Bible Reading for November 27 - 29
World English Bible
Nov.
27
Ezekiel
1-4
Eze
1:1 Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month,
in the fifth day
of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that
the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
Eze
1:2 In the fifth day
of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's
captivity,
Eze
1:3 the word of Yahweh came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son
of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the
hand of Yahweh was there on him.
Eze
1:4 I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a
great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness around it, and
out of its midst as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the
fire.
Eze
1:5 Out of its midst came the likeness of four living creatures.
This was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.
Eze
1:6 Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings.
Eze
1:7 Their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was
like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled like burnished
brass.
Eze
1:8 They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four
sides; and they four had their faces and their wings thus:
Eze
1:9 their wings were joined one to another; they didn't turn when
they went; each one went straight forward.
Eze
1:10 As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man;
and they four had the face of a lion on the right side; and they four
had the face of an ox on the left side; they four had also the face
of an eagle.
Eze
1:11 Their faces and their wings were separate above; two wings
of each one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
Eze
1:12 Each one went straight forward: where the spirit was to go,
they went; they didn't turn when they went.
Eze
1:13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance
was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches: the
fire went up and down among the living
creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth
lightning.
Eze
1:14 The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a
flash of lightning.
Eze
1:15 Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, one wheel on the
earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces of it.
Eze
1:16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl:
and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their work
was as it were a wheel within a wheel.
Eze
1:17 When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn't
turn when they went.
Eze
1:18 As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four
had their rims full of eyes all around.
Eze
1:19 When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them;
and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the
wheels were lifted up.
Eze
1:20 Wherever the spirit was to go, they went; there was the spirit
to go: and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of
the living creature was in the wheels.
Eze
1:21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood;
and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted
up beside them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the
wheels.
Eze
1:22 Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of
an expanse, like the awesome crystal to look on, stretched forth over
their heads above.
Eze
1:23 Under the expanse were their wings straight, the one toward the
other: each one had two which covered on this side, and every one had
two which covered on that side, their bodies.
Eze
1:24 When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise
of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult
like the noise of an army: when they stood, they let down their
wings.
Eze
1:25 There was a voice above the expanse that was over their heads:
when they stood, they let down their wings.
Eze
1:26 Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of
a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone; and on the likeness
of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.
Eze
1:27 I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire
within it all around, from the appearance of his waist and upward;
and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw as it were
the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.
Eze
1:28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of
rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was
the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahweh. When I saw it,
I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.
Eze
2:1 He said to me, Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak
with you.
Eze
2:2 The Spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me on my
feet; and I heard him who spoke to me.
Eze
2:3 He said to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel,
to nations that are rebellious, which have rebelled against me: they
and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day.
Eze
2:4 The children are impudent and stiff-hearted: I am sending you to
them; and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
2:5 They, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear,
(for they are a rebellious house), yet shall know that there has been
a prophet among them.
Eze
2:6 You, son of man, don't be afraid of them, neither be afraid of
their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you do dwell
among scorpions: don't be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at
their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
Eze
2:7 You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or
whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.
Eze
2:8 But you, son of man, hear what I tell you; don't be you
rebellious like that rebellious house: open your mouth, and eat that
which I give you.
Eze
2:9 When I looked, behold, a hand was put forth to me; and, behold,
a scroll of a book was therein;
Eze
2:10 He spread it before me: and it was written within and without;
and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
Eze
3:1 He said to me, Son of man, eat that which you find; eat this
scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.
Eze
3:2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.
Eze
3:3 He said to me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill
your bowels with this scroll that I give you. Then did I eat it; and
it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
Eze
3:4 He said to me, Son of man, go, get you to the house of Israel,
and speak with my words to them.
Eze
3:5 For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a
hard language, but to the house of Israel;
Eze
3:6 not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language,
whose words you can not understand. Surely, if I sent you to them,
they would listen to you.
Eze
3:7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will
not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are of hard forehead
and of a stiff heart.
Eze
3:8 Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your
forehead hard against their foreheads.
Eze
3:9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: don't
be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they
are a rebellious house.
Eze
3:10 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall
speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.
Eze
3:11 Go, get you to them of the captivity, to the children of your
people, and speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh;
whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
Eze
3:12 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice
of a great rushing, saying,
Blessed be the glory of Yahweh from his place.
Eze
3:13 I heard
the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one
another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, even the noise of a
great rushing.
Eze
3:14 So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in
bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Yahweh was
strong on me.
Eze
3:15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived by
the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there
overwhelmed among them seven days.
Eze
3:16 It happened at the end of seven days, that the word of Yahweh
came to me, saying,
Eze
3:17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel:
therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
Eze
3:18 When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him
no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save
his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his
blood will I require at your hand.
Eze
3:19 Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn't turn from his
wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity;
but you have delivered your soul.
Eze
3:20 Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness,
and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall
die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin,
and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered;
but his blood will I require at your hand.
Eze
3:21 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous
not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took
warning; and you have delivered your soul.
Eze
3:22 The hand of Yahweh was there on me; and he said to me, Arise,
go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with you.
Eze
3:23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and behold, the
glory of Yahweh stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river
Chebar; and I fell on my face.
Eze
3:24 Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet; and he
spoke with me, and said to me, Go, shut yourself within your house.
Eze
3:25 But you, son of man, behold, they shall lay bands on you, and
shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them:
Eze
3:26 and I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth,
that you shall be mute, and shall not be to them a reprover; for they
are a rebellious house.
Eze
3:27 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you
shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: He who hears, let him
hear; and he who forbears, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious
house.
Eze
4:1 You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before you, and
portray on it a city, even Jerusalem:
Eze
4:2 and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast
up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering
rams against it all around.
Eze
4:3 Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron
between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall
be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign
to the house of Israel.
Eze
4:4 Moreover lie you on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the
house of Israel on it; according to
the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their
iniquity.
Eze
4:5 For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a
number of days, even three hundred ninety days: so you shall bear the
iniquity of the house of Israel.
Eze
4:6 Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your
right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty
days, each day for a year, have I appointed it to you.
Eze
4:7 You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your
arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.
Eze
4:8 Behold, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from one
side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your
siege.
Eze
4:9 Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and
lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make
you bread of it; according to
the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three
hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it.
Eze
4:10 Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty
shekels a day: from time to time you shall eat it.
Eze
4:11 You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from
time to time you shall drink.
Eze
4:12 You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in
their sight with dung that comes out of man.
Eze
4:13 Yahweh said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their
bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.
Eze
4:14 Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul has not been
polluted; for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of
that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there
abominable flesh into my mouth.
Eze
4:15 Then he said to me, Behold, I have given you cow's dung for
man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread thereon.
Eze
4:16 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the
staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and
with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in
dismay:
Eze
4:17 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with
another, and pine away in their iniquity.
Nov.
28
Ezekiel
5-8
Eze
5:1 You, son of man, take a sharp sword; You shall take it as a
barber's razor to you, and shall cause it to pass on your head and on
your beard: then take balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
Eze
5:2 A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the
city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a
third part, and strike with the sword around it; and a third part you
shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.
Eze
5:3 You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in your
skirts.
Eze
5:4 Of these again you shall take, and cast them into the midst of
the fire, and burn them in the fire; from it shall a fire come forth
into all the house of Israel.
Eze
5:5 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in
the midst of the nations, and countries are around her.
Eze
5:6 She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more
than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries
that are around her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for
my statutes, they have not walked in them.
Eze
5:7 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you are turbulent
more than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my
statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have done after
the ordinances of the nations that are around you;
Eze
5:8 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I, even I, am
against you; and I will execute judgments in the midst of you in the
sight of the nations.
Eze
5:9 I will do in you that which I have not done, and whereunto I
will not do any more the like, because of all your abominations.
Eze
5:10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of you,
and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on
you; and the whole remnant of you will I scatter to all the winds.
Eze
5:11 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely, because you
have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with
all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish you;
neither shall my eye spare, and I also will have no pity.
Eze
5:12 A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with
famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you; and a third part
shall fall by the sword around you; and a third part I will scatter
to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.
Eze
5:13 Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath
toward them to rest, and I shall be comforted; and they shall know
that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my
wrath on them.
Eze
5:14 Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the
nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.
Eze
5:15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an
astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I shall
execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful
rebukes; (I, Yahweh, have spoken it;)
Eze
5:16 when I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, that are
for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will
increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread;
Eze
5:17 and I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they shall
bereave you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I
will bring the sword on you: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
Eze
6:1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
6:2 Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and
prophesy to them,
Eze
6:3 and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord
Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills,
to the watercourses and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring
a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places.
Eze
6:4 Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall
be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
Eze
6:5 I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before
their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
Eze
6:6 In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and
the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste
and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your
incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
Eze
6:7 The slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know
that I am Yahweh.
Eze
6:8 Yet will I leave a remnant, in that you shall have some that
escape the sword among the nations, when you shall be scattered
through the countries.
Eze
6:9 Those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations
where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with
their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes,
which play the prostitute after their idols: and they shall loathe
themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed
in all their abominations.
Eze
6:10 They shall know that I am Yahweh: I have not said in vain that
I would do this evil to them.
Eze
6:11 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Smite with your hand, and stamp with
your foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations of the
house of Israel; for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and
by the pestilence.
Eze
6:12 He who is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he who is
near shall fall by the sword; and he who remains and is besieged
shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my wrath on them.
Eze
6:13 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when their slain men shall be
among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the
tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every
thick oak, the places where they offered pleasant aroma to all their
idols.
Eze
6:14 I will stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate
and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their
habitations: and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
7:1 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
7:2 You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh to the land of
Israel, An end: the end is come on the four corners of the land.
Eze
7:3 Now is the end on you, and I will send my anger on you, and will
judge you according to your ways; and I will bring on you all your
abominations.
Eze
7:4 My eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will
bring your ways on you, and your abominations shall be in the midst
of you: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
7:5 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: An evil, an only evil; behold, it
comes.
Eze
7:6 An end is come, the end is come; it awakes against you; behold,
it comes.
Eze
7:7 Your doom is come to you, inhabitant of the land: the time is
come, the day is near, a day of
tumult, and not of
joyful shouting, on the mountains.
Eze
7:8 Now will I shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my
anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways; and I
will bring on you all your abominations.
Eze
7:9 My eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will bring
on you according to your ways; and your abominations shall be in the
midst of you; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, do strike.
Eze
7:10 Behold, the day, behold, it comes: your doom is gone forth; the
rod has blossomed, pride has budded.
Eze
7:11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness; none of them
shall remain,
nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth: neither shall there be
eminency among them.
Eze
7:12 The time is come, the day draws near: don't let the buyer
rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its multitude.
Eze
7:13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although
they be yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude of
it, none shall return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the
iniquity of his life.
Eze
7:14 They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but none
goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all its multitude.
Eze
7:15 The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within:
he who is in the field shall die with the sword: and he who is in the
city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
Eze
7:16 But those of those who escape shall escape, and shall be on the
mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one
in his iniquity.
Eze
7:17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as
water.
Eze
7:18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror
shall cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness on
all their heads.
Eze
7:19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold
shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not
be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Yahweh: they shall
not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it has
been the stumbling block of their iniquity.
Eze
7:20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but
they made the images of their abominations and
their detestable things therein: therefore have I made it to them as
an unclean thing.
Eze
7:21 I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and
to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.
Eze
7:22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my
secret place;
and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.
Eze
7:23 Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the
city is full of violence.
Eze
7:24 Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall
possess their houses: I will also make the pride of the strong to
cease; and their holy places shall be profaned.
Eze
7:25 Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall
be none.
Eze
7:26 Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor;
and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish
from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
Eze
7:27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with
desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be
troubled: I will do to them after their way, and according to their
own judgments will I judge them; and they shall know that I am
Yahweh.
Eze
8:1 It happened in the sixth year, in the sixth month,
in the fifth day
of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat
before me, that the hand of the Lord Yahweh fell there on me.
Eze
8:2 Then I saw, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire;
from the appearance of his waist and downward, fire; and from his
waist and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing
metal.
Eze
8:3 He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my
head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and
brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the
gate of the inner court
that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of
jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
Eze
8:4 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to
the appearance that I saw in the plain.
Eze
8:5 Then said he to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way
toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north,
and see, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in
the entry.
Eze
8:6 He said to me, Son of man, see you what they do? even the great
abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should
go far off from my sanctuary? but you shall again see yet other great
abominations.
Eze
8:7 He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked,
behold, a hole in the wall.
Eze
8:8 Then said he to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I
had dug in the wall, behold, a door.
Eze
8:9 He said to me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they
do here.
Eze
8:10 So I went in and saw; and see, every form of creeping things,
and abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel,
portrayed around on the wall.
Eze
8:11 There stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house
of Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of
Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the
cloud of incense went up.
Eze
8:12 Then said he to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders
of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chambers of
imagery? for they say, Yahweh doesn't see us; Yahweh has forsaken the
land.
Eze
8:13 He said also to me, You shall again see yet other great
abominations which they do.
Eze
8:14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh's house
which was toward the north; and see, there sat the women weeping for
Tammuz.
Eze
8:15 Then said he to me, Have you seen this,
son of man? you shall again see yet greater abominations than these.
Eze
8:16 He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh's house; and see,
at the door of the temple of Yahweh, between the porch and the altar,
were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward the temple of
Yahweh, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshipping
the sun toward the east.
Eze
8:17 Then he said to me, Have you seen this,
son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they
commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled
the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger:
and behold, they put the branch to their nose.
Eze
8:18 Therefore will I also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare,
neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud
voice, yet will I not hear them.
Nov.
29
Ezekiel
9-12
Eze
9:1 Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause those
who are in charge of the city to draw near, every man with his
destroying weapon in his hand.
Eze
9:2 Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lies
toward the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand;
and one man in the midst of them clothed in linen, with a writer's
inkhorn by his side. They went in, and stood beside the bronze altar.
Eze
9:3 The glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub,
whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house: and he called to the
man clothed in linen, who had the writer's inkhorn by his side.
Eze
9:4 Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through
the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men
that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in its
midst.
Eze
9:5 To the others he said in my hearing, Go you through the city
after him, and strike: don't let your eye spare, neither have you
pity;
Eze
9:6 kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and
little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom is the
mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that
were before the house.
Eze
9:7 He said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the
slain: go you forth. They went forth, and struck in the city.
Eze
9:8 It happened, while they were smiting, and I was left, that I
fell on my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will you
destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring out of your wrath
on Jerusalem?
Eze
9:9 Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and
Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the
city full of perversion: for they say, Yahweh has forsaken the land,
and Yahweh doesn't see.
Eze
9:10 As for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have
pity, but I will bring their way on their head.
Eze
9:11 Behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his
side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as you have commanded
me.
Eze
10:1 Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head
of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire
stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
Eze
10:2 He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between
the whirling wheels,
even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire
from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. He went in
as I watched.
Eze
10:3 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the
man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
Eze
10:4 The glory of Yahweh mounted up from the cherub, and
stood over the threshold of the house;
and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of
the brightness of Yahweh's glory.
Eze
10:5 The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the
outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.
Eze
10:6 It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen,
saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the
cherubim, that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.
Eze
10:7 The cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim
to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took of
it, and put it into the hands of him who
was clothed in linen, who took it and went out.
Eze
10:8 There appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand under
their wings.
Eze
10:9 I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one
wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub; and
the appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone.
Eze
10:10 As for their appearance, they four had one likeness, as if a
wheel have been within a wheel.
Eze
10:11 When they went, they went in their four directions: they
didn't turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they
followed it; they didn't turn as they went.
Eze
10:12 Their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their
wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes all around, even
the wheels that they four had.
Eze
10:13 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the
whirling wheels.
Eze
10:14 Every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the
cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third face
the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
Eze
10:15 The cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I
saw by the river Chebar.
Eze
10:16 When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when
the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the
wheels also didn't turn from beside them.
Eze
10:17 When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up, these
mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in
them.
Eze
10:18 The glory of Yahweh went forth from over the threshold of the
house, and stood over the cherubim.
Eze
10:19 The cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the
earth in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels beside them:
and they stood at the door of the east gate of Yahweh's house; and
the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
Eze
10:20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel
by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.
Eze
10:21 Every one had four faces, and every one four wings; and the
likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
Eze
10:22 As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which
I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they
went every one straight forward.
Eze
11:1 Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east
gate of Yahweh's house, which looks eastward: and see, at the door of
the gate twenty-five men; and I saw in the midst of them Jaazaniah
the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the
people.
Eze
11:2 He said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise
iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;
Eze
11:3 who say, The time
is not near to build houses: this city
is the caldron, and we are the flesh.
Eze
11:4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.
Eze
11:5 The Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me, Speak, Thus
says Yahweh: Thus have you said, house of Israel; for I know the
things that come into your mind.
Eze
11:6 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have
filled its streets with the slain.
Eze
11:7 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Your slain whom you have
laid in its midst, they are the flesh, and this city
is the caldron; but you shall be brought forth out of its midst.
Eze
11:8 You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you,
says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
11:9 I will bring you forth out of its midst, and deliver you into
the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
Eze
11:10 You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of
Israel; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
11:11 This city
shall not be your caldron, neither shall you be the flesh in its
midst; I will judge you in the border of Israel;
Eze
11:12 and you shall know that I am Yahweh: for you have not walked
in my statutes, neither have you executed my ordinances, but have
done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you.
Eze
11:13 It happened, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of
Benaiah died. Then fell I down on my face, and cried with a loud
voice, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will you make a full end of the
remnant of Israel?
Eze
11:14 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
11:15 Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your
relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are
they to whom the inhabitants of
Jerusalem have said, Get you far from Yahweh; to us is this land
given for a possession.
Eze
11:16 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Whereas I have
removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered
them among the countries, yet will I be to them a sanctuary for a
little while in the countries where they are come.
Eze
11:17 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will gather you
from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you
have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
Eze
11:18 They shall come there, and they shall take away all the
detestable things of it and all its abominations from there.
Eze
11:19 I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within
you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will
give them a heart of flesh;
Eze
11:20 that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and
do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
Eze
11:21 But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their
detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on
their own heads, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
11:22 Then did the cherubim lift up their wings, and the wheels were
beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
Eze
11:23 The glory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city, and
stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
Eze
11:24 The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the
Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision
that I had seen went up from me.
Eze
11:25 Then I spoke to them of the captivity all the things that
Yahweh had shown me.
Eze
12:1 The word of Yahweh also came to me, saying,
Eze
12:2 Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house, who
have eyes to see, and don't see, who have ears to hear, and don't
hear; for they are a rebellious house.
Eze
12:3 Therefore, you son of man, prepare you stuff for removing, and
remove by day in their sight; and you shall remove from your place to
another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though
they are a rebellious house.
Eze
12:4 You shall bring forth your stuff by day in their sight, as
stuff for removing; and you shall go forth yourself at even in their
sight, as when men go forth into exile.
Eze
12:5 Dig you through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
Eze
12:6 In their sight you shall bear it on your shoulder, and carry it
forth in the dark; you shall cover your face, that you don't see the
land: for I have set you for a sign to the house of Israel.
Eze
12:7 I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day,
as stuff for removing, and in the even I dug through the wall with my
hand; I brought it forth in the dark, and bore it on my shoulder in
their sight.
Eze
12:8 In the morning came the word of Yahweh to me, saying,
Eze
12:9 Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house,
said to you, What do you?
Eze
12:10 Say you to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This burden
concerns
the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel among whom they
are.
Eze
12:11 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done
to them; they shall go into exile, into captivity.
Eze
12:12 The prince who is among them shall bear on his shoulder in the
dark, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry
out thereby: he shall cover his face, because he shall not see the
land with his eyes.
Eze
12:13 My net also will I spread on him, and he shall be taken in my
snare; and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans;
yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
Eze
12:14 I will scatter toward every wind all who are around him to
help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after
them.
Eze
12:15 They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall disperse them
among the nations, and scatter them through the countries.
Eze
12:16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the
famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their
abominations among the nations where they come; and they shall know
that I am Yahweh.
Eze
12:17 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
12:18 Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water
with trembling and with fearfulness;
Eze
12:19 and tell the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Yahweh
concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They
shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in
dismay, that her land may be desolate, and
despoiled of all that is therein,
because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.
Eze
12:20 The cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the
land shall be a desolation; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
12:21 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
12:22 Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of
Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?
Eze
12:23 Tell them therefore, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will make
this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in
Israel; but tell them, The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of
every vision.
Eze
12:24 For there shall be no more any false vision nor flattering
divination within the house of Israel.
Eze
12:25 For I am Yahweh; I will speak, and the word that I shall speak
shall be performed; it shall be no more deferred: for in your days,
rebellious house, will I speak the word, and will perform it, says
the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
12:26 Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
12:27 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The
vision that he sees is for many day to come, and he prophesies of
times that are far off.
Eze
12:28 Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: There shall
none of my words be deferred any more, but the word which I shall
speak shall be performed, says the Lord Yahweh.
Nov. 27
Hebrews
13
Heb
13:1 Let brotherly love continue.
Heb
13:2 Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so,
some have entertained angels without knowing it.
Heb
13:3 Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those
who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.
Heb
13:4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be
undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Heb
13:5 Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you
have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will
I in any way forsake you."
Heb
13:6 So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper.
I will not fear. What can man do to me?"
Heb
13:7 Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God,
and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
Heb
13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Heb
13:9 Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it
is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through
which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
Heb
13:10 We have an altar from which those who serve the holy
tabernacle have no right to eat.
Heb
13:11 For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into
the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned
outside of the camp.
Heb
13:12 Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people
through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.
Heb
13:13 Let us therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing
his reproach.
Heb
13:14 For we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that
which is to come.
Heb
13:15 Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to
God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance
to his name.
Heb
13:16 But don't forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such
sacrifices God is well pleased.
Heb
13:17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf
of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this
with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for
you.
Heb
13:18 Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good
conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.
Heb
13:19 I strongly urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you
sooner.
Heb
13:20 Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the
great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant,
our Lord Jesus,
Heb
13:21 make you complete in every good work to do his will, working
in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus
Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
Heb
13:22 But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation,
for I have written to you in few words.
Heb
13:23 Know that our brother Timothy has been freed, with whom, if he
comes shortly, I will see you.
Heb
13:24 Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. The Italians
greet you.
Heb
13:25 Grace be with you all. Amen.
Nov. 28
James 1
Jas 1:1
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve
tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.
Jas 1:2
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various
temptations,
Jas 1:3
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
Jas 1:4
Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and
complete, lacking in nothing.
Jas 1:5
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all
liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
Jas 1:6
But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is
like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
Jas 1:7
For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the
Lord.
Jas 1:8
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
Jas 1:9
But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high
position;
Jas
1:10 and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the
flower in the grass, he will pass away.
Jas
1:11 For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the
grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance
perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.
Jas
1:12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been
approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised
to those who love him.
Jas
1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God,"
for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
Jas
1:14 But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust,
and enticed.
Jas
1:15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin,
when it is full grown, brings forth death.
Jas
1:16 Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.
Jas
1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming
down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor
turning shadow.
Jas
1:18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that
we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
Jas
1:19 So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear,
slow to speak, and slow to anger;
Jas
1:20 for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.
Jas
1:21 Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of
wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able
to save your souls.
Jas
1:22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your
own selves.
Jas
1:23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is
like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
Jas
1:24 for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets
what kind of man he was.
Jas
1:25 But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and
continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work,
this man will be blessed in what he does.
Jas
1:26 If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he
doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's
religion is worthless.
Jas
1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this:
to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep
oneself unstained by the world.
Nov. 29
James 2
Jas 2:1
My brothers, don't hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory
with partiality.
Jas 2:2
For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your
synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in;
Jas 2:3
and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing,
and say, "Sit here in a good place;" and you tell the poor
man, "Stand there," or "Sit by my footstool;"
Jas 2:4
haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges
with evil thoughts?
Jas 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in
this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he
promised to those who love him?
Jas 2:6
But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you,
and personally drag you before the courts?
Jas 2:7
Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?
Jas 2:8
However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture,
"You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.
Jas 2:9
But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the
law as transgressors.
Jas
2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point,
he has become guilty of all.
Jas
2:11 For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said,
"Do not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery,
but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
Jas
2:12 So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of
freedom.
Jas
2:13 For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy.
Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Jas
2:14 What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but
has no works? Can faith save him?
Jas
2:15 And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,
Jas
2:16 and one of you tells them, "Go in peace, be warmed and
filled;" and yet you didn't give them the things the body needs,
what good is it?
Jas
2:17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
Jas
2:18 Yes, a man will say, "You have faith, and I have works."
Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show you my
faith.
Jas
2:19 You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also
believe, and shudder.
Jas
2:20 But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works
is dead?
Jas
2:21 Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, in that he
offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
Jas
2:22 You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith
was perfected;
Jas
2:23 and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham
believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and
he was called the friend of God.
Jas
2:24 You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by
faith.
Jas
2:25 In like manner wasn't Rahab the prostitute also justified by
works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another
way?
Jas
2:26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith
apart from works is dead.
