Bible Reading for December 4 - 6
World English Bible
Dec.
4
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.
Dec.
5
Ezekiel
33-36
Eze
33:1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
33:2 Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell
them, When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land
take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;
Eze
33:3 if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the
trumpet, and warn the people;
Eze
33:4 then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn't take
warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be on
his own head.
Eze
33:5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn't take warning; his
blood shall be on him; whereas if he had taken warning, he would have
delivered his soul.
Eze
33:6 But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn't blow the
trumpet, and the people aren't warned, and the sword comes, and take
any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his
blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
Eze
33:7 So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of
Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning
from me.
Eze
33:8 When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and
you don't speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man
shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand.
Eze
33:9 Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from
it, and he doesn't turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity,
but you have delivered your soul.
Eze
33:10 You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: Thus you speak,
saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away
in them; how then can we live?
Eze
33:11 Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure
in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and
live: turn you, turn you from your evil ways; for why will you die,
house of Israel?
Eze
33:12 You, son of man, tell the children of your people, The
righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of
his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall
not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness;
neither shall he who is righteous be able to live thereby in the day
that he sins.
Eze
33:13 When I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he
trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his
righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he has
committed, therein shall he die.
Eze
33:14 Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he
turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
Eze
33:15 if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had
taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no
iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Eze
33:16 None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered
against him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall
surely live.
Eze
33:17 Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is
not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
Eze
33:18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits
iniquity, he shall even die therein.
Eze
33:19 When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which
is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
Eze
33:20 Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. House of
Israel, I will judge you everyone after his ways.
Eze
33:21 It happened in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth
month, in
the fifth day
of the month, that one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me,
saying, The city has been struck.
Eze
33:22 Now the hand of Yahweh had been on me in the evening, before
he who was escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to
me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more mute.
Eze
33:23 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
33:24 Son of man, they who inhabit those waste places in the land of
Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but
we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
Eze
33:25 Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You eat with
the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and
shall you possess the land?
Eze
33:26 You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and you defile
everyone his neighbor's wife: and shall you possess the land?
Eze
33:27 You shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: As I live,
surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword; and
him who is in the open field will I give to the animals to be
devoured; and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves shall
die of the pestilence.
Eze
33:28 I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment; and the
pride of her power shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be
desolate, so that none shall pass through.
Eze
33:29 Then shall they know that I am Yahweh, when I have made the
land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their
abominations which they have committed.
Eze
33:30 As for you, son of man, the children of your people talk of
you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to
another, everyone to his brother, saying, Please come and hear what
is the word that comes forth from Yahweh.
Eze
33:31 They come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you
as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them; for with
their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their
gain.
Eze
33:32 Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a
pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear
your words, but they don't do them.
Eze
33:33 When this comes to pass, (behold, it comes), then shall they
know that a prophet has been among them.
Eze
34:1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
34:2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy,
and tell them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe
to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn't the
shepherds feed the sheep?
Eze
34:3 You eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool, you kill the
fatlings; but you don't feed the sheep.
Eze
34:4 You haven't strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed
that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken,
neither have you brought back that which was driven away, neither
have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor
have you ruled over them.
Eze
34:5 They were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they
became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.
Eze
34:6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high
hill: yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth;
and there was none who searched or sought.
Eze
34:7 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:
Eze
34:8 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became
a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field,
because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my
sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn't feed my sheep;
Eze
34:9 therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:
Eze
34:10 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against the shepherds;
and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease
from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves
any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may
not be food for them.
Eze
34:11 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I, will
search for my sheep, and will seek them out.
Eze
34:12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among
his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and
I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered
in the cloudy and dark day.
Eze
34:13 I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from
the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will
feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all
the inhabited places of the country.
Eze
34:14 I will feed them with good pasture; and on the mountains of
the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down
in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed on the mountains
of Israel.
Eze
34:15 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause
them to lie down, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
34:16 I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that
which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and
will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I
will destroy; I will feed them in justice.
Eze
34:17 As for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I
judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.
Eze
34:18 Seems it a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture,
but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture?
and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must foul the residue
with your feet?
Eze
34:19 As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with
your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.
Eze
34:20 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh to them: Behold, I, even
I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
Eze
34:21 Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all
the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad;
Eze
34:22 therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a
prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.
Eze
34:23 I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them,
even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their
shepherd.
Eze
34:24 I, Yahweh, will be their God, and my servant David prince
among them; I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
Eze
34:25 I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil
animals to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in
the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
Eze
34:26 I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing; and
I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be
showers of blessing.
Eze
34:27 The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth
shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and
they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of
their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made
slaves of them.
Eze
34:28 They shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the
animals of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell securely, and
none shall make them afraid.
Eze
34:29 I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they
shall be no more consumed with famine in the land, neither bear the
shame of the nations any more.
Eze
34:30 They shall know that I, Yahweh, their God am with them, and
that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
34:31 You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your
God, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
35:1 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
35:2 Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy
against it,
Eze
35:3 and tell it, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against
you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I
will make you a desolation and an astonishment.
Eze
35:4 I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and
you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
35:5 Because you have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over
the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their
calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;
Eze
35:6 therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare you
to blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood,
therefore blood shall pursue you.
Eze
35:7 Thus will I make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation;
and I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who
returns.
Eze
35:8 I will fill its mountains with its slain: in your hills and in
your valleys and in all your watercourses shall they fall who are
slain with the sword.
Eze
35:9 I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall
not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
35:10 Because you have said, These two nations and these two
countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Yahweh was
there:
Eze
35:11 therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will do
according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have
shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known
among them, when I shall judge you.
Eze
35:12 You shall know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your insults
which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They
are laid desolate, they are given us to devour.
Eze
35:13 You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and
have multiplied your words against me: I have heard it.
Eze
35:14 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When the whole earth rejoices, I
will make you desolate.
Eze
35:15 As you did rejoice over the inheritance of the house of
Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be
desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall
know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
36:1 You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say,
You mountains of Israel, hear the word of Yahweh.
Eze
36:2 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the enemy has said against
you, Aha! and, The ancient high places are ours in possession;
Eze
36:3 therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you
up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of
the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the
evil report of the people;
Eze
36:4 therefore, 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, to the desolate wastes and to
the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to
the residue of the nations that are all around;
Eze
36:5 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Surely in the fire of my
jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations, and
against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a
possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to
cast it out for a prey.
Eze
36:6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the
mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys,
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and
in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations:
Eze
36:7 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I have sworn, saying,
Surely the nations that are around you, they shall bear their shame.
Eze
36:8 But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your
branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at
hand to come.
Eze
36:9 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and you
shall be tilled and sown;
Eze
36:10 and I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even
all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste places
shall be built;
Eze
36:11 and I will multiply on you man and animal; and they shall
increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after
your former estate, and will do better to
you than at your beginnings: and you
shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
36:12 Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel;
and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and
you shall no more henceforth bereave them of children.
Eze
36:13 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because they say to you, You land
are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver of your nation;
Eze
36:14 therefore you shall devour men no more, neither bereave your
nation any more, says the Lord Yahweh;
Eze
36:15 neither will I let you hear any more the shame of the nations,
neither shall you bear the reproach of the peoples any more, neither
shall you cause your nation to stumble any more, says the Lord
Yahweh.
Eze
36:16 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
36:17 Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land,
they defiled it by their way and by their doings: their way before me
was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.
Eze
36:18 Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which
they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with
their idols;
Eze
36:19 and I scattered them among the nations, and they were
dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according
to their doings I judged them.
Eze
36:20 When they came to the nations, where they went, they profaned
my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the people of
Yahweh, and are gone forth out of his land.
Eze
36:21 But I had regard for my holy name, which the house of Israel
had profaned among the nations, where they went.
Eze
36:22 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
I don't do this
for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have
profaned among the nations, where you went.
Eze
36:23 I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among
the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the
nations shall know that I am Yahweh, says the Lord Yahweh, when I
shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
Eze
36:24 For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out
of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.
Eze
36:25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean:
from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse
you.
Eze
36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put
within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh,
and I will give you a heart of flesh.
Eze
36:27 I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my
statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.
Eze
36:28 You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and
you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Eze
36:29 I will save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call for
the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you.
Eze
36:30 I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the
field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the
nations.
Eze
36:31 Then you shall remember your evil ways, and your doings that
were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for
your iniquities and for your abominations.
Eze
36:32 Nor for your sake do I this,
says the Lord Yahweh, be it known to you: be ashamed and confounded
for your ways, house of Israel.
Eze
36:33 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day that I cleanse you from
all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the
waste places shall be built.
Eze
36:34 The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a
desolation in the sight of all who passed by.
Eze
36:35 They shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the
garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are
fortified and inhabited.
Eze
36:36 Then the nations that are left around you shall know that I,
Yahweh, have built the ruined places, and planted that which was
desolate: I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it.
Eze
36:37 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: For this, moreover, will I be
inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will
increase them with men like a flock.
Eze
36:38 As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her
appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of
men; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
Dec.
6
Ezekiel
37-40
Eze
37:1 The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the
Spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it
was full of bones.
Eze
37:2 He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were
very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry.
Eze
37:3 He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? I answered,
Lord Yahweh, you know.
Eze
37:4 Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and tell them,
you dry bones, hear the word of Yahweh.
Eze
37:5 Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: Behold, I will cause
breath to enter into you, and you shall live.
Eze
37:6 I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and
cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and
you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
37:7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there
was a noise, and behold, an earthquake; and the bones came together,
bone to its bone.
Eze
37:8 I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came
up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them.
Eze
37:9 Then said he to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man,
and tell the wind, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Come from the four
winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.
Eze
37:10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into
them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceedingly
great army.
Eze
37:11 Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole
house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our
hope is lost; we are clean cut off.
Eze
37:12 Therefore prophesy, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your
graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.
Eze
37:13 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your
graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.
Eze
37:14 I will put my Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will
place you in your own land: and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have
spoken it and performed it, says Yahweh.
Eze
37:15 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
Eze
37:16 You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, For Judah,
and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another
stick, and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for
all the house of Israel his companions:
Eze
37:17 and join them for you one to another into one stick, that they
may become one in your hand.
Eze
37:18 When the children of your people shall speak to you, saying,
Will you not show us what you mean by these?
Eze
37:19 tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take the
stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of
Israel his companions; and I will put them with it, even
with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be
one in my hand.
Eze
37:20 The sticks whereon you write shall be in your hand before
their eyes.
Eze
37:21 Say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take
the children of Israel from among the nations, where they are gone,
and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own
land:
Eze
37:22 and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains
of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all; and they shall be
no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms
any more at all;
Eze
37:23 neither shall they defile themselves any more with their
idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their
transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling
places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall
they be my people, and I will be their God.
Eze
37:24 My servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall
have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my ordinances, and observe
my statutes, and do them.
Eze
37:25 They shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my
servant, in which your fathers lived; and they shall dwell therein,
they, and their children, and their children's children, forever: and
David my servant shall be their prince for ever.
Eze
37:26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall
be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and
multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them
forevermore.
Eze
37:27 My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and
they shall be my people.
Eze
37:28 The nations shall know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies Israel,
when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them forevermore.
Eze
38:1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
38:2 Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the
prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
Eze
38:3 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you,
Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:
Eze
38:4 and I will turn you about, and put hooks into your jaws, and I
will bring you forth, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of
them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield,
all of them handling swords;
Eze
38:5 Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and
helmet;
Eze
38:6 Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the
uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes; even many peoples
with you.
Eze
38:7 Be prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies
who are assembled to you, and be a guard to them.
Eze
38:8 After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you
shall come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is
gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have
been a continual waste; but it is brought forth out of the peoples,
and they shall dwell securely, all of them.
Eze
38:9 You shall ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall be
like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many
peoples with you.
Eze
38:10 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: It shall happen in that day, that
things shall come into your mind, and you shall devise an evil
device:
Eze
38:11 and you shall say, I will go up to the land of unwalled
villages; I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all
of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates;
Eze
38:12 to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn your hand
against the waste places that are now
inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the
nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle
of the earth.
Eze
38:13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the
young lions of it, shall tell you, Are you come to take the spoil?
have you assembled your company to take the prey? to carry away
silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great
spoil?
Eze
38:14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell Gog, Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: In that day when my people Israel dwells securely, shall
you not know it?
Eze
38:15 You shall come from your place out of the uttermost parts of
the north, you, and many peoples with you, all of them riding on
horses, a great company and a mighty army;
Eze
38:16 and you shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to
cover the land: it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring
you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be
sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.
Eze
38:17 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Are you he of whom I spoke in old
time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those
days for many
years that I would bring you against them?
Eze
38:18 It shall happen in that day, when Gog shall come against the
land of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh, that my wrath shall come up
into my nostrils.
Eze
38:19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken,
Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of
Israel;
Eze
38:20 so that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the sky, and the
animals of the field, and all creeping things who creep on the earth,
and all the men who are on the surface of the earth, shall shake at
my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep
places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
Eze
38:21 I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains, says
the Lord Yahweh: every man's sword shall be against his brother.
Eze
38:22 With pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with
him; and I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many
peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, and great
hailstones, fire, and sulfur.
Eze
38:23 I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make
myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I
am Yahweh.
Eze
39:1 You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech,
and Tubal:
Eze
39:2 and I will turn you about, and will lead you on, and will cause
you to come up from the uttermost parts of the north; and I will
bring you on the mountains of Israel;
Eze
39:3 and I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will
cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand.
Eze
39:4 You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your
hordes, and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to the
ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals of the field to be
devoured.
Eze
39:5 You shall fall on the open field; for I have spoken it, says
the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
39:6 I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who dwell securely in
the islands; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
39:7 My holy name will I make known in the midst of my people
Israel; neither will I allow my holy name to be profaned any more:
and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.
Eze
39:8 Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh;
this is the day about which I have spoken.
Eze
39:9 Those who dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and
shall make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and
the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the war clubs, and the
spears, and they shall make fires of them seven years;
Eze
39:10 so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut
down any out of the forests; for they shall make fires of the
weapons; and they shall plunder those who plundered them, and rob
those who robbed them, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
39:11 It shall happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place
for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the
east of the sea; and it shall stop those who pass through: and there
shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it The
valley of Hamon Gog.
Eze
39:12 Seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that
they may cleanse the land.
Eze
39:13 Yes, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall
be to them a renown in the day that I shall be glorified, says the
Lord Yahweh.
Eze
39:14 They shall set apart men of continual employment, who shall
pass through the land, and, with those who pass through, those who
bury those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it:
after the end of seven months shall they search.
Eze
39:15 Those who pass through the land shall pass through; and when
any sees a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, until the
undertakers have buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog.
Eze
39:16 Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they
cleanse the land.
Eze
39:17 You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Speak to the birds
of every sort, and to every animal of the field, Assemble yourselves,
and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do
sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel,
that you may eat flesh and drink blood.
Eze
39:18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of
the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls,
all of them fatlings of Bashan.
Eze
39:19 You shall eat fat until you be full, and drink blood until you
be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
Eze
39:20 You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with
mighty men, and with all men of war, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
39:21 I will set my glory among the nations; and all the nations
shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have
laid on them.
Eze
39:22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am Yahweh their God,
from that day and forward.
Eze
39:23 The nations shall know that the house of Israel went into
captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and
I hid my face from them: so I gave them into the hand of their
adversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword.
Eze
39:24 According to their uncleanness and according to their
transgressions did I to them; and I hid my face from them.
Eze
39:25 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Now will I bring back the
captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and
I will be jealous for my holy name.
Eze
39:26 They shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses by which
they have trespassed against me, when they shall dwell securely in
their land, and none shall make them afraid;
Eze
39:27 when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered
them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the
sight of many nations.
Eze
39:28 They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, in that I caused
them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered them
to their own land; and I will leave none of them any more there;
Eze
39:29 neither will I hide my face any more from them; for I have
poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
40:1 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the
beginning of the year, in the tenth day
of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was struck,
in the same day, the hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me
there.
Eze
40:2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel,
and set me down on a very high mountain, whereon was as it were the
frame of a city on the south.
Eze
40:3 He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose
appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in
his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
Eze
40:4 The man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear
with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you; for,
to the intent that I may show them to you, are you brought here:
declare all that you see to the house of Israel.
Eze
40:5 Behold, a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in
the man's hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a
handbreadth each: so he measured the thickness of the building, one
reed; and the height, one reed.
Eze
40:6 Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went
up its steps: and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed
broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad.
Eze
40:7 Every lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad; and the
space between the lodges was five
cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward
the house was one reed.
Eze
40:8 He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one
reed.
Eze
40:9 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its
posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.
Eze
40:10 The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, and
three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had
one measure on this side and on that side.
Eze
40:11 He measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten
cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;
Eze
40:12 and a border before the lodges, one cubit on
this side, and a border, one cubit on
that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on
that side.
Eze
40:13 He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the
roof of the other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits; door against
door.
Eze
40:14 He made also posts, sixty cubits; and the court reached
to the posts, around the gate.
Eze
40:15 From
the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the
inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.
Eze
40:16 There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts
within the gate all around, and likewise to the arches; and windows
were around inward; and on each
post were palm trees.
Eze
40:17 Then brought he me into the outer court; and behold, there
were chambers and a pavement, made for the court all around: thirty
chambers were on the pavement.
Eze
40:18 The pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to the
length of the gates, even the lower pavement.
Eze
40:19 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower
gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits,
both on the
east and on the north.
Eze
40:20 The gate of the outer court whose prospect is toward the
north, he measured its length and its breadth.
Eze
40:21 The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that
side; and its posts and its arches were after the measure of the
first gate: its length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five
cubits.
Eze
40:22 The windows of it, and its arches, and the palm trees of it,
were after the measure of the gate whose prospect is toward the east;
and they went up to it by seven steps; and its arches were before
them.
Eze
40:23 There was a gate to the inner court over against the other
gate, both
on the north and on the east; and he measured from gate to gate one
hundred cubits.
Eze
40:24 He led me toward the south; and behold, a gate toward the
south: and he measured its posts and its arches according to these
measures.
Eze
40:25 There were windows in it and in its arches all around, like
those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth
twenty-five cubits.
Eze
40:26 There were seven steps to go up to it, and its arches were
before them; and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on
that side, on its posts.
Eze
40:27 There was a gate to the inner court toward the south: and he
measured from gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits.
Eze
40:28 Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and
he measured the south gate according to these measures;
Eze
40:29 and its lodges, and its posts, and its arches, according to
these measures: and there were windows in it and in its arches all
around; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad.
Eze
40:30 There were arches all around, twenty-five cubits long, and
five cubits broad.
Eze
40:31 The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees
were on its posts: and the ascent to it had eight steps.
Eze
40:32 He brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he
measured the gate according to these measures;
Eze
40:33 and its lodges, and its posts, and its arches, according to
these measures: and there were windows therein and in its arches all
around; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad.
Eze
40:34 The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees
were on its posts, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to
it had eight steps.
Eze
40:35 He brought me to the north gate: and he measured it
according to these measures;
Eze
40:36 its lodges, its posts, and its arches: and there were windows
therein all around; the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth
twenty-five cubits.
Eze
40:37 The posts of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees
were on its posts, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to
it had eight steps.
Eze
40:38 A chamber with its door was by the posts at the gates; there
they washed the burnt offering.
Eze
40:39 In the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two
tables on that side, to kill thereon the burnt offering and the sin
offering and the trespass offering.
Eze
40:40 On the one
side outside, as one goes up to the entry of the gate toward the
north, were two tables; and on the other side, which belonged to the
porch of the gate, were two tables.
Eze
40:41 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side,
by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they killed the
sacrifices.
Eze
40:42 There were four tables for the burnt offering, of cut stone, a
cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit
high; whereupon they laid the instruments with which they killed the
burnt offering and the sacrifice.
Eze
40:43 The hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened within all
around: and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.
Eze
40:44 Outside of the inner gate were chambers for the singers in the
inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their
prospect was toward the south; one at the side of the east gate
having the prospect toward the north.
Eze
40:45 He said to me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the
south, is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the house;
Eze
40:46 and the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the
priests, the keepers of the duty of the altar: these are the sons of
Zadok, who from among the sons of Levi come near to Yahweh to
minister to him.
Eze
40:47 He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred
cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar was before the house.
Eze
40:48 Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured
each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on
that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side,
and three cubits on that side.
Eze
40:49 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth
eleven cubits; even by the steps by which they went up to it: and
there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on
that side.
Dec. 4
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.
Dec. 5
1 Peter
3
1Pe 3:1
In like manner, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so
that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the
behavior of their wives without a word;
1Pe 3:2
seeing your pure behavior in fear.
1Pe 3:3
Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the
hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;
1Pe 3:4
but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible
adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God
very precious.
1Pe 3:5
For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned
themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:
1Pe 3:6
as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now
are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
1Pe 3:7
You husbands, in like manner, live with your wives according to
knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as
being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may
not be hindered.
1Pe 3:8
Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers,
tenderhearted, courteous,
1Pe 3:9
not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but instead
blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit
a blessing.
1Pe
3:10 For, "He who would love life, and see good days, let him
keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.
1Pe
3:11 Let him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace,
and pursue it.
1Pe
3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears
open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who
do evil."
1Pe
3:13 Now who is he who will harm you, if you become imitators of
that which is good?
1Pe
3:14 But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you are
blessed. "Don't fear what they fear, neither be troubled."
1Pe
3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready
to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the
hope that is in you, with humility and fear:
1Pe
3:16 having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as
evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good manner of
life in Christ.
1Pe
3:17 For it is better, if it is God's will, that you suffer for
doing well than for doing evil.
1Pe
3:18 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for
the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death
in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
1Pe
3:19 in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,
1Pe
3:20 who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the
days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is,
eight souls, were saved through water.
1Pe
3:21 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the
putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good
conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
1Pe
3:22 who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven,
angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.
Dec. 6
1 Peter
4
1Pe 4:1
Forasmuch then as Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm
yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the
flesh has ceased from sin;
1Pe 4:2
that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh
for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
1Pe 4:3
For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the
Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges,
orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
1Pe 4:4
They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same
excess of riot, blaspheming:
1Pe 4:5
who will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and
the dead.
1Pe 4:6
For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that
they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God
in the spirit.
1Pe 4:7
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind,
self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
1Pe 4:8
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for
love covers a multitude of sins.
1Pe 4:9
Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
1Pe
4:10 As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another,
as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.
1Pe
4:11 If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God.
If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies,
that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom
belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
1Pe
4:12 Beloved, don't be astonished at the fiery trial which has come
upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.
1Pe
4:13 But because you are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice;
that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with
exceeding joy.
1Pe
4:14 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed;
because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he
is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
1Pe
4:15 For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an
evil doer, or a meddler in other men's matters.
1Pe
4:16 But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be
ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.
1Pe
4:17 For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household
of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who
don't obey the Good News of God?
1Pe
4:18 "If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will
happen to the ungodly and the sinner?"
1Pe
4:19 Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God
in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.
