Judgments shown. EZEKIEL, XXIV. have they done in the midst of g| B. C. 598. mine house. 40 And furthermore, that ye have g 2Ki.21.4,7. sent for men 13 to come from far, 13 coming. unto whom ħ a messenger was h Is.57.9. sent; and, lo, they came: for whom 12Ki.9.30. thou didst wash thyself, paintedst i thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments. 41 And satest upon a 14 stately k bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense 7 and mine oil. 14 honour Je.4.30. able. k Am.2.8. Pr.7.17. Ho.2.8. 15 multitude 17 her whore- 42 And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her and with the men of the 15 common sort were brought 16 Sabeans from the wilderness, which put brace-m lets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads. 43 Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit 17 whoredoms with her, and she with them? 44 Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that m playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd woman. Je.3.1,6,8. h 2.5. och. 16.40,&c. them out. 2Ch.36.17. 45 T And the righteous n men, they shall judge them after ther ch.24.21. manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. 46 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I o will bring up a company upon them, and will give them 18 to be removed p and q spoiled. 47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and 19 despatch them with their swords; they shall slayr their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. u Nu. 14.34. 18.23. 1 Je.1.13. c Pr.30.12. 48 Thus will I cause lewdness toe Le. 17. 13. cease out s of the land, that t all ƒ Ge.4.10. women may be taught not to do g Na.3.1. after your lewdness. h Ro.2.5. ye 49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and shall bear the u sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD. CHAPTER XXIV. i ch.22.15. Parable of a boiling pot. Set on a pot,b set it on, and also pour water into it: 4 Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the, choice bones. 5 Take the choice of the flock, and 1 burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein. 6 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Wo to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum c is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot ď fall upon it. 7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, e to cover it with dust; 8 That it might cause f fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered. 9 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Wo to the bloody g city! I will even make the pile for fire great. 10 Heap on h wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned. 11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that i the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed. 12 She hath wearied k herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire. 13 In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest m upon thee. 141 the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it i I will n not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; Re.2.21,22. according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD. m ch.5.13. 8.18. 16.42. By a boiling pot, is showed Jerusa- o Job 1.21. lem's destruction. p Is.57.1. go. GAIN in the ninth year, in the | 2 tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto nie saying, 2 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same a day. q Je. 16.5-7. 4 21.10. upper lip, and so ver. 22. Le. 13.45. 3 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say untos Ps.90.5,6. them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; 15 T Also the word of the LORD came unto me saying, 16 Son of man, behold, I o take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thoup mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears 2 run down. 17 3 Forbear to cry, make a no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy 4 lips, and eat not the bread of men. 18 So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even's my 19 T And the people said unto me, t 1Ki.9.8. Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so? 20 Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 21 Speak unto the house of Israel, u Ps.48.1-3. v Ps.27.4. on the nations. thy fruit, and they shall drink tny milk. 5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couching-place for flocks and c ye shall know that I am the LORD. 6 For thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast clapped thine 2 hands, and stamped with the 3 feet, and rejoiced in 4 heart with Israel; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, 5 the pity of all thy despite against the land of I will profane t my sanctuary, the eaty the bread of men. Le.26.39. 23 And your tires shall be upon b Jno. 14.29. your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn zc ver.21. nor weep; but ye shall pine a away 6 the lifting for your iniquities, and mourn one up of their toward another. 24 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign according to all that he hath döne shall ye do: and when b this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD. soul. d ch.33.21, &c. (CHAP. 25.) 7 Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for 5 a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD. 8 T Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab d and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen: 9 Therefore, behold, I will open the 6 side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baalmeon, Kiria a ch.21.28-32. thaim, 25 Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, c the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set b their minds, their sons and their daughters, 26 That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears? 27 In that dayd shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no inore dumb and thou shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD. CHAPTER XXV. God's vengeance on the nations on account of the Jews. THE HE word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, a and prophesy against them; 3 And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because b thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity; 4 Behold, therefore, I will deliver thee to the 1 men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat 15. Zep.2.9-11. ch.26.2,&c. 1 children. c ch.35.9. 2 hand. 3 foot. 10 Unto the men of the east 7 with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations. 11 And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD. 12 T Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom e hath dealt against the house of Judah by 8 taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them; 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord 5 meat. or, GOD: I will also stretch out mine d Is.XV.XVI. hand upon Edom, and will cut off Je.48.1,&c. man and beast from it; and I will Am.2.1-3. make it desolate from Teman; and shoulder. they 9 of Dedan shall fall by the sword. 7 or, against of Ammon. e 2Ch.28. 17, 18. 8 revenging fall by the Dedan. 11 or, haven 14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengenance, saith the Lord GOD. 15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it 10 for the old hatred; 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the 11 sea-coast. Tyrus threatened. EZEKIEL, XXVI, 17 And I will execute great 12 ven- B. C. 588. geance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that 12 venge I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them. CHAPTER XXVI. Tyrus for insulting against Jerusalem is threatened. AND it came to pass in the ele venth year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, ances. XXVII. Her full lamented. down thy walls, and destroy 3 thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water. 13 And I i will cause the noise of (CHAP. 26.) thy songs to cease; and the sound of a ch.XXVII. thy harps shall be no more heard. XXVIII. 14 And I will make thee like the Is.23.1,&c. top of a rock: thou shalt be a place Je.25.22. to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I k the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. 15 T Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? 47.4. Am. 1.9, 10. b ch.25.3. Ps.35.21. 2 Son of man, because that Tyrus a hath said against Jerusalem, Åha, b she is broken that was the gates of the people she is turned unto ne: I shall be replenished, now she c ch.38.3. is laid waste : C d Is.5.30. 3 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I c am against thee, e ch.27.32. O Tyrus, and will cause many na-f Ezr.7.12. tions to come up against thee, as the sea d causeth his waves to come up. 4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. 5 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in e the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and it shall become a spoil to the nations. Da.2.37. g ch.21.22. 1 or, pour out 2 according h Is.26.5. 7 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus i Is.24.8,9. Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king ƒ of kings from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and I ch.31. 16. much people. k Job 40.8. q Je.49.21. Re. 18.9. 8 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he m Jon.3 6. shall make a fort q against thee, 4 tremblings. and 1 cast a mount against tliee, n Job 2.13. and lift up the buckler against thee. 0 ch.32.10. 9 And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes P ch.27.35. lie shall break down thy towers. 10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, 2 as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach. 16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away m their robes, and put off their broidered garments : they shall clothe themselves with 4 trembling; they shall sit upon the ground,n and shall tremble o at every moment, and be astonishedp at thee. 17 And they shall take up a lamentation q for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of 5 seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it! 18 Now shall the isles r tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure. 19 For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee; 20 When I shall bring thee down with them that descend s into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living; 21 It will make thee 6 a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though u thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord God. CHAPTER XXVII 1 The rich supply of Tyrus: The irrecoverable fall thereof. TH HE word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 2 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation a for Tyrus; 3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, Is.23.3,&c. | which art a merchant b of the people for many isles, Thus saith the 12 And they shall make a spoil of a ch.26.17. thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break Rich supply of Tyrus. EZEKIEL, XXVII. Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said,] B. C. 588. I am 1 of perfect beauty. 4 Thy borders are in the 2 midst 1 perfect of. of the seas, thy builders have per-2 heart. fected thy beauty. 3 built. d Is.2.13. Zec.11.2. 5 They have 3 made all thy ship c De.3.9. boards of fir trees of Senir : c they have taken cedars from Lebanon 4 or, they to make masts for thee. 6 Of the oaks d of Bashan have they made thine oars; 4 the 5 company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.e 7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee. 8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots. 6 f have made 5 daughters. 9 The ancients of Gebal f and the wise men thereof were in thee thy 7 calkers: all the ships of the sea8 with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise. 10 They of Persia, g and of Lud, and of Phut were in thine army; thy men of war: h they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness. n 1Ki. 10.22. 10 chryso9thy works. prase. o Ki.5.9,11. 11 Ezr.3.7. Ac.12.20. 12 or, Meuzal. 11 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round p Ju.11.33. about, and the Gammadims were it or, rosin. in thy towers: they hanged their 7 Je.8.22. shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect. 12 Tarshish i was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs. 13 Javan, k Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy 8 market. 14 They of the house of Togarmah m traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules. 15 The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory n and ebony. r Ge.25.3. s 13 clothes of Is.60.7. t Ge. 10.7. 15 or, excel- v 1 Ki. 10.22. 16 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of 9 the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and w Ps.48.7. broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and 10 agate. 17 heart. * Pr.11.4. 18 or, even with. 17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they 19 or, waves. traded o in thy market wheat of y Re. 18.9,19. Minninth, p and Pannag, and ho-z Je.6.26. ney, and oil, and 11 balm.q a Mi. 1.16. 18 Damascus was thy merchant in b Es.4.1-4. the multitude of the wares of thy Destruction of Tyrus. making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool. 19 Dan also and Javan 12 going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market. 20 Dedan r was thy merchant in 13 precious clothes for chariots. 21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, s they 14 occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants. 22 The merchants of Sheba t and they occupied in thy fairs with chief Raamah, they were thy merchants: of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. 23 Haran, u and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants. 21 These were thy merchants in 15 all sorts of things, in blue 16 clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise. sing of thee in thy market: and 25 The ships v of Tarshish did thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas. 26 T Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind w hath broken thee in the 17 midst of the seas. 27 Thy riches, a and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all 18 and in all thy company which is thy men of war, that are in thee, in the midst of thee, shall fall into the 17 midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin. 28 The 19 suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. 29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land; 30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry y bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: z 31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald a for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, band they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing. 32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea? 33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many ch.28.16. d Je.18.16. 34 In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of 20 terrors. the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall. e ch.26.21. 21 shalt not be for ever. 35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, (CHAP. 28.) they shall be troubled in their coun- a Hab.2.4. tenance. 36 The merchants among the peo-1 heart. ple shall hiss d at thee; thou shalt b Is.31.3. be 20 a terror, e and 21 never shalt be any more. CHAPTER XXVIII. 1 God's judgment upon the prince of Tyrus for his impious pride, 20 The judgment of Zidon, etc. THE HE word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, c 2Th.2.4. d Zec.9.2,3. e Da.5,11,12. the great- Ps.62. 10. 2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; f Because thine heart is lifted up, ag Pr. 11.28. and thou hast said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the 1 midst of the seas; yet b thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart c as the heart of God : 3 Behold, thou art wiser d than i ver.2. Daniel; e there is no secret that Ja. 1.11. h ch.30.11. 31.12. 32.12. 3 or, wound Zidon threatened. say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.l 13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the 4 sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the 5 beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the 6 emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. 14 Thou art the anointed m cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain n. of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity o was found in thee. 16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, p from the midst of the stones of fire. 17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted a thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee 4 With thy wisdom and with thine to the ground, I will lay thee before understanding thou hast gotten k ch.32. 19,&c. kings, that they may behold thee. they can hide from thee: thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures : 5 By 2 thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased f thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy g riches: 6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God; eth. 1 ch.31.8,9. 4 or, ruby. 6 or, chryso- 7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible hm Ex.25.20. of the nations: and they shall draw n ch.20.40. their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. 8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. Ec.7.29. p ver.14. 9 Ro.1.22. $ ch.32.30. Is.23.4, 12. 9 Wilt thou yet sayi before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shall be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that 3 slayeth thee. 10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised k by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, t ch.39.3,13. saith the Lord GOD. u Ex. 14.4,17. 27.3. v Ps.9.16. 11 T Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 12 Son of man, take up a lamenta- w ch.38.22. tion upon the king of Tyrus, and 18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic;r therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. 19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be 7 a terror, and never shalt thou be any more. 20 T Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 21 Son of man, set thy face against Zidon,s and prophesy against it. 22 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, t I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified u in the midst of thee: and they shall know v that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her. 23 For I will send into her w pestilence and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD |