A faying,

2 Son of man, fet thy face toward the mountains of Ifrael, and prophefy againft them,

3 And fay, Ye mountains of Ifrael, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus faith the Lord GOD to the mountains and to the hills, to the rivers and to the vailies; Behold, I, even I, will bring a fword upon you, and I will deftroy your high places.

4 And your altars fhall be defolate, and your images thall be broken: and I will caft down your flain men before your idols.

And I will lay the dead carcafes of the children of Ifrael before their idols; and I will fcatter your bones round about your altars.

6 In all your dwelling-places the cities fhall be laid waste, and the high places thall be defolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made defolate, and your idols may be broken and ceafe, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

7 And the flain fhall fall in the midst of you; and ye thall know that I am the LORD.

8 Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have fome that thall efcape the fword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries,

9 And they that efcape of you shall remember me among the nations, whither they thall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they thall loathe themfelves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

10 And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not faid in vain that I would do this evil unto them.

11 Thus faith the Lord Gon, Smite with thine hand, and ftamp with thy foot, and fay, Alas, for all the evil abominations of the houfe of Ifrael! for they fhall fall by the fword, by he famine, and by the peftilence.

12 He that is far off fhall die of the peftience; and he that is near thall fall by the word; and he that remaineth and is befiegd fhall die by the famine: thus will 1 acomplish my fury upon them.

13 Then thall ye know that I am the LORD, when their flain men thall be among their dols round about their altars, upon every high ill, in all the tops of the mountains, and nder every green tree, and under every hick oak, the place where they did offer weet favour to all their idols.

14 So will I ttretch out my hand upon them, nd make the land defolate, yea, more defoate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in Il their habitations: and they shall know hat I am the LORD.

CHAP. VII. Ifrael's final defolation. 16 The mournful repentance of them that escape. 23 Under the type of a chain is fhewed their mifer. able captivity.

Moreover the word of the LORD came

unto me, faying,

2 Alfo, thou fon of man, thus faith the ord Goo unto the land of Ifrael; An end,

Their final defolation.

the end is come upon the four corners of the land.

3 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will fend mine anger upon thee, and will juage thee according to thy ways, and will recom penfe upon thee all thine abominations

4 And mine eye shall no! fpare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompenfe thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations thail be in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

5 Thus faith the Lord GoD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.

6 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.

7 The morning is come upon thee, O thou that dwelleft in the land: the time is com", the day of trouble is near, and not the founding again of the mountains.

8 Now will I fhortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee; and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompenfe thee for all thine abo minations.

9 And mine eye shall not fpare, neither will I have pity: I will recompenfe thee ac cording to thy ways, and thine abominations that are in the midft of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that (miteth.

10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossom ed, pride hath budded.

II Violence is rifen up into a rod of wickednefs: none of them ball remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither ball there be wailing for them.

12 The time is come, the day draweth near; let not the buyer rejoice, nor the feller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

13 For the feller fhall not return to that which is fold, although they were yet alive for the vifion is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither fhall any ftrengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the bat tle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

15 The fword is without, and the peftilence and the famine within: he that is in the field fhall die with the fword; and he that is in the city, famine and petence shall devour him.

16 But they that escape of them shall efcape, and thall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.

17 All hands thall be feeble, and all knees fhall be weak as water.

18 They fhall alfo gird themselves with fackcloth, and horror fhall cover them; and thame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

19 They fhall caft their filver in the freets, and their gold fhall be removed: their filver and their gold thall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they fhall not fatisfy their fouls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the ftumbling

block of their iniquity.

20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he fetitia majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their deten

able things therein: therefore have I fet it far from them.

21 And I will give it into the hands of the Arangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my fecret place: for the robbers thall enter into it, and defile it.

23 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of viotence.

24 Wherefore I will bring the worft of the heathen, and they fhall poffe's their houfes: I will alfo make the pomp of the strong to ceafe, and their holy places thall be defiled. 25 De@ruction cometh; and they shall feek peace, and there shall be none.

26 Mischief fhall come upon mifchief, and rumour thall be upon rumour; then thall they feek a vision of the prophet: but the law fhall perish from the priest, and counfel from the ancients.

27 The king shall mourn, and the prince fhall be elothed with defolation, and the hands of the people of the land fhall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deferts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

The marked prefervid.

nable beafts, and all the idols of the honfe of Ifrael, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.

II And there ftood before them feventy men of the ancients of the house of Ifrael, and in the midft of them ftood Jaazaniah the fon of Shaphan, with every man his center in his hand; and a thick cloud of incenfe went up.

12 Then faid he unto me, Son of man, haft thou seen what the ancients of the house of Ifrael do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? For they fay, The LORD feeth us not; the LORD hath forfaken the earth.

13 He faid alfo unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt fee greater abominations that they do.

14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's houfe which was toward the north; and, behold, there fat women weeping for Tammuz.

15Then faid he unto me, Haft thou feen this, O fon of man? Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt fee greater abominations than thefe.

16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's houfe, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty

bers of imagery.

AND it can to all in the firth year, in the fixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I fat in mine houfe, and the elders of Judah fat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.

2 Then I beheld, and lo, a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his Loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.

3 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the fpirit litted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the vifions of God to Jerufalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where

suas the feat of the image of jealoufy, which provoketh to jealousy,

4 And, behold, the glory of the God of If racl was there, according to the vifion that I faw in the plain.

5 Then faid he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up nume eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar thisį mage of jealoufy in the

entry.

8 He faid furthermoré unto me, Son of man, feeft thou what they do! even the great abominations that the house of Ifrael committeth here, that I should go far off from my fanctuary? But turn thee yet again, and thou shalt fee greater abominations.

And he brought me to the door of the Bourt; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.

8 Then faid he unto me, Son of man, dig How in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.

9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.

10 Sol went in and faw; and behold e. very form of creeping things, and abomi.

the LORD, and their faces toward the eat;

and they worshipped the fun toward thou fee 17 Then he Taid unto me, Haft thou feen this, O fon of man? Is it a light thing to the houfe of Judah that they commit the abomi nations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nofe.

18 Therefore will I alfo deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.

CHAP. IX.

Avifion whereby is fhewed the preferuatim of fome, and the deftruction of the ref. God cannot be entreated for them.

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He cried allo in mine ears with a loud voice, faying, Caufe them that have charge over the city to draw rear, even every man with his destroying weapon

his hand.

2 And, behold, fix men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a flaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his fide: and they went in, and stood be fide the brafen altar,

3 And the glory of the God of Ifrael was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was. to the threshold of the houfe. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his fide;

4 And the LORD faid unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst o Jerufalem, and fet a mark upon the fore heads of the men that figh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the mid thereof.

5 And to the others he faid in min hearing, Go ye after him through the city and fmite: et not your eye fpare, neith have ye pity t

Cherubims and wheels.

6 Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my fanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.

7 And he faid unto them, Defile the houfe, and fill the courts with the lain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and flew in the city.

8 And it came to pafs, while they were flaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and faid, Ah Lord God! wilt thou destroy all the refidue of Ifrael in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerufalem?

9 Then faid he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Ifrael and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverfeness: for they fay, The LORD hath forfaken the earth, and the LORD feeth not.

10 And as for me alfo, mine eye shall not fpare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompenfe their way upon their head.

11 And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which bad the inkhorn by his fide, reported the matter, faying, I have done as thou haft commanded me.

CHAP. X.

1 The vifion of the coals of fire to be scattered over the city. 8 The vifion of the cherubims.

THEN I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims, there appeared over them as it were a fapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

2 And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and faid, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cheru bims, and fcatter them over the city. And he went in in my fight.

3 Now the cherubims flood on the right fide of the houfe, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

4 Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and flood over the threshold of the houfe; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD'S glory.

5 And the found of the cherubims' wings was heard even to court, as

The princes' fin, andjudgment. four fides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went.

12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.

13 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel.

14 And every one had four faces the firft face was the face of a cherub, and the fecond face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

Is And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that I faw by the river of Chebar.

16 And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them; and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the fame wheels alfo turned not from beide them.

17 When they ftood, thefe ftood; and when they were lifted up, thefe lifted up themfelves allo: for the fpirit of the living creature was in them.

18 Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and ftood over the cherubims.

19 And the cherubims lifted up their wings and mounted up from the earth in my fight: when they went out, the wheels alfo were beside them, and every one stood at the door of the caft gate of the LORD's houfe; and the glory of the God of Ifrael was over them above.

20 This is the living creature that I faw un. der the God of Ifrael by the river of Chebar, and I knew that they were the cherubims.

21 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.

22 And the likeness of their faces was the fame faces which I faw by the river of Chebar. their appearances and themselves: they went every one ftraight forward.

CHAP. XI.

1 The princes' prefumption: 4 their fin and judgment. 14 God's purpose in faving a Temnant, 21 and punishing the wicked. Oreover fpirit me

6 And it came to pafs, that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, aying, Take fire from between the wheels, tom between the cherubims; then he went n, and ftood befide the wheels.

7 And one cherub ftretched forth his hand rom between the cherubims unto the fire hat was between the cherubims, and took hereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it, and vent out.

And there appeared in the cherubims he form of a man's hand under their wings. 9 And when 1 looked, behold, the four heels by the cherubims, one wheel by one berub, and another wheel by another cherub: nd the appearance of the wheels was as the lour of a beryl itone.

10 And as for their appearances, they four ad one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the idft of a wheel.

II When they went they went upon their

1 Therefore thus faith the Lord Gon; your

flain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the fleth, and this city is the caldron, but I will bring you forth out of the midit of it.

8 Ye have feared the fword; and I will bring afword upon you, faith the Lord GOD.

And I will bring you out of the midft thereof, and deliver you into the hands of frangers, and will execute judgments among you.

10 Ye fhat! fall by the fword; I will judge you in the border of Ifrael; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

11 This city thall not be your caldron, neither thall ye be the flesh in the midft thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Ifrael:

12 And ye hall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my ftatutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.

13 And it came to pafs, when I prophe fied, that Pelatiah the fon of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and faid, Ah Lord God! wilt thou raake a full end of the remnant of Ifrael?

14 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, faying,

15 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy bre. thren, the men of thy kindred, and all the houfe of Ifrael wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerufalem have faid, Get ye far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in poffettion.

16 Therefore fay, Thus faith the Lord Gop; Although I have caft them far off aniong the heathen, and although I have fcattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little fanctuary in the countries where they shall come.

17 Therefore fay, Thus faith the Lord Gon, I will even gather you from the people, and aflemble you out of the countries where ye have been fcattered, and I will give you the land of Ifrael.

18 And they fhall come thither, and they hall take away all the deteftable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.

19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new fpirit within you; and I will take the ftony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh :

20 That they may walk in my ftatutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they thall be my people, and I will be their God.

21 But as for them whofe heart waiketh after the heart of their deteftable things and their abominations, I will recompenfe their way upon their own heads, faith the Lord GOD.

22 Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Ifrael was over them above.

23 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and ftood upon the mountain which is on the eaft fide of the city.

24 Afterwards the fpirit took me up, and brought me in vifion by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the yition that I had feen went up from me.

Ifrael's captivity.

25 Then I fpake unto them of the captivity all the things that the LORD had thewed me. CHAP. Xil.

The type of Ezekiel's removing, 8 fbewen the captivity of Zedekiah. 17 Ezekiel trembling fheweth the Jews' defolation. THE word of the LORD alfo came unto me, faying,

2 Son of man, thou dwelleft in the mid of a rebellious houfe, which have eyes to fee, and fee not; they have ears to hear, and hea not: for they are a rebellious house.

3 Therefore, thou fon of man, prepare the ftuff for removing, and remove by day it their fight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their fight: it may be they will confider, though they be a rebel lious house.

4 Then thalt thou bring forth thy fluff by day in their fight, as ftuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in their fight: as they that go forth into captivity.

5 Dig thou through the wall in their fight, and carry out thereby.

6 In their fight fhalt thou bear it upon thy fhoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou fee not the ground: for I have fet thee for a fign unto the house of Ifrael.

7 And I did fo as I was commanded: I brought forth my ftuff by day, as ftuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through the wall with mine hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bare it upon my shoul. der in their fight.

8 And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, faying,

9 Son of man, hath not the houfe of Ifrael, the rebellious houfe, faid unto thee, What doeft thou?

10 Say thou unto them, Thus faith the Lord God; This burden concerneth the prince in Jerufalem, and all the house of Ifrael that art among them.

11 Say, I am your fign: like as I have done, fo fhall it be done unto them: they shall re move and go into captivity.

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

13 My net alfo will I fpread upon him, and he thall be taken in my fnare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chal deans; yet fhall he not fee it, though he shall die there.

14 And I will fcatter toward every wind all that are about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the fword after them.

15 And they fhall know that I am the LORD when I fhall fcatter them among the nation and difperfe them in the countries.

16 But I will leave a few men of them from the fword, from the famine, and from th peftilence; that they may declare all the abominations among the heathen whithe they come; and they shall know that I a the LORD.

17¶Moreover, the word of the LORD can to me, faying,

18 Son of man, eat thy bread with quakin and drink thy water with trembling and wi carefulness

And defolation fignified.

19 And fay unto the people of the land, Thus faith the Lord God of the inhabitants of Jerufalem, and of the land of Ifrael; They hall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with aftonishment, that her land may be defolate from 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 fhall be defolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

21 And the word of the LORD came unto me, faying,

22 Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Ifrael, faying, The days are prolonged, and every vifion faileth? 23 Tell them therefore, Thus faith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they thall no more ufe it as a proverb in Ifrael; but fay unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vifion.

24 For there shall be no more any valn vifion nor flattering divination within the houfe of Ifrael.

25 For I am the LORD: I will fpeak, and the word that I fhall speak shall come tu país; it fhall be no more prolonged for in your days, O rebellious houfe, will I fay the word, and will perform it, faith the Lord God.

26 Again the word of the LORD came to nie, faying,

27 Son of man, behold, they of the houfe of Ifrael fay, The vifion that he feeth is for many days to come, and he prophefieth of the times that are far off.

28 Therefore fay unto them, Thus faith the Lord Goo; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken thall be done, faith the Lord Gop.

CHA P. XIII.

The reproof of lying prophets, 10 and their untempered mortar. 17 of the prophetesses, and their pillows.

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ND the word of the LORD came unto me, faying,

Son of man, prophefy against the prophets of Ifrael that prophety, and fay thou unto them that prophery out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD;

3 Thus faith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolith prophets, that follow their own fpirit, and have feen nothing!

4 O Ifrael, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deferts.

Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the houfe of If rael to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.

6 They have feen vanity and lying divination, faying, The LORD faith and the LORD hath not fent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.

7 Have ye not feen a vain vifion, and have ye not fpoken a lying divination, whereas ye fay, The LORD faith it; albeit I have not Spoken?

8 Therefore thus faith the Lord God; Becaufe ye have spoken vanity, and feen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, faith the Lord God.

9 And mine hand fhall be upon the prophets that fee vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the affembly of my peo

Of propheteffes, &c. pie, neither fhall they be written in the writ ing of the houfe of Ifrael, neither thall they enter into the land of Ifrael; and ye shall know that I am the Lord God.

10 Because, even because they have fe duced my people, faying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered mortar :

11 Say unto them which daub it with un. tempered mortar, that it fhall fall: there fhall be an overflowing thower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a iformy wind thall rend it.

12 Lo, when the wall is falien, fhall it not be faid unto you, Where the daubing where. with ye have daubed it?

13 Therefore thus faith the Lord God, I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there fhall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailftones in my fury

to confume it.

14 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, fo that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it fhall fall, and ye shall be confumed in the midit thereof: 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 fay unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it;

16 To wit, the prophets of Ifrael which prophefy concerning Jerufalem, and which fee visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, faith the Lord God.

17 Likewife, thou fon of man, fet thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophefy out of their own heart; and prophefy thou against them,

18 And fay, Thus faith the Lord God; Woe to the women that few pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every ftature to hunt fouls! Will ye hunt the fouls of my people, and will ye fave the fouls alive that come unto you?

19 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to flay the fouls that mould not die, and to fave the fouls alive that thould not live, ty your lying to my people that hear your lies?

20 Wherefore thus faith the Lord God; Be hold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the fouls to make them fly, and I will tear then from your arms, and will let the fouls go, even the fouls that ye hunt to make them by.

21 Your kerchiefs alfo will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they thall be no more 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 fad, whom I have not made fad; and frengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:

23 Therefore ye thall fee 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 anfwereth idolaters according to thefe own beart. 12 God's irrevocable fentence 22 A remnant fall be faved.