The whoredoms of and ye shall know that I the LORD have e poured out my fury upon you. 23 1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, CHAPTER XXIII. Before CHRIST 593. 24 Son of man, say unto her, 33. ver. 31. Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation. 25 There is a conspiracy of her (Hos. 6. 9. prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they Matt. 23. have taken the treasure and pre- 14. cious things; they have made her h Mic. 3. 11. Zeph. 3.3, 4. many widows in the midst thereof. 26 Her priests have violated i Mal. 2. 8. my law, and have k profaned my + Heb. holy things: they have put no 1 dif- offered vioference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed dif. ference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. 27 Her m princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. Aholah and Aholibah. 6 Which were clothed with blae, CHRIST captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. EZEKIEL. Before CHRIST The prophet reproves the adulteries saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thees ch. 16. 37. on every side: 593. ver. 28. 23 The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, andt Jer. 50. 21. Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young u ver. 12. men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them) riding upon horses. 24 And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judg-| ment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judg ments. 25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire. 26They shall also strip thee out x ch. 16. 39. of thy clothes, and take away thy † fair jewels. + Heb. in 27 Thus y will I make thy lewd-struments of ness to cease from thee, and thy thy decking. whoredom brought from the land of y ch. 16. 41. Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift) up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more. 28 For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them a whom thou hatest, into the hand of them b from whom thy mind is alienated: 29 And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all & 22. 15. z ver. 3, 19. a ch. 16. ver. 17. Before CHRIST 593. k ch. 20. 4. in ch. 16. 38. ver. 45. n ch. 16. 23, 21, 36, 45. & 20. 26, 31. o chỉ 22. 8. of Aholah and Aholibar. 36 The LORD said, moreover, unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations; 37 That they have committed adultery, and m blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, n whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them. 38 Moreover, this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and • have profaned my sabbaths. 39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sancp 2 Kin. 21. tuary to profane it; and lo, P thus have they done in the midst of my house. ↑ Heb.coming. 40 And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, q unto whom a messenger was sent; and lo, they came: for whom thou didst r wash thyself, s paintedst thy 2 Kings 9. eyes, and deckedst thyself with or q Is. 57. 9. r Ruth 3. 3. 30. Jer. 4. 30. ↑ Heb. honourable. Esth. 1. 6. Is. 57. 7. Amos 2. 8. & 6. 4. u Prov. 7.17. ch. 16. 18,19. Hos. 2. 8. naments, 41 And satest upon a stately t bed, and a table prepared before it, u whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil. 42 And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her; and with the men of the common sort were brought | Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets multitude of men. upon their hands, and beautiful Or, drunk-crowns upon their heads. 37.ards. Heb. of the + Heb. her whoredoms. 43 Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit † whoredoms with her, and she with them? 44 Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women. 45 T And the righteous men, they x ch. 16. 38. shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and y blood is in their hands. GAIN in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD 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 a this same day 3b And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Gop; Set one a pot, set it on, and also pour wa ter into it: 4 Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the Choice bones. 590. Before The calamity of the Jews mourning for the dead, o bind the CHRIST tire of thy head upon thee, and P put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and a cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men. $90. o See Lev. p 2 Sam. 15. 30. 1 Mic. 3. 7. 15. Heb. up- 5 Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, 1 Or, heap. and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein. 6 Wherefore thus saith the Lord Gop; Wo to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not Epice, fino e y piece; let no e lot fall upon it. 7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; f she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust; 8 That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered. 9 Therefore thus saith the Lord Gon; h Wo to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great. ch. 22. 3. & 23. 37. ver. 9. r ch. 12. 9. Jer. 7. 14. ch. 7. 20, 21, 22. y Job 27. 15. e See 2 Sam.Ps. 78. 64. Lev. 26.33. Is. 20. 3. Deut. 12. 16,ch. 4. 3. & 18 So I spake unto the people in the morning and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded. 19 And the people said unto me, 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 mo saving, 21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctury, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword. 22 And ye shall do as I have done: x 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: y ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and inourn one to ward another. 24 Thus a Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when this Ig Matt. 7. 2. Jer. 17. 15. cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD. 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 e he that escapeth in that day shall come unto theo, to causo thee to hear it with thine ears? 27 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt bo & sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD. CHAPTER XXV. 1 God's vengeance, for their insolenty gainst the Jews, upon the Ammonitea; 8 upon Moab and Seir; 12 upon Edom, 15 and upon the Philistines." THE word of the LORD camo again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, a set thy face ba gainst the Ammonites, and pro Jer. 49. 1,phesy against them; &c. ch. 21. 13. Zeph. 2. e Prov. 17. 5. Heb. chil dren. 3 And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord Gop Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because 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 † men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat God's vengeance upon Moab, &c. thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk 5 And I will make d Rabbah e a stable for camels, and the Ammontes a couching-place for flocks: Cand ye shall know that I am the LORD. 6 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thy thands, and stamped with the tfect, and a rejoiced in † heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel; 7 Behold, therefore I will i stretch out my hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for 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: 1 will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD. EZEKIEL Before CHRIST 590. ch. 21. 20. Is. 17.2. & 32. 14. Zeph. 2. 14, 15. fch. 21.21. Before CHRIST 588. a I. 23. Jer. 25. 22. & 26. 6. & 35. 9. Job 27 23. & 47. 4. Lam. 2. 15. Zeph. 2. 15. Hleb. hand. Heb. foot. h ch. 36. 5. Zeph. 2. 8, 10. Heb. soul. 1 ch. 35. 3. ] Or, meat. 8 Thus saith the Lord God; Because that & Moab and Seir dok Is. 15, & say, Behold, the house of Judah 16. Jer, 48. 1, &c. is like unto all the heathen; Amos 2. 1. 9 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-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim, Amos 1. 9. Zech. 9. 2. tch. 25. 3. & 36. 2. c ver. 14. Tyrus threatened. buchadrezzar against her. 15 The mourning and astonishment of the sea at her fall. ND it came AND 2 Son of man, a because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, b Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: 3 Therefore thus saith the Lord Gop; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea 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 ch. 35. 2, 5, ch. 27. 32. spreading of nets din the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations. 12. Heb. shoulder of Moab. 10 m Unto the men of the east m ver. 4. with the Ammonites, and will! Or, give them in possession, that the against the children of 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. Ammon. nch. 21. 32. 12 Thus saith the Lord God: Because that Edom hath dealto 2 Chr. 28. against the house of Judah t by 17. P. 137. taking vengeance, and hath greatly 8, &c. ch. offended, and revenged himself up-25. 2, &c. on them; 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword. 7. Jer. 49. 7, Amos 1. 11. Obad. 10, & c. 590. + Heb. by rerenging revengement. Or, they shall fall by sword unto Dedan. p See Is. 11. 14. Jer. 43. 14 And I will lay my ven-the geance upon Edom by the hand of iny people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord Gon. 15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; q Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred; 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord Goo; Behold, I will stretch out my hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims," and destroy the remnant of the coasts. 2. 17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them. CHAPTER XXVI. tl Sam. 30. 14. Jer. 47. 4. Or, haven the sen x ch. 5. 15. + Heb. vengeances. 1 Tyrus, for insulting against Jeruan- P. 9. 16. tein, is threatened. 7 The power of Ne Heb. houses of thy desire. h Ts. 14. 11. & 24. 8. 8 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he 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 walls, 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, tas men enter into a city wherein is made a breach. 11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground. 12 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy fthy pleasant houses and they shall lay thy stones, and thy timber, and thy dust, in the midst of the water. 13b And I will cause the noise of ithy songs to cease; and the sound Jer. 7. 34. & of thy harps shall be no more 1:6. 9. & 25. 10. Is. 23. 16. h. 28. 13. Rev. 18. 29 k ver. 4, 5. heard. 14 And I will make thee like the top of a rock thou shalt be place to spread nets upon; thou shal: be built no more: for I the The power of Nebuchadrezzar, LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. 15 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? CHAPTER XXVII. The rich supply of Tyrus Elishah was that which covered Before CHRIST thee. 588. 1 Kinga 5. 18. Ps. 83. 7. Or, stoppers of chinks. + Heb. trengthen 16 Then all the in princes of them Is. 23. 8. sea shall come down from their a Jonah 3. 6. thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they Heb. trem-ers. shall sit upon the ground, and blings. P shall tremble at every moment, and q be astonished at thee. la 17 And they shall take up a mentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of sea-faring 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! 8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee. were thy pilots. 9 The ancients of g Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thes thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in theo to occupy thy merchandise. 10 They of Persia, and of Lud, and of h Phut, were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the &shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness. h Jer. 46. 9. o Job 2. 13. ch. 30. 5. ch. 27. 32. Rev. 18. 9. Heb. of the seas. s ls. 23. 4. 18 Now, shall t the isles tremblet ver. 15. 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 u with them that descend into theu ch. 38. 18, pit, with the people of old time, 24. 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 y I will make thee † a terror, and thou shalt be no more: 7 though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD. CHAPTER XXVII. 1 The rich supply of Turus. 26 The great and unrecoverable fall thereof. THE word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, x ch. 32. 23, 26, 27, 32. y ch. 27. 36. & 28. 19. ↑ Hleb. terTOTE. P. 37. 36. 26. 17. & 29. 2 Now, thou son of man, a take a ch. 19. 1. & up a lamentation for Tyrus; 3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou 12. & 32. 2. that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art ca merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GoD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, dI am † of perfect beauty. 11 The men of Arvad with thing army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made i thy beauty perfect. 12k Tarshish 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, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded m the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market. n 14 They of the house of a TogarIn Gen. 10. 3. mah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules. ch. 38. 6. o Gen. 10. 7. Heb. thy works. 15 The men of o Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thy hand: they brought thee for a present, horns of ivory and ebony. 16 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine Heb. chry- linen, and coral, and tagate. 17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they P1 Kings 5. traded, in thy market, p wheat of 4 Minnith and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and r| balm. ch. 28. 2. e Is. 23. 3. zal. midst ch. 23. 12. Heb. per fect of beauty. 4 Thy borders are in the of the seas, thy builders have per- Heb. fected thy beauty. heart. 18 Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool. 19 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market. s Gen. 25. 3. 20 Dedan was thy merchant in Heb.clothest precious clothes for chariots. of freedom. 21 Arabia, and all the princes of Gen. 25. 13. t Kedar, † they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants. 1. 60. 7. were the Heb. they 9.merchants of thy hand. 5 They have fmade all thy ship-1 b. built boards of fir-trees of e Senir: they e Deut. 3. have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee. 6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; † the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of f the isles of Chittim. have made 1 Or, they thy hatches of iory well trodden. Gen. 19. 7. 1 Kan. 10. 1 2. Ps. 72. 10, 15. Is. 60. 6. x Gen. 11. 31. 2 Kings 19. 12. y Gen. 25. 3. Or, excellent things. 7 Fine linen with broidered work, Heb. the from Egypt was that which thou Jer. 2. 10. daughter. spreadest forth to be thy sailor, purple Heb. foldblue and purple from the isles of land scarlet. lings. 22 The merchants of " Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all pre cious stones, and gold. 23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of y Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants. 24 These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue † clothes, and broidered work, and in chests |