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 thee 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 brought out from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt turn thine eyes no more after them, and cast thy mind no more upon Egypt.
23:28: For thus sayeth the LORD: behold, I will deliver thee into the hands of them, whom thou hatest: yea even into the hands of them, with whom thou hast fulfilled thy lust,
23:29: which shall deal cruelly with thee: All thy labour shall they take with them, and leave thee naked and bare, and thus the shame of thy filthy whoredom shall come to light.
23:30: All these things shall happen unto thee, because of thy whoredom, which thou hast used among the Gentiles, with whose Idols thou hast defiled thy self.
23:31: Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister, therefore will I give thee her cup in thy hand.
23:32: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup, how deep and far_|farre| soever it be to the bottom. Thou shalt be laughed to scorn, and had as greatly inderision, as is possible.
23:33: Thou shalt be full of drunkenness and sorrow, for the cup of thy sister Samaria is a cup of destruction and wasting:
23:34: The same shalt thou drink, and sup it out even to the dregs; Yea thou shalt eat up the broken pieces of it, and so tear thine own breasts: for even I have spoken it, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
23:35: Therefore thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} For so much as thou hast forgotten me, and cast me aside, so bear now thy own filthiness and whoredom.
23:36: The LORD said moreover unto me: Thou son of man, wilt thou not reprove Oholah and Oholibah? Shew them their abominations:
23:37: namely, that they have broken their wedlock, and stained their hands with blood: yea even with their idols have they committed advoutry, and offered them their own children (to be devoured) whom they have born unto me.
23:38: Yea and this have they done unto me also: they have defiled my Sanctuary in that same day, and have unhallowed my Sabbath.
23:39: For when they had slain their children for their idols, they came the same day into my Sanctuary to defile it. Lo, this have they done in my house.
23:40: Beside all this, thou hast sent thy messengers for men out of far countries: and when they came, thou hast bathed, trimmed and set forth thy self of the best fashion:
23:41: thou satest upon a goodly bed, and a table spread before thee: whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.
23:42: Then was there great cheer with her: and the men that were sent from far countries over the desert, unto these they gave bracelets upon their hands, and set glorious crowns upon their heads:
23:43: Then thought I: no doubt, these will use their harlotry also with yonder old whore.
23:44: And they went into her, as unto a common harlot: Even so went they also to Oholah and Oholibah those filthy women.
23:45: O ye all that love virtue and righteousness, judge them, punish them: as advoutrers and murderers ought to be judged and punished. For they are breakers of wedlock, and the blood is in their hands.
23:46: Wherefore thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} bring a great multitude of people upon them, and make them be scattered and spoiled:
23:47: these shall stone them and gore them with their swords. They shall slay their sons and daughters and burn up their houses with fire.
23:48: Thus will I destroy all such filthiness out of the land, that all women may learn, not to do after your uncleanness.
23:49: And so they shall lay your filthiness upon your own selves, and ye shall be punished for the sins, that ye have committed with your Idols: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

24:1: In the ninth year, in the tenth Month, the tenth day of the Month, came the word of the LORD unto me, saying:
24:2: O thou son of man, write up the name of this day, yea even the hour of this present day: when the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem.
24:3: Shew that obstinate household a parable, and speak unto them: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Get thee a pot, set it on, and pour water into it:
24:4: put all the pieces together in it, all the good pieces: the loin and the shoulder, and fill it with the best bones.
24:5: Take one of the best sheep, and an heap of bones withal: let it boil well, and let the bones seethe well therein.
24:6: With that, said the Lord GOD_{|LORDE God|} on this manner: Woe be unto the bloody city of the pot, where upon the rustiness hangeth, and is not yet scoured away. Take out the pieces that are in it, one after another: there need no lots be cast therefore,
24:7: for the blood is yet in it. Upon a plain dry stone hath she poured it, and not upon the ground, that it might be covered with dust.
24:8: And therefore have I letten her pour her blood upon a plain dry stony rock, because it should not be hid, and that I might bring my wrothfull indignation and vengeance upon her.
24:9: Wherefore, thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} O woe be unto that bloodthirsty city; For whom I will prepare a heap of wood:
24:10: bear thou the bones together, kindle thou the fire, seeth the flesh, let all be well sodden, that the bones may be sucked_|suckte| out.
24:11: Moreover, set the pot empty upon the coals, that it may be warm and the metal hot: that the filth and rustiness may be consumed.
24:12: But it will not go off, there is so much of it: the rustiness must be brent out.
24:13: Thy filthiness is abominable, for I would have cleansed thee, but thou wouldest not be cleansed. Thou canst not be purged from thine uncleanness, till I have poured my wrothfull indignation upon thee.
24:14: Even I the LORD have so devised: Yea it is come thereto already, that I will do it. I will not go back, I will not spare, I will not be intreated: but according to thy ways and imaginations, thou shalt be punished, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
24:15: And the word of the LORD came unto me saying:
24:16: Thou son of man, behold, I take away the pleasure of thine eyes with a plague: yet shalt thou neither mourn, nor weep, nor water thy cheeks therefore:
24:17: thou mayest mourn by thy self alone, but use no deadly lamentation. Hold on thy bonnet, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, cover not thy face, and eat no mourners bread.
24:18: So I spake unto the people by times in the morning, and at even my wife died: then upon the next morrow, I did as I was commanded.
24:19: And the people said unto me: Wilt thou not tell us, what that signifieth, which thou doest?
24:20: I answered them, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
24:21: Tell the house of Israel, thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} behold, I will suspend my sanctuary: even the glory of your power, that pleasure of your eyes, and the thing that ye love: your sons and daughters whom ye have left, shall fall thorow the sword.
24:22: Like as I have done, so shall ye do also: Ye shall not hide your faces, ye shall eat no mourners bread:
24:23: your bonnets shall ye have upon your heads, and shoes upon your feet. Ye shall neither mourn nor weep, but in your sins ye shall be sorrowful, and one repent with another.
24:24: Thus Ezekiel is your shewtoken. For look as he hath done, so (when this cometh) ye shall do also: that ye may learn to know, that I am the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
24:25: But behold, O thou son of man: In the day when I take from them their power, their joy and honour, the lust of their eyes, the burthen of their bodies: namely, their sons and daughters:
24:26: Then shall there one escape, and come unto thee, for to shew thee.
24:27: In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him, which is escaped, that thou mayest speak, and be no more dumb: Yea and thou shalt be their shewtoken, that they may know, how that I am the LORD.

25:1: The word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
25:2: Thou son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, prophesy upon them,
25:3: and say unto the Ammonites: hear the word of the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} For so much as thou speakest over my Sanctuary. A ha, I trow it be now suspended: and over the land of Israel, I trow it be now desolate: yea and over the house of Judah, I trow they be now led away prisoners:
25:4: Behold, I will deliver thee to the people of the east, that they may have thee in possession: these shall set their castles and houses in thee. They shall eat thy fruit, and drink up thy milk.
25:5: As for Rabbah, I will make of it a stall for camels, and of Ammon a sheepfold: and ye shall know, that I am the LORD.
25:6: For thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} In so much as thou hast clapped with thine hands, and stamped with thy feet, yea rejoiced in thine heart over the land of Israel with despite:
25:7: behold, I will stretch out mine hand over thee also, and deliver thee, to be spoiled of the Heathen, and root thee out from among the people, and cause thee to be destroyed out of all lands: yea I will make thee be laid waste, that thou mayest know, that I am the LORD.
25:8: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} For so much as Moab and Seir do say: As for the house of Judah, it is but like as all other Gentiles be:
25:9: Therefore, behold, I will make the cities of Moab weaponless, and taken away their strength: their cities and chief coasts of their land, which are the pleasures of the country: As namely. Bethiesimoth, Baalmeon, and Cariathaim:
25:10: These will I open unto them of the east, that they may fall upon the Ammonites: and will give it them in possession: so that the Ammonites shall no more be had in remembrance among the Heathen.
25:11: Even thus will I punish Moab also, that they may know, how that I am the LORD.
25:12: Moreover, thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Because that Edom hath avenged and eased himself upon the house of Judah,
25:13: therefore thus sayeth the LORD: I will reach out mine hand upon Edom, and take away man and beast out of it. From Theman unto Dedan will I make it desolate, they shall be slain with the sword.
25:14: Thorow my people of Israel will I avenge me again upon Edom: they shall handle him, according to my wrath and indignation, so that they shall know my vengeance, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
25:15: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} For so much as the Philistines have done this: namely taken vengeance with despiteful stomachs, and of an old evil will set themselves to destroy:
25:16: Therefore thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Behold, I will stretch out mine hand over the Philistines, and destroy the destroyer, and cause all the remnant of the sea coast to perish.
25:17: A great vengeance will I take upon them, and punish them cruelly: that they may know, how that I am the LORD, which have avenged me of them.

26:1: It happened, that in the eleventh year, and the first day of the Month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
26:2: Thou son of man, because that Tyre hath spoken upon Jerusalem: Aha, now I trow the ports of the people be broken, and she turned unto me, for I have destroyed my belly full.
26:3: Yea therefore sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Behold O Tyre, I will upon thee, I will bring a great multitude of people against thee, like as when the sea ariseth with his waves:
26:4: These shall break the walls of Tyre, and cast down her towers: I will scrape the ground from her, and make her a bare stone:
26:5: Yea as the drying place, where the fishers hang up their nets by the sea side. Even I have spoken it, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|} The Gentiles shall spoil her:
26:6: her daughters upon the field shall perish with the sword, that they may know, how that I am the LORD.
26:7: For thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Behold, I will bring hither Nabuchodonosor (which is the king of Babylon and a king of kings) from the North upon Tyre, with horses, chariots, horsemen, and with a great multitude of people.
26:8: Thy daughters that are in the land, shall he slay with the sword: but against thee, he shall make bulwarks and grave up ditches about thee, and lift up his shield against thee.
26:9: His slings and battlerams shall he prepare for thy walls, and with his weapons break down thy towers.
26:10: The dust of his horses shall cover thee, they shall be so many: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, chariots and wheels: when he cometh to thy ports, as men do into an open city.
26:11: With the hoofs of his horse's feet, shall he tread down all thy streets. He shall slay thy people with the sword, and break down the pillars of thy strength.
26:12: They shall waste away thy riches, and spoil thy merchandise. Thy walls shall they break down, and destroy thy houses of pleasure. Thy stones, thy timber and foundations shall they cast in the water.
26:13: Thus will I bring the melody of thy songs, and the voice of thy minstrelsy to an end, so that they shall no more be heard.
26:14: I will make a bare stone of thee, yea a drying place for nets, an shall never be builded again: For even I the LORD have spoken it, sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|}
26:15: Thus hath the Lord GOD_{|LORDE God|} spoken concerning Tyre; The isles shall be moved at the noise of thy fall, and at the cry of the slain, that shall be murdered in thee.
26:16: All kings of the sea shall come down from their seats regal: they shall lay away their robes, and put off their costly clothing: Yea with trembling shall they be clothed, they shall sit upon the ground: they shall be afraid at thy sudden fall, and be abashed at thee.
26:17: They shall mourn for thee, and say unto thee: O thou noble city, that hast been so greatly occupied of old, thou that hast been the strongest upon the sea with thine inhabiters of whom all men stood in fear: How art thou now so utterly destroyed?
26:18: Now at the time of thy fall the inhabiters of the Isles; Yea and the Iles themselves, shall stand in fear at thine end.
26:19: For thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} when I make thee a desolate city, (as other cities be, that no man dwell in) and when I bring the deep upon thee, that great waters may cover thee:
26:20: Then will I cast thee down unto them, that descend into the pit, unto a people that hath been long dead, and set thee in a land that is beneath, like the old wilderness, with them which go down to their graves, so that no man shall dwell more in thee. And I will make thee to be no more in honor, in the land of the living.
26:21: I will make an end of thee, and thou shalt be gone. Though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou not be found for evermore, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}

27:1: The word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
27:2: O thou son of man, make a lamentable complaint upon Tyre,
27:3: and say unto Tyre, which is a port of the sea, that occupieth with much people, and many Isles: Thus speaketh the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} O Tyre thou hast said: what, I am a noble city:
27:4: thy borders are in the middest of the sea, and thy builders have made thy marvelous goodly.
27:5: All thy tables have they made of Cypress trees of the mount Sanir. From Libanus have they taken Cedar trees, to make the masts:
27:6: and the Oaks of Basan to make the rowers. Thy boards have they made of ivory, and of costly wood out of the Isle of Cethim.
27:7: Thy sail was of white small needle work out of the land of Egypt, to hang upon thy mast: and thy hangings of yellow silk and purple, out of the Isles of Elisah.
27:8: They of Sidon and Arnad were thy mariners, and the wisest in Tyre were thy shipmasters.
27:9: The eldest and wisest at Gebal were they, that mended and stopped thy ships. All ships of the sea with their shipment occupied their merchandise in thee.
27:10: The Perses, Lidians and Libians were in thine host, and helped thee to fight: these hanged up their shields and helmets with thee, these set forth thy beauty.
27:11: They of Arnad were with thine host round about thy walls, and were thy watchmen upon thy towers, these hanged up their shields round about thy walls, and made thee marvelous goodly.
27:12: Tharsis occupied with thee in all manner of wares, in silver, iron, tin and lead, and made thy market great.
27:13: Javan, Tubal and Mesech were thy merchants, which brought the men, and ornaments of metal for thy occupying.
27:14: They of the house of Thogarma brought unto thee at the time of thy mart, horse, horsemen and mules.
27:15: They of Dedan were thy merchants: and many other Isles that occupied with thee, brought thee wethers, elephant bones and Paycockes for a present.
27:16: The Syrians occupied with thee, because of thy divers works, and increased thy merchandise, with Smaragdes, with scarlet, with needle work, with white linen_|lining| cloth, with silk and with Crystal.
27:17: Judah and the land of Israel occupied with thee, and brought unto thy markets, wheat, balm, honey, oil and triacle.
27:18: Damascus also used merchandises with thee, in the best wine and white wool: because thy occupying was so great, and thy wares so many.
27:19: Dan, Javan, and Mevsall have brought unto thy markets, iron ready made, with Casia, and Calamus, according to thine occupying.
27:20: Dedan occupied with thee, in fair tapestry work and quishins.
27:21: Arabia and all the princes of Cedar have occupied with thee, in sheep, wethers, and goats.
27:22: The merchants of Sheba and Rema have occupied also with thee, in all costly spices, in all precious stones and gold, which they brought unto thy markets.
27:23: Haran, Chenne, and Eden, the merchants of Saba, Assiria, and Chelmad, were all doers with thee
27:24: and occupied with thee: In costly raiment, of yellow silk and needle work (very precious, and therefore packed_|packte| and bound together with ropes) Yea and in Cedar wood, at the time of thy markets.
27:25: The ships of Tharsis were the chief of thy occupying. Thus thou art full, and in great worship, even in the middest of the sea.
27:26: Thy mariners were ever bringing unto thee out of many waters. But the east wind shall over bear thee into the middest of the sea:
27:27: so that thy wares, thy merchandise, thy riches, thy mariners, thy shipmasters, thy helpers, thy occupiers (that brought the things necessary) the men of war that are in thee: Yea and all thy commons shall perish in the middest of the sea, in the day of thy fall.
27:28: The suburbs shall shake at the loud cry of thy shipmen.
27:29: All whirry men, and all mariners upon the sea, shall leap out of their boats, and set themselves upon the land.
27:30: They shall lift up their voice because of thee, and make a lamentable cry. They shall cast dust upon their heads, and lie down in the ashes.
27:31: They shall shave themselves, and put sackcloth upon them for thy sake. They shall mourn for thee with heartfull sorrow,
27:32: and heavy lamentation, yea their children also shall weep for thee. Alas, what city hath so been destroyed in the sea, as Tyre is?
27:33: When thy wares and merchandise came from the seas, thou gavest all people enough. The kings of the earth hast thou made rich, thorow the multitude of thy wares and occupying:
27:34: But now art thou cast down in to the deep of the sea, all thy resort of people is perished with thee.
27:35: All they that dwell in the Isles are abashed at thee, and all their kings are afraid, yea their faces have changed colour.
27:36: The merchants of the nations wonder at thee. In that thou art so clean brought to naught, and comest no more up.

28:1: The word of the LORD came unto me saying:
28:2: Thou son of man; Tell the prince of Tyre: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD,_{|LORDE God|} because thou hast a proud heart and hast said: I am a God, I have my seat in the middest of the sea like a God: where as thou art but a man, and not God, and yet standest in thine own conceit, that thou art God:
28:3: Behold, thou thinkest thyself wiser than Daniel, that there is no secrets hid from thee.
28:4: With thy wisdom and thy understanding, thou hast gotten thee great wealthiness, and gathered treasure of silver and gold.
28:5: With thy great wisdom and occupying, hast thou increased thy power, and because of thy great riches, thy heart is proud.
28:6: Therefore thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} For so much as thou hast lift up thine heart, as though thou were God:
28:7: behold, I will bring enemies upon thee, even the tyrants of the Heathen: These shall draw out their swords upon thy beauty and wisdom, and shall defile thy glory.
28:8: They shall cast thee down to the pit, so that thou shalt die in the middest of the sea,
28:9: as they that be slain. Let see, if thou wilt say then (before them that slay thee) I am God: where as thou art but a man and not God, in the hands of them that slayeth thee.
28:10: Die shalt thou, even as the uncircumcised in the hands of the enemies: for I myself have spoken it, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
28:11: Moreover, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
28:12: Thou son of man, make a lamentable complaint over the king of Tyre, and tell him: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Thou art a seal of a likeness, full of wisdom and excellent beauty.
28:13: Thou hast been in the pleasure garden of God: thou art decked with all manner of precious stones: with Ruby, Topas, Crystal, Jacinth, Onyx, Jaspis, Sapphire, Smaragde, Carbuncle, and gold. Thy beauty and the holes that be in thee were set forth in the day of thy creation.
28:14: Thou art a fair Cherub, stretched wide out for to cover. I have set thee upon the holy mount of God, there hast thou been, and walked among the fair glistering stones.
28:15: From the time of thy creation thou hast been right excellent, till wickedness was found in thee.
28:16: Because of thy great merchandise, thy heart is full of wickedness, and thou hast offended. Therefore will I cast thee from the mount of God (O thou covering Cherub) and destroy thee among the glistering stones.
28:17: Thy heart was proud in thy fair beauty, and thorow thy beauty thou hast destroyed thy wisdom. I will cast thee down to the ground, and that in the sight of kings.
28:18: Thou hast defiled thy Sanctuary, with the great wickedness of thy unrighteous occupying. I will bring a fire from the middest of thee, to consume thee: and will make thee to ashes, in the sight of all them that look upon thee.
28:19: All they that have been acquainted with thee among the Heathen, shall be abashed at thee: seeing thou art so clean brought to naught, and comest no more up.
28:20: And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
28:21: Thou son of man, set thy face against Sidon. Prophesy upon it,
28:22: and speak: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Behold O Sidon, I will upon thee, and get me honour in thee: that it may be known, how that I am the LORD, when I punish her, and get me honour in her.
28:23: For I will send pestilence and blood shedding into her streets, so that those which be slain with the sword, shall lie round about in the middest of her: and they shall know, that I am the LORD.
28:24: She shall no more be a pricking thorn, and an hurting brier unto the house of Israel, nor unto them that lie round about her and hate her: and they shall know, that I am the LORD.
28:25: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} When I gather the household of Israel together again from the nations among whom they be scattered: then shall I be sanctified in them, in the sight of the Gentiles, and they shall dwell in the land, that I gave to my servant Jacob.
28:26: They shall dwell safely therein, build houses, and plant vineyards: Yea safely shall they dwell therein, when I have punished all those, that despise them round about: and then shall they know, that I am the LORD their God.

29:1: In the tenth year, upon the twelfth day of the tenth Month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
29:2: O thou son of man, set now face against Pharaoh the king of Egypt, Prophesy against him and against the whole land of Egypt:
29:3: Speak, and tell him, thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} behold, O Pharaoh thou king of Egypt, I will upon thee, thou great dragon,_{|whall fysh|} that liest in the_|yi| waters: thou that sayest: the water is mine. I have made it myself.
29:4: I will put an hook in thy chaws, and hang all the fish in thy waters upon thy scales; after that I will draw thee out of thy waters, yea and all the fish of the waters that hang upon thy scales.
29:5: I will cast thee out upon the dry land with the fish of thy waters, so that thou shalt lie upon the field. Thou shalt not be gathered nor taken up: but shall be meat for the beasts of the field, and for the fowls of the air:
29:6: that all they which dwell in Egypt, may know, that I am the LORD: because thou hast been a staff of rede to the house of Israel.
29:7: When they took hold of thee with their hand thou breakest and prickest them on every side: and if they leaned upon thee, thou brakest and hurtest the reynes of their backs.
29:8: Therefore, thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and root out of thee both man and beast.
29:9: Yea the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste, and they shall know, that I am the LORD: Because he said: The water is mine, I myself have made it.
29:10: Behold therefore, I will upon thee, and upon thy waters: I will make the land of Egypt waste and desolate, from the tower of Syenes unto the borders of the Morians land:
29:11: so that in forty years there shall no foot of man walk there, neither foot of cattle go there, neither shall it be inhabited.
29:12: I will make the land of Egypt to be desolate, among other waste countries, and her cities to lie void forty years, among other void cities: And I will scatter the Egyptians among the Heathen and nations.
29:13: Again, thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} When the forty years are expired I will gather the Egyptians together again, out of the nations, among whom they were scattered,
29:14: and will bring the prisoners of Egypt again into the land of Pathures their own native country, that they may be there a lowly small kingdom:
29:15: Yea they shall be the smallest among the other kingdoms, lest they exalt themselves above the Heathen, for I will so minish them,
29:16: that they shall no more rule the Heathen. They shall no more be an hope unto the house of Israel, neither provoke them any more to wickedness, to cause them turn back, and follow them: and they shall know, that I am the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
29:17: In the twenty seventh year, the first day of the first Month, came the word of the LORD unto me, saying:
29:18: O thou son of man, Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon hath made his host, with great travail and labour to come before Tyre: that every head may be bald, and every shoulder bare. Yet hath Tyre given neither him nor his host any reward, for the great travail that he hath taken there.
29:19: Therefore thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon, that he may take away all her substance, rob her robberies, and spoil her spoils, to pay his host their wages withal.
29:20: I will give him the land of Egypt for his labour, that he took for me before Tyre._{{For the work which he wrought about it, I have given him the land of Egypt, because they wrought for me, sayth the Lord GOD.}}
29:21: At the same time will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to grow forth, and open thy mouth again among them: that they may know, how that I am the LORD.

30:1: The word of the LORD came moreover unto me, saying:
30:2: thou son of man, prophesy and speak: thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Mourn, woe worth this day,
30:3: for the day is here, the day of the LORD is come: the dark day of the Heathen, the hour is at hand,
30:4: the sword cometh upon Egypt. When the wounded men fall down in Egypt, when her people are taken away, and when her foundations are destroyed,
30:5: the Morians land shall be afraid, yea the Morians land, Libia and Lydia, all their common people, and Chub, and all that be confederate unto them, shall fall with them thorow the sword.
30:6: Thus sayeth the LORD: The maintainers of the land of Egypt shall fall, the pride of her power shall come down: even unto the tower of Syenes shall they be slain down with the sword, sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|}
30:7: among other desolate countries they shall be made desolate, and among other waste cities they shall be wasted.
30:8: And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I kindle a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers are destroyed.
30:9: At that time, shall their messengers go forth from me in ships, to make the careless Moryans afraid, and sorrow shall come upon them in the day of Egypt for doubtless it shall come.
30:10: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} I will make an end of the people of Egypt thorow the hand of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon.
30:11: He and his people with him; Yea and the cruel tyrants of the Heathen shall be brought to destroy the land. They shall draw out their swords upon Egypt and fill the land full of slain men.
30:12: I will dry up their floods of water, and sell the land into the hands of wicked people. The land and all that is therein, will I destroy thorow the enemies. Even I the LORD have said it.
30:13: An thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} I will destroy the Idols, and bring the images of Noph to an end. There shall no more be a prince of Egypt, and a fearfulness will I send into the Egyptians land.
30:14: As for Pathures, I will make it desolate, and kindle a fire in Zoan.
30:15: Alexandria will I punish and pour my wrothful indignation upon Sin which is the strength of Egypt. All the substance of Alexandria will I destroy,
30:16: and kindle a fire in Egypt. Sin shall be in great heaviness, Alexandria shall be rooted out, and Noph shall have daily sorrow.
30:17: The best men of Heliopolis and Bubasto shall be slain with the sword, and carried away captive.
30:18: At Taphnis the day shall be dark, when I break there the scepter of the land of Egypt, and when the pomp of her power shall have an end. A cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall be led away into captivity.
30:19: Thus will I punish Egypt, that they may know, how that I am the LORD.
30:20: It happened in the eleventh year, upon the seventh day of the first Month, that the LORD's word came unto me, saying:
30:21: Behold, thou son of man, I will brake the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt: and lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, neither shall any plaster be laid upon it, for to ease it, or to make it so strong, as to hold a sword.
30:22: Therefore, thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Behold, I will upon Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and bruise his strong arm (yet is it but a broken one) and will smite the sword out of his hand.
30:23: As for the Egyptians, I will scatter them among the Heathen, and strow them in the lands about.
30:24: Again I will strengthen the arm of the king of Babylon, and give him my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arm, so that he shall hold it before him piteously, like a wounded man.
30:25: Yea I will stablish the king of Babylon's arm, and the armies of Pharaoh shall fall down: that it may be known, that I am the LORD, which give the king of Babylon my sword in his hand, that he may draw it out upon the land of Egypt:
30:26: and that when I scatter the Egyptians among the Gentiles, and strow them in the lands about, they may know, that I am the LORD.

31:1: Moreover, it happened in the eleventh year, the first day of the third Month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
31:2: Thou son of man speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to all his people: Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
31:3: Behold, Assur was like a Cedar tree upon the mount of Libanus, with fair branches: so thick, that he gave shadows, and shot out very high. His top reached into the clouds.
31:4: The waters made him great, and the deep set him up on high._{{an hye}} Round about the roots of him ran there floods of water, he sent out his little rivers unto all the trees of the field.
31:5: Therefore was he higher than all the trees of the field, and thorow the multitude of waters that he sent from him, he obtained many and long branches.
31:6: All fowls of the air made their nests in his branches, under his boughs gendered all these beasts of the field and under his shadow dwelt all people.
31:7: Fair and beautiful was he in his greatness and in the length of his branches, for his root stood beside great waters,
31:8: no Cedar tree might hide him. In the pleasant garden of God, there was no fir tree like his branches, the plain trees were not like the boughs_|bowes| of him. All the trees in the garden of God might not be compared unto him in his beauty:
31:9: So fair and goodly had I made him with the multitude of his branches: In so much, that all the trees in the pleasant garden of God, had envy at him.
31:10: Therefore, thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} For so much as he hath lift up himself so high, and stretched his top into the clouds, and seeing his heart is proud in his highness:
31:11: I will deliver him into the hands of the mightiest among the Heathen, which shall root him out. According to his wickedness will I cast him away,
31:12: the enemies shall destroy him, and the mighty men of the Heathen shall so scatter him, that his branches shall lie upon all mountains and in all valleys: his boughs_|bowes| shall be broken down to the ground thorowout the land. Then all the people of the land shall go from his shadow, and forsake him.
31:13: When he is fallen, all the fowls of the air shall sit upon him, and all wild beasts of the field shall go about among his branches:
31:14: so that from henceforth, no tree in the water shall attain to his highness, nor reach his top unto the clouds, neither shall any tree of the water stand so high, as he hath done. For unto death shall they all be delivered under the earth, and go down to the grave, like other men.
31:15: Moreover, thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} In the day when he goeth down to the grave, I will cause a lamentation to be made, I will cover the deep upon him, I will staunch his floods, and the great waters shall be restrained. I shall cause Libanus to be sorrowful for his sake, and all the trees of the field shall be smitten.
31:16: I will make the Heathen shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell, with them that descend into the pit. All the trees of Eden, with all the chosen and best trees of Libanus, yea and all they that are planted upon the waters, shall mourn with him also in the lower habitations:
31:17: for they shall go down to hell with him, unto them that be slain with the sword, which dwelt afore under the shadow of his arm among the Heathen.
31:18: To whom shalt thou be likened, that art so glorious and great, among the trees of Eden? Yet art thou cast down under the earth (among the trees of Eden) where thou must lie among the uncircumcised, with them that be slain with the sword. Even thus is it with Pharaoh and all his people, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}

32:1: In the twelfth year, the first day of the twelfth Month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
32:2: thou son of man, take up a lamentation upon Pharao the king of Egypt, and say unto him: Thou art reputed as a Lion of the Heathen, and as a whalefish in the sea. Thou castest thy waters about thee, thou troublest the waters with thy feet, and stampest in their floods.
32:3: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} I will spread my net over thee, namely, a great multitude of people: these shall drive thee into my yarn,
32:4: for I will cast thee upon the land, I let thee lie upon the field, that all the fowls of the air may sit upon thee: I will give all the beasts of the field enough of thee.
32:5: Thy flesh will I cast upon the hills, and fill the valleys with thy highness.
32:6: I will water the land with the abundance of thy blood even to the mountains, and the valleys shall be full of thee.
32:7: When thou art put out, I will cover the heaven, and make his stars dim. I will spread a cloud over the Sun, and the moon shall not give her light.
32:8: All the lights of heaven will I put out over thee, and bring darkness upon thy land, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
32:9: I will trouble the hearts of many people, when I bring thy destruction among the Heathen and countries, whom thou knowest not.
32:10: Yea I will make many people with their kings so afraid thorow thee, that their hair shall stand up, when I shake my sword at their faces. Suddenly shall they be astonied, every man in himself, at the day of thy fall.
32:11: For thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} the king of Babylon's sword shall come upon thee,
32:12: with the swords of the worthies will I smite down thy people. All they that be mighty among the Gentiles, shall waste the proud pomp of Egypt, and bring down all her people.
32:13: All the cattle also of Egypt will I destroy, that they shall come no more upon the waters: so that neither man's foot nor beasts claw, shall steer them any more.
32:14: Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their floods to run like oil, sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|}
32:15: when I make the land of Egypt desolate, and when the country with all that is therein, shall be laid waste: and when I smite all them which dwell in it, that they may know, that I am the LORD.
32:16: This is the mourning that the daughters of the Heathen shall make: Yea and sorrow and lamentation shall they take up, upon Egypt, and all her people, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
32:17: In the twelfth year, the fifteenth day of the Month, came the word of the LORD unto me, saying:
32:18: Thou son of man. Take up a lamentation upon the people of Egypt, and cast them down, yea and the mighty people of the Heathen also, even with them that dwell beneath: and with them that go down into the grave.
32:19: Down (how fair soever thou be) and lay thee with the uncircumcised.
32:20: Among those that be slain with the sword, shall they lie. The sword is given already, he shall be drawn forth and all his people.
32:21: The mighty worthies and his helpers, that be gone down and lie with the uncircumcised and with them that be slain with the sword: shall speak to him out of the hell.
32:22: Asshur is there also with his company, and their graves round about, which were slain and fell all with the sword,
32:23: whose graves lie beside him in the low pit. His commons are buried round about his grave: all together wounded and slain with the sword, which men afore time brought fear in to the land of the living.
32:24: There is Elam also with all his people, and their graves round about: which all being wounded and slain with the sword, are gone down uncircumcised under the earth, which nevertheless sometime brought fear into the land of the living: for the which they bear their shame, with the other that be gone down to the grave.
32:25: Their burial is given them and all their people, among them that be slain. Their graves are round about all them, which be uncircumcised, and with them that be slain thorow the sword: for seeing that in times past they made the land of the living afraid, they must now bear their own shame, with them that go down to the pit, and lie among them, that be slain.
32:26: There is Mesech also and Tubal, and their people, and their graves round about. These all are among the uncircumcised, and them that be slain with the sword, because afore time they made the land of the living afraid.
32:27: Should not they then lie also among the worthies, and uncircumcised Giants? which with their weapons are gone down to hell: whose swords are laid under their heads, whose wickedness is upon their bones: because that as worthies, they have brought fear in to the land of the living:
32:28: Yea among the uncircumcised shalt thou be destroyed, and sleep with them, that perish thorow the sword.
32:29: There is the land of Edom with her kings and princes also, which with their strength are laid by them that were slain with the sword; Yea among the uncircumcised, and them which are gone down in to the pit.
32:30: Moreover, there be all the princes of the north, with all of the Sidonians, which are gone down to the slain. With their fear and strength they are come to confusion, and lie there uncircumcised, among those that be slain with the sword: and bear their own shame, with them that be gone down to the pit.
32:31: Now when Pharaoh seeth this, he shall be comforted over all his people, that is slain with the sword: both Pharo and all his host, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
32:32: For I have given my fear in the land of the living. But Pharo and all his people shall lie among the uncircumcised, and among them that be slain with the sword, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}

33:1: Again, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
33:2: Thou son of man, Speak to the children of thy people, and tell them: When I send a sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their country, and set him to be their watchman:
33:3: The same man (when he seeth the sword come upon the land) shall blow the trumpet, and warn the people.
33:4: If a man now hear the noise of the trumpet and will not be warned, and the sword come and take him away: his blood shall be upon his own head:
33:5: For he heard the sound of the trumpet, and would not take heed, therefore his blood be upon him. But if he will receive warning, he shall save his life.
33:6: Again, if the watchman see the sword come, and shew it not with the trumpet, so that the people is not warned: if the sword come then, and take any man from among them: the same shall be taken away in his own sin, but his blood will I require of the watchman's hand.
33:7: And now (O thou son of man) I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: that where as thou hearest anything out of my mouth, thou mayest warn them on my behalf.
33:8: If I say unto the wicked: thou wicked, thou shalt surely die: and thou givest him not warning, that he may beware of his ungodly way: then shall the wicked die in his own sin, but his blood will I require of thy hand.
33:9: Nevertheless if thou warn the wicked of his way, to turn from it, where as he yet will not be turned from it, then shall he die because of his sin, but thou hast delivered thy soul.
33:10: Therefore (O thou son of man) speak unto the house of Israel. Yea say thus: Our offenses and sins lie upon us, and we be corrupt in them: how should we then be restored unto life?
33:11: Tell them: As truly as I live, sayeth the Lord GOD,_{|LORDE God|} I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but much rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn you, turn you from your ungodly ways, O ye of the house of Israel. Oh, wherefore will ye die?
33:12: Thou son of man, tell the children of thy people: The righteousness of the righteous shall not save him, whensoever he turneth away unfaithfully: Again, the wickedness of the wicked shall not hurt him, when soever he converteth from his ungodliness. And the righteousness of the righteous, shall not save his life, when soever he sinneth.
33:13: If I say unto the righteous, that he shall surely live, and so he trust to his own righteousness, and do sin: then shall his righteousnesses be no more thought upon, but in the wickedness that he hath done he shall die.
33:14: Again; If I say unto the wicked: Thou shalt surely die: and so he turn from his sins, and do the thing that is lawful and right:
33:15: In so much that the same wicked man giveth the pledge again, restoreth that he had taken away by robbery, walketh in the commandments of life, and doth no wrong: Then shall he surely live, and not die.
33:16: Yea the sins that he hath done, shall never be thought upon: For in so much as he doth now the thing that is lawful and right, he shall live.
33:17: And yet the children of thy people say: Tush, the way of the Lord_|LORDE| is not right, where as their own way is rather unright.
33:18: When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and doeth the thing that is wicked, he shall die therefore.
33:19: But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, doing the thing that is lawful and right, he shall live therefore.
33:20: Yet ye say: The way of the Lord_|LORDE| is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.
33:21: In the twelfth year, the fifth day of the tenth Month of our captivity, it happened, that one which was fled out of Jerusalem, came unto me, and said: the city is destroyed.
33:22: Now the hand of the LORD had been upon me the evening afore this man (which was escaped) came unto me, and had opened my mouth, until the morning that he came to me: yea he opened my mouth, so that I was no more dumb.
33:23: Then the word of the LORD came unto me, said:
33:24: Thou son of man, these that dwell in the wasted land of Israel, say: Abraham was but one man, and he had the land in possession: now are we many, and the land is given us to possess also.
33:25: And therefore tell them: Thus sayeth the LORD: In the blood have ye eaten, your eyes have ye lift up to Idols, and have shed blood: shall ye then have the land in possession?
33:26: Ye lean upon your swords, ye work abominations, every one defileth his neighbour's wife: and shall ye then possess the land?
33:27: Say thou these words unto them: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} As truly as I live, all ye that dwell in this wilderness, shall be slain with the sword: what so ever is upon the field, will I give unto the beasts to be devoured: those that be in strongholds and dens, shall die of the pestilence.
33:28: For I will make the land desolate and waste, and the pomp_|pope| of her strength shall come to an end. The mountains in Israel shall be so waste that no man shall travel thereby.
33:29: Then shall they learn to know, that I am the LORD, when I make the land waste and desolate, because of all their abominations, that they have wrought.
33:30: And thou son of man, the children of thy people that talk of thee, by the walls and in the doors of their houses, saying one to another: Come, let us hear, what word is gone forth from the LORD:
33:31: These come unto thee, after the manner of a great people: yea my people sit down before thee, and hear thy words, but they do not thereafter: for in their mouths they shew themselves, as though they were fervent, but their heart goeth after their own covetous lucre.
33:32: And as a ballet that hath a sweet tune, and is pleasant to sing, so shalt thou be unto them: thy words shall they hear, but they will not do thereafter.
33:33: When this cometh to pass, (for lo, it cometh in deed) then shall they know, that there hath been a prophet among them.

34:1: And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
34:2: Thou son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy and speak unto them: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Woe be unto the shepherds of Israel, that feed themselves. Should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
34:3: Ye have eaten up the fat, ye have clothe you with the wool: the best fed have ye slain, but the flock have ye not nourished.
34:4: The weak have ye not holden up, the sick have ye not healed: the broken have ye not bound together, the outcasts have ye not brought again: the lost have ye not sought, but churlishly and cruelly have ye ruled them.
34:5: Thus are they scattered here and there without a shepherd: yea all the beasts of the field devour them, and they go astray.
34:6: My sheep go wandering upon all mountains, and upon every high hill. Yea they be scattered abroad in all fields, and there is no man, that careth for them, or seeketh after them.
34:7: Therefore O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD.
34:8: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} As truly as I live, for so much as my sheep are robbed, and devoured of all the wild beasts of the field, having no shepherd: and seeing that my shepherds take no regard of my sheep, but feed themselves only, and not my sheep:
34:9: Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O ye shepherds:
34:10: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Behold, I myself will upon the shepherds, and require my sheep from their hands, and make them cease from feeding of my sheep: Yea the shepherds shall feed themselves no more: For I will deliver my sheep out of their mouths, so that they shall not devour them after this.
34:11: For thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Behold, I will look to my sheep myself, and seek them.
34:12: Like as a shepherd among the flock seeketh after the sheep that are scattered abroad, even so will I seek after my sheep, and gather them together out of all places, where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
34:13: I will bring them out from all people, and gather them together out of all lands, I will bring them into their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel, by the rivers, and in all the places of the country.
34:14: I will feed them in right good pastures, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their folds be. There shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed: even upon the mountains of Israel.
34:15: I will feed my sheep myself, and bring them to their rest, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
34:16: Such as be lost, will I seek: such as go astray, will I bring again: such as be wounded, will I bind up: such as be weak, will I make strong, such as be fat and well liking, those will I preserve, and feed them with the thing that is lawful.
34:17: And as for you (O my sheep) sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} I will put a difference among the sheep, among the wethers and the goats.
34:18: Was it not enough for you, to eat up the good pasture, but ye must tread down the residue of your pastures with your feet also? Was it not enough for you to drink clear water, but ye must trouble the residue also with your feet?
34:19: Thus my sheep must be fain to eat the thing, that ye have trodden down with your feet, and to drink it, that ye with your feet have defiled.
34:20: Therefore, thus sayeth the Lord GOD_{|LORDE God|} unto them: Behold, I will sever the fat sheep from the lean:
34:21: for so much as ye have shot the weak sheep upon the sides and shoulders, and run upon them with your horns, so long till ye have utterly scattered them abroad.
34:22: I will help my sheep, so that they shall no more be spoiled: yea I will discern one sheep from another.
34:23: I will raise up to them one only shepherd: even my servant David, he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
34:24: I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David shall be their prince: Even I the LORD have spoken it.
34:25: Moreover, I will make a covenant of peace with them, and drive all evil beasts out of the land: so that they may dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
34:26: Good fortune and prosperity will I give them, and unto all that be round about my hill. A prosperous shewer and rain will I send them in due season,
34:27: that the trees in the wood may bring forth their fruits, and the ground her increase. They shall be safe in their land, and shall know, that I am the LORD; which have broken their yoke, and delivered them out of the hands of those, that held them in subjection.
34:28: They shall no more be spoiled of the Heathen, nor devoured with the beasts of the land: but safely shall they dwell, and no man shall fraye them.
34:29: I will set up an excellent plant for them, so that they shall suffer no more hunger in the land, neither bear the reproof of the Heathen any more.
34:30: Thus shall they understand, that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they (even the house of Israel) are my people, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
34:31: Ye men are my flock, ye are the sheep of my pasture: and I am your God, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}

35:1: Moreover, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
35:2: Thou son of man, turn thy face toward the mount Seir, prophesy upon it,
35:3: and say unto it: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Behold (O thou mount Seir) I will upon thee, I will reach out mine hand over thee, yea waste and desolate will I make thee.
35:4: Thy cities will I break down, and thou shalt lie void: that thou mayest know, how that I am the LORD.
35:5: For so much as thou bearest an old enemy against the children of Israel, and with a cruel hand hast made them afraid, what time as they were troubled and punished for their sin:
35:6: Therefore, as truly as I live, sayeth the Lord GOD,_{|LORDE God|} I will prepare thee unto blood, yea blood shall follow upon thee: seeing thou layest wait for blood, therefore shall blood persecute thee.
35:7: Thus will I make the mount Seir desolate and waste, and bring to pass, that there shall no man go thither, nor come from thence.
35:8: His mountains will I fill with his slain men: thy hills, dales and valleys shall lie full of them, that are slain with the sword.
35:9: I will make thee a perpetual wilderness, so that no man shall dwell in thy cities: that ye may know, how that I am the LORD.
35:10: And because thou hast said: what, both these nations and both these lands must be mine, and I will have them in possession, where as the LORD was there.
35:11: Therefore thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} As truly as I live, I will handle thee according to thy wrath and jealousy, like as thou hast dealt cruelly with them: that I may be known among them, how I have punished thee.
35:12: Yea and that thou also mayest be sure, that I the LORD have heard all thy despiteful words, which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying: Lo, they are made waste, and given us to devour.
35:13: Thus with your mouths ye have made your boost against me, yea and multiplied your proud words against me, which I have heard altogether.
35:14: Where unto, thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} when the whole world is in wealth, then will I make thee waste.
35:15: And like as thou (O mount Seir) wast glad, because the heritage of the house of Israel was destroyed: even so will I do unto thee also, that thou and whole Edom shall be destroyed, and know, that I am the LORD.

36:1: Thou son of man, prophesy_|prophecie| upon the mountains of Israel, and speak: Hear the word of the LORD, O ye mountains of Israel:
36:2: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Because your enemy hath said upon you: Aha, the high everlasting places are now become ours:
36:3: prophesy_|prophecy| therefore, and speak: thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Seeing ye be wasted and trod down on every side, and become a possession unto the residue of the Gentiles, which have brought you into men's mouths and unto an evil name among the people:
36:4: Therefore, hear the word of the Lord GOD,_{|LORDE God|} O ye mountains of Israel: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD_{|LORDE God|} unto the mountains, and hills, valleys and dales, to the void wilderness and desolate cities, which are spoiled, and had in derision on every side, among the residue of the Heathen:
36:5: Yea even thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} In the fire of my jealousy have I taken a device, against the residue of the Gentiles, and against all Edom: which have taken in my land unto themselves for a possession: which also rejoiced from their whole heart with a despiteful stomach, to waste it, and to spoil it.
36:6: Prophesy therefore upon the land of Israel, speak unto the mountains and hills, to valleys and dales, thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Behold, this have I devised in my jealousy and terrible wrath: For so much as yea have suffered reproof of the Heathen,
36:7: therefore thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} I have sworn, that the Gentiles which lie about you, shall bear your confusion themselves.
36:8: And as for you (O mountains of Israel) ye shall shoot out your branches, and bring forth your fruit to my people of Israel, for it is hard by, that it will come.
36:9: Behold, I come unto you, and unto you will I turn me, that ye may be tilled and sown.
36:10: I will send you much people, which shall be all of the house of Israel: the cities shall be inhabited, and the decayed places shall be repaired again.
36:11: I will provide you with much people and cattle, which shall increase and bring fruit. I will restore you also to your old estate, and shew you more kindness than ever ye had before: whereby ye shall know, that I am the LORD.
36:12: Yea people will I send unto you (O my folk of Israell) which shall have thee in possession, and thou shalt be their inheritance, so that thou shalt no more be without them.
36:13: Again, thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} For so much as they say unto you: thou art an eater up of men, and a waster of thy people:
36:14: therefore thou shalt eat no more men; neither destroy thy people any more, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
36:15: And I will not suffer thee, for to hear thine own confusion among the Gentiles from henceforth. Thou shalt not bear the reproof of the nations, nor cast out thine own people any more, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
36:16: Moreover, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
36:17: O thou son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt upon their own ground, they defiled themselves with their own ways and imaginations: so that in my sight their way was like the uncleanness of a menstruous woman.
36:18: Wherefore I poured my wrothfull displeasure upon them, because of the blood that they had shed in the land, and because of their Idols, wherewith they had defiled themselves.
36:19: I scattered them also among the Heathen, so that they were strowed about in the lands. According to their ways and after their own inventions, so did I punish them.
36:20: Now when they were gone unto the Heathen, and come in among them they dishonoured my holy name: so that it was said of them: Are these the people of GOD, and must go out of their own land?
36:21: Then spared I my holy name, which the house of Israel had dishonoured among the Gentiles, to whom they came.
36:22: Therefore tell the house of Israell: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} I do not this for your sakes (O house of Israel) but for my holy name's sake, which ye dishonoured among the Heathen, when ye came to them._{{Thus saith the LORD: I will sanctify my name that is defiled among the heathen. Which ye have defiled among them:}}
36:23: Therefore, I will hallow my great name again, which among the Gentiles is evil spoken of: for ye yourselves have dishonoured it among them. And the Gentiles shall know, that I am the LORD, when I am honoured in you before their eyes, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}_{{that the heathen may know that I am the LORD (saith the Lorde Iehouah) when I am sanctified upon you in their sight.}}
36:24: As for you, I will take you from among the Heathen, and gather you together out of all countries, and bring you again into your own land._{{And I will take you from the heathen, and will gather you out from all lands and will bring you out of your own country.}}
36:25: Then will I pour clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: Yea from all your uncleanness and from all your Idols shall I cleanse you._{{And I will pour pure water upon you, and ye shall be cleansed from all uncleanness, and from all your idols. I will cleanse you.}}
36:26: A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put into you: As for that stoney heart, I will take it out of your body, and give you a fleshly heart._{{And I will give you a new heart, and will put a new spirit in you. And will take away that stony heart out of your flesh, and give you a fleshly heart.}}
36:27: I will give my spirit among you, and cause you to walk in my commandments, to keep my laws, and to fulfill them._{{And I will put my spirit in you, and will make that ye shall walk in mine ordinances and keep my laws and do them.}}
36:28: And so ye shall dwell in the land, that I gave to your forefathers, and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God._{{And ye shall dwell in the land which I gave your fathers. And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.}}
36:29: I will help you out of all your uncleannesses. I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and will let you have no hunger.
36:30: I will multiply the fruits of the trees, and the increase of the field for you, so that ye shall bear no more reproof of hunger among the Heathen.
36:31: Then shall ye remember your own wicked ways, and your imaginations, which were not good: so that ye shall take displeasure at your own selves, by reason of your sins and abominations.
36:32: But I will not do this for your sakes (sayeth the Lord GOD)_{|LORDE God|} be ye sure of it. Therefore, O ye house of Israel, be ashamed of your sins.
36:33: Moreover, thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} what time as I shall cleanse you from all your offenses, then will I make the cities to be occupied again, and will repair the places that be decayed.
36:34: The desolate land shall be builded again, which afore time lay waste in the sight of all them that went by.
36:35: Then shall it be said: this waste land is become like a garden of pleasure, and the void, desolate and broken down cities, are now strong, and fenced again.
36:36: Then the residue of the Heathen that lie round about you, shall know, that I am the LORD, which repair that was broken down, and plant again, that was made waste. Even I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it in deed.
36:37: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} I will yet once be found again of the house of Israel, and do this for them: I shall increase them as a flock of men.
36:38: Like as the holy flock and the flock of Jerusalem are in the high solempne feasts: so shall also the wild wasted cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know, that I am the LORD.

37:1: The hand of the LORD came upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and let me down in a plain field, that lay full of bones,
37:2: and he led me round about by them: and behold, the bones that lay upon the field, were very many, and marvelous dry also.
37:3: Then said he unto me: Thou son of man: thinkest thou these bones may live again? And I answered: O Lord GOD,_{|LORDE God|} thou knowest.
37:4: And he said unto me: Prophesy thou upon these bones, and speak unto them: Ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
37:5: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD_{|LORDE God|} unto these bones: Behold, I will put breath into you, that ye may live:
37:6: I will give yow sinowes, and make flesh grow upon you, and cover you over with skin: and so give you breath, that ye may live, and know, that I am the LORD.
37:7: So I prophesied, as he had commanded me: and as I was prophesying, there came a noise and a great motion, so that the bones ran every one to another.
37:8: Now when I had looked, behold, they had sinews, and flesh grew upon them: and above they were covered with skin, but there was no breath in them.
37:9: Then said he unto me: Thou son of man, prophesy thou toward the wind: prophesy, and speak to the wind: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Come (O thou air) from the four winds, and blow upon these slain, that they may be restored to life.
37:10: So I prophesied, as he had commanded me: then came the breath into them and they received life, and stood up upon their feet, a marvelous great sorte.
37:11: Moreover, he said unto me: Thou son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say: Our bones are dried up, our hope is gone, we are clean cut off.
37:12: Therefore prophesy thou, and speak unto them: thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Behold, I will open your graves (O my people) and take you out of your sepulchers, and bring you into the land of Israel again.
37:13: So shall ye know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves, and bring you out of them.
37:14: My spirit also will I put in you, and ye shall live: I will set you again in your own land, and ye shall know, that I am the LORD which have said it, and fulfilled it in deed.
37:15: The word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
37:16: Thou son of man, take a stick and write upon it: Unto Judah and to the children of Israel his companions. Then take another stick, and write upon it: Unto Joseph the stock of Ephraim, and to all the household of Israel his companions.
37:17: And then take both these together in thine hand, so shall there be one stick thereof.
37:18: Now if the children of thy people say unto thee: wilt thou not shew us, what thou meanest by these?
37:19: Then give them this answer: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} behold, I will take the stock of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them to the stock of Judah, and make them one stock, and they shall be one in my hand.
37:20: And the two sticks where upon thou writest, shalt thou have in thine hand, that they may see,
37:21: and shalt say unto them: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} behold, I will take away the children of Israel from among the Heathen, unto whom they be gone, and will gather them together on every side, and bring them again into their own land:
37:22: Yea I will make one people of them in the land, upon the mountains of Israel, and they all shall have but one king. They shall no more be two peoples from hence forth, neither be devided in to two kingdoms:
37:23: they shall also defile themselves no more with their abominations, Idols, and all their wicked doings. I will help them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned: and will so cleanse them, that they shall be my people, and I their God.
37:24: David my servant shall be their king, and they all shall have one shepherd only. They shall walk in my laws, and my commandments shall they both keep and fulfill.
37:25: They shall dwell in the land, that I gave unto Jacob my servant, where as your fathers also have dwelt. Yea even in the same land shall they, their children, and their children's children dwell for evermore: and my servant David shall be their everlasting prince.
37:26: Moreover, I will make a bond of peace with them, which shall be unto them an everlasting covenant. I will satle them also, and multiply them, my Sanctuary will I set among them for evermore.
37:27: My dwelling shall be with them, yea I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
37:28: Thus the Heathen also shall know, that I the LORD am the holy maker of Israel: when my Sanctuary shall be among them for ever more.

38:1: And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
38:2: Thou son of man, turn thy face toward Gog in the land of Magog, which is the chief prince of Mesech and Tubal: prophesy against him,
38:3: and say: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} O Gog thou chief prince _|of| Mesech and Tubal: behold, I will upon thee,
38:4: and will turn thee about, and put a bit in thy chaws: I will bring thee forth and all thine host, both horse and horsemen, which be all weaponed of the best fashion: a great people, that handle all together spears, shields, and swords:
38:5: The Perses, Moryans, and with them the Lybians which all bear shields and helmets:
38:6: Gomer and all his hosts: the house of Thogorma out of the north quarters, and all his hosts, yea and much people with thee.
38:7: Therefore prepare thee, set thyself in array with all thy people, that are come unto thee by heaps, and be thou their defense.
38:8: After many days thou shalt be visited, and in the latter years thou shalt come into the land, that hath been destroyed with the sword, and now is replenished again with divers people upon the mountains of Israel, which have long lien waste. Yea they be brought out of the nations, and dwell all safe.
38:9: Thou shalt come up like a stormy wether, to cover the land, and as it were a dark cloud: thou with all thine hosts, and a great multitude of people with thee.
38:10: Moreover, thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} At the same time shall many things come into thy mind, so that thou shalt imagine mischief,
38:11: and say: I will up to yonder plain land, seeing they sit at ease, and dwell so safely (for they dwell all without any walls, they have neither bars nor doors)
38:12: to spoil them, to rob them, to lay hand upon their so well inhabited wildernesses: against that people, that is gathered together from among the Heathen, which have gotten cattle and good, and dwell in the middest of the land.
38:13: Then shall Saba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tharsis with all their worthies, say unto thee: Art thou come to rob? Hast thou gathered thy people together, because thou wilt spoil? to take silver and gold: to carry away cattle and goods: and to have a great prey?
38:14: Therefore, O thou son of man, thou shalt prophesy, and say unto Gog: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} In that day thou shalt know, that my people of Israel dwelleth safe:
38:15: and shalth come from thy place out of the north parts: thou and much people with thee, which ride upon horses, whereof there is a great multitude and an innumerable sorte.
38:16: Yea thou shalt come upon my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land. This shall come to pass in the latter days: I will bring thee up into my land, that the Heathen may know me, when I get me honour upon thee; O Gog, before their eyes.
38:17: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Thou art he, of whom I have spoken afore time, by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days and years, that I should bring thee upon them.
38:18: At the same time, when Gog cometh up in to the land of Israel, (sayeth the Lord GOD)_{|LORDE God|} shall my indignation go forth in my wrath.
38:19: For in my jealousy and hot displeasure I have devised, that there shall be a great trouble in the land of Israel at that time.
38:20: The very fishes in the sea, the fowls of the air, the beasts of the field, and all the men that are upon the earth, shall tremble for fear of me. The hills also shall be turned upside down, the stairs of stone shall fall, and all walls shall sink to the ground:
38:21: I will call for a sword upon them in all my mountains, sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} so that every man's sword shall be upon another.
38:22: With pestilence and blood will I punish him: stormy rain and hail stones, fire and brimstone, will I cause to rain upon him and all his heap, yea and upon all that great people that is with him.
38:23: Thus will I be magnified, honoured, and known among the Heathen: that they may be sure, how that I am the LORD.

39:1: Therefore O thou son of man, prophesy_|prophecie| against Gog, and speak: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Behold, O Gog: thou chief prince at Mesech and Tubal, I will upon thee,
39:2: and turn thee about, and carry thee forth, and lead thee from the north parts, and bring thee up to the mountains of Israel.
39:3: As for thy bow, I will smite it out of thy left hand, and cast thine arrows out of thy right hand.
39:4: Thou with all thine heap, and all the people that is with thee, must fall upon the mountains of Israell. Then will I give thee unto the fouls and wild beasts of the field, to be devoured:
39:5: there must thou lie upon the field: for even I the LORD have spoken it, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
39:6: In to Magog, and among those that sit so carelessly in the isles: will I send a fire, and they shall know, that I am the LORD.
39:7: I will make also the name of my holiness to be known among my people of Israel: and I will not let my holy name be evil spoken of any more: but the very Heathen also shall know, that I am the LORD, the holy one of Israel.
39:8: Behold, it cometh, and shall be fulfilled in deed, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|} This is the day whereof I have spoken:
39:9: They that dwell in the cities of Israel, shall go forth and set fire upon the weapons, and burn them: shields and spears, bows and arrows, bills and clubs:
39:10: seven years shall they be burning thereof, so that they shall else bring no sticks from the field, neither have need to hew down any out of the wood: For they shall have weapons now to burn. They shall rob those that robbed them, and spoil those that spoiled them, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
39:11: At the same time will I give unto Gog, a place to be buried in, in Israel: even the valley, where thorow men go from the east to the seaward: Those that travel_|travayle| thereby, shall abhor it. There shall Gog and all his people be buried: and it shall be called the valley of the people of Gog.
39:12: Seven months long shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
39:13: Yea all the people of the land shall bury them. O it shall be a glorious day, when I get me that honour, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
39:14: They shall ordain men also to be dead buryers, ever going thorow the land, and appoint them certain places to bury those in, which remain upon the field, that the land may be cleansed. From end to end shall they seek, and that seven months long.
39:15: Now those that go thorow the land, where they see a man's bone, they shall set up a token by it, till the dead buryers have buried it also, in the valley of the people of Gog.
39:16: And the name of the city shall be called, Hamonah. Thus shall they make the land clean.
39:17: And thou son of man: thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Speak unto all the fouls and every bird, yea and to all the wild beasts of the field: heap you together and come, gather you round about upon my slaughter, that I have slain for you: even a great slaughter upon the mountains of Israel: eat flesh and drink blood.
39:18: Ye shall eat the flesh of the worthies, and drink the blood of the princes of the land: of the wethers, of the lambs, of the goats, and of the oxen that be all slain at Bashan.
39:19: Eat the fat your belly full, and drink blood till ye be drunken of the slaughter, which I have slain unto you.
39:20: Fill you at my table, with horses and strong horsemen: with captains and all men of war, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
39:21: I will bring my glory also among the Gentiles, that all the Heathen may see my judgment, that I have kept, and my hand which I have laid upon them:
39:22: that the house of Israel may know, how that I am the LORD their God, from that day forth.
39:23: And the Heathen shall know, that where as the house of Israel were led into captivity: it was for their wickedness' sake, because they offended me. For the which cause I hid my face from them, and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, that they might all be slain with the sword.
39:24: According to their uncleanness and unfaithful dealings, so have I entreated them, and hid my face from them.
39:25: Therefore thus sayeth the Lord GOD;_{|LORDE God|} Now will I bring again the captives of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and be jealous for my holy name's sake.
39:26: All their confusion and offense that they have done against me, shall be taken away: and so safely shall they dwell in their land, that no man shall make them afraid.
39:27: And when I have brought them again from among the people, when I have gathered them together out of their enemies' lands, and am praised in them before many Heathen:
39:28: then shall they know, that I am the LORD their God, which suffered them to be led into captivity among the Heathen, but now have brought them again into their own land, and not left one of them yonder.
39:29: After that, will I hide my face no more from them, but will pour out my spirit upon the house of Israel, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}

40:1: In the twenty fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, the tenth day of the month: that is the fourteenth year, after that the city was smitten down: the same day came the hand of the LORD upon me, and carried me forth:
40:2: even into the land of Israel brought he me in the visions of God: and set me down upon a marvelous high mountain, where upon there was a building (as it had been of a city) toward the north.
40:3: Thither he carried me, and behold, there was a man, whose similitude was like brass, which had a thread of flax in his hand, and a meterod also. He stood in the door,
40:4: and said unto me: mark well with thine eyes, harken to with thine ears, and fasten it in thine heart, whatsoever I shall shew thee, for to the intent that they might be shewed thee, therefore art thou brought hither. A whatsoever thou seest, thou shalt certify the house of Israel thereof.
40:5: Behold, there was a wall on the outside round about the house: the meterod that he had in his hand, was six cubits long and a span. So he measured the breadth of the building, which was a meterod, and the height also a meterod;
40:6: Then came he unto the east door, and went up the stairs, and measured the posts of the door, whereof every one was a meterod thick. Every chamber was a meterod long and broad:
40:7: between the chambers were five cubits. The post of the door within the porch, was one meterod.
40:8: He measured also the porche of the innermer door which contained a meterod.
40:9: Then measured he the entry of the door, that contained eight cubits, and his pillars two cubits: and this entry stood inward.
40:10: The chambers of the door eastward, were three on every side: alike broad and long. The pillars also that stood of both the sides, were of one measure.
40:11: After this, he measured the wideness of the door, which was ten cubits, and the height of the door thirteen cubits.
40:12: The edge before the chambers was one cubit broad upon both the sides, and the cambers six cubits wide of either side.
40:13: He measured the door from the rigge of one chamber to another, whose wideness was twenty five cubits, and one door stood against another.
40:14: He made pillars also sixty cubits high, round about the court door.
40:15: Before the inward part unto the fore entry of the innermer door, were fifty cubits.
40:16: The chambers and the pillars within, round about unto the door, had side windows: So had the fore entries also, whose windows went round about within. And upon the pillars there stood date trees.
40:17: Then brought he me into the fore court, where as were chambers and paved works, made in the fore court round about: Thirty chambers upon one paved work.
40:18: Now the paved work was a long beside the doors, and that was the lower paved work.
40:19: After this, he measured the breadth from the lower door, unto the innermer court of the outside, which had an hundredth cubits upon the east and the north part.
40:20: And the door in the uttermost_|utmost| court toward the north, measured he after the length and breadth:
40:21: his three chambers also on either side, with his pillars and fore entries: which had even the measure of the first door. His height was fifty cubits, the breadth twenty five cubits:
40:22: his windows and porches with his date trees, had even like measure as the door toward the east: there were seven steps to go up upon, and their porch before them.
40:23: Now the door of the innermer court stood straight over against the door, that was toward the north east. From one door to another, he measured an hundredth cubits.
40:24: After that, he brought me to the south side, where there stood a door toward the south: whose pillars and porches he measured, these had the first measure,
40:25: and with their porches they had windows round about, like the first windows. The height was fifty cubits, the breadth twenty five,
40:26: with steps to go up upon: his porch stood before him, with his pillars and date trees on either side.
40:27: And the door of the innermer court stood toward the south, and he measured from one door to another an hundredth cubits.
40:28: So he brought me in to the innermer court, thorow the door of the south side: which he measured, and it had the measure afore said.
40:29: In like manner, his chambers, pillars, and fore entries, had even the fore said measure also. And he had with his porches round about, windows of fifty cubits high, and twenty five cubits broad.
40:30: The porches round about were twenty five cubits long, and five cubits broad:
40:31: and his porch reached unto the uttermost_|utmost| court: upon his pillars there were date trees, and eight steps to go up upon.
40:32: He brought me also in to the inmost court upon the east side, and measured the door, according to the measure afore said.
40:33: His chambers, pillars, and porches had even the same measure, as they first had: and with his porches he had windows round about. The height was fifty cubits, the breadth twenty five cubits:
40:34: His porches reached unto the uttermost_|utmost| court: his pillars also had date trees on either side, and eight steps to go up upon.
40:35: And he brought me to the north door, and measured it, which also had the foresaid measure.
40:36: His chambers, pillars, and porches had windows round about: whose height was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty five.
40:37: His pillars stood toward the uttermost_|utmost| court, and upon them both were date trees, and eight steps to go up upon.
40:38: There stood a chamber also, whose entrance was at the door pillars, and there the burnt offerings were washed.
40:39: In the door porch, there stood on either side two tables for the slaughtering; to slay the brent offerings, sin offerings, and trespass offerings thereupon.
40:40: And on the out side as men go forth to the north door, there stood two tables.
40:41: Four tables stood on either side of the door, that is eight tables, where upon they slaughtered.
40:42: Four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offerings, of a cubit and a half long and broad, and one cubit high: where upon were laid the vessels and ornaments, which were used to the burnt and the slain offerings, when they were slaughtered.
40:43: And within there were hooks four fingers broad, fastened round about, to hang flesh upon, and upon the tables was laid the offering flesh.
40:44: On the outside of the innermer door were the singers chambers in the inward court beside the North door over against the South. There stood one also, beside the east door northward.
40:45: And he said unto me: This chamber on the South side belongeth to the priests, that keep the habitation:
40:46: and this toward the North, is the priests that wait upon the alter: which be the sons of Sadoch, that do service before the LORD instead of the children of Levi.
40:47: So he measured the fore court, which had in length an hundredth cubits, and as much in breadth by the four corners. Now the altar stood before the house:
40:48: And he brought me to the fore entry of the house, and measured the walls by the entry door: which were five cubits long on either side. The thickness also of the door on either side, was three cubits.
40:49: The length of the porch was twenty cubits, the breadth eleven cubits, and upon steps went men up to it: by the walls also were pillars, on either side one.

41:1: After this he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts: which were of both the sides six cubits thick, according to the wideness of the tabernacle.
41:2: The breadth of the door was ten cubits and the walls of the door on either side five cubits. He measured the length thereof, which contained forty cubits, and the breadth twenty.
41:3: Then went he in, and measured the door posts, which were two cubits thick: but the door it self was six cubits, and the breadth of the door was seven cubits.
41:4: He measured the length and breadth thereof, which were every one twenty cubits, before the temple: And he said unto me: this is the holiest of all.
41:5: He measured also the wall of the house, which was six cubits. The chambers that stood round about the house, were every one four cubits wide,
41:6: and one stood hard upon another, whereof there were thirty three. And there stood posts beneath by the walls round about the house, to bear them up: but in the wall of the house they were not fastened:
41:7: The side chambers were the higher the wider, and had steps thorow them round about the house. Thus was it wider above, that from the lowest men might go to the highest_|hyest| and mid chambers.
41:8: I saw also that the house was very high round about. The foundation of the side chambers was a meterod (that is six cubits) broad.
41:9: The thickness of the side wall without, contained five cubits, and so did the outwall, of the chambers in the house.
41:10: Between the chambers, was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house.
41:11: The chamber doors stood over against the outwall, the one door was toward the north, the other toward the South: and the thickness of the outwall was five cubits round about.
41:12: Now the building that was separated toward the west, was seventy cubits wide: the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length four score cubits and ten.
41:13: So he measured the house which was an hundredth cubits long, and the separated building with the wall were an hundredth cubits long also.
41:14: The wideness before the house and of it that was separated toward the East, was an hundredth cubits.
41:15: And he measured the length of the building before and behind with the chambers upon both the sides: and it contained an hundredth cubits.
41:16: The innermer temple, the porch of the fore court, the side posts, these three had side windows, and pillars round about over against the posts, from the ground up to the windows: The windows themselves were sealed_|syled| over with boards:
41:17: and thus was it above the door, unto the inmost house, and without also: Yea the whole wall on every side both within and without was silled over with great boards.
41:18: There were Cherubins and date trees made also, so that one date tree stood ever betwixt two Cherubins: One Cherub had two faces,
41:19: the face of a man looking aside toward the date tree, and a lions face on the other side. Thus was it made round about in all the house;
41:20: Yea the Cherubins and date trees were made from the ground up above the door, and so stood they also upon the wall of the temple.
41:21: The byposts of the temple were four squared, and the fashion of the Sanctuary was even as it appeared unto me afore in the vision.
41:22: The table was of wood, three cubits high and two cubits long: his corners, the length and the walls were of wood. And he said unto me: This is the table, that shall stand before the LORD.
41:23: The temple and the holiest of all had either of them two doors
41:24: and every door had two little wickettes which were folden in one upon another, on every side two.
41:25: And upon the doors of the temple there were made Cherubins and date trees, like as upon the walls: and a great thick balke of wood was before on the outside of the porch.
41:26: Upon both the sides of the walls of the porch there were made deep windows and date trees, having beams and balkes, like as the house had.

42:1: Then carried he me out into the fore court toward the north, and brought me into the chamber that stood over against the back building northward, which had the length of an hundredth cubits whose door turned toward the north.
42:2: The wideness contained fifty cubits:
42:3: over against the twenty cubits of the innermer court, and against the paved work that was in the fore court. Beside all these three, there stood pillars, one over against another:
42:4: And before this chamber there was a walking place of ten cubits wide, and within was a way of one cubit wide, and their doors toward the north.
42:5: Thus the highest_|hyest| chambers were alway narrower than the lowest and middle most of the building:
42:6: for they bare chamber upon chamber, and stood tree together one upon another not having pillars like the fore court: therefore were they smaller than those beneath and in the middest, to reken from the ground upward.
42:7: The wall without that stood by the chambers toward the utmost court upon the fore side of the chambers, was fifty cubits long:
42:8: for the length of the utmost chambers in the fore court was fifty cubits also: but the length thereof before the temple was an hundredth cubits.
42:9: These chambers had under them an entrance of the east side, where by a man might go into them out of the fore court,
42:10: thorow the thick wall of the fore court toward the east, right over against the separated building.
42:11: Before the same building upon this side there were chambers also which had a way unto them, like as the chambers on the north side of the same length and wideness. Their entrance, fashion and doors were also_|all| of the same manner.
42:12: Yea even like as the other chamber doors were, so were those also of the south side. And before the way toward the singers steps on the east side, there stood a door to go in at.
42:13: Then said he unto me: The chambers toward the north and the south which stand_{stode} before the back building: those be holy habitations, where in the priests that do service before the LORD, must eat the most holy offerings: and there must they lay the most holy offerings: meat offerings, sin offerings and the trespass offerings, for it is an holy place.
42:14: When the priests come therein, they shall not go out in to the fore court: but (seeing they be holy) they shall leave their clothes of their ministration, and put on other garments, when they have any thing to do with the people.
42:15: Now when he had measured all the innermer house, he brought me forth thorow the east port, and measured the same round about.
42:16: He measured the east side with the meterod, which round about contained five hundredth meterods.
42:17: And the north side measured he, which contained round about even so much.
42:18: The other two sides also toward the south
42:19: and the west (which he measured) contained either of them five hundredth meterods.
42:20: So he measured all the four sides where there went a wall round about five hundredth meterods long, and as broad also which separated the holy from the unholy.

43:1: So he brought me to the door, that turneth toward the east.
43:2: Behold, then came the glory of the God of Israel from out of the east, whose voice was like a great noise of waters, and the earth was lightened with his glory.
43:3: His sight to look upon was like the first, that I saw, when I went in, what time as the city should have been destroyed: and like the vision that I saw by the water of Cobar. Then fell I upon my face,
43:4: but the glory of the LORD came into the house thorow the East door.
43:5: So a wind took me up, and brought me into the innermer court: and behold, the house was full of the glory of the LORD.
43:6: I heard one speaking unto me out of the house, and there stood one by me,
43:7: that said unto me: O thou son of man, this rowme is my seat, and the place of my foot steps: where as I will dwell among the children of Israel for evermore: so that the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name: neither they, nor their kings, thorow their whoredom, thorow their high places, and thorow the dead bodies of their kings:
43:8: which have builded their thresholds in manner hard upon my thresholds, and their posts almost at my posts: so that there is but a bare wall betwixt me and them. Thus have they defiled my holy name with their abominations, that they have committed. Wherefore I have destroyed them in my wrath:
43:9: But now they shall put away their whoredom, and the dead bodies of their kings out of my sight, that I may dwell among them for evermore.
43:10: Therefore (O thou son of man) shew thou the household of Israel a temple, that they may be ashamed of their wickedness, and measure themselves an example thereat.
43:11: And when they be ashamed of all their works, then shew them the form and fashion of the temple: the coming in, the going out, all the manner and description thereof, yea all the uses and ordinances of it, that they may keep and fulfill all the fashions and customs thereof.
43:12: This is the description of the house: Above upon the mount round about all the corners, it shall be the holiest of all. Behold, that is the description and fashion of the house.
43:13: This is the measure of the altar (after the true cubit: which is a span longer than another cubit) his bottom in the middest was a cubit long and wide, and the ledge that went round about it, was a span broad. This is the height_|heyth| of the altar:
43:14: from the ground to the lower steps the length is two cubits, and the breadth one cubit: and from the lower steps to the higher are four cubits, and the breadth but one cubit.
43:15: The altar was four cubits high, and from the altar upward stood four horns,
43:16: and it was twelve cubits long and twelve cubits broad, upon the four corners:
43:17: the covering of the altar was fourteen cubits long and broad upon the four corners, and the ledge that went round about, had half a cubit: and the bottom thereof round about one cubit: his steps stood toward the East.
43:18: And he said unto me: Thou son of man, thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} These are the ordinances and laws of the altar, in the day when it is made to offer burnt offerings, and to sprinkle blood there upon.
43:19: To the priests, to the Levites that be of the seed of Sadoch, and tread before me to do me service, sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Unto these give thou a young bullock, for a sin offering:
43:20: and take the blood of him and sprinkle his four horns withal and the four corners of the altar covering, with the ledge that goeth round about: here with shalt thou cleanse it, and reconcile it.
43:21: Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and burn him in a several place without the Sanctuary.
43:22: The next day, take a gootbuck without blemish for a sin offering, to reconcile the altar withal: like as it was reconciled with the bullock.
43:23: Now when thou hast made it clean, then offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish also.
43:24: Offer them before the LORD, and let the priest cast salt thereupon, and give them so unto the LORD for a burnt offering.
43:25: Seven days shalt thou bring, every day a gootbuck. A young bullock, and a ram of the flock (both without blemish) shall they offer.
43:26: Seven days shall they reconcile and cleanse the altar, and offer upon it.
43:27: When these days are expired, then upon the eighth day and so forth, the priests shall offer their burnt offerings and health offerings upon the altar, so will I be merciful unto you, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}

44:1: After this, he brought me again to the outward door of the Sanctuary on the East side, and that was shut.
44:2: Then said the LORD unto me: This door shall be still shut, and not opened for any man to go thorow it, but only for the LORD God of Israel: Yea he shall go thorow it, else shall it be shut still.
44:3: The prince himself shall come thorow it, that he may eat bread before the LORD. At the porch shall he come in, and there shall he go out again.
44:4: Then brought he me to the door, upon the North side of the house. And as I looked about me, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house: and I fell down upon my face.
44:5: So the LORD spake unto me: O thou son of man, fasten this to thine heart, behold, and take diligent heed to all that I will say unto thee, concerning all the ordinances of the LORD and all his laws: ponder well with thine heart the coming in of the house and the going forth of the Sanctuary:
44:6: And tell that obstinate household of Israel: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} O house of Israel: yea have now done enough with all your abominations,
44:7: seeing that ye have brought into my Sanctuary strangers, having uncircumcised hearts, and flesh, where thorow my Sanctuary is defiled, when ye offer me bread, fat, and blood. Thus with all your abominations ye have broken my covenant,
44:8: and not kept the holy ordinances of my Sanctuary, but set keepers of my Sanctuary, even after your own mind.
44:9: Therefore thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Of all the strangers that dwell among the children of Israel, no stranger, (whose heart and flesh is not circumcised) shall come within my Sanctuary:
44:10: No nor_|ner| the Levites that are gone back from me, and have deceived the people of Israel with errors, going after their idols: therefore shall they bear their own wickedness.
44:11: Should they be set and ordained to minister under the doors of the house of my Sanctuary? And to do service in the house: to slay burnt offerings and sacrifices for the people: to stand_{stode} before them, and to serve them:
44:12: seeing the service that they do them, is before their Idols, and cause the house of Israel to stumble thorow wickedness? For the which cause I have plucked out mine hand over them, (sayeth the Lord GOD)_{|LORDE God|} so that now they must bear their own iniquity,
44:13: and not to come nye me, to serve me with their priesthead, in my Sanctuary, and most holiest of all: that they may bear their own shame and abominations, which they have done.
44:14: Should I use them to be porters of the house, and to all the service that is done therein?
44:15: But the Priests the Levites the sons of Sadoch, that kept the holy ordinances of my Sanctuary, when the children of Israel were gone from me: shall come to me, to do me service, to stand before me, and to offer me the fat and the blood, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
44:16: They shall go into my Sanctuary, and tread before my table, to do me service, and to wait upon mine ordinances.
44:17: Now when they go in at the doors of the innermer court: they shall put on linen_|lining| clothes, so that no woolen come upon them, while they do service under the doors of the innermer court, and within.
44:18: They shall have fair linen_|lining| bonnets upon their heads, and linen_|lining| breeches upon their loins, which in their labour they shall not put about them:
44:19: And when they go forth to the people in to the outward court, they shall put off their clothes, wherein they have ministered, and lay them in the habitation of the Sanctuary, and put on other apparel, lest they unhallow the people with their clothes.
44:20: They shall not shave their heads, nor nourish the bush of their hair, but round their heads only.
44:21: All the priests that go in to the inmost court, shall drink no wine.
44:22: They shall marry no widow, neither one that is put from her husband: but a maiden of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow, that hath had a priest before.
44:23: They shall shew my people the difference between the holy and unholy, betwixt the clean and unclean.
44:24: If any discord arise, they shall discern it, and give sentence after my judgements. My solempne feasts, my laws and ordinances shall they keep, and hallow my Sabbaths.
44:25: They shall come at no dead person, to defile themselves (except it be father or mother, son or daughter, brother or sister that hath had yet no husband) in such they may be defiled.
44:26: And when he is cleansed, there shall be reckoned unto him seven days:
44:27: and if he go in to the Sanctuary again to do service, he shall bring a sin offering, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
44:28: They shall have an heritage, yea I myself will be their heritage: else shall ye give them no possession in Israel, for I am their possession.
44:29: The meat offering, sin offering, and trespass offering shall they eat, and every dedicate thing in Israel, shall be theirs.
44:30: The firstlings of all the firstfruits, and all free will offerings shall be the priest's. Ye shall give unto the priest also the firstlings of your dough,_|dow| that God may prosper the residue.
44:31: But no dead carrion shall the priest eat, nor such as is devoured of wild beasts, fouls or cattle.

45:1: When ye divide the land by the lot, ye shall put aside one part for the LORD, to be holy from other lands: namely twenty five thousand meterods long, and ten thousand broad. This shall be holy, as wide as it is round about.
45:2: Of this part there shall belong unto the Sanctuary, five hundredth meterods in all the four corners, and fifty cubits wide round about to the suburbs.
45:3: And from this measure, namely of twenty five thousand meterods long, and ten thousand broad, thou shalt measure, wherein the Sanctuary and the holiest of all may stand.
45:4: The residue of that holy ground shall be the priests, which do service in the Sanctuary of the LORD, and go in before the LORD to serve him, that they may have room to dwell in.
45:5: As for the Sanctuary, it shall stand for itself: and to the Levites that serve in the house, there shall be given twenty habitations, of the twenty five thousand length and ten thousand breadth:
45:6: ye shall give also unto the city a possession of five thousand meterrods broad, and twenty five thousand long, beside the part of the Sanctuary: that shall be for the whole house of Israel.
45:7: Upon both the sides of the Sanctuary's part, and by the city, there shall be given unto the prince, whatsoever lieth over against the city, as far as reacheth westward and eastward: which shall be as long as one part, from the west unto the east.
45:8: This shall be his own land in Israel, that my princes be no more chargeable unto my people. And such as remaineth yet over in the land, shall be given unto the house of Israel according to their tribes.
45:9: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} O ye princes, ye have now oppressed and destroyed enough: now leave off, handle now according to the thing, that is equal and lawful: and thrust out my people no more, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
45:10: Ye shall have a true weight, and a true Ephah, and a true Bath.
45:11: The Ephah and the Bath shall be alike. One Bath shall contain the tenth part of an Homer, and so shall one Ephah do: their measure shall be after the Homer.
45:12: One Sicle maketh twenty Geras. So twenty Sicles, and twenty five and fifteen Sicles make a pound.
45:13: This is the heave offering, that ye shall give to be heaved: namely, the sixteenth part of an Ephah, out of an Homer of wheat: and the sixteenth part of an Ephah, out of an Homer of barley.
45:14: The oil shall be measured with the Bath: even the tenth part of one Bath out of a Cor. Ten baths make one Homer: for one Homer filleth_|maketh| ten Baths.
45:15: And one lamb from two hundredth sheep out of the pasture of Israel, for a meatoffering, burnt offering and health offering, to reconcile them, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
45:16: All the people of the land shall give this heave offering with a free will.
45:17: Again, it shall be the prince's part to offer burnt offerings, meat offerings, and drink offerings unto the LORD, in the holy days, new Moons, Sabbaths, and in all the high feasts of the house of Israel. The sin offering, meat offering, brent offering and health offering shall he give, to reconcile the house of Israel.
45:18: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} The first day of the first month thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the Sanctuary.
45:19: So the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and sprinkle it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the altar, with the door posts of the innermer court.
45:20: And thus shalt thou do also the seventh day of the month, for such as have sinned of ignorance, or being deceived, to reconcile the house withal.
45:21: Upon the fourteenth day of the first month ye shall keep Easter. Seven days shall the feast continue, wherein there shall no sour nor leavened bread be eaten.
45:22: Upon the same day shall the prince give for himself and all the people of the land, a bullock for a sin offering.
45:23: And in the feast of the seven days he shall offer every day a bullock and a ram, that are without blemish, for a burnt offering unto the LORD: and an he goat daily for a sin offering.
45:24: For the meat offerings, he shall give ever an Ephah to a bullock, an Ephah to a ram, and an Hin of oil to an Ephah.
45:25: Upon the fifteenth day of the seventh month, he shall keep the seven days holy one after another, even as the other seven days: with the sin offering, burnt offering, meat offering, and with the oil.

46:1: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} the door of the innermer court toward the East, shall be shut the six working days: but in the Sabbath and in the day of the new Moon, it shall be opened.
46:2: Then shall the prince come under the door porch, and stand still without by the door check. So the priests shall offer up his burnt and health offerings. And he shall worship at the door post, and go his way forth again: but the door shall no more be shut till the evening.
46:3: On the same manner shall the people of the land also do their worship before the LORD, without this door upon the Sabbaths and new Moons.
46:4: This is now the burnt offering, that the prince shall bring unto the LORD upon the Sabbath: six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish,
46:5: and an Ephah for a meatoffering, with the ram. As for the lambs, he may give as many meatofferings to them, as he will, and an Hin of oil to an Ephah.
46:6: In the day of the new month, it shall be a young bullock without blemish, six lambs and a ram also without blemish.
46:7: With the bullock he shall give an Ephah, and with the ram an Ephah also for a meat offering: but to the lambs, what he may come by: And ever an Hin of oil to an Ephah.
46:8: When the prince cometh, he shall go under the door porch, and even there depart forth again.
46:9: But when the people of the land come before the LORD in the high solempne feast, as many as come in by the North door to do worship, shall go out again at the South door. And they that come in at the South door shall go forth again at the North door. There shall none go out at the door where he came in, but shall go forth right over on the other side,
46:10: and the prince shall go in and out among them.
46:11: Upon the solempne and high feast days, this shall be the meat offering: an Ephah to a bullock and an Ephah to a ram, and to the lambs: as many as he will, but ever an Hin of oil to an Ephah.
46:12: Now when the prince bringeth a burntoffering or an healthoffering with a free will unto the LORD, the East door shall be opened unto him, that he may do with his burnt and health offerings, as he doth upon the Sabbath, and when he goeth forth, the door shall be shut after him again.
46:13: He shall daily bring unto the LORD a lamb of a year old without blemish for a burntoffering: this shall he do every morning.
46:14: And for a meatoffering he shall give the sixth part of an Ephah, and the third part of an Hin of oil (to mingle with the cakes) every morning. Yea this shall be a daily meatoffering unto the LORD, for an everlasting ordinance:
46:15: And thus shall the lamb, the meatoffering and oil be given every morning, for a daily burntoffering.
46:16: Moreover, thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, then shall it be his sons' heritage perpetual, that he may possess it.
46:17: But if he will give one of his servants some of his heritage, it shall be his to the free year, and then to return again unto the prince: for his heritage shall be his sons' only.
46:18: The prince also shall take none of the people's inheritance, nor put them from their possession: but to his own sons shall he give his possession, that my people be not scattered abroad, but that every man may have his own.
46:19: And he brought me thorow the entrance at the side of the door to the habitation of the Sanctuary, that belongeth to the priests and stood toward the north, and behold, there was a place upon the west side,
46:20: then said he unto me: This is the place, where the priests shall dight the trespass and sinofferings, and bake the meatofferings: that they need not bear them in to the outward court, and so to unhallow the people.
46:21: So he brought me into the utmost court, round about all the four corners. Behold, in every corner of the fore court, there was yet a little court.
46:22: Yea in all the four corners of the court, there was made a little court of forty cubits long, and thirty broad: these four little courts were of one like measure,
46:23: and there went a rigge wall round about them all four, under the which there were hearths made round about.
46:24: Then said he unto me: This is the kitchen, where the ministers of the house shall dight the slain offerings of the people.

47:1: After this he brought me again before the door of the house: and behold, there gushed out waters from under the posts of the house eastward (for the house stood toward the east) that ran down upon the right side of the house, which lieth to the altar southward.
47:2: Then carried he me out to the north door, and brought me forth there round about by the utmost door that turneth east ward. Behold, there came forth the water upon the right side.
47:3: Now when the man that had the meterod in his hand went _|out| unto the east door, he measured a thousand cubits, and then he brought me thorow the water, even to the ankles:
47:4: so he measured yet a thousand, and brought me thorow the water again unto the knees: yet measured he a thousand, and brought me thorow the waters unto the loins.
47:5: After this he measured a thousand again, then was it such a river, that I might not wade thorow it: The water was so deep, that it was needful to have swimmed, for it might not be waded over.
47:6: And he said unto me: hast thou seen this, O thou son of man? And with that, he brought me to the river bank again.
47:7: Now when I came there, there stood many trees upon either side of the river bank.
47:8: Then said he unto me: This water that floweth out toward the East, and runneth down into the plain field, cometh into the sea: and from the sea it runneth out, and maketh the waters whole.
47:9: Yea all that live and move, where unto this river cometh, shall recover. And where this water cometh, there shall be much_|many| fish; For all that cometh to this water, shall be lusty and whole.
47:10: By this river shall the fishers stand from Engadi unto En Eglaim, and there spread out their nets: for there shall be great heaps of fish, like as in the main sea.
47:11: As for his clay and pits, they shall not be whole, for why, it shall be occupied for salt.
47:12: By this river upon both the sides of the shore, there shall grow all manner of fruitful trees, whose leaves shall not fall off, neither shall their fruit perish: but ever be ripe at their months, for their water runneth out of the Sanctuary. His fruit is good to eat, and his leaf profitable for medicine.
47:13: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Let this be the border, wherein ye shall divide the land unto the twelve tribes of Israel, with the line.
47:14: Part it indifferently unto one as unto another: of the which land I swore unto your fathers, that it should fall to your inheritance.
47:15: This is the border of the land upon the north side, from the main sea, as men go to Zadada:
47:16: namely Hemath, Berotha, Sabarim: from the borders of Damascus and Hemath unto Hazar Tichon, and that lieth upon the coasts of Haueran.
47:17: Thus the borders from the sea forth, shall be Hazar Euan, the border of Damascus the North, and the borders of Hemath. That is the north part.
47:18: The east side shall ye measure from Haueran and Damascus, from Gilead and the land of Israel by Jordan and so forth, from the sea coast, that lieth eastward. And this is the East part.
47:19: The south side is, from Thamar forth to the waters of strife unto Cades, the river, to the main sea: and that is the south part.
47:20: The west part: namely the great sea from the borders thereof, till a man come unto Hemath: this is the west part.
47:21: This land shall ye part among you, according to the tribes of Israel,
47:22: and divide it to be an heritage for you, and for the strangers that dwell among you, and begotten children. For ye shall take them among the children of Israel, like as though they were of your own household and country, and they shall have heritage with you among the children of Israel.
47:23: Look in what tribe the stranger dwelleth, in the same tribe shall ye give him his heritage, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}

48:1: These are the names of the tribes that lie upon the north side, by the way of Hetlon, till thou comest unto Hemath and Hazar Enam, the borders of Damascus toward the north beside Hamath: Dan shall have his portion from the east quarter unto the west.
48:2: Upon the borders of Dan from the east side unto the west, shall Asser have his portion.
48:3: Upon the borders of Asher from the east part unto the west shall Nephthali have his portion.
48:4: Upon the borders of Nephthali from the east quarter unto the west, shall Manasses have his portion.
48:5: Upon the borders of Manasses from the east side unto the west, shall Ephraim have his portion.
48:6: Upon the borders of Ephraim from the east part unto the west, shall Ruben have his portion.
48:7: Upon the borders of Reuben from the east quarter unto the west shall Judah have his portion.
48:8: Upon the borders of Judah from the east part unto the west, ye shall set a side one portion of twenty five thousand meterods long and broad (like as another portion from the east side unto the west) wherein the Sanctuary shall stand._{stode}
48:9: As for the portion, that ye shall separate out for the LORD, it shall be twenty five thousand meterods long, and ten thousand broad.
48:10: Which separated holy portion shall belong unto these: namely to the priests, toward the north twenty five thousand and toward the west ten thousand broad, toward the east ten thousand broad also, and toward south twenty five thousand long, wherein the Sanctuary of the LORD shall stand.
48:11: Yea this same place shall be the priests, that are of the children of Sadock, and have kept my holy ordinance: which went not astray in the error of the children of Israel, like as the Levites are gone astray:
48:12: and this separated piece that they have of the land, shall be the most holy, hard upon the borders of the Levites.
48:13: And next unto the priests, shall the Levites have twenty five thousand long, and ten thousand broad. This shall be on every side twenty five thousand long, and ten thousand broad.
48:14: Of this portion they shall sell nothing, nor make any permutation there of, lest the chief of the land fall unto other, for it is hallowed unto the LORD.
48:15: The other five thousand after the breadth that lieth by the twenty five thousand shall be common: it shall belong to the city and to the suburbs for habitations, and the city shall stand in the middest thereof.
48:16: Let this be the measure: toward the north part five hundredth and four thousand toward the south part five hundredth and four thousand, toward the east part five hundredth and four thousand, toward the west part five hundredth and four thousand.
48:17: The suburbs hard upon the city, shall have toward the north fifty and two hundredth, and toward the south fifty and two hundredth, and toward the east fifty and two hundredth, and toward the west also fifty and two hundredth.
48:18: As for the residue of the length, that lieth hard upon the separated holy ground: namely ten thousand toward the east, and ten thousand toward the west, next unto the holy portion: it and the increase thereof shall serve for their meat, that labour in the city.
48:19: They that labour for the wealth of the city, shall maintain this also, out of what tribe soever they be in Israel.
48:20: All that is separated of the twenty five thousand long and twenty five thousand broad on the four parts, that shall ye put aside for the separated portion of the Sanctuary, and for the possession of the city.
48:21: The residue upon both the sides of the Sanctuary and possession of the city, shall belong to the prince, before the place of the twenty five thousand unto the east end, and before the place of the twenty five thousand westward, unto the borders of the city: this shall be the princes portion. This shall be the holy place, and the house of the Sanctuary shall stand in the middest.
48:22: Moreover, from the Levites and the cities possession, that lie in the middest of the princes part: look what remaineth betwixt the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, it shall be the prince's.
48:23: Now of the other tribes. From the east part unto the west, shall Benjamin have his portion.
48:24: Upon the borders of Benjamin from the east side unto the west, shall Simeon have his portion.
48:25: Upon the borders of Simeon from the east part unto the west, shall Izakar have his portion.
48:26: Upon the borders of Izakar from the east side unto the west, shall Sabulon have his portion.
48:27: Upon the borders of Sabulon from the east part unto the west, shall Gad have his portion.
48:28: Upon the borders of Gad southward, the coasts shall reach from Thamar forth unto the waters of strife to Cades, and to the flood, even to the main sea.
48:29: This is the land with his portions, which ye shall distribute unto the tribes of Israel, sayeth the Lord GOD._{|LORDE God|}
48:30: Thus wide shall the city reach: upon the north part five hundredth and four thousand measures.
48:31: The ports of the city, shall have the names of the tribes of Israel. Three ports of the north side: one Ruben, another Judah, the third Levi.
48:32: Upon the east side five hundredth and four thousand measures, with three ports: the one Joseph, another Benjamin, the third Dan.
48:33: Upon the south side five hundredth and four thousand measures, with three ports: the one Simeon, another Izakar, the third Sabulon.
48:34: And upon the west side five hundredth and four thousand measures, with three ports also, the one Gad, another Asser, the third Nephthali.
48:35: Thus shall it have eighteen thousand measures round about. And from that time forth, the name of the city shall be: the LORD is there.

The ende of the Prophecye of Ezechiel.