EZEKIEL CHAPTER 17

Ezekiel 17:1 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying,
17:2 `Son of man, put forth a riddle, and use a simile unto the house of Israel,
17:3 and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord YHWH: The great eagle, great-winged, long-pinioned, Full of feathers, that hath diverse colours, Hath come in unto Lebanon, And it taketh the foliage of the cedar,
17:4 The top of its tender twigs it hath cropped, And it bringeth it in to the land of Canaan. In a city of merchants it hath placed it.
17:5 And it taketh of the seed of the land, And doth put it in a field of seed, To take by many waters, In a conspicuous place it hath set it.
17:6 And it springeth up, and becometh a spreading vine, humble of stature, To turn its thin shoots toward itself, And its roots are under it, And it becometh a vine, and maketh boughs, And sendeth forth beauteous branches.
17:7 And there is another great eagle, Great-winged, and abounding with feathers, And lo, this vine hath bent its roots toward him, And its thin shoots it hath sent out toward him, To water it from the furrows of its planting,
17:8 On a good field, by many waters, it is planted, To make branches, and to bear fruit, To be for an goodly vine.
17:9 Say: Thus said the Lord YHWH: It prospereth -- its roots doth he not draw out, And its fruit cut off, and it is withered? [In] all the leaves of its springing it withereth, And not by great strength, and by a numerous people, To lift it up by its roots.
Ezekiel 17:10 And lo, the planted thing -- doth it prosper? When come against it doth the east wind, Doth it not utterly wither? On the furrows of its springing it withereth.'
17:11 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying:
17:12 `Say, I pray thee, to the rebellious house, Have ye not known what these [are]? Say, Lo, come hath the king of Babylon to Jerusalem, And he taketh its king, and its princes, And bringeth them to himself to Babylon.
17:13 And he taketh of the seed of the kingdom, And maketh with him a covenant, And bringeth him in to an oath, And the mighty of the land he hath taken,
17:14 That the kingdom may be humble, That it may not lift itself up, To keep his covenant -- that it may stand.
17:15 And he rebelleth against him, To send his messengers to Egypt, To give to him horses, and much people, Doth he prosper? doth he escape who is doing these things? And hath he broken covenant and escaped?
17:16 I live -- an affirmation of the Lord YHWH, Doth he not -- in the place of the king who is causing him to reign, Whose oath he hath despised, And whose covenant he hath broken, With him -- in the midst of Babylon -- die?
17:17 And not with a great force, and with a numerous assembly, Doth Pharaoh maintain him in battle, By pouring out a mount, and in building a fortification, To cut off many souls.
17:18 And he despised the oath -- to break covenant, And lo, he hath given his hand, And all these he hath done, he escapeth not.
17:19 Therefore, thus said the Lord YHWH: I live -- Mine oath that he hath despised, And My covenant that he hath broken, Have I not put it on his head?
Ezekiel 17:20 And I have spread out for him My snare, And he hath been caught in My net, And I have brought him in to Babylon, And pleaded with him there his trespass, That he hath trespassed against Me.
17:21 And all his fugitives, with all his bands, By sword do fall, and those remaining, To every wind they are spread out, And ye have known that I, YHWH, have spoken.
17:22 Thus said the Lord YHWH: I have taken of the foliage of the high cedar, And I have set [it], From the top of its tender shoots a tender one I crop, And I -- I have planted [it] on a mountain high and lofty.
17:23 In a mountain -- the high place of Israel, I plant it, And it hath borne boughs, and yielded fruit, And become a goodly cedar, And dwelt under it have all birds of every wing, In the shade of its thin shoots they dwell.
17:24 And known have all trees of the field That I, YHWH, have made low the high tree, I have set on high the low tree, I have dried up the moist tree, And I have caused the dry tree to flourish, I, YHWH, have spoken, and have done [it]!'

EZEKIEL CHAPTER 18

Ezekiel 18:1 `And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying:
18:2 `What -- to you, ye -- using this simile Concerning the ground of Israel, saying: Fathers do eat unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted?
18:3 I live -- an affirmation of the Lord YHWH, Ye have no more the use of this simile in Israel.
18:4 Lo, all the souls are Mine, As the soul of the father, So also the soul of the son -- they are Mine, The soul that is sinning -- it doth die.
18:5 And a man, when he is righteous, And hath done judgment and righteousness,
18:6 On the mountains he hath not eaten, And his eyes he hath not lifted up Unto idols of the house of Israel, And the wife of his neighbour defiled not, And to a separated woman cometh not near,
18:7 A man -- he doth not oppress, His pledge to the debtor he doth return, Plunder he doth not take away, His bread to the hungry he doth give, And the naked doth cover with a garment,
18:8 In usury he doth not give, and increase taketh not, From perversity he turneth back his hand, True judgment he doth between man and man.
18:9 In My statutes he doth walk, And My judgments he hath kept -- to deal truly, Righteous [is] he, he surely liveth, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH.
Ezekiel 18:10 And -- he hath begotten a son, A burglar -- a shedder of blood, And he hath made a brother of one of these,
18:11 And he all those hath not done, For even on the mountains he hath eaten, And the wife of his neighbour he hath defiled,
18:12 The afflicted and needy he hath oppressed, Plunder he hath taken violently away, A pledge he doth not return, And unto the idols he hath lifted up his eyes, Abomination he hath done!
18:13 In usury he hath given, and increase taken, And he liveth: he doth not live, All these abominations he hath done, He doth surely die, his blood is on him.
18:14 And -- lo, he hath begotten a son, And he seeth all the sins of his father, That he hath done, and he feareth, And doth not do like them,
18:15 On the mountains he hath not eaten, And his eyes he hath not lifted up Unto idols of the house of Israel, The wife of his neighbour he hath not defiled,
18:16 A man -- he hath not oppressed, A pledge he hath not bound, And plunder he hath not taken away, His bread to the hungry he hath given, And the naked he covered with a garment,
18:17 From the afflicted he hath turned back his hand, Usury and increase he hath not taken, My judgments he hath done, In My statutes he hath walked, He doth not die for the iniquity of his father, He doth surely live.
18:18 His father -- because he used oppression, Did violently Plunder a brother, And that which [is] not good did in the midst of his people, And lo, he is dying in his iniquity.
18:19 And ye have said, Wherefore hath not the son, Borne of the iniquity of the father? And -- the son judgment and righteousness hath done, All My statutes he hath kept, And he doeth them, he surely liveth.
Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that doth sin -- it doth die. A son doth not bear of the iniquity of the father, And a father doth not bear of the iniquity of the son, The righteousness of the righteous is on him, And the wickedness of the wicked is on him.
18:21 And the wicked -- when he turneth back From all his sins that he hath done, And he hath kept all My statutes, And hath done judgment and righteousness, He doth surely live, he doth not die.
18:22 All his transgressions that he hath done Are not remembered to him, In his righteousness that he hath done he liveth.
18:23 Do I at all desire the death of the wicked? An affirmation of the Lord YHWH, Is it not in his turning back from his way -- And he hath lived?
18:24 And in the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, And he hath done perversity, According to all the abominations That the wicked hath done, he doth -- thus he liveth, All his righteousnesses that he hath done are not remembered, For his trespass that he hath trespassed, And for his sin that he hath sinned, For them he doth die.
18:25 And ye have said, Not pondered is the way of the Lord. Hear, I pray you, O house of Israel, My way -- is it not pondered? Are not your ways unpondered?
18:26 In the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, And he hath done perversity, And he is dying by them, for his perversity That he hath done he dieth.
18:27 And in the turning back of the wicked From his wickedness that he hath done, And he doth judgment and righteousness, He his soul doth keep alive.
18:28 And he seeth and turneth back, From all his transgressions that he hath done, He doth surely live, he doth not die,
18:29 And the house of Israel have said, Not pondered is the way of the Lord, My ways -- are they not pondered? O house of Israel -- are not your ways unpondered?
Ezekiel 18:30 Therefore, each according to his ways I judge you, O house of Israel? An affirmation of the Lord YHWH, Turn ye back, yea, turn yourselves back, From all your transgressions, And iniquity is not to you for a stumbling-block,
18:31 Cast from off you all your transgressions, By which ye have transgressed, And make to you a new heart, and a new spirit, And why do ye die, O house of Israel?
18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death of the dying, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH, And turn ye back and live!

EZEKIEL CHAPTER 19

Ezekiel 19:1 And thou, lift up a lamentation unto princes of Israel,
19:2 and thou hast said: What [is] thy mother? -- a lioness, Among lions she hath crouched down, In the midst of young lions she hath multiplied her whelps.
19:3 And she bringeth up one of her whelps, A young lion it hath been, And it learneth to tear prey, man it hath devoured.
19:4 And hear of it do nations, In their pit it hath been caught, And they bring it in with chains unto the land of Egypt.
19:5 And she seeth, that stayed -- perished hath her hope, And she taketh one of her whelps, A young lion she hath made it.
19:6 And it goeth up and down in the midst of lions, A young lion it hath been, And it learneth to tear prey, man it hath devoured.
19:7 And it knoweth his forsaken habitations, And their cities it hath laid waste, And desolate is the land and its fulness, Because of the voice of his roaring.
19:8 And set against it do nations Round about from the provinces. And they spread out for it their net, In their pit it hath been caught.
19:9 And they put it in prison -- in chains, And they bring it unto the king of Babylon, They bring it in unto bulwarks, So that its voice is not heard any more On mountains of Israel.
Ezekiel 19:10 Thy mother [is] as a vine in thy blood by waters planted, Fruitful and full of boughs it hath been, Because of many waters.
19:11 And it hath strong rods for sceptres of rulers, And high is its stature above thick branches, And it appeareth in its height In the multitude of its thin shoots.
19:12 And it is plucked up in fury, To the earth it hath been cast, And the east wind hath dried up its fruit, Broken and withered hath been the rod of its strength, Fire hath consumed it.
19:13 And now -- it is planted in a wilderness, In a land dry and thirsty.
19:14 And go forth doth fire from a rod of its boughs, Its fruit it hath devoured, And it hath no rod of strength -- a sceptre to rule, Lamentation it [is] -- and it is for a lamentation!'

EZEKIEL CHAPTER 20

Ezekiel 20:1 And it cometh to pass, in the seventh year, in the fifth [month], in the tenth of the month, come in have certain of the elders of Israel to seek YHWH, and they sit before me;
20:2 and there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying,
20:3 `Son of man, speak with the elders of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, Thus said the Lord YHWH: To seek Me are ye coming in? I live -- I am not sought by you -- an affirmation of the Lord YHWH.
20:4 Dost thou judge them? Dost thou judge, son of man? The abominations of their fathers cause them to know,
20:5 and thou hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord YHWH: In the day of My fixing on Israel, I lift up My hand, To the seed of the house of Jacob, And am known to them in the land of Egypt, And I lift up My hand to them, Saying, I [am] YHWH your God.
20:6 In that day I did lift up My hand to them, To bring them forth from the land of Egypt, Unto a land that I spied out for them, Flowing with milk and honey, A beauty it [is] to all the lands,
20:7 And I say unto them, Let each cast away the detestable things of his eyes, And with the idols of Egypt be not defiled, I [am] YHWH your God.
20:8 And -- they rebel against Me, And have not been willing to hearken to Me, Each, the detestable things of their eyes, They have not cast away, And the idols of Egypt have not forsaken, And I say -- to pour out My fury on them, To complete Mine anger against them, In the midst of the land of Egypt.
20:9 And I do [it] for My name's sake, Not to pollute [it] before the eyes of the nations, In whose midst they [are], Before whose eyes I became known to them, To bring them out from the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:10 And I bring them out of the land of Egypt, And I bring them in unto the wilderness,
20:11 And I give to them My statutes, And my judgments I caused them to know, Which the man who doth -- liveth by them.
20:12 And also My sabbaths I have given to them, To be for a sign between Me and them, To know that I [am] YHWH their sanctifier.
20:13 And -- rebel against me do the house of Israel in the wilderness, In My statutes they have not walked, And My judgments they have despised, Which the man who doth -- liveth by them. And My sabbaths they have greatly polluted, And I say to pour out My fury on them in the wilderness, to consume them.
20:14 And I do [it] for My name's sake, Not to pollute [it] before the eyes of the nations, Before whose eyes I brought them forth.
20:15 And also, I, I have lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness, Not to bring them in to the land that I had given, Flowing with milk and honey, A beauty it [is] to all the lands,
20:16 Because against My judgments they did kick, And in My statutes they have not walked, And My sabbaths they have polluted, For after their idols their heart is going.
20:17 And Mine eye hath pity on them -- against destroying them, And I have not made of them an end in the wilderness.
20:18 And I say to their sons in the wilderness: In the statutes of your fathers ye walk not, And their judgments ye do not observe, And with their idols ye are not defiled.
20:19 I [am] YHWH your God, in My statutes walk, And My judgments observe, and do them,
Ezekiel 20:20 And My sabbaths sanctify, And they have been for a sign between Me and you, To know that I, YHWH, [am] your God.
20:21 And -- the sons rebel against Me, In My statutes they have not walked, And My judgments they have not observed -- to do them, Which the man who doth -- liveth by them. My sabbaths they have polluted, And I say to pour out My fury upon them, To complete Mine anger against them in the wilderness.
20:22 And I have turned back My hand, And I do [it] for My name's sake, Not to pollute [it] before the eyes of the nations, Before whose eyes I brought them out.
20:23 I also, I have lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness, To scatter them among nations, And to spread them through lands.
20:24 Because My judgments they have not done, And My statutes they have despised, And My sabbaths they have polluted, And after idols of their fathers have their eyes been.
20:25 And I also, I have given to them statutes not good, And judgments by which they do not live.
20:26 And I defile them by their own gifts, By causing to pass away every opener of a womb, So that I make them desolate, So that they know that I [am] YHWH.
20:27 Therefore, speak unto the house of Israel, son of man, and thou hast said unto them, Thus said the Lord YHWH: Still in this have your fathers reviled Me, In their committing against Me a trespass.
20:28 And I bring them in unto the land, That I did lift up My hand to give to them, And they see every high hill, and every thick tree, And they sacrifice there their sacrifices, And give there the provocation of their offering, And make there their sweet fragrance, And they pour out there their libations.
20:29 And I say unto them: What [is] the high place whither ye are going in? And its name is called `high place' to this day.
Ezekiel 20:30 Therefore, say unto the house of Israel: Thus said the Lord YHWH: In the way of your fathers are ye defiled? And after their detestable things go a-whoring?
20:31 And in the offering of your gifts, In causing your sons to pass through fire, Ye are defiled by all your idols to this day, And I am sought by you, O house of Israel! I live -- an affirmation of the Lord YHWH, I am not sought by you.
20:32 And that which is going up on your mind, It is not at all -- in that ye are saying: We will be as the nations, as the families of the lands, To serve wood and stone.
20:33 I live -- an affirmation of the Lord YHWH, Do not I, with a strong hand, And with a stretched-out arm, And with fury poured out -- rule over you?
20:34 And I have brought you forth from the peoples, And assembled you from the lands In which ye have been scattered, With a strong hand and with a stretched-out arm, And with fury poured out.
20:35 And I have brought you in unto the wilderness of the peoples, And have been judged with you there face to face.
20:36 As I was judged with your fathers, In the wilderness of the land of Egypt, So I am judged with you, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH.
20:37 And I have caused you to pass under the rod, And brought you into the bond of the covenant,
20:38 And cleared out from you the rebels, And them transgressing against Me, From the land of their sojournings I bring them out, And unto the land of Israel they come not, And ye have known that I [am] YHWH.
20:39 And ye, O house of Israel, thus said the Lord YHWH: Each his idols -- go -- serve ye, And, afterwards, if ye are not hearkening to me, And My holy name ye do not pollute any more by your gifts, and by your idols.
Ezekiel 20:40 For, in My holy mountain, In the mountain of the height of Israel, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH, There serve Me do all the house of Israel, All of it, in the land -- there I accept them, And there I do seek your heave-offerings, And with the first-fruit of your gifts, With all your holy things.
20:41 With sweet fragrance I do accept you, In My bringing you out from the peoples, And I have assembled you from the lands In which ye have been scattered, And I have been sanctified in you Before the eyes of the nations.
20:42 And ye have known that I [am] YHWH, In My bringing you to the ground of Israel, Unto the land that I did lift up My hand To give it to your fathers,
20:43 And ye have remembered there your ways, And all your doings, In which ye have been defiled, And ye have been loathsome in your own faces, For all your evils that ye have done.
20:44 And ye have known that I [am] YHWH, In My dealing with you for My name's sake, Not according to your evil ways, And according to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH.'
20:45 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying,
20:46 Son of man, set thy face the way of Teman, and prophesy unto the south, and prophesy unto the forest of the field -- the south;
20:47 and thou hast said to the forest of the south: Hear a word of YHWH: Thus said the Lord YHWH: Lo, I am kindling in thee a fire, And it hath devoured in thee every moist tree, and every dry tree, Not quenched is the glowing flames, And burnt by it have been all faces from south to north.
20:48 And seen have all flesh, that I, YHWH, have kindled it -- it is not quenched.'
20:49 And I say, `Ah, Lord YHWH, They are saying of me, Is he not using similes?

EZEKIEL CHAPTER 21

Ezekiel 21:1 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying,
21:2 `Son of man, set thy face unto Jerusalem, and prophesy unto the holy places, and prophesy unto the ground of Israel;
21:3 and thou hast said unto the ground of Israel: Thus said YHWH: Lo, I [am] against thee, And have brought out My sword from its scabbard, And have cut off from thee righteous and wicked.
21:4 Because that I have cut off from thee righteous and wicked, Therefore go out doth My sword from its scabbard, Unto all flesh, from south to north.
21:5 And known have all flesh that I, YHWH, Have brought out My sword from its scabbard, It doth not turn back any more.
21:6 And thou, son of man, sigh with breaking of loins, yea, with bitterness thou dost sigh before their eyes,
21:7 and it hath come to pass, when they say unto thee, For what art thou sighing? that thou hast said: Because of the report, for it is coming, And melted hath every heart, And feeble hath been all hands, And weak is every spirit, And all knees go -- waters, Lo, it is coming, yea, it hath been, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH.'
21:8 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying,
21:9 `Son of man, prophesy, and thou hast said, Thus said YHWH, say: A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished.
Ezekiel 21:10 So as to slaughter a slaughter it is sharpened. So as to have brightness it is polished, Desire hath rejoiced the sceptre of my son, It is despising every tree.
21:11 And he giveth it for polishing, For laying hold of by the hand. It is sharpened -- the sword -- and polished, To give it into the hand of a slayer.
21:12 Cry and howl, son of man, For it hath been among My people, It [is] among all the princes of Israel, Cast unto the sword have been My people. Therefore strike on thy thigh,
21:13 Because [it is] a trier, And what if even the sceptre it is despising? It shall not be, an affirmation of the Lord YHWH.
21:14 And thou, son of man, prophesy, And smite hand on hand, And bent is the sword a third time, The sword of the wounded! It [is] the sword of the wounded -- the great one, That is entering the inner chamber to them.
21:15 To melt the heart, and to multiply the ruins, By all their gates I have set the point of a sword. Ah, it is made for brightness, Wrapt up for slaughter.
21:16 Take possession of the right, place thyself at the left, Whither thy face is appointed.
21:17 And I also, I smite My hand on my hand, And have caused My fury to rest; I, YHWH, have spoken.'
21:18 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying,
21:19 `And thou, son of man, appoint for thee two ways, for the coming in of the sword of the king of Babylon; from one land they come forth, both of them, and a station prepare thou, at the top of the way of the city prepare [it].
Ezekiel 21:20 A way appoint for the coming of the sword, Unto Rabbath of the sons of Ammon, And to Judah, in Jerusalem -- the fenced.
21:21 For stood hath the king of Babylon at the head of the way, At the top of the two ways, to use divination, He hath moved lightly with the arrows, He hath asked at the teraphim, He hath looked on the liver.
21:22 At his right hath been the divination -- Jerusalem, To place battering-rams, To open the mouth with slaughter, To lift up a voice with shouting, To place battering-rams against the gates, To pour out a mount, to build a fortification.
21:23 And it hath been to them as a false divination in their eyes, Who have sworn oaths to them, And he is causing iniquity to be remembered to be caught.
21:24 Therefore, thus said the Lord YHWH: Because of your causing your iniquity to be remembered, In your transgressions being revealed, For your sins being seen, in all your doings, Because of your being remembered, By the hand ye are caught.
21:25 And thou, wounded, wicked one, Prince of Israel, whose day hath come, In the time of the iniquity of the end!
21:26 Thus said the Lord YHWH: Turn aside the mitre, and bear away the crown, This -- not this -- the low make high, And the high make low.
21:27 An overturn, overturn, overturn, I make it, Also this hath not been till the coming of Him, Whose [is] the judgment, and I have given it.
21:28 And thou, son of man, prophesy, and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord YHWH concerning the sons of Ammon, and concerning their reproach: and thou hast said: A sword, a sword, open for slaughter, Polished to the utmost for brightness!
21:29 In the seeing for thee of a vain thing, In the divining for thee of a lie, To put thee on the necks of the wounded of the wicked, whose day hath come, In the time of the iniquity of the end.
Ezekiel 21:30 Turn [it] back unto its scabbard, In the place where thou wast produced, In the land of thy birth I do judge thee.
21:31 And I have poured on thee Mine indignation, With fire of My wrath I blow against thee, And have given thee into the hand of brutish men -- artificers of destruction.
21:32 To the fire thou art for fuel, Thy blood is in the midst of the land, Thou art not remembered, For I, YHWH, have spoken!'

EZEKIEL CHAPTER 22

Ezekiel 22:1 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying,
22:2 `And thou, son of man, dost thou judge? dost thou judge the city of blood? then thou hast caused it to know all its abominations,
22:3 and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord YHWH: The city is shedding blood in its midst, For the coming in of its time, And it hath made idols on it for defilement.
22:4 By thy blood that thou hast shed thou hast been guilty, And by thine idols that thou hast made thou hast been defiled, And thou causest thy days to draw near, And art come in unto thine years, Therefore I have given thee a reproach to nations, And a derision to all the lands.
22:5 The near and the far-off from thee scoff at thee, O defiled of name -- abounding in trouble.
22:6 Lo, princes of Israel -- each according to his arm Have been in thee to shed blood.
22:7 Father and mother made light of in thee, To a sojourner they dealt oppressively in thy midst, Fatherless and widow they oppressed in thee.
22:8 My holy things thou hast despised, And My sabbaths thou hast polluted.
22:9 Men of slander have been in thee to shed blood, And on the mountains they have eaten in thee, Wickedness they have done in thy midst.
Ezekiel 22:10 The nakedness of a father hath one uncovered in thee, The defiled of impurity they humbled in thee.
22:11 And each with the wife of his neighbour hath done abomination, And each his daughter-in-law hath defiled through wickedness, And each his sister, his father's daughter, hath humbled in thee.
22:12 A bribe they have taken in thee to shed blood, Usury and increase thou hast taken, And cuttest off thy neighbour by oppression, And Me thou hast forgotten, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH!
22:13 And lo, I have smitten My hand, Because of thy dishonest gain that thou hast gained, And for thy blood that hath been in thy midst.
22:14 Doth thy heart stand -- are thy hands strong, For the days that I am dealing with thee? I, YHWH, have spoken and have done [it].
22:15 And I have scattered thee among nations, And have spread thee out among lands, And consumed thy uncleanness out of thee.
22:16 And thou hast been polluted in thyself Before the eyes of nations, And thou hast known that I [am] YHWH.'
22:17 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying, `Son of man,
22:18 The house of Israel hath been to Me for dross, All of them [are] brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, In the midst of a furnace -- dross hath silver been,
22:19 Therefore, thus said the Lord YHWH: Because of your all becoming dross, Therefore, lo, I am gathering you unto the midst of Jerusalem,
Ezekiel 22:20 A gathering of silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, Unto the midst of a furnace -- to blow on it fire, to melt it, So do I gather in Mine anger and in My fury, And I have let rest, and have melted you.
22:21 And I have heaped you up, And blown on you in the fire of My wrath, And ye have been melted in its midst.
22:22 As the melting of silver in the midst of a furnace, So are ye melted in its midst, And ye have known that I, YHWH, I have poured out My fury upon you.'
22:23 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying:
22:24 `Son of man, say to it, Thou [art] a land, It [is] not cleansed nor rained on in a day of indignation.
22:25 A conspiracy of its prophets [is] in its midst, as a roaring lion tearing prey; The soul they have devoured, Wealth and glory they have taken, Its widows have multiplied in its midst.
22:26 Its priests have wronged My law, And they pollute My holy things, Between holy and common they have not made separation, And between the unclean and the clean they have not made known, And from my sabbaths they have hidden their eyes, And I am pierced in their midst.
22:27 Its princes in its midst [are] as wolves, Tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, For the sake of gaining dishonest gain.
22:28 And its prophets have daubed for them with chalk, Seeing a vain thing, and divining for them a lie, Saying, `Thus said the Lord YHWH:' And YHWH hath not spoken.
22:29 The people of the land have used oppression, And have taken plunder violently away, And humble and needy have oppressed, And the sojourner oppressed -- without judgment.
Ezekiel 22:30 And I seek of them a man making a fence, And standing in the breach before Me, In behalf of the land -- not to destroy it, And I have not found.
22:31 And I pour out on them mine indignation, By fire of My wrath I have consumed them, Their way on their own head I have put, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH!'

EZEKIEL CHAPTER 23

Ezekiel 23:1 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying, `Son of man,
23:2 Two women were daughters of one mother,
23:3 And they go a-whoring in Egypt, In their youth they have gone a-whoring, There they have bruised their breasts, And there they have dealt with the loves of their virginity.
23:4 And their names [are] Aholah the elder, And Aholibah her sister, And they are Mine, and bear sons and daughters. As to their names -- Samaria [is] Aholah, And Jerusalem [is] Aholibah.
23:5 And go a-whoring doth Aholah under Me, And she doteth on her lovers, On the neighbouring Assyrians,
23:6 Clothed with blue -- governors and prefects, Desirable young men all of them, Horsemen, riding on horses,
23:7 And she giveth her whoredoms on them, The choice of the sons of Asshur, All of them -- even all on whom she doted, By all their idols she hath been defiled.
23:8 And her whoredoms out of Egypt she hath not forsaken, For with her they lay in her youth, And they dealt with the loves of her virginity, And they pour out their whoredoms on her.
23:9 Therefore I have given her into the hand of her lovers, Into the hand of sons of Asshur on whom she doted.
Ezekiel 23:10 They have uncovered her nakedness, Her sons and her daughters they have taken, And her by sword they have slain, And she is a name for women, And judgments they have done with her.
23:11 And see doth her sister Aholibah, And she maketh her doting love more corrupt than she, And her whoredoms than the whoredoms of her sister.
23:12 On sons of Asshur she hath doted, Governors and prefects, Neighbouring ones -- clothed in perfection, Horsemen, riding on horses, Desirable young men all of them.
23:13 And I see that she hath been defiled, One way [is] to them both.
23:14 And she doth add unto her whoredoms, And she seeth graved men on the wall, Pictures of Chaldeans, graved with red lead,
23:15 Girded with a girdle on their loins, Dyed attire spread out on their heads, The appearance of rulers -- all of them, The likeness of sons of Babylon, Chaldea is the land of their birth.
23:16 And she doteth on them at the sight of her eyes, And sendeth messengers to them, to Chaldea.
23:17 And come in unto her do sons of Babylon, To the bed of loves, And they defile her with their whoredoms, And she is defiled with them, And her soul is alienated from them.
23:18 And she revealeth her whoredoms, And she revealeth her nakedness, And alienated is My soul from off her, As alienated was My soul from off her sister.
23:19 And she multiplieth her whoredoms, To remember the days of her youth, When she went a-whoring in the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 23:20 And she doteth on their paramours, Whose flesh [is] the flesh of asses, And the issue of horses -- their issue.
23:21 Thou lookest after the wickedness of thy youth, In dealing out of Egypt thy loves, For the sake of the breasts of thy youth.
23:22 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus said the Lord YHWH: Lo, I am stirring up thy lovers against thee, From whom thy soul hath been alienated, And have brought them in against thee from round about.
23:23 Sons of Babylon, and of all Chaldea, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, All the sons of Asshur with them, Desirable young men, governors and prefects, All of them -- rulers and proclaimed ones, Riding on horses, all of them.
23:24 And they have come in against thee, With arms, rider, and wheel, And with an assembly of peoples; Target, and shield, and helmet, They do set against thee round about, And I have set before them judgment, They have judged thee in their Judgments.
23:25 And I have set My jealousy against thee, And they have dealt with thee in fury, Thy nose and thine ears they turn aside, And thy posterity by sword falleth, They, thy sons and thy daughters do take away, And thy posterity is devoured by fire.
23:26 And they have stripped thee of thy garments, And have taken thy beauteous jewels.
23:27 And I have caused thy wickedness to cease from thee, And thy whoredoms out of the land of Egypt, And thou liftest not up thine eyes unto them, And Egypt thou dost not remember again.
23:28 For thus said the Lord YHWH: Lo, I am giving thee into a hand that thou hast hated, Into a hand from which thou wast alienated.
23:29 And they have dealt with thee in hatred, And they have taken all thy labour, And they have left thee naked and bare, And revealed hath been the nakedness of thy whoredoms, And the wickedness of thy whoredoms.
Ezekiel 23:30 To do these things to thee, In thy going a-whoring after nations, Because thou hast been defiled with their idols,
23:31 In the way of thy sister thou hast walked, And I have given her cup into thy hand.
23:32 Thus said the Lord YHWH: The cup of thy sister thou dost drink, The deep and the wide one, (Thou art for laughter and for scorn,) Abundant to contain.
23:33 With drunkenness and sorrow thou art filled, A cup of astonishment and desolation, The cup of thy sister Samaria.
23:34 And thou hast drunk it, and hast drained [it], And its earthen ware thou dost gnaw, And thine own breasts thou pluckest off, For I have spoken, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH,
23:35 Therefore, thus said the Lord YHWH: Because thou hast forgotten Me, And thou dost cast Me behind thy back, Even thou also bear thy wickedness and thy whoredoms.'
23:36 And YHWH saith unto me, `Son of man, Dost thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? Declare then to them their abominations.
23:37 For they have committed adultery, And blood [is] in their hands, With their idols they committed adultery, And also their sons whom they bore to Me, They caused to pass over to them for food.
23:38 Again, this they have done to Me, They defiled My sanctuary in that day, And My sabbaths they have polluted.
23:39 And in their slaughtering their sons to their idols They also come in unto My sanctuary in that day to pollute it, And lo, thus they have done in the midst of My house,
Ezekiel 23:40 And also that they send to men coming from afar, Unto whom a messenger is sent, And lo, they have come in for whom thou hast washed, Painted thine eyes, and put on adornment.
23:41 And thou hast sat on a couch of honour, And a table arrayed before it, And My perfume and My oil placed on it.
23:42 And the voice of a multitude at ease [is] with her, And unto men of the common people are brought in Sabeans from the wilderness, And they put bracelets on their hands, And a beauteous crown on their heads.
23:43 And I say of the worn-out one in adulteries, Now they commit her whoredoms -- she also!
23:44 And they come in unto her, As the coming in unto a whorish woman, So they have come in unto Aholah, And unto Aholibah -- the wicked women.
23:45 As to righteous men, they judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, And the judgment of women shedding blood, For they [are] adulteresses, And blood [is] in their hands.
23:46 For thus said the Lord YHWH: Bring up against them an assembly, And give them to trembling and to spoiling.
23:47 And they have cast at them the stone of the assembly, And cut them with their swords, Their sons and their daughters they do slay, And their houses with fire they burn.
23:48 And I have caused wickedness to cease from the land, And instructed have been all the women, And they do not according to your wickedness.
23:49 And they have put your wickedness on you, And the sins of your idols ye bear, And ye have known that I [am] the Lord YHWH!

EZEKIEL CHAPTER 24

Ezekiel 24:1 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth of the month, saying,
24:2 `Son of man, write for thee the name of the day -- this self-same day leaned hath the king of Babylon toward Jerusalem in this self-same day --
24:3 and use unto the rebellious house a simile, and thou hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord YHWH: To set on the pot, to set [it] on, and also to pour into it water,
24:4 To gather its pieces unto it, every good piece, Thigh and shoulder, the choice of the bones to fill in.
24:5 The choice of the flock to take, And also to pile of the bones under it, Boil it thoroughly, yea, cook its bones in its midst.
24:6 Therefore, thus said the Lord YHWH: Wo [to] the city of blood, A pot whose scum [is] in it, And its scum hath not come out of it, By piece of it, by piece of it bring it out, Not fallen on it hath a lot.
24:7 For her blood in her midst hath been, On a clear place of a rock she hath set it, She hath not poured it on the earth, To cover it over with dust.
24:8 To cause fury to come up to take vengeance, I have put her blood on a clear place of a rock -- not to be covered.
24:9 Therefore, thus said the Lord YHWH: Wo [to] the city of blood, yea, I -- I make great the pile.
Ezekiel 24:10 Make abundant the wood, Kindle the fire, consume the flesh, And make the compound, And let the bones be burnt.
24:11 And cause it to stand on its coals empty, So that its brass is hot and burning, Melted hath been in its midst its uncleanness, Consumed is its scum.
24:12 [With] sorrows she hath wearied herself, And the abundance of her scum goeth not out of her, In the fire [is] her scum.
24:13 In thine uncleanness [is] wickedness, Because I have cleansed thee, And thou hast not been cleansed, From thine uncleanness thou art not cleansed again, Till I have caused My fury to rest on thee.
24:14 I, YHWH, hath spoken, It hath come, and I have done [it], I do not free, nor do I spare, nor do I repent, According to thy ways, and according to thine acts, they have judged thee, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH.'
24:15 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying,
24:16 `Son of man, lo, I am taking from thee the desire of thine eyes by a stroke, and thou dost not mourn, nor weep, nor let thy tear come.
24:17 Cease to groan, [for] the dead thou dost make no mourning, thy bonnet bind on thee, and thy shoes thou dost put on thy feet, and thou dost not cover over the upper lip, and bread of men thou dost not eat.'
24:18 And I speak unto the people in the morning, and my wife dieth in the evening, and I do in the morning as I have been commanded.
24:19 And the people say unto me, `Dost thou not declare to us what these [are] to us, that thou art doing?'
Ezekiel 24:20 And I say unto them, `A word of YHWH hath been unto me, saying:
24:21 Say to the house of Israel: Thus said the Lord YHWH: Lo, I am polluting My sanctuary, The excellency of your strength, The desire of your eyes, and the pitied of your soul, And your sons and your daughters whom ye have left, by sword they do fall.
24:22 And ye have done as I have done, On the upper lip ye are not covered, And bread of men ye do not eat.
24:23 And your bonnets [are] on your heads, And your shoes [are] on your feet, Ye do not mourn nor do ye weep, And ye have wasted away for your iniquities, And ye have howled one unto another.
24:24 And Ezekiel hath been to you for a type, According to all that he hath done ye do; In its coming in -- ye have known that I [am] the Lord YHWH.
24:25 And thou, son of man, Is it not in the day of My taking from them their strength, The joy of their beauty, the desire of their eyes, And the song of their soul, Their sons and their daughters?
24:26 In that day come doth the escaped one to thee. To cause the ears to hear.
24:27 In that day opened is thy mouth with the escaped, And thou speakest, and art not silent any more, And thou hast been to them for a type. And they have known that I [am] YHWH.'

EZEKIEL CHAPTER 25

Ezekiel 25:1 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying,
25:2 `Son of man, set thy face unto the sons of Ammon, and prophesy against them;
25:3 and thou hast said to the sons of Ammon: Hear ye a word of the Lord YHWH: Thus said the Lord YHWH: Because of thy saying, Aha, to My sanctuary, Because it hath been polluted, And unto the ground of Israel, Because it hath been desolate, And unto the house of Judah, Because they have gone into a removal:
25:4 Therefore, lo, I am giving thee to sons of the east for a possession, And they set their towers in thee, And have placed in thee their tabernacles. They eat thy fruit, and they drink thy milk,
25:5 And I have given Rabbah for a habitation of camels, And the sons of Ammon for the crouching of a flock, And ye have known that I [am] YHWH.
25:6 For thus said the Lord YHWH: Because of thy clapping the hand, And of thy stamping with the foot, And thou rejoicest with all thy despite in soul Against the ground of Israel,
25:7 Therefore, lo, I -- I have stretched out My hand against thee, And have given thee for a portion to nations, And I have cut thee off from the peoples, And caused thee to perish from the lands; I destroy thee, and thou hast known that I [am] YHWH.
25:8 Thus said the Lord YHWH: Because of the saying of Moab and Seir: Lo, as all the nations [is] the house of Judah;
25:9 Therefore, lo, I am opening the shoulder of Moab -- From the cities -- from his cities -- from his frontier, The beauty of the land, Beth-Jeshimoth, Baal-Meon, and Kiriathaim,
Ezekiel 25:10 To the sons of the east, with the sons of Ammon, And I have given it for a possession, So that the sons of Ammon are not remembered among nations.
25:11 And in Moab I do judgments, And they have known that I [am] YHWH.
25:12 Thus said the Lord YHWH: Because of the doings of Edom, In taking vengeance on the house of Judah, Yea, they are very guilty, And they have taken vengeance on them.
25:13 Therefore, thus said the Lord YHWH: I have stretched out My hand against Edom, And I have cut off from it man and beast, And given it up -- a waste, from Teman even to Dedan, By sword they do fall.
25:14 And I have given My vengeance on Edom, By the hand of My people Israel, And they have done in Edom, According to My anger, and according to My fury, And they have known My vengeance, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH.
25:15 Thus said the Lord YHWH: Because of the doings of the Philistines in vengeance, And they take vengeance with despite in soul, To destroy -- the enmity age-during!
25:16 Therefore, thus said the Lord YHWH: Lo, I am stretching out My hand against the Philistines, And I have cut off the Cherethim, And destroyed the remnant of the haven of the sea,
25:17 And done upon them great vengeance with furious reproofs, And they have known that I [am] YHWH, In My giving out My vengeance on them!

EZEKIEL CHAPTER 26

Ezekiel 26:1 And it cometh to pass, in the eleventh year, in the first of the month, there hath been a word of YHWH unto me, saying: `Son of man,
26:2 Because that Tyre hath said of Jerusalem: Aha, she hath been broken, the doors of the peoples, She hath turned round unto me, I am filled -- she hath been laid waste,
26:3 Therefore, thus said the Lord YHWH: Lo, I [am] against thee, O Tyre, And have caused to come up against thee many nations, As the sea causeth its billows to come up.
26:4 And they have destroyed the walls of Tyre, And they have broken down her towers, And I have scraped her dust from her, And made her for a clear place of a rock.
26:5 A spreading place of nets she is in the midst of the sea, For I -- I have spoken -- an affirmation of the Lord YHWH, And she hath been for a spoil to nations.
26:6 And her daughters who [are] in the field, by sword they are slain, And they have known that I [am] YHWH,
26:7 For, thus said the Lord YHWH: Lo, I am bringing in unto Tyre Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, From the north -- a king of kings, With horse, and with chariot, and with horsemen, Even an assembly, and a numerous people.
26:8 Thy daughters in the field by sword he slayeth, And he hath made against thee a fort, And hath poured out against thee a mount, And hath raised against thee a buckler.
26:9 And a battering-ram before him he placeth against thy walls, And thy towers he breaketh by his weapons.
Ezekiel 26:10 From the abundance of his horses cover thee doth their dust, From the noise of horseman, and wheel, and rider, Shake do thy walls, in his coming in to thy gates, As the coming into a city broken-up.
26:11 With hoofs of his horses he treadeth all thine out-places, Thy people by sword he doth slay, And the pillars of thy strength to the earth come down.
26:12 And they have spoiled thy wealth, And they have plundered thy merchandise, And they have thrown down thy walls, And thy desirable houses they break down, And thy stones, and thy wood, and thy dust, In the midst of the waters they place.
26:13 And I have caused the noise of thy songs to cease, And the voice of thy harps is heard no more.
26:14 And I have given thee up for a clear place of a rock, A spreading-place of nets thou art, Thou art not built up any more, For I, YHWH, I have spoken, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH.
26:15 Thus said the Lord YHWH to Tyre: Do not -- from the noise of thy fall, In the groaning of the wounded, In the slaying of the slaughter in thy midst, The isles shake?
26:16 And come down from off their thrones have all princes of the sea, And they have turned aside their robes, And their embroidered garments strip off, Trembling they put on, on the earth they sit, And they have trembled every moment, And they have been astonished at thee,
26:17 And have lifted up for thee a lamentation, And said to thee: How hast thou perished, That art inhabited from the seas, The praised city, that was strong in the sea, She and her inhabitants, Who put their terror on all her inhabitants!
26:18 Now they tremble, is it not the day of thy fall? Troubled have been the isles that [are] in the sea, at thine outgoing.
26:19 For thus said the Lord YHWH: In my making thee a city wasted, Like cities that have not been inhabited, In bringing up against thee the deep, Then covered thee have the great waters.
Ezekiel 26:20 And I have caused thee to go down, With those going down to the pit, Unto the people of old, And I have caused thee to dwell in the land, The lower parts -- in wastes of old, With those going down to the pit, So that thou art not inhabited, And I have given beauty in the land of the living.
26:21 Wastes I do make thee, and thou art not, And thou art sought, and art not found any more -- to the age, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH!'

EZEKIEL CHAPTER 27

Ezekiel 27:1 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying:
27:2 `And thou, son of man, lift up concerning Tyre a lamentation, and thou hast said to Tyre:
27:3 O dweller on the entrances of the sea, Merchant of the peoples unto many isles, Thus said the Lord YHWH: O Tyre, thou -- thou hast said: I [am] the perfection of beauty.
27:4 In the heart of the seas [are] thy borders, Thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
27:5 Of firs of Senir they have built to thee all thy double-boarded ships, Of cedars of Lebanon they have taken to make a mast for thee,
27:6 Of oaks of Bashan they made thine oars, Thy bench they have made of ivory, A branch of Ashurim from isles of Chittim.
27:7 Of fine linen with embroidery from Egypt hath been thy sail, To be to thee for an ensign, Of blue and purple from isles of Elishah hath been thy covering.
27:8 Inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad have been rowers to thee, Thy wise men, O Tyre, have been in thee, They [are] thy pilots.
27:9 Elders of Gebal and its wise men have been in thee, Strengthening thy breach; All ships of the sea and their mariners, Have been in thee, to trade [with] thy merchandise.
Ezekiel 27:10 Persian and Lud and Phut Have been in thy forces -- thy men of war. Shield and helmet they hung up in thee, They -- they have given out thine honour.
27:11 The sons of Arvad, and thy force, [Are] on thy walls round about, And short swordsmen in thy towers have been, Their shields they have hung up on thy walls round about, They -- they have perfected thy beauty.
27:12 Tarshish [is] thy merchant, Because of the abundance of all wealth, For silver, iron, tin, and lead, They have given out thy remnants.
27:13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech -- they [are] thy merchants, For persons of men, and vessels of brass, They have given out thy merchandise.
27:14 They of the house of Togarmah, [For] horses, and riding steeds, and mules, They have given out thy remnants.
27:15 Sons of Dedan [are] thy merchants, Many isles [are] the mart of thy hand, Horns of ivory and ebony they sent back thy reward.
27:16 Aram [is] thy merchant, Because of the abundance of thy works, For emerald, purple, and embroidery, And fine linen, and coral, and agate, They have given out thy remnants.
27:17 Judah and the land of Israel -- they [are] thy merchants, For wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, And honey, and oil, and balm, They have given out thy merchandise.
27:18 Damascus [is] thy merchant, For the abundance of thy works, Because of the abundance of all wealth, For wine of Helbon, and white wool.
27:19 Vedan and Javan go about with thy remnants, They have given shining iron, cassia, and cane, In thy merchandise it hath been.
Ezekiel 27:20 Dedan [is] thy merchant, For clothes of freedom for riding.
27:21 Arabia, and all princes of Kedar, They [are] the traders of thy hand, For lambs, and rams, and he-goats, In these thy merchants.
27:22 Merchants of Sheba and Raamah -- they [are] thy merchants, For the chief of all spices, And for every precious stone, and gold, They have given out thy remnants.
27:23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, merchants of Sheba, Asshur -- Chilmad -- [are] thy merchants,
27:24 They [are] thy merchants for perfect things, For wrappings of blue, and embroidery, And for treasuries of rich apparel, With cords bound and girded, for thy merchandise,
27:25 Ships of Tarshish [are] thy double walls of thy merchandise, And thou art filled and honoured greatly, In the heart of the seas.
27:26 Into great waters have they brought thee, Those rowing thee, The east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas.
27:27 Thy wealth and thy remnants, Thy merchandise, thy mariners, And thy pilots, strengtheners of thy breach, And the traders of thy merchandise, And all thy men of war, who [are] in thee, And in all thine assembly that [is] in thy midst, Fall into the heart of the seas in the day of thy fall,
27:28 At the voice of the cry of thy pilots shake do the suburbs.
27:29 And come down from their ships have all handling an oar, Mariners, all the pilots of the sea, on the land they stand,
Ezekiel 27:30 And have sounded for thee with their voice, And cry bitterly, and cause dust to go up on their heads, In ashes they do roll themselves.
27:31 And they have made for thee baldness, And they have girded on sackcloth, And they have wept for thee, In bitterness of soul -- a bitter mourning.
27:32 And lifted up for thee have their sons a lamentation, And they have lamented over thee, who [is] as Tyre? As the cut-off one in the midst of the sea?
27:33 With the outgoing of thy remnants from the seas, Thou hast filled many peoples, With the abundance of thy riches, and thy merchandise, Thou hast made rich things of earth.
27:34 The time of [thy] being broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, Thy merchandise and all thy assembly in thy midst have fallen.
27:35 All inhabitants of the isles have been astonished at thee, And their kings have been sore afraid, They have been troubled in countenance.
27:36 Merchants among the peoples have shrieked for thee, Wastes thou hast been, and thou art not -- to the age!'

EZEKIEL CHAPTER 28

Ezekiel 28:1 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying:
28:2 `Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre: Thus said the Lord YHWH: Because thy heart hath been high, And thou dost say: A god I [am], The habitation of God I have inhabited, In the heart of the seas, And thou [art] man, and not God, And thou givest out thy heart as the heart of God,
28:3 Lo, thou [art] wiser than Daniel, No hidden thing have they concealed from thee.
28:4 By thy wisdom and by thine understanding Thou hast made for thee wealth, And makest gold and silver in thy treasuries.
28:5 By the abundance of thy wisdom, Through thy merchandise, Thou hast multiplied thy wealth, And high is thy heart through thy wealth.
28:6 Therefore, thus said the Lord YHWH: Because of thy giving out thy heart as the heart of God,
28:7 Therefore, lo, I am bringing in against thee strangers, The terrible of the nations, And they have drawn out their swords Against the beauty of thy wisdom, And they have pierced thy brightness.
28:8 To destruction they bring thee down, Thou diest by the deaths of the wounded, in the heart of the seas.
28:9 Dost thou really say, `I [am] God,' Before him who is slaying thee? And thou [art] man, and not God, In the hand of him who is piercing thee.
Ezekiel 28:10 The deaths of the uncircumcised thou diest, By the hand of strangers, for I have spoken, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH.'
28:11 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying:
28:12 `Son of man, lift up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, And thou hast said to him: Thus said the Lord YHWH: Thou art sealing up a measurement, Full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
28:13 In Eden, the garden of God, thou hast been, Every precious stone thy covering, Ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle, and gold, The workmanship of thy tabrets, and of thy pipes, In thee in the day of thy being produced, have been prepared.
28:14 Thou [art] an anointed cherub who is covering, And I have set thee in the holy mount, God thou hast been, In the midst of stones of fire thou hast walked up and down.
28:15 Perfect [art] thou in thy ways, From the day of thy being produced, Till perversity hath been found in thee.
28:16 By the abundance of thy merchandise They have filled thy midst with violence, And thou dost sin, And I thrust thee from the mount of God, And I destroy thee, O covering cherub, From the midst of the stones of fire.
28:17 High hath been thy heart, because of thy beauty, Thou hast corrupted thy wisdom because of thy brightness, On the earth I have cast thee, Before kings I have set thee, to look on thee,
28:18 From the abundance of thy iniquity, By the perversity of thy traffic, Thou hast polluted thy sanctuaries, And I bring forth fire from thy midst, It hath devoured thee, And I make thee become ashes on the earth, Before the eyes of all beholding thee.
28:19 All knowing thee among the peoples Have been astonished at thee, Wastes thou hast been, and thou art not -- to the age.'
Ezekiel 28:20 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying,
28:21 `Son of man, set thy face unto Zidon, and prophesy concerning it;
28:22 and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord YHWH: Lo, I [am] against thee, O Zidon, And I have been honoured in thy midst, And they have known that I [am] YHWH, In My doing in her judgments, And I have been sanctified in her.
28:23 And I have sent into her pestilence, And blood into her out-places, The wounded hath been judged in her midst, By the sword upon her round about, And they have known that I [am] YHWH.
28:24 And there is no more to the house of Israel A pricking brier, and paining thorn, Of all round about them -- despising them, And they have known that I [am] the Lord YHWH.
28:25 Thus said the Lord YHWH: In My gathering the house of Israel, Out of the peoples among whom they were scattered, I have been sanctified in them, Before the eyes of the nations, And they have dwelt on their ground, That I gave to My servant, to Jacob,
28:26 And they have dwelt on it confidently, And builded houses, and planted vineyards, And dwelt confidently -- in My doing judgments, On all those despising them round about, And they have known that I, YHWH, [am] their God!'

EZEKIEL CHAPTER 29

Ezekiel 29:1 In the tenth year, in the tenth [month], in the twelfth of the month, hath a word of YHWH been unto me, saying,
29:2 `Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy concerning him, and concerning Egypt -- all of it.
29:3 Speak, and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord YHWH: Lo, I [am] against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt! The great dragon that is crouching in the midst of his floods, Who hath said, My flood [is] my own, And I -- I have made it [for] myself.
29:4 And I have put hooks in thy jaws, And I have caused the fish of thy floods to cleave to thy scales, And I have caused thee to come up from the midst of thy floods, And every fish of thy floods to thy scales doth cleave.
29:5 And I have left thee in the wilderness, Thou and every fish of thy floods, On the face of the field thou dost fall, Thou art not gathered nor assembled, To the beast of the earth and to the fowl of the heavens I have given thee for food.
29:6 And known have all inhabitants of Egypt That I [am] YHWH, Because of their being a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
29:7 In their taking hold of thee by thy hand, -- thou art crushed, And hast rent to them all the shoulder, And in their leaning on thee thou art broken, And hast caused all their thighs to stand.
29:8 Therefore, thus said the Lord YHWH: Lo, I am bringing in against thee a sword, And have cut off from thee man and beast.
29:9 And the land of Egypt hath been for a desolation and a waste, And they have known that I [am] YHWH. Because he said: The flood [is] mine, and I made [it].
Ezekiel 29:10 Therefore, lo, I [am] against thee, and against thy floods, And have given the land of Egypt for wastes, A waste, a desolation, from Migdol to Syene, And unto the border of Cush.
29:11 Not pass over into it doth a foot of man, Yea, the foot of beast doth not pass into it, Nor is it inhabited forty years.
29:12 And I have made the land of Egypt a desolation, In the midst of desolate lands, And its cities, in the midst of waste cities, Are a desolation forty years, And I have scattered the Egyptians among nations, And I have dispersed them through lands.
29:13 But thus said the Lord YHWH: At the end of forty years I gather the Egyptians Out of the peoples whither they have been scattered,
29:14 And I have turned back [to] the captivity of Egypt, And I have brought them back [To] the land of Pathros, to the land of their birth, And they have been there a low kingdom.
29:15 Of the kingdoms it is lowest, And it lifteth not up itself any more above the nations, And I have made them few, So as not to rule among nations.
29:16 And it is no more to the house of Israel for a confidence, Bringing iniquity to remembrance, By their turning after them, And they have known that I [am] the Lord YHWH.'
29:17 And it cometh to pass, in the twenty and seventh year, in the first [month], in the first of the month, hath a word of YHWH been unto me, saying:
29:18 `Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, Hath caused his force to serve a great service against Tyre, Every head [is] bald -- every shoulder peeled, And reward he had none, nor his force, out of Tyre, For the service that he served against it.
29:19 Therefore, thus said the Lord YHWH, Lo, I am giving to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon the land of Egypt, And he hath taken away its store, And hath taken its spoil, and taken its prey, And it hath been a reward to his force.
Ezekiel 29:20 His wage for which he laboured I have given to him, The land of Egypt -- in that they wrought for Me, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH.
29:21 In that day I cause to shoot up a horn to the house of Israel, And to thee I give an opening of the mouth in their midst, And they have known that I [am] YHWH!'

EZEKIEL CHAPTER 30

Ezekiel 30:1 And there is a word of YHWH unto me, saying:
30:2 `Son of man, prophesy, and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord YHWH: Howl ye, ha! for the day!
30:3 For near [is] a day, near [is] a day to YHWH! A day of clouds, the time of nations it is.
30:4 And come in hath a sword to Egypt, And there hath been great pain in Cush, In the falling of the wounded in Egypt, And they have taken its store, And broken down have been its foundations.
30:5 Cush, and Phut, and Lud, and all the mixture, and Chub, And the sons of the land of the covenant with them by sword do fall,
30:6 Thus said YHWH: And -- fallen have supporters of Egypt, And come down hath the arrogance of her strength, From Migdol to Syene, by sword they fall in her, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH.
30:7 And they have been desolated in the midst of desolate lands, And its cities are in the midst of wasted cities.
30:8 And they have known that I [am] YHWH, In My giving fire against Egypt, And broken have been all her helpers.
30:9 In that day go forth do messengers from before Me in ships, To trouble confident Cush, And there hath been great pain among them, As the day of Egypt, for lo, it hath come.
Ezekiel 30:10 Thus said the Lord YHWH: I have caused the multitude of Egypt to cease, By the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,
30:11 He and his people with him -- the terrible of nations, Are brought in to destroy the land, And they have drawn their swords against Egypt, And have filled the land [with] the wounded.
30:12 And I have made floods a dry place, And I have sold the land into the hand of evil doers, And I have made desolate the land, And its fulness, by the hand of strangers, I, YHWH, have spoken.
30:13 Thus said the Lord YHWH: And -- I have destroyed idols, And caused vain things to cease from Noph, And a prince of the land of Egypt there is no more, And I give fear in the land of Egypt.
30:14 And I have made Pathros desolate, And I have given fire against Zoan, And I have done judgments in No,
30:15 And I have poured out My fury on Sin, the stronghold of Egypt, And I have cut off the multitude of No.
30:16 And I have given fire against Egypt, Greatly pained is Sin, and No is to be rent, And Noph hath daily distresses.
30:17 The youths of Aven and Pi-Beseth by sword do fall, And these into captivity do go.
30:18 And in Tehaphnehes hath the day been dark, In My breaking there the yokes of Egypt, And ceased in her hath the excellency of her strength, She -- a cloud doth cover her, And her daughters into captivity do go.
30:19 And I have done judgments in Egypt, And they have known that I [am] YHWH.'
Ezekiel 30:20 And it cometh to pass, in the eleventh year, in the first [month], in the seventh of the month, hath a word of YHWH been unto me, saying: `Son of man,
30:21 The arm of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, I have broken, And lo, it hath not been bound up to give healing, To put a bandage to bind it, To strengthen it -- to lay hold on the sword.
30:22 Therefore, thus said the Lord YHWH: Lo, I [am] against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, And I have broken his arms, The strong one and the broken one, And have caused the sword to fall out of his hand,
30:23 And scattered the Egyptians among nations, And I have spread them through lands,
30:24 And strengthened the arms of the king of Babylon, And I have given My sword into his hand, And I have broken the arms of Pharaoh, And he hath groaned the groans of a pierced one -- before him.
30:25 And I have strengthened the arms of the king of Babylon, And the arms of Pharaoh do fall down, And they have known that I [am] YHWH, In My giving My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, And he hath stretched it out toward the land of Egypt.
30:26 And I have scattered the Egyptians among nations, And I have spread them through lands, And they have known that I [am] YHWH!'

EZEKIEL CHAPTER 31

Ezekiel 31:1 And it cometh to pass, in the eleventh year, in the third [month], in the first of the month, hath a word of YHWH been unto me, saying:
31:2 `Son of man, say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and unto his multitude: To whom hast thou been like in thy greatness?
31:3 Lo, Asshur, a cedar in Lebanon, Fair in branch, and shading bough, and high in stature, And between thickets hath its foliage been.
31:4 Waters have made it great, The deep hath exalted him with its flowings, Going round about its planting, And its conduits it hath sent forth unto all trees of the field.
31:5 Therefore higher hath been his stature than all trees of the field, And multiplied are his boughs, and long are his branches, Because of many waters in his shooting forth,
31:6 In his boughs made a nest hath every fowl of the heavens, And under his branches brought forth hath every beast of the field, And in his shade dwell do all great nations.
31:7 And he is fair in his greatness, In the length of his thin shoots, For his root hath been by great waters.
31:8 Cedars have not hid him in the garden of God, Firs have not been like unto his boughs, And chesnut-trees have not been as his branches, No tree in the garden of God hath been like unto him in his beauty,
31:9 Fair I have made him in the multitude of his thin shoots, And envy him do all trees of Eden that [are] in the garden of God.
Ezekiel 31:10 Therefore, thus said the Lord YHWH: Because that thou hast been high in stature, And he yieldeth his foliage between thickets, And high is his heart in his haughtiness,
31:11 I give him into the hand of a god of nations, He dealeth sorely with him, In his wickedness I have cast him out.
31:12 And cut him off do strangers, The terrible of nations, and they leave him, On the mountains and in all valleys have his thin shoots fallen, And broken are his boughs at all streams of the land, And go down from his shade do all peoples of the land, and they leave him.
31:13 On his ruin dwell do all fowls of the heavens, And on his boughs have been all the beasts of the field,
31:14 In order that none of the trees of the waters May become haughty because of their stature, Nor give their foliage between thickets, Nor any drinking waters stand up unto them in their haughtiness, For all of them are given up to death, Unto the earth -- the lower part, In the midst of the sons of men, Unto those going down to the pit.
31:15 Thus said the Lord YHWH: In the day of his going down to sheol I have caused mourning, I have covered for him the deep, and diminish its flowings, And restrained are many waters, And I make Lebanon black for him, And all trees of the field have been covered for him.
31:16 From the sound of his fall I have caused nations to shake, In My causing him to go down to sheol, With those going down to the pit, And comforted in the earth -- the lower part, are all trees of Eden, The choice and the good of Lebanon, All drinking waters.
31:17 Also they with him have gone down to sheol, Unto the pierced of the sword, And -- his arm -- they dwelt in his shade in the midst of nations.
31:18 Unto whom hast thou been thus like, In honour and in greatness among the trees of Eden, And thou hast been brought down with the trees of Eden, Unto the earth -- the lower part, In the midst of the uncircumcised thou liest, With the pierced of the sword? It [is] Pharaoh, and all his multitude, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH!'

EZEKIEL CHAPTER 32

Ezekiel 32:1 And it cometh to pass, in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first of the month, hath a word of YHWH been unto me, saying,
32:2 `Son of man, lift up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and thou hast said unto him: A young lion of nations thou hast been like, And thou [art] as a dragon in the seas, And thou comest forth with thy flowings, And dost trouble the waters with thy feet, And thou dost foul their flowings.
32:3 Thus said the Lord YHWH: And -- I have spread out for thee My net, With an assembly of many peoples, And they have brought thee up in My net.
32:4 And I have left thee in the land, On the face of the field I do cast thee out, And have caused to dwell upon thee every fowl of the heavens, And have satisfied out of thee the beasts of the whole earth.
32:5 And I have put thy flesh on the mountains, And filled the valleys [with] thy hugeness,
32:6 And watered the land with thy flowing, From thy blood -- unto the mountains, And streams are filled from thee.
32:7 And in quenching thee I have covered the heavens, And have made black their stars, The sun with a cloud I do cover, And the moon causeth not its light to shine.
32:8 All luminaries of light in the heavens, I make black over thee, And I have given darkness over thy land, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH,
32:9 And I have vexed the heart of many peoples, In My bringing in thy destruction among nations, Unto lands that thou hast not known.
Ezekiel 32:10 And I have made many peoples astonished at thee, And their kings are afraid at thee with trembling, In My brandishing My sword before their faces, And they have trembled every moment, Each for his life -- in the day of thy fall.
32:11 For thus said the Lord YHWH: A sword of the king of Babylon entereth thee,
32:12 By swords of the mighty I cause thy multitude to fall, The terrible of nations -- all of them, And they have spoiled the excellency of Egypt, And destroyed hath been all her multitude.
32:13 And I have destroyed all her beasts, From beside many waters, And trouble them not doth a foot of man any more, Yea, the hoofs of beasts trouble them not.
32:14 Then do I cause their waters to sink, And their rivers as oil I cause to go, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH.
32:15 In My making the land of Egypt a desolation, And desolated hath been the land of its fulness, In My smiting all the inhabitants in it, And they have known that I [am] YHWH.
32:16 A lamentation it [is], and they have lamented her, Daughters of the nations do lament her, For Egypt, and for all her multitude, they lament her, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH.'
32:17 And it cometh to pass, in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth of the month, hath a word of YHWH been unto me, saying,
32:18 `Son of man, Wail for the multitude of Egypt, And cause it to go down, It -- and the daughters of honourable nations, Unto the earth -- the lower parts, With those going down to the pit.
32:19 Than whom hast thou been more pleasant? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.
Ezekiel 32:20 In the midst of the pierced of the sword they fall, [To] the sword she hath been given, They drew her out, and all her multitude.
32:21 Speak to him do the gods of the mighty out of the midst of sheol, With his helpers -- they have gone down, They have lain with the uncircumcised, The pierced of the sword.
32:22 There [is] Asshur, and all her assembly, Round about him [are] his graves, All of them [are] wounded, who are falling by sword,
32:23 Whose graves are appointed in the sides of the pit, And her assembly is round about her grave, All of them wounded, falling by sword, Because they gave terror in the land of the living.
32:24 There [is] Elam, and all her multitude, Round about [is] her grave, All of them wounded, who are falling by sword, Who have gone down uncircumcised unto the earth -- the lower parts, Because they gave their terror in the land of the living, And they bear their shame with those going down to the pit.
32:25 In the midst of the wounded they have appointed a bed for her with all her multitude, Round about him [are] her graves, All of them uncircumcised, pierced of the sword, For their terror was given in the land of the living, And they bear their shame with those going down to the pit, In the midst of the pierced he hath been put.
32:26 There [is] Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude, Round about him [are] her graves, All of them uncircumcised, pierced of the sword, For they gave their terror in the land of the living,
32:27 And they lie not with the mighty, Who are falling of the uncircumcised, Who have gone down to sheol with their weapons of war, And they put their swords under their heads, And their iniquities are on their bones, For the terror of the mighty [is] in the land of the living.
32:28 And thou, in the midst of the uncircumcised art broken, And dost lie with the pierced of the sword.
32:29 There [is] Edom, her kings, and all her princes, Who have been given up in their might, With the pierced of the sword, They with the uncircumcised do lie, And with those going down to the pit.
Ezekiel 32:30 There [are] princes of the north, All of them, and every Zidonian, Who have gone down with the pierced in their terror, Of their might they are ashamed, And they lie uncircumcised with the pierced of the sword, And they bear their shame with those going down to the pit.
32:31 Then doth Pharaoh see, And he hath been comforted for all his multitude, The pierced of the sword -- Pharaoh and all his force, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH.
32:32 For I have given his terror in the land of the living, And he hath been laid down in the midst of the uncircumcised, With the pierced of the sword -- Pharaoh, and all his multitude, An affirmation of the Lord YHWH!'

Ezekiel 1-16 - Ezekiel 33-48