Bible Reading December 2, 3, 4 (World English Bible)
Ezekiel
21-24
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21:1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
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21:2 Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop your
word toward the sanctuaries, and
prophesy against the land of Israel;
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21:3 and tell the land of Israel, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I am
against you, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will
cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.
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21:4 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the
wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against
all flesh from the south to the north:
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21:5 and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, have drawn forth my
sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.
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21:6 Sigh therefore, you son of man; with the breaking of your
thighs and with bitterness you will sigh before their eyes.
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21:7 It shall be, when they tell you, Why do you sigh? that you
shall say, Because of the news, for it comes; and every heart shall
melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint,
and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it comes, and it shall
be done, says the Lord Yahweh.
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21:8 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
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21:9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh: Say, A sword,
a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished;
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21:10 it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished
that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my
son, it condemns every tree.
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21:11 It is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the
sword, it is sharpened, yes, it is furbished, to give it into the
hand of the killer.
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21:12 Cry and wail, son of man; for it is on my people, it is on all
the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with my
people; strike therefore on your thigh.
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21:13 For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that condemns
shall be no more? says the Lord Yahweh.
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21:14 You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands
together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of
the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one who is deadly
wounded, which enters into their chambers.
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21:15 I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that
their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied: ah! it is
made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter.
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21:16 Gather you together, go to the right, set yourself in array,
go to the left, wherever your face is set.
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21:17 I will also strike my hands together, and I will cause my
wrath to rest: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
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21:18 The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying,
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21:19 Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the
king of Babylon may come; they both shall come forth out of one land:
and mark out a place, mark it out at the head of the way to the city.
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21:20 You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the
children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.
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21:21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at
the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows back
and forth, he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver.
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21:22 In his right hand was the divination for
Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter,
to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the
gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.
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21:23 It shall be to them as a false divination in their sight, who
have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they
may be taken.
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21:24 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have made
your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are
uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because
you have come to memory, you shall be taken with the hand.
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21:25 You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose
day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,
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21:26 thus says the Lord Yahweh: Remove the turban, and take off the
crown; this shall be
no more the same; exalt that which is low, and abase that which is
high.
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21:27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: this also shall be no
more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
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21:28 You, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh
concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and
say you, A sword, a sword is drawn, for the slaughter it is
furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;
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21:29 while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies
to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded,
whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end.
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21:30 Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you
were created, in the land of your birth, will I judge you.
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21:31 I will pour out my indignation on you; I will blow on you with
the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand of brutish
men, skillful to destroy.
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21:32 You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the
midst of the land; you shall be no more remembered: for I, Yahweh,
have spoken it.
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22:1 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
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22:2 You, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody
city? then cause her to know all her abominations.
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22:3 You shall say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A city that sheds
blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes
idols against herself to defile her!
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22:4 You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and
are defiled in your idols which you have made; and you have caused
your days to draw near, and are come even to your years: therefore
have I made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the
countries.
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22:5 Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock
you, you infamous one and
full of tumult.
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22:6 Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power,
have been in you to shed blood.
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22:7 In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst
of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have
they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
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22:8 You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my
Sabbaths.
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22:9 Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you they
have eaten on the mountains: in the midst of you they have committed
lewdness.
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22:10 In you have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in you
have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.
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22:11 One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and
another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you
has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
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22:12 In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken
interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors
by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh.
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22:13 Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest
gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the
midst of you.
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22:14 Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the
days that I shall deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will
do it.
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22:15 I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through
the countries; and I will consume your filthiness out of you.
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22:16 You shall be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the
nations; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
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22:17 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
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22:18 Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all of
them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the
furnace; they are the dross of silver.
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22:19 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you are all
become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of
Jerusalem.
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22:20 As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into
the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so will
I gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there,
and melt you.
Eze
22:21 Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my
wrath, and you shall be melted in its midst.
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22:22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so you will
be melted in its midst; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have poured
out my wrath on you.
Eze
22:23 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
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22:24 Son of man, tell her, You are a land that is not cleansed, nor
rained on in the day of indignation.
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22:25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in its midst, like a
roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take
treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in its
midst.
Eze
22:26 Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my
holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the
common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean
and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am
profaned among them.
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22:27 Her princes in its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to
shed blood, and
to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
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22:28 Her prophets have daubed for them with whitewash, seeing false
visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord
Yahweh, when Yahweh has not spoken.
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22:29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised
robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have
oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.
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22:30 I sought for a man among them, who should build up the wall,
and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not
destroy it; but I found none.
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22:31 Therefore have I poured out my indignation on them; I have
consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I brought
on their heads, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
23:1 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
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23:2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
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23:3 and they played the prostitute in Egypt; they played the
prostitute in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and
there was handled the bosom of their virginity.
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23:4 The names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her
sister: and they became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As
for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.
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23:5 Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine; and she doted
on her lovers, on the Assyrians her
neighbors,
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23:6 who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them
desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
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23:7 She bestowed her prostitution on them, the choicest men of
Assyria all of them; and on whoever she doted, with all their idols
she defiled herself.
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23:8 Neither has she left her prostitution since the
days of Egypt; for in her youth they lay
with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they
poured out their prostitution on her.
Eze
23:9 Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the
hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.
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23:10 These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her
daughters; and her they killed with the sword: and she became a
byword among women; for they executed judgments on her.
Eze
23:11 Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her
doting than she, and in her prostitution which were more than the
prostitution of her sister.
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23:12 She doted on the Assyrians, governors and rulers, her
neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of
them desirable young men.
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23:13 I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way.
Eze
23:14 She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on
the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,
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23:15 girded with girdles on their waists, with flowing turbans on
their heads, all of them princes to look on, after the likeness of
the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.
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23:16 As soon as she saw them she doted on them, and sent messengers
to them into Chaldea.
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23:17 The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they
defiled her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them,
and her soul was alienated from them.
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23:18 So she uncovered her prostitution, and uncovered her
nakedness: then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was
alienated from her sister.
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23:19 Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of
her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of
Egypt.
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23:20 She doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of
donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
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23:21 Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the
handling of your bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of your
youth.
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23:22 Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will
raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated,
and I will bring them against you on every side:
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23:23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa,
and all the
Assyrians with them; desirable young men, governors and rulers all of
them, princes and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.
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23:24 They shall come against you with weapons, chariots, and
wagons, and with a company of peoples; they shall set themselves
against you with buckler and shield and helmet all around; and I will
commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to
their judgments.
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23:25 I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal with
you in fury; they shall take away your nose and your ears; and your
residue shall fall by the sword: they shall take your sons and your
daughters; and your residue shall be devoured by the fire.
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23:26 They shall also strip you of your clothes, and take away your
beautiful jewels.
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23:27 Thus will I make your lewdness to cease from you, and your
prostitution brought
from the land of Egypt; so that you shall not lift up your eyes to
them, nor remember Egypt any more.
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23:28 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will deliver you into
the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of them from whom your
soul is alienated;
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23:29 and they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take away
all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare; and the nakedness
of your prostitution shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your
prostitution.
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23:30 These things shall be done to you, because you have played the
prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted with their
idols.
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23:31 You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore will I
give her cup into your hand.
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23:32 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You will drink of your sister's
cup, which is deep and large; you will be ridiculed and held in
derision; it contains much.
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23:33 You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup
of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.
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23:34 You shall even drink it and drain it out, and you shall gnaw
the broken pieces of it, and shall tear your breasts; for I have
spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.
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23:35 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have
forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore bear you also
your lewdness and your prostitution.
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23:36 Yahweh said moreover to me: Son of man, will you judge Oholah
and Oholibah? then declare to them their abominations.
Eze
23:37 For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands;
and with their idols have they committed adultery; and they have also
caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the
fire to them to be devoured.
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23:38 Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my
sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
Eze
23:39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then
they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold,
thus have they done in the midst of my house.
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23:40 Furthermore you have sent for men who come from far, to whom a
messenger was sent, and behold, they came; for whom you did wash
yourself, paint your eyes, and deck yourself with ornaments,
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23:41 and sit on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it,
whereupon you did set my incense and my oil.
Eze
23:42 The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with
men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness;
and they put bracelets on the hands of them twain,
and beautiful crowns on their heads.
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23:43 Then said I of her who was old in adulteries, Now will they
play the prostitute with her, and she with
them.
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23:44 They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute: so went
they in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.
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23:45 Righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of
adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood; because
they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
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23:46 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will bring up a company
against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and
robbed.
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23:47 The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them
with their swords; they shall kill their sons and their daughters,
and burn up their houses with fire.
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23:48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all
women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
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23:49 They shall recompense your lewdness on you, and you shall bear
the sins of your idols; and you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
24:1 Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day
of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
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24:2 Son of man, write you the name of the day, even
of this same day: the king of Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this
same day.
Eze
24:3 Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, Thus
says the Lord Yahweh, Set on the caldron, set it on, and also pour
water into it:
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24:4 gather its pieces into it, even every good piece, the thigh,
and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
Eze
24:5 Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile of
wood for the bones under the
caldron; make it boil well; yes, let its
bones be boiled in its midst.
Eze
24:6 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city, to
the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of
it! take out of it piece after piece; No lot is fallen on it.
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24:7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare
rock; she didn't pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.
Eze
24:8 That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have
set her blood on the bare rock, that it should not be covered.
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24:9 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city! I
also will make the pile great.
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24:10 Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh, and
make thick the broth, and let the bones be burned.
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24:11 Then set it empty on its coals, that it may be hot, and its
brass may burn, and that its filthiness may be molten in it, that its
rust may be consumed.
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24:12 She has wearied herself
with toil; yet her great rust doesn't go forth out of her; her rust
doesn't go forth
by fire.
Eze
24:13 In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you
and you weren't cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your
filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.
Eze
24:14 I, Yahweh, have spoken it: it shall happen, and I will do it:
I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent;
according to your ways, and according to your doings, shall they
judge you, says the Lord Yahweh.
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24:15 Also the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
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24:16 Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your
eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither
shall your tears run down.
Eze
24:17 Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind your
headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet, and don't cover
your lips, and don't eat men's bread.
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24:18 So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at even my wife
died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
Eze
24:19 The people said to me, Won't you tell us what these things are
to us, that you do so?
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24:20 Then I said to them, The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
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24:21 Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the
desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons
and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.
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24:22 You shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips,
nor eat the bread of men.
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24:23 Your tires shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your
feet: you shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away in your
iniquities, and moan one toward another.
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24:24 Thus shall Ezekiel be to you a sign; according to all that he
has done you will do: when this comes, then you will know that I am
the Lord Yahweh.
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24:25 You, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from
them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their
eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their
daughters,
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24:26 that in that day he who escapes shall come to you, to cause
you to hear it with your ears?
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24:27 In that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped,
and you shall speak, and be no more mute: so you will be a sign to
them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
Ezekiel
25-28
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25:1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
25:2 Son of man, set your face toward the children of Ammon, and
prophesy against them:
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25:3 and tell the children of Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord
Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because you said, Aha, against my
sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when
it was made desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went
into captivity:
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25:4 therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of the
east for a possession, and they shall set their encampments in you,
and make their dwellings in you; they shall eat your fruit, and they
shall drink your milk.
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25:5 I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of
Ammon a resting place for flocks: and you shall know that I am
Yahweh.
Eze
25:6 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have clapped your
hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the despite
of your soul against the land of Israel;
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25:7 therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand on you, and
will deliver you for a spoil to the nations; and I will cut you off
from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish out of the
countries: I will destroy you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
25:8 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because Moab and Seir say, Behold,
the house of Judah is like all the nations;
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25:9 therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the
cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the
country, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim,
Eze
25:10 to the children of the east, to
go against the children of Ammon; and I
will give them for a possession, that the children of Ammon may not
be remembered among the nations.
Eze
25:11 and I will execute judgments on Moab; and they shall know that
I am Yahweh.
Eze
25:12 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because Edom has dealt against the
house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and
revenged himself on them;
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25:13 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, I will stretch out my
hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it; and I will
make it desolate from Teman; even to Dedan shall they fall by the
sword.
Eze
25:14 I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people
Israel; and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according
to my wrath; and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
25:15 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the Philistines have dealt
by revenge, and have taken vengeance with despite of soul to destroy
with perpetual enmity;
Eze
25:16 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will stretch
out my hand on the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites,
and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
Eze
25:17 I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my vengeance
on them.
Eze
26:1 It happened in the eleventh year, in the first day
of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
26:2 Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she
is broken: the gate of the peoples; she is turned to me; I shall be
replenished, now that she is laid waste:
Eze
26:3 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I am against you,
Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea
causes its waves to come up.
Eze
26:4 They shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her
towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare
rock.
Eze
26:5 She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of
the sea; for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh; and she shall
become a spoil to the nations.
Eze
26:6 Her daughters who are in the field shall be slain with the
sword: and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
26:7 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will bring on Tyre
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with
horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and a company, and much
people.
Eze
26:8 He shall kill with the sword your daughters in the field; and
he shall make forts against you, and cast up a mound against you, and
raise up the buckler against you.
Eze
26:9 He shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with
his axes he shall break down your towers.
Eze
26:10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall
cover you: your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and
of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into your
gates, as men enter into a city in which is made a breach.
Eze
26:11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all your
streets; he shall kill your people with the sword; and the pillars of
your strength shall go down to the ground.
Eze
26:12 They shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of
your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy
your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber
and your dust in the midst of the waters.
Eze
26:13 I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound
of your harps shall be no more heard.
Eze
26:14 I will make you a bare rock; you shall be a place for the
spreading of nets; you shall be built no more: for I Yahweh have
spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
26:15 Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Tyre: shall not the islands shake
at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter
is made in the midst of you?
Eze
26:16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their
thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered
garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit
on the ground, and shall tremble every moment, and be astonished at
you.
Eze
26:17 They shall take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, How
are you destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned
city, who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused
their terror to be on all who lived there!
Eze
26:18 Now shall the islands tremble in the day of your fall; yes,
the islands that are in the sea shall be dismayed at your departure.
Eze
26:19 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall make you a
desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall
bring up the deep on you, and the great waters shall cover you;
Eze
26:20 then will I bring you down with those who descend into the
pit, to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the
lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old,
with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I
will set glory in the land of the living:
Eze
26:21 I will make you a terror, and you shall no more have any
being; though you are sought for, yet you will never be found again,
says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
27:1 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
Eze
27:2 You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;
Eze
27:3 and tell Tyre, you who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are
the merchant of the peoples to many islands, thus says the Lord
Yahweh: You, Tyre, have said, I am perfect in beauty.
Eze
27:4 Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have
perfected your beauty.
Eze
27:5 They have made all your planks of fir trees from Senir; they
have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.
Eze
27:6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars; they have made
your benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood, from the islands of Kittim.
Eze
27:7 Of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was your sail,
that it might be to you for a banner; blue and purple from the
islands of Elishah was your awning.
Eze
27:8 The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers: your wise
men, Tyre, were in you, they were your pilots.
Eze
27:9 The old men of Gebal and the wise men of it were in you your
repairers of ship seams: all the ships of the sea with their mariners
were in you to deal in your merchandise.
Eze
27:10 Persia and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war:
they hanged the shield and helmet in you; they set forth your
comeliness.
Eze
27:11 The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls all around,
and valorous men were in your towers; they hanged their shields on
your walls all around; they have perfected your beauty.
Eze
27:12 Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all
kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for
your wares.
Eze
27:13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traffickers; they
traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for your merchandise.
Eze
27:14 They of the house of Togarmah traded for your wares with
horses and war horses and mules.
Eze
27:15 The men of Dedan were your traffickers; many islands were the
market of your hand: they brought you in exchange horns of ivory and
ebony.
Eze
27:16 Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your
handiworks: they traded for your wares with emeralds, purple, and
embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies.
Eze
27:17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were your traffickers:
they traded for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, and confections,
and honey, and oil, and balm.
Eze
27:18 Damascus was your merchant for the multitude of your
handiworks, by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with
the wine of Helbon, and white wool.
Eze
27:19 Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares: bright iron,
cassia, and calamus, were among your merchandise.
Eze
27:20 Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths for riding.
Eze
27:21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they were the merchants
of your hand; in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were they your
merchants.
Eze
27:22 The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were your
traffickers; they traded for your wares with the chief of all spices,
and with all precious stones, and gold.
Eze
27:23 Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur
and
Chilmad, were your traffickers.
Eze
27:24 These were your traffickers in choice wares, in wrappings of
blue and embroidered work, and in chests of rich clothing, bound with
cords and made of cedar, among your merchandise.
Eze
27:25 The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise:
and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the
seas.
Eze
27:26 Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind
has broken you in the heart of the seas.
Eze
27:27 Your riches, and your wares, your merchandise, your mariners,
and your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, and the dealers in
your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, with all
your company which is in the midst of you, shall fall into the heart
of the seas in the day of your ruin.
Eze
27:28 At the sound of the cry of your pilots the suburbs shall
shake.
Eze
27:29 All who handled the oar, the mariners, and
all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they
shall stand on the land,
Eze
27:30 and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall
cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads, they shall
wallow themselves in the ashes:
Eze
27:31 and they shall make themselves bald for you, and gird them
with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you in bitterness of soul
with bitter mourning.
Eze
27:32 In their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and
lament over you, saying,
Who is there like Tyre, like her who is brought to silence in the
midst of the sea?
Eze
27:33 When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filled many
peoples; you did enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of
your riches and of your merchandise.
Eze
27:34 In the time that you were broken by the seas in the depths of
the waters, your merchandise and all your company did fall in the
midst of you.
Eze
27:35 All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you, and
their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their face.
Eze
27:36 The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you are become a
terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.
Eze
28:1 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
Eze
28:2 Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit
in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are man, and
not God, though you did set your heart as the heart of God--
Eze
28:3 behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is
hidden from you;
Eze
28:4 by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten you
riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;
Eze
28:5 by your great wisdom and
by your traffic have you increased your riches, and your heart is
lifted up because of your riches--
Eze
28:6 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have set your
heart as the heart of God,
Eze
28:7 therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible
of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty
of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness.
Eze
28:8 They shall bring you down to the pit; and you shall die the
death of those who are slain, in the heart of the seas.
Eze
28:9 Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am God? but you
are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.
Eze
28:10 You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of
strangers: for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
28:11 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
28:12 Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and
tell him, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You seal up the sum, full of
wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
Eze
28:13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone
adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper,
sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes
was in you. In the day that you were created they were prepared.
Eze
28:14 You were the anointed cherub who covers: and I set you, so
that you were on the holy mountain of
God; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
Eze
28:15 You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were
created, until unrighteousness was found in you.
Eze
28:16 By the abundance of your traffic they filled the midst of you
with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I have cast you as
profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you,
covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
Eze
28:17 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have
corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I have cast you
to the ground; I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.
Eze
28:18 By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of
your traffic, you have profaned your sanctuaries; therefore have I
brought forth a fire from the midst of you; it has devoured you, and
I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who
see you.
Eze
28:19 All those who know you among the peoples shall be astonished
at you: you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any
being.
Eze
28:20 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
28:21 Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against
it,
Eze
28:22 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you,
Sidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of you; and they shall
know that I am Yahweh, when I shall have executed judgments in her,
and shall be sanctified in her.
Eze
28:23 For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her
streets; and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with the
sword on her on every side; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
28:24 There shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of
Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are around them, that did
despite to them; and they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
28:25 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall have gathered the
house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and
shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then shall
they dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob.
Eze
28:26 They shall dwell securely therein; yes, they shall build
houses, and plant vineyards, and shall dwell securely, when I have
executed judgments on all those who do them despite all around them;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh their God.
Ezekiel
29-32
Eze
29:1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of
the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
29:2 "Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.
Eze
29:3 Speak and say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Behold, I am
against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in
the midst of his rivers, that has said, 'My river is my own, and I
have made it for myself.'
Eze
29:4 I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your
rivers stick to your scales; and I will bring you up out of the midst
of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your
scales.
Eze
29:5 I'll cast you forth into the wilderness, you and all the fish
of your rivers. You'll fall on the open field. You won't be brought
together, nor gathered. I have given you for food to the animals of
the earth and to the birds of the sky.
Eze
29:6 All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh,
because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
Eze
29:7 When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore
all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you broke, and
paralyzed all of their thighs."
Eze
29:8 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Behold, I will bring
a sword on you, and will cut off from you man and animal.
Eze
29:9 The land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste; and they
shall know that I am Yahweh. Because he has said, 'The river is mine,
and I have made it;'
Eze
29:10 therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your rivers,
and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from
the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia.
Eze
29:11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of animal shall
pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
Eze
29:12 I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the
countries that are desolate; and her cities among the cities that are
laid waste shall be a desolation forty years; and I will scatter the
Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the
countries."
Eze
29:13 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "At the end of forty years
will I gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were
scattered;
Eze
29:14 and I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will cause
them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their
birth; and they shall be there a base kingdom.
Eze
29:15 It shall be the base of the kingdoms; neither shall it any
more lift itself up above the nations: and I will diminish them, that
they shall no more rule over the nations.
Eze
29:16 It shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel,
bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after them: and
they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh." ' "
Eze
29:17 It came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first
month, in
the first day
of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
29:18 Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to
serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and
every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army, from
Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.
Eze
29:19 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will give the
land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry
off her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it
shall be the wages for his army.
Eze
29:20 I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which
he served, because they worked for me, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
29:21 In that day will I cause a horn to bud forth to the house of
Israel, and I will give you the opening of the mouth in the midst of
them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
30:1 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
Eze
30:2 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Wail,
Alas for the day!
Eze
30:3 For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh is near; it shall
be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.
Eze
30:4 A sword shall come on Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia,
when the slain shall fall in Egypt; and they shall take away her
multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
Eze
30:5 Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mixed people, and Cub,
and the children of the land that is in league, shall fall with them
by the sword.
Eze
30:6 Thus says Yahweh: They also who uphold Egypt shall fall; and
the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Seveneh
shall they fall in it by the sword, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
30:7 They shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are
desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are
wasted.
Eze
30:8 They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have set a fire in
Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed.
Eze
30:9 In that day shall messengers go forth from before me in ships
to make the careless Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be anguish on
them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes.
Eze
30:10 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also make the multitude of
Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
Eze
30:11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall
be brought in to destroy the land; and they shall draw their swords
against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
Eze
30:12 I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the
hand of evil men; and I will make the land desolate, and all that is
therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
Eze
30:13 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also destroy the idols, and
I will cause the images to cease from Memphis; and there shall be no
more a prince from the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the
land of Egypt.
Eze
30:14 I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and
will execute judgments on No.
Eze
30:15 I will pour my wrath on Sin, the stronghold of Egypt; and I
will cut off the multitude of No.
Eze
30:16 I will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great anguish, and
No shall be broken up; and Memphis shall
have adversaries in the daytime.
Eze
30:17 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword;
and these cities
shall go into captivity.
Eze
30:18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself, when I
shall break there the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her power
shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her
daughters shall go into captivity.
Eze
30:19 Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt; and they shall know
that I am Yahweh.
Eze
30:20 It happened in the eleventh year, in the first month,
in the seventh day
of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
30:21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt;
and behold, it has not been bound up, to apply healing
medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it be strong to hold the
sword.
Eze
30:22 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong arm,
and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of
his hand.
Eze
30:23 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will
disperse them through the countries.
Eze
30:24 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my
sword in his hand: but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he shall
groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.
Eze
30:25 I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms
of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am Yahweh,
when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and
he shall stretch it out on the land of Egypt.
Eze
30:26 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse
them through the countries; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
31:1 It happened in the eleventh year, in the third month,
in the first day
of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
31:2 Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude:
Whom are you like in your greatness?
Eze
31:3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful
branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its
top was among the thick boughs.
Eze
31:4 The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: its rivers
ran all around its plantation; and it sent out its channels to all
the trees of the field.
Eze
31:5 Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the
field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long
by reason of many waters, when it shot them
forth.
Eze
31:6 All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs; and
under its branches did all the animals of the field bring forth their
young; and under its shadow lived all great nations.
Eze
31:7 Thus was it beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its
branches; for its root was by many waters.
Eze
31:8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir
trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were not as its
branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its
beauty.
Eze
31:9 I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that
all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.
Eze
31:10 Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because you are exalted
in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his
heart is lifted up in his height;
Eze
31:11 I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the
nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his
wickedness.
Eze
31:12 Strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and
have left him: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches
are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the
land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow,
and have left him.
Eze
31:13 On his ruin all the birds of the sky shall dwell, and all the
animals of the field shall be on his branches;
Eze
31:14 to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt
themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick
boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, even
all who drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the
lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with
those who go down to the pit.
Eze
31:15 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when he went down to
Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I
restrained its rivers; and the great waters were stayed; and I caused
Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for
him.
Eze
31:16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I
cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit; and all
the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink
water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.
Eze
31:17 They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain
by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, that
lived under his shadow in the midst of the nations.
Eze
31:18 To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the
trees of Eden? yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to
the lower parts of the earth: you shall lie in the midst of the
uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh
and all his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
32:1 It happened in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the
first day
of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
32:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and tell him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations: yet
are you as a monster in the seas; and you did break forth with your
rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their
rivers.
Eze
32:3 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will spread out my net on you with
a company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my net.
Eze
32:4 I will leave you on the land, I will cast you forth on the open
field, and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you, and
I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you.
Eze
32:5 I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys
with your height.
Eze
32:6 I will also water with your blood the land in which you swim,
even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of you.
Eze
32:7 When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make
its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall
not give its light.
Eze
32:8 All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and
set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
32:9 I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I shall
bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which
you have not known.
Eze
32:10 Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings
shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my sword
before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for
his own life, in the day of your fall.
Eze
32:11 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: The sword of the king of
Babylon shall come on you.
Eze
32:12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause your multitude to
fall; the terrible of the nations are they all: and they shall bring
to nothing the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall be
destroyed.
Eze
32:13 I will destroy also all its animals from beside many waters;
neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of
animals trouble them.
Eze
32:14 Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to
run like oil, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
32:15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, a land
destitute of that of which it was full, when I shall strike all those
who dwell therein, then shall they know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
32:16 This is the lamentation with which they shall lament; the
daughters of the nations shall lament therewith; over Egypt, and over
all her multitude, shall they lament therewith, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
32:17 It happened also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day
of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
32:18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them
down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower
parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.
Eze
32:19 Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the
uncircumcised.
Eze
32:20 They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the
sword: she is delivered to the sword; draw her away and all her
multitudes.
Eze
32:21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the
midst of Sheol with those who help him: they are gone down, they lie
still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
Eze
32:22 Asshur is there and all her company; her graves are all around
her; all of them slain, fallen by the sword;
Eze
32:23 whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and
her company is around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the
sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.
Eze
32:24 There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave; all of
them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into
the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of
the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the
pit.
Eze
32:25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her
multitude; her graves are around her; all of them uncircumcised,
slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the
living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the
pit: he is put in the midst of those who are slain.
Eze
32:26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude; their graves
are around them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for
they caused their terror in the land of the living.
Eze
32:27 They shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the
uncircumcised, who are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war,
and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities
are on their bones; for they were
the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
Eze
32:28 But you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and
shall lie with those who are slain by the sword.
Eze
32:29 There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who in their
might are laid with those who are slain by the sword: they shall lie
with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit.
Eze
32:30 There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the
Sidonians, who are gone down with the slain; in the terror which they
caused by their might they are put to shame; and they lie
uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their
shame with those who go down to the pit.
Eze
32:31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his
multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, says
the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
32:32 For I have put his terror in the land of the living; and he
shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are
slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord
Yahweh.
James 5
Jas 5:1
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming
on you.
Jas 5:2
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
Jas 5:3
Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be
for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You
have laid up your treasure in the last days.
Jas 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you
have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped
have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
Jas 5:5
You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You
have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
Jas 5:6
You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't
resist you.
Jas 5:7
Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold,
the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient
over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
Jas 5:8
You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the
Lord is at hand.
Jas 5:9
Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be
judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
Jas 5:10
Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the
prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
Jas 5:11
Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the
patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the
Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
Jas 5:12
But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, neither by heaven,
nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your "yes"
be "yes," and your "no," "no;" so that
you don't fall into hypocrisy.
Jas 5:13
Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him
sing praises.
Jas 5:14
Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly,
and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the
Lord,
Jas 5:15
and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will
raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
Jas 5:16
Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that
you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is
powerfully effective.
Jas 5:17
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly
that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three
years and six months.
Jas 5:18
He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth
its fruit.
Jas 5:19
Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns
him back,
Jas 5:20
let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way
will save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 1
1Pe 1:1
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living
as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia,
and Bithynia,
1Pe 1:2
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification
of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with
his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
1Pe 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according
to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through
the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1Pe 1:4
to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn't fade away,
reserved in Heaven for you,
1Pe 1:5
who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation
ready to be revealed in the last time.
1Pe 1:6
Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need
be, you have been put to grief in various trials,
1Pe 1:7
that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that
perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in
praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ--
1Pe 1:8
whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don't see
him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full
of glory--
1Pe 1:9
receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
1Pe 1:10
Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched
diligently, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you,
1Pe 1:11
searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which
was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ,
and the glories that would follow them.
1Pe 1:12
To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they
ministered these things, which now have been announced to you through
those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out
from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
1Pe 1:13
Therefore, prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope
fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of
Jesus Christ--
1Pe 1:14
as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your
former lusts as in your ignorance,
1Pe 1:15
but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in
all of your behavior;
1Pe 1:16
because it is written, "You shall be holy; for I am holy."
1Pe 1:17
If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges
according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as
foreigners here in reverent fear:
1Pe 1:18
knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with
silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your
fathers,
1Pe 1:19
but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood
of Christ;
1Pe 1:20
who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was
revealed at the end of times for your sake,
1Pe 1:21
who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead,
and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
1Pe 1:22
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth
through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another
from the heart fervently:
1Pe 1:23
having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of
incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains
forever.
1Pe 1:24
For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the
flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
1Pe 1:25
but the Lord's word endures forever." This is the word of Good
News which was preached to you.
1 Peter 2
1Pe 2:1
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies,
envies, and all evil speaking,
1Pe 2:2
as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may
grow thereby,
1Pe 2:3
if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious:
1Pe 2:4
coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by
God, precious.
1Pe 2:5
You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be
a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to
God through Jesus Christ.
1Pe 2:6
Because it is contained in Scripture, "Behold, I lay in Zion a
chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious: He who believes in him will
not be disappointed."
1Pe 2:7
For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are
disobedient, "The stone which the builders rejected, has become
the chief cornerstone,"
1Pe 2:8
and, "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." For
they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were
appointed.
1Pe 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a
people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence
of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
1Pe 2:10
who in time past were no people, but now are God's people, who had
not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
1Pe 2:11
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from
fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
1Pe 2:12
having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they
speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which
they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.
1Pe 2:13
Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's
sake: whether to the king, as supreme;
1Pe 2:14
or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for
praise to those who do well.
1Pe 2:15
For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to
silence the ignorance of foolish men:
1Pe 2:16
as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as
bondservants of God.
1Pe 2:17
Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
1Pe 2:18
Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to
the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.
1Pe 2:19
For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly,
because of conscience toward God.
1Pe 2:20
For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating?
But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is
commendable with God.
1Pe 2:21
For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us,
leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,
1Pe 2:22
who did not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth."
1Pe 2:23
Who, when he was cursed, didn't curse back. When he suffered, didn't
threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;
1Pe 2:24
who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we,
having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes
you were healed.
1Pe 2:25
For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to the
Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
