The Book of the prophet Ezekiel

(The Scriptures) The Book of the prophet Ezekiel
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1:1: It chanced in the thirtieth year the fifth day of the fourth Month, that I was among the prisoners by the river of Cobar: where the heavens opened, and I saw a vision of God.
1:2: Now the fifth day of the Month, made out the fifth year of king Joachim's captivity.
1:3: At the same time came the word of the LORD unto Ezechiel the son of Buzi the priest, in the land of the Caldees by the water of Cobar, where the hand of the LORD came upon him.
1:4: And I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the North with a great cloud full of fire, which with his glistre lightened all round about. And in the middest of the fire it was all clear,
1:5: and as it were the likeness of four beasts, which were fashioned like a man:_{{The similitude of the faces of the four beasts: the face of a man and the face of a lion on the right hand of the four of them. And the face of an eagle above them four. And their faces and their wings stretched out above on high. Each had two wings coupled together and two that covered their bodies. And they went all straight forward. And whither they had lust to go, thither they went, and turned not back again in their going.}}
1:6: saving, that every one had four faces and four wings.
1:7: Their legs were straight; But their feet were like bullock's feet, and they glistered, as it had been fair scoured metal.
1:8: Under their wings upon all the four corners they had men's hands. Their faces and their wings were toward the four corners:
1:9: yet were the wings so, that one ever touched another. When they went, they turned them not about: but each one went straight forward.
1:10: Upon the right side of these four, their faces were like the faces of a man, and the face of a Lion: But upon the left side, they had the face of an ox, and the face of an Aegle.
1:11: Their faces also and their wings were spread out above: so that two wings of one touched ever two wings of another, and with the other _|two| they covered their body.
1:12: Every one when it went, it went straight forward. Where as the spirit led them, thither they went, and turned not about in their going.
1:13: The fashion and countenance of the beasts was like hot coals of fire, even as though burning cressettes had been among the beasts: and the fire gave a glister, and out of the fire there went lightning._{{And the similitude of the beasts and the fashion of them was as burning coals of fire and as fire brands, walking between the beasts. And the fire did shine, and out of the fire proceeded lightning. And the beasts ran and returned after the fashion of lightning.}}
1:14: When the beasts went forward and backward, one would have thought it had lightened.
1:15: Now when I had well considered the beasts, I saw a work of wheels upon the earth with four faces also like the beasts.
1:16: The fashion and the work of the wheels was like the sea. The four wheels were joined and made (to look upon) as it had been one wheel in another.
1:17: When one went forward, they went all four, and turned them not about in their going.
1:18: They were large, great and horrible to look upon. Their bodies were full of eyes round about them all four. When the beasts went, the wheels went also with them:
1:19: And when the beasts lift themselves up from the earth, the wheels were lift up also.
1:20: Whither soever the spirit went, thither went they also, and the wheels were lift up, and followed them: for the spirit of life was in the wheels.
1:21: When the beasts went forth, stood still, or lift themselves up from the earth: then the wheels also went, stood still, and were lift up, for the breath of life was in the wheels.
1:22: Above over the heads of the beasts there was a firmament, which was fashioned as it had been of the most pure Crystal, and that was spread out above upon their heads:
1:23: under the same firmament were their wings laid abroad, one toward another, and two wings covered the body of every beast.
1:24: And when they went forth I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as it had been the voice of the great God, and a rushing together as it were of a host of men. And when they stood still, they let down their wings.
1:25: Now when they stood still, and had let down their wings, it thundered in the firmament that was above their heads.
1:26: Above the firmament that was over their heads, there was the fashion of a seat, as it had been made of Sapphire. Upon the seat there sat one like a man.
1:27: I beheld him, and he was like a clear light, as it had been all of fire within from his loins upward. And beneath when I looked upon him under the loins, me thought he was like a shining fire, that giveth light on every side.
1:28: Yea the shine and glister that lightened round about, was like a rainbow, which in a rainy day appeareth in the clouds. Even so was the similitude, wherein the glory of the LORD appeared. When I saw it, I fell upon my face, and hearkened unto the voice of him that spake.

3:1: After this_|Then| said he unto me: Thou son of man, eat that, whatsoever it be: Yea eat that closed book, and go thy way, and speak unto the children of Israel.
3:2: So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the book for to eat,
3:3: and said unto me: Thou son of man, thy belly shall eat, and thy bowels shall be filled with the book, that I give thee. Then did I eat the book, and it was in my mouth sweeter than honey.
3:4: And he said unto me: thou son of man, get thee soon unto the house of Israel, and shew them the words that I command thee:
3:5: For I send thee not to the_|a| people that hath a strange, unknown, or hard speech, but unto the house of Israel;
3:6: Not to many nations, which have divers speeches and hard languages, whose words thou understandest_{|understondest|} not. Nevertheless, if I sent thee to those people, they would follow thee:
3:7: But the house of Israel will not follow thee, for they will not follow me: Yea all the house of Israel have stiff foreheads, and hard hearts.
3:8: Behold, therefore, I will make thy face prevail against their faces, and harden thy forehead against their foreheads:
3:9: so that thy forehead shall be harder than an Adamant or flint stone: that thou mayest fear them the less, and be less afraid of them, for they are a froward household.
3:10: He said moreover unto me: thou son of man, take diligent heed with thine ears, to the words that I speak unto thee, fasten them in thine heart:
3:11: and go to the prisoners of thy people, speak unto them, and say on this manner: Thus the Lord GOD_{|LORDE God|} hath spoken: whether ye hear, or hear not.
3:12: With that, the spirit took me up. And I heard the noise of a great rushing and removing of the most blissed glory of the LORD out of his place.
3:13: I heard also the noise of the wings of the beasts, that rushed one against another, yea and the rattling of the wheels, that were by them, which rushing and noise was very great.
3:14: Now when the spirit took me up, and carried me away, I went with an heavy and sorrowful mind, but the hand of the LORD comforted me right soon.
3:15: And so in the beginning of the Month Abib, I came to the prisoners, that dwelt by the water of Cobar, and remained in that place, where they were: And so continued I among them seven days, being very sorry.
3:16: And when the seven days were expired, the LORD said unto me:
3:17: Thou son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore take good heed to the words, and give them warning at my commandment.
3:18: If I say unto thee, concerning the ungodly man, that (without doubt) he must die, and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest unto him, that he may turn from his evil way, and so to live: Then shall the same ungodly man die in his own unrighteousness: but his blood will I require of thine hand.
3:19: Nevertheless, if thou give warning unto the wicked, and he yet forsake not his ungodliness: then shall he die in his own wickedness, but thou hast discharged thy soul.
3:20: Now if a righteous man go from his righteousness, and do the thing that is evil: I will lay a stumbling block before him, and he shall die, because thou hast not given him warning: Yea die shall he in his own sin, so that the virtue, which he did before, shall not be thought upon: but his blood will I require of thine hand.
3:21: Nevertheless, if thou exhortest the righteous, that he sin not, and so the righteous do not sin: then shall he live, because he hath received thy warning, and thou hast discharged thy soul.
3:22: And there came the hand of the LORD upon me, and he said unto me: Stand up, and go into the field, that I may there talk with thee.
3:23: So when I had risen up, and gone forth into the field: Behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, like as I saw it afore, by the waters of Cobar. Then fell I down upon my face,
3:24: and the spirit came in to me, which set me up upon my feet, and said thus unto me: Go thy way, and sparre thyself in thine house.
3:25: Behold, (O thou son of man) there shall changes be brought for thee, to bring thee withal, so that thou shalt not escape out of them.
3:26: And I will make thy tongue cleave so to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and not be as a chider with them: for it is an obstinate household.
3:27: But when I speak unto thee, then open thy mouth, and say: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} who so heareth, let him hear: who so will not, let him leave: for it is an obstinate_|froward| household.

4:1: Thou son of man, take a tile stone, and lay it before thee, and describe upon it the city of Jerusalem,
4:2: how it is besieged, how bulwarks and strong ditches are graven on every side of it: describe also the tents, and an host of men round about it.
4:3: Moreover, take an iron pan, and set it betwixt thee and the city, instead of an iron wall. Then set thy face toward it, besiege it, and lay ordinance against it, to win it. This shall be a token unto the house of Israel.
4:4: But thou shalt sleep upon thy left side, and lay the sin of the house of Israel upon thee. Certain days appointed, thou shalt sleep upon that side, and bear their sins.
4:5: Nevertheless, I will appoint thee a time (to put out their sins) and the number of the days: Three hundredth and ninety days must thou bear the wickedness of the house of Israel.
4:6: When thou hast fulfilled these days, lie down again, and sleep upon thy right side forty days, and bear the sins of the house of Judah. A day for a year, a day (I say) for a year will I ever lay upon thee.
4:7: Therefore set now thy face against that besieged Jerusalem, and discover thine arm, that thou mayest prophesy against it.
4:8: Behold, I will lay chains upon thee, that thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
4:9: Wherefore, take unto thee wheat, barley, beans, growell seed, Millium and fitches: and put these together in a vessel, and make thee loaves of bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou must lie upon thy side: that thou mayest have bread to eat, for three hundredth and ninety days.
4:10: And the meat that thou eatest, shall have a certain weight appointed: namely twenty shekels every day. This appointed meat shalt thou eat daily, from the beginning to the end.
4:11: Thou shalt drink also a certain measure of water: Namely, the sixth part of an Hin shalt thou drink daily from the beginning to the end.
4:12: Barley cakes shalt thou eat, yet shalt thou first strike them over with man's dung, that they may see it.
4:13: And with that said the LORD: Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread in the middest of the Gentiles, among whom I will scatter them.
4:14: Then said I: Oh Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|} Behold, my soul was yet never stained: for from my youth up to this hour. I did never eat of a dead carcass, or that which was slain of wild beasts, neither came there ever any unclean flesh in my mouth.
4:15: Where unto he answered me, and said: Well then, I will grant thee to take cow's dung, for the dung of a man, and to strike the bread over with all, before them.
4:16: And he said unto me: Behold thou son of man, I will minish all the provision of bread in Jerusalem, so that they shall weigh their bread, and eat it with scarceness. But as for water, they shall have a very little measure thereof, to drink.
4:17: And when they have no more bread nor water, one shall be destroyed with another, and famish away for their wickedness.

5:1: O Thou son of man, take thee then a sharp knife, namely, a razor. Take that, and shave the hair of thy head and beard: Then take the scales and weight, and divide the hair asunder.
5:2: And burn the third part thereof in the fire in the middest of the city, and cut the other third part in pieces with a knife. As for the third part that remaineth, cast it in the wind, and then shew the bare knife.
5:3: Yet afterward take a little of the same, and bind it in thy coat lap.
5:4: Then take a curtesy of it, and cast it in the middest of the fire: and burn it in the fire. Out of the same fire shall there go a flame, upon the whole house of Israel.
5:5: Moreover, thus said the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} This same is Jerusalem. I set her in the middest of the Heathen and nations: that are round about her,
5:6: but she hath despised my judgements more than the Gentiles themselves, and broken my commandments more than the nations, that lie round about her: For they have cast out mine ordinances, and not walked in my laws.
5:7: Therefore, thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} For so much as ye with your wickedness far exceed the Heathen, that dwell round about you: (For ye have not walked in my laws, neither have ye kept mine ordinances)
5:8: Therefore thus sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|} I will also come upon thee, for in the middest of thee will I sit in judgement, in the sight of the Heathen,
5:9: and will handle thee of such a fashion, as I never did before, and as I never will do from that time forth, and that because of all thine abominations.
5:10: For in the the fathers shall be fain to eat their own sons, and the sons their own fathers. Such a court will I keep in thee, and the whole remnant will I scatter in to all the winds.
5:11: Wherefore as truly as I live (sayeth the Lord GOD)_{|LORDE God|} seeing thou hast defiled my Sanctuary, with all manner of abominations and with all thy shameful offenses: For this cause will I also destroy thee. Mine eye shall not oversee thee, neither will I spare thee.
5:12: One third part within thee, shall die of the pestilence and of hunger: Another third part shall be slain down round about thee, with the sword: The other third part that remaineth, will I scatter abroad toward all the winds, and draw out the sword after them.
5:13: Thus will I perform my indignation and set my wrath against them, and ease myself. So that when I have fulfilled mine anger against them, they shall know that I am the LORD, which with a fervent jealousy have spoken it.
5:14: Moreover I will make thee waste and abhorred, before all the Heathen that dwell about thee, and in the sight of all them, that go by thee:
5:15: so that when I punish thee in my wrath, in mine anger, and with the plague of my hot displeasure: thou shalt be a very abomination, shame, a gasing and wondering stock, among the Heathen, that lie about thee. Even I the LORD have spoken it, and it shall come to pass,
5:16: when I shoot among them the perilous darts of hunger, which shall be but death: Yea therefore shall I shoot them, because I will destroy you. I will increase hunger, and minish all the provision of bread among you.
5:17: Plagues and misery will I send you, yea and wild beasts also to destroy you. Pestilence and bloodsheding shall come upon you, and the sword will I bring over you. Even I, the LORD, have said it.

6:1: And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
6:2: thou son of man, turn thy face to the mountains of Israel, that thou mayest prophesy_|prophecie| unto them,
6:3: and say: Hear the word of the Lord GOD,_{|LORDE God|} O ye mountains of Israel: Thus hath the Lord GOD_{|LORDE God|} spoken to the mountains, hills, rivers, valleys and dales. Behold, I will bring a sword over you, and destroy your high places.
6:4: I will cast down your alters, and break down your temples. Your slain men will I lay before your gods.
6:5: And the dead carcasses of the children of Israel will I cast before their images, your bones will I destroy_|strow| round about your altars,
6:6: and dwelling places. The cities shall be desolate, the hill chapels laid waste: your alters destroyed, and broken: your gods cast down, and taken away, your temples laid even with the ground, your own works clean rooted out.
6:7: Your slain men shall lie among you, that ye may learn to know, how that I am the LORD.
6:8: Those that among you have escaped the sword, will I leave among the Gentiles, for I will scatter you among the nations.
6:9: And they that escape from you, shall think upon me among the Heathen, where they shall be in captivity. As for that whorish and unfaithful heart of theirs, wherewith they run away from me, I will break it: yea and put out those eyes of theirs, that committed fornication with their Idols. Then shall they be ashamed, and displeased with their selves, for the wickedness and abominations, which they have done:
6:10: and shall learn to know, how that it is not in vain, that I the LORD spake, to bring such misery upon them.
6:11: The LORD said moreover unto me: Smite thy hands together, and stamp with thy feet, and say: Woe worth all the abominations and wickednesses of the house of Israel, for because of them, they shall perish with the sword, with hunger and with pestilence.
6:12: Who so is far off, shall die of the pestilence: he that is nye at hand, shall perish with the sword: and the other that are besieged, shall die of hunger. Thus will I satisfy my wrothful displeasure upon them.
6:13: And so shall ye learn to know, that I am the LORD, when your slain men lie among your gods, and about your alters: upon all high hills and tops of mountains, among all green trees, among all thick oaks: even in the places, where they did sacrifice to all their Idols.
6:14: I will stretch mine hand out upon them, and will make the land waste: So that it shall lie desolate and void, from the wilderness of Deblathah forth, thorow all their habitations: to learn them for to know, that I am the LORD.

7:1: The word of the LORD came unto me on this manner:
7:2: Thee I call, O thou son of man. Thus sayeth the Lord GOD_{|LORDE God|} unto the land of Israel: The end cometh, yea verily the end cometh upon all the four corners of the earth.
7:3: But now shall the end come upon thee: For I will send my wrath upon thee, and will punish thee: according to thy ways, and reward thee after all thy abominations.
7:4: Mine eye shall not oversee thee, neither will I spare thee: but reward thee according to thy ways, and declare thy abominations. Then shall ye know, that I am the LORD.
7:5: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Behold, one misery and plague shall come after another:
7:6: the end is here. The end (I say) that waiteth for thee, is come already,
7:7: the hour is come against thee, that dwellest in the land. The time is at hand, the day of sedition is hard by, and no glad tidings upon the mountains.
7:8: Therefore, I will shortly pour out my sore displeasure over thee, and fulfill my wrath upon thee, I will judge thee after thy ways, and recompense thee all thy abominations.
7:9: Mine eye shall not oversee thee, neither will I spare thee: but reward thee after thy ways, and shew thy abominations, to learn you for to know, how that I am the LORD that smiteth.
7:10: Behold, the day is here, the day is come, the hour is run out, the rod flourisheth, willfulness waxeth green,
7:11: malicious violence is grown up, and the ungodly waxen to a staff. Yet shall there no complaint be made for them, nor for the trouble that shall come of these things.
7:12: The time cometh, the day draweth nye: Who so buyeth let him not rejoice: he that selleth, let him not be sorry: for why? Trouble shall come in the middest of all rest:
7:13: so that the seller shall not come again to the buyer, for neither of them both shall live. For the vision shall come so greatly over all, that it shall not be hindered: No man also with his wickedness shall be able to save his own life.
7:14: The trumpets shall ye blow, and make you all ready, but no man shall go to the battle, for I am wroth with all the whole multitude.
7:15: The sword shall be without, pestilence and hunger within: so that who so is in the field, shall be slain with the sword: and he that is in the city, shall perish with hunger and pestilence.
7:16: And such as escape and flee from among them, shall be upon the hills, like as the doves in the field: every one shall be afraid, because of his own wickedness.
7:17: All hands shall be let down, and all knees shall be weak as the water:
7:18: they shall gird themselves with sack cloth, fear shall fall upon them. Their faces shall be confounded, and their heads bald:
7:19: their silver shall lie in the streets, and their gold shall be despised. Yea their silver and gold may not deliver them, in the day of the fearful wrath of the LORD. They shall not satisfy their hungry souls, neither fill their empty bellies therewith: For it is become their own decay thorow their wickedness:
7:20: because they made thereof not only costly Jewels for their pomp and pride, but also abominable images and Idols. For this cause will I make them to be abhorred.
7:21: Moreover, I will give it into the hands of the strangers to be spoiled: and to the wicked for to be robbed, and they shall destroy it.
7:22: My face will I turn from them, my treasury shall be defiled: for the thieves shall go into it, and suspend it.
7:23: I will make clean riddance, for the land is whole defiled with unrighteous judgement of innocent blood, and the city is full of abominations.
7:24: Wherefore, I will bring the most cruel tyrants from among the Heathen, to take their houses in possession. I will make the pomp of the proud to cease, and they shall take in their Sanctuary.
7:25: When this trouble cometh, they shall seek peace, but they shall have none.
7:26: One mischief and sorrow shall follow another, and one rumour shall come after another: Then shall they seek visions in vain at their Prophets. The law shall be gone from the priests, and wisdom from the elders.
7:27: The king shall mourn, the princes shall be clothed with heaviness, and the hands of the people in the land shall tremble for fear. I will do unto them after their own ways, and according to their own judgements will I judge them: to learn them for to know, that I am the LORD.

8:1: It happened that in the sixth year, the fifth day of the sixth Month, I sat in my house, and the lords_|LORDES| of the counsel of Judah with me: and the hand of the Lord GOD_{|LORDE God|} fell even there upon me.
8:2: And as I looked up, I saw as it were a likeness of fire from his loins downward, and from his loins upward it shined marvelous clear.
8:3: This similitude stretched out an hand, and took me by the hairy locks of my head, and the spirit lift me up betwixt heaven and earth: And God brought me in a vision to Jerusalem, into the entry_|court| of the inner_|inward| port that lieth toward the north: there stood an image, with whom he that hath all things in his power, was very wroth.
8:4: And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was in the same place: even as I had seen it afore in the field.
8:5: And he said unto me: Thou son of man, O lift up thine eyes, and look toward the north. Then lift I up mine eyes toward the north, and behold: beside the port northward, there was an alter made unto the image of provocation in the very entering in.
8:6: And he said furthermore unto me: Thou son of man, seest thou what these do? Seest thou the great abominations that the house of Israel commit in this place? which ought not to be done in my sanctuary: But turn thee about, and thou shalt see yet greater abominations.
8:7: And with that brought he me to the court gate: and when I looked, behold, there was an hole in the wall.
8:8: Then said he unto me: Thou son of man, dig thorow the wall. And when I digged thorow the wall, behold there was a door.
8:9: And he said unto me: Go thy way in, and look what wicked abominations they do there.
8:10: So I went in, and saw: and behold, there were all manner of images of worms and beasts, all Idols and abominations of the house of Israel painted everychone round about the wall.
8:11: There stood also before the images. Seventy lords of the counsel_{councell} of the house of Israel: and in the middest of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Saphan: And every one of them had a censor in his hand, and out of the incense, there went a smoke, as it had been a cloud.
8:12: Then said he unto me: Thou son of man, hast thou seen what the Senators of the house of Israel do secretly, everyone in his chamber: For they say; Tush, the LORD seeth us not, the LORD regardeth not the world.
8:13: And he said unto me: Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see the great abominations that they do.
8:14: And with that he brought me to the door of the port of the LORD's house, toward the north. And behold, there sat women mourning for Thamus.
8:15: Then said he unto me: hast thou seen this, thou son of man? Turn ye about, and thou shalt see yet greater abominations.
8:16: And so he brought me into the inward court of the LORD's house: And behold at the port of the LORD's house, betwixt the fore entry and the altar, there were five and twenty men, that turned their backs on the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east, and these worshiped the son.
8:17: And he said unto me: hast thou seen this thou son of man? Thinketh the house of Israel, that it is but a trifle, to do these abominations here? Should they fill the land full of wickedness, and undertake to provoke me unto anger: Yea and purposely to cast up their noses upon me?
8:18: Therefore will I also do something in my wrothfull displeasure, so that mine eye shall not oversee them, neither will I spare them. Yea and though they cry in mine ears with loud voice, yet will I not hear them.

9:1: He cried also with a loud voice in mine ears, saying: Come her ye rulers of the city, every man with his weaponed hand to the slaughter.
9:2: Then came there six men out of the street of the upper port toward the north, and every man a weapon in his hand to the slaughter. There was one amongst them, that had on him a linen_|lining| rayment, and a writer's inkhorn by his side. These went in, and stood beside the brazen alter:
9:3: for the glory of the Lord_|God| was gone away from the Cherub, and was come down to the threshold of the house, and he called the man that had the linen_|lining| rayment upon him, and the writer's inkhorn by his side,
9:4: and the LORD said unto him: Go thy way thorow the city of Jerusalem, and set this mark_{|Hebrew: t|} Thau upon the foreheads of them, that mourn and are sorry for all the abominations, that be done therein.
9:5: And to the other, he said that I might hear: Go ye after him thorow the city, slay, oversee none, spare none:
9:6: kill and destroy both old man and young, maidens, children and wives. But as for those, that have this mark_{|Hebrew: t|} Thau upon them: see that ye touch them not, and begin at my Sanctuary. Then they began at the elders, which were in the temple,
9:7: for he had said unto them: When ye have defiled the temple, and filled the court with the slain, then go your way forth. So they went out, and slew down thorow the city.
9:8: Now when they had done the slaughter, and I yet escaped: I fell down upon my face, and cried saying: O LORD, wilt thou then destroy all the residue of Israel, in thy sore displeasure, that thou hast poured upon Jerusalem?
9:9: Then said he unto me: The wickedness of the house of Israel and Juda is very great: so that the land is full of blood, and the city full of unfaithfulness: For they say: Tush, the LORD regardeth not the earth, he seeth us not.
9:10: Therefore will I upon them, mine eye shall not oversee them, neither will I spare them, but will recompense their wickedness upon their heads.
9:11: And behold, the man that had the linen_|lining| rayment upon him, and the writers inkhorn by his side: told all the matter how it happened, and said: Lord,_|LORDE| as thou hast commanded me, so have I done.

10:1: And as I looked, behold, in the firmament that was above the cherubins there appeared the similitude of a stole of sapphire upon them:
10:2: Then said he that sat therein, to him that had the linen_|lining| rayment upon him: Creep in between the wheels that are under the Cherubins, and take thine hand full of hot coals out from between the Cherubins, and cast them over the city. And he crept in, that I might see.
10:3: Now the Cherubins stood upon the right side of the house, when the man went in, and the cloud filled the innermer court.
10:4: But the glory of the LORD removed from the Cherubins, and came upon the threshold of the house: so that the temple was full of clouds, and the court was full of the shine of the LORD's glory.
10:5: Yea and the sound of the Cherubins' wings was heard into the fore court, like as it had been the voice of the almighty God, when he speaketh.
10:6: Now when he had bidden the man that was clothed in linen,_|lining| to go and take the hot coals from the middest of the wheels, which were under the Cherubins: he went and stood beside the wheels.
10:7: Then the one Cherub reached forth his hand from under the Cherubins, unto the fire that was between the Cherubins, and took thereof, and gave it unto him that had on the linen_|lining| raiment in his hand: which took it, and went out.
10:8: And under the wings of the Cherubins, there appeared the likeness of a man's hand:
10:9: I saw also four wheels beside the Cherubins, so that by every Cherib there stood a wheel. And the wheels were (to look upon) after the fashion of the precious stone of Tharsis:
10:10: yet (unto the sight) were they fashioned and like, as if one wheel had been in another.
10:11: When they went forth, they went all four together, not turning about in their going: But where the first went, thither went they after also, so that they turned not about in their going.
10:12: Their whole bodies, their backs, their hands and wings, yea and the wheels also, were all full of eyes round about them all four.
10:13: And I heard him call the wheels, Gilgal (that is) a round boule.
10:14: Every one of them had four faces: so that the one face was the face of a Cherub, the second of a man, the third of a lion, the fourth of an Aegle,
10:15: and they were lifted up above. This is the beast, that I saw at the water of Cobar.
10:16: Now when the Cherubins went, the wheels went with them, and when the Cherubins shook their wings to lift themselves upward, the wheels remained not behind, but were with them also.
10:17: Shortly, when they stood, these stood also: And when they were lift up, the wheels were lift up also with them, for the spirit of life was in the wheels.
10:18: Then the glory of the LORD was lift up from the threshold of the temple, and remained upon the Cherubins:
10:19: And the Cherubins flackered with their wings, and lift themselves up from the earth: so that I saw when they went, and the wheels with them. And they stood at the east side of the port that is in the house of the LORD. So the glory of the LORD was upon them.
10:20: This is the beast that I saw under the God of Israel, by the water of Cobar. And I perceived, that it was the Cherubins.
10:21: Every one had four faces, and every one four wings, and under their wings, as it were men's hands.
10:22: Now the figure of their faces was, even as I had seen them, by the water of Cobar, and so was the countenance of them: Every one in his going went straight forward.

11:1: Moreover, the spirit of the LORD lift me up, and brought me unto the east port of the LORD's house. And behold, there were twenty five men under the door: among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pheltiah the son of Bananiah, the rulers of the people.
11:2: Then said the LORD unto me: Thou son of man: these men imagine mischief, and a wicked counsel take they in this city,
11:3: saying: Tush, there is no destruction at hand, let us build houses: this Jerusalem is the cauldron, and we be the flesh.
11:4: Therefore shalt thou prophesy unto them, yea prophesy shalt thou unto them, O son of man.
11:5: And with that fell the spirit of the LORD upon me, and said unto me: Speak, thus sayeth the LORD: On this manner have ye_|yee| spoken (O ye house of Israel) and I know the imaginations of your hearts.
11:6: Many one have ye murdered in this city, and filled the streets full of the slain.
11:7: Therefore, thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} The slain men that ye have laid on the ground in this city, are the flesh, and this city is the cauldron: But I will bring you out of it:
11:8: ye have drawn out the sword, even so will I also bring a sword over you, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
11:9: I will drive you out of this city and deliver you into your enemies hand, and will condemn you.
11:10: Ye shall be slain in all the coasts of Israel, I will be avenged of you: to learn you for to know, that I am the LORD.
11:11: This city shall not be your cauldron, neither shall ye be the flesh therein: but in the coasts of Israel will I punish you,
11:12: that ye may know, that I am the LORD, in whose commandments ye have not walked, nor kept his laws: but have done after the customs of the Heathen, that lie round about you.
11:13: Now when I preached, Pheltiah the son of Bananiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice: O Lord GOD,_{|LORDE God|} wilt thou then utterly destroy all the remnant in Israel?
11:14: And so the word of the LORD came to me on this manner:
11:15: thou son of man: thy brethren, thy kinsfolk, and the whole house of Juda, which dwell at Jerusalem, say: They be gone far from the LORD, but the land is given us in possession.
11:16: Therefore tell them thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} I will send you far off among the Gentiles, and scatter you among the nations, and I will hallow you but a little, in the lands where ye shall come.
11:17: Tell them also, thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} I will gather you again out of the nations, and bring you from the countries were ye be scattered, and will give you the land of Israel again:
11:18: And thither shall ye come. And as for all impediments, and all your abominations: I will take them away.
11:19: And I will give you one heart, and will plant a new spirit within your bowels. That stoney heart will I take out of your body, and give you a fleshly heart:
11:20: that ye may walk in my commandments, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: that ye may be my people, and I your God.
11:21: But look whose hearts are disposed to follow their abominations and wicked livings: those men's deeds will I bring upon their own heads, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
11:22: After this did the Cherubins lift up their wings, and the wheels went with them, and the glory of the Lord_|God| was upon them.
11:23: So the glory of the LORD went up from the middest of the city, and stood upon the mount of the city toward the east.
11:24: But the wind took me up, and in a vision (which came by the spirit of God) it brought me again into the Caldea among the prisoners. Then the vision that I had seen, vanished away from me.
11:25: So I spake unto the prisoners, all the words of the LORD, which he had shewed me.

12:1: The word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
12:2: Thou son of man, thou dwellest in the middest of a froward household: which have eyes to see, and yet see not: ears have they to hear, and yet hear they not, for they are an obstinate household.
12:3: Therefore, (O thou son of man), make thy gear ready to flit, and go forth by fair daylight, that they may see. Yea even in their sight shalt thou go from thy place to another place: if peradventure they will consider, that they be an unobedient household.
12:4: Thy gear that thou hast made ready to flit withal, shalt thou bear out by fair day light, that they may see: and thou thyself shalt go forth also at even in their sight, as a man doth when he fliteth.
12:5: Dig thorow the wall, that they may see: and bear thorow it the same thing, that thou tookest up in their sight.
12:6: As for thyself, thou shalt go forth in the dark. Hyde thy face that thou see not the earth, for I have made thee a shew token unto the house of Israel.
12:7: Now as the Lord commanded me, so I did: the gear that I had made ready, brought I out by day. At even I brake down an hole thorow the wall with my hand: and when it was dark, I took the gear upon my shoulders and bare them out in their sight.
12:8: And in the morning, came the word of the LORD unto me, saying:
12:9: Thou son of man, if Israel that froward household ask thee and say: What doest thou there?
12:10: Then tell them: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} This punishment toucheth the chief rulers at Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel, that dwell among them.
12:11: Tell them I am your shew token: like as I have done, so shall it happen unto you: Flit shall ye also, and go into captivity.
12:12: The chiefest that is among you, shall lade his shoulders in the dark, and get him away. He shall break down the wall, to carry stuff there thorow: he shall cover his face, that he see not the ground, with his eyes.
12:13: My line will I spread out upon him, and catch him in my net, and carry him to Babylon, in the land of the Chaldees: which he shall not see, and yet shall he die there.
12:14: As for all his helpers, and all his Hosts, that be about him, I will scatter them toward all the winds, and draw out a sword after them.
12:15: So when I have scattered them among the Heathen, and strowed them in the lands, they shall know, that I am the LORD.
12:16: But, I will leave a little number of them from the sword, hunger and pestilence: to tell all their abominations among the Heathen, where they come: that they may know, how that I am the LORD.
12:17: Moreover, the word of the LORD came unto me saying:
12:18: Thou son of man: with a fearful trembling shalt thou eat thy bread, with carefulness and sorrow shalt thou drink thy water.
12:19: And unto the people of the land, speak thou on this manner: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD,_{|LORDE God|} to them that dwell in Jerusalem, and to the land of Israel: Ye shall eat your bread with sorrow, and drink your water with heaviness: Yea the land with the fulness thereof shall be laid waste, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
12:20: And the cities that now be well occupied, shall be void, and the land desolate: that ye may know, how that I am the LORD.
12:21: Yet came the word of the LORD unto me again, saying:
12:22: Thou son of man, what manner of byword is that, which ye use in the land of Israel, saying: Tush, seeing that the days are so slack in coming, all the visions are of none effect:
12:23: Tell them therefore, thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} I will make that byword to cease, so that it shall no more be commonly used in Israel. But say this unto them: The days are at hand, that everything which hath been prophesied, shall be fulfilled.
12:24: There shall no vision be in vain, neither any prophecy fail among the children of Israel:
12:25: For it is I the LORD that speak it: and whatsoever, I the LORD speak, it shall be performed, and not be slacken in coming. Yea even in your days (O ye froward household) will I devise something, and bring it to pass, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
12:26: And the word of the LORD came unto me saying:
12:27: Behold, thou son of man: The house of Israel say in this manner: Tush, as for the vision that he hath seen, it will be many a day or it come to pass: Is it far off yet, the thing that he prophesieth.
12:28: Therefore say unto them: Thus sayeth the LORD: All my words shall no more be slack: Look what I speak, that same shall come to pass, sayeth the LORD.

13:1: The word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
13:2: Thou son of man, speak prophecy against those prophets, that preach in Israel: and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts: Hear ye the word of the LORD,
13:3: thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Woe be unto those foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and speak where they see nothing.
13:4: O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes upon the dry field:
13:5: For they stand not in the gaps, neither made they an hedge for the house of Israel, that men might abide the peril in the day of the LORD.
13:6: Vain things they see, and tell lies, to maintain their preachings withal. The LORD (say they) hath spoke it, when in very deed the LORD hath not sent them.
13:7: Vain visions have ye seen, and spoken false prophesies, when ye say: the LORD hath spoken it where as I never said it.
13:8: Therefore, thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Because your words be vain, and ye seek out lies: Behold, I will upon you, sayeth the LORD.
13:9: Mine hands shall come upon the prophets, that look out vain things, and preach lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, nor written in the book of the house of Israel, neither shall they come in the land of Israel: that ye may know, how that I am the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
13:10: And that for this cause: they have deceived my people, and told them of peace, where no peace was. One setteth up a wall, and they daub it with loose_|lowse| clay.
13:11: Therefore tell them which daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall. For there shall come a great shewer of rain, great stones shall fall upon it, and a sore storm of wind shall break it,
13:12: so shall the wall come down. Shall it not then be said unto you: where is now the mortar, that ye daubed it withal?
13:13: Therefore thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} I will break out in my wrothfull displeasure with a stormy wind, so that in mine anger there shall come a mighty shewer of rain, and hailstones in my wrath, to destroy withal.
13:14: As for the wall, that ye have daubed with untempered mortar, I will break it down, make it even with the ground: so the foundation thereof shall remove, and it shall fall, yea and ye yourselves shall perish in the middest thereof: to learn you for to know, that I am the LORD.
13:15: Thus will I perform my wrath upon this wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered mortar, and then will I say unto you: The wall is gone, and the daubers are away.
13:16: These are the prophets of Israel, which prophesy unto the city of Jerusalem, and look out visions of peace for them, where as no peace is, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
13:17: Wherefore (O thou son of man) set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own hearts: and speak thou prophecy against them,
13:18: and say: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Woe be unto you, that sew_|sowe| pillows under all armholes, and bolsters under the heads both of young and old, to catch souls withal. For when ye have gotten the souls of my people in your captivity, ye promise them life,
13:19: and dishonour me to my people, for an handful of barley, and for a piece of bread: when ye kill the souls of them, that die not, and promise life to them, that live not: Thus ye dissemble with my people, that believeth your lies.
13:20: Wherefore thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Behold, I will also upon the pillows, wherewith ye catch the souls in flying: them will I take from your arms, and let the souls go, that ye catch in flying.
13:21: Your bolsters also will I tear in pieces, and deliver my people out of your hand: so that they shall come no more in your hands to be spoiled, and ye shall know, that I am the LORD.
13:22: Seeing that with your lies ye discomfort the heart of the righteous, whom I have not discomforted: Again: For so much as ye courage the hand of the wicked, so that he may not turn from his wicked way, and live:
13:23: therefore shall ye spy out no more vanity, nor prophesy your own guessings: for I will deliver my people out of your hand, that ye may know, how that I am the LORD.

14:1: There resorted unto me certain of the elders of Israel, and sat down by me.
14:2: Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying:
14:3: Thou son of man, these men bear their idols in their hearts, and go purposely upon the stumbling block of their own wickedness: how dare they then ask counsel at me?
14:4: Therefore speak unto them, and say: thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Every man of the house of Israel that beareth his Idols in his heart, purposing to stumble in his own wickedness, and cometh to a prophet, to enquire anything at me by him: unto that man will I the LORD myself give answer, according to the multitude of his idols:
14:5: that the house of Israel may be snared in their own hearts, because they be clean gone from me, for their Idols' sakes.
14:6: Wherefore, tell the house of Israel: thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Be converted, forsake your idols, and turn your faces from all your abominations.
14:7: For every man, (whether he be of the house of Israel or a stranger, that sojourneth in Israel) which departeth from me, and carrieth idols in his heart, purposing to go still stumbling in his own wickedness, and cometh to a Prophet, for to ask counsel at me thorow him: unto that man will I the LORD give answer, by mine own self.
14:8: I will set my face against that man. And will make him to be an example for other, yea and a common byword: and will root him out of my people, that he may know, how that I am the LORD.
14:9: And if that Prophet be deceived, when he telleth him a word: then I the LORD myself have deceived that Prophet, and will stretch forth mine hand upon him, to root him out of my people of Israel:
14:10: and they both shall be punished for their wickedness. According to the sin of him that asketh, shall the sin of the Prophet be:
14:11: that the house of Israel be led no more from me thorow error, and be no more defiled in their wickedness: but that they may be my people, and I their God, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
14:12: And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
14:13: Thou son of man, when the land sinneth against me, and goeth forth in wickedness: I will stretch out mine hand upon it, and destroy all the provision of their bread, and send dearth upon them, to destroy man and beast in the land.
14:14: And though Noe, Daniel and Job these three men were among them, yet shall they in their righteousness deliver but their own souls, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
14:15: If I bring noisome beasts into the land, to waste it up, and it be so desolate, that no man may go therein for beasts:
14:16: if these three men also were in the land, as truly as I live, (sayeth the Lord GOD)_{|LORDE God|} they shall save neither sons nor daughters, but be only delivered themselves: and as for the land, it shall be waste.
14:17: Or if I bring a sword into the land, and charge it to go thorow the land: so that, I slay down man and beast in it,
14:18: and if these three men were therein: As truly as I live, (sayeth the Lord GOD) they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but only be saved themselves.
14:19: If I send a pestilence into the land, and pour out my sore indignation upon it in blood, so that I root out of it both man and beast,
14:20: and if Noe, Daniel and Job, were therein: as truly as I live, (sayeth the Lord GOD)_{|LORDE God|} they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but save their own souls in their righteousness.
14:21: Moreover, thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Though I send my four troublous plagues upon Jerusalem: the sword, hunger, perilous beasts, and pestilence, to destroy man and beast out of it:
14:22: yet shall there be a remnant saved therein, which shall bring forth their sons and daughters. Behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way, and what they take in hand, and ye shall be comforted, as touching all the plagues that I have brought upon Jerusalem,
14:23: they shall comfort you, when ye see their way and works: and ye shall know, how that it is not without a cause, that I have done so against Jerusalem, as I did, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}

16:1: Again, the word of the LORD spake unto me, saying:
16:2: Thou son of man, shew the city of Jerusalem their abominations,
16:3: and say: thus sayeth the Lord GOD_{|LORDE God|} unto Jerusalem: Thy progeny and kindred came out of the land of Canaan, thy father was an Amorite, thy mother a Cethite.
16:4: In the day of thy birth when thou wast born, the string of thy navel was not cut off: thou wast not bathed in water to make thee clean: thou wast neither rubbed with salt, nor swaddled in clouts:
16:5: No man regarded that so much, as to do any of these things for thee, or to shew thee such favour, but thou wast utterly cast out upon the field, yea despised wast thou in the day of thy birth.
16:6: Then came I by thee, and saw thee trodden down in thine own blood, and said unto thee: thou shalt be purged from thine own blood, from thine own blood (I say) shalt thou be cleansed.
16:7: So I planted thee, as the blossom of the field: thou art grown up, and waxen great: thou hast gotten a marvelous pleasant beauty, thy breasts are come up, thy hair is goodly grown, where as thou wast naked and bare afore.
16:8: Now when I went by thee, and looked upon thee: behold, thy time was come, yea even the time to vow_|wow| thee. Then spread I my clothes over thee, to cover thy dishonesty: Yea I made an oath unto thee, and married myself with thee (sayeth the Lord GOD)_{|LORDE God|} and so thou becamest mine own.
16:9: Then washed I thee with water, and purged thy blood from thee, I anointed thee with oil,
16:10: I gave thee change of rayments, I made thee shoes of Taxus'_|tahas| leather: I girthed thee about with white silk, I clothed thee with kerchues,
16:11: I decked thee with costly apparel, I put rings upon thy fingers:
16:12: a chain about thy neck, spangles upon thy forehead, ear rings upon thine ears, and set a beautiful crown upon thine head.
16:13: Thus wast thou decked with silver and gold, and thy raiment was of fine white silk, of needle work and divers colors. Thou didst eat nothing but simnels, honey and oil: marvelous goodly wast thou and beautiful, yea even a very Queen wast thou.
16:14: In so much, that thy beauty was spoken of among the Heathen, for thou wast excellent in my beauty, which I put upon thee, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
16:15: But thou hast put confidence in thine own beauty, and played the harlot, when thou hadst gotten thee a name. Thou hast committed whoredom, with all that went by thee, and hast fulfilled their desires:
16:16: Yea thou hast taken thy garments of divers colors, and decked thine alters therewith, where upon thou mightest fulfill thine whoredom, of such a fashion, as never was done, nor shall be.
16:17: The goodly ornaments and Jewels which I gave thee of mine own gold and silver, hast thou taken, and made thee men's images thereof, and committed whoredom withal.
16:18: Thy garments of divers colors hast thou taken, and decked them therewith: mine oil and incense hast thou set before them.
16:19: My meat which I gave thee, as simnels, oil and honey: (to feed thee withal) that hast thou set before them, for a sweet saviour. And this came also to pass, sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|}
16:20: Thou hast taken thine own sons and daughters, whom thou hast_|haddest| begotten unto me: and these hast thou offered up to them, to be their meat. Is this but a small whoredom of thine (thinkest thou)
16:21: that thou slayest my children, and givest them over, to be brent unto them?
16:22: And yet in all thy abominations and whoredom, thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, how naked and bare thou wast at that time, and trodden down in thine own blood.
16:23: After all these thy wickednesses (woe, woe unto thee, sayeth the LORD)
16:24: thou hast builded thy stewes and brodel houses in every place: yea at the head of every street hast thou builded thee an alter.
16:25: Thou hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, thou hast laid out thy legs to every one that came by, and multiplied thine whoredom.
16:26: Thou hast committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, which had much flesh: and thus hast thou used thine whoredom, to anger me.
16:27: Behold, I will stretch out mine hand over thee, and will minish thy store of food, and deliver thee over into the wiles of the Philistines thine enemies, which are ashamed of thy abominable way.
16:28: Thou hast played the whore also with the Assirians, which might not satisfy thee: Yea thou hast played the harlot, and not had enough.
16:29: Thus hast thou still committed thy fornication from the land of Canaan unto the Caldees, and yet thy lust not satisfied.
16:30: How should I circumcise thine heart (sayeth the Lord GOD)_{|LORDE God|} seeing thou doest all these things, thou precious whore:
16:31: building thy stewes at the head of every street, and thy brodel houses in all places? Thou hast not been as another whore, that maketh boost of her winning
16:32: but as a wife that breaketh wedlock, and taketh other instead of her husband.
16:33: Gifts are given to all other whores, but thou givest rewards unto all thy lovers: and offerest them gifts, to come unto thee out of all places, and to commit fornication with thee.
16:34: It is come to pass with thee in thy whoredoms contrary to the use of other women: yea there hath no such fornication been committed after thee, seeing that thou profferest gifts unto other, and no regard is given thee: this is a contrary thing.
16:35: Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O thou harlot:
16:36: thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} For so much as thou hast spent thy money, and discovered thy shame, thorow thy whoredom with all thy lovers, and with all the Idols of thy abhominations in the blood of thy children, whom thou hast given them:
16:37: Behold therefore, I will gather together all thy lovers, unto whom thou hast made thy self common: yea and all them whom thou favourest, and euery one that thou hatest: and will discover thy shame before them, that they all maye see thy filthiness.
16:38: Moreover, I will judge thee as a breaker of wedlock and a murderer, and recompense thee thine own blood in wrath and jealousy.
16:39: I will give thee over in to their power, that shall break down thy stewes, and destroy thy brodel houses: they shall strip thee out of thy clothes, all thy fair and beautiful Jewels shall they take from thee, and so let thee sit naked and bare:
16:40: Yea they shall bring the common people upon thee, which shall stone thee, and slay thee down with their swords.
16:41: They shall burn up thy houses, and punish thee in the sight of many women. Thus will I make thy whoredom to cease, sop that thou shalt give out no more_|mo| rewards.
16:42: Should I make my wrath to be still, take my jealousy from thee, be content, and no more to be displeased?
16:43: Seeing thou rememberest not the days of thy youth, but hast provoked me to wrath in all these things? Behold therefore, I will bring thine own ways upon thine head, sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} how be it, I never did unto thee, according to thy wickedness and all thy abominations.
16:44: Behold, all they that use common proverbs, shall use this proverb also against thee: such a mother, such a daughter.
16:45: Thou art even thy mother's own daughter, that hath cast off her husband and her children: Yea thou art the sister of thy sisters, which forsook their husbands and their children. Your mother is a Cethite, and your father an Amorite.
16:46: Thine eldest sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell upon thy left hand. But thy youngest sister that dwelleth on thy right hand, is Sodoma and her daughters.
16:47: Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but in all thy ways thou hast been more corrupt than they.
16:48: As truly as I live, sayeth the Lord GOD,_{|LORDE God|} Sodoma thy sister with her daughters hath not done so evil, as thou and thy daughters.
16:49: Behold, the sins of thy sister Sodoma, were these: Pride, fulness of meat, abundance and Idleness: these things had she and her daughters. Besides that they reached not their hand to the poor and needy,
16:50: but were proud, and did abominable things before me: therefore I took them away, when I had seen it.
16:51: Neither hath Samaria done half of thy sins, yea thou hast exceeded them in wickedness: In so much that in comparison of all the abominations which thou hast done, thou hast made thy sisters good women.
16:52: (Therefore bear thine own shame, thou that in sin hast ouercome thy sisters: seeing thou hast done so abhominably, that they were better than thou. Be ashamed therefore (I say) and bear thine own confusion, thou that makest thy sisters good women.)
16:53: As for their captivity, namely the captivity of Sodoma and her daughters: the captivity of Samaria and her daughters: I will bring them again, so will I also bring again thy captivity among them:
16:54: that thou mayest take thine own confusion upon thee, and be ashamed of all that thou hast done, and to comfort them.
16:55: Thus thy sisters (namely) Sodoma and her daughters: Samaria and her daughters with thy self and thy daughters, shall be brought again to your old estate.
16:56: When thou wast in thy pride,
16:57: and before thy wickedness came to light: thou wouldest not hear speak of thy sister Sodoma, until the time that the Syrians with all their towns, and the Philistines, with all that lie round about them, brought thee to shame and confusion:
16:58: that thou mightest bear thine own filthiness and abomination, sayeth the LORD.
16:59: For thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} I should (by right) deal with thee, as thou hast done. Thou hast despised the oath, and broken the covenant.
16:60: Nevertheless, I will remember the covenant that I made with thee in thy youth, in so much that it shall be an everlasting covenant:
16:61: So that thou also remember thy ways, and be ashamed of them: then shalt thou receive of me thy elder and younger sisters, whom I will make thy daughters, and that beside thy covenant.
16:62: And so I will renew my covenant with thee, that thou mayest know that I am the LORD:
16:63: That thou mayest think upon it, be ashamed, and excuse thine own confusion no more: when I have forgiven thee, all that thou hast done, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}

17:1: The word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
17:2: Thou son of man: put forth a dark speaking and a parable, unto the house of Israel;
17:3: And say: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} There came a great Aegle with great wings, yea with mighty long wings, full of feathers, of divers colours, upon the mount of Libanus, and took a branch from a Cedar tree,
17:4: and brake off the top of his twig, and carried it into the land of Canaan, and set it in a city of merchants.
17:5: He took also a branch of the land, and planted it in a fruitful ground, he brought it unto great waters, and set it as a willow tree thereby.
17:6: Then did it grow, and was a great vine stock, but low by the ground: thus there came of it a vine, and it brought forth blossoms, and spread out branches.
17:7: But there was another Aegle, a great one, which had great wings and many feathers: and behold, the roots of this vine had an hunger after him, and spread out his branches toward him, to water his fruits:
17:8: Nevertheless it was planted upon a good ground beside great waters: so that (by reason) it should have brought out branches and fruit, and have been a goodly vine.
17:9: Speak thou therefore, thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Shall this vine prosper? Shall not his roots be plucked out, his fruit be broken off, his green branches wither and fade away? Yea without either strong armies or many people, shall it be plucked up by the roots.
17:10: Behold, it was planted: shall it prosper therefore? Shall it not be dried up and withered, yea even in the shooting out of his blossoms, as soon as the east wind bloweth?
17:11: Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me saying:
17:12: Speak to that froward household: Know ye not, what these things do signify? Tell them: Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took the king and his princes, and led them to Babylon.
17:13: He took of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and took an oath of him: The princes of the land toke he with him also,
17:14: that the land might be held in subjection, and not to rebel, but keep the covenant, and fulfill it.
17:15: But he fell from him, and sent his Embassadors into Egypt that he might have horses and much people. Should that prosper? Should he be kept safe, that doth such things? Or should he escape, that breaketh his covenant?
17:16: As truly as I live, sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} He shall die at Babylon, in the place where the king dwelleth, that made him king: whose oath he hath despised, and whose covenant he hath broken.
17:17: Neither shall Pharaoh with his great host and multitude of people, maintain him in the war: when they cast up ditches, and set up bulwarks to destroy much people.
17:18: For seeing he hath despised the oath, and broken the covenant, (where as he yet gave his hand thereupon) and done all these things, he shall not escape.
17:19: Therefore thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} As truly as I live, I will bring mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, upon his own head.
17:20: I will cast my net about him, and catch him in my yarn. To Babylon will I carry him, there will I punish him, because of the great offense that he made me.
17:21: As for those that flee from him out of the host, they shall be slain with the sword. The residue shall be scattered toward all the winds: and ye shall know, that I the LORD have spoken it.
17:22: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} I will also take a branch from an high Cedar tree, and will set it, and take the uppermost twig, that yet is but tender, and plant it upon an high hill:
17:23: Namely, upon the high hill of Sion will I plant it: that it may bring forth twigs, and give fruit, and be a great Cedar tree: so that all manner of fowls may bide in it, and make their nests under the shadow of his branches.
17:24: And all the trees of the field shall know, that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, and set the low tree up: that I have dried up the green tree, and made the dry tree to flourish: Even I the LORD that spake it, have also brought it to pass.

18:1: The word of the LORD came unto me, on this manner:
18:2: what mean ye by this common proverb, that ye use in the land of Israel, saying: The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
18:3: As truly as I live, sayeth the Lord GOD,_{|LORDE God|} ye shall use this byword no more in Israel.
18:4: Behold, all souls are mine. Like as the father is mine, so is the son mine also. The soul that sinneth, shall die.
18:5: If a man be godly, and do the thing that is equal and right,
18:6: he eateth not upon the hills: he lifteth not his eyes up to the Idols of Israel, he defileth not his neighbour's wife: he meddleth with no menstruous woman:
18:7: he grieveth nobody: he giveth his debtor his pledge again, he raketh none other man's goods by violence: he parteth his mete with the hungry: he clotheth the naked:
18:8: he lendeth nothing upon usury: he taketh nothing over: he withdraweth his hand from doing wrong: he handleth faithfully betwixt man and man:
18:9: he walketh in my commandments, and keepeth my laws, and performeth them faithfully: This is a righteous man, he shall surly live, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
18:10: If he now get a son, that is a murderer, a shedder of blood: if he do one of these things
18:11: (though he do not all) he eateth upon the hills: he defileth his neighbour's wife:
18:12: he grieveth the poor and needy: he robbeth and spoileth: he giveth not the debtor his pledge again, he lifteth up his eyes unto Idols, and meddle with abominable things:
18:13: he lendeth upon usury, and taketh moreover. Shall this man live? He shall not live. Seeing he hath done all these abominations, he shall die: his blood shall be upon him.
18:14: Now if this man get a son also, that seeth all his father's sins, which he hath done: and feareth, neither doth such like:
18:15: Namely, he eateth not upon the mountains: he lifteth not his eyes up to the Idols of Israel: he defileth not his neighbour's wife:
18:16: he vexeth no man: he keepeth no man's pledge, he neither spoileth, nor robbeth any man: he dealeth his meat with the hungry: he clotheth the naked:
18:17: he opresseth not the poor: he receiveth no usury, nor anything over: he keepeth my laws, and walketh in my comandments: this man shall not die in his father's sin, but shall live without fail.
18:18: As for his father: because he oppressed and spoiled his brother, and did wickedly among his people: Lo, he is dead in his own sin.
18:19: And yet say ye: Wherefore then should not this son bear his father's sin? Therefore: because the son hath done equity and right, hath kept all my commandments, and done them: therefore, shall he live in deed.
18:20: The same soul that sinneth, shall die. The son shall not bear the father's offense, neither shall the father bear the son's offence. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him self also._{{The soul that sinneth, she shall die. The son shall not bear part of the father's wickedness. The righteousness of the right shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.}}
18:21: But if the ungodly will turn away from all his sins that he hath done, and keep all my comandments, and do the thing that is equal and right: doubtless he shall live, and not die._{{And yet the wicked if he turn from all his sins which he did, and keep all mine ordinances, and do justly and righteously, he shall live and not die.}}
18:22: As for all his sins that he did before, they shall not be thought upon: but in his righteousness that he hath done, he shall live._{{None of the sins that he hath done shall be reckoned unto him: In the righteousness that he hath done, he shall live.}}
18:23: For have I any pleasure in the death of a sinner? sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} but rather that he convert and live._{{For I desire not the death of a sinner (saith the Lorde Iehouah) but rather that he should turn from his way, and live.}}
18:24: Again: If the righteous turn away from his righteousness, and do iniquity, according to all the abominations, that the wicked man doth, shall he live? All the righteousness that he hath done, shall not be thought upon: but in the fault that he offended withal and in the sin that he hath done, he shall die._{{And so if a righteous turn from his righteousness and do wickedness, and shall do like unto all the abominations which a wicked doth, shall he live? No, none of those righteousness that he did shall be remembered. But in the wickedness which he wrought, and in the sin which he did, in them shall he die.}}
18:25: And yet ye say: Tush, the way of the Lord_|LORDE| is not indifferent. Hear therefore ye house of Israel: Is not my way right? Or, are not your ways rather wicked?_{{But you will say, the way of the Lord is not equal. Here I pray you ye house of Israel. Is not my way equal?}}
18:26: When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and meddleth with ungodliness: he must die therein: Yea for the unrighteousness that he hath done, must he die._{{If a righteous turn from his righteousness and do wickedly, and die therefore: in the wickedness which he did he shall die.}}
18:27: Again: when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness, that he hath done, and doth the thing which is equal and right: he shall save his soul alive._{{And when a wicked turneth from his wickedness and doth justly and righteously, he shall save his soul:}}
18:28: For in so much as he remembereth himself, and turneth him from all the ungodliness, that he had used, he shall live, and not die._{{because he feared and turned from all his wickedness which he did, he shall live and not die, saith the Lorde almighty.}}
18:29: And yet sayeth the house of Israel: Tush, the way of the Lord_|LORDE| is not equal. Are my ways unright, O ye house of Israel: Are not your ways rather unequal?
18:30: As for me, I will judge every man, according to his ways, O ye house of Israel, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|} Wherefore be converted, and turn you clean from all your wickedness, so shall there no sin do you harm.
18:31: Cast away from you all your ungodliness, that ye have done: make you new hearts and a new spirit. Wherefore will ye die, O ye house of Israel?
18:32: seeing I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|} Turn you then, and ye shall live.

20:1: In the seventh year, the tenth day of the fifth Month, it happened, that certain of the elders of Israel came unto me, for to ask counsel at the LORD, and sat them down by me.
20:2: Then came the word of the LORD unto me on this manner:
20:3: Thou son of man: speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Are ye come hither to ask anything at me? As truly as I live, (sayeth the Lord GOD)_{|LORDE God|}
20:4: I will give you no answer. Wilt thou not reprove them (thou son of man) wilt thou not reprove them? Shew them the abominations of their forefathers:
20:5: and tell them: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} In the day when I chose Israel, and lift up mine hand upon the seed of the house of Jacob, and shewed myself unto them in the land of Egypt; Yea when I lift up mine hand over them, and said: I am the LORD your God,
20:6: even in the day that I lift up mine hand over them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt, into a land that I have provided for them, which floweth with milk and honey, and it is a pleasant land among all other:
20:7: Then said I unto them: Cast away every man the abominations that he hath before him, and defile not yourselves with the Idols of Egypt, for I am the LORD your God.
20:8: But they rebelled against me, and would not follow me: to cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, and to forsake the Idols of Egypt. Then I made me to pour my indignation over them, and to satisfy my wrath upon them: Yea even in the middest of the land of Egypt.
20:9: But I would not do it, for my name's sake: that it should not be unhallowed before the Heathen, among whom they dwelt, and among whom I shewed my self unto them, that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt.
20:10: Now when I had carried them out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.
20:11: I gave them my comandments, and shewed them my laws: which who so keepeth shall live in them.
20:12: I gave them also my holy days, to be a token betwixt me and them, and thereby to know, that I am the LORD, which halloweth them.
20:13: And yet the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness, they would not walk in my comandments, they have cast away my laws (which whoso keepeth should live in them) and my Sabbath days have they greatly unhallowed. Then I made me to pour out my indignation upon them, and to consume them in the wilderness;
20:14: Yet I would not do it, for my name's sake: lest it should be dishonoured before the Heathen, from the which I had carried them away.
20:15: But I swore unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land, which I gave them: a land that floweth with milk and honey, and is a pleasure of all lands:
20:16: and that because they refused my laws, and walked not in my comandments, but had unhallowed my Sabbaths, for their heart was gone after their Idols.
20:17: Nevertheless mine eye spared them, so that I would not utterly slay them, and consume them in the wilderness.
20:18: Moreover, I said unto their sons in the wilderness: walk not in the statutes of your forefathers, keep not their ordinances, and defile not yourselves with their idols,
20:19: for I am the LORD your God. But walk in my statutes, keep my laws and do them,
20:20: hallow my Sabbaths: for they are a token betwixt me and you, that ye may know, how that I am the LORD.
20:21: Notwithstanding, their sons rebelled against me also: they walked not in my statutes, they kept not my laws to fulfill them (which he that doth shall live in them) neither hallowed they my Sabbath days. Then I made me again to pour out my indignation over them, and to satisfy my wrath upon them in the wilderness.
20:22: Nevertheless, I withdrew my hand for my name's sake, lest it should be unhallowed among the Heathen, before whom I had brought them forth.
20:23: I lift up mine hand over them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Heathen, and strow them among the nations:
20:24: because they had not kept my laws, but cast aside my comandments, unhallowed my Sabbaths, and lift up their eyes to their fathers' Idols.
20:25: Wherefore I gave them also comandments not good, and laws thorow the which they should not live,
20:26: and I unhallowed them in their own gifts (when I appointed for my self all their firstborn) to make them desolate: that they might know, how that I am the LORD.
20:27: Therefore (O thou son of man) tell the house of Israel, thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Beside all this, your forefathers have yet blasphemed me more, and greatly offended against me:
20:28: For after I had brought them into the land, that I promised to give them, when they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees: they made _|there| their offerings, and provoked me with their oblations, making sweet saviours there, and poured out their drink offerings.
20:29: Then I ask them; What have ye to do with all, that ye go thither? And therefore is it called the high place unto this day.
20:30: Wherefore, speak unto the house of Israel: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Ye are even as unclean as your forefathers, and commit whoredom also with their abominations.
20:31: In all your idols, where unto ye bring your oblations, and to whose honour ye burn your children: ye defile your selves, even unto this day: how dare ye then come, and ask any question at me? O ye household of Israel? As truly as I live (sayeth the Lord GOD)_{|LORDE God|} ye get no answer of me:
20:32: and as for the thing that ye go about, it shall not come to pass, where as ye say: we will be as the Heathen, and do as other people in the land, wood and stone will we worship.
20:33: As truly as I live, sayeth the Lord GOD,_{|LORDE God|} I myself will rule you with a mighty hand, with a stretched out arm, and with indignation poured out over you:
20:34: and will bring you out of the nations and lands, wherein ye are scattered: and gather you together with a mighty hand, with a stretched out arm and with indignation poured out upon you:
20:35: and will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there I will reason with you face to face.
20:36: Like as I punished your forefathers in the wilderness, so will I punish you also, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
20:37: I will bring you under my jurisdiction, and under the bond of the covenant.
20:38: The forsakers also and the transgressors will I take from among you, and bring them out of the land of your habitations: As for the land of Israel, they shall not come in it: that they may know, how that I am the LORD.
20:39: Go now then (sayeth the Lord GOD)_{|LORDE God|} ye house of Israel, cast away, and destroy every man his Idols: then shall ye hear me, and no more blaspheme my holy name with your offerings and Idols.
20:40: But upon my holy hill, even upon the high hill of Israel shall all the house of Israel and all that is in the land, worship me: and in the same place will I favour them, and there will I require your heave offerings, and the firstlings of your oblations, with all your holy things.
20:41: I will accept your sweet savour, when I bring you from the nations, and gather you together out of the lands, wherein ye be scattered: that I may be hallowed in you before the Heathen.
20:42: And that ye may know, that I am the LORD, which have brought you into the land of Israel: Yea into the same land, that I swore to give unto your forefathers.
20:43: There shall ye call to remembrance your own ways and all your imaginations, wherein ye have been defiled: and ye shall be displeased with your own selves, for all your wickedness, that ye have done.
20:44: And ye shall know, that I am the LORD: when I entreat you after my name, not after your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt works: O ye house of Israel, sayeth the LORD.
20:45: Moreover, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
20:46: Thou son of man, set thy face toward the south, and speak to the south wind,
20:47: and say to the wood toward the south: Hear the word of the LORD, thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, that shall consume thee green trees with the dry. No man shall be able to quench his flame, but all that looketh from the south to the north shall be brent therein.
20:48: And all flesh shall see, that I the LORD have kindled it, so that no man may quench it.
20:49: Then said I: O LORD, they will say of me: Tush, they are but fables that he telleth.

21:1: The word of the LORD came to me, saying:
21:2: Thou son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, speak against the Sanctuary, and prophesy against the land of Israel, say to the land of Israel:
21:3: Thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I will upon thee, and will draw my sword out of the sheath, and root out of thee both the righteous and the wicked;
21:4: Seeing then that I will root out of thee both the righteous and wicked, therefore shall my sword go out of his sheath against all flesh from the north to the south:
21:5: that all flesh may know _|how| that I the LORD have drawn my sword out of the sheath, and it shall not be put in again.
21:6: Mourn therefore (O thou son of man) that thy loins crack withal, yea mourn bitterly for them:
21:7: And if they say, wherefore mournest thou? Then tell them: for the tidings that cometh, at the which all hearts shall melt, all hands shall be letten down, all stomachs shall faint, and all knees shall wax feeble. Behold, it cometh, and shall be fulfilled, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
21:8: Again, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
21:9: Thou son of man, prophesy and speak: Thus sayeth the LORD God: speak, the sword is sharpened and well scoured.
21:10: Sharpened is it for the slaughter, and scoured that it may be bright. O, the destroying staff of my son, shall bring down all wood.
21:11: He hath put his sword to the dighting, that good hold may be taken of it. This sword is sharpened and dight, that it may be given into the hand of the manslayer.
21:12: Cry (O thou son of man) and howl, for this sword shall smite my people, and all the rulers in Israel, which with my people shall be slain down to the ground thorow this sword. Smite thou upon thy thigh,
21:13: For wherefore should not the plague and staff of judgement come?_{{Smite therefore thou upon thy thigh, for it is gone forth to make a trial. And what a trial shall this be, when even my scepter shall be reproved? That shall not be sayeth the Lord GOD.}}
21:14: Prophesy thou son of man, and smite thine hands together: make the sword two edged, yea make it three edged, that manslayer's sword, that sword of the great slaughter, which shall smite them, even in their privy chambers:
21:15: to make them abashed and faint at the hearts, and in all gates to make some of them fall. O how bright and sharp is it, how well dight and mete for the slaughter.
21:16: Get thee to some place alone, either upon the right hand or on the left, wither soever thy face turneth.
21:17: I will smite my hands together also and satisfy my wrothfull indignation: Even I the LORD have said it.
21:18: The word of the LORD came yet unto me again saying:
21:19: Thou son of man, make thee two streets, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come. Both these streets shall go out of one land. He shall set him up a place, at the head of the street shall he choose him out a corner.
21:20: Make thee a street, that the sword may come toward Kabbath of the Ammonites, and to the strong city of Jerusalem.
21:21: For the king of Babylon shall stand in the turning of the way, at the head of the two trees: to ask counsel at the soothsayers, casting the lots with his arrows, to ask counsel at the Idols, and to look in the liver.
21:22: But the soothsaying shall point to the right side upon Jerusalem, that he may set men of war, to smite it with a great noise, to cry out Alarum, to set battle rams against the gates, to grave up ditches, and to make bulwarks.
21:23: Nevertheless, as for the soothsaying, they shall hold it but for vanity, even as though a jest were told them: Yea and they themselves remember their wickedness, so that by right they must be taken and won.
21:24: Therefore sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} for so much as ye yourselves shew your offense, and have opened your wickedness, so that in all your works men may see your sins: Yea in so much (I say) that ye yourselves have made mention thereof, ye shall be taken by violence.
21:25: O thou shameful wicked guide of Israel whose day is come: even the time that wickedness shall have an end:
21:26: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} take away the mitre, and put off the crown, and so is it away: the humble is exalted, and the proud brought low.
21:27: Punish, punish, yea punish them will I, and destroy them: and that shall not be fulfilled till he come, to whom the judgement belongeth, and to whom I have given it.
21:28: And thou (O son of man) prophesy, and speak: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD_{|LORDE God|} to the children of Ammon, and to their blasphemy, speak thou: The sword, the sword is drawn forth already to the slaughter, and scoured that it glistereth
21:29: (because thou hast looked thee out vanities, and prophesied lies) that it may come upon thy neck, like as upon the other ungodly, which be slain: whose day came, when their wickedness was full.
21:30: Though it were put up again into the sheath, yet will I punish thee, in the land where thou wast nourished and born,
21:31: and pour my indignation upon thee, and will blow upon thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee unto cruel people, which are learned to destroy.
21:32: Thou shalt feed the fire and thy blood shall be shed in the land, that thou mayest be put out of remembrance. Even I the LORD have spoken it.

22:1: Moreover, the word of the LORD came unto me, and said:
22:2: Thou son of man, wilt thou not reprove this bloodthirsty city? Shew them their abominations,
22:3: and tell them: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} O thou city, that sheddest blood in the middest of thee, that thy time may come also: and makest the Idols to defile thee withal.
22:4: Thou hast made thy self guilty in the blood that thou hast shed, and defiled thee in the Idols, which thou hast made. Thou hast caused thy days to draw nye, and made the time of thy years to come. Therefore will I make thee to be confounded among the heathen, and to be despised in all the lands,
22:5: whether they be nye or far from thee: they shall laugh thee to scorn, thou that hast gotten thee so foul a name, and art full of mischief.
22:6: Behold, the rulers of Israel have brought every man his power, to shed blood in thee.
22:7: In thee have they despised father and mother, in thee have they oppressed the stranger, in thee have they vexed the widow and the fatherless.
22:8: Thou hast despised my Sanctuary, and unhallowed my Sabbath.
22:9: Murderers are there in thee, that shed blood, and eat upon the hills, and in thee they use unhappiness.
22:10: In thee have they discovered their fathers' shame, in thee have they vexed women in their sickness.
22:11: Every man hath dealt shamefully with his neighbour's wife, and abominably defiled his daughter-in-law. In thee hath every man forced his own sister, even his father's daughter.
22:12: Yea gifts have been received in thee, to shed blood. Thou hast taken usury and increase, thou hast oppressed thy neighbours by extortion, and forgotten me, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
22:13: Behold, I have smitten my hands upon thy covetousness, that thou hast used, and upon the blood which hath been shed in thee.
22:14: Is thy heart able to endure it, or may thy hands defend themselves, in the time that I shall bring upon thee? Even I the LORD that speak it, will bring it also to pass.
22:15: I will scatter thee among the heathen, and strow thee about in the lands, and will cause thy filthiness to cease out of thee.
22:16: Yea and I will have thee in possession in the sight of the Heathen, that thou mayest know that I am the LORD.
22:17: And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
22:18: Thou son of man, the house of Israel is turned to dross. All they that should be brass, tin, iron and lead, are in the fire become dross.
22:19: Therefore, thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} for so much as ye all are turned into dross, behold: I will bring you together unto Jerusalem,
22:20: like as silver, and brass, iron, tin, and lead, are put together in the furnace and the fire blown there under to melt them: Even so will I gather you, put you in together, and melt you in my wrath and indignation.
22:21: I will bring you together, and kindle the fire of my cruel displeasure under you, that ye may be melted therein.
22:22: Like as the silver is melted in the fire, so shall ye also be melted therein: that ye may know, how that I the LORD have poured my wrath upon you.
22:23: And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
22:24: Thou son of man, tell her: Thou art an unclean land, which is not rained upon in the day of the cruel wrath:
22:25: thy Prophets that are in thee, are sworn together to devour souls, like as a roaring Lion, that liveth by his prey. They receive riches and good, and make many widows in thee.
22:26: Thy priests break my law, and defile my Sanctuary. They put no difference between the holy and unholy, neither discern between the clean and unclean: they turn their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am unhallowed among them.
22:27: Thy rulers in thee are like ravishing wolves, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, for their own covetous lucre.
22:28: As for thy Prophets, they daub with untempered clay, they see vanities, and prophesy lies unto thee, saying: the Lord GOD_{|LORDE God|} sayeth so, where as the LORD hath not spoken.
22:29: The people in the land useth wicked extortion and robbery. They vex the poor and needy and oppress the stranger against right.
22:30: And I sought in the land for a man, that would make up the hedge, and set himself in the gap before me in the lands behalf, that I should not utterly destroy it: but I could find none.
22:31: Therefore will I poured out my cruel displeasure upon them, and burn them in the fire of my wrath: their own ways will I recompense upon their heads, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}

23:1: The word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
23:2: Thou son of man, there were two women, that had one mother:
23:3: These (when they were young) began to play the harlots in Egypt. There were their breasts bruised, and the pappes of their maidenhead destroyed.
23:4: The eldest of them was called Oholah and her youngest sister Oholibah. These two were mine, and bare sons and daughters. Their names were, Samaria, and that was Oholah: and Jerusalem, that was Oholibah:
23:5: As for Oholah she began to go a whoring, when I had taken her to me. She was set on fire upon her lovers the Assirians,
23:6: which had to do with her: even the princes and lords, that were decked in costly array: fair young men, lusty riders of horses.
23:7: Thus thorow her whoredom, she cleaved unto all the young men of Assyria: Yea she was mad upon them, and defiled herself with all their Idols.
23:8: Neither ceased she from the fornication, that she used with the Egyptians: for in her youth they lay with her, they bruised the breasts of her maidenhead, and poured their whoredom upon her.
23:9: Wherefore, I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, even the Assyrians, whom she so loved.
23:10: These discovered her shame, took her sons and daughters, and slew her with the sword: An evil name gat she of all people, and they punished her.
23:11: Her sister Aholibah saw this, and destroyed herself with inordinate love, more than she, and exceeded her sister in whoredom:
23:12: she loved the Assyrians, (which also lay with her) namely, the princes and great lords, that were clothed with all manner of gorgeous apparel, all lusty horsemen and fair young persons.
23:13: Then I saw, that they both were defiled a like.
23:14: But she increased still in whoredom: for when she saw men painted upon the wall, the images of the Chaldees set forth with fresh colours,
23:15: with fair girdles about them, and goodly bonnets upon their heads, looking all like princes (after the manner of the Babylonians and Chaldees in their own land, where they be born)
23:16: immediatley, as soon as she saw them, she brent in love upon them, and sent messengers for them into the land of the Chaldees.
23:17: Now when the Babylonians came to her, they lay with her, and defiled her with their whoredom, and so was she polluted with them. And when her lust was abated from them,
23:18: her whoredom and shame was discovered and seen: then my heart forsook her, like as my heart was gone from her sister also.
23:19: Nevertheless, she used her whoredome ever the longer the more, and remembered the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt:
23:20: she brent in lust upon them, whose flesh was like the flesh of Asses, and their seed like the seed of horses.
23:21: Thus thou hast renewed the filthiness of thy youth, when thy lovers bruised thy paps, and marred thy breasts in Egypt.
23:22: Therefore (O Oholibah) thus sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|} I will raise up thy lovers (with whom thou hast satisfied thy lust) against thee, and gather them together round about thee:
23:23: Namely, the Babylonians, and all the Chaldees: Pecod, Schoa, and Coa, with all the Assyrians: all young and fair lovers: princes and lords, knights and gentlemen, which be all good horsemen:
23:24: These shall come upon thee with horses, chariots, and a great multitude of people: which shall be harnessed about thee on every side, with breastplates, shields and helmets. I will punish thee before them, yea they themselves shall punish thee, according to their own judgement.
23:25: I will put my jealousy upon thee, so that they shall deal cruelly with thee. They shall cut off thy nose and thine ears, and the remnant shall fall thorow the sword. They shall carry away thy sons and daughters, and the residue shall be brent in the fire.
23:26: They shall strip thee out of thy clothes, and carry thy costly jewels away with them.
23:27: Thus will I make an end of thy filthiness and whoredom, which thou hast brough