November 30 and December 1
World English Bible
Nov.
30
Eze
13:1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
13:2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who
prophesy, and say you to those who prophesy out of their own heart,
Hear you the word of Yahweh:
Eze
13:3 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Woe to the foolish prophets, who
follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
Eze
13:4 Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.
Eze
13:5 You have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall
for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of Yahweh.
Eze
13:6 They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, Yahweh
says; but Yahweh has not sent them: and they have made men to hope
that the word would be confirmed.
Eze
13:7 Haven't you seen a false vision, and haven't you spoken a lying
divination, in that you say, Yahweh says; but I have not spoken?
Eze
13:8 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have spoken
falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, says
the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
13:9 My hand shall be against the prophets who see false visions,
and who divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people,
neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel,
neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and you shall know
that I am the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
13:10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying,
Peace; and there is no peace; and when one builds up a wall, behold,
they daub it with whitewash:
Eze
13:11 tell those who daub it with whitewash, that it shall fall:
there shall be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones,
shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it.
Eze
13:12 Behold, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said to you,
Where is the daubing with which you have daubed it?
Eze
13:13 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will even tear it with
a stormy wind in my wrath; and there shall be an overflowing shower
in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.
Eze
13:14 So will I break down the wall that you have daubed with
whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation
shall be uncovered; and it shall fall, and you shall be consumed in
its midst: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
13:15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on those who
have daubed it with whitewash; and I will tell you, The wall is no
more, neither those who daubed it;
Eze
13:16 to wit,
the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see
visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, says the Lord
Yahweh.
Eze
13:17 You, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your
people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy you against
them,
Eze
13:18 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the women who sew
pillows on all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head of persons
of every stature to hunt souls! Will you
hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves?
Eze
13:19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley
and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to
save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people
who listen to lies.
Eze
13:20 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against your
pillows, with which you there hunt the souls to make them
fly, and I will tear them from your arms; and I will let the souls
go, even the souls who you hunt to make them
fly.
Eze
13:21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of
your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and
you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
13:22 Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous,
whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked,
that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive:
Eze
13:23 Therefore you shall no more see false visions, nor practice
divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand; and you shall
know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
14:1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me, and sat before
me.
Eze
14:2 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
14:3 Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart,
and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face:
should I be inquired of at all by them?
Eze
14:4 Therefore speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his
heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face,
and comes to the prophet; I Yahweh will answer him therein according
to the multitude of his idols;
Eze
14:5 that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because
they are all estranged from me through their idols.
Eze
14:6 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Return you, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your
faces from all your abominations.
Eze
14:7 For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who
sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes his idols
into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before
his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I
Yahweh will answer him by myself:
Eze
14:8 and I will set my face against that man, and will make him an
astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from
the midst of my people; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
14:9 If the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I, Yahweh, have
deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and
will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
Eze
14:10 They shall bear their iniquity: the iniquity of the prophet
shall be even as the iniquity of him who seeks to
him;
Eze
14:11 that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me,
neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but
that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says the Lord
Yahweh.
Eze
14:12 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
14:13 Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a
trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of its
bread, and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal;
Eze
14:14 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it,
they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says
the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
14:15 If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they
ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass through
because of the animals;
Eze
14:16 though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord
Yahweh, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only
should be delivered, but the land should be desolate.
Eze
14:17 Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, Sword, go through
the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal;
Eze
14:18 though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord
Yahweh, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only
should be delivered themselves.
Eze
14:19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my
wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal;
Eze
14:20 though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the
Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they
should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
Eze
14:21 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: How much more when I send my
four sore judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the
evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal!
Eze
14:22 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be
carried forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth
to you, and you shall see their way and their doings; and you shall
be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem,
even concerning all that I have brought on it.
Eze
14:23 They shall comfort you, when you see their way and their
doings; and you shall know that I have not done without cause all
that I have done in it, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
15:1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
15:2 Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, the
vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest?
Eze
15:3 Shall wood be taken of it to make any work? or will men take a
pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
Eze
15:4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has
devoured both its ends, and its midst is burned: is it profitable for
any work?
Eze
15:5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much
less, when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned, shall it yet
be meet for any work!
Eze
15:6 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As the vine tree among the
trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will
I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Eze
15:7 I will set my face against them; they shall go forth from the
fire, but the fire shall devour them; and you shall know that I am
Yahweh, when I set my face against them.
Eze
15:8 I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a
trespass, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
16:1 Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
16:2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations;
Eze
16:3 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: Your birth and
your birth is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was your
father, and your mother was a Hittite.
Eze
16:4 As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not
cut, neither were you washed in water to cleanse you; you weren't
salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
Eze
16:5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have
compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, for that
your person was abhorred, in the day that you were born.
Eze
16:6 When I passed by you, and saw you weltering in your blood, I
said to you, Though you are
in your blood, live; yes, I said to you, Though
you are in your blood, live.
Eze
16:7 I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and
you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament;
your breasts were fashioned, and your hair was grown; yet you were
naked and bare.
Eze
16:8 Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time
was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered
your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with
you, says the Lord Yahweh, and you became mine.
Eze
16:9 Then washed I you with water; yes, I thoroughly washed away
your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil.
Eze
16:10 I clothed you also with embroidered work, and shod you with
sealskin, and I girded you about with fine linen, and covered you
with silk.
Eze
16:11 I decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your
hands, and a chain on your neck.
Eze
16:12 I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a
beautiful crown on your head.
Eze
16:13 Thus you were decked with gold and silver; and your clothing
was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work; you ate fine
flour, and honey, and oil; and you were exceeding beautiful, and you
prospered to royal estate.
Eze
16:14 Your renown went forth among the nations for your beauty; for
it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you, says the
Lord Yahweh.
Eze
16:15 But you did trust in your beauty, and played the prostitute
because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone
who passed by; his it was.
Eze
16:16 You took of your garments, and made for yourselves high places
decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them: the
like things shall not come, neither
shall it be so.
Eze
16:17 You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my
silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men,
and played the prostitute with them;
Eze
16:18 and you took your embroidered garments, and covered them, and
did set my oil and my incense before them.
Eze
16:19 My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and
honey, with which I fed you, you did even set it before them for a
pleasant aroma; and thus
it was, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
16:20 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you
have borne to me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be
devoured. Were your prostitution a small matter,
Eze
16:21 that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in
causing them to pass through the fire
to them?
Eze
16:22 In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not
remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and
was weltering in your blood.
Eze
16:23 It is happen after all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you!
says the Lord Yahweh),
Eze
16:24 that you have built to you a vaulted place, and have made you
a lofty place in every street.
Eze
16:25 You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and
have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet to
everyone who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution.
Eze
16:26 You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians,
your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied your
prostitution, to provoke me to anger.
Eze
16:27 See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have
diminished your ordinary food,
and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of
the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.
Eze
16:28 You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians,
because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute with
them, and yet you weren't satisfied.
Eze
16:29 You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of
merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren't satisfied with this.
Eze
16:30 How weak is your heart, says the Lord Yahweh, seeing you do
all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;
Eze
16:31 in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way,
and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a
prostitute, in that you scorn pay.
Eze
16:32 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of
her husband!
Eze
16:33 They give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to
all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every
side for your prostitution.
Eze
16:34 You are different from other
women in your prostitution, in that none follows you to play the
prostitute; and whereas you give hire, and no hire is given to you,
therefore you are different.
Eze
16:35 Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh:
Eze
16:36 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because your filthiness was poured
out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your
lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for
the blood of your children, that you gave to them;
Eze
16:37 therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you
have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those
who you have hated; I will even gather them against you on every
side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all
your nakedness.
Eze
16:38 I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood
are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
Eze
16:39 I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw
down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places; and they
shall strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful jewels; and
they shall leave you naked and bare.
Eze
16:40 They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall
stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.
Eze
16:41 They shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments
on you in the sight of many women; and I will cause you to cease from
playing the prostitute, and you shall also give no hire any more.
Eze
16:42 So will I cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my jealousy
shall depart from you, and I will be quiet, and will be no more
angry.
Eze
16:43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but
have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also
will bring your way on your head, says the Lord Yahweh: and you shall
not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.
Eze
16:44 Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use this
proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
Eze
16:45 You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband
and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed
their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and
your father an Amorite.
Eze
16:46 Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand,
she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your
right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
Dec.
1
Ezekiel
17-20
Eze
17:1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
17:2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the
house of Israel;
Eze
17:3 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A great eagle with great
wings and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors,
came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:
Eze
17:4 he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs of it, and
carried it to a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.
Eze
17:5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a
fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow
tree.
Eze
17:6 It grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose
branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him: so it
became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
Eze
17:7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many
feathers: and behold, this vine did bend its roots toward him, and
shot forth its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation,
that he might water it.
Eze
17:8 It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might
bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be
a goodly vine.
Eze
17:9 Say you, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Shall it prosper? shall he
not pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it may wither;
that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? and not by a strong
arm or much people can it be raised from its roots.
Eze
17:10 Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not
utterly wither, when the east wind touches it? it shall wither in the
beds where it grew.
Eze
17:11 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
17:12 Say now to the rebellious house, Don't you know what these
things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to
Jerusalem, and took its king, and its princes, and brought them to
him to Babylon:
Eze
17:13 and he took of the seed royal, and made a covenant with him;
he also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the
land;
Eze
17:14 that the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself
up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.
Eze
17:15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into
Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he
prosper? shall he escape who does such things? shall he break the
covenant, and yet escape?
Eze
17:16 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely in the place where the
king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose
covenant he broke, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall
die.
Eze
17:17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company
help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut
off many persons.
Eze
17:18 For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and
behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things; he
shall not escape.
Eze
17:19 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As I live, surely my oath
that he has despised, and my covenant that he has broken, I will even
bring it on his own head.
Eze
17:20 I will spread my net on him, and he shall be taken in my
snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment
with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.
Eze
17:21 All his fugitives in all his bands shall fall by the sword,
and those who remain shall be scattered toward every wind: and you
shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
Eze
17:22 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also take of the lofty top
of the cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the topmost of
its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty
mountain:
Eze
17:23 in the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it; and
it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar:
and under it shall dwell all birds of every wing; in the shade of its
branches shall they dwell.
Eze
17:24 All the trees of the field shall know that I, Yahweh, have
brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up
the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish; I, Yahweh,
have spoken and have done it.
Eze
18:1 The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying,
Eze
18:2 What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land
of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the
children's teeth are set on edge?
Eze
18:3 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, you shall not have occasion
any more to use this proverb in Israel.
Eze
18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also
the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die.
Eze
18:5 But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,
Eze
18:6 and has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his
eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his
neighbor's wife, neither has come near to a woman in her impurity,
Eze
18:7 and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his
pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the
hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
Eze
18:8 he who has not given forth on interest, neither has taken any
increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true
justice between man and man,
Eze
18:9 has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal
truly; he is just, he shall surely live, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
18:10 If he fathers a son who is a robber, a shedder of blood, and
who does any one of these things,
Eze
18:11 and who does not any of those duties,
but even has eaten on the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife,
Eze
18:12 has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not
restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has
committed abomination,
Eze
18:13 has given forth on interest, and has taken increase; shall he
then live? he shall not live: he has done all these abominations; he
shall surely die; his blood shall be on him.
Eze
18:14 Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father's
sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;
Eze
18:15 who has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his
eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his
neighbor's wife,
Eze
18:16 neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge,
neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry,
and has covered the naked with a garment;
Eze
18:17 who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has not received
interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my
statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall
surely live.
Eze
18:18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his
brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he
shall die in his iniquity.
Eze
18:19 Yet say you, Why does not the son bear the iniquity of the
father? when the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has
kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.
Eze
18:20 The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the
iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of
the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the
wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.
Eze
18:21 But if the wicked turn from all his sins that he has
committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and
right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Eze
18:22 None of his transgressions that he has committed shall be
remembered against him: in his righteousness that he has done he
shall live.
Eze
18:23 Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? says the Lord
Yahweh; and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?
Eze
18:24 But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and
commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the
wicked man does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he
has done shall be remembered: in his trespass that he has trespassed,
and in his sin that he has sinned, in them shall he die.
Eze
18:25 Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, house
of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren't your ways unequal?
Eze
18:26 When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and
commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done
shall he die.
Eze
18:27 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that
he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall
save his soul alive.
Eze
18:28 Because he considers, and turns away from all his
transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall
not die.
Eze
18:29 Yet says the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not
equal. house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways
unequal?
Eze
18:30 Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone
according to his ways, says the Lord Yahweh. Return you, and turn
yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be
your ruin.
Eze
18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have
transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will
you die, house of Israel?
Eze
18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the
Lord Yahweh: therefore turn yourselves, and live.
Eze
19:1 Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
Eze
19:2 and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among
lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.
Eze
19:3 She brought up one of her cubs: he became a young lion, and he
learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
Eze
19:4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and
they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
Eze
19:5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost,
then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.
Eze
19:6 He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
Eze
19:7 He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the
land was desolate, and its fullness, because of the noise of his
roaring.
Eze
19:8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the
provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their
pit.
Eze
19:9 They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king
of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should
no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.
Eze
19:10 Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the
waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many
waters.
Eze
19:11 It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule,
and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were
seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.
Eze
19:12 But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground,
and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off
and withered; the fire consumed them.
Eze
19:13 Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty
land.
Eze
19:14 Fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it has devoured
its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a scepter to
rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
Eze
20:1 It happened in the seventh year, in the fifth month,
the tenth day
of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of
Yahweh, and sat before me.
Eze
20:2 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
20:3 Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them, Thus
says the Lord Yahweh: Is it to inquire of me that you have come? As I
live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you.
Eze
20:4 Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Cause
them to know the abominations of their fathers;
Eze
20:5 and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when I
chose Israel, and swore to the seed of the house of Jacob, and made
myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them,
saying, I am Yahweh your God;
Eze
20:6 in that day I swore to them, to bring them forth out of the
land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing
with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.
Eze
20:7 I said to them, Cast you away every man the abominations of his
eyes, and don't defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am
Yahweh your God.
Eze
20:8 But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me; they
did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither
did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my
wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of
the land of Egypt.
Eze
20:9 But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned
in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I
made myself known to them, in bringing them forth out of the land of
Egypt.
Eze
20:10 So I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and
brought them into the wilderness.
Eze
20:11 I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which
if a man does, he shall live in them.
Eze
20:12 Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me
and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.
Eze
20:13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness:
they didn't walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances,
which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my Sabbaths they
greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in
the wilderness, to consume them.
Eze
20:14 But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be
profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them
out.
Eze
20:15 Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would
not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with
milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
Eze
20:16 because they rejected my ordinances, and didn't walk in my
statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths: for their heart went after their
idols.
Eze
20:17 Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn't destroy them,
neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.
Eze
20:18 I said to their children in the wilderness, Don't you walk in
the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor
defile yourselves with their idols.
Eze
20:19 I am Yahweh your God: walk in my statutes, and keep my
ordinances, and do them;
Eze
20:20 and make my Sabbaths holy; and they shall be a sign between me
and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.
Eze
20:21 But the children rebelled against me; they didn't walk in my
statutes, neither kept my ordinances to do them, which if a man do,
he shall live in them; they profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would
pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the
wilderness.
Eze
20:22 Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name's
sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in
whose sight I brought them forth.
Eze
20:23 Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would
scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the
countries;
Eze
20:24 because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected
my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after
their fathers' idols.
Eze
20:25 Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and
ordinances in which they should not live;
Eze
20:26 and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to
pass through the fire
all that opens the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end
that they might know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
20:27 Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell
them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In this moreover have your fathers
blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.
Eze
20:28 For when I had brought them into the land, which I swore to
give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree,
and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the
provocation of their offering; there also they made their pleasant
aroma, and they poured out there their drink offerings.
Eze
20:29 Then I said to them, What means the high place whereunto you
go? So its name is called Bamah to this day.
Eze
20:30 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Do you pollute yourselves after the manner of your fathers? and play
you the prostitute after their abominations?
Eze
20:31 and when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass
through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols to
this day? and shall I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I
live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you;
Eze
20:32 and that which comes into your mind shall not be at all, in
that you say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the
countries, to serve wood and stone.
Eze
20:33 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely with a mighty hand,
and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, will I be
king over you:
Eze
20:34 and I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you
out of the countries in which you are scattered, with a mighty hand,
and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out;
Eze
20:35 and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and
there will I enter into judgment with you face to face.
Eze
20:36 Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the
wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with
you, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
20:37 I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you
into the bond of the covenant;
Eze
20:38 and I will purge out from among you the rebels, and those who
disobey against me; I will bring them forth out of the land where
they sojourn, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and
you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
20:39 As for you, house of Israel, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Go
you, serve everyone his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not
listen to me; but my holy name you shall no more profane with your
gifts, and with your idols.
Eze
20:40 For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of
Israel, says the Lord Yahweh, there shall all the house of Israel,
all of them, serve me in the land: there will I accept them, and
there will I require your offerings, and the first fruits of your
offerings, with all your holy things.
Eze
20:41 As a pleasant aroma will I accept you, when I bring you out
from the peoples, and gather you out of the countries in which you
have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of
the nations.
Eze
20:42 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall bring you into
the land of Israel, into the country which I swore to give to your
fathers.
Eze
20:43 There you shall remember your ways, and all your doings, in
which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves
in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.
Eze
20:44 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have dealt with you
for my name's sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to
your corrupt doings, you house of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
20:45 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
20:46 Son of man, set your face toward the south, and drop your
word toward the south, and prophesy
against the forest of the field in the South;
Eze
20:47 and tell the forest of the South, Hear the word of Yahweh:
Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and
it shall devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree: the
flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to
the north shall be burnt thereby.
Eze
20:48 All flesh shall see that I, Yahweh, have kindled it; it shall
not be quenched.
Eze
20:49 Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! they say of me, Isn't he a
speaker of parables?
Nov. 30
James 3
Jas 3:1
Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will
receive heavier judgment.
Jas 3:2
For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn't stumble in
word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.
Jas 3:3
Indeed, we put bits into the horses' mouths so that they may obey
us, and we guide their whole body.
Jas 3:4
Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by
fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the
pilot desires.
Jas 3:5
So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See
how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
Jas 3:6
And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is
the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course
of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
Jas 3:7
For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the
sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.
Jas 3:8
But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of
deadly poison.
Jas 3:9
With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who
are made in the image of God.
Jas
3:10 Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My
brothers, these things ought not to be so.
Jas
3:11 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter
water?
Jas
3:12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus
no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.
Jas
3:13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his
good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
Jas
3:14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your
heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.
Jas
3:15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is
earthly, sensual, and demonic.
Jas
3:16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion
and every evil deed.
Jas
3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful,
gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without
partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Jas
3:18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who
make peace.
Dec. 1
James 4
Jas 4:1
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come
from your pleasures that war in your members?
Jas 4:2
You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You
fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.
Jas 4:3
You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so
that you may spend it for your pleasures.
Jas 4:4
You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with
the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend
of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Jas 4:5
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit
who lives in us yearns jealously"?
Jas 4:6
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the
proud, but gives grace to the humble."
Jas 4:7
Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee
from you.
Jas 4:8
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands,
you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Jas 4:9
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning,
and your joy to gloom.
Jas
4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt
you.
Jas
4:11 Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks
against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and
judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the
law, but a judge.
Jas
4:12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy.
But who are you to judge another?
Jas
4:13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into
this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."
Jas
4:14 Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow.
For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little
time, and then vanishes away.
Jas
4:15 For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both
live, and do this or that."
Jas
4:16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
Jas
4:17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to
him it is sin.
