EZEKIEL CHAPTER 1
Ezekiel 1:1 And it cometh to pass, in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in the fifth of the month, and I [am] in the midst of the Removed by the river Chebar, the heavens have been opened, and I see visions of God.
1:2 In the fifth of the month -- it is the fifth year of the removal of the king Jehoiachin --
1:3 hath the word of YHWH certainly been unto Ezekiel son of Buzi the priest, in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Chebar, and there is on him there a hand of YHWH.
1:4 And I look, and lo, a tempestuous wind is coming from the north, a great cloud, and fire catching itself, and brightness to it round about, and out of its midst as the colour of copper, out of the midst of the fire.
1:5 And out of its midst [is] a likeness of four living creatures, and this [is] their appearance; a likeness of man [is] to them,
1:6 and four faces [are] to each, and four wings [are] to each of them,
1:7 and their feet [are] straight feet, and the sole of their feet [is] as a sole of a calf's foot, and they are sparkling as the colour of bright brass;
1:8 and hands of man under their wings -- on their four sides, and their faces and their wings -- [are] to them four;
1:9 joining one unto another [are] their wings, they turn not round in their going, each straight forward they go.
Ezekiel 1:10 As to the likeness of their faces, the face of a man, and the face of a lion, toward the right [are] to them four, and the face of an ox on the left [are] to them four, and the face of an eagle [are] to them four.
1:11 And their faces and their wings are separate from above, to each [are] two joining together, and two are covering their bodies.
1:12 And each straight forward they go, whither the spirit is to go, they go, they turn not round in their going.
1:13 As to the likeness of the living creatures, their appearances [are] as coals of fire -- burning as the appearance of lamps; it is going up and down between the living creatures, and brightness [is] to the fire, and out of the fire is going forth lightning.
1:14 And the living creatures are running, and turning back, as the appearance of the flash.
1:15 And I see the living creatures, and lo, one wheel [is] in the earth, near the living creatures, at its four faces.
1:16 The appearance of the wheels and their works [is] as the colour of beryl, and one likeness [is] to them four, and their appearances and their works [are] as it were the wheel in the midst of the wheel.
1:17 On their four sides, in their going they go, they turn not round in their going.
1:18 As to their rings, they are both high and fearful, and their rings [are] full of eyes round about them four.
1:19 And in the going of the living creatures, the wheels go beside them, and in the living creatures being lifted up from off the earth, lifted up are the wheels.
Ezekiel 1:20 Whither the spirit is to go, they go, thither the spirit [is] to go, and the wheels are lifted up over-against them, for a living spirit [is] in the wheels.
1:21 In their going, they go; and in their standing, they stand; and in their being lifted up from off the earth, lifted up are the wheels over-against them; for a living spirit [is] in the wheels.
1:22 And a likeness [is] over the heads of the living creatures of an expanse, as the colour of the fearful ice, stretched out over their heads from above.
1:23 And under the expanse their wings [are] straight, one toward the other, to each are two covering on this side, and to each are two covering on that side -- their bodies.
1:24 And I hear the noise of their wings, as the noise of many waters, as the noise of the Mighty One, in their going -- the noise of tumult, as the noise of a camp, in their standing they let fall their wings.
1:25 And there is a voice from above the expanse, that [is] above their head: in their standing they let fall their wings.
1:26 And above the expanse that [is] over their head, as an appearance of a sapphire stone, [is] the likeness of a throne, and on the likeness of the throne a likeness, as the appearance of man upon it from above.
1:27 And I see as the colour of copper, as the appearance of fire within it round about, from the appearance of his loins and upward, and from the appearance of his loins and downward, I have seen as the appearance of fire, and brightness [is] to it round about.
1:28 As the appearance of the bow that is in a cloud in a day of rain, so [is] the appearance of the brightness round about.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 2
Ezekiel 2:1 It [is] the appearance of the likeness of the honour of YHWH, and I see, and fall on my face, and I hear a voice speaking, and He saith unto me, `Son of man, stand on thy feet, and I speak with thee.'
2:2 And there doth come into me a spirit, when He hath spoken unto me, and it causeth me to stand on my feet, and I hear Him who is speaking unto me.
2:3 And He saith unto Me, `Son of man, I am sending thee unto the sons of Israel, unto nations who are rebels, who have rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me, unto this self-same day.
2:4 And the sons [are] brazen-faced and hard-hearted to whom I am sending thee, and thou hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord YHWH:
2:5 and they -- whether they hear, or whether they forbear, for a rebellious house they [are] -- have known that a prophet hath been in their midst.
2:6 `And thou, son of man, thou art not afraid of them, yea, of their words thou art not afraid, for briers and thorns are with thee, and near scorpions thou art dwelling, of their words thou art not afraid, and of their faces thou art not affrighted, for they [are] a rebellious house,
2:7 And thou hast spoken My words unto them, whether they hear or whether they forbear, for they [are] rebellious.
2:8 `And thou, son of man, hear that which I am speaking unto thee: Thou art not rebellious like the rebellious house, open thy mouth, and eat that which I am giving unto thee.'
2:9 And I look, and lo, a hand [is] sent forth unto me, and lo, in it a roll of a book,
Ezekiel 2:10 and He spreadeth it before me, and it is written in front and behind, and written on it [are] lamentations, and mourning, and wo!
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 3
Ezekiel 3:1 And He saith unto me, `Son of man, that which thou findest eat, eat this roll, and go, speak unto the house of Israel.'
3:2 And I open my mouth, and He causeth me to eat this roll.
3:3 And He saith unto me, `Son of man, thy belly thou dost feed, and thy bowels thou dost fill with this roll that I am giving unto thee;' and I eat it, and it is in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
3:4 And He saith unto me, `Son of man, go, enter in unto the house of Israel, and thou hast spoken with My words unto them.
3:5 For, not unto a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue [art] thou sent -- unto the house of Israel;
3:6 not unto many peoples, deep of lip and heavy of tongue, whose words thou dost not understand. If I had not sent thee unto them -- they, they do hearken unto thee,
3:7 but the house of Israel are not willing to hearken unto thee, for they are not willing to hearken unto Me, for all the house of Israel are brazen-faced and strong-hearted.
3:8 `Lo, I have made thy face strong against their face, and thy forehead strong against their forehead.
3:9 As an adamant harder than a rock I have made thy forehead; thou dost not fear them, nor art thou affrighted before them, for a rebellious house [are] they.'
Ezekiel 3:10 And He saith unto me, `Son of man, all My words, that I speak unto thee, receive with thy heart, and with thine ears hear;
3:11 and go, enter in unto the Removed, unto the sons of thy people, and thou hast spoken unto them, and hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord YHWH: whether they hear, or whether they forbear.'
3:12 And lift me up doth a spirit, and I hear behind me a noise, a great rushing -- `Blessed [is] the honour of YHWH from His place!' --
3:13 even a noise of the wings of the living creatures touching one another, and a noise of the wheels over-against them, even a noise of a great rushing.
3:14 And a spirit hath lifted me up, and doth take me away, and I go bitterly, in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of YHWH on me [is] strong.
3:15 And I come in unto the Removed, at Tel-Ahib, who are dwelling at the river Chebar, and where they are dwelling I also dwell seven days, causing astonishment in their midst.
3:16 And it cometh to pass, at the end of seven days,
3:17 that there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying, `Son of man, a watchman I have given thee to the house of Israel, and thou hast heard from My mouth a word, and hast warned them from Me.
3:18 In My saying to the wicked: Thou dost surely die; and thou hast not warned him, nor hast spoken to warn the wicked from his wicked way, so that he doth live; he -- the wicked -- in his iniquity dieth, and his blood from thy hand I require.
3:19 And thou, because thou hast warned the wicked, and he hath not turned back from his wickedness, and from his wicked way, he in his iniquity dieth, and thou thy soul hast delivered.
Ezekiel 3:20 `And in the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, and he hath done perversity, and I have put a stumbling-block before him, he dieth; because thou hast not warned him, in his sin he dieth, and not remembered is his righteousness that he hath done, and his blood from thy hand I require.
3:21 And thou, because thou hast warned him -- the righteous -- that the righteous sin not, and he hath not sinned, he surely liveth, because he hath been warned; and thou thy soul hast delivered.'
3:22 And there is on me there a hand of YHWH, and He saith to me, `Rise, go forth to the valley, and there I do speak with thee.'
3:23 And I rise and go forth unto the valley, and lo, there the honour of YHWH is standing as the honour that I had seen by the river Chebar, and I fall on my face.
3:24 And come into me doth a spirit, and causeth me to stand on my feet, and He speaketh with me, and saith unto me, `Go in, be shut up in the midst of thy house.
3:25 `And thou, son of man, lo, they have put on thee thick bands, and have bound thee with them, and thou goest not forth in their midst;
3:26 and thy tongue I cause to cleave unto thy palate, and thou hast been dumb, and art not to them for a reprover, for a rebellious house [are] they.
3:27 And in My speaking with thee, I do open thy mouth, and thou hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord YHWH; the hearer doth hear, and the forbearer doth forbear; for a rebellious house [are] they.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 4
Ezekiel 4:1 `And thou, son of man, take to thee a brick, and thou hast put it before thee, and hast graven on it a city -- Jerusalem,
4:2 and hast placed against it a siege, and builded against it a fortification, and poured out against it a mount, and placed against it camps, yea, set thou against it battering-rams round about.
4:3 And thou, take to thee an iron pan, and thou hast made it a wall of iron between thee and the city; and thou hast prepared thy face against it, and it hath been in a siege, yea, thou hast laid siege against it. A sign it [is] to the house of Israel.
4:4 `And thou, lie on thy left side, and thou hast placed the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; the number of the days that thou liest on it, thou bearest their iniquity.
4:5 And I -- I have laid on thee the years of their iniquity, the number of days, three hundred and ninety days; and thou hast borne the iniquity of the house of Israel.
4:6 And thou hast completed these, and hast lain on thy right side, a second time, and hast borne the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days -- a day for a year -- a day for a year I have appointed to thee.
4:7 `And unto the siege of Jerusalem thou dost prepare thy face, and thine arm [is] uncovered, and thou hast prophesied concerning it.
4:8 And lo, I have put on thee thick bands, and thou dost not turn from side to side till thy completing the days of thy siege.
4:9 `And thou, take to thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and spelt, and thou hast put them in one vessel, and made them to thee for bread; the number of the days that thou art lying on thy side -- three hundred and ninety days -- thou dost eat it.
Ezekiel 4:10 And thy food that thou dost eat [is] by weight, twenty shekels daily; from time to time thou dost eat it.
4:11 `And water by measure thou dost drink, a sixth part of the hin; from time to time thou dost drink [it].
4:12 A barley-cake thou dost eat it, and it with dung -- the filth of man -- thou dost bake before their eyes.
4:13 And YHWH saith, `Thus do the sons of Israel eat their defiled bread among the nations whither I drive them.'
4:14 And I say, `Ah, Lord YHWH, lo, my soul is not defiled, and carcase, and torn thing, I have not eaten from my youth, even till now; nor come into my mouth hath abominable flesh.'
4:15 And He saith unto me, `See, I have given to thee bullock's dung instead of man's dung, and thou hast made thy bread by it.'
4:16 And He saith unto me, `Son of man, lo, I am breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they have eaten bread by weight and with fear; and water by measure and with astonishment, they do drink;
4:17 so that they lack bread and water, and have been astonished one with another, and been consumed in their iniquity.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 5
Ezekiel 5:1 `And thou, son of man, take to thee a sharp weapon, the barber's razor thou dost take to thee, and thou hast caused [it] to pass over thy head, and over thy beard, and thou hast taken to thee weighing scales, and apportioned them.
5:2 A third part with fire thou dost burn in the midst of the city, at the fulness of the days of the siege; and thou hast taken the third part, thou dost smite with a weapon round about it; and the third part thou dost scatter to the wind, and a weapon I draw out after them.
5:3 And thou hast taken thence a few in number -- and hast bound them in thy skirts;
5:4 and of them thou dost take again, and hast cast them unto the midst of the fire, and hast burned them in the fire -- out of it cometh forth a fire unto all the house of Israel.
5:5 Thus said the Lord YHWH: this [is] Jerusalem, In the midst of the nations I have set her, And round about her [are] the lands.
5:6 And she changeth My judgments into wickedness more than the nations, And My statutes more than the lands that [are] round about her, For against My judgments they have kicked, And My statutes -- they have not walked in them.
5:7 Therefore, thus said the Lord YHWH: Because of your multiplying above the nations that [are] around you, In My statutes ye have not walked, And My judgments ye have not done, According to the judgments of the nations That [are] round about you ye have not done.
5:8 Therefore, thus said the Lord YHWH: Lo, I [am] against thee, even I, And I have done in thy midst judgments, Before the eyes of the nations.
5:9 And I have done in thee that which I have not done, And that which I do not its like again, Because of all thine abominations.
Ezekiel 5:10 Therefore fathers do eat sons in thy midst, And sons eat their fathers, And I have done in thee judgments, And have scattered all thy remnant to every wind.
5:11 Therefore, I live -- an affirmation of the Lord YHWH: Because My sanctuary thou hast defiled, With all thy detestable things, And with all thine abominations, Mine eye pitieth not, and I also spare not. Do not even I also diminish?
5:12 Thy third part -- by pestilence they die, And by famine are consumed in thy midst, And the third part, by sword they fall round about thee, And the third part, to every wind I scatter, And a sword I draw out after them.
5:13 And completed hath been Mine anger, And I have caused My fury to rest on them, And I have been comforted, And they have known that I, YHWH, have spoken in My zeal, In My completing My fury on them.
5:14 And I give thee for a waste, And for a reproach among nations that [are] round about thee, Before the eyes of every passer by.
5:15 And it hath been a reproach and a reviling, An instruction and an astonishment, To nations that [are] round about thee, In My doing in thee judgments, In anger and fury, and in furious reproofs, I, YHWH, have spoken.
5:16 In My sending the evil arrows of famine among them, That have been for destruction, That I send to destroy you, And famine I am adding upon you, And I have broken to you the staff of bread.
5:17 And I have sent on you famine and evil beasts, And they have bereaved thee, And pestilence and blood pass over on thee, And a sword I do bring in against thee, I, YHWH, have spoken!'
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 6
Ezekiel 6:1 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying:
6:2 `Son of man, set thy face unto mountains of Israel, and prophesy concerning them:
6:3 And thou hast said: Mountains of Israel, Hear ye a word of the Lord YHWH: Thus said the Lord YHWH To the mountains, and to the hills, To the streams, and to the valleys, Lo, I, I am bringing in against you a sword, And I have destroyed your high places.
6:4 And desolated have been your altars, And broken your images, And I have caused your wounded to fall before your idols,
6:5 And put the carcases of the sons of Israel before their idols, And scattered your bones round about your altars.
6:6 In all your dwellings the cities are laid waste, And the high places are desolate, So that waste and desolate are your altars, And broken and ceased have your idols, And cut down have been your images, And blotted out have been your works.
6:7 And fallen hath the wounded in your midst, And ye have known that I [am] YHWH.
6:8 And I have caused [some] to remain, In their being to you the escaped of the sword among nations, In your being scattered through lands.
6:9 And remembered Me have your escaped among nations, Whither they have been taken captive, Because I have been broken with their heart that is going a-whoring, That hath turned aside from off Me, And with their eyes they are going a-whoring after their idols, And they have been loathsome in their own faces, For the evils that they have done -- all their abominations.
Ezekiel 6:10 And they have known that I [am] YHWH, Not for nought have I spoken to do to them this evil.
6:11 Thus said the Lord YHWH: `Smite with thy palm, and stamp with thy foot, And say: Alas, for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, Who by sword, by famine, and by pestilence do fall.
6:12 The far-off by pestilence dieth, And the near by sword falleth, And the left and the besieged by famine dieth, And I have completed my fury upon them.
6:13 And ye have known that I [am] YHWH, In their wounded being in the midst of their idols, Round about their altars, On every high hill, on all tops of mountains, And under every green tree, and under every thick oak, The place where they gave sweet fragrance to all their idols.
6:14 And I have stretched out my hand against them, And have made the land a desolation, Even a desolation from the wilderness to Diblath, In all their dwellings, And they have known that I [am] YHWH!'
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 7
Ezekiel 7:1 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying, `And thou, son of man, Thus said the Lord YHWH to the ground of Israel:
7:2 An end, come hath the end on the four corners of the land.
7:3 Now [is] the end unto thee, And I have sent Mine anger upon thee, And judged thee according to thy ways, And set against thee all thine abominations.
7:4 And no pity on thee hath Mine eye, nor do I spare, For thy ways against thee I do set, And thine abominations are in thy midst, And ye have known that I [am] YHWH.
7:5 Thus said the Lord YHWH: Evil, a single evil, lo, it hath come.
7:6 An end hath come, come hath the end, It hath waked for thee, lo, it hath come.
7:7 Come hath the morning unto thee, O inhabitant of the land! Come hath the time, near [is] a day of trouble, And not the shouting of mountains.
7:8 Now, shortly I pour out My fury on thee, And have completed Mine anger against thee, And judged thee according to thy ways, And set against thee all thine abominations.
7:9 And not pity doth Mine eye, nor do I spare, According to thy ways unto thee I give, And thine abominations are in thy midst, And ye have known that I [am] YHWH the smiter.
Ezekiel 7:10 Lo, the day, lo, it hath come, Gone forth hath the morning, Blossomed hath the rod, flourished the pride.
7:11 The violence hath risen to a rod of wickedness, There is none of them, nor of their multitude, Nor of their noise, nor is there wailing for them.
7:12 Come hath the time, arrived hath the day, The buyer doth not rejoice, And the seller doth not become a mourner, For wrath [is] unto all its multitude.
7:13 For the seller to the sold thing turneth not, And yet among the living [is] their life, For the vision [is] unto all its multitude, It doth not turn back, And none by his iniquity doth strengthen his life.
7:14 They have blown with a trumpet to prepare the whole, And none is going to battle, For My wrath [is] unto all its multitude.
7:15 The sword [is] without, And the pestilence and the famine within, He who is in a field by sword dieth, And he who is in a city, Famine and pestilence devour him.
7:16 And escaped away have their fugitives, And they have been on the mountains As doves of the valleys, All of them make a noising -- each for his iniquity.
7:17 All the hands are feeble, and all knees go -- waters.
7:18 And they have girded on sackcloth, And covered them hath trembling, And unto all faces [is] shame, And on all their heads -- baldness.
7:19 Their silver into out-places they cast, And their gold impurity becometh. Their silver and their gold is not able to deliver them, In a day of the wrath of YHWH, Their soul they do not satisfy, And their bowels they do not fill, For the stumbling-block of their iniquity it hath been.
Ezekiel 7:20 As to the beauty of his ornament, For excellency He set it, And the images of their abominations, Their detestable things -- they made in it, Therefore I have given it to them for impurity,
7:21 And I have given it into the hand of the strangers for a prey, And to the wicked of the land for a spoil, And they have polluted it.
7:22 And I have turned My face from them, And they have polluted My hidden place, Yea, come into it have destroyers, and polluted it.
7:23 Make the chain; for the land Hath been full of bloody judgments, And the city hath been full of violence.
7:24 And I have brought in the wicked of the nations, And they have possessed their houses, And I have caused to cease the excellency of the strong, And polluted have been those sanctifying them.
7:25 Destruction hath come, And they have sought peace, and there is none.
7:26 Mischief on mischief cometh, and report is on report, And they have sought a vision from a prophet, And law doth perish from the priest, And counsel from the elders,
7:27 The king doth become a mourner, And a prince putteth on desolation, And the hands of the people of the land are troubled, From their own way I deal with them, And with their own judgments I judge them, And they have known that I [am] YHWH!'
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 8
Ezekiel 8:1 And it cometh to pass, in the sixth year, in the sixth [month], in the fifth of the month, I am sitting in my house, and elders of Judah are sitting before me, and fall on me there doth a hand of the Lord YHWH,
8:2 and I look, and lo, a likeness as the appearance of fire, from the appearance of His loins and downward -- fire, and from His loins and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of copper.
8:3 And He putteth forth a form of a hand, and taketh me by a lock of my head, and lift me up doth a spirit between the earth and the heavens, and it bringeth me in to Jerusalem in visions of God, unto the opening of the inner gate that is facing the north, where [is] the seat of the figure of jealousy that is making jealous,
8:4 and lo, there the honour of the God of Israel, as the appearance that I saw in the valley.
8:5 And He saith unto me, `Son of man, lift up, I pray thee, thine eyes the way of the north.' And I lift up mine eyes the way of the north, and lo, on the north of the gate of the altar this figure of jealousy, at the entrance.
8:6 And He saith unto me, `Son of man, art thou seeing what they are doing? the great abominations that the house of Israel are doing here, to keep far off from My sanctuary; and again thou dost turn, thou dost see great abominations.'
8:7 And He bringeth me in unto an opening of the court, and I look, and lo, a hole in the wall;
8:8 and He saith unto me, `Son of man, dig, I pray thee, through the wall;' and I dig through the wall, and lo, an opening.
8:9 And He saith to me, `Go in, and see the evil abominations that they are doing here.'
Ezekiel 8:10 And I go in, and look, and lo, every form of creeping thing, and detestable beast -- and all the Idols of the house of Israel -- graved on the wall, all round about,
8:11 and seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel -- and Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing in their midst -- are standing before them, and each his censer in his hand, and the abundance of the cloud of perfume is going up.
8:12 And He saith unto me, `Hast thou seen, son of man, that which elders of the house of Israel are doing in darkness, each in the inner chambers of his imagery, for they are saying, YHWH is not seeing us, YHWH hath forsaken the land?'
8:13 And He saith unto me, `Again thou dost turn, thou dost see great abominations that they are doing.'
8:14 And He bringeth me in unto the opening of the gate of the house of YHWH that [is] at the north, and lo, there the women are sitting weeping for Tammuz.
8:15 And He saith unto me, `Hast thou seen, son of man? again thou dost turn, thou dost see greater abominations than these.'
8:16 And He bringeth me in unto the inner court of the house of YHWH, and lo, at the opening of the temple of YHWH, between the porch and the altar, about twenty-five men, their backs toward the temple of YHWH, and their faces eastward, and they are bowing themselves eastward to the sun.
8:17 And He saith unto me, `Hast thou seen, son of man? hath it been a light thing to the house of Judah to do the abomination that they have done here, that they have filled the land with violence, and turn back to provoke Me to anger? and lo, they are putting forth the branch unto their nose!
8:18 And I also deal in fury, Mine eye doth not pity, nor do I spare, and they have cried in Mine ears -- a loud voice -- and I do not hear them.'
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 9
Ezekiel 9:1 And He crieth in mine ears -- a loud voice -- saying, `Drawn near have inspectors of the city, and each his destroying weapon in his hand.'
9:2 And lo, six men are coming from the way of the upper gate, that is facing the north, and each his slaughter-weapon in his hand, and one man in their midst is clothed with linen, and a scribe's inkhorn at his loins, and they come in, and stand near the brazen altar.
9:3 And the honour of the God of Israel hath gone up from off the cherub, on which it hath been, unto the threshold of the house.
9:4 And He calleth unto the man who is clothed with linen, who hath the scribe's inkhorn at his loins, and YHWH saith unto him, `Pass on into the midst of the city, into the midst of Jerusalem, and thou hast made a mark on the foreheads of the men who are sighing and who are groaning for all the abominations that are done in its midst.'
9:5 And to the others he said in mine ears, `Pass on into the city after him, and smite; your eye doth not pity, nor do ye spare;
9:6 aged, young man, and virgin, and infant, and women, ye do slay -- to destruction; and against any man on whom [is] the mark ye do not go nigh, and from My sanctuary ye begin.'
9:7 And they begin among the aged men who [are] before the house, and He saith unto them, `Defile the house, and fill the courts with the wounded, go forth.' And they have gone forth and have smitten in the city.
9:8 And it cometh to pass, as they are smiting, and I -- I am left -- that I fall on my face, and cry, and say, `Ah, Lord YHWH, art Thou destroying all the remnant of Israel, in Thy pouring out Thy wrath on Jerusalem?'
9:9 And He saith unto me, `The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah [is] very very great, and the land is full of blood, and the city hath been full of perverseness, for they have said: YHWH hath forsaken the land, and YHWH is not seeing.
Ezekiel 9:10 And I also, Mine eye doth not pity, nor do I spare; their way on their own head I have put.'
9:11 And lo, the man clothed with linen, at whose loins [is] the inkhorn, is bringing back word, saying, `I have done as Thou hast commanded me.'
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 10
Ezekiel 10:1 And I look, and lo, on the expanse that [is] above the head of the cherubs, as a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne, He hath been seen over them.
10:2 And He speaketh unto the man clothed with linen, and saith, `Go in unto the midst of the wheel, unto the place of the cherub, and fill thy hands with coals of fire from between the cherubs, and scatter over the city.' And he goeth in before mine eyes.
10:3 And the cherubs are standing on the right side of the house, at the going in of the man, and the cloud hath filled the inner court,
10:4 and become high doth the honour of YHWH above the cherub, over the threshold of the house, and the house is filled with the cloud, and the court hath been filled with the brightness of the honour of YHWH.
10:5 And a noise of the wings of the cherubs hath been heard unto the outer court, as the voice of God -- the Mighty One -- in His speaking.
10:6 And it cometh to pass, in His commanding the man clothed with linen, saying, `Take fire from between the wheel, from between the cherubs,' and he goeth in and standeth near the wheel,
10:7 that the [one] cherub putteth forth his hand from between the cherubs unto the fire that [is] between the cherubs, and lifteth up, and giveth into the hands of him who is clothed with linen, and he receiveth, and cometh forth.
10:8 And there appeareth in the cherubs the form of a hand of man under their wings,
10:9 and I look, and lo, four wheels near the cherubs, one wheel near the one cherub, and another wheel near the other cherub, and the appearance of the wheels [is] as the colour of a beryl stone.
Ezekiel 10:10 As to their appearances, one likeness [is] to them four, as it were the wheel in the midst of the wheel.
10:11 In their going, on their four sides they go; they turn not round in their going, for to the place whither the head turneth, after it they go, they turn not round in their going.
10:12 And all their flesh, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, are full of eyes round about; to them four [are] their wheels.
10:13 To the wheels -- to them is one calling in mine ears, `O wheel!'
10:14 And four faces [are] to each; the face of the one [is] the face of the cherub, and the face of the second the face of man, and of the third the face of a lion, and of the fourth the face of an eagle.
10:15 And the cherubs are lifted up, it [is] the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.
10:16 And in the going of the cherubs, the wheels go beside them; and in the cherubs lifting up their wings to be high above the earth, the wheels turn not round, even they, from being beside them.
10:17 In their standing they stand, and in their exaltation they are exalted with them: for the living spirit [is] in them.
10:18 And go forth doth the honour of YHWH from off the threshold of the house, and standeth over the cherubs,
10:19 and the cherubs lift up their wings, and are lifted up from the earth before mine eyes; in their going forth, the wheels also [are] over-against them, and he standeth at the opening of the east gate of the house of YHWH, and the honour of the God of Israel [is] over them from above.
Ezekiel 10:20 It [is] the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar, and I know that they are cherubs.
10:21 Four faces [are] to each, and four wings to each, and the likeness of the hands of man [is] under their wings.
10:22 As to the likeness of their faces, they [are] the faces that I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; each straight forward they go.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 11
Ezekiel 11:1 And lift me up doth a spirit, and it bringeth me in unto the east gate of the house of YHWH, that is facing the east, and lo, at the opening of the gate twenty and five men, and I see in their midst Jaazaniah son of Azzur, and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, heads of the people.
11:2 And He saith unto me, `Son of man, these [are] the men who are devising iniquity, and who are giving evil counsel in this city;
11:3 who are saying, It [is] not near -- to build houses, it [is] the pot, and we the flesh.
11:4 Therefore prophesy concerning them, prophesy, son of man.'
11:5 And fall upon me doth the Spirit of YHWH, and He saith unto me, `Say: Thus said YHWH: Rightly ye have said, O house of Israel, And the steps of your spirit I have known.
11:6 Ye multiplied your wounded in this city, And filled its out-places with the wounded.
11:7 Therefore, thus said the Lord YHWH: Your wounded whom ye placed in its midst, They [are] the flesh, and it [is] the pot, And you he hath brought out from its midst.
11:8 A sword ye have feared, And a sword I bring in against you, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH.
11:9 And I have brought you out of its midst, And given you into the hand of strangers, And I have done among you judgments.
Ezekiel 11:10 By the sword ye do fall, On the border of Israel I do judge you, And ye have known that I [am] YHWH.
11:11 It is not to you for a pot, Nor are ye in its midst for flesh, At the border of Israel I do judge you.
11:12 And ye have known that I [am] YHWH, For in My statutes ye have not walked, And My Judgments ye have not done, And according to the judgments of the nations Who are round about you -- ye have done!'
11:13 And it cometh to pass, at my prophesying, that Pelatiah son of Benaiah is dying, and I fall on my face, and cry -- a loud voice -- and say, `Ah, Lord YHWH, an end Thou art making of the remnant of Israel.'
11:14 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying,
11:15 `Son of man, thy brethren, thy brethren, men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel -- all of it, [are] they to whom inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Keep far off from YHWH;
11:16 it [is] ours, the land hath been given for an inheritance; therefore say: Thus said the Lord YHWH: Because I put them afar off among nations, And because I scattered them through lands, I also am to them for a little sanctuary, In lands whither they have gone in.
11:17 Therefore say: Thus said the Lord YHWH: And I have assembled you from the peoples, And I have gathered you from the lands, Into which ye have been scattered, And I have given to you the ground of Israel.
11:18 And they have gone in thither. And turned aside all its detestable things, And all its abominations -- out of it.
11:19 And I have given to them one heart, And a new spirit I do give in your midst, And I have turned the heart of stone out of their flesh, And I have given to them a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 11:20 So that in My statutes they walk, And My judgments they keep, and have done them, And they have been to me for a people, And I am to them for God.
11:21 As to those whose heart is going unto the heart Of their detestable and their abominable things, Their way on their head I have put, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH.'
11:22 And the cherubs lift up their wings, and the wheels [are] over-against them, and the honour of the God of Israel [is] over them above.
11:23 And the honour of YHWH goeth up from off the midst of the city, and standeth on the mountain, that [is] on the east of the city.
11:24 And a spirit hath lifted me up, and bringeth me in to Chaldea, unto the Removed, in a vision, by the Spirit of God, and go up from off me doth the vision that I have seen;
11:25 and I speak unto the Removed all the matters of YHWH that He hath shewed me.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 12
Ezekiel 12:1 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying,
12:2 `Son of man, in the midst of the rebellious house thou art dwelling, that have eyes to see, and they have not seen; ears they have to hear, and they have not heard; for a rebellious house [are] they.
12:3 And thou, son of man, make to thee vessels of removal, and remove by day before their eyes, and thou hast removed from thy place unto another place before their eyes, it may be they consider, for a rebellious house they [are].
12:4 And thou hast brought forth thy vessels as vessels of removal by day before their eyes, and thou, thou dost go forth at even before their eyes, as the goings forth of a removal.
12:5 Before their eyes dig for thee through the wall, and thou hast brought forth by it.
12:6 Before their eyes on the shoulder thou dost bear, in the darkness thou dost bring forth, thy face thou dost cover, and thou dost not see the earth, for a type I have given thee to the house of Israel.'
12:7 And I do so, as I have been commanded; my vessels I have brought forth as vessels of removal by day, and at even I have dug for me through the wall with the hand; in the darkness I have brought forth, on the shoulder I have borne away, before their eyes.
12:8 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, in the morning, saying,
12:9 `Son of man, have they not said unto thee -- the house of Israel -- the rebellious house -- What art thou doing?
Ezekiel 12:10 say unto them, Thus said the Lord YHWH: `The prince [is] this burden in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel who are in their midst.
12:11 Say: I [am] your type; as I have done so it is done to them, into a removal, into a captivity, they do go.
12:12 As to the prince who [is] in their midst, on the shoulder he beareth in the darkness, and he goeth forth, through the wall they dig to bring forth by it, his face he covereth, that he may not look on the very surface of the land.
12:13 And I have spread My net for him, and he hath been caught in My snare, and I have brought him in to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, and it he doth not see -- and there doth he die.
12:14 `And all who are round about him to help him, and all his bands, I do scatter to every wind, and a sword I draw out after them.
12:15 And they have known that I [am] YHWH, in My scattering them among nations, and I have spread them through lands;
12:16 and I have left of them, a few in number, from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence, so that they recount all their abominations among the nations whither they have come, and they have known that I [am] YHWH.'
12:17 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying,
12:18 `Son of man, thy bread in haste thou dost eat, and thy water with trembling and with fear thou dost drink;
12:19 and thou hast said unto the people of the land, Thus said the Lord YHWH concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, concerning the land of Israel: Their bread with fear they do eat, and their water with astonishment drink, because its land is desolate, because of its fulness, because of the violence of all who are dwelling in it.
Ezekiel 12:20 And the cities that are inhabited are laid waste, and the land is a desolation, and ye have known that I [am] YHWH.'
12:21 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying,
12:22 `Son of man, what [is] this simile to you, concerning the land of Israel, saying, Prolonged are the days, and perished hath every vision?
12:23 therefore say unto them: Thus said the Lord YHWH: I have caused this simile to cease, And they use it not as a simile again in Israel, But speak to them: Drawn near have the days, And spoken hath every vision.
12:24 For there is no more any vain vision, and flattering divination, In the midst of the house of Israel.
12:25 For I [am] YHWH, I speak, The word that I speak -- it is done, It is not prolonged any more, For, in your days, O rebellious house, I speak a word, and I have done it, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH.'
12:26 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying:
12:27 `Son of man, lo, the house of Israel are saying, The vision that he is seeing [is] for many days, and of times far off he is prophesying,
12:28 therefore say unto them: Thus said the Lord YHWH: None of my words are prolonged any more, When I speak a word -- it is done, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH!'
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 13
Ezekiel 13:1 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying,
13:2 `Son of man, prophesy concerning the prophets of Israel who are prophesying, and thou hast said to those prophesying from their own heart: Hear ye a word of YHWH:
13:3 Thus said the Lord YHWH: Wo unto the prophets who are foolish, Who are going after their own spirit, And they have seen nothing.
13:4 As foxes in the wastes, Thy prophets, O Israel, have been.
13:5 Ye have not gone up into breaches, Nor do ye make a fence for the house of Israel, To stand in battle in a day of YHWH.
13:6 They have seen vanity, and lying divination, Who are saying: An affirmation of YHWH, And YHWH hath not sent them, And they have hoped to establish a word.
13:7 A vain vision have ye not seen, And a lying divination spoken, When ye say: An affirmation of YHWH, And I have not spoken?
13:8 Therefore, thus said the Lord YHWH: Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen a lie, Therefore, lo, I [am] against you, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH.
13:9 And My hand hath been on the prophets, Who are seeing vanity, and who are divining a lie, In the assembly of My people they are not, And in the writing of the house of Israel they are not written, And unto the ground of Israel they come not, And ye have known that I [am] the Lord YHWH.
Ezekiel 13:10 Because, even because, they did cause My people to err, Saying, Peace! and there is no peace, And that one is building a wall, And lo, they are daubing it with chalk.
13:11 Say to those daubing with chalk -- It falleth, There hath been an overflowing shower, And ye, O hailstones, do fall, And a tempestuous wind doth rend,
13:12 And lo, fallen hath the wall! Doth not one say unto you, Where [is] the daubing that ye daubed?
13:13 Therefore, thus said the Lord YHWH: I have rent with a tempestuous wind in My fury, And an overflowing shower is in Mine anger, And hailstones in My fury -- to consume.
13:14 And I have broken down the wall that ye daubed with chalk, And have caused it to come unto the earth, And revealed hath been its foundation, And it hath fallen, And ye have been consumed in its midst, And ye have known that I [am] YHWH.
13:15 And I have completed My wrath on the wall, And on those daubing it with chalk, And I say to you: The wall is not, And those daubing it are not;
13:16 The prophets of Israel who are prophesying concerning Jerusalem, And who are seeing for her a vision of peace, And there is no peace, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH.
13:17 And thou, son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, who are prophesying out of their own heart, and prophesy concerning them,
13:18 And thou hast said: Thus said the Lord YHWH: Wo to those sowing pillows for all joints of the arm, And to those making the kerchiefs For the head of every stature -- to hunt souls, The souls do ye hunt of My people? And the souls ye have do ye keep alive?
13:19 Yea, ye pierce Me concerning My people, For handfuls of barley, And for pieces of bread, to put to death Souls that should not die, And to keep alive souls that should not live, By your lying to My people -- hearkening to lies.
Ezekiel 13:20 Therefore, thus said the Lord YHWH: Lo, I [am] against your pillows, With which ye are hunting there the souls of the flourishing, And I have rent them from off your arms, And have sent away the souls that ye are hunting, The souls of the flourishing.
13:21 And I have torn your kerchiefs, And delivered My people out of your hand, And they are no more in your hand for a prey, And ye have known that I [am] YHWH.
13:22 Because of paining the heart of the righteous with falsehood, And I have not pained it, And strengthening the hands of the wicked, So as not to turn back from his evil way, To keep him alive,
13:23 Therefore, vanity ye do not see, And divination ye do not divine again, And I have delivered My people out of your hand, And ye have known that I [am] YHWH!'
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 14
Ezekiel 14:1 And come in unto me do certain of the elders of Israel, and sit before me.
14:2 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying,
14:3 `Son of man, these men have caused their idols to go up on their heart, and the stumbling-block of their iniquity they have put over-against their faces; am I inquired of at all by them?
14:4 `Therefore, speak with them, and thou hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord YHWH: Every one of the house of Israel who causeth his idols to go up unto his heart, and the stumbling-block of his iniquity setteth over-against his face, and hath gone in unto the prophet -- I YHWH have given an answer to him for this, for the abundance of his idols,
14:5 in order to catch the house of Israel by their heart, in that they have become estranged from off me by their idols -- all of them.
14:6 `Therefore say unto the house of Israel: Thus said the Lord YHWH: Turn ye back, yea, turn ye back from your idols, and from all your abominations turn back your faces,
14:7 for every one of the house of Israel, and of the sojourners who doth sojourn in Israel, who is separated from after Me, and doth cause his idols to go up unto his heart, and the stumbling-block of his iniquity setteth over-against his face, and hath come in unto the prophet to inquire of him concerning Me, I, YHWH, have answered him for Myself;
14:8 and I have set My face against that man, and made him for a sign, and for similes, and I have cut him off from the midst of My people, and ye have known that I [am] YHWH.
14:9 `And the prophet, when he is enticed, and hath spoken a word -- I, YHWH, I have enticed that prophet, and have stretched out My hand against him, and have destroyed him from the midst of My people Israel.
Ezekiel 14:10 And they have borne their iniquity: as the iniquity of the inquirer, so is the iniquity of the prophet;
14:11 so that the house of Israel do not wander any more from after Me, nor are defiled any more with all their transgressions, and they have been to Me for a people, and I am to them for God -- an affirmation of the Lord YHWH.'
14:12 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying,
14:13 `Son of man, the land -- when it sinneth against Me to commit a trespass, and I have stretched out My hand against it, and broken for it the staff of bread, and sent into it famine, and cut off from it man and beast --
14:14 and these three men have been in its midst, Noah, Daniel, and Job -- they by their righteousness deliver their own soul -- an affirmation of the Lord YHWH.
14:15 `If an evil beast I cause to pass through the land, and it hath bereaved, and it hath been a desolation, without any passing through because of the beast --
14:16 these three men in its midst: I live -- an affirmation of the Lord YHWH -- neither sons nor daughters do they deliver; they alone are delivered, and the land is a desolation.
14:17 `Or -- a sword I bring in against that land, and I have said: Sword, thou dost pass over through the land, and I have cut off from it man and beast --
14:18 and these three men in its midst: I live -- an affirmation of the Lord YHWH -- they deliver not sons and daughters, for they alone are delivered.
14:19 `Or -- pestilence I send unto that land, and I have poured out My fury against it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast --
Ezekiel 14:20 and Noah, Daniel, and Job, in its midst: I live -- an affirmation of the Lord YHWH -- neither son nor daughter do they deliver; they, by their righteousness, deliver their own soul.
14:21 `For thus said the Lord YHWH: Although My four sore judgments -- sword, and famine, and wild beast, and pestilence -- I have sent unto Jerusalem, to cut off from it man and beast,
14:22 yet, lo, there hath been left in it an escape, who are brought forth, sons and daughters, lo, they are coming forth unto you, and ye have seen their way, and their doings, and have been comforted concerning the evil that I have brought in against Jerusalem, all that which I have brought in against it.
14:23 And they have comforted you, for ye see their way and their doings, and ye have known that not for nought have I done all that which I have done in her -- an affirmation of the Lord YHWH.'
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 15
Ezekiel 15:1 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying:
15:2 `Son of man, What is the vine-tree more than any tree? The vine-branch that hath been, Among trees of the forest?
15:3 Is wood taken from it to use for work? Do they take of it a pin to hang any vessel on it?
15:4 Lo, to the fire it hath been given for fuel, Its two ends hath the fire eaten, And its midst hath been scorched! Is it profitable for work?
15:5 Lo, in its being perfect it is not used for work, How much less, when fire hath eaten of it, And it is scorched, Hath it been used yet for work?
15:6 Therefore, thus said the Lord YHWH: As the vine-tree among trees of the forest, That I have given to the fire for fuel, So I have given the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15:7 And I have set My face against them, From the fire they have gone forth, And the fire doth consume them, And ye have known that I [am] YHWH, In My setting My face against them.
15:8 And I have made the land a desolation, Because they have committed a trespass, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH!'
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 16
Ezekiel 16:1 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying,
16:2 `Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, and thou hast said:
16:3 Thus said the Lord YHWH to Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity [Are] of the land of the Canaanite, Thy father the Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite.
16:4 As to thy nativity, in the day thou wast born, Thou -- thy navel hath not been cut, And in water thou wast not washed for ease, And thou hast not been salted at all, And thou hast not been swaddled at all.
16:5 No eye hath had pity on thee, to do to thee any of these, To have compassion on thee, And thou art cast on the face of the field, With loathing of thy person. In the day thou hast been born -- thou!
16:6 And I do pass over by thee, And I see thee trodden down in thy blood, And I say to thee in thy blood, Live, And I say to thee in thy blood, Live.
16:7 A myriad -- as the shoot of the field I have made thee, And thou art multiplied, and art great, And comest in with an excellent adornment, Breasts have been formed, and thy hair hath grown -- And thou, naked and bare!
16:8 And I pass over by thee, and I see thee, And lo, thy time [is] a time of loves, And I spread My skirt over thee, And I cover thy nakedness, And I swear to thee, and come in to a covenant with thee, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH, And thou dost become Mine.
16:9 And I do wash thee with water, And I wash away thy blood from off thee, And I anoint thee with perfume.
Ezekiel 16:10 And I clothe thee with embroidery, And I shoe thee with badger's skin, And I gird thee with fine linen, And I cover thee with figured silk.
16:11 And I adorn thee with adornments, And I give bracelets for thy hands, And a chain for thy neck.
16:12 And I give a ring for thy nose, And rings for thine ears, And a crown of beauty on thy head.
16:13 And thou dost put on gold and silver, And thy clothing [is] fine linen, And figured silk and embroidery, Fine flour, and honey, and oil thou hast eaten, And thou art very very beautiful, And dost go prosperously to the kingdom.
16:14 And go forth doth thy name among nations, Because of thy beauty -- for it [is] complete, In My honour that I have set upon thee, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH.
16:15 And thou dost trust in thy beauty, And goest a-whoring because of thy renown, And dost pour out thy whoredoms On every passer by -- to him it is.
16:16 And thou dost take of thy garments, And dost make to thee spotted high-places, And dost go a-whoring upon them, They are not coming in -- nor shall it be!
16:17 And thou dost take thy beauteous vessels Of My gold and My silver that I gave to thee, And dost make to thee images of a male, And dost go a-whoring with them,
16:18 And dost take the garments of thy embroidery, And thou dost cover them, And My oil and My perfume thou hast set before them.
16:19 And My bread, that I gave to thee, Fine flour, and oil, and honey, that I caused thee to eat. Thou hast even set it before them, For a sweet fragrance -- thus it is, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH.
Ezekiel 16:20 And thou dost take thy sons and thy daughters Whom thou hast born to Me, And dost sacrifice them to them for food. Is it a little thing because of thy whoredoms,
16:21 That thou dost slaughter My sons, And dost give them up in causing them to pass over to them?
16:22 And with all thine abominations and thy whoredoms, Thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, When thou wast naked and bare, Trodden down in thy blood thou wast!
16:23 And it cometh to pass, after all thy wickedness, (Wo, wo, to thee -- an affirmation of the Lord YHWH),
16:24 That thou dost build to thee an arch, And dost make to thee a high place in every broad place.
16:25 At every head of the way thou hast built thy high place, And thou dost make thy beauty abominable, And dost open wide thy feet to every passer by, And dost multiply thy whoredoms,
16:26 And dost go a-whoring unto sons of Egypt, Thy neighbours -- great of appetite! And thou dost multiply thy whoredoms, To provoke Me to anger.
16:27 And lo, I have stretched out My hand against thee, And I diminish thy portion, And give thee to the desire of those hating thee, The daughters of the Philistines, Who are ashamed of thy wicked way.
16:28 And thou goest a-whoring unto sons of Asshur, Without thy being satisfied, And thou dost go a-whoring with them, And also -- thou hast not been satisfied.
16:29 And thou dost multiply thy whoredoms On the land of Canaan -- toward Chaldea, And even with this thou hast not been satisfied.
Ezekiel 16:30 How weak [is] thy heart, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH, In thy doing all these, The work of a domineering whorish woman.
16:31 In thy building thine arch at the head of every way, Thy high place thou hast made in every broad place, And -- hast not been as a whore deriding a gift.
16:32 The wife who committeth adultery -- Under her husband -- doth receive strangers.
16:33 To all whores they give a gift, And -- thou hast given thy gifts to all thy lovers, And dost bribe them to come in unto thee, From round about -- in thy whoredoms.
16:34 And the contrary is in thee from women in thy whoredoms, That after thee none doth go a-whoring; And in thy giving a gift, And a gift hath not been given to thee; And thou art become contrary.
16:35 Therefore, O whore, hear a word of YHWH,
16:36 Thus said the Lord YHWH: Because of thy brass being poured forth, And thy nakedness is revealed in thy whoredoms near thy lovers, And near all the idols of thy abominations, And according to the blood of thy sons, Whom thou hast given to them;
16:37 Therefore, lo, I am assembling all thy lovers, To whom thou hast been sweet, And all whom thou hast loved, Besides all whom thou hast hated; And I have assembled them by thee round about, And have revealed thy nakedness to them, And they have seen all thy nakedness.
16:38 And I have judged thee -- judgments of adultresses, And of women shedding blood, And have given thee blood, fury, and jealousy.
16:39 And I have given thee into their hand, And they have thrown down thine arch, And they have broken down thy high places, And they have stript thee of thy garments, And they have taken thy beauteous vessels, And they have left thee naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:40 And have caused an assembly to come up against thee, And stoned thee with stones, And thrust thee through with their swords,
16:41 And burnt thy houses with fire, And done in thee judgments before the eyes of many women, And I have caused thee to cease from going a-whoring, And also a gift thou givest no more.
16:42 And I have caused My fury against thee to rest, And My jealousy hath turned aside from thee, And I have been quiet, and I am not angry any more.
16:43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, And dost give trouble to Me in all these, Lo, even I also thy way at first gave up, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH, And I did not this thought for all thine abominations.
16:44 Lo, every one using a simile, Doth use a simile concerning thee, saying: As the mother -- her daughter!
16:45 Thy mother's daughter thou [art], Loathing her husband and her sons, And thy sisters' sister thou [art], Who loathed their husbands and their sons, Your mother [is] a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
16:46 And thine elder sister [is] Samaria, she and her daughters, Who is dwelling at thy left hand, And thy younger sister, who is dwelling on thy right hand, [is] Sodom and her daughters.
16:47 And -- in their ways thou hast not walked, And according to their abominations done, As a little thing it hath been loathed, And thou dost more corruptly than they in all thy ways.
16:48 I live -- an affirmation of the Lord YHWH, Sodom thy sister hath not done -- she and her daughters -- As thou hast done -- thou and thy daughters.
16:49 Lo, this hath been the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, Arrogancy, fulness of bread, and quiet ease, Have been to her and to her daughters, And the hand of the afflicted and needy She hath not strengthened.
Ezekiel 16:50 And they are haughty and do abomination before Me, And I turn them aside when I have seen.
16:51 As to Samaria, as the half of thy sins -- she hath not sinned, And thou dost multiply thine abominations more than they, And dost justify thy sisters by all thy abominations that thou hast done.
16:52 Thou also -- bear thy shame, That thou hast adjudged to thy sisters, Because of thy sins that thou hast done more abominably than they, They are more righteous than thou, And thou, also, be ashamed and bear thy shame, In thy justifying thy sisters.
16:53 And I have turned back [to] their captivity, The captivity of Sodom and her daughters, And the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, And the captivity of thy captives in their midst,
16:54 So that thou dost bear thy shame, And hast been ashamed of all that thou hast done, In thy comforting them.
16:55 And thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, Do turn back to their former state, And Samaria and her daughters Do turn back to their former state, And thou and thy daughters do turn back to your former state.
16:56 And thy sister Sodom hath not been for a report in thy mouth, In the day of thine arrogancy,
16:57 Before thy wickedness is revealed, As [at] the time of the reproach of the daughters of Aram, And of all her neighbours, the daughters of the Philistines, Who are despising thee round about.
16:58 Thy devices and thine abominations, Thou hast borne them, an affirmation of YHWH.
16:59 For thus said the Lord YHWH: I have dealt with thee as thou hast done, In that thou hast despised an oath -- to break covenant.
Ezekiel 16:60 And I -- I have remembered My covenant with thee, In the days of thy youth, And I have established for thee a covenant age-during.
16:61 And thou hast remembered thy ways, And thou hast been ashamed, In thy receiving thy sisters -- Thine elder with thy younger, And I have given them to thee for daughters, And not by thy covenant.
16:62 And I -- I have established My covenant with thee, And thou hast known that I [am] YHWH.
16:63 So that thou dost remember, And thou hast been ashamed, And there is not to thee any more an opening of the mouth because of thy shame, In My receiving atonement for thee, For all that thou hast done, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH!'
Lamentations - Ezekiel 17-32