 Chapter 1-6 of the Book of Ezekiel from the Young's Literal Translation of the Bible. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are public domain. For more information or how to volunteer, visit LibriVox.org, recording by Mark Penfold. Chapter 1-6 of Ezekiel from the Young's Literal Translation. Chapter 1. And it cometh to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth of the month. And I am in the midst of the removed by the river Chibar. The heavens have been opened, and I see visions of God in the fifth of the month. It is the fifth year of the removal of the King Jehoiakin. Half the word of Jehovah certainly been unto Ezekiel, son of Buzai the priest, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chibar. And there is on him there a hand of Jehovah. And I look and lo, a tempestuous wind is coming from the north, a great cloud, and fire catching itself and brightness to it round about. And out of its midst as the color of copper, out of the midst of the fire, and out of its midst is a likeness of four living creatures, and this is their appearance. A likeness of man is to them, and four faces are to each, and four wings are to each of them, and their feet are straight feet, and the soul of their feet is as a soul of a calf's foot, and they are sparkling as the color of bright brass, and hands of man under their wings, on their foresides, and their faces and their wings are to them four. Joining one unto another are their wings, they turn not round in their going, each straight forward they go. As to the likeness of their faces, the face of a man and the face of a lion, toward the right are to them four, and the face of an ox on the left are to them four, and the face of an eagle are to them four, and their faces and their wings are separate from above, to each are two joining together, and two are covering their bodies, and each straight forward they go, whether the spirit is to go, they go, they turn not round in their going. As to the likeness of the living creatures, their appearances are as coals of fire, burning as the appearance of lamps, it is going up and down between the living creatures, and brightness is to the fire, and out of the fire is going forth lightning, and the living creatures are running, and turning back as the appearance of the flash, and I see the living creatures, and lo, one wheel is in the earth near the living creatures at its four faces, the appearance of the wheels, and their works is as the color of barrel, and one likeness is to them four, and their appearances and their works are, as it were, the wheel in the midst of the wheel, on their four sides, in their going they go, they turn not round in their going, as to their rings, they are both high and fearful, and their rings are full of eyes round about them four, and in the going of the living creatures, the wheels go beside them, and in the living creatures being lifted up from off the earth, lifted up are the wheels, whether the spirit is to go, they go, thither the spirit is to go, and the wheels are lifted up over against them, for a living spirit is in the wheels, in their going they go, and in their standing they stand, and in their being lifted up from off the earth, lifted up are the wheels over against them, for a a living spirit is in the wheels, and a likeness is over the heads of the living creatures of an expanse as the color of the fearful ice stretched out over their heads from above, and under the expanse their wings are straight, one toward the other, to each are two covering on this side, and to each are two covering on that side, their bodies. And I hear the noise of their wings as the noise of many waters as the noise of the mighty one in their going, the noise of tumult as the noise of a camp in their standing they let fall their wings, and there is a voice from above the expanse that is above their head in their standing they let fall their wings, and above the expanse that is over their head as an appearance of a sapphire stone is the likeness of a throne, and on the likeness of a throne a likeness as the appearance of man upon it from above. And I see as the color of copper as the appearance of fire within it round about from the appearance of his loins and upward, and from the appearance of his loins and downward I have seen as the appearance of fire and brightness is to it round about as the appearance of the bow that is in a cloud in a day of rain. So is the appearance of the brightness round about. Chapter 2 It is the appearance of the likeness of the honor of Jehovah, and I see and fall on my face, and I hear a voice speaking, and he saith unto me, Son of man stand on thy feet, and I speak with thee. And there doth come into me a spirit when he hath spoken unto me, and it causeth me to stand on my feet, and I hear him who is speaking unto me, and he saith unto me, Son of man I am sending thee unto the sons of Israel, unto nations who are rebels who have rebelled against me, they and their fathers have transgressed against me, unto this self same day, and the sons are brazen faced and heart hearted, to whom I am sending thee, and thou hast said unto them, thus said the Lord Jehovah, and they, whether they hear, or whether they forbear, for a rebellious house they are, have known that a prophet hath been in their midst, and thou, Son of man, thou art not afraid of them, yea of their words thou art not afraid, for briars and thorns are with thee, and near scorpions thou art dwelling, of their words thou art not afraid, and of their faces thou art not affrighted, for they are a rebellious house, and thou hast spoken my words unto them, whether they hear or whether they forbear, for they are rebellious, and thou, Son of man, hear that which I am speaking unto thee, thou art not rebellious like the rebellious house, open thy mouth, and eat that which I am giving unto thee, and I look, and lo, a hand is sent forth unto me, and lo, in it a roll of a book, and he spreadeth it before me, and it is written in front and behind, and written on it are lamentations, and mourning, and woe. Chapter 3 And he saith unto me, Son of man, that which thou findest, eat, eat this roll, and go, speak unto the house of Israel, and I open my mouth, and he causeth me to eat this roll, and he saith unto me, Son of man, thy belly thou dost feed, and thy bowels thou dost fill with this roll that I am giving unto thee, and I eat it, and it is in my mouth as honey for sweetness, and he saith unto me, Son of man, go, enter in unto the house of Israel, and thou hast spoken with my words unto them, for not unto a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue art thou sent, unto the house of Israel, not unto many peoples deep of lip and heavy of tongue whose words thou dost not understand. If I had not sent thee unto them, they, they do hearken unto thee, but the house of Israel are not willing to hearken unto thee, for they are not willing to hearken unto me, for all the house of Israel are brazen-faced and strong-hearted, lo, I have made thy face strong against their face, and thy forehead strong against their forehead. As an adamant, harder than a rock I have made thy forehead, thou dost not fear them, nor art thou affrighted before them, for a rebellious house are they, and he saith unto me, Son of man, all my words that I speak unto thee, receive with thy heart and with thine ears here, and go, enter in unto the removed, unto the sons of thy people, and thou hast spoken unto them, and hast said unto them, thus said the Lord Jehovah, whether they hear or whether they forbear, and lift me up doth a spirit, and I hear behind me a noise, a great rushing. Blessed is the honor of Jehovah from his place, even a noise of the wings of the living creatures touching one another, and a noise of the wheels over against them, even a noise of a great rushing, and a spirit hath lifted me up, and doth take me away, and I go bitterly in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of Jehovah on me is strong. And I come in unto the removed, at Tel Ahib, who are dwelling at the river Chebar, and where they are dwelling I also dwell seven days, causing astonishment in their midst, and it cometh to pass at the end of seven days, that there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, a watchman I have given thee to the house of Israel, and thou hast heard from my mouth a word, and hast warned them from me, in my saying to the wicked, thou dost surely die, and thou hast not warned him, nor hast spoken to warn the wicked from his wicked way, so that he doth live, he the wicked in his iniquity dyeth, and his blood from thy hand I require, and thou, because thou hast warned the wicked, and he hath not turned back from his wickedness, and from his wicked way, he in his iniquity dyeth, and thou thy soul hast delivered, and in the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, and he hath done perversity, and I hath put a stumbling block before him, he dyeth, because thou hast not warned him in his sin he dyeth, and not remembered is his righteousness that he hath done, and his blood from thy hand I require, and thou, because thou hast warned him the righteous, that the righteous sin not, and he hath not sinned, he surely liveth, because he hath been warned, and thou thy soul hast delivered, and there is on me there a hand of Jehovah, and he saith unto me, Rise, go forth to the valley, and there I do speak with thee, and I rise, and go forth unto the valley, and lo, there the honor of Jehovah is standing as the honor that I had seen by the river Chibar, and I fall on my face, and come into me doth a spirit, and causeth me to stand on my feet, and he speaketh with me, and saith unto me, Go in, be shut up in the midst of thy house, and thou, son of man, lo, they have put on thee thick bands, and have bound thee with them, and thou goest not forth in their midst, and thy tongue I cause to cleave unto thy pallet, and thou hast been dumb, and art not to them for a reprover, for a rebellious house are they, and in my speaking with thee I do open thy mouth, and thou hast said unto them, thus said the Lord Jehovah, the hearer doth hear, and the forbearer doth forbear, for a rebellious house are they. And thou, son of man, take to thee a brick, and thou hast put it before thee, and hast graven on it a city, Jerusalem, and hast placed against it a siege, and build it against it a fortification, and poured out against it a mount, and placed against it camps, yea, set thou against it battering rams round about, and thou take to thee an iron pan, and thou hast made it a wall of iron between thee and the city, and thou hast prepared thy face against it, and it hath been in a siege, yea, thou hast laid siege against it a sign it is to the house of Israel, and thou lie on thy left side, and thou hast placed the iniquity of the house of Israel on it, the number of the days that thou liest on it, thou barest their iniquity, and I have laid on thee the years of their iniquity, the number of days, 390 days, and thou hast borne the iniquity of the house of Israel, and thou hast completed these, and hast lain on thy right side a second time, and hast borne the iniquity of the house of Judah, 40 days, a day for a year, a day for a year I have appointed to thee, and unto the siege of Jerusalem thou dost prepare thy face, and thine arm is uncovered, and thou hast prophesied concerning it, and lo, I have put on thee thick bands, and thou dost not turn from side to side till thy completing the days of thy siege, and thou take to thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and thou hast put them in one vessel, and made them to thee for bread, the number of the days that thou art lying on thy side, 390 days, thou dost eat it, and thy food that thou dost eat is by weight, twenty shekels daily, from time to time thou dost eat it, and water by measure thou dost drink, a sixth part of the hen, from time to time thou dost drink it, a barley cake thou dost eat it, and it with dung, the filth of man, thou dost bake before their eyes, and Jehovah saith, thus do the sons of Israel eat their defiled bread among the nations whither I drive them, and I say, ah, Lord Jehovah, lo, my soul is not defiled, and carcass and torn thing I have not eaten from my youth, even till now, nor come into my mouth hath abominable flesh, and he saith unto me, see, I have given to thee bulux dung instead of man's dung, and thou hast made thy bread by it, and he saith unto me, Son of man, lo, I am breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they have eaten bread by weight and with fear, and water by measure, and with astonishment they do drink, so that they lack bread and water, and have been astonished one with another, and been consumed in their iniquity. Chapter 5 And thou, Son of man, take to thee a sharp weapon, the barber's razor thou dost take to thee, and thou hast caused it to pass over thy head and over thy beard, and thou hast taken to thee weighing scales and apportioned them, a third part with fire thou dost burn in the midst of the city, at the fullness of the days of the siege, and thou hast taken the third part, thou dost smite with a weapon round about it, and the third part thou dost scatter to the wind, and a weapon I draw out after them, and thou hast taken thence a few in number, and hast bound them in thy skirts, and of them thou dost take again, and hast cast them unto the midst of the fire, and hast burned them in the fire, out of it cometh forth of fire unto all the house of Israel. Thus said the Lord Jehovah, this is Jerusalem, in the midst of the nations I have set her, and round about her are the lands, and she changes my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the lands that are round about her, for against my judgments they have kicked, and my statutes they have not walked in them. Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah, because of your multiplying above the nations that are around you, in my statutes ye have not walked, and my judgments ye have not done, according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you, ye have not done. Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah, lo, I am against thee, even I, and I have done in thy midst judgments before the eyes of the nations, and I have done indeed that which I have not done, and that which I do not its like again, because of all thine abominations. Therefore, fathers do eat sons in thy midst, and sons eat their fathers, and I have done in thee judgments, and have scattered all thy remnant to every wind, therefore I live, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, because my sanctuary thou hast defiled with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, mine I pity if not, and I also spare not. Do not even I also diminish? Thy third part, by pestilence they die, and by famine are consumed in thy midst, and the third part, by sword they fall round about thee, and the third part, to every wind I scatter, and a sword I draw out after them, and completed hath been mine anger, and I have caused my fury to rest on them, and I have been comforted, and they have known that I, Jehovah, have spoken in my zeal, in my completing my fury on them, and I give thee for a waste, and for a reproach among nations that are round about thee, before the eyes of every passerby. And it hath been a reproach and a reviling, an instruction and an astonishment to nations that are round about thee, in my doing in thee judgments, in anger and fury, and in furious reproofs, I, Jehovah, have spoken in my sending the evil arrows of famine among them, that have been for destruction, that I send to destroy you, and famine I am adding upon you, and I have broken to you the staff of bread, and I have sent on you famine and evil beasts, and they have bereaved thee, and pestilence and blood pass over on thee, and a sword I do bring in against thee, I, Jehovah, have spoken. And there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, set thy face unto mountains of Israel, and prophesy concerning them, and thou hast said, mountains of Israel, hear ye a word of the Lord Jehovah, thus said the Lord Jehovah to the mountains, and to the hills, to the streams, and to the valleys, lo, I, I am bringing in against you a sword, and I have destroyed your high places, and desolated have been your altars, and broken your images, and I have caused your wounded to fall before your idols, and put the carcasses of the sons of Israel before their idols, and scattered your bones round about your altars. In all your dwellings the cities are laid waste, and the high places are desolate, so that waste and desolate are your altars, and broken and ceased have your idols, and cut down have been your images, and blotted out have been your works, and fallen half the wounded in your midst, and ye have known that I am Jehovah, and I have caused some to remain in their being to you the escaped of the sword among nations, in your being scattered through lands, and remembered me have your escaped among nations whether they have been taken captive, because I have been broken with their heart that is going a whoring, that hath turned aside from off me, and with their eyes they are going a whoring after their idols, and they have been loathsome in their own faces for the evils that they have done, all their abominations, and they have known that I am Jehovah, not for not have I spoken to do to them this evil. Thus said the Lord Jehovah, smite with thy palm, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel who by sword, by famine, and by pestilence do fall, the far off by pestilence dyeth, and the near by sword falleth, and the left and the besieged by famine dyeth, and I have completed my fury upon them, and ye have known that I am Jehovah, in their wounded being in the midst of their idols, round about their altars on every high hill, on all tops of mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they gave sweet fragrance to all their idols, and I have stretched out my hand against them, and have made the land a desolation, even a desolation from the wilderness to dibloff in all their dwellings, and they have known that I am Jehovah. The end of chapters one through six of the Book of Ezekiel from the Young's Literal Translation of the Bible. Recording by Mark Penfold. Chapters seven through twelve of the Book of Ezekiel from the Young's Literal Translation of the Bible. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Mark Penfold. Chapters seven through twelve of Ezekiel from the Young's Literal Translation. Chapter seven. And there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, And thou, son of man, thus said the Lord Jehovah, to the ground of Israel an end. Come, hath the end on the four corners of the land. Now is the end unto thee, and I have sent mine anger upon thee, and judged thee according to thy ways, and set against thee all thine abominations, and no pity on thee hath mine eye, nor do I spare, for thy ways against thee I do set, and thine abominations are in thy midst, and ye have known that I am Jehovah, thus said the Lord Jehovah. Evil, a single evil, lo, it hath come. An end hath come. Come, hath the end. It hath wait for thee. Lo, it hath come. Come, hath the morning unto thee, O inhabitant of the land. Come, hath the time. Near is a day of trouble, and not the shouting of mountains. Now, shortly I pour out my fury on thee, and have completed mine anger against thee, and judged thee according to thy ways, and set against thee all thine abominations, and not pity hath mine eye, nor do I spare according to thy ways unto thee I give, and thine abominations are in thy midst, and ye have known that I am Jehovah, the smiter. Lo, the day. Lo, it hath come. Gone forth hath the morning. Blossomed hath the rod. Flourished the pride. The violence hath risen to a rod of wickedness. There is none of them, nor of their multitude, nor of their noise, nor is there wailing for them. Come, hath the time. Arrived hath the day. The buyer doth not rejoice, and the seller doth not become a mourner, for wrath is unto all its multitude. For the seller to the soul thing turneth not, and yet among the living is their life, for the vision is unto all its multitude. It doth not turn back, and none by his iniquity doth strengthen his life. They have blown with a trumpet to prepare the whole, and none is going to battle, for my wrath is unto all its multitude. The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within. He who is in a field by sword dyeth, and he who is in a city, famine and pestilence devour him, and escaped away have their fugitives, and they have been on the mountains as doves of the valleys. All of them make a noising each for his iniquity. All the hands are feeble, and all knees go waters, and they have girded on sackcloth, and covered them hath trembling, and unto all faces is shame, and on all their heads baldness. Their silver into outplaces they cast, and their gold impurity becomeeth. Their silver and their gold is not able to deliver them. In a day of the wrath of Jehovah their soul they do not satisfy, and their bowels they do not fill, for the stumbling block of their iniquity it hath been, as to the beauty of this ornament. For excellency he set it, and the images of their abominations, their detestable things they made in it. Therefore I have given it to them for impurity, and I have given it into the hand of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the land for a spoil, and they have polluted it, and I have turned my face from them, and they have polluted my hidden place. Yea, come into it, have destroyers, and polluted it. Make the chain, for the land hath been full of bloody judgments, and the city hath been full of violence, and I have brought in the wicked of the nations, and they have possessed their houses, and I have caused to cease the excellency of the strong, and polluted have been those sanctifying them. Destruction hath come, and they have sought peace, and there is none. Mischief on mischief, cometh, and report is on report, and they have sought a vision from a prophet, and law doth perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders. The king doth become a mourner, and a prince puteth on desolation, and the hands of the people of the land are troubled, from their own way I deal with them, and with their own judgments I judge them, and they have known that I am Jehovah. Chapter 8 And it cometh to pass, in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth of the month, I am sitting in my house, and elders of Judah are sitting before me, and fall on me there, doth a hand of the Lord Jehovah, and I look, and mow, a likeness as the appearance of fire, from the appearance of his loins and downward, fire, and from his loins and upward as the appearance of brightness, as the color of copper, and he puteth forth a form of a hand, and taketh me by a lock of my head, and lift me up doth a spirit between the earth and the heavens, and it bringeth me into Jerusalem, in visions of God, unto the opening of the inner gate that is facing the north, where is the seat of the figure of jealousy that is making jealous, and lo, there the honor of the God of Israel as the appearance that I saw in the valley, and ye sayeth unto me, son of man, lift up, I pray thee thine eyes the way of the north, and I lift up mine eyes the way of the north, and lo, on the north of the gate of the altar, this figure of jealousy at the entrance, and ye sayeth unto me, son of man, art thou seeing what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel are doing here, to keep far off from my sanctuary, and again, thou dost turn, thou dost see great abominations, and ye bringeth me in unto an opening of the court, and I look, and lo, a hold in the wall, and ye sayeth unto me, son of man, dig, I pray thee through the wall, and I dig through the wall, and lo, an opening, and ye sayeth unto me, go in, and see the evil abominations that they are doing here, and I go in, and look, and lo, every form of creeping thing, and detestable beast, and all the idols of the house of Israel graved on the wall, all round about, and seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and Je'azaniah, son of Shefan, standing in their midst, are standing before them, and each his censor in his hand, and the abundance of the cloud of perfume is going up, and ye sayeth unto me, hast thou seen, son of man, that which elders of the house of Israel are doing in darkness, each in the inner chambers of his imagery, for they are saying, Jehovah is not seeing us, Jehovah hath forsaken the land, and ye sayeth unto me, again thou dost turn, thou dost see great abominations that they are doing, and ye bringeth me in unto the opening of the gate of the house of Jehovah that is at the north, and lo, there the women are sitting weeping for Tamuz, and ye sayeth unto me, hast thou seen, son of man, again thou dost turn, thou dost see greater abominations than these, and ye bringeth me in unto the inner court of the house of Jehovah, and lo, at the opening of the temple of Jehovah between the porch and the altar, about twenty five men, their backs toward the temple of Jehovah, and their faces eastward, and they are bowing themselves eastward to the sun, and ye sayeth unto me, hast thou seen, son of man, hath it been a light thing to the house of Judah to do the abomination that they have done here, that they have filled the land with violence and turned back to provoke me to anger, and lo, they are putting forth the branch unto their nose, and I also deal in fury, mine eye doth not pity, nor do I spare, and they have cried in mine ears a loud voice, and I do not hear them, chapter nine, and he cryeth in mine ears a loud voice saying, draw near heaven, specters of the city, and each his destroying weapon in his hand, and lo, six men are coming from the way of the upper gate that is facing the north, and each his slaughter weapon in his hand, and one man in their midst is clothed with linen, and ascribes incorn at his loins, and they come in and stand near the brazen altar, and the honor of the God of Israel hath gone up from off the cherub on which it hath been, unto the threshold of the house, and he calleth unto the man who is clothed with linen, who hath the scribes incorn at his loins, and Jehovah sayeth unto him, pass on into the midst of the city, into the midst of Jerusalem, and thou hast made a mark on the foreheads of the men who are sighing, and who are groaning for all the abominations that are done in its midst, and to the others, he said in mine ears, pass on into the city after him, and smite, your eye doth not pity, nor do ye spare, aged, young man and virgin, and infant and women, ye do slay to destruction, and against any man on whom is the mark ye do not go nigh, and from my sanctuary ye begin, and they begin among the aged men who are before the house, and he sayeth unto them, defile the house, and fill the courts with the wounded, go forth, and they have gone forth, and hath smitten in the city, and it cometh to pass, as they are smiting, and I, I am left, that I fall on my face and cry, and say, ah, Lord Jehovah, art thou destroying all the remnant of Israel, and thy pouring out thy wrath on Jerusalem? And he sayeth unto me, the iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood, and the city hath been full of perverseness, for they have said, Jehovah hath forsaken the land, and Jehovah is not seeing, and I also, mine eye doth not pity, nor do I spare, their way on their own head I have put, and lo, the man clothed with linen, at whose loins is the inkhorn, is bringing back word, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me, Chapter 10, and I look, and lo, on the expanse that is above the head of the cherubs, as a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne, he hath been seen over them, and he speaketh unto the man clothed with linen, and sayeth, go in unto the midst of the wheel, unto the place of the cherub, and fill thy hands with coals of fire from between the cherubs, and scatter over the city, and he goeth in before mine eyes, and the cherubs are standing on the right side of the house at the going in of the man, and the cloud hath filled the inner court, and become hide doth the honor of Jehovah above the cherub, over the threshold of the house, and the house is filled with the cloud, and the court hath been filled with the brightness of the honor of Jehovah, and a noise of the wings of the cherubs hath been heard unto the outer court, as the voice of God, the mighty one in his speaking, and it cometh to pass, in his commanding the man clothed with linen, saying, take fire from between the wheel, from between the cherubs, and he goeth in, and standeth near the wheel, that the one cherub putteth forth his hand from between the cherubs unto the fire that is between the cherubs, and lefteth up, and giveth into the hands of him who is clothed with linen, and he receiveth, and cometh forth, and there appeareth in the cherubs the form of a hand of man under their wings, and I look, and lo, four wheels near the cherubs, one wheel near the one cherub, and another wheel near the other cherub, and the appearance of the wheels is as the color of a barrel stone, as to their appearances, one likeness is to them four, as it were the wheel in the midst of the wheel, in their going, on their four sides they go, they turn not round in their going, for to the place whither the head turneth, after it they go, they turn not round in their going, and all their flesh, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels are full of eyes round about, to them four are their wheels, to the wheels, to them is one calling in mine ears, oh wheel, and four faces are to each, the face of the one is the face of the cherub, and the face of the second the face of man, and of the third the face of a lion, and of the fourth the face of an eagle, and the cherubs are lifted up, it is the living creature that I saw by the river Chibar, and in the going of the cherubs the wheels go beside them, and in the cherubs lifting up their wings to be high above the earth the wheels turn not round, even they from being beside them, in their standing they stand, and in their exaltation they are exalted with them, for the living spirit is in them, and go forth doth the honor of Jehovah from off the threshold of the house, and standeth over the cherubs, and the cherubs lift up their wings, and are lifted up from the earth before mine eyes, and their going forth the wheels also are over against them, and he standeth at the opening of the east gate of the house of Jehovah, and the honor of the God of Israel is over them from above, it is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chibar, and I know that they are cherubs, for faces are to each, and for wings to each, and the likeness of the hands of man is under their wings as to the likeness of their faces, they are the faces that I saw by the river Chibar, their appearances and themselves, each straightforward they go, Chapter 11, and lift me up doth a spirit, and it bringeth me in unto the east gate of the house of Jehovah that is facing the east, and lo, at the opening of the gate, twenty and five men, and I see in their midst, Ja'azaniah, son of Azur, and Pelotiah, son of Ben-A'iah, heads of the people, and he saith unto me, Son of man, these are the men who are devising iniquity, and who are giving evil counsel in this city, who are saying it is not near to build houses, it is the pot, and we the flesh, therefore prophesy concerning them, prophesy, Son of man, and fall upon me doth the spirit of Jehovah, and he saith unto me, say, thus said Jehovah, rightly have ye said, O house of Israel, and the steps of your spirit I have known, ye multiplied your wounded in this city, and filled its outplaces with the wounded, therefore thus said the Lord Jehovah, your wounded whom ye placed in its midst, they are the flesh, and it is the pot, and ye he hath brought out from its midst, a sword ye have feared, and a sword I bring in against you, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, and I have brought you out of its midst, and given you into the hand of strangers, and I have done among you judgments, by the sword ye do fall on the border of Israel, I do judge you, and ye have known that I am Jehovah, it is not to you for a pot, nor are ye in its midst for flesh at the border of Israel, I do judge you, and ye have known that I am Jehovah, for in my statutes ye have not walked, and my judgments ye have not done, and according to the judgments of the nations who are round about you, ye have done, and it cometh to pass at my prophesying, that Pelateia, Son of Ben-Aia, is dying, and I fall on my face and cry, a loud voice, and say, Ah, Lord Jehovah, and end thou art making of the remnant of Israel, and there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, thy brethren, thy brethren, men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel, all of it, are they to whom inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Keep far off from Jehovah, it is ours, the land hath been given for an inheritance, therefore say, thus said the Lord Jehovah, because I put them afar off among nations, and because I scattered them through lands, I also end to them for a little sanctuary in lands whither they have gone in. Therefore say, thus said the Lord Jehovah, and I have assembled you from the peoples, and I have gathered you from the lands into which ye have been scattered, and I have given to you the ground of Israel, and they have gone in thither, and turned aside all its detestable things, and all its abominations out of it, and I have given to them one heart, and a new spirit I do give in your midst, and I have turned the heart of stone out of their flesh, and I have given to them a heart of flesh, so that in my statutes they walk, and my judgments they keep and have done them, and they have been to me for a people, and I am to them for God. As to those whose heart is going unto the heart of their detestable and their abominable things, their way on their head I have put, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, and the cherubs lift up their wings, and the wheels are over against them, and the honor of the God of Israel is over them above, and the honor of Jehovah goeth up from off the midst of the city, and standeth on the mountain that is on the east of the city, and a spirit hath lifted me up, and bringeth me into Caldea unto the removed in a vision by the Spirit of God, and go up from off me doth the vision that I have seen, and I speak unto the removed all the matters of Jehovah that he hath shooed me. Chapter 12 And there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, in the midst of the rebellious house thou art dwelling, that have eyes to see, and they have not seen, ears they have to hear, and they have not heard, for a rebellious house are they, and thou, Son of man, make to thee vessels of removal, and remove by day before their eyes, and thou hast removed from thy place unto another place before their eyes, it may be they consider, for a rebellious house they are, and thou hast brought forth by vessels, as vessels of removal by day before their eyes, and thou dost go forth at even before their eyes, as the goings forth of a removal, before their eyes dig for thee through the wall, and thou hast brought forth by it, before their eyes on the shoulder thou dost bear, in the darkness thou dost bring forth, thy face thou dost cover, and thou dost not see the earth, for a type I have given thee to the house of Israel, and I do so as I have been commanded, my vessels I have brought forth as vessels of removal by day, and at even I have dug for me through the wall with the hand, in the darkness I have brought forth, on the shoulder I have borne away before their eyes, and there is a word of Jehovah unto me in the morning saying, Son of man, have they not said unto thee the house of Israel, the rebellious house, what art thou doing? Say unto them, thus said the Lord Jehovah, the Prince is this burden in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel who are in their midst, say, I am your type, as I have done so it is done to them, into a removal, into a captivity, they do go, as to the Prince who is in their midst, on the shoulder he beareth in the darkness, and he goeth forth through the wall they dig to bring forth by it, his face he covereth, that he may not look on the very surface of the land, and I have spread my net for him, and he hath been caught in my snare, and I have brought him into Babylon the land of the Caldeans, and it he dost not see, and there dost he die, and all who are round about him to help him, and all his bands I do scatter to every wind, and a sword I draw out after them, and they have known that I am Jehovah, in my scattering them among nations, and I have spread them through lands, and I have left of them a few in number, from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence, so that they recount all their abominations among the nations wither they have come, and they have known that I am Jehovah, and there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, thy bread in haste thou dost eat, and thy water with trembling and with fear thou dost drink, and thou hast said unto the people of the land, thus said the Lord Jehovah concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, concerning the land of Israel, their bread with fear they do eat, and their water with astonishment drink, because its land is desolate, because of its fullness, because of the violence of all who are dwelling in it, and the cities that are inhabited are laid waste, and the land is a desolation, and ye have known that I am Jehovah, and there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, what is this simile to you concerning the land of Israel saying, prolonged are the days, and perished have every vision, therefore say unto them, thus said the Lord Jehovah, I have caused this simile to cease, and they use it not as a simile again in Israel, but speak to them, draw near have the days, and spoken have every vision, for there is no more any vain vision and flattering divination in the midst of the house of Israel, for I am Jehovah, I speak, the word that I speak, it is done, it is not prolonged anymore, for in your days a rebellious house, I speak a word, and I have done it, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, and there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, lo, the house of Israel are saying, the vision that he is seeing is for many days, and of times far off he is prophesying, therefore say unto them, thus said the Lord Jehovah, none of my words are prolonged anymore, when I speak a word, it is done, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. The end of chapters 7 through 12 from the book of Ezekiel, from the Young's Literal Translation of the Bible. Recording by Mark Penfold. Chapters 13 through 18 of the book of Ezekiel, from the Young's Literal Translation of the Bible. This is a LibriVox recording, all LibriVox recordings are a public domain. For more information, or how you can volunteer, visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Mark Penfold. Chapters 13 through 18 of Ezekiel, from the Young's Literal Translation. Chapter 13. And there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, prophesy concerning the prophets of Israel who are prophesying, and thou hast said to those prophesying from their own heart, hear ye a word of Jehovah, thus said the Lord Jehovah, woe unto the prophets who are foolish, who are going after their own spirit, and they have seen nothing. As foxes in the wastes, thy prophets, O Israel, have been. We have not gone up into breaches, nor do ye make a fence for the house of Israel to stand in battle in a day of Jehovah. They have seen vanity and lying divination who are saying an affirmation of Jehovah, and Jehovah hath not sent them, and they have hoped to establish a word. A vain vision have ye not seen, and a lying divination spoken, when ye say an affirmation of Jehovah, and I have not spoken. Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah, because ye have spoken vanity and seen a lie. Therefore, lo, I am against you, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. And my hand hath been on the prophets who are seeing vanity, and who are divining a lie in the assembly of my people, they are not. And in the writing of the house of Israel they are not written, and unto the ground of Israel they come not. And ye have known that I am the Lord Jehovah. Because, even because they did cause my people to err, saying peace, and there is no peace. And that one is building a wall, and lo, they are dobbing it with chalk. Say to those dobbing with chalk, it falleth. There hath been an overflowing shower, and ye oh hailstones do fall. And a tempestuous wind doth rend, and lo, fallen hath the wall. Doth not one say unto you, where is the dobbing that ye dogged? Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah, I have rent with a tempestuous wind in my fury, and an overflowing shower is in mine anger, and hailstones in my fury to consume. And I have broken down the wall that ye dogged with chalk, and have caused it to come unto the earth, and revealed hath been its foundation, and it hath fallen, and ye have been consumed in its midst, and ye have known that I am Jehovah. And I have completed my wrath on the wall, and on those dobbing it with chalk, and I say to you, the wall is not, and those dobbing it are not. The prophets of Israel who are prophesying concerning Jerusalem, and who are seeing for her a vision of peace, and there is no peace, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. And thou, son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people who are prophesying out of their own heart, and prophesy concerning them, and thou hast said, thus said the Lord Jehovah, woe to those sowing pillows for all joints of the arm, and to those making the kerchiefs for the head of every stature, to hunt souls. The souls do ye hunt of my people, and the souls ye have do ye keep alive? Yea, ye pierce me concerning my people, for handfuls of barley, and for pieces of bread, to put to death souls that should not die, and to keep alive souls that should not live, by your lying to my people, harkening to lies. Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah, lo, I am against your pillows, with which ye are hunting there the souls of the flourishing, and I have rent them from off your arms, and have sent away the souls that ye are hunting the souls of the flourishing, and I have torn your kerchiefs, and delivered my people out of your hand, and they are no more in your hand for a prey, and ye have known that I am Jehovah, because of painting the heart of the righteous with falsehood, and I have not paint it, and strengthening the hands of the wicked so as not to turn back from his evil way to keep him alive. Therefore, vanity ye do not see, and divination ye do not divine again, and I have delivered my people out of your hand, and ye have known that I am Jehovah, Chapter 14. And come in unto me, do certain of the elders of Israel, and sit before me, and there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, these men have caused their idols to go up on their heart, and the stumbling block of their iniquity they have put over against their faces. Am I inquired of at all by them? Therefore speak with them, and thou hast said unto them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah, every one of the house of Israel who causeth his idols to go up unto his heart, and the stumbling block of his iniquity seteth over against his face, and hath gone in unto the prophet. I, Jehovah, have given an answer to him for this, for the abundance of his idols in order to catch the house of Israel by their heart, in that they have become estranged from off me by their idols, all of them. Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord Jehovah, Turn ye back, ye, turn ye back from your idols, and from all your abominations turn back your faces for every one of the house of Israel, and of the sojourners who doth sojourn in Israel, who is separating from after me, and doth cause his idols to go up unto his heart, and the stumbling block of his iniquity seteth over against his face, and hath come in unto the prophet to inquire of him concerning me. I, Jehovah, have answered him for myself, and I have set my face against that man, and made him for a sign, and for similes, and I have cut him off from the midst of my people, and ye have known that I am Jehovah, and the prophet when he is enticed, and hath spoken a word. I, Jehovah, I have enticed that prophet, and have stretched out my hand against him, and have destroyed him from the midst of my people Israel, and they have borne their iniquity as the iniquity of the inquirerer, so is the iniquity of the prophet, so that the house of Israel do not wander any more from after me, nor are defiled any more with all their transgressions, and they have been to me for a people, and I am to them for God, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, and there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, the land when it sinneth against me to commit a trespass, and I have stretched out my hand against it, and broken forth the staff of bread, and sent it into famine, and cut off from it man and beast, and these three men have been in its midst. Noah, Daniel, and Job, they by their righteousness deliver their own soul, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. If an evil beast I caused to pass through the land, and it hath bereaved, and it hath been a desolation without any passing through because of the beast, these three men in its midst, I live, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, neither sons nor daughters do they deliver, they alone are delivered, and the land is a desolation, or a sword I bring in against that land, and I have said, sword thou dost pass over through the land, and I have cut off from it man and beast, and these three men in its midst, I live, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, they deliver not sons and daughters, for they alone are delivered, or pestilence I send unto that land, and I have poured out my fury against it in blood to cut off from it man and beast, and Noah, Daniel, and Job in its midst, I live, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, neither son nor daughter do they deliver, they by their righteousness deliver their own soul, for thus said the Lord Jehovah, although my four sword judgments, sword and famine, and wild beast and pestilence, I have sent unto Jerusalem to cut off from it man and beast, yet, lo, there hath been left in it an escape, who are brought forth, sons and daughters, lo, they are coming forth unto you, and ye have seen their way and their doings, and hath been comforted concerning the evil that I have brought in against Jerusalem, all that which I have brought in against it, and they have comforted you, for ye see their way and their doings, and ye have known that not for not have I done all that which I have done in her, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. Chapter 15. And there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree? The vine branch that hath been among trees of the forest, is wood taken from it to use for work? Do they take of it a pin to hang any vessel on it? Lo, to the fire it hath been given for fuel, its two ends hath the fire eaten, and its midst hath been scorched. Is it profitable for work? Lo, in its being perfect, it is not used for work. How much less one fire hath eaten of it, and it is scorched, hath it been used yet for work? Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah, as the vine tree among trees of the forest that I have given to the fire for fuel, so I have given the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and I have set my face against them, from the fire they have gone forth, and the fire doth consume them, and ye have known that I am Jehovah in my setting my face against them, and I have made the land a desolation because they have committed a trespass, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. Chapter 16. And there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, and thou hast said, thus said the Lord Jehovah to Jerusalem, thy birth and thy nativity are of the land of the Canaanite, thy father the Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite, as to thy nativity. In the day thou wast borne, thou, thy navel hath not been cut, and in water thou wast not washed for ease, and thou hast not been salted at all, and thou hast not been swaddled at all. No I hath had pity on thee, to do to thee any of these, to have compassion on thee, and thou art cast on the face of the field, with loathing of thy person. In the day thou hast been borne, thou, and I do pass over by thee, and I see thee trodden down in thy blood, and I say to thee in thy blood, live, and I say to thee in thy blood, live a myriad, as the shoot of the field I have made thee, and thou art multiplied and art great, and comest in with an excellent adornment. Breasts have been formed, and thy hair hath grown, and thou naked and bare, and I pass over by thee, and I see thee, and lo thy time is a time of loves, and I spread my skirt over thee, and I cover thy nakedness, and I swear to thee, and come into a covenant with thee, and affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, and thou dost become mine, and I do wash thee with water, and I wash away thy blood from off thee, and I anoint thee with perfume, and I clothe thee with embroidery, and I shoe thee with badger skin, and I gird thee with fine linen, and I cover thee with figured silk, and I adorn thee with adornments, and I give bracelets for thy hands, and a chain for thy neck, and I give a ring for thy nose, and rings for thine ears, and a crown of beauty on thy head, and thou dost put on gold and silver, and thy clothing is fine linen, and figured silk and embroidery, fine flour, and honey, and oil thou hast eaten, and thou art very, very beautiful, and dost go prosperously to the kingdom, and go forth doth thy name among nations because of thy beauty, for it is complete in my honor that I have set upon thee an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, and thou dost trust in thy beauty, and go as to whoring because of thy renown, and dost pour out thy hordoms on every passerby to him it is, and thou dost take of thy garments, and dost make to thee spotted high places, and dost go a whoring upon them, they are not coming in, nor shall it be, and thou dost take thy beautyous vessels of my gold and my silver that I gave to thee, and dost make to the images of a male, and dost go a whoring with them, and dost take the garments of thy embroidery, and thou dost cover them, and my oil and my perfume thou hast set before them, and my bread that I gave to thee, fine flour and oil and honey that I caused thee to eat, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet fragrance, thus it is an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, and thou dost take thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne to me, and dost sacrifice them to them for food, is it a little thing because of thy hordoms, that thou dost slaughter my sons, and dost give them up in causing them to pass over to them, and with all thine abominations and thy hordoms, thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, trodden down in thy blood thou wast, and it cometh to pass after all thy wickedness, woe, woe to thee, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, that thou dost build to thee an arch, and dost make to thee a high place in every broad place, at every head of the way thou hast built thy high place, and thou dost make thy beauty abominable, and dost open wide thy feet to every passerby, and dost multiply thy hordoms, and dost go ahorring unto sons of Egypt, thy neighbors great of appetite, and thou dost multiply thy hordoms to provoke me to anger, and lo, I have stretched out my hand against thee, and I diminish thy portion, and give thee to the desire of those hating thee, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of thy wicked way, and thou go ast ahorring unto sons of Asshur, without thy being satisfied, and thou dost go ahorring with them, and also thou hast not been satisfied, and thou dost multiply thy hordoms on the land of Canaan toward Caldea, and even with this thou hast not been satisfied. How weak is thy heart, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, in thy doing all these, the work of a domineering, hoarish woman, in thy building, thy arch at the head of every way, thy high place thou hast made in every broad place, and has not been as a whore deriding a gift. The wife who committed adultery under her husband, doth receive strangers to all whores, they give a gift, and thou hast given thy gifts to all thy lovers, and dost bride them to come in unto thee from round about in thy hordoms, and the contrary is in thee from women in thy hordoms, that after thee none doth go ahorring, and in thy giving a gift, and a gift hath not been given to thee, and thou art become contrary. Therefore, O whore, hear a word of Jehovah, thus said the Lord Jehovah, because of thy brass being poured forth, and thy nakedness is revealed in thy hordoms near thy lovers, and near all the idols of thy abominations, and according to the blood of thy sons, whom thou hast given to them, therefore lo, I am assembling all thy lovers to whom thou hast been sweet, and all whom thou hast loved, besides all whom thou hast hated, and I have assembled them by thee round about, and have revealed thy nakedness to them, and they have seen all thy nakedness, and I have judged the judgments of adulteresses, and of women shedding blood, and have given thee blood, fury, and jealousy, and I have given thee into their hand, and they have thrown down thine arch, and they have broken down thy high places, and they have stripped thee of thy garments, and they have taken thy dutious vessels, and they have left thee naked and bare, and have caused an assembly to come up against thee, and stoned thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords, and burnt thy houses with fire, and done in thee judgments before the eyes of many women, and I have caused thee to cease from going a whoring, and also a gift thou give us to know more, and I have caused my fury against thee to rest, and my jealousy hath turned aside from thee, and I have been quiet, and I am not angry any more, because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, and dost give trouble to me in all these lo, even I also thy way at first gave up, and affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, and I did not this thought for all thine abominations. Low, everyone using a simile, doth use a simile concerning thee, saying, as the mother her daughter, thy mother's daughter thou art, loathing her husband and her sons, and thy sister's sister thou art, who loathe their husbands and their sons, your mother is a Hittite, and your father an Amorite, and thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters, who is dwelling at thy left hand, and thy younger sister, who is dwelling on thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters, and in their ways thou hast not walked, and according to their abominations done, as a little thing it hath been loathed, and thou dost more corruptly than they in all thy ways. I live, and affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she and her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. Low, this hath been the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, irreconcy, fullness of bread, and quiet ease, have been to her and to her daughters, and the hand of the afflicted and needy she hath not strengthened, and they are haughty, and do abomination before me, and I turn them aside when I have seen, as to Samaria, as the half of thy sins she hath not sinned, and thou dost multiply thine abominations more than they, and dost justify thy sisters by all thy abominations that thou hast done, thou also bear thy shame, that thou hast adjudged to thy sisters, because of thy sins that thou hast done more abominably than they, they are more righteous than thou, and thou also be ashamed, and bear thy shame in thy justifying thy sisters, and I have turned back to their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of thy captives in their midst, so that thou dost bear thy shame, and hast been ashamed of all that thou hast done in thy comforting them, and thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, do turn back to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters do turn back to their former state, and thou and thy daughters do turn back to your former state, and thy sister Sodom hath not been for a report in thy mouth in the day of thine arrogance, before thy wickedness is revealed as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Aram, and of all her neighbors, the daughters of the Philistines who are despising thee round about. Thy devices and thine abominations thou hast borne them, and affirmation of Jehovah, for thus said the Lord Jehovah, I have dealt with thee as thou hast done, in that thou hast despised an oath to break covenant, and I have remembered my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I have established for thee a covenant age-during, and thou hast remembered thy ways, and thou hast been ashamed in thy receiving thy sisters, thine elder with thy younger, and I have given them to thee for daughters, and not by thy covenant, and I have established my covenant with thee, and thou hast known that I am Jehovah, so that thou dost remember, and thou hast been ashamed, and there is not to thee any more an opening of the mouth because of thy shame, in my receiving atonement for thee, for all that thou hast done, and affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. Chapter 17. And there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, put forth a riddle, and use a simile unto the house of Israel, and thou hast said, thus said the Lord Jehovah, the great eagle, great winged, long pinioned, full of feathers that hath diverse colors, hath come in unto Lebanon, and it taketh the foliage of the cedar, 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, 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, and it springeth up, and becomeeth a spreading vine, humble of stature, to turn its thin shoots toward itself, and its roots are under it, and it becomeeth a vine, and maketh bows, and sendeth forth beautyous branches, 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, on a good field by many waters it is planted, to make branches and to bear fruit, to be for an goodly vine, say, thus said the Lord Jehovah, 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 enumerous people, to lift it up by its roots, 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, and there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, 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, and he taketh of the seed of the kingdom, and maketh with him a covenant, and bringeth him into an oath, and the mighty of the land he hath taken, that the kingdom may be humble, that it may not lift itself up, to keep his covenant, that it may stand, and he rebeleth 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? I live, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, 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? And not with a great force, and with enumerous assembly doth Pharaoh maintain him in battle, by pouring out a mount, and in building a fortification, to cut off many souls, and he despised the oath, to break covenant, and lo, he hath given his hand, and all these he hath done, he escapeth not. Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah, I live, mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, have I not put it on his head? And I have spread out for him my snare, and he hath been caught in my net, and I have brought him into Babylon, and pleaded with him there his trespass, that he hath trespassed against me, and all his fugitives, with all his bands, by sword do fall, and those remaining to every wind they are spread out, and he hath known that I, Jehovah, hath spoken. Thus said the Lord Jehovah, 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. 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, and known have all trees of the field, that I, Jehovah, 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, Jehovah, have spoken, and have done it. Chapter 18. And there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, What to you ye, using the simile concerning the ground of Israel, saying, Fathers do eat unripe fruit, and the son's teeth are blunted. I live, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, ye have no more the use of this simile in Israel. Low, 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, and a man when he is righteous, and hath done judgment and righteousness. 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 neighbor defiled not, and to a separated woman cometh not near. 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, 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, 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 Jehovah, and he hath begotten a son, a burglar, a shedder of blood, and he hath made a brother of one of these, and he all those hath not done, for even on the mountains he hath eaten, and the wife of his neighbor he hath defiled, 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, 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, and lo he hath begotten a son, and he seeeth all the sins of his father that he hath done, and he feareth, and doth not do like them, 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 neighbor he hath not defiled, 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, 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, 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, and he hath said, wherefore hath not the son, born 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, the soul that doth sin it doth die, a son doth not bear 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, 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, all his transgressions that he hath done are not remembered to him, in his righteousness that he hath done, he liveth. Do I at all desire the death of the wicked, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, is it not in his turning back from his way, and he hath lived, 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, and he hath said, not pondered is the way of the Lord. Here I pray you, our house of Israel, my way, is it not pondered, are not your ways un pondered, 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 dyeth, 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, and he seeth and turneth back from all his transgressions that he hath done, he doth surely live, he doth not die, and the house of Israel hath said, not pondered is the way of the Lord. My ways, are they not pondered? Oh, house of Israel, are not your ways un pondered? Therefore, each according to his ways I judge you, oh house of Israel, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, turn ye back, ye turn yourselves back from all your transgressions, and iniquity is not to you for a stumbling block, 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, oh house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of the dying, and affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, and turn ye back and live. Chapter 19 And thou lift up a lamentation unto princes of Israel, 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 welps, and she bringeth up one of her welps, a young lion it hath been, and it learneth to tear prey, man it hath devoured, 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, and she seeeth that stayed, perished hath her hope, and she taketh one of her welps, a young lion she hath made it, 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, and it knoweth his forsaken habitations, and their cities it hath laid waste, and desolate is the land, and its fullness because of the voice of his roaring, 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, 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, thy mother is as a vine, and thy blood by waters planted, fruitful and full of bows it hath been, because of many waters, and it hath strong rods for scepters of rulers, and high is its stature above thick branches, and it a pyrith in its height, in the multitude of its thin shoots, 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, and now it is planted in a wilderness, in a land dry and thirsty, and go forth doth fire from a rod of its bows, its fruit it hath devoured, and it hath no rod of strength, a scepter to rule, lamentation it is, and it is for a lamentation. Chapter 20. 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 Jehovah, and they sit before me, and there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, speak with the elders of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, thus said the Lord Jehovah, to seek me, are ye coming in? I live, I am not sought by you, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. Dost thou judge them? Dost thou judge, Son of man? The abominations of their fathers cause them to know, and thou hast said unto them, thus said the Lord Jehovah, 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 Jehovah your God. 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, 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 Jehovah your God, 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 my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt, and I do it for my names' 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, and I bring them out of the land of Egypt, and I bring them in unto the wilderness, and I give to them my statutes and my judgments, I caused them to know which the man who doth liveth by them, and also my sabbaths I have given to them, to be for a sign between me and them, to know that I am Jehovah their sanctifier, 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, and I do it for my names' sake, not to pollute it before the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I brought them forth, and also I have lifted up my hand to them in the wilderness, not to bring them into the land that I had given, flowing with milk and honey, a beauty it is to all the lands, 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, and mine I hath pity on them, against destroying them, and I have not made of them an end in the wilderness, 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. I am Jehovah your God, in my statutes walk, and my judgments observe to do them, and my sabbaths sanctify, and they have been for a sign between me and you, to know that I Jehovah am your God, 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, and I have turned back my hand, and I do it for my names' sake, not to pollute it before the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I brought them out. I also have lifted up my hand to them in the wilderness, to scatter them among nations, and to spread them through lands, 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, and I also I have given to them statutes not good, and judgments by which they do not live, 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 Jehovah. Therefore speak unto the house of Israel, son of man, and thou hast said unto them, thus sent the Lord Jehovah, still in this have your fathers reviled me in their committing against me a trespass, 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, and I say unto them, what is the high place with or ye are going in? And its name is called high place to this day. Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus said the Lord Jehovah, in the way of your fathers are ye defiled, and after their detestable things go a whoring, 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 Jehovah, I am not sought by you, 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. I live, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, do not I, with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, rule over you, 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, and I have brought you in unto the wilderness of the peoples, and have been judged with you there face to face, 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 Jehovah, and I have caused you to pass under the rod, and brought you into the bond of the covenant, 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 Jehovah, and ye, O house of Israel, thus said the Lord Jehovah, 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, for in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, 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, 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, and ye have known that I am Jehovah, 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, and ye have remembered their 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, and ye have known that I am Jehovah, in my dealing with you for my namesake, not according to your evil ways, and according to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, and there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, set thy face the way of Teaman, and prophesy unto the south, and prophesy unto the forest of the field, the south, and thou hast said to the forest of the south, hear a word of Jehovah, thus said the Lord Jehovah, lo, I am kindling in the fire, and it hath devoured in the 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, and seen have all flesh that I, Jehovah, have kindled it, it is not quenched, and I say, Oh Lord Jehovah, they are saying of me, is he not using similes? Chapter 21. And there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, set thy face unto Jerusalem, and prophesy unto the holy places, and prophesy unto the ground of Israel, and thou hast said unto the ground of Israel, thus said Jehovah, lo, I am against thee, and have brought out my sword from its scabbard, and have cut off from the righteous and wicked, because that I have cut off from the righteous and wicked, therefore go out doth my sword from its scabbard unto all flesh from south to north, and known have all flesh that I, Jehovah, have brought out my sword from its scabbard, it doth not turn back any more, and thou, Son of man, sigh with breaking of loins, yea, with bitterness thou dost sigh before their eyes, 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 Jehovah, and there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, prophesy, and thou hast said, thus said Jehovah, say, a sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished, so as to slaughter, a slaughter it is sharpened, so as to have brightness it is polished, desire hath rejoiced, the scepter of my son, it is despising every tree, 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. 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 hath been my people, therefore strike on thy thigh, because it is a trier, and what hath even the scepter it is despising, it shall not be an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, and thou, Son of man, prophesy, and smite hand on hand, and bent is the sword of 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, to melt the heart, and to multiply the ruins, by all their gates I have set the point of a sword, it is made for brightness wrapped up for slaughter, take possession of the right, place thyself at the left, whether thy face is appointed, and I also, I smite my hand on my hand, and have caused my fury to rest, I Jehovah have spoken, and there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, 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, a way appoint for the coming of the sword unto Raboth of the sons of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fenced, forstood 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 tariff him, he hath looked on the liver, 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, and it hath been to them as a false divination in their eyes who hath sworn oaths to them, and he is causing iniquity to be remembered to be caught, therefore thus said the Lord Jehovah, 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, and thou wounded wicked one, Prince of Israel, whose day hath come in the time of the iniquity of the end, thus said the Lord Jehovah, turn aside the miter, and bear away the crown, this, not this, the low make high, and the high make low, and 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, and thou, son of man, prophesy, and thou hast said, thus said the Lord Jehovah, 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, 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, turn it back unto its scabbard, in the place where thou wast produced, in the land of thy birth I do judge thee, and I have poured on thee mine indignation, with fire of my wrath I blow against thee, and I have given thee into the hand of brutish men, artificers of destruction, to the fire thou art for fuel, thy blood is in the midst of the land, thou art not remembered, for I Jehovah hath spoken. Chapter 22. And there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, 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, and thou hast said, thus said the Lord Jehovah, the city is shedding blood in its midst, for the coming in of its time, and it hath made idols on it for defilement. By thy blood that thou hast shed, thou hast been guilty, and by thy idols that thou hast made, thou hast been defiled, and thou causest thy days to draw near, and art come in unto thine ears, therefore I have given thee a reproach to nations, and a derision to all the lands. The near and the far off from thee scoffeth thee, O defiled of name, abounding in trouble. Lo, princes of Israel, each according to his arm, have been in thee to shed blood. Father and mother made light of in thee, to a sojourner they dealt oppressively in thy midst, fatherless and widow they oppressed in thee. My holy things thou hast despised, and my sabbaths thou hast polluted. 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. The nakedness of a father hath one uncovered in thee, the defiled of impurity they humbled in thee, and each with the wife of his neighbor 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. Abribe they have taken in thee to shed blood, usury and increase thou hast taken, and cuttast off thy neighbor by oppression, and me thou hast forgotten an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. 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. Doth thy heart stand? Are thy hands strong for the days that I am dealing with thee? I, Jehovah, have spoken and have done it, and I have scattered thee among nations, and have spread thee out among lands, and consumed thy uncleanness out of the land, and thou hast been polluted in thyself before the eyes of nations, and thou hast known that I am Jehovah. And there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, 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. Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah, because of your all becoming dross, therefore lo, I am gathering you unto the midst of Jerusalem, 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, and I have heaped you up, and blown on you in the fire of my wrath, and ye have been melted in its midst. As the melting of silver in the midst of a furnace, so are ye melted in its midst, and ye have known that I, Jehovah, I have poured out my fury upon you. And there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, say to it, Thou art a land. It is not cleansed, nor rained on in a day of indignation. 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, 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. Its princes in its midst are as wolves tearing prey to shed blood, to destroy souls for the sake of gaining dishonest gain, and its prophets have dogged for them with chalk, seeing a vain thing, and divining for them a lie saying, Thus said the Lord Jehovah, and Jehovah hath not spoken. 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, 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, and I pour out on them my indignation. By fire of my wrath I have consumed them, their way on their own head I have put, and affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. Chapter 23 And there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, two women were daughters of one mother, and they go ahoring in Egypt, in their youth they have gone ahoring, there they have bruised their breasts, and there they have dealt with the loves of their virginity, and their names are Ahola the Elder, and Aholiba her sister, and they are mine, and bear sons and daughters, as to their names, Samaria is Ahola, and Jerusalem is Aholiba, and go ahoring doth Ahola under me, and she dotheth on her levers, on the neighboring Assyrians, clothed with blue, governors and prefects, desirable young men, all of them, horsemen riding on horses, and she giveth her hordoms on them, the choice of the sons of Asher, all of them, even all on whom she dothed, by all their idols she hath been defiled, and her hordoms 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 hordoms on her, therefore I have given her into the hand of her levers, into the hand of sons of Asher, on whom she dothed, they have uncovered her nakedness, her sons and her daughters they have taken, and her by sword they have slain, and she has a name for women, and judgments they have done with her, and see doth her sister Aholiba, and she maketh her doting love more corrupt than she, and her hordoms than the hordoms of her sister, on sons of Asher she hath doted, governors and prefects, neighboring ones, clothed in perfection, horsemen riding on horses, desirable young men, all of them, and I see that she hath been defiled, one way is to them both, and she doth add unto her hordoms, and she seeeth graved men on the wall, pictures of kaldians graved with red lead, girded with a girdle on their loins, dyed a tire spread out on their heads, the appearance of rulers, all of them, the likeness of sons of Babylon, kaldia is the land of their birth, and she doteth on them at the sight of her eyes, and sendeth messengers to them, to kaldia, and come in unto her, do sons of Babylon, to the bed of loves, and they defile her with their hordoms, and she is defiled with them, and her soul is alienated from them, and she revealeth her hordoms, and she revealeth her nakedness, and alienated is my soul from off her, as alienated was my soul from off her sister, and she multiplyeth her hordoms, to remember the days of her youth, when she went ahorring in the land of Egypt, and she doteth on their paramours, whose flesh is the flesh of asses, and the issue of horses their issue. Thou lookest after the wickedness of thy youth, in dealing out of Egypt thy loves for the sake of the breasts of thy youth. Therefore, O Aholaba, thus said the Lord Jehovah, Lo, I am stirring up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy soul hath been alienated, and hath brought them in against thee from round about. Sons of Babylon, and of all Caldea, Pekad, 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. 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, 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, and they have stripped thee of thy garments, and have taken thy beautyous jewels, and I have caused thy wickedness to cease from thee, and thy hordoms out of the land of Egypt, and thou liftest not up thine eyes unto them, and Egypt thou dost not remember again. For thus said the Lord Jehovah, lo, I am giving thee into a hand that thou hast hated, into a hand from which thou west alienated, 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 have been the nakedness of thy hordoms, and the wickedness of thy hordoms. To do these things to thee, and thy going ahoring after nations, because thou hast been defiled with their idols, in the way of thy sister thou hast walked, and I have given her cup into thy hand. Thus said the Lord Jehovah, the cup of thy sister thou dost drink, the deep and the wide one, thou art for laughter and for scorn, abundant to contain, with drunkenness and sorrow, thou art filled, a cup of astonishment and desolation, the cup of thy sister Samaria, and thou hast drunk it, and hast drained it, and its earthenware thou dost gnaw, and thine own breasts thou pluckest off, for I have spoken an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah, because thou hast forgotten me, and thou dost cast me behind thy back, even thou also bear thy wickedness and thy hordoms, and Jehovah sayeth unto me, Son of man, dost thou judge Ahola and Aholiba, declare then to them their abominations, for they have committed adultery, and blood is on 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. Again, this they have done to me, they defiled my sanctuary in that day, and my Sabbaths they have polluted, 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, 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, and thou hast sat on a couch of honor, and a table arrayed before it, and my perfume and my oil placed on it, and the voice of a multitude at ease is with her, and unto men of the common people are brought in Sabians from the wilderness, and they put bracelets on their hands, and a beautyous crown on their heads, and I say of the worn out one in adulteries, now they commit her hordoms, she also, and they come in unto her, as the coming in unto a horish woman, so they have come in unto Ahola, and unto Aholiba, the wicked women, as two 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, for thus said the Lord Jehovah, bring up against them an assembly, and give them to trembling and to spoiling, 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, 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, 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 Jehovah. Chapter 24. And there is a word of Jehovah unto me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth of the month, saying, Son of man, right for thee the name of the day, this self-same day, leaned hath the king of Babylon toward Jerusalem in this self-same day, and use unto the rebellious house a simile, and thou hast said unto them, thus said the Lord Jehovah, to set on the pot, to set it on, and also to pour into it water, to gather its pieces unto it, every good piece, thigh and shoulder, the choice of the bones to fill in, the choice of the flock to take, and also to pile of the bones under it, boil it thoroughly, ye cook its bones in its midst, therefore thus said the Lord Jehovah, woe 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 half a lot, 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, 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, therefore thus said the Lord Jehovah, woe to the city of blood, ye I, I may grate the pile, make abundant the wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and make the compound, and let the bones be burnt, 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, with sorrows she hath wearied herself, and the abundance of her scum goeth not out of her, in the fire is her scum, in thine uncleanness is wickedness, because I hath cleansed thee, and thou hath not been cleansed, from thine uncleanness thou art not cleansed again, till I have caused my fury to rest on thee, I Jehovah 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 Jehovah, and there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, 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 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, and I speak unto the people in the mourning, and my wife dyeth in the evening, and I do in the mourning as I have been commanded, and the people say unto me, dost thou not declare to us what these are to us, that thou art doing, and I say unto them a word of Jehovah hath been unto me saying, say to the house of Israel, thus said the Lord Jehovah, 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, and ye have done as I have done, on the upper lip ye are not covered, and bread of men ye do not eat, 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, 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 Jehovah, 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? In that day come doth the escaped one to thee, to cause the ears to hear, 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 Jehovah.