Judgments for

CHAP. XXML

their idolatry. 24. And they shall come against theeffore bear thou also thy lewdness and with chariots, waggons, and wheels, thy whoredoms.

and with an assembly of people, which 36 T The Lond said moreover unto shall set against thee buckler, and me; Son of man, wilt thou judge shield, and helmet, round about: and Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare I will set judgment before them, and unto them their abominations; they shall judge thee according to 37 That they have committed adultheir judgments. tery, and blood is in their hands, and 25 And I will set my jealousy against with their idols have they committed thee, and they shall deal furiously adultery, and have also caused their with thee: they shall take away thy sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass nose and thine ears; and thy remnant for them through the fire, to devour shall fall by the sword: they shall them.

take thy sons and thy daughters; and 38 Moreover, this they have done thy residue shall be devoured by the unto me: they have defiled my sanctu fre. ary in the same day, and have profan 26 They shall also strip thee out of fed my sabbaths. thy clothes, and take away thy fair 39 For when they bad slain their jewels. children to their idols, then they came 27 Thus will I make thy lewdness to the same day into my sanctuary to cease from thee, and thy whoredom profane it; and, lo, thus have they brought from the land of Egypt; so done in the midst of my house. that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes 40 And furthermore, that ye have unto them, nor remember Egypt any sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, 28 For thus saith the Lord God, Be-they came: for whom thou didst washi hold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the Sand of them from whom thy mind is alienated.

more.

thyself, paintedst thine eyes, and deck. edst thyself with ornaments,

41 And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon 29 And they shall deal with thee thou hast set mine incense andmine oil hatefully, and shall take away all thy 42 And a voice of a multitude being labour, and shall leave thee naked and at case was with her: and with the bare; and the nakedness of thy whore-men of the common sort were brought doms shall be discovered, both thy Sabeans from the wilderness, which lewilness and thy whoredoms.

30 1 will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring af ter the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.

31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thy band,

32 Thus saith the Lord God, Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth

put bracelets upon their hands, and
beautiful crowns upon their heads.
43 Then said 1 unto her that was old
in adulteries, Will they now commit
whoredoms with her, and she with
them?

41 Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Abolah and unto Abolibah, the lewd women. 45 And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of much. adultresses, and after the manner of 33 Thou shalt be filled with drunk-women that shed blood: because they eanness and sorrow, with the cup of are adultresses and blood is in their astonishment and desolation, with the hands. cup of thy sister Samaria.

34 Thou shalt even drink it, and suck it out, and thou shalt break the shreds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

46 For thus saith the Lord God; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.

47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and despatch them with 35 Therefore thus saith the Lord their swords; they shall slay their Gop, Because thou hast forgotten me, sons and their daughters, and burn uv and cast me behind thy back, there-[their houses with fire.

EZEKIEL.

The destruction of Jerusalem foretold. 48 Thus will I cause lewdness to purged from thy filthiness any more, cease out of the land, that all women till I have caused my fury to rest upmay be taught not to do after your on thee. lewdness.

141 the LORD have spoken i: it 49 And they shall recompense your shall come to pass, and I will do it; I lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear will not go back, neither will I spare, the sins of your idols: and ye shall neither will I repent; according to know that I am the Lord God. tby ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord

CHAP. XXIV.

AGAIN in the ninth year, in the Gop

tenth mouth, in the tenth day of 15 T Also the word of the Lonn came the mouth, the word of the LORD unto me, saying, came unto me, 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 day.

3 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Set on a pot, 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 burn also the bones under it, and inake it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.

16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.

17 Forbear to cry, make no mouruing for the dead, bind the tire of thy head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men. 18 So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even ny wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

19 T And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou dvest so ? 6 ¶ Wherefore thus saith the Lord 20. Then I answered them, The word GOD; Wo to the bloody city, to the of the LORD came unto me, saying, pot whose scum is therein, and whose 21 Speak unto the house of Israel scum is not gone out of it! bring it Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I out piece by piece; let no lot fall up-will profane iny sanctuary, the excelon 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, to cover it with dust;

8 That it might cause fury to come] up to take vengeance; 1 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 city! I will even make the pile for fire great.

10 Heap on the wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.

II Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.

12 She hath weared herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.

13 In her filthinesss is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be

lency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daugh ters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.

23 And ye shall do as I have done. ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

23 And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet ; ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another. 24 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do; and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord Gov. 25 Also, thou son of man,shall it not be, in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set 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?

Ammonites threatened. CHAP. XXV, XXVI.

27 In that day shall thy mouth because that Edom bath dealt against the opened to him which is escaped, and house of Judah by taking vengeance, thou shalt speak, and be no more and bath greatly offended, and revendumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto ged himself upon them;

13 Therefore thus saith the Lord Gop, I will also stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and 1 will make it des olate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.

14 And I will by my vengeance upcon Edom by the band of my people 3 And say unto the Ammonites, Hear Israel: and they shall do in Edóm ac the word of the Lord God: Thus saith cording to mine anger and according the Lord God, Because thou saidst, to my fury; and they shall know my Aha, against my sanctuary, when it vengeance, saith the Lord Gop. was profaned; and against the land 15 Thus saith the Lord God, Be of Israel, when it was desolate; and cause the Philistines have dealt by re against the house of Judah, when they venge, and have taken vengeance with went into captivity; a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;

6 For thus saith the Lord God, Be-them. cause thou hast clapped thy hands,and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in

heart with all thy despite against the AND it came to pass in the eleventh

The rich supply

EZEKIEL.

of Tyr us. Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Neb- 18 Now shall the isles tremble in the uchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are of kings, from the north, with horses, in the sea shall be troubled at thy deand with chariots, and with horsemen, parture. and companies, and much people. 8 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and be shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.

9 And he shall set engines of war against thy walle, and with his axes he 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, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.

11 With the hoofs of his horses shall be tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrison shall go down to the ground.

19 For thus saith the Lord God; When I shall make thee a desoiate ci ty,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 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 sball set glory in the land of the living;

21 I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord God. CHAP. XXVII.

THE word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

2 Now, thou sou of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus ;

12 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy mer- 3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that chandise: and they shall break down art situate at the entry of the sea, thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant which art a merchant of the people housce: and they shall lay thy stones for many isles, Thus saith the Lord and thy timber and thy dust in the GoD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am midst of the water. of perfect beauty,

13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard,

14 And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to apread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the Lord have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

4 Thy borders øre in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

5 They have made all thy ship-boards of fir-trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.

6 of the oaks of Bashan have they 15 T Thus saith the Lord God to innde thine oars; the company of the Tyrus, shall not the isles shake at the Ashurites have made thy benches of sound of thy fall, when the wounded ivory, brought out of the isles of Clift cry, when the slaughter is made in tim, the midst of thee?

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 Zidou and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, 0 Tyrns, that were in thee, were thy pilots.

16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee. 17 And they shall take up a lamen- 9 The ancients of Gebal and the tation for thee, and say to thee, How wise men thereof were in thee thy art thou destroyed, that wast inhabit-calkers: all the ships of the sea with ed of sea-faring men, the renowned their mariners were in thee to occupy city, which was strong in the sea, she thy merchandise. and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it l

10 They of Persia and of Lud and of |Phut were in thine army, thy men of

A catalogue of

CHAP. XXVIII.

met in thee; they set forth thy comeJiness.

ker merchants. war: they hanged the shield and hel-ap, arel, bound with cords, and made of cedar among thy merchandise. 25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market; and thou wast replenished, and made very gloriousin the midst of the seas.

11 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towcrs; they banged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.

12 Tarshish teas 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, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.

14 They of the house of Togarmal traded in thy fairs with horses, and sorsemen, and mules.

26 T Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters; the east wind bath broken thee in the midst of the seas. 27 Thy riches and thy fairs, thy mer chandise, thy marinere, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.

23 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.

29 And all that handle the oar, the 15 The men of Dedan were thy mer-mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, chants; many isles were the merchan-shall come down from their ships. dise of tny hand: they brought thee they shall stand upon the land; for a present horns of ivoryand ebony: 30 And shall cause their voice to be 16 Syria was thy merchaut by rea heard against thee, and shall cry bitson of the multitude of the wares of terly, and shall cast up dust upon their thy making they occupied in thy heads, they shall wallow themselves fairs with emeralds, purple, and broi-in the ashes:

dered work, and fine linen, and coral,] 31 And they shall make themselves and agate. utterly bald for thee, and gird them 17 Judab, and the land of Israel,they with sackcloth, and they shall weep were thy merchants: they traded in for thee with bitterness of heart and thy market wheat of Minnith and bitter wailing.

Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balın. 32 And in their wailing they shall 18 Damascus was thy merchant in take up a lamentation for thee, and the multitude of the wares of thy malament over thee, saying, What city king, for the multitude of all riches; is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the m the wine of Helbon, and white midst of the sea?

wool. 33 When thy wares went forth out 19 Dan also and Javan, going to and of the seas, thou filledst many people; fro, occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, thou didst enrich the kings of the earth assia, and calamus, were in thy mar-with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.

ket. 20 Dedan was thy merchant in pre- 34 In the time when thou shalt be rious clothes for chariots. broken by the scas in the depths of the 21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kewaters, thy merchandise and all thy dar, they occupied with thee in lambs, company in the midst of thee shall fall And rams, and goals: in these were 35 All the inhabitants of the isles they thy merchants. shall be astonished at thee, and their 22 The merchants of Sheba and Raa-kings shall be sore afraid, they shal! inah, they were thy merchants; they be troubled in their countenance. occupied in thy fairs with chief of all 36 The merchants among the peopis spices, and with all precious stones, shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a ter and goid. ror, and never shall be any more. CHAP. XXVIII.

23 Haran, and Cannel, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Ashur, and, Chilmat, were thy merchants.

24 These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich

Tunto me, saying,

HE word of the Lonocame again

2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Be cause thy heart is lifted up, and thou