 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 24 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance. 25 Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land? 3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock. 4 The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them. 5 And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered. 6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them. 7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD; 8 As I live, saith the Lord God, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the 26 Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abo-shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my mination, and ye defile every one his neigh-flock; boar's wife: and shall ye possess the land? 9 Therefore, Oye shepherds, hear the word 27 Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the of the LORD; Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pesti-herds feed themselves any more; for I wil lence. 28 For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease: and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through. 29 Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate, because of all their abominations which they have committed. 30 Also, thou son of man, the children of tby people still are talking against thee by 10 Thus saith the Lord Gop; Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shep deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them. 11 For thus saith the Lord Gon; Behold I, even 1, will both search my sheep, and seek God's providence for his flock. Chap. XXXV, XXXVİ. 13 And I, will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country. 14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shal! their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel. 15 I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord God. 16 1 will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment. The judgment of mount Setr. their God am with them, and that they, even 30 Thus shall they know that I the LORD the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord GOD. 31 And ye my flock, the flock of my pasLord GOD. ture, are men, and 1 am your God, saith the The judgment of mount Seir for their hatred CHAP. XXXV. of Israel. MOREOVER the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Seir, and prophesy against it, Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am 17 And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cat-the LORD. tle and cattle, between the rams and the hegoats. 18 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must fread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet? 19 And as for my flock, they eat that which Je have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet. 5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood late, and cut off from it him that passeth out 20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge be-men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in 8 And I will fill his mountains with his slain tween the fat cattle and between the lean all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain cattle. with the sword. 21 Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad; 22 Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle. 23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. 24 And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it. 25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell Bafely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. 26 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing. 27 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them. and thy cities shall not return and ye shall and these two countries shall be mine, and we I will even do according to thine anger, and 12 And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, 13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, 28 And they shall no more be a prey to the 1 The land of Israel is comforted by the hea- mountains of Israel, and say, Ye moun- 1 1 |