The restoration

EZEKIEL.

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hast said, I am a god, I sit in the seat 16 By the multitude of thy merchan of God, in the midst of the seas; yet dise they have filled the midst of thes thọn ɑrt a man, and not God, though with violence, and thou hast sinrer. thou set thy heart as the heart of God: therefore I will cast thee as protay 3 Behold, thou art wiser than Dan-out of the mountain of God: and ▲ iel; there is no secret, that they can will destroy thee, O covering cheruo, hide from thec; from the midst of the stones of fire. 17 Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty; thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:

5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches.

6 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God:

7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy visdom, and they shall defile thy bright

neas.

9 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of thêm that are slain in the midst of the

9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shall be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.

18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic; there fore will I bring forth a fire from the inidst 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 a terror, and never shalt thou be any inore

20 T Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

21 Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it, 22 And say,Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thre, O Zidon ; and I will be glorified in the midst of 10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the thee: and they shall know that I am uncircumcised by the hand of stran-the LORD,when I shall have executed gers for I have spoken it, saith the judgments in her, and shall be sancti fied in her.

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11 ¶ Moreover the word of the LonD] came unto me, saying,

23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and 12 Son of man, take up a lamentation thee wounded shall be judged in the upou the king of Tyrus, and say unto midst of her by the sword upon her him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou on every side; and they shall know realest up the sun, full of wisdom, and that I am the Lono.

perfect in beauty. 24 T And there shall be no more a 13 Thou hast been in Eden the gar-pricking brier unto the house of leraden of God; every precious stone was el, nor any grieving thorn of all that thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and are round about them, that despised the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and them; and they shall know that I am the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, the Lord Gov. and the carbuncle,and gold: the work manship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

25 Thus saith the Lord Gon; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be.sanetified in them in the sight of the hea then, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.

26 And they shall dwell safely there15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways in, and shall build houses, and plant from the day that thou wast created, vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with till iniquity was found in thee. confidence, when I have executed

The judgment

CHAP. XXIX, XXX.

of Pharaoh. Judgments upon all those that despite desolate in the midst of the countries

hem round about them; and they shall know tha. I am the Loud their God.

CHAP. XXIX.

N the tenth year, in the tenth month,

the word of the LORD came unto me, aying,

that are desolate,and her citics among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and

tries.

13 ¶ Yet thus saith the Lord God, At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered :

14 And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause thei

2 Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt: 3 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great to return into the land of Pathros, dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for inyself.

4 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and 1 will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.

5 And I will leave the thrmen into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought| together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field, and to the fowls of the heaven.

6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

7 When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder; and when they leaned upon thee, thou breakest, and madest all their loms to be at a stand. S¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord] Goo; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.

9 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the Lond; because be hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it.

10 Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.

11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty

into the land of their habitation; and
they shall be there a base kingdom.
15 1t shall be the basest of the king-
doms; neither shall it exalt itself any
more above the nations: for I will di-
minish them, that they shall no more
rule over the nations.

16 And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth their iniquity to remeinbrance, when they shall look after them: but they shall know that 1 am. the Lord God.

17 T And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the Lond came unto me, saying,

18 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled; yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he bad served against it:

19 Therefore thus saith the LordGod, Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. 20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord God.

21 In that day will I cause the horn of the bouse of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

CHAP. XXX.

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

2 Son of man, prophesy and say Thus saith the Lord Gon, How] ye 12 And I will make the land of Egypt] Wo worth the day!

years.

EZEKIEL.

of Egypt. 3 For the day is near, even the day] 16 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall have great pain, and No shall be shall be the time of the heathen. rent asunder, and Noph shall have 4 And the sword shall come upon Jistresses daily. Egypt, and great pain 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.

17 The young men of Avon and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the oword; and these cities shall go into captivity. 18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there 5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of and all the mingled people, and Chub, her strength shall cease in her: as for and the men of the land that is inher, a cloud shall cover her, and her league, shall fall with them by the sword.

14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will ex-first day of the month, that the word ecute judgments in No. of the LORD came unto me, saying. 2 Son of man, speak unto Pharach king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness ?

3 ¶ Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.

4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plante, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.

5 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.

G All the fowls of licaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his Lranches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.

7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.

full of Assyria.

their trees stand up in their beight, alt that drink water; for they are all de livered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down. to the pit.

15 Thus saith the Lord God; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of, the field fainted for him.

16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of bis fall, when I cast bini down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.

17 They also went down into bell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.

8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir-trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut- 18 ¶ To whom art thou tbus like in trees were not like his branches; not glory and in greatness among the trees hay tree in the garden of God was like of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought unto him in his beauty. down with the trees of Eden unto the

9 I have made him fair by the mul-nether parts of the earth; thou shalt titude of his branches: so that all the lie in the midst of the uncircumcised trees of Eden, that were in the garden with them that be slain by the sword. of God, envied him. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.

10 T Therefore thus saith the Lord] GOD; Because thou hast lifted up tby

self in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with bi: 1have driven him out for his wickdeness.

CHAP. XXXII.

AND it came to pass in the twelfth

year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

rivers.

2 Son of man, take up a lamentatiou for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion 12 And strangers, the terrible of the of the nations, and thou art as a whale nations, have cut him of, and have in the seas: and thou camest forth left him; upon the mountains and in with thy rivers, and troubledst the all the valleys his branches are fallen, waters with thy feet,and fouledst their and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people 3 Thus saith the Lord God; I will of the earth are gone down from his therefore spread out my net over thee shadow, and have left him. with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net4 Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.

13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches.

14 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither] 5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the

EZEKIEL.

the full of Egypt.

A lamentation for mountains, and fill the valleys with Jtude of Egypt, and cast them down, thy height. even her, and the daughters of the fa

I will also water with thy blood mous nations, unto the nether parts on the laod wherein thou swimmest, the earth, with them that go down ineven to the mountains; and the rivers to the pit. shall be be full of thee.

19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty ? 7 And when I shall put thee out, go down, and be thou laid with the will cover the heaven, and make the uncircumcised.

stars thereof dark; I will cover the 20 They shall fall the midst of
sun with a cloud, and the moon shall]them that are slain by the sword: she
not give her light.
is delivered to the sword: draw her

8 All the bright lights of heaven will and all her multitudes.
1 make dark over thee, and set dark-
ness upon thy land, saith the Lord
GOD.

21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him they 9 I will also vex the hearts of many are gone down, they lie uncircumcispeople, when I shall bring thy destruc-ed, slain by the sword.

tion among the nations, into the coun- 22 Asshur is there, and all her comtries which thou hast not known. pany his graves are about him: all 10 Yea, I will make many people of them slain, fallen by the sword. amazed at thee, and their kings shall 23 Whose graves are set in the sides be horribly afraid for thee, when of the pit, and her company is round shall brandish my sword before them; about her grave: all of them slain, and they shall tremble at every mo-fallen by the sword, which caused ment, every man for his own life, in terror in the land of the living. the day of thy fall.

11 T For thus saith the Lord God; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.

12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the rible of the nations, all of them and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.

24 There is Elam and all lier multitude round about her grave, ull of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caus tered their terror in the land of the liv ing; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit. 25 They have eet her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multi13 1 will destroy also all the beasts tude: her graves are round about him : thereof from beside the great waters; all of them uncircumcised, slain by neither shall the foot of man trouble the sword: though their terror was them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts caused in the land of the living, yet trouble them. have they borne their shame with 14 Then will 1 make their waters them that go down to the pit: he is deep, and cause their rivers to run put in the midst of them that be slain, like oil, saith the Lord God. 25 There is Meshecb, Tubal, and all 15 When I shall make the land of her multitude: her graves are round Egypt desolate, and the country shall about him: all of them un circumcised, be destitute of that whereof it was slain by the sword,though they caused full, when I shall emite all them that their terror in the land of the living. dwell therein, then shall they know 27 And they shall not lie with the that I am the LORD. mighty that are fallen of the uncir16 This is the lamentation wherewith cumcised, which are gone down to they shall lament her: the daughters hell with their weapons of war: and of the nations shall lament her: they they have laid their swords under shall lament for her, even for Egypt, their heads, but their iniquities shall and for all her multitude, saith the be upon their bones, though they were Lord God. the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

17 TIt came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shal lie with them that are slain with this

18 Son of man, wail for the multi-sword.