Alamentation for the defruction of Egypt thall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit. Chap. xxxiil. 13 I will deftroy alfo all the beafts thereof from beide the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beafts trouble them. 14 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, faith the Lord God. 15 When I thall make the land of Egypt defolate, and the country thall be deftitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall fmite all them that dwell therein, then thall they know that I am the LORD. 16 This is the lamentation wherewith they fhall lament her; the daughters of the nations thall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, faith the Lord Gov. 17 It came to pafs alfo in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, faying, 18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and caft 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 19 Whom doit thou pafs in beauty? Go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcifed. 20 They fhall fall in the midft of them that are flain by the fword: the is delivered to the fword: draw her and all her multitudes. 21 The strong among the mighty fhall fpeak to him out of the midft or hell with them that help him they are gone down, they lie un circumcifed, flain by the fword. 22 Asthur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them flain, fallen by the [word: 23 Whofe graves are fet in the fides of the pit and her company is round about her grave: all of them flain, fallen by the fword, which caused terror in the land of the living. 24 There is Elam and all her multitude, round about her grave, all of them flain, fallen by the fword, which are gone down uncircumcifed into the nether parts of the earth, which caufed their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their fhame with them that go down to the pit. 25 They have fet her a bed in the midft of the flain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcifed, flain by the fword, though their terror was caufed in the land of the living, yet have they borne their thame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be lain. 26 There is Methech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcifed, flain by the fword, though they caufed their terror in the land of the living. 27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcifed, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war and they have laid their fwords 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. 28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midft of the uncircumcifed, and fhalt lie with them that are flain with the fword. 29 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by them that were flain by the fword: they 30 There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the flain; with their terror they are athamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcifed with them that be slain by the fword, and bear their thame with them that go down to the pit. 31 Pharaoh thall fee them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pha. raoh and all his army lain by the fword, faith the Lord GOD. 32 For I have caufed my terror in the land of the living: and he thall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcifed with them that are tlain with the fword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, faith the Lord God. CHA P. XXXIII. 1 By the duty of a watchman, Ezekiel is admonifbed of bis duty. 10 God fheweth the juftice of his ways. AGAIN the word of the LORD came unto me, faying, 2 Son of man, fi eak to the children of thy people, and fay unto them, When I bring the fword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coafts, and fet him for their watchman: 3 If when he feeth the fword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; 4 Then whofoever heareth the found of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the fword come, and take him away, his blood fhall be upon his own head. 5 He heard the found of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him: But he that taketh warning shall deli. ver his foul. But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the fword come, and take any perfon from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I re. quire at the watchman's hand. So thou, O fon of man, I have fet thee a watchman unto the house of Ifrael; there fore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me. 8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou thalt furely die; if thou doft not fpeak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man thall die in his ini quity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. 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 haft delivered thy foul. 10 Therefore, O thou fon of man, fpeak unto the house of Ifrael; Thus ye fpeak, faying, If our tranfgreffions and our fins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how fhould we then live? 11 Say unto them, As I live, faith 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 Krael? 12 Therefore, thou fon of man, lay unto the children of thy people, The righteoufnefs of the righteous fhall not deliver him in the day of his transgretsion: as for the The juftice of God's ways. EZEKIEL wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickednefs; neither thall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he finneth. 13 When I shall fay to the righteous, that he hail furely live, if he truft to his own righteoufnefs, and commit iniquity, all his righteoufneffes fhall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he thall die for it. 14 Again, when I fay unto the wicked, Thou halt furely die; if he turn from his fin, and do that which is lawful and right; 15 If the wicked restore the pleage, give again that he had robbed, walk in the ftatutes of life, without committing iniquity; he thall furely live, he thall not die. 16 None of his fins that he hath committed thall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he fhall furely live. 17 Yet the chidren of thy people fay, The way of the LORD is not equal: but, as for them, their way is not equal. 18 When the righteous turneth from his rightconfnefs, and committeth iniquity, he fhall even die thereby. 19 But if the wicked turn from his wickednefs, and do that which is lawful and right, he thall live thereby. 20 Yet ye fay, The way of the LORD is not equal. O ye houfe of Ifrael, 1 will judge you every one after his ways. 21 And it came to pafs in the twelfth Year of our captivity, in the tenth month, the fifth day of the month, that or that had escaped out of Jerufalem came unto me, faying, The city is fmitten. 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, faying, 24 Son of man, they that inhabit thofe waftes of the land of Ifrael fpeak, faying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the Land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance. 25 Wherefore fay unto them, Thus faith the Lord Gon; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and thed blood: and fhall ye pofefs the land? 26 Ye ftand upon your fword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and thall ye poffefs the land? 27 Say thou thus unto them, Thes faith the Lord GOD; As I live, furely they that are in the waftes fhall fall by the fword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beafts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves fhall die of the peftilence. 28 For I will lay the land moft defolate, and the pomp of her ftrength fhall ceafe: and the mountains of Ifrael fhall be defolate, that none thall pass through. 29 Then thall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land moft defolate, becaufe of all their abominations which they have committed. 30 Alfo, thou fon of man, the children of thy people fill are talking against thee by Bad Shepherds reprovel the walls, and in the doors of the house and fpeak one to another, every one to hi brother, faying, Come, I pray you, and her what is the word that cometh forth from the LORD. cometh, and they fit before thee as my peo lovely fong of one that hath a pleasant voice, will come,) then shall they know that a pro- 1 The shepherds reproved: 7 their judgment. AND the word of the LORD came unto me, faying, herds of Ifrael, prophefy, and fay unto them, 2 Son of man, prophefy against the thepThus faith the Lord Goo unto the shepherds; themselves! Should not the thepherds feed Woe be to the thepherds of Ifrael that do feed the flocks? the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye 3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with feed not the flock. neither have ye healed that which was fick, 4 The difeafed have ye not ftrengthened, neither have ye bound up that which wit broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye and with cruelty have ye ruled them. fought that which was loft; but with force is no fhepherd and they became meat to 5 And they were fcattered, because there all the beafts of the field, when they were fcattered. 6 My sheep wandered through all the moun was fcattered upon all, the face of the earth, tains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock and none did fearch or feek after them. of the LORD; because my flock became a prey, and my of the LORD; am against the thepherds; and I will require I, even 1, will both fearch my theep, and the day that he is among his theep that are 12 As a thepherd feeketh out his flock in fcattered; fo will I feck out my theep, and they have been feattered in the cloudy and will deliver them out of all places where dark day. God's providence for his flock. Chap. xxxv, xxxvi. 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 Ifrael by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country. 14 I will feed them in a good pafture, and upon the high mountains of Ifrael thall their fold be: there fhall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pafture shall they feed upon the mountains of Ifrael. 15 I will feed my flock, and I will caufe them to lie down, faith the Lord God. 16 I will feek that which was loft, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was fick: but I will deftroy the fat and the ftrong; I will feed them with judgment. 17 And as for you, O my flock, thus faith the Lord God; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the hegoats. 18 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pafture, but ye muft tread down with your feet the refidue of your paftures and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye muit foul the refidue with your feet? 19 And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet. 22 Therefore will I fave my flock, and they thall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle. 23 And I will fet up one thepherd over them, and he thall feed them, even my fervant David; he shall feed them, and he thall be their fhpeherd. 24 And I the LORD will be their God, and my fervant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it. 25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will caufe the evil beafts to ceafe out of the land: and they thall dwell fafely in the wilderness, and fleep in the woods. 26 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a bleifing; and I will caufe the shower to come down in his feafon; there fhall he thowers of bleifing. 27 And the tree of the field thall yield her fruit, and the earth fhall yield her increafe, and they shall be fafe in their land, and fhali know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and deliveren them out of the hand of thofe that ferved themselves of them. 28 And they fhall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither thall the beat of the land devour them; but they hall dwell fafely, and none thall make them afraid. 29 And I will raife up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more confumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more, The judgment of mount Seir. 30 Thus fhall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the houfe of Ifrael, are my people, faith the Lord God. 31 And ye my flock, the flock of my pa fture, are men, and I am your God, faith the Lord God. CHAP. XXXV. The judgment of mount Sier for their hatred uf Ifrael. MOREOVER the word of the LORD came unto me, faying, 2 Son of man, fet thy face against mount Seir, and prophefy against it, 3 And fay unto it, Thus faith the Lord God; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will ftretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee mot defolate. 4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be defolate, and thou thalt know that I am the LORD. s Because thou haft had a perpetual hatred, and haft thed the blood of the children 1 If rael by the force of the fword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity bad an end: 6 Therefore, as I live, faith the Lord Gon, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood thall purfue thee: fith thou hatt not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee. 7 Thus will I make mount Sier moft defolate, and cut off from it him that paffeth out and him that returneth. 8 And I will fill his mountains with his flain men: in thy hills, and in thy vallies, and in all thy rivers, thall they fall that are flain with the fword. 9 I will make thee perpetual defolations, and thy cities shall not return and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 10 Because thou haft faid, These two nations and these two countries thall be mine, and we will poffefs it; whereas the LORD was there: 11 Therefore, as I live, faith the Lord Gon, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou haft ufed out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have ju iged thee. 12 And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blafphemies which thou haft fpoken against the mountains of Ifrael, saying, They are laid defolate, they are given us to confume. 13 Thus with your mouth ye have bʊafted againft me, and have multiplied your words againit me: I have heard them. 14 Thus faith the Lord GoD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee defolate. 15 As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the houfe of Ifrael, because it was defolate, fo will I do unto thee: thou shalt be defolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it; and they fhall know that I am the LORD. CHAP. XXXVI. The land of Ifrael is comforted by the hea then's deftruction, 8 and God's bleffing. ALSO, thou fon of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Ifrael, and fay, Ye moun tains of Ifrael hear the word of the LORD: 2 Thus faith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy had faid against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in poffeffion Therefore prophefy and fay, Thus faith Ifrael revenged, EZEKIEL. the Lord God; Becaufe they have made you defolate, and fwallowed you up on every fide, that ye might be a poffeffion unto the refidue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people : 4 Therefore, ye mountains of Ifrael, hear the word of the Lord GoD; Thus faith the Lord Gop to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the allies, to the defolate waftes, and to the cities that are torfaken, which became a prey and derifion to the refidue of the heathen that are round about. 5 Therefore thus faith the Lord GoD; Surely in the fire of my jealoufy have I spo ken against the refidue of the heathen, and againit all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their poffethion with the joy of all their heart, with defpiteful minds, to caft it out for a prey. and converted countries: according to their way, and a cording to their doings, I judged them. then, whither they went, they profaned my 20 And when they entered unto the hea holy name, when they faid to them, Thefe forth out of his land. are the people of the LORD, and are gone which the house of Ifrael had profaned a 21 But I had pity for mine holy name mong the heathen, whither they went. Thus laith the Lord Gon, I do not this tor 22 Therefore fay unto the houfe of Ifrael, your fakes, O houfe of Ifrael, but for mine among the heathen whither ye went. holy name's fake, which ye have profaned which was profaned among the heathen, 23 And I will fanctify my great name which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen thall know that I am the LORD, faith the Lord Gop, when I thall be fanétified in you before their eyes. heathen, and gather you out of all countries, 24 For I will take you from among the and will bring you into your own land. 6 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Ifiel, and fay unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the vallies, Thus faith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have fpoken in my jealoufy and in my fury, becaufe ye have borne the hame of the heathen: 7 Therefore thus faith the Lord GoD; II cleanfe you. have lifted up mine hand, Surely the hea. then that are about you, they shall bear their fhame. 8 But ye, O mountains of Ifrael, ye thall fhoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to my people of Ifrael; for they are at hand to come. 9 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye thall be tilled and fown: 10 And I will multiply men upor. you, all the house of Ifrael, even all of it, and the cities fhall be inhabited, and the waftes fhall be builded: 11 And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increafe and bring fruit and I will fettle you after your old eftates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye fhall know that I am the LORD. 12 Yea, I will caufe men to walk upon you, even my people Ifrael; and they fha Ipoffefs thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men. 13 Thus faith the Lord GOD; Because they fay unto you, Thou land devoureft up men, and haft bereaved thy nations; 14 Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, faith the Lord God. 15 Neither will I caufe men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any mare, neither fhalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither halt thou caufe thy nations to fall any more, faith the Lord GOD. 16 Moreover, the word of the LORD came unto me, faying, 17 Son of man, when the houfe of Ifrael dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleannefs of a removed woman. 18 Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had thed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it: 19 And I fcattered them among the heathea, and they were difperfed through the upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all 25 Then will I fprinkle clean water your filthiness, and from all your idols, will a new fpirit will I put within you: and! 26 A new heart alfo will I give you, and fleth, and I will give you an heart of flesh. will take away the tony heart out of your and caufe you to walk in my ftatutes, and 27 And I will put my fpirit within you ye fhall keep my judginents, and do them. 28 And ye that dwell in the land that I people, and I will be your God. gave to your fathers; and ye thall be my cleanneffes: and I will call for the corn, and 29 I will alfo fave you from all your u will increase it, and lay no famine upon you. tree, and the increase of the field, that ye 30 And I will multiply the fruit of the thall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen. evil ways, and your doings that were not 31 Then thail ye remember your own good, and thall foathe yourfelves in your own fight for your iniquities and for your abominations. Lord Gop, be it known unto you: be ashamed 32 Not for your fakes do I this, faith the and confounded for your own ways, 0 houfe of Ifrael. that I thall have cleanfed you from all your 33 Thus faith the Lord God; In the day the cities, and the waftes shall be builded iniquities I will alfo caufe you to dwell in whereas it lay defolate in the fight of all defolate is become like the garden of Eden; about you fhall know that I the LORD build this enquired of by the house of Ifrael, to 38 As the holy flock, as the dock of Jerufa The refurrection of dry bones. Chap. xxxvil, xxxvlll. The promise of Chrift's kingdom. 1em in her folemn feats, fo shall the wate cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that i am the LORD. CHAP. XXXVII. 1 By the refurrection of dry bones, 11 the dead hope of Ifrael is revived. T HE hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the fpirit of the LORD, and fet me down in the midt of the valley which was full of bones, 2 And caufed me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open vailey; and, lo, they were very dry. 3 And he faid unto me, Son of man, can thefe bones live? And I answered, O Lord Gon, thou knoweft. 4 Again he faid unto me, Prophefy, upon thefe bones, and fay unto them, Oye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. 5 Thus faith the Lord GOD unto thefe bones; Behold, I will caufe breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: 6 And I will lay tinews upon you, and will bring up neth upon you, and cover you with fkin, and put breath in you, and ye thall live; and ye thall know that I am the LORD. 7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophefied, there was a noife, and behold a shaking, and the bones came toge ther, bone to his bone. 8 And when I beheld, lo, the finews and the fleth came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them. 9 Then faid he unto me, Prophefy unto the wind, prophefy, fon of man, and fay to the wind, Thus faith the Lord Gop; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe apon thefe flain, that they may live. 10 So I prophetied as he commanded me, ind the breath came into them, and they ived, and food up upon their feet, an exceeding great army, Then he faid unto me, Son of man, hefe bones are the whole houfe of Trael: behold, they fay, Our bones are dried, and our hope is loft: we are cut off for our parts. 12 Therefore prophefy and fay unto them, Thus faith the Lord GoD, Behold, O my peole, I will open your graves, and caufe you o come up out of your graves, and bring ou into the land of Ifrael. 3 And ye fhall know that I am the ORD, when I have opened your graves, my people, and brought you up out of our graves, 14 And thall put my fpirit in you, and e hall live, and I fhall place you in your wn land: then fhall ye know that I the ORD have spoken it, and performed it, ith the LORD. 15 The word of the LORD came again nto me, faying, 16 Moreover, thou fon of man, take thee he thick, and write upon it, For Judah, id for the children of Ifrael his compani 15: then take another flick, and write upon For Jofeph, the tick of Ephraim, and for I the houfe of Ifrael his companions: 17 And join them one to another into one ck; and they shall become one in thine ind. 18 And when the children of thy people all fpeak unto thee, faying, Wilt thou not :w us what thou micanet by thefe? 19 Say unto them, Thus faith the Lord Gon; Behold, I will take the tick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the tick of Judah, and make them one thick, and they shall be one in mine hand. 20 And the ticks whereon thou writeht thall be in thine hand before their eyes. 21 And fay unto them, Thus faith the Lord Gop; Behold, I will take the children of If. rael from ancag the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather theri on every fidé, and bring them into their own land: 22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Ifrael; and one king fhall be king to them all; and they thall be no more two nations, neither fhall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all: 23 Neither fhall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their deteftable things, nor with any of their transgref fions: but I will fave them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have finned, and will cleanfe them: fo fhall they be my people, and I will be their God. 24 And David my fervant all be king over them; and they all thall have one thep herd: they shall alfo walk in my judgments, and obferve my statutes, and do them. 25 And they fall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my fervant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my fervant David shall be their prince for ever. 26 Moreover, I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will fet my fanctu ary in the mide of them for evermore. 27 My tabernacle alfo thall be with them, yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28 And the heathen fhall know that I the LORD do fanctify Ifrael, when my fanctuary fhall be in the midst of them for evermore. CHAP. XXXVII. The army, and malice of Gog; 14 God's judgment against him. AND the word of the LORD came unto me, faying, 2 Son of man, fet thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Me. thech and Tubal, and prophefy against him, 3 And fay, Thus faith the Lord Gon; Be hold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Methech and Tubal: 4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horfes and horfemea, all of them clothed with all forts of armour even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling fwords: 5 Peria, Ethiopia, and Libya with them all of them with hield and helmet: 6 Gomer, and all his bands; the houfe of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands and many people with thee. 7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for hyfelf, thou, and all thy company that are aftembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them. 8 After many days thou thalt be vinte 1: in the latter years thou that come into the A a |
