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\id EZK ENG (p.sfm) - AV1811PCE - The King James Version of the Holy Bible Wednesday, October 14, 2009
\ide UTF-8
\h Ezekiel
\mt The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel
\c 1
\p
\v 1 ¶ Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth \add month,\add* in the fifth \add day\add* of the month, as I \add was\add* among the captives by the river of Chebar, \add that\add* the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
\p
\v 2 In the fifth \add day\add* of the month, which \add was\add* the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness \add was\add* about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
\p
\v 5 Also out of the midst thereof \add came\add* the likeness of four living creatures. And this \add was\add* their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
\p
\v 6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
\p
\v 7 And their feet \add were\add* straight feet; and the sole of their feet \add was\add* like the sole of a calf’s foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.
\p
\v 8 And \add they had\add* the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.
\p
\v 9 Their wings \add were\add* joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 11 Thus \add were\add* their faces: and their wings \add were\add* stretched upward; two \add wings\add* of every one \add were\add* joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
\p
\v 12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; \add and\add* they turned not when they went.
\p
\v 13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance \add was\add* like burning coals of fire, \add and\add* 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.
\p
\v 14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
\p
\v 15 ¶ Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.
\p
\v 16 The appearance of the wheels and their work \add was\add* 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.
\p
\v 17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: \add and\add* they turned not when they went.
\p
\v 18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings \add were\add* full of eyes round about them four.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither \add was their\add* spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature \add was\add* in the wheels.
\p
\v 21 When those went, \add these\add* went; and when those stood, \add these\add* 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 \add was\add* in the wheels.
\p
\v 22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature \add was\add* as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.
\p
\v 23 And under the firmament \add were\add* 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.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 25 And there was a voice from the firmament that \add was\add* over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.
\p
\v 26 ¶ And above the firmament that \add was\add* over their heads \add was\add* the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne \add was\add* the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so \add was\add* the appearance of the brightness round about. This \add was\add* the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw \add it,\add* I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
\c 2
\p
\v 1 ¶ And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 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, \add even\add* unto this very day.
\p
\v 4 For \add they are\add* impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.
\p
\v 5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they \add are\add* a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them.
\p
\v 6 ¶ And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns \add be\add* with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they \add be\add* a rebellious house.
\p
\v 7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they \add are\add* most rebellious.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 9 ¶ And when I looked, behold, an hand \add was\add* sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book \add was\add* therein;
\p
\v 10 And he spread it before me; and it \add was\add* written within and without: and \add there was\add* written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
\c 3
\p
\v 1 ¶ Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.
\p
\v 2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
\p
\v 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 \add it;\add* and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
\p
\v 4 ¶ And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.
\p
\v 5 For thou \add art\add* not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, \add but\add* to the house of Israel;
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel \add are\add* impudent and hardhearted.
\p
\v 8 Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
\p
\v 9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they \add be\add* a rebellious house.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, \add saying,\add* Blessed \add be\add* the glory of the LORD from his place.
\p
\v 13 \add I heard\add* 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.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 15 ¶ Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.
\p
\v 16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 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 \add man\add* shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 20 Again, When a righteous \add man\add* 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.
\p
\v 21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous \add man,\add* that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 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:
\p
\v 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 \add are\add* a rebellious house.
\p
\v 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 \add are\add* a rebellious house.
\c 4
\p
\v 1 ¶ Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, \add even\add* Jerusalem:
\p
\v 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 \add battering\add* rams against it round about.
\p
\v 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 \add shall be\add* a sign to the house of Israel.
\p
\v 4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: \add according\add* to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm \add shall be\add* uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 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, \add according\add* to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
\p
\v 10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat \add shall be\add* by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
\p
\v 11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
\p
\v 12 And thou shalt eat it \add as\add* barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
\p
\v 13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 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:
\p
\v 17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
\c 5
\p
\v 1 ¶ And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber’s razor, and cause \add it\add* to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the \add hair.\add*
\p
\v 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, \add and\add* 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.
\p
\v 3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
\p
\v 4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; \add for\add* thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.
\p
\v 5 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD; This \add is\add* Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries \add that are\add* round about her.
\p
\v 6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that \add are\add* round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
\p
\v 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that \add are\add* round about you, \add and\add* have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that \add are\add* round about you;
\p
\v 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, \add am\add* against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 11 Wherefore, \add as\add* 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 \add thee;\add* neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 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 \add it\add* in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.
\p
\v 14 Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that \add are\add* round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
\p
\v 15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that \add are\add* round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken \add it.\add*
\p
\v 16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for \add their\add* destruction, \add and\add* which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
\p
\v 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 \add it.\add*
\c 6
\p
\v 1 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
\p
\v 2 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
\p
\v 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, \add even\add* I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
\p
\v 4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain \add men\add* before your idols.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I \add am\add* the LORD.
\p
\v 8 ¶ Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have \add some\add* that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.
\p
\v 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 lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
\p
\v 10 And they shall know that I \add am\add* the LORD, \add and that\add* I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 13 Then shall ye know that I \add am\add* the LORD, when their slain \add men\add* 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.
\p
\v 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 \add am\add* the LORD.
\c 7
\p
\v 1 ¶ Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 3 Now \add is\add* the end \add come\add* 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.
\p
\v 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 \add am\add* the LORD.
\p
\v 5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
\p
\v 6 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.
\p
\v 7 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble \add is\add* near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations \add that\add* are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I \add am\add* the LORD that smiteth.
\p
\v 10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
\p
\v 11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them \add shall remain,\add* nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither \add shall there be\add* wailing for them.
\p
\v 12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath \add is\add* upon all the multitude thereof.
\p
\v 13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision \add is\add* touching the whole multitude thereof, \add which\add* shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
\p
\v 14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath \add is\add* upon all the multitude thereof.
\p
\v 15 The sword \add is\add* without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that \add is\add* in the field shall die with the sword; and he that \add is\add* in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak \add as\add* water.
\p
\v 18 They shall also gird \add themselves\add* with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame \add shall be\add* upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 20 ¶ As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations \add and\add* of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret \add place:\add* for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
\p
\v 23 ¶ Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 25 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and \add there shall be\add* none.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 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 \add am\add* the LORD.
\c 8
\p
\v 1 ¶ And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth \add month,\add* in the fifth \add day\add* of the month, \add as\add* I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 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 \add was\add* the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
\p
\v 4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel \add was\add* there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? \add even\add* the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, \add and\add* thou shalt see greater abominations.
\p
\v 7 ¶ And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
\p
\v 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, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 13 ¶ He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, \add and\add* thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.
\p
\v 14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD’S house which \add was\add* toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
\p
\v 15 ¶ Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen \add this,\add* O son of man? turn thee yet again, \add and\add* thou shalt see greater abominations than these.
\p
\v 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, \add were\add* 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.
\p
\v 17 ¶ Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen \add this,\add* 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.
\p
\v 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, \add yet\add* will I not hear them.
\c 9
\p
\v 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 \add with\add* his destroying weapon in his hand.
\p
\v 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 \add was\add* clothed with linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.
\p
\v 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 \add had\add* the writer’s inkhorn by his side;
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 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:
\p
\v 6 Slay utterly old \add and\add* young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom \add is\add* the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which \add were\add* before the house.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 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?
\p
\v 9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah \add is\add* 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.
\p
\v 10 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, \add but\add* I will recompense their way upon their head.
\p
\v 11 And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which \add had\add* the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.
\c 10
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 2 And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, \add even\add* under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter \add them\add* over the city. And he went in in my sight.
\p
\v 3 Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
\p
\v 4 Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, \add and stood\add* 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.
\p
\v 5 And the sound of the cherubims’ wings was heard \add even\add* to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.
\p
\v 6 And it came to pass, \add that\add* 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.
\p
\v 7 And \add one\add* cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire that \add was\add* between the cherubims, and took \add thereof,\add* and put \add it\add* into the hands of \add him that was\add* clothed with linen: who took \add it,\add* and went out.
\p
\v 8 ¶ And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man’s hand under their wings.
\p
\v 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 \add was\add* as the colour of a beryl stone.
\p
\v 10 And \add as for\add* their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, \add were\add* full of eyes round about, \add even\add* the wheels that they four had.
\p
\v 13 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel.
\p
\v 14 And every one had four faces: the first face \add was\add* the face of a cherub, and the second face \add was\add* the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
\p
\v 15 And the cherubims were lifted up. This \add is\add* the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 17 When they stood, \add these\add* stood; and when they were lifted up, \add these\add* lifted up themselves \add also:\add* for the spirit of the living creature \add was\add* in them.
\p
\v 18 Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims.
\p
\v 19 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also \add were\add* beside them, and \add every one\add* stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD’S house; and the glory of the God of Israel \add was\add* over them above.
\p
\v 20 This \add is\add* the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they \add were\add* the cherubims.
\p
\v 21 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man \add was\add* under their wings.
\p
\v 22 And the likeness of their faces \add was\add* the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward.
\c 11
\p
\v 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, the princes of the people.
\p
\v 2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these \add are\add* the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
\p
\v 3 Which say, \add It is\add* not near; let us build houses: this \add city is\add* the caldron, and we \add be\add* the flesh.
\p
\v 4 ¶ Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
\p
\v 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, \add every one of\add* them.
\p
\v 6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
\p
\v 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they \add are\add* the flesh, and this \add city is\add* the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.
\p
\v 8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 10 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I \add am\add* the LORD.
\p
\v 11 This \add city\add* shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; \add but\add* I will judge you in the border of Israel:
\p
\v 12 And ye shall know that I \add am\add* the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that \add are\add* round about you.
\p
\v 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?
\p
\v 14 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
\p
\v 15 Son of man, thy brethren, \add even\add* thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, \add are\add* they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.
\p
\v 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:
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 21 But \add as for them\add* 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.
\p
\v 22 ¶ Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel \add was\add* over them above.
\p
\v 23 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which \add is\add* on the east side of the city.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 25 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shewed me.
\c 12
\p
\v 1 ¶ The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying,
\p
\v 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 \add are\add* a rebellious house.
\p
\v 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 \add be\add* a rebellious house.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 5 Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
\p
\v 6 In their sight shalt thou bear \add it\add* upon \add thy\add* shoulders, \add and\add* carry \add it\add* forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee \add for\add* a sign unto the house of Israel.
\p
\v 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 \add it\add* forth in the twilight, \add and\add* I bare \add it\add* upon \add my\add* shoulder in their sight.
\p
\v 8 ¶ And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,
\p
\v 9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, What doest thou?
\p
\v 10 Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This burden \add concerneth\add* the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that \add are\add* among them.
\p
\v 11 Say, I \add am\add* your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them: they shall remove \add and\add* go into captivity.
\p
\v 12 And the prince that \add is\add* among them shall bear upon \add his\add* 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 \add his\add* eyes.
\p
\v 13 My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon \add to\add* the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
\p
\v 14 And I will scatter toward every wind all that \add are\add* about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.
\p
\v 15 And they shall know that I \add am\add* the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.
\p
\v 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 \add am\add* the LORD.
\p
\v 17 ¶ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
\p
\v 18 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
\p
\v 19 And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, \add and\add* 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.
\p
\v 20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I \add am\add* the LORD.
\p
\v 21 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
\p
\v 22 Son of man, what \add is\add* that proverb \add that\add* ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 24 For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.
\p
\v 25 For I \add am\add* 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.
\p
\v 26 ¶ Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
\p
\v 27 Son of man, behold, \add they of\add* the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth \add is\add* for many days \add to come,\add* and he prophesieth of the times \add that are\add* far off.
\p
\v 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.
\c 13
\p
\v 1 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
\p
\v 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;
\p
\v 3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
\p
\v 4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made \add others\add* to hope that they would confirm the word.
\p
\v 7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith \add it;\add* albeit I have not spoken?
\p
\v 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I \add am\add* against you, saith the Lord GOD.
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\v 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 \add am\add* the Lord GOD.
\p
\v 10 ¶ Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and \add there was\add* no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered \add morter:\add*
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\v 11 Say unto them which daub it with untempered \add morter,\add* that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend \add it.\add*
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\v 12 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where \add is\add* the daubing wherewith ye have daubed \add it?\add*
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\v 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend \add it\add* with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in \add my\add* fury to consume \add it.\add*
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\v 14 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered \add morter,\add* 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 \add am\add* the LORD.
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\v 15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered \add morter,\add* and will say unto you, The wall \add is\add* no \add more,\add* neither they that daubed it;
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\v 16 \add To wit,\add* the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and \add there is\add* no peace, saith the Lord GOD.
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\v 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,
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\v 18 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the \add women\add* 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 \add that come\add* unto you?
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\v 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 \add your\add* lies?
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\v 20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I \add am\add* against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make \add them\add* fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, \add even\add* the souls that ye hunt to make \add them\add* fly.
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\v 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 \add am\add* the LORD.
\p
\v 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:
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\v 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 \add am\add* the LORD.
\c 14
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\v 1 ¶ Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.
\p
\v 2 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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\v 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 enquired of at all by them?
\p
\v 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;
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\v 5 That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
\p
\v 6 ¶ Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn \add yourselves\add* from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
\p
\v 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 enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:
\p
\v 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 \add am\add* the LORD.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 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 \add unto him;\add*
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 12 ¶ The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
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\v 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:
\p
\v 14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver \add but\add* their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.
\p
\v 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:
\p
\v 16 \add Though\add* these three men \add were\add* in it, \add as\add* I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.
\p
\v 17 ¶ Or \add if\add* I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
\p
\v 18 Though these three men \add were\add* in it, \add as\add* I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.
\p
\v 19 ¶ Or \add if\add* I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
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\v 20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, \add were\add* in it, \add as\add* I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall \add but\add* deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
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\v 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?
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\v 22 ¶ Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, \add both\add* 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, \add even\add* concerning all that I have brought upon it.
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\v 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.
\c 15
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\v 1 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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\v 2 Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, \add or than\add* a branch which is among the trees of the forest?
\p
\v 3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will \add men\add* take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
\p
\v 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 \add any\add* work?
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\v 5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for \add any\add* work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from \add one\add* fire, and \add another\add* fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I \add am\add* the LORD, when I set my face against them.
\p
\v 8 And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
\c 16
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\v 1 ¶ Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
\p
\v 2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
\p
\v 3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity \add is\add* of the land of Canaan; thy father \add was\add* an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
\p
\v 4 And \add as for\add* thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple \add thee;\add* thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
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\v 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 lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.
\p
\v 6 ¶ And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee \add when thou wast\add* in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee \add when thou wast\add* in thy blood, Live.
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\v 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: \add thy\add* breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou \add wast\add* naked and bare.
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\v 8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time \add was\add* 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.
\p
\v 9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
\p
\v 12 And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
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\v 13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment \add was of\add* 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.
\p
\v 14 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it \add was\add* perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: \add the like things\add* shall not come, neither shall it be so.
\p
\v 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,
\p
\v 18 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.
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\v 19 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, \add wherewith\add* I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and \add thus\add* it was, saith the Lord GOD.
\p
\v 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. \add Is this\add* of thy whoredoms a small matter,
\p
\v 21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through \add the fire\add* for them?
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\v 22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, \add and\add* wast polluted in thy blood.
\p
\v 23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;)
\p
\v 24 \add That\add* thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
\p
\v 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.
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\v 26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
\p
\v 27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary \add food,\add* and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.
\p
\v 30 How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these \add things,\add* the work of an imperious whorish woman;
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\v 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;
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\v 32 \add But as\add* a wife that committeth adultery, \add which\add* taketh strangers instead of her husband!
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\v 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.
\p
\v 34 And the contrary is in thee from \add other\add* 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.
\p
\v 35 ¶ Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:
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\v 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;
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\v 37 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all \add them\add* that thou hast loved, with all \add them\add* 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.
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\v 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.
\p
\v 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.
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\v 40 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
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\v 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.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these \add things;\add* behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon \add thine\add* head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.
\p
\v 44 ¶ Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use \add this\add* proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, \add so is\add* her daughter.
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\v 45 Thou \add art\add* thy mother’s daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou \add art\add* the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother \add was\add* an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
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\v 46 And thine elder sister \add is\add* Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, \add is\add* Sodom and her daughters.
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\v 47 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as \add if that were\add* a very little \add thing,\add* thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
\p
\v 48 \add As\add* I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
\p
\v 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.
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\v 50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw \add good.\add*
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\v 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.
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\v 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.
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\v 53 When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then \add will I bring again\add* the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:
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\v 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.
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\v 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.
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\v 56 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,
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\v 57 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of \add thy\add* reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all \add that are\add* round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.
\p
\v 58 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 60 ¶ Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
\p
\v 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.
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\v 62 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I \add am\add* the LORD:
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\v 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.
\c 17
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\v 1 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
\p
\v 2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;
\p
\v 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:
\p
\v 4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.
\p
\v 5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed \add it\add* by great waters, \add and\add* set it \add as\add* a willow tree.
\p
\v 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.
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\v 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.
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\v 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.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 10 Yea, behold, \add being\add* planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.
\p
\v 11 ¶ Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
\p
\v 12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these \add things mean?\add* tell \add them,\add* 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;
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\v 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:
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\v 14 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, \add but\add* that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
\p
\v 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 \add things?\add* or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?
\p
\v 16 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place \add where\add* the king \add dwelleth\add* that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, \add even\add* with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
\p
\v 17 Neither shall Pharaoh with \add his\add* mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:
\p
\v 18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these \add things,\add* he shall not escape.
\p
\v 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; \add As\add* 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.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 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 \add it.\add*
\p
\v 22 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set \add it;\add* I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant \add it\add* upon an high mountain and eminent:
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\v 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.
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\v 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 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 \add it.\add*
\c 18
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\v 1 ¶ The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,
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\v 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?
\p
\v 3 \add As\add* I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have \add occasion\add* any more to use this proverb in Israel.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 5 ¶ But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
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\v 6 \add And\add* 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,
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\v 7 And hath not oppressed any, \add but\add* 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;
\p
\v 8 He \add that\add* hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, \add that\add* hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,
\p
\v 9 Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he \add is\add* just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.
\p
\v 10 ¶ If he beget a son \add that is\add* a robber, a shedder of blood, and \add that\add* doeth the like to \add any\add* one of these \add things,\add*
\p
\v 11 And that doeth not any of those \add duties,\add* but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour’s wife,
\p
\v 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,
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 14 ¶ Now, lo, \add if\add* he beget a son, that seeth all his father’s sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,
\p
\v 15 \add That\add* 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,
\p
\v 16 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, \add but\add* hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,
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\v 17 \add That\add* hath taken off his hand from the poor, \add that\add* 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.
\p
\v 18 \add As for\add* his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did \add that\add* which \add is\add* not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.
\p
\v 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, \add and\add* hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 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.
\p
\v 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.
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\v 23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: \add and\add* not that he should return from his ways, and live?
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\v 24 ¶ But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, \add and\add* doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked \add man\add* 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.
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\v 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?
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\v 26 When a righteous \add man\add* turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
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\v 27 Again, when the wicked \add man\add* turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
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\v 28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
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\v 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?
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\v 30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn \add yourselves\add* from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
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\v 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?
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\v 32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn \add yourselves,\add* and live ye.
\c 19
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\v 1 ¶ Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
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\v 2 And say, What \add is\add* thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
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\v 3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
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\v 4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
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\v 5 Now when she saw that she had waited, \add and\add* her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, \add and\add* made him a young lion.
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\v 6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, \add and\add* devoured men.
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\v 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.
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\v 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.
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\v 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.
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\v 10 ¶ Thy mother \add is\add* like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
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\v 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.
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\v 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.
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\v 13 And now she \add is\add* planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
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\v 14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, \add which\add* hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod \add to be\add* a sceptre to rule. This \add is\add* a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
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\v 1 ¶ And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth \add month,\add* the tenth \add day\add* of the month, \add that\add* certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the LORD, and sat before me.
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\v 2 Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,
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\v 3 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to enquire of me? \add As\add* I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.
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\v 4 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge \add them?\add* cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:
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\v 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 \add am\add* the LORD your God;
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\v 6 In the day \add that\add* 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 \add is\add* the glory of all lands:
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\v 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 \add am\add* the LORD your God.
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\v 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.
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\v 9 But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they \add were,\add* in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
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\v 10 ¶ Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.
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\v 11 And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which \add if\add* a man do, he shall even live in them.
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\v 12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I \add am\add* the LORD that sanctify them.
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\v 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which \add if\add* 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.
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\v 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.
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\v 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 \add them,\add* flowing with milk and honey, which \add is\add* the glory of all lands;
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\v 16 Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
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\v 17 Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
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\v 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:
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\v 19 I \add am\add* the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
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\v 20 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I \add am\add* the LORD your God.
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\v 21 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which \add if\add* 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.
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\v 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.
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\v 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;
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\v 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.
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\v 25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes \add that were\add* not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
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\v 26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through \add the fire\add* all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I \add am\add* the LORD.
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\v 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.
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\v 28 \add For\add* when I had brought them into the land, \add for\add* 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.
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\v 29 Then I said unto them, What \add is\add* the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.
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\v 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?
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\v 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 enquired of by you, O house of Israel? \add As\add* I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.
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\v 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.
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\v 33 ¶ \add As\add* 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:
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\v 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.
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\v 35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.
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\v 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.
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\v 37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:
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\v 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 \add am\add* the LORD.
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\v 39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter \add also,\add* if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
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\v 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.
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\v 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.
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\v 42 And ye shall know that I \add am\add* the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country \add for\add* the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers.
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\v 43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.
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\v 44 And ye shall know that I \add am\add* 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.
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\v 45 ¶ Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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\v 46 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop \add thy word\add* toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;
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\v 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.
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\v 48 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
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\v 49 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
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\v 1 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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\v 2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop \add thy word\add* toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
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\v 3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I \add am\add* against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
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\v 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:
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\v 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.
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\v 6 Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of \add thy\add* loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
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\v 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 \add as\add* water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.
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