The Book Of The Prophet Ezekiel
Ezekiel 1:1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month,in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of
Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
Ezekiel 1:2 In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king
Jehoiachin's captivity,
Ezekiel 1:3 The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the
son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of
the LORD was there upon him.
Ezekiel 1:4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a
great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and
out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
Ezekiel 1:5 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living
creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
Ezekiel 1:6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
Ezekiel 1:7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was
like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished
brass.
Ezekiel 1:8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four
sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.
Ezekiel 1:9 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when
they went; they went every one straight forward.
Ezekiel 1:10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a
man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of
an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
Ezekiel 1:11 Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward;
two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their
bodies.
Ezekiel 1:12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit
was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.
Ezekiel 1:13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance
was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up
and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the
fire went forth lightning.
Ezekiel 1:14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of
a flash of lightning.
Ezekiel 1:15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the
earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.
Ezekiel 1:16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the
colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and
their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
Ezekiel 1:17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they
turned not when they went.
Ezekiel 1:18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful;
and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
Ezekiel 1:19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them:
and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were
lifted up.
Ezekiel 1:20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their
spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit
of the living creature was in the wheels.
Ezekiel 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 over
against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
Ezekiel 1:22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living
creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their
heads above.
Ezekiel 1:23 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one
toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one
had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.
Ezekiel 1:24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the
noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as
the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
Ezekiel 1:25 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their
heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.
Ezekiel 1:26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the
likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the
likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon
it.
Ezekiel 1:27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire
round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from
the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of
fire, and it had brightness round about.
Ezekiel 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 round about. This was the
appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell
upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
Ezekiel 2:1 And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will
speak unto thee.
Ezekiel 2:2 And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me
upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me.
Ezekiel 2:3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of
Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their
fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.
Ezekiel 2:4 For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee
unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 2:5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear,
(for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a
prophet among them.
Ezekiel 2:6 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid
of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell
among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks,
though they be a rebellious house.
Ezekiel 2:7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear,
or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.
Ezekiel 2:8 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou
rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give
thee.
Ezekiel 2:9 And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a
roll of a book was therein;
Ezekiel 2:10 And he spread it before me; and it was written within and
without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
Ezekiel 3:1 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat
this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 3:2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
Ezekiel 3:3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and
fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was
in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
Ezekiel 3:4 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of
Israel, and speak with my words unto them.
Ezekiel 3:5 For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an
hard language, but to the house of Israel;
Ezekiel 3:6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language,
whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they
would have hearkened unto thee.
Ezekiel 3:7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they
will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and
hardhearted.
Ezekiel 3:8 Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy
forehead strong against their foreheads.
Ezekiel 3:9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear
them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious
house.
Ezekiel 3:10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall
speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.
Ezekiel 3:11 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of
thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
Ezekiel 3:12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a
great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.
Ezekiel 3:13 I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures
that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a
noise of a great rushing.
Ezekiel 3:14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in
bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon
me.
Ezekiel 3:15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by
the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished
among them seven days.
Ezekiel 3:16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of
the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 3:17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of
Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
Ezekiel 3:18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou
givest him not warning, nor speakest 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 thine hand.
Ezekiel 3:19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his
wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou
hast delivered thy soul.
Ezekiel 3:20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness,
and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die:
because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his
righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I
require at thine hand.
Ezekiel 3:21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous
sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also
thou hast delivered thy soul.
Ezekiel 3:22 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto
me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.
Ezekiel 3:23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the
glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of
Chebar: and I fell on my face.
Ezekiel 3:24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and
spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.
Ezekiel 3:25 But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee,
and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:
Ezekiel 3:26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth,
that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a
rebellious house.
Ezekiel 3:27 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou
shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth, let him hear;
and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.
Ezekiel 4:1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee,
and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:
Ezekiel 4:2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast
a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams
against it round about.
Ezekiel 4:3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall
of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall
be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the
house of Israel.
Ezekiel 4:4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the
house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt
lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
Ezekiel 4:5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according
to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear
the iniquity of the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 4:6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right
side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I
have appointed thee each day for a year.
Ezekiel 4:7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem,
and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
Ezekiel 4:8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn
thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
Ezekiel 4:9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and
lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee
bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon
thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
Ezekiel 4:10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty
shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
Ezekiel 4:11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an
hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
Ezekiel 4:12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it
with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
Ezekiel 4:13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat
their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
Ezekiel 4:14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been
polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which
dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh
into my mouth.
Ezekiel 4:15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for
man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
Ezekiel 4:16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the
staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with
care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
Ezekiel 4:17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with
another, and consume away for their iniquity.
Ezekiel 5:1 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a
barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then
take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
Ezekiel 5:2 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city,
when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and
smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind;
and I will draw out a sword after them.
Ezekiel 5:3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in
thy skirts.
Ezekiel 5:4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the
fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all
the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 5:5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the
midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.
Ezekiel 5:6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the
nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for
they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
Ezekiel 5:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more
than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes,
neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments
of the nations that are round about you;
Ezekiel 5:8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against
thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the
nations.
Ezekiel 5:9 And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto
I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.
Ezekiel 5:10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee,
and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee,
and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
Ezekiel 5:11 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou
hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine
abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye
spare, neither will I have any pity.
Ezekiel 5:12 A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with
famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall
fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all
the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
Ezekiel 5:13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury
to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the
LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.
Ezekiel 5:14 Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the
nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
Ezekiel 5:15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an
astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute
judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have
spoken it.
Ezekiel 5:16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which
shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I
will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
Ezekiel 5:17 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall
bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will
bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.
Ezekiel 6:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 6:2 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and
prophesy against them,
Ezekiel 6:3 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD;
Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and
to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will
destroy your high places.
Ezekiel 6:4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be
broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
Ezekiel 6:5 And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel
before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
Ezekiel 6:6 In all your dwellingplaces 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 images may be cut
down, and your works may be abolished.
Ezekiel 6:7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know
that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 6:8 Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall
escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the
countries.
Ezekiel 6:9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations
whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish
heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring
after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they
have committed in all their abominations.
Ezekiel 6:10 And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not
said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.
Ezekiel 6:11 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with
thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel!
for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
Ezekiel 6:12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is
near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die
by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.
Ezekiel 6:13 Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men
shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in
all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every
thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.
Ezekiel 6:14 So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land
desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their
habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 7:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 7:2 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of
Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.
Ezekiel 7:3 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon
thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee
all thine abominations.
Ezekiel 7:4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but
I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the
midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 7:5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
Ezekiel 7:6 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold,
it is come.
Ezekiel 7:7 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land:
the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of
the mountains.
Ezekiel 7:8 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish
mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will
recompense thee for all thine abominations.
Ezekiel 7:9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will
recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the
midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that smiteth.
Ezekiel 7:10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth;
the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
Ezekiel 7:11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them
shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall
there be wailing for them.
Ezekiel 7:12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer
rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
Ezekiel 7:13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although
they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof,
which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity
of his life.
Ezekiel 7:14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none
goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
Ezekiel 7:15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within:
he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city,
famine and pestilence shall devour him.
Ezekiel 7:16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the
mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his
iniquity.
Ezekiel 7:17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as
water.
Ezekiel 7:18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror
shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all
their heads.
Ezekiel 7:19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold
shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver
them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls,
neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
Ezekiel 7:20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but
they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things
therein: therefore have I set it far from them.
Ezekiel 7:21 And 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 pollute it.
Ezekiel 7:22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my
secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
Ezekiel 7:23 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the
city is full of violence.
Ezekiel 7:24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall
possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and
their holy places shall be defiled.
Ezekiel 7:25 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall
be none.
Ezekiel 7:26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon
rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish
from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
Ezekiel 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 unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge
them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 8:1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in
the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah
sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.
Ezekiel 8:2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from
the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even
upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.
Ezekiel 8:3 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of
mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and
brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate
that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy,
which provoketh to jealousy.
Ezekiel 8:4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according
to the vision that I saw in the plain.
Ezekiel 8:5 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way
toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and
behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
Ezekiel 8:6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they
do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that
I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt
see greater abominations.
Ezekiel 8:7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked,
behold a hole in the wall.
Ezekiel 8:8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when
I had digged in the wall, behold a door.
Ezekiel 8:9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations
that they do here.
Ezekiel 8:10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things,
and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed
upon the wall round about.
Ezekiel 8:11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the
house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan,
with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.
Ezekiel 8:12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the
ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of
his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the
earth.
Ezekiel 8:13 He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see
greater abominations that they do.
Ezekiel 8:14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house
which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
Ezekiel 8:15 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn
thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.
Ezekiel 8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house,
and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the
altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of
the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward
the east.
Ezekiel 8:17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O 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
returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
Ezekiel 8:18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare,
neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice,
yet will I not hear them.
Ezekiel 9:1 He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them
that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his
destroying weapon in his hand.
Ezekiel 9:2 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which
lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one
man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side:
and they went in, and stood beside the brazen altar.
Ezekiel 9:3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub,
whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man
clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;
Ezekiel 9:4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city,
through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men
that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst
thereof.
Ezekiel 9:5 And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him
through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:
Ezekiel 9:6 Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and
women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my
sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.
Ezekiel 9:7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts
with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.
Ezekiel 9:8 And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was
left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou
destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon
Jerusalem?
Ezekiel 9:9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and
Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of
perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD
seeth not.
Ezekiel 9:10 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I
have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.
Ezekiel 9:11 And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn
by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded
me.
Ezekiel 10:1 Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the
head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as
the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
Ezekiel 10:2 And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in
between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of
fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went
in in my sight.
Ezekiel 10:3 Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when
the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
Ezekiel 10:4 Then the glory of the LORD went 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 the LORD'S glory.
Ezekiel 10:5 And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the
outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.
Ezekiel 10:6 And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed
with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the
cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.
Ezekiel 10:7 And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the
cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and took thereof, and
put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it, and
went out.
Ezekiel 10:8 And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand
under their wings.
Ezekiel 10:9 And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one
wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance
of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone.
Ezekiel 10:10 And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as
if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
Ezekiel 10:11 When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned
not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it;
they turned not as they went.
Ezekiel 10:12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and
their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels
that they four had.
Ezekiel 10:13 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O
wheel.
Ezekiel 10:14 And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a
cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a
lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
Ezekiel 10:15 And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature
that I saw by the river of Chebar.
Ezekiel 10:16 And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when
the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same
wheels also turned not from beside them.
Ezekiel 10:17 When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up,
these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the living creature was in
them.
Ezekiel 10:18 Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of
the house, and stood over the cherubims.
Ezekiel 10:19 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from
the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them,
and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD'S house; and the
glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
Ezekiel 10:20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel
by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims.
Ezekiel 10:21 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and
the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
Ezekiel 10:22 And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw
by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one
straight forward.
Ezekiel 11:1 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east
gate of the LORD'S house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of
the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and
Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
Ezekiel 11:2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise
mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
Ezekiel 11:3 Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is
the caldron, and we be the flesh.
Ezekiel 11:4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
Ezekiel 11:5 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me,
Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know
the things that come into your mind, every one of them.
Ezekiel 11:6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled
the streets thereof with the slain.
Ezekiel 11:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid
in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I
will bring you forth out of the midst of it.
Ezekiel 11:8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you,
saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 11:9 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you
into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
Ezekiel 11:10 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of
Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 11:11 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the
flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel:
Ezekiel 11:12 And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked
in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners
of the heathen that are round about you.
Ezekiel 11:13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son
of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice,
and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
Ezekiel 11:14 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 11:15 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy
kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the
inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this
land given in possession.
Ezekiel 11:16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast
them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the
countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where
they shall come.
Ezekiel 11:17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you
from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been
scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
Ezekiel 11:18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the
detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.
Ezekiel 11:19 And 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 an heart of flesh:
Ezekiel 11:20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances,
and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezekiel 11:21 But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their
detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon
their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 11:22 Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels
beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
Ezekiel 11:23 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city,
and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
Ezekiel 11:24 Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision
by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision
that I had seen went up from me.
Ezekiel 11:25 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that
the LORD had showed me.
Ezekiel 12:1 The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 12:2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house,
which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for
they are a rebellious house.
Ezekiel 12:3 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing,
and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to
another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be a
rebellious house.
Ezekiel 12:4 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as
stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight, as they
that go forth into captivity.
Ezekiel 12:5 Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out
thereby.
Ezekiel 12:6 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry
it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the
ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 12:7 And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by
day, as stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through the wall with
mine hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bare it upon my shoulder
in their sight.
Ezekiel 12:8 And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 12:9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house,
said unto thee, What doest thou?
Ezekiel 12:10 Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This burden
concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among
them.
Ezekiel 12:11 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done
unto them: they shall remove and go into captivity.
Ezekiel 12:12 And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder
in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry
out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not the ground with his
eyes.
Ezekiel 12:13 My net also will I spread upon 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.
Ezekiel 12:14 And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to
help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.
Ezekiel 12:15 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter
them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.
Ezekiel 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 heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 12:17 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 12:18 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water
with trembling and with carefulness;
Ezekiel 12:19 And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD
of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat
their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that
her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of
all them that dwell therein.
Ezekiel 12:20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the
land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 12:21 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 12:22 Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of
Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?
Ezekiel 12:23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this
proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but
say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.
Ezekiel 12:24 For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering
divination within the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 12:25 For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall
speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O
rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord
GOD.
Ezekiel 12:26 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 12:27 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The
vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times
that are far off.
Ezekiel 12:28 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There shall
none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall
be done, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 13:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 13:2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that
prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear
ye the word of the LORD;
Ezekiel 13:3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that
follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
Ezekiel 13:4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
Ezekiel 13:5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge
for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.
Ezekiel 13:6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD
saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that
they would confirm the word.
Ezekiel 13:7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying
divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I have not spoken?
Ezekiel 13:8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken
vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord
GOD.
Ezekiel 13:9 And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and
that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither
shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall
they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 13:10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying,
Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed
it with untempered mortar:
Ezekiel 13:11 Say unto them which daub it with untempered mortar, that it
shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones,
shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.
Ezekiel 13:12 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you,
Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?
Ezekiel 13:13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a
stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine
anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
Ezekiel 13:14 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with
untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation
thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in
the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 13:15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them
that have daubed it with untempered mortar, and will say unto you, The wall is
no more, neither they that daubed it;
Ezekiel 13:16 To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning
Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace,
saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 13:17 Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters
of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou
against them,
Ezekiel 13:18 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew
pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to
hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls
alive that come unto you?
Ezekiel 13:19 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley
and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save
the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your
lies?
Ezekiel 13:20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your
pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear
them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to
make them fly.
Ezekiel 13:21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of
your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall
know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 13:22 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad,
whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he
should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
Ezekiel 13:23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations:
for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the
LORD.
Ezekiel 14:1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat
before me.
Ezekiel 14:2 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 14:3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart,
and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be
inquired of at all by them?
Ezekiel 14:4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his
heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and
cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the
multitude of his idols;
Ezekiel 14:5 That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because
they are all estranged from me through their idols.
Ezekiel 14:6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces
from all your abominations.
Ezekiel 14:7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that
sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his
idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his
face, and cometh to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will
answer him by myself:
Ezekiel 14:8 And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a
sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye
shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 14:9 And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I
the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him,
and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
Ezekiel 14:10 And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the
punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh
unto him;
Ezekiel 14:11 That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me,
neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may
be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 14:12 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
Ezekiel 14:13 Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing
grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the
staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man
and beast from it:
Ezekiel 14:14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it,
they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord
GOD.
Ezekiel 14:15 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they
spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the
beasts:
Ezekiel 14:16 Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord
GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be
delivered, but the land shall be desolate.
Ezekiel 14:17 Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go
through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
Ezekiel 14:18 Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord
GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be
delivered themselves.
Ezekiel 14:19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury
upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
Ezekiel 14:20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the
Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver
their own souls by their righteousness.
Ezekiel 14:21 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four
sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome
beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
Ezekiel 14:22 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be
brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto
you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted
concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all
that I have brought upon it.
Ezekiel 14:23 And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their
doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have
done in it, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 15:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 15:2 Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a
branch which is among the trees of the forest?
Ezekiel 15:3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a
pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
Ezekiel 15:4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth
both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?
Ezekiel 15:5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much
less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it
is burned?
Ezekiel 15:6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the
trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give
the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 15:7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one
fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the
LORD, when I set my face against them.
Ezekiel 15:8 And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed
a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 16:1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 16:2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
Ezekiel 16:3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and
thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy
mother an Hittite.
Ezekiel 16:4 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel
was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not
salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
Ezekiel 16:5 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have
compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the
loathing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.
Ezekiel 16:6 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own
blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto
thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
Ezekiel 16:7 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and
thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments:
thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked
and bare.
Ezekiel 16:8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy
time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy
nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee,
saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
Ezekiel 16:9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I thoroughly washed away
thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
Ezekiel 16:10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with
badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee
with silk.
Ezekiel 16:11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon
thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
Ezekiel 16:12 And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears,
and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
Ezekiel 16:13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment
was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour,
and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper
into a kingdom.
Ezekiel 16:14 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty:
for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the
Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 16:15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the
harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one
that passed by; his it was.
Ezekiel 16:16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high
places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things
shall not come, neither shall it be so.
Ezekiel 16:17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my
silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst
commit whoredom with them,
Ezekiel 16:18 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and
thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.
Ezekiel 16:19 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and
honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet
savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 16:20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou
hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured.
Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
Ezekiel 16:21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause
them to pass through the fire for them?
Ezekiel 16:22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not
remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast
polluted in thy blood.
Ezekiel 16:23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto
thee! saith the Lord GOD;)
Ezekiel 16:24 That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast
made thee an high place in every street.
Ezekiel 16:25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and
hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one
that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
Ezekiel 16:26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy
neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to
anger.
Ezekiel 16:27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and
have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them
that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy
lewd way.
Ezekiel 16:28 Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because
thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet
couldest not be satisfied.
Ezekiel 16:29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of
Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.
Ezekiel 16:30 How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest
all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
Ezekiel 16:31 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every
way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an
harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
Ezekiel 16:32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers
instead of her husband!
Ezekiel 16:33 They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to
all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side
for thy whoredom.
Ezekiel 16:34 And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms,
whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a
reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.
Ezekiel 16:35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:
Ezekiel 16:36 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured
out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and
with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children,
which thou didst give unto them;
Ezekiel 16:37 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou
hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that
thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will
discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
Ezekiel 16:38 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed
blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
Ezekiel 16:39 And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall
throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they
shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and
leave thee naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:40 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they
shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
Ezekiel 16:41 And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute
judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease
from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.
Ezekiel 16:42 So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy
shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
Ezekiel 16:43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but
hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense
thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this
lewdness above all thine abominations.
Ezekiel 16:44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb
against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
Ezekiel 16:45 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that loatheth her husband and
her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which loathed their
husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an
Amorite.
Ezekiel 16:46 And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that
dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right
hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
Ezekiel 16:47 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after
their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast
corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
Ezekiel 16:48 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done,
she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
Ezekiel 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride,
fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters,
neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Ezekiel 16:50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me:
therefore I took them away as I saw good.
Ezekiel 16:51 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast
multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters
in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
Ezekiel 16:52 Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame
for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more
righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that
thou hast justified thy sisters.
Ezekiel 16:53 When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of
Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then
will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:
Ezekiel 16:54 That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be
confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.
Ezekiel 16:55 When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to
their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their
former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.
Ezekiel 16:56 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day
of thy pride,
Ezekiel 16:57 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy
reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the
daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.
Ezekiel 16:58 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the
LORD.
Ezekiel 16:59 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as
thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
Ezekiel 16:60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days
of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
Ezekiel 16:61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou
shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them
unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
Ezekiel 16:62 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt
know that I am the LORD:
Ezekiel 16:63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open
thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for
all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 17:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 17:2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the
house of Israel;
Ezekiel 17:3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great
wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto
Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
Ezekiel 17:4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into
a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.
Ezekiel 17:5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a
fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.
Ezekiel 17:6 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose
branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became
a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
Ezekiel 17:7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many
feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth
her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her
plantation.
Ezekiel 17:8 It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might
bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly
vine.
Ezekiel 17:9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he
not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither?
it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or
many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.
Ezekiel 17:10 Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not
utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows
where it grew.
Ezekiel 17:11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 17:12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things
mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath
taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to
Babylon;
Ezekiel 17:13 And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with
him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:
Ezekiel 17:14 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself
up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
Ezekiel 17:15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into
Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper?
shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be
delivered?
Ezekiel 17:16 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the
king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant
he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
Ezekiel 17:17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company
make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off
many persons:
Ezekiel 17:18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when,
lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not
escape.
Ezekiel 17:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath
that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I
recompense upon his own head.
Ezekiel 17:20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my
snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his
trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
Ezekiel 17:21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the
sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall
know that I the LORD have spoken it.
Ezekiel 17:22 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest
branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his
young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:
Ezekiel 17:23 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and
it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under
it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof
shall they dwell.
Ezekiel 17:24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have
brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green
tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have
done it.
Ezekiel 18:1 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,
Ezekiel 18:2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of
Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth
are set on edge?
Ezekiel 18:3 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any
more to use this proverb in Israel.
Ezekiel 18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also
the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Ezekiel 18:5 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
Ezekiel 18:6 And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up
his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his
neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,
Ezekiel 18:7 And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his
pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and
hath covered the naked with a garment;
Ezekiel 18:8 He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any
increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true
judgment between man and man,
Ezekiel 18:9 Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal
truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 18:10 If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and
that doeth the like to any one of these things,
Ezekiel 18:11 And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten
upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,
Ezekiel 18:12 Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence,
hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath
committed abomination,
Ezekiel 18:13 Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he
then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall
surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
Ezekiel 18:14 Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins
which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,
Ezekiel 18:15 That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up
his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour's
wife,
Ezekiel 18:16 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge,
neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and
hath covered the naked with a garment,
Ezekiel 18:17 That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not
received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my
statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely
live.
Ezekiel 18:18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his
brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even
he shall die in his iniquity.
Ezekiel 18:19 Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the
father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept
all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear
the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the
son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness
of the wicked shall be upon him.
Ezekiel 18:21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath
committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he
shall surely live, he shall not die.
Ezekiel 18:22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not
be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
Ezekiel 18:23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith
the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
Ezekiel 18:24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness,
and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the
wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall
not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that
he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
Ezekiel 18:25 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O
house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
Ezekiel 18:26 When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and
committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done
shall he die.
Ezekiel 18:27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness
that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall
save his soul alive.
Ezekiel 18:28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his
transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Ezekiel 18:29 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not
equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
Ezekiel 18:30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one
according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from
all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
Ezekiel 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have
transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die,
O house of Israel?
Ezekiel 18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith
the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Ezekiel 19:1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
Ezekiel 19:2 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among
lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
Ezekiel 19:3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion,
and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
Ezekiel 19:4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and
they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 19:5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost,
then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
Ezekiel 19:6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young
lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
Ezekiel 19:7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their
cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of
his roaring.
Ezekiel 19:8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the
provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
Ezekiel 19:9 And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king
of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be
heard upon the mountains of Israel.
Ezekiel 19:10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters:
she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
Ezekiel 19:11 And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare
rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared
in her height with the multitude of her branches.
Ezekiel 19:12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the
ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and
withered; the fire consumed them.
Ezekiel 19:13 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty
ground.
Ezekiel 19:14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath
devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule.
This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
Ezekiel 20:1 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month,
the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to
inquire of the LORD, and sat before me.
Ezekiel 20:2 Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 20:3 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to inquire of me? As I live, saith the
Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.
Ezekiel 20:4 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause
them to know the abominations of their fathers:
Ezekiel 20:5 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I
chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and
made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand
unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God;
Ezekiel 20:6 In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them
forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing
with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:
Ezekiel 20:7 Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations
of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD
your God.
Ezekiel 20:8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me:
they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did
they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon
them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:9 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be
polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made
myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:10 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt,
and brought them into the wilderness.
Ezekiel 20:11 And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments,
which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
Ezekiel 20:12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me
and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.
Ezekiel 20:13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness:
they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man
do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I
said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
Ezekiel 20:14 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be
polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
Ezekiel 20:15 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that
I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk
and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
Ezekiel 20:16 Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my
statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
Ezekiel 20:17 Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them,
neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
Ezekiel 20:18 But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not
in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile
yourselves with their idols:
Ezekiel 20:19 I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my
judgments, and do them;
Ezekiel 20:20 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me
and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.
Ezekiel 20:21 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked
not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do,
he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would
pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the
wilderness.
Ezekiel 20:22 Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's
sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose
sight I brought them forth.
Ezekiel 20:23 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I
would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
Ezekiel 20:24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised
my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their
fathers' idols.
Ezekiel 20:25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and
judgments whereby they should not live;
Ezekiel 20:26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to
pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them
desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 20:27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say
unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed
me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.
Ezekiel 20:28 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I
lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all
the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they
presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet
savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
Ezekiel 20:29 Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go?
And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.
Ezekiel 20:30 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom
after their abominations?
Ezekiel 20:31 For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass
through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this
day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith
the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.
Ezekiel 20:32 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that
ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve
wood and stone.
Ezekiel 20:33 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and
with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:
Ezekiel 20:34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you
out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a
stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
Ezekiel 20:35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and
there will I plead with you face to face.
Ezekiel 20:36 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the
land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 20:37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring
you into the bond of the covenant:
Ezekiel 20:38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that
transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they
sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know
that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 20:39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye,
serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto
me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
Ezekiel 20:40 For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of
Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them
in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your
offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
Ezekiel 20:41 I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out
from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been
scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.
Ezekiel 20:42 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you
into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand
to give it to your fathers.
Ezekiel 20:43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings,
wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight
for all your evils that ye have committed.
Ezekiel 20:44 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have wrought with
you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to
your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 20:45 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 20:46 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word
toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;
Ezekiel 20:47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD;
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall
devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall
not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned
therein.
Ezekiel 20:48 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it
shall not be quenched.
Ezekiel 20:49 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak
parables?
Ezekiel 21:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 21:2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word
toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
Ezekiel 21:3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am
against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off
from thee the righteous and the wicked.
Ezekiel 21:4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the
wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh
from the south to the north:
Ezekiel 21:5 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my
sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
Ezekiel 21:6 Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy
loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
Ezekiel 21:7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest
thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every
heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint,
and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought
to pass, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 21:8 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 21:9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A
sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
Ezekiel 21:10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that
it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as
every tree.
Ezekiel 21:11 And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled:
this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the
slayer.
Ezekiel 21:12 Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it
shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall
be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.
Ezekiel 21:13 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the
rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 21:14 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands
together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain:
it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their
privy chambers.
Ezekiel 21:15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates,
that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made
bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
Ezekiel 21:16 Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the
left, whithersoever thy face is set.
Ezekiel 21:17 I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my
fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.
Ezekiel 21:18 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,
Ezekiel 21:19 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword
of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land:
and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.
Ezekiel 21:20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the
Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
Ezekiel 21:21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at
the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he
consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
Ezekiel 21:22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint
captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with
shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to
build a fort.
Ezekiel 21:23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their
sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the
iniquity, that they may be taken.
Ezekiel 21:24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your
iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that
in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to
remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.
Ezekiel 21:25 And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come,
when iniquity shall have an end,
Ezekiel 21:26 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the
crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is
high.
Ezekiel 21:27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no
more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
Ezekiel 21:28 And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord
GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou,
The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume
because of the glittering:
Ezekiel 21:29 Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie
unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked,
whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.
Ezekiel 21:30 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee
in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
Ezekiel 21:31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow
against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of
brutish men, and skilful to destroy.
Ezekiel 21:32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the
midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the LORD have
spoken it.
Ezekiel 22:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 22:2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the
bloody city? yea, thou shalt show her all her abominations.
Ezekiel 22:3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood
in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself
to defile herself.
Ezekiel 22:4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and
hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused
thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made
thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
Ezekiel 22:5 Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock
thee, which art infamous and much vexed.
Ezekiel 22:6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their
power to shed blood.
Ezekiel 22:7 In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst
of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they
vexed the fatherless and the widow.
Ezekiel 22:8 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my
sabbaths.
Ezekiel 22:9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee
they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
Ezekiel 22:10 In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee
have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
Ezekiel 22:11 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife;
and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath
humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
Ezekiel 22:12 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken
usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by
extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 22:13 Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest
gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of
thee.
Ezekiel 22:14 Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the
days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.
Ezekiel 22:15 And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee
in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
Ezekiel 22:16 And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight
of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 22:17 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 22:18 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all
they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they
are even the dross of silver.
Ezekiel 22:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become
dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 22:20 As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin,
into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I
gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt
you.
Ezekiel 22:21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my
wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.
Ezekiel 22:22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye
be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured
out my fury upon you.
Ezekiel 22:23 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 22:24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not
cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
Ezekiel 22:25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof,
like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have
taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the
midst thereof.
Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy
things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have
they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their
eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
Ezekiel 22:27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the
prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
Ezekiel 22:28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar,
seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD,
when the LORD hath not spoken.
Ezekiel 22:29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised
robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the
stranger wrongfully.
Ezekiel 22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the
hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy
it: but I found none.
Ezekiel 22:31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have
consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon
their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 23:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 23:2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
Ezekiel 23:3 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms
in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the
teats of their virginity.
Ezekiel 23:4 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her
sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their
names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
Ezekiel 23:5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted
on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
Ezekiel 23:6 Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them
desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
Ezekiel 23:7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that
were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their
idols she defiled herself.
Ezekiel 23:8 Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her
youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and
poured their whoredom upon her.
Ezekiel 23:9 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers,
into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
Ezekiel 23:10 These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her
daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for
they had executed judgment upon her.
Ezekiel 23:11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in
her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her
whoredoms.
Ezekiel 23:12 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and
rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them
desirable young men.
Ezekiel 23:13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
Ezekiel 23:14 And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men
portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,
Ezekiel 23:15 Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire
upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the
Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
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