1 The type of Ezekiel's removing. 8 Is shown 1 or, instru 17 Ezekiel's the captivity of Zedekiah.

trembling showeth the Jews' desolation. 21
The Jews' presumptuous proverb is reprov-
ed. 26 The speediness of the vision.

HE word of the LORD also came to
me, saying,

THE

2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house. 3 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee 1 stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight; it may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house. 4 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for temoving: and thou shalt go forth at evening in their sight, 2 as they that go forth into captivity.

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ments.

2 Heb. as the goings forth of captivity.

Heb. Dig for thee.

Heb. digged for me.

5 Heb. by removing go into captivity.

5 3 Dig thou through the wall in their c. 17. 20. sight, and carry out thereby.

6 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou mayest not see the ground: for I have set thee for a sign to the house of Israel.

7 And I did so as I was commanded : I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for captivity, and in the evening I 4 digged through the wall with my hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bore it upon my shoulder in their sight.

8 And in the morning came the word of the LORD to me, saying,

9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to thee, What doest thou?

10 Say thou to them, Thus saith the Lord GoD, This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among them.

11 Say, I am your sign: as I have done, so shall it be done to them: 5 they shall remove and go into captivity.

12 And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby he shall cover his face, that he may not see the ground with his eyes.

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13 My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans, yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.

Heb. men of number.

7 Heb. the fulness of

it.

and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

17¶ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

18 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with solicitude.

19 And say to the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with solicitude, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from 7 all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

21 ¶ And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

22 Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?

23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD: I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say to them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every

vision.

1 Heb. them

that are prophets out of their

own hearts.

a Jer. 23. 16.

2 Heb. walk after.

seen.

14 And I will scatter towards every wind all that are about him to help him, 4 or, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.

breaches.

hedge.

16 But I will leave 6 a few men of them from the sword, from the famine,

26 T Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

27 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are dis

6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would 6 or, secret, confirm the word. or, counsel.

7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it, although I have not spoken?

8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen & Jer. 6. 14: lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord God.

9 And my hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the 6 assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, 7 or, a slight neither shall they enter into the land of wall. Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up 7 a

that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?

20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GoD; Behold, I am against your pillows, with which ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.

21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall no more be in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

22 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, 10 11 by promising him life:

23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

CHAP. XIV.

1 God answereth idolaters according to their own heart: 6 They are exhorted to repent for fear of judgments, by means of seduced prophets. 12 God's irrevocable sentence of

tempered mortar :

11 Say to them who daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.

9 or, into

12 Lo, when the wall hath fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where is the daub- gardens. ing with which ye have daubed it?

13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.

14 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation shall be made bare, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst of it: and ye shall know that I

am the LORD.

15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered mortar, and will say to you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it;

10 or, that I should save his life.

quickening

11 Heb. by him.

16 To wit, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and 1 or, others. who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord GOD.

17 Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them,& Deut.28.37. 18 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; c. 5. 15. Woe to the women that sew pillows to all 8 arm-holes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come to you?

19 and of pestilence. 22 Á remnant shall be reserved for example to others.

THE

HEN came certain of the elders of
Israel to me, and sat before me.

2 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumbling-block of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?

4 Therefore speak to them, and say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up. his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols; in their own heart, because they are all 5 That I may take the house of Israel estranged from me through their idols.

6 Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, who separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:

8 And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

9 And if the prophet be deceived when

people for handfuls of barley and for 23.

pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive!

deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

I thoroughly washed away thy 6 blood) from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.

10 I clothed thee also with broidered] work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.

Before CHRIST,

594.

11 I decked thee also with ornaments, Heb.bloods. and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.

12 And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and ear-rings in thy ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head.

13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.

14 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.

15 But thou didst trust in thy own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.

16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deck thy high places with divers colors, and play the harlot upon them the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.

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17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and hast made to thyself images of men, and hast committed. lewdness with them.

18 And hast taken thy broidered garments, and covered them: and thou hast set my oil and my incense before them.

19 My provisions also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, with which I fed thee, thou hast even set before them for 8 a sweet savor and thus it was, saith the Lord God.

7 Heb. of a male.

Heb. a savor of rest.

27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thy ordinary food, and delivered thee to the will of them that hate thee, the 10 daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of thy lewd way.

28 Thou hast played the harlot also with the Assyrians, because thou wast insatiable; yes, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldst not be satisfied.

29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan to Chaldea; and yet with this thou wast not satisfied.

30 How weak is thy heart, saith the Lord Gop, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious lewd

woman;

vour.

10 or, cities.

33 They give gifts to all lewd women: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and 12 hirest them, that they may come to thee on every side for thy lewd

ness.

bribest.

20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne 12 Heb. to me, and these hast thou sacrificed to them to be devoured. Is this of thy lewdness a small matter,

21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?

22 And in all thy abominations and thy deeds of lewdness thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.

23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe to thee! saith the Lord God;)

24 That thou hast also built to thee an eminent place, and hast made thee a high place in every street.

25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast prostituted thyself to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy lewd deeds.

13 Heb. with judgments

of.

14 Heb. instruments of thy orna

ment.

2 Kings 25.

26 Thou hast also committed fornica- 9. tion with the Egyptians thy neighbors, Jer. 52. 13. great of flesh; and hast multiplied thy lewd deeds, to provoke me to anger.

37 Behold therefore, I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them on every side against thee, and will uncover thy nakedness to them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

38 And I will judge thee, 13 as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.

39 And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thy eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take 14 thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.

40 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

45 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

46 And thy elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and 15 thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

47 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but 16 as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.

48 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.

16 or, that was lothed, as a small thing.

Gen. 19.24.

17 Heb. for bearing.

report, or,

18 Heb. prides, or, excellen

49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good. 51 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thy abominations more than they, and 19 Heb. hast justified thy sisters in all thy abominations which thou hast done.

cies.

Aram.

a

56 For thy sister Sodom was not 17 mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy 18 pride,

57 Before thy wickedness was disclosed, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of 19 Syria, and all that are around her, the daughters of the Philistines, who 20 despise thee on every side.

58 Thou hast 21 borne thy lewdness and thy abominations, saith the LORD.

59 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, who hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

60 ¶ Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish to thee an everlasting covenant.

61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thy elder and thy younger: and I will give them to thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.

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62 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:

63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified towards thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.

2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;

3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had 1 divers colors, came to Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:

4 He cropped off the top of its young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.

52 Thou also, who hast judged thy sis

thou hast committed more abominable

than they: they are more righteous than

willow tree.

bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.

53 When I shall bring again their cap- tivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:

54 That thou mayest bear thy own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort to them.

55 When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters

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them.

(Gal. 4. 26.

Heb. embroidering

Heb. put in a field of seed.

it

:

turned towards him, and its roots were under him so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and behold, this vine did bend her roots towards him, and shot forth her branches towards him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.

8 It was planted in a good 3 soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD;

thou and thy daughters shall return to your former state.

roots, and cut off its fruit, that it may wither? it shall wither in all the leaves