 25 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, Son of Man, set your face toward the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them, and tell the children of Ammon, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh. Thus says the Lord Yahweh, because you said, Aha, against my sanctuary when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and against the house of Judah when they went into captivity. Therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of the East for a possession, and they shall set their encampments in you, and make their dwellings in you. They shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk. I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a resting place for flocks, and you shall know that I am Yahweh. For thus says the Lord Yahweh, because you have clapped your hands and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the despite of your soul against the land of Israel, therefore behold, I have stretched out my hand on you, and will deliver you for a spoil to the nations, and I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish out of the countries. I will destroy you, and you shall know that I am Yahweh. Thus says the Lord Yahweh, because Moab and Seer say, Behold the house of Judah is like all the nations, therefore behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth Jeshemoth, Baal Mayan, and Curiathame, to the children of the east, to go against the children of Ammon, and I will give them for a possession that the children of Ammon may not be remembered among the nations, and I will execute judgments on Moab, and they shall know that I am Yahweh. Thus says the Lord Yahweh, because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended and revenged himself on them, therefore says the Lord Yahweh, I will stretch out my hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it, and I will make it desolate from Timan, even to Deedon shall they fall by the sword. I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath, and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord Yahweh. Thus says the Lord Yahweh, because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with the spite of soul to destroy with perpetual enmity, therefore says the Lord Yahweh, behold I will stretch out my hand on the Philistines, and I will cut off the charathites, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast. I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes, and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my vengeance on them. CHAPTER 26 It happened in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, Son of man, because Tyre has set against Jerusalem, aha, she is broken, the gate of the peoples, she is turned to me, I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste. Tyre says the Lord Yahweh, behold I am against you, Tyre, and I will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up. They shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock. She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh, and she shall become a spoil to the nations. Her daughters, who are in the field, shall be slain with the sword, and they shall know that I am Yahweh. For thus says the Lord Yahweh, behold I will bring on Tyre Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, King of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and a company, and much people. He shall kill with the sword your daughters in the field, and he shall make forts against you, and cast up a mound against you, and raise up the buckler against you. He shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers. By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover you. Your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into your gates, as men enter into a city in which is made a breach. With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all your streets. He shall kill your people with the sword, and the pillars of your strength shall go down to the ground. They shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise, and they shall break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses, and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the waters. I will cause the noise of your songs to cease, and the sound of your harps shall be no more heard. I will make you a bare rock. You shall be a place for the spreading of nets. You shall be built no more. For I, Yahweh, have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh. Thus says the Lord Yahweh to tire. Shall not the islands shake at the sound of your fall when the wounded groan when the slaughter is made in the midst of you? Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They shall clothe themselves with trembling. They shall sit on the ground, and shall tremble every moment and be astonished at you. They shall take up a lamentation over you and tell you how are you destroyed who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants who caused her terror to be on all who lived there. Now shall the islands tremble in the day of your fall. Yes, the islands that are in the sea shall be dismayed at your departure. For thus says the Lord Yahweh, when I shall make you a desolate city like the cities that are not inhabited, when I shall bring up the deep on you, and the great waters shall cover you, then will I bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit that you be not inhabited. And I will set glory in the land of the living. I will make you a terror, and you shall no more have any being, though you are sought for, yet you will never be found again, says the Lord Yahweh. Chapter 27 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying, you, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre, and tell Tyre, you who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands, thus says the Lord Yahweh, you, Tyre, have said, I am perfect in beauty. Your borders are in the heart of the seas. Your builders have perfected your beauty. They have made all your planks of fir trees from Seneir. They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you. Of the oaks of Bastion have they made your oars. They have made your benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood from the islands of Kitim. Of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was your sail, that it might be to you for a banner, blue and purple from the islands of Galicia was your awning. The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers. Your wise men, Tyre, were in you. They were your pilots. The old men of Ghebal and the wise men of it were in you your repairers of ship seams. All the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to deal in your merchandise. Persia and Ludd and Put were in your army, your men of war. They hanged the shield and helmet in you. They set forth your comeliness. The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls all around, and valorous men were in your towers. They hanged their shields on your walls all around. They have perfected your beauty. Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches. With silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for your wares. Javan, Tubal, and Meshach, they were your traffickers. They traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for your merchandise. They of the house of Togarma traded for your wares with horses and warhorses and mules. The men of Dedan were your traffickers. Many islands were in the market of your hand. They brought you in exchange horns of ivory and ebony. Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks. They traded for your wares with emeralds, purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies. Judah and the land of Israel, they were your traffickers. They traded for your merchandise, wheat of minnath, and confections, and honey, and oil, and balm. Damascus was your merchant for the multitude of your handiworks by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with the wine of hellbond and white wool. Vidan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares. Bright iron, cassia, and calamus were among your merchandise. Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths for riding. Arabia and all the princes of Qidar, they were the merchants of your hand in lambs and rams and goats, and these were they your merchants. The traffickers of Sheba and Rama, they were your traffickers. They traded for your wares with the chief of all spices and with all precious stones and gold. Heron and Cana and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asher, and Chilmad, were your traffickers. These were your traffickers in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and embroidered work, and in chests of rich clothing, bound with cords and made of cedar among your merchandise. The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise, and you were replenished and made very glorious in the heart of the seas. Your rowers have brought you into great waters. The east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas. Your riches and your wares, your merchandise, your mariners and your pilots, your repairs of ship scenes, and the dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, with all your company, which is in the midst of you, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin. At the sound of the cry of your pilots, the suburbs shall shake. All who handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships. They shall stand on the land, and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads. They shall wallow themselves in the ashes, and they shall make themselves bald for you, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning. In their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, saying, Who is there like Tyre, like her who is brought to silence in the midst of the sea? When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filled many peoples. You did enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise. In the time that you were broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company did fall in the midst of you. All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you, and their kings are horribly afraid. They are troubled in their face. The merchants among the peoples hiss at you. You are become a terror, and you shall never more have any being. Chapter 28 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying, Son of man, tell the Prince of Tyre, thus says the Lord Yahweh. Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas. Yet you are man, and not God. Though you did set your heart as the heart of God, behold, you are wiser than Daniel. There is no secret that is hidden from you. By your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten your riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures. By your great wisdom and by your traffic have you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches. Therefore, says the Lord Yahweh, because you have set your heart as the heart of God, therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations, and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness. They shall bring you down to the pit, and you shall die the death of those who are slain in the heart of the seas. Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am God, but you are man and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you. You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers, for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh. Moreover, the word of Yahweh came to me saying, son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre and tell him, thus says the Lord Yahweh, you seal up the sum full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the Garden of God. Every precious stone adorned you, ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysalite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and barrel. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. In the day that you were created, they were prepared. You were the anointed cherub who covers, and I set you so that you were on the holy mountain of God. You have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created until unrighteousness was found in you. By the abundance of your traffic, they filled the midst of you with violence, and you have sinned. Therefore I have cast you as profane out of the mountain of God, and I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty. You have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness. I have cast you to the ground. I have laid you before kings that they may see you. By the multitude of your iniquities in the unrighteousness of your traffic, you have profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of you. It has devoured you, and I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you. All those who know you among the peoples shall be astonished at you. You are become a terror, and you shall never more have any being. The word of Yahweh came to me saying, Son of man, set your face toward Sidon and prophesy against it, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I am against you, Sidon, and I shall be glorified in the midst of you, and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her. For I will send pestilence into her and blood into her streets, and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her with the sword on her on every side, and they shall know that I am Yahweh. There shall be no more a prickling briar to the house of Israel, nor a herding thorn of any that are around them that did despite to them, and they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh. Thus says the Lord Yahweh, When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then shall they dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob. They shall dwell securely therein. Yes, they shall build houses and plant vineyards, and shall dwell securely when I have executed judgments on all those who do them despite all around them, and they shall know that I am Yahweh their God. Chapter 29 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me saying, Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt. Speak and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, that has said, My river is my own, and I have made it for myself. I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales. And I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales. I'll cast you forth into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. You'll fall in the open field. You won't be brought together nor gathered. I have given you for food to the animals of the earth and to the birds of the sky. All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. When they took hold of you by their hand, you broke and tore all their shoulders. And when they leaned on you, you broke and paralyzed all of their thighs. Therefore, thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will bring a sword on you, and will cut off from you man and animal. The land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste, and they shall know that I am Yahweh. Because he has said, the river is mine, and I have made it, therefore, behold, I am against you and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation from the tower of Savina, even to the border of Ethiopia. No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of animal shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years. I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be a desolation forty years, and I shall scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. For thus says the Lord Yahweh, At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they are scattered, and I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return to the land of Pathros, to the land of their birth, and they shall be there a base kingdom. It shall be the base of the kingdoms, neither shall it any more lift up above the nations, and I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. It shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after them, and they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh. It came to pass in the seventh and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn, yet had he no wages nor his army from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it. Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall carry off her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey, and it shall be the wages for his army. I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which he served, because they worked for me, says the Lord Yahweh. In that day will I cause a horn to bud forth to the house of Israel, and I will give you the opening of the mouth in the midst of them, and they shall know that I am Yahweh. Chapter 30 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying, Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Whale, alas for the day! For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh is near. It shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations. A sword shall come on Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down. Ethiopia, and Put, and Ludd, and all the mixed people, and Cub, and the children of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword. Thus says Yahweh, They also who uphold Egypt shall fall, and the pride of her power shall come down. From the tower of the Sevanna shall they fall in it by the sword, says the Lord Yahweh. They shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted. They shall know that I am Yahweh when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed. In that day shall messengers go forth from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and there shall be anguish on them as in the day of Egypt, for behold it comes. Thus says the Lord Yahweh, I shall also make the multitude of Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land, and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain. I will make the rivers dry, and I will sell the land into the hand of evil men. And I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein by the hand of strangers. I, Yahweh, have spoken it. Thus says the Lord Yahweh, I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis, and there shall be no more a prince from the land of Egypt. And I will put a fear in the land of Egypt. I will make pathros desolate, and I shall set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments on Noah. I will pour forth my wrath on Sin, the stronghold of Egypt, and I will cut off the multitude of Noah. I will set a fire in Egypt. Sin shall be in great anguish, and Noah shall be broken up. And Memphis shall have adversaries in the daytime. The young men of Avon and of Pibiseth shall fall by the sword, and these cities shall go into captivity. At Tehafnahes also the day shall withdraw itself, when I shall break there the yolks of Egypt, and the pride of her power shall cease in her. As for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity. Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt, and they shall know that I am Yahweh. It happened in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and behold, it has not been bound up to apply healing medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it be strong to hold the sword. Therefore, thus says the Lord Yahweh, behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and I will break his arms, the strong arm, and that which is broken. And I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand. But I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man. I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down. And they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will stretch it out on the land of Egypt. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries, and they shall know that I am Yahweh. Chapter 31 It happened in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me saying, Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude, whom are you like in your greatness? Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature, and its top was among the thick boughs. The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow. Its rivers ran all around its plantation, and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field. Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field, and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches came long by reason of many waters, when it shot them forth. All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs, and under its branches did all the animals of the field bring forth their young, and under its shadow lived all great nations. Thus it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches, for its root was by many waters. The cedars in the Garden of God could not hide it, the fir trees were not like its boughs, and the plain trees were not as its branches, nor was any tree in the Garden of God like it in its beauty. I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden that were in the Garden of God envied it. Therefore, thus says the Lord Yahweh, because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in its height, I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with him. I have driven him out for his wickedness. Strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him. On the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the water-courses of the land, and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him. On his ruin all the birds of the sky shall dwell, and all the animals of the field shall be on his branches. To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, even all who drink water, for they are all delivered to death to the lower parts of the earth in the midst of the children of men, with those who go down to the pit. Thus says the Lord Yahweh, in the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning. I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers, and the great waters were stayed, and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit, and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth. They also went down to Sheol with him, to those who are slain by the sword. Yes, those who were his arm, that lived under his shadow in the midst of the nations. To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh, and all his multitude says the Lord Yahweh. Chapter 32 It happened in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me saying, Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations. Yet are you as a monster in the seas, and you did break forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers. Thus says the Lord Yahweh. I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples, and they shall bring you up in my net. I will leave you on the land, I will cast you forth on the open field, and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you, and I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you. I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height. I will also water with your blood the land in which you swim, even to the mountains. And the water courses shall be full of you. When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and make its stars dark. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light. All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh. I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I shall bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known. Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my sword before them, and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall. For thus says the Lord Yahweh, the sword of the King of Babylon shall come on you, by the swords of the mighty will I cause your multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations are they all, and they shall bring to nothing the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall be destroyed. I will destroy also all its animals from beside many waters, neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hooves of animals trouble them. Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord Yahweh. When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, a land destitute of that which it was full. When I shall strike all those who dwell therein, then shall they know that I am Yahweh. This is the lamentation with which they shall lament. The daughters of the nations shall lament their with. Over Egypt and over all her multitude shall they lament their with, says the Lord Yahweh. It happened also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me saying, Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down to the pit. Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down and be laid with the uncircumcised. They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword. She is delivered to the sword. Draw her away and all her multitudes. The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of she-all, with those who help him. They are gone down. They lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword. Asher is there, and all her company. Her graves are all around her, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, whose graves are set in the uppermost parts of the pit, and her company is around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who cause terror in the land of the living. There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain, with all her multitude. Her graves are around her, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. He is put in the midst of those who are slain. There is Meshach, Tubal, and all their multitude. Their graves are around them, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, for they caused their terror in the land of the living. They shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones, for they were the terror of the mighty of the land of the living. But you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shall lie with those who are slain by the sword. There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, who in their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword. They shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit. There are the princes of the North, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who are gone down with the slain, in the terror which they caused by their might they are put to shame, and they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit. Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, says the Lord Yahweh. For I have put his terror in the land of the living, and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh. Chapter 33 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman. If when he sees a sword come on land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people. Then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn't take warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be in his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn't take warning. His blood shall be on him, whereas if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his soul. But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn't blow the trumpet, and the people aren't warned, and the sword comes, and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. So you, Son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel, therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you don't speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand. Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn't turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul. You, Son of man, tell the house of Israel. Thus you speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them, how then can we live? Tell them, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn you, turn you from your evil ways, for why will you die, house of Israel? You, Son of man, tell the children of your people, the righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his disobedience, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness. Neither shall he who is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sins. When I tell the righteous that he shall surely live, if he trusts to his righteousness and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in his iniquity that he is committed, therein shall he die. Again, when I say to the wicked, you shall surely die, if we turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right, if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity, he shall surely live, he shall not die. None of his sins that he is committed shall be remembered against him, he has done that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. Yet the children of your people say, the way of the Lord is not equal, but as for them, their way is not equal. When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein, and when the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby. Yet you say, the way of the Lord is not equal. House of Israel, I will judge you everyone after his ways. It happened in the twelfth year of our captivity in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me saying, the city has been struck. Now the hand of Yahweh had been on me in the evening before he who was escaped came, and he had opened my mouth until he came to me in the morning, and my mouth was opened and I was no more mute. The word of Yahweh came to me saying, Son of man, they who inhabit those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land, but we are many, the land is given us for inheritance. Therefore tell them, thus says the Lord Yahweh, you eat with the blood and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood, and shall you possess the land? You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and you defile everyone his neighbor's wife, and shall you possess the land? You shall tell them, thus says the Lord Yahweh, As I live, surely those who are in waste places shall fall by the sword, and him who is in the open field will I give to the animals to be devoured, and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves shall die of the pestilence. I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment, and the pride of her power shall cease, and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that none shall pass through. Then shall they know that I am Yahweh, when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which they have committed. As for you, son of man, the children of your people talk of you by the walls, and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, everyone to his brother saying, Please, come and hear what is the word that comes forth from Yahweh. They come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them, for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain. Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument, for they hear your words, but they don't do them. When this comes to pass, behold, it comes. Then shall they know that a prophet has been among them. The word of Yahweh came to me saying, Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy and tell them, even to the shepherds, thus says the Lord Yahweh. Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn't the shepherds feed the sheep? You eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool. You kill the fatlings, but you don't feed the sheep. You haven't strengthened the disease, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought back that which was driven away. Neither have you sought that which was lost, but with force and with rigor you have ruled over them. They were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and they became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered. My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth, and there was none who searched or sought. Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh. As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd. Neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves and didn't feed my sheep. Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh. Thus says the Lord Yahweh. Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep. Neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more, and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them. For thus says the Lord Yahweh. Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. As the shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land, and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the water-courses, and in all the inhabited places of the country. I will feed them with good pasture, and on the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be. There shall they lie down in a good fold, and on fat pasture shall they feed on the mountains of Israel. I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord Yahweh. I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick, but the fat and the strong I will destroy, I will feed them in justice. As for you on my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh. Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats. Seems it a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture, and to have drank of the clear waters, but you must foul the residue with your feet? As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet. Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh to them. Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep, because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the disease with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad. Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey, and I will judge between sheep and sheep. I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David. He shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. I Yahweh will be their God, and my servant David prints among them. I Yahweh have spoken it. I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land, and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods. I will make them in the places around my hill of blessing, and I will cause the shower to come down in its season. There shall be showers of blessing. The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land, and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and had delivered them out of the hands of those who made slaves of them. They shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the animals of the earth devour them, but they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid. I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they shall be no more consumed with famine in the land, neither bear the shame of the nations any more. They shall know that I, Yahweh, their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord Yahweh. You, my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says the Lord Yahweh. Chapter 35 Moreover, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, Son of man, set your face against Mount Sier, and prophesy against it, and tell it. Thus says the Lord Yahweh. Behold, I am against you, Mount Sier, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and an astonishment. I will lay your city's waste, and you shall be desolate, and you shall know that I am Yahweh. Because you have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end, therefore as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will repair you to blood, and blood shall pursue you, since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you. Thus will I make Mount Sier an astonishment and a desolation, and I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns. I will fill its mountains with its slain, in your hills and in your valleys, and in all your water-courses shall they fall who are slain with a sword. I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your city shall not be inhabited, and you shall know that I am Yahweh. Because you have said, these two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it. Whereas Yahweh was there, therefore as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them, and I will make myself known among them when I shall judge you. You shall know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel saying, they are laid desolate, they are given us to devour. You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me. I have heard it. Thus says the Lord Yahweh, when the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate. As you did rejoice over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you. You shall be desolate, Mount Sier, and I'll eat them, even all of it, and they shall know that I am Yahweh. Chapter 36 You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of Yahweh, thus says the Lord Yahweh, because the enemy has said against you, aha, and the ancient high places are ours in possession. Therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, because even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people. Therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh, thus says the Lord Yahweh, to the mountains and to the hills, to the water courses and to the valleys, to the desolate waste and to the cities that are forsaken, which will become a prey, and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around. Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh. Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have repointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with the spite of soul, to cast it out for a prey. Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the mountains and to the hills, to the water courses and to the valleys, thus says the Lord Yahweh. Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations. Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, I have sworn, saying, Surely the nations that are around you, they shall bear their shame. But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel, for they are at hand to come. For behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and you shall be tilled and sown, and I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it, and the city shall be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built, and I will multiply on you man and animal, and they shall increase and be fruitful, and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better to you than at your beginnings, and you shall know that I am Yahweh. Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel, and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall know more henceforth bereave them of children. Thus says the Lord Yahweh, because they say to you, You land are out of the vower of men, and have been a bereaver of your nation. Therefore you shall devour men no more, neither bereave your nation any more, says the Lord Yahweh. Neither will I let you hear any more of the shame of the nations, neither shall you bear the reproach of the peoples any more, neither shall you cause your nation to stumble any more, says the Lord Yahweh. Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me saying, Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their doings. Their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity. Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols, and I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. According to their way and according to their doings I judged them. When they came to the nations, where they went, they profaned my holy name, and that men said of them, These are the people of Yahweh, and are gone forth out of his land. But I have a guard for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went. Therefore tell the house of Israel. Thus says the Lord Yahweh. I don't do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went. I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them, and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, says the Lord Yahweh, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land. I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean. From all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them. You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you. I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations. Then you shall remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. Nor for your sake do I this, says the Lord Yahweh. Be it known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel. Thus says the Lord Yahweh. In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built. The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was the desolation in the sight of all who pass by. They shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the Garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited. Then the nations that are left around you shall know, that I, Yahweh, have built the ruin places, and planted that which was desolate. I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it. Thus says the Lord Yahweh. For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the house of Israel to do it for them. I will increase them with men like a flock. As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem and her appointed feast, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men, and they shall know, that I am Yahweh. The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones. He caused me to pass by them all around, and behold, there were very many in the open valley, and behold, they were very dry. He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? I answered, Lord Yahweh, you know. Again he said to me, prophesy over these bones, and tell them, you dry bones, hear the word of Yahweh. Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones. Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live. I will lay sinus on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am Yahweh. So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied there was a noise, and behold, an earthquake, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. I saw, and behold, there were sinus on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above, but there was no breath in them. Then said he to me, prophesy to the wind, prophesy, Son of man, and tell the wind. Thus says the Lord Yahweh, come from the forewind's breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, and exceeding the great army. Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost, we are clean cut off. Therefore prophesy, and tell them. Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people, and I will bring you into the land of Israel. You shall know that I am Yahweh when I have opened your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people. I will put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land, and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it, says Yahweh. The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying, You, Son of man, take one stick and write on it, for Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions. Then take another stick, and write on it, for Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions, and join them for you one to another and to one stick, that they may become one in your hand. When the children of your people shall speak to you, saying, we will not show us what you mean by these, tell them, thus says the Lord Yahweh, behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions, and I will put them with it, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand. The sticks were on your right shall be in your hand before their eyes. Say to them, thus says the Lord Yahweh, behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations where they are gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land, and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be king to them all, and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all, neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions, but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them, so they shall be my people, and I will be their God. My servant David shall be king over them, and they all shall have one shepherd. They shall also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them. They shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived, and they shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children's children, for ever, and David my servant shall be their prince for ever. Moreover, I will make a covenant of peace with them, it shall be an everlasting covenant with them, and I will place them and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for ever more. My tent also shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. The nations shall know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for ever more. Chapter 38 The word of Yahweh came to me saying, Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshach, and Tubal, and prophesy against him and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshach, and Tubal, and I will turn you about, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you forth, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords, Persia, Kush, and Putt with them, all of them with shield and helmet, Gomer, and all his hordes, the house of Togerma, and the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes, even many peoples with you. Be prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies who are assembled to you, and be a guard to them. After many days you shall be visited, in the latter years you shall come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste, but it is brought forth out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely all of them. You shall ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you and all your hordes, and many peoples with you. Thus says the Lord Galway, it shall happen in that day that things shall come into your mind, and you shall devise an evil device, and you shall say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages, I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth, Sheba and Edan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lines of it shall tell you. Are you come to take the spoil? Have you assembled your company to take the prey, to carry away the silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great spoil? Therefore, said a man, prophesy, and tell Gog. Thus says the Lord Galway, in that day when my people Israel dwell securely, shall you not know it? You shall come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the North, you, and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company in a mighty army, and you shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land. It shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes. Thus says the Lord Galway, Are you he of whom I spoke an old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied for many years that I would bring you against them? It shall happen in that day, when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, says the Lord Galway, that my wrath shall come up into my nostrils, for in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken. Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel, so that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the field, and all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains, says the Lord Galway, every man's sword shall be against his brother. With pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him, and I will reign on him and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur. I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am Galway. Chapter 39 You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the Lord Galway, behold, I am against you Gog, Prince of Rosh, Meshach, and Tubal, and I will turn you about, and will lead you on, and will cause you to come up from the uttermost parts of the North, and I will bring you on the mountains of Israel, and I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand. You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with you. I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals of the field to be devoured. You shall fall on open field, for I have spoken it, says the Lord Galway. I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who dwell securely in the islands, and they shall know that I am Galway. My holy name will I make known in the midst of my people Israel. Neither will I allow my holy name to be profaned any more, and the nations shall know that I am Galway, the holy one in Israel. Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Galway. This is the day about which I have spoken. Those who dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the war-clubs and the spirits, and they shall make fires of them seven years, so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any of the forests, for they shall make fires of the weapons, and they shall plunder those who plunder them, and rob those who rob them, says the Lord Galway. It shall happen in that day that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea, and it shall stop those who pass through, and there shall they bury Gog in all his multitude, and they shall call it the valley of Haman Gog. Seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land. Yes, all the people of the land shall bury them, and it shall be to them a renown in the day that I shall be glorified, says the Lord Galway. They shall set apart men of continual employment, who shall pass through the land, and with those who pass through, those who bury those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it. After the end of seven months shall they search. Those who pass through the land shall pass through, and when any sees a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, until the undertakers have buried it in the valley of Haman Gog. Hamona shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they cleanse the land. You, son of man, thus says the Lord Galway. Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field. Assemble yourselves, and come. Gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice, that I do sacrifice for you. Even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood. You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of bation. You shall eat that until you be full, and drink blood until you be drunken, of my sacrifice, which I have sacrificed for you. You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, says the Lord Galway. I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them. So the house of Israel shall know that I am Galway their God, from that day in forward. The nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them. So I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword. According to their uncleanness, and according to their transgressions did I to them, and I hid my face from them. Therefore thus says the Lord Galway, Now will I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for my holy name. They shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they shall dwell securely in their land, and none shall make them afraid. When I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemy's lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations, they shall know that I am Galway their God, and that I cause them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered them to their own land, and I will leave none of them any more there, neither will I hide my face any more from them. For I have poured out my spirit on the house of Israel, says the Lord Galway. End of chapters 33 through 39. Chapters 40 through 43 of the Book of Ezekiel from the World English 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. The Book of Ezekiel. Chapters 40 through 43 from the World English Bible. Chapter 40. In the 5th and 20th year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the 10th day of the month, in the 14th year after that the city was struck, in the same day, the hand of Yahweh was on me. And He brought me there. In the visions of God brought He me into the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city on the south. He brought me there, and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed, and he stood in the gate. The man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you, for to the intent that I may show them to you are you brought here. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel. Behold, a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man's hand and in the man's hand a measuring reed, six cubits long, of a cubit and a hand-breath each, so he measured the thickness of the building, one reed, and the height, one reed. Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its steps, and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad, and the other threshold, one reed broad. Every lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad, and the space between the lodges was five cubits, and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed. He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed. Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits, and its posts, two cubits, and the porch of the gate was toward the house. The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side and three on that side. They three were of one measure, and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side. He measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits, and a border before the lodges, one cubit on this side and a border, one cubit on that side, and the lodges, six cubits on this side and six cubits on that side. He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits, door against door. He made also posts, sixty cubits, and the court reached to the posts around the gate. From the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits. There were closed windows to the lodges and to their posts within the gate all around and likewise to the arches, and windows were around inward, and on each post were palm trees. Then brought he me into the outer court, and behold, there were chambers and a pavement made for the court all around. Thirty chambers were on the pavement. The pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement. Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, both on the east and on the north. The gate of the outer court, whose prospect is toward the north, he measured its length and its breadth. The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side, and its posts and its arches were after the measure of the first gate. Its length was fifty cubits and the breadth twenty-five cubits. The windows of it and its arches and the palm trees of it were after the measure of the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and they went up to it by seven steps and its arches were before them. There was a gate to the inner court over against the other gate, both on the north and on the east, and he measured from gate to gate one hundred cubits. He led me toward the south, and behold, a gate toward the south, and he measured its posts and its arches according to these measures. There were windows in it and in its arches all around, like those windows. The length was fifty cubits and the breadth twenty-five cubits. There were seven steps to go up to it, and its arches were before them, and it had palm trees, one on this side and another on that side, on its posts. There was a gate to the inner court toward the south, and he measured from gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits. Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate, and he measured the south gate according to these measures, and its lodges and its posts and its arches according to these measures. And there were windows in it and in its arches all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits broad. There were arches all around, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits broad. The arches of it were toward the outer court, and palm trees were on its posts, and the ascent to it had eight steps. He brought me into the inner court toward the east, and he measured the gate according to these measures, and its lodges and its posts and its arches according to these measures. And there were windows therein and in its arches all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits broad. The arches of it were toward the outer court, and palm trees were on its posts, on this side and on that side. And the ascent to it had eight steps. He brought me to the north gate, and he measured it according to these measures, its lodges, its posts, and its arches. And there were windows therein all around. The length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits. The posts of it were toward the outer court, and palm trees were on its posts, on this side and on that side. And the ascent to it had eight steps. A chamber with its door was by the posts at the gates. There they washed the burnt offering. In the porch of the gate were two tables on this side and two tables on that side, to kill thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering. On the one side outside, as one goes up to the entry of the gate toward the north, were two tables, and on the other side, which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables. Four tables were on this side and four tables on that side by the side of the gate. Eight tables were upon they killed the sacrifices. There were four tables for the burnt offering of cut stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high, whereupon they laid the instruments with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice. The hooks, a hand-breath long, were fastened within all around, and on the tables was the flesh of the offering. Outside of the inner gate were chambers for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate, and their prospect was toward the south, one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north. He said to me, this chamber whose prospect is toward the south is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the house, and the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the altar, these are the sons of Zadok, who from among the sons of Levi come near to Yahweh to minister to him. He measured the court one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad, four square, and the altar was before the house. Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side, and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side. The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits, even by the steps by which they went up to it, and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side. Chapter 41 He brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tent. The breadth of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side. And he measured its length, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits. Then went he inward, and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits, and the entrance, six cubits, and the breadth of the entrance, seven cubits. He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple. And he said to me, This is the most holy place! Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits, and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, all around the house on every side. The side chambers were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in order. And they entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side chambers all around, that they might have hold therein and not have hold in the wall of the house. The side chambers were broader as they encompassed the house higher and higher, for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher around the house. Therefore the breadth of the house continued upward, and so one went up from the lowest chamber to the highest by the middle chamber. I saw also that the house had a raised base all around. The foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits. The thickness of the wall which was for the side chambers on the outside was five cubits, and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that belonged to the house. Between the chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits around the house on every side. The doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north and another door toward the south, and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits all around. The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits. So he measured the house one hundred cubits long, and the separate place, and the building with its walls one hundred cubits long, also the breadth of the face of the house and of the separate place toward the east one hundred cubits. He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side one hundred cubits, and the inner temple and the porches of the court, the thresholds and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories over against the threshold with wood ceilings all around, and from the ground up to the windows, now the windows were covered, to the space above the door, even to the inner house and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside by measure. It was made with chariobim and palm trees, and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces, so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. Thus was it made through all the house all around, from the ground to above the door were chariobim and palm trees made, thus was the wall of the temple. As for the temple, the doorposts were squared, and as for the face of the sanctuary, the appearance of it was as the appearance of the temple. The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits, and its corners, and its length, and its walls, were of wood. And he said to me, This is the table that is before Yahweh. The temple and the sanctuary had two doors. The doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves, two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other. There were made on them, on the doors of the temple, chariobim and palm trees, like as were made on the walls, and there was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside. There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch. Thus were the side chambers of the house and the thresholds. Chapter 42 Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north. And he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was over against the building toward the north. Before the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits. Over against the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story. Before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit, and their doors were toward the north. Now the upper chambers were shorter, for the galleries took away from these more than from the lower and the middle in the building, for they were in three stories, and they didn't have pillars as the pillars of the courts. Therefore the uppermost was straightened more than the lowest and the middle from the ground. The wall that was outside by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court before the chambers, its length was fifty cubits. For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits. And behold, before the temple were one hundred cubits. From under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court. In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were chambers. The way before them was like the appearance of the way of the chambers which were toward the north. According to their length so was their breadth, and all their exits were both according to their fashions and according to their doors. According to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them. Then said he to me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they are the holy chambers, where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most holy things. There shall they lay the most holy things, and the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering, for the place is holy. When the priests enter in, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments in which they minister, for they are holy, and they shall put on other garments, and shall approach to that which pertains to the people. Now, when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it all around. He measured on the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around. He measured on the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around. He measured on the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed. He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. He measured it on the four sides, it had a wall around it, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common. Chapter 43 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks toward the east. Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east, and his voice was like the sound of many waters, and the earth shined with his glory. It was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city, and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chibar, and I fell on my face. The glory of Yahweh came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. The spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court, and behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house. I heard one speaking to me out of the house, and a man stood by me. He said to me, Son of man, this is the place of my throne, and the place of the souls of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they nor their kings by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places, in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their doorpost beside my doorpost. And there was but the wall between me and them, and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed. Therefore I have consumed them in my anger. Now let them put away their prostitution and the dead bodies of their kings far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them forever. You, Son of man, show the house to the house of Israel that they may be ashamed of their iniquities, and let them measure the pattern. If they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its ordinances, and all its forms, and all its laws, and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form of it, and all its ordinances, and do them. This is the law of the house. On the top of the mountain, the whole limit around it shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house. These are the measures of the altar by cubits. The cubit is a cubit and a hand breath. The bottom shall be a cubit, and the breath a cubit, and its border around its edge a span. And this shall be the base of the altar. From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the breath one cubit. And from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the breath a cubit. The upper altar shall be four cubits, and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns. The altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve broad, square in the four sides of it. The ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen broad in the four sides of it. And the border about it shall be half a cubit, and its bottom shall be a cubit around, and its steps shall look toward the east. He said to me, Son of Man, thus says the Lord Yahweh. These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon. You shall give to the priests, the Levites, who are of the seed of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me, says the Lord Yahweh. A young bowl for a sin offering. You shall take of its blood, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around. Thus you shall cleanse it, and make atonement for it. You shall also take the bowl of the sin offering, and it shall be burnt in the appointed place of the house, outside of the sanctuary. On the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin offering, and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bowl. When you have made an end of cleansing it, you shall offer a young bowl without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish. You shall bring them near before Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to Yahweh. Seven days you shall prepare every day a goat for a sin offering. They shall also prepare a young bowl, and a ram out of the flock without blemish. Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it. So shall they consecrate it. When they have accomplished the days it shall be that on the eighth day and forward the priests shall make your burnt offerings on the altar and your peace offerings, and I will accept you, says the Lord Yahweh. The end of chapters 40 through 43 of the Book of Ezekiel from the World English Bible. Recording by Mark Penfold. Chapters 44 through 48 of the Book of Ezekiel from the World English 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 44 through 48 of Ezekiel from the World English Bible. Chapter 44 Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks toward the east, and it was shut. Yahweh said to me, This gate shall be shut. It shall not be opened. Neither shall any man enter in by it. For Yahweh, the God of Israel, has entered in by it. Therefore it shall be shut. As for the Prince, he shall sit therein as Prince to eat bread before Yahweh. He shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by the way of the same. Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house, and I looked, and behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh, and I fell on my face. Yahweh said to me, Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the ordinances of the house of Yahweh and all its laws, and mark well the entrance of the house with every exit of the sanctuary. You shall tell the rebellious even to the house of Israel, thus says the Lord Yahweh. You house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations in that you have brought in foreigners uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant to add to all your abominations. You have not performed the duty of my holy things, but you have set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves, thus says the Lord Yahweh. No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh shall enter into my sanctuary of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel, but the Levites who went far from me when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity. Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house and ministering in the house. They shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them, because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel. Therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord Yahweh, and they shall bear their iniquity. They shall not come near to me to execute the office of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things to the things that are most holy, but they shall bear their shame and their abominations which they have committed. Yet will I make them performers of the duty of the house for all its service and for all that shall be done therein. But the priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok who performed the duty of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me, and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord Yahweh. They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table to minister to me, and they shall keep my instruction. It shall be that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments, and no wool shall come on them while they minister in the gates of the inner court and within. They shall have linen tires on their heads, and shall have linen breeches on their waists. They shall not gird themselves with anything that causes sweat. When they go forth into the inner court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments that they not sanctify the people with their garments. Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long. They shall only cut off the hair of their heads. Neither shall any of the priests drink wine when they enter into the inner court. Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away, but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest. They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. In a controversy, they shall stand to judge. According to my ordinances shall they judge it, and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall make my sabbaths holy. They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves, but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband they may defile themselves. After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days. In the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, says the Lord Yahweh. They shall have an inheritance. I am their inheritance, and you shall give them no possession in Israel. I am their possession. They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering, and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs. The first of all the first fruits of everything, and every offering of everything of all your offerings shall be for the priest. You shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house. The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or animal. Chapter 45 Moreover, when you shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an offering to Yahweh, a holy portion of the land. The length shall be the length of twenty-five thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. It shall be holy in all its border, all around. Of this there shall be for the holy place five hundred in length, by five hundred in breadth, square, all around, and fifty cubits for its suburbs all around. Of this measure you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand, and a breadth of ten thousand, and in it shall be the sanctuary which is most holy. It is a holy portion of the land. It shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to Yahweh, and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary. Twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth shall be to the Levites, the ministers of the house, for a possession to themselves for twenty chambers. You shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and twenty-five thousand long, side by side with the offering of the holy portion. It shall be for the whole house of Israel. Whatever is for the prince shall be on the one side, and on the other side of the holy offering, and of the possession of the city, in front of the holy offering, and in front of the possession of the city, on the west side, westward, and on the east side, eastward, and in length answerable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border. In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel, and my princes shall no more oppress my people, but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes. Thus says the Lord Yahweh, let it suffice you princes of Israel, remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness. Dispossessing my people, says the Lord Yahweh. You shall have just balances, and a just ifa, and a just bath. The ifa and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ifa, the tenth part of a homer. Its measure shall be after the homer. The shekel shall be twenty garas. Twenty shekels, plus twenty-five shekels, plus fifteen shekels, shall be your mina. This is the offering that you shall offer. The sixth part of an ifa from a homer of wheat, and you shall give the sixth part of an ifa from a homer of barley, and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, the tenth part of a bath out of the core, which is ten baths, even a homer. For ten baths are a homer, and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Israel, for a meal offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them, says the Lord Yahweh. All the people of the land shall give to this offering for the prince in Israel. It shall be the prince's part to give the burnt offerings, and the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, and the meal offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel. Thus says the Lord Yahweh, in the first month, in the first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish, and you shall cleanse the sanctuary. The priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it on the doorposts of the house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court. So you shall do on the seventh day of the month, for everyone who heirs, and for him who is simple. So you shall make atonement for the house. In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days. Unleavened bread shall be eaten. On that day shall the prince prepare for himself, and for all the people of the land, a bowl for a sin offering. The seven days of the feast, he shall prepare a burnt offering to Yahweh, seven bowls and seven rams without blemish, daily the seven days, and a male goat daily for a sin offering. He shall prepare a meal offering, an ifa for a bowl, and an ifa for a ram, and a hen of oil to an ifa. In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, shall he do the like the seven days. According to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meal offering, and according to the oil. Chapter 46 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, the gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened. The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate. And the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go forth, but the gate shall not be shut until the evening. The people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate before Yahweh on the Sabbaths and on the new moons. The burnt offering that the prince shall offer to Yahweh shall be on the Sabbath day, six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish. And the meal offering shall be an ifa for the ram, and the meal offering for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hen of oil to an ifa. On the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without blemish, and six lambs and a ram, they shall be without blemish. And he shall prepare a meal offering, an ifa for the bull, and an ifa for the ram, and for the lambs according as he is able, and a hen of oil to an ifa. When the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go forth by its way. But when the people of the land shall come before Yahweh in the appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north gate to worship shall go forth by the way of the south gate, and he who enters by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate. He shall not return by the way of the gate by which he came in, but shall go forth straight before him. The prince, when they go in, shall go in with them, and when they go out, he shall go out. In the feasts and in the solemnities, the meal offering shall be an ifa for a bull, and an ifa for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hen of oil to an ifa. When the prince shall prepare a free will offering, a burnt offering or peace offerings as a free will offering to Yahweh, one shall open for him the gate that looks toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go forth, and after his going forth one shall shut the gate. You shall prepare a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to Yahweh daily, morning by morning you shall prepare it. You shall prepare a meal offering with it, morning by morning, the sixth part of an ifa, and the third part of a hen of oil, to moisten the fine flower, a meal offering to Yahweh continually by a perpetual ordinance. Thus shall they prepare the lamb and the meal offering and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt offering. Thus says the Lord Yahweh, if the prince give a gift to any of his sons, it is his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons, it is their possession by inheritance. But if he give of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty. Then it shall return to the prince, but as for his inheritance it shall be for his sons. Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance to thrust them out of their possession. He shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession that my people not be scattered every man from his possession. Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests which looked toward the north. And behold, there was a place on the hinder part westward. He said to me, this is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the meal offering, that they not bring them forth into the outer court to sanctify the people. Then he brought me forth into the outer court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court. And behold, in every corner of the court there was a court. In the four corners of the court there were courts enclosed, forty cubits long, and thirty broad. These four in the corners were of one measure. There was a wall around in them, around the four, and boiling places were made under the walls all around. Then he said to me, these are the boiling houses where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people. Chapter 47 He brought me back to the door of the house, and behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the forefront of the house was toward the east, and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south of the altar. Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me round by the way outside to the outer gate, by the way of the gate that looks toward the east, and behold, there ran out waters on the right side. When the man went forth eastward with the line in his hand he measured one thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the ankles. Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the waist. Afterward he measured one thousand, and it was a river that I could not pass through, for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed through. He said to me, Son of Man, have you seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the bank of the river. Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other. Then he said to me, These waters issue forth toward the eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah, and they shall go toward the sea. Into the sea shall the waters go, which were made to issue forth, and the waters shall be healed. It shall happen that every living creature which swarms in every place where the rivers come shall live. And there shall be a very great multitude of fish, for these waters are come there, and the waters of the sea shall be healed, and everything shall live wherever the river comes. It shall happen that fishermen shall stand by it, from Ngedi even to Neglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the Great Sea exceeding many. But the myery places of it, and its marshes, shall not be healed, they shall be given up to salt. By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall its fruit fail. It shall bring forth new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary, and its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for healing. Thus says the Lord Yahweh, This shall be the border, by which you shall divide the land for inheritance, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions. You shall inherit it, one as well as another, for I swore to give it to your fathers, and this land shall fall to you for inheritance. This shall be the border of the land. On the north side from the Great Sea, by the way of Heflon, to the entrance of Zadad. Hamath, Barafa, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath. Hazor, Hattakhan, which is by the border of Haran. The border from the sea shall be Hazarinon, at the border of Damascus, and on the north northward is the border of Hamath. This is the north side. The east side between Haran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel shall be the Jordan, from the north border to the east sea you shall measure. This is the east side. The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Mirabav Kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, to the Great Sea. This is the south side southward. The west side shall be the Great Sea, from the south border as far as over against the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side. So you shall divide this land to you according to the tribes of Israel, it shall happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance, to you and to the strangers who sojourn among you, who shall father children among you, and they shall be to you as the native born among the children of Israel, they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. It shall happen, that in what tribe the stranger sojourns, there you shall give him his inheritance, says the Lord Yahweh. Chapter 48 Now these are the names of the tribes, from the north end, beside the way of Heflon, to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar-inan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath, and they shall have their sides east and west. Dan, one portion. By the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, Asher, one portion. By the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west side, Naftali, one portion. By the border of Naftali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one portion. By the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one portion. By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west side, Rubin, one portion. By the border of Rubin, from the east side to the west side, Judah, one portion. By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand reeds in breadth, and in length, as one of the portions, from the east side to the west side, and the sanctuary shall be in its midst. The offering that you shall offer to Yahweh shall be twenty-five thousand reeds in length, and ten thousand for these, even for the priests, shall be the holy offering. Toward the north, twenty-five thousand in length, and toward the west, ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east, ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south, twenty-five thousand in length, and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in its midst. It shall be for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn't go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray. It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land, a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites. Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth. All the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the breadth, ten thousand. They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first fruits of the land be alienated, for it is holy to Yahweh. The five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for suburbs, and the city shall be in its midst. These shall be its measures, the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred. The city shall have suburbs, toward the north two hundred fifty, and toward the south two hundred fifty, and toward the east two 250, and toward the west, 250. The remainder in the length, answerable to the holy offering, shall be 10,000 eastward and 10,000 westward, and it shall be answerable to the holy offering, and its increase shall be for food to those who labor in the city. Those who labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it. All the offerings shall be 25,000 by 25,000. You shall offer the holy offering four square, with the possession of the city. The residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city, in front of the 25,000 of the offering toward the east border, and westward in front of the 25,000 toward the west border, answerable to the portions. It shall be for the prince, and the holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in its midst. Moreover, from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the princes, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, it shall be for the prince. As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side to the west side, Benjamin, one portion. By the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon, one portion. By the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one portion. By the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun, one portion. By the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one portion. By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Merabaph Kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, to the Great Sea. This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, says the Lord Yahweh. These are the exits of the city. On the north side, four thousand and five hundred reeds by measure, and the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel. Three gates northward, the gate of Reuben one, the gate of Judah one, the gate of Levi one. At the east side, four thousand and five hundred reeds, and three gates, even the gate of Joseph one, the gate of Benjamin one, the gate of Dan one. At the south side, four thousand and five hundred reeds by measure, and three gates, the gate of Simeon one, the gate of Issachar one, the gate of Zebulun one. At the west side, four thousand and five hundred reeds, with their three gates, the gate of Gad one, the gate of Asher one, the gate of Naftali one. It shall be eighteen thousand reeds around. And the name of the city from that day shall be Yahweh is there. The end of the book of Ezekiel from the World English Bible. Recording by Mark Penfold.