^22:1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^22:2And you, son of man, will you be a judge, will you be a judge of the town of blood? then make clear to her all her disgusting ways. ^22:3And you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: A town causing blood to be drained out in her streets so that her time may come, and making images in her to make her unclean! ^22:4You are responsible for the blood drained out by you, and you are unclean through the images which you have made; and you have made your day come near, and the time of your judging has come; for this cause I have made you a name of shame to the nations and a cause of laughing to all countries. ^22:5Those who are near and those who are far from you will make sport of you; your name is unclean, you are full of sounds of fear. ^22:6See, the rulers of Israel, every one in his family, have been causing death in you. ^22:7In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow. ^22:8You have made little of my holy things, and have made my Sabbaths unclean. ^22:9In you there are men who say evil of others, causing death; in you they have taken the flesh with the blood for food; in your streets they have put evil designs into effect. ^22:10In you they have let the shame of their fathers be seen; in you they have done wrong to a woman at the time when she was unclean. ^22:11And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter. ^22:12In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord. ^22:13See, then, I have made my hands come together in wrath against your taking of goods by force and against the blood which has been flowing in you. ^22:14Will your heart be high or your hands strong in the days when I take you in hand? I the Lord have said it and will do it. ^22:15And I will send you in flight among the nations and wandering among the countries; and I will completely take away out of you everything which is unclean. ^22:16And you will be made low before the eyes of the nations; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord. ^22:17And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^22:18Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste. ^22:19For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have all become waste metal, see, I will get you together inside Jerusalem. ^22:20As they put silver and brass and iron and lead and tin together inside the oven, heating up the fire on it to make it soft; so will I get you together in my wrath and in my passion, and, heating the fire with my breath, will make you soft. ^22:21Yes, I will take you, breathing on you the fire of my wrath, and you will become soft in it. ^22:22As silver becomes soft in the oven, so you will become soft in it; and you will be certain that I the Lord have let loose my passion on you. ^22:23And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^22:24Son of man, say to her, You are a land on which no rain or thunderstorm has come in the day of wrath. ^22:25Her rulers in her are like a loud-voiced lion violently taking his food; they have made a meal of souls; they have taken wealth and valued property; they have made great the number of widows in her. ^22:26Her priests have been acting violently against my law; they have made my holy things unclean: they have made no division between what is holy and what is common, and they have not made it clear that the unclean is different from the clean, and their eyes have been shut to my Sabbaths, and I am not honoured among them. ^22:27Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit. ^22:28And her prophets have been using whitewash, seeing foolish visions and making false use of secret arts, saying, This is what the Lord has said, when the Lord has said nothing. ^22:29The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land. ^22:30And I was looking for a man among them who would make up the wall and take his station in the broken place before me for the land, so that I might not send destruction on it: but there was no one. ^22:31And I let loose my passion on them, and have put an end to them in the fire of my wrath: I have made the punishment of their ways come on their heads, says the Lord.

^23:1The word of the Lord came to me again, saying, ^23:2Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother: ^23:3They were acting like loose women in Egypt; when they were young their behaviour was loose: there their breasts were crushed, even the points of their young breasts were crushed. ^23:4Their names were Oholah, the older, and Oholibah, her sister: and they became mine, and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem, Oholibah. ^23:5And Oholah was untrue to me when she was mine; she was full of desire for her lovers, even for the Assyrians, her neighbours, ^23:6Who were clothed in blue, captains and rulers, all of them young men to be desired, horsemen seated on horses. ^23:7And she gave her unclean love to them, all of them the noblest men of Assyria: and she made herself unclean with the images of all who were desired by her. ^23:8And she has not given up her loose ways from the time when she was in Egypt; for when she was young they were her lovers, and by them her young breasts were crushed, and they let loose on her their unclean desire. ^23:9For this cause I gave her up into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians on whom her desire was fixed. ^23:10By these her shame was uncovered: they took her sons and daughters and put her to death with the sword: and she became a cause of wonder to women; for they gave her the punishment which was right. ^23:11And her sister Oholibah saw this, but her desire was even more unmeasured, and her loose behaviour was worse than that of her sister. ^23:12She was full of desire for the Assyrians, captains and rulers, her neighbours, clothed in blue, horsemen going on horses, all of them young men to be desired. ^23:13And I saw that she had become unclean; the two of them went the same way. ^23:14And her loose behaviour became worse; for she saw men pictured on a wall, pictures of the Chaldaeans painted in bright red, ^23:15With bands round their bodies and with head-dresses hanging round their heads, all of them looking like rulers, like the Babylonians, the land of whose birth is Chaldaea. ^23:16And when she saw them she was full of desire for them, and sent servants to them in Chaldaea. ^23:17And the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love, and made her unclean with their loose desire, and she became unclean with them, and her soul was turned from them. ^23:18So her loose behaviour was clearly seen and her shame uncovered: then my soul was turned from her as it had been turned from her sister. ^23:19But still she went on the more with her loose behaviour, keeping in mind the early days when she had been a loose woman in the land of Egypt. ^23:20And she was full of desire for her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose seed is like the seed of horses. ^23:21And she made the memory of the loose ways of her early years come back to mind, when her young breasts were crushed by the Egyptians. ^23:22For this cause, O Oholibah, this is what the Lord has said: See, I will make your lovers come up against you, even those from whom your soul is turned away in disgust; and I will make them come up against you on every side; ^23:23The Babylonians and all the Chaldaeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: young men to be desired, captains and rulers all of them, and chiefs, her neighbours, all of them on horseback. ^23:24And they will come against you from the north on horseback, with war-carriages and a great band of peoples; they will put themselves in order against you with breastplate and body-cover and metal head-dress round about you: and I will make them your judges, and they will give their decision against you as seems right to them. ^23:25And my bitter feeling will be working against you, and they will take you in hand with passion; they will take away your nose and your ears, and the rest of you will be put to the sword: they will take your sons and daughters, and the rest of you will be burned up in the fire. ^23:26And they will take all your clothing off you and take away your ornaments. ^23:27So I will put an end to your evil ways and your loose behaviour which came from the land of Egypt: and your eyes will never be lifted up to them again, and you will have no more memory of Egypt. ^23:28For this is what the Lord has said: See, I will give you up into the hands of those who are hated by you, into the hands of those from whom your soul is turned away in disgust: ^23:29And they will take you in hand with hate, and take away all the fruit of your work, and let you be unveiled and without clothing: and the shame of your loose behaviour will be uncovered, your evil designs and your loose ways. ^23:30They will do these things to you because you have been untrue to me, and have gone after the nations, and have become unclean with their images. ^23:31You have gone in the way of your sister; and I will give her cup into your hand. ^23:32This is what the Lord has said: You will take a drink from your sister's cup, which is deep and wide: you will be laughed at and looked down on, more than you are able to undergo. ^23:33You will be broken and full of sorrow, with the cup of wonder and destruction, with the cup of your sister Samaria. ^23:34And after drinking it and draining it out, you will take the last drops of it to the end, pulling off your breasts: for I have said it, says the Lord. ^23:35So this is what the Lord has said: Because you have not kept me in your memory, and because your back has been turned to me, you will even undergo the punishment of your evil designs and your loose ways. ^23:36Then the Lord said to me: Son of man, will you be the judge of Oholibah? then make clear to her the disgusting things she has done. ^23:37For she has been false to me, and blood is on her hands, and with her images she has been untrue; and more than this, she made her sons, whom she had by me, go through the fire to them to be burned up. ^23:38Further, this is what she has done to me: she has made my holy place unclean and has made my Sabbaths unclean. ^23:39For when she had made an offering of her children to her images, she came into my holy place to make it unclean; see, this is what she has done inside my house. ^23:40And she even sent for men to come from far away, to whom a servant was sent, and they came: for whom she was washing her body and painting her eyes and making herself fair with ornaments. ^23:41And she took her seat on a great bed, with a table put ready before it on which she put my perfume and my oil. ^23:42... and they put jewels on her hands and beautiful crowns on her head. ^23:43Then I said ... now she will go on with her loose ways. ^23:44And they went in to her, as men go to a loose woman: so they went in to Oholibah, the loose woman. ^23:45And upright men will be her judges, judging her as false wives and women who take lives are judged; because she has been untrue to me and blood is on her hands. ^23:46For this is what the Lord has said: I will make a great meeting of the people come together against her, and will send on her shaking fear and take everything from her. ^23:47And the meeting, after stoning her with stones, will put an end to her with their swords; they will put her sons and daughters to death and have her house burned up with fire. ^23:48And I will put an end to evil in all the land, teaching all women not to do as you have done. ^23:49And I will send on you the punishment of your evil ways, and you will be rewarded for your sins with your images: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

^24:1And the word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, saying, ^24:2Son of man, put down in writing this very day: The king of Babylon let loose the weight of his attack against Jerusalem on this very day. ^24:3And make a comparison for this uncontrolled people, and say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Put on the cooking-pot, put it on the fire and put water in it: ^24:4And get the bits together, the fat tail, every good part, the leg and the top part of it: make it full of the best bones. ^24:5Take the best of the flock, put much wood under it: see that its bits are boiling well; let the bones be cooked inside it. ^24:6For this is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood, the cooking-pot which is unclean inside, which has never been made clean! take out its bits; its fate is still to come on it. ^24:7For her blood is in her; she has put it on the open rock not draining it on to the earth so that it might be covered with dust; ^24:8In order that it might make wrath come up to give punishment, she has put her blood on the open rock, so that it may not be covered. ^24:9For this cause the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood! and I will make great the burning mass. ^24:10Put on much wood, heating up the fire, boiling the flesh well, and making the soup thick, and let the bones be burned. ^24:11And I will put her on the coals so that she may be heated and her brass burned, so that what is unclean in her may become soft and her waste be completely taken away. ^24:12I have made myself tired to no purpose: still all the waste which is in her has not come out, it has an evil smell. ^24:13As for your unclean purpose: because I have been attempting to make you clean, but you have not been made clean from it, you will not be made clean till I have let loose my passion on you in full measure. ^24:14I the Lord have said the word and I will do it; I will not go back or have mercy, and my purpose will not be changed; in the measure of your ways and of your evil doings you will be judged, says the Lord. ^24:15And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^24:16Son of man, see, I am taking away the desire of your eyes by disease: but let there be no sorrow or weeping or drops running from your eyes. ^24:17Let there be no sound of sorrow; make no weeping for your dead, put on your head-dress and your shoes on your feet, let not your lips be covered, and do not take the food of those in grief. ^24:18So in the morning I was teaching the people and in the evening death took my wife; and in the morning I did what I had been ordered to do. ^24:19And the people said to me, Will you not make clear to us the sense of these things; is it for us you do them? ^24:20Then I said to them, The word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^24:21Say to the people of Israel, The Lord has said, See, I will make my holy place unclean, the pride of your strength, the pleasure of your eyes, and the desire of your soul; and your sons and daughters, who did not come with you here, will be put to the sword. ^24:22And you will do as I have done, not covering your lips or taking the food of those in grief. ^24:23And your head-dresses will be on your heads and your shoes on your feet: there will be no sorrow or weeping; but you will be wasting away in the punishment of your evil-doing, and you will be looking at one another in wonder. ^24:24And Ezekiel will be a sign to you; everything he has done you will do: when this takes place, you will be certain that I am the Lord. ^24:25And as for you, son of man, your mouth will be shut in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that on which their hearts are fixed, and their sons and daughters. ^24:26In that day, one who has got away safe will come to you to give you news of it. ^24:27In that day your mouth will be open to him who has got away safe, and you will say words to him and your lips will no longer be shut: so you will be a sign to them and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

^25:1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^25:2Son of man, let your face be turned to the children of Ammon, and be a prophet against them: ^25:3And say to the children of Ammon, Give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said: Because you said, Aha! against my holy place when it was made unclean, and against the land of Israel when it was made waste, and against the people of Judah when they were taken away as prisoners; ^25:4For this cause I will give you up to the children of the east for their heritage, and they will put their tent-circles in you and make their houses in you; they will take your fruit for their food and your milk for their drink. ^25:5And I will make Rabbah a place for housing camels, and the children of Ammon a resting-place for flocks: and you will be certain that I am the Lord. ^25:6For the Lord has said, Because you have made sounds of joy with your hands, stamping your feet, and have been glad, putting shame with all your soul on the land of Israel; ^25:7For this cause my hand has been stretched out against you, and I will give up your goods to be taken by the nations; I will have you cut off from the peoples and will put an end to you among the countries: I will give you up to destruction; and you will be certain that I am the Lord. ^25:8This is what the Lord has said: Because Moab and Seir are saying, See, the people of Judah are like all the nations; ^25:9For this cause, I will let the side of Moab be uncovered, and his towns on every side, the glory of the land, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon and as far as Kiriathaim. ^25:10To the children of the east I have given her for a heritage, as well as the children of Ammon, so that there may be no memory of her among the nations: ^25:11And I will be the judge of Moab; and they will see that I am the Lord. ^25:12This is what the Lord has said: Because Edom has taken his payment from the people of Judah, and has done great wrong in taking payment from them; ^25:13The Lord has said, My hand will be stretched out against Edom, cutting off from it man and beast: and I will make it waste, from Teman even as far as Dedan they will be put to the sword. ^25:14I will take payment from Edom because of my people Israel; and I will take Edom in hand in my wrath and in my passion: and they will have experience of my reward, says the Lord. ^25:15This is what the Lord has said: Because the Philistines have taken payment, with the purpose of causing shame and destruction with unending hate; ^25:16The Lord has said, See, my hand will be stretched out against the Philistines, cutting off the Cherethites and sending destruction on the rest of the sea-land. ^25:17And I will take great payment from them with acts of wrath; and they will be certain that I am the Lord when I send my punishment on them.

^26:1Now in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^26:2Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she who was the doorway of the peoples is broken; she is turned over to them; she who was full is made waste; ^26:3For this cause the Lord has said, See, I am against you, O Tyre, and will send up a number of nations against you as the sea sends up its waves. ^26:4And they will give the walls of Tyre to destruction and have its towers broken: and I will take even her dust away from her, and make her an uncovered rock ^26:5She will be a place for the stretching out of nets in the middle of the sea; for I have said it, says the Lord: and her goods will be given over to the nations. ^26:6And her daughters in the open country will be put to the sword: and they will be certain that I am the Lord. ^26:7For this is what the Lord has said: See, I will send up from the north Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, king of kings, against Tyre, with horses and war-carriages and with an army and great numbers of people. ^26:8He will put to the sword your daughters in the open country: he will make strong walls against you and put up an earthwork against you, arming himself for war against you. ^26:9He will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes. ^26:10Because of the number of his horses you will be covered with their dust: your walls will be shaking at the noise of the horsemen and of the wheels and of the war-carriages, when he comes through your doorways, as into a town which has been broken open. ^26:11Your streets will be stamped down by the feet of his horses: he will put your people to the sword, and will send down the pillars of your strength to the earth. ^26:12They will take by force all your wealth and go off with the goods with which you do trade: they will have your walls broken down and all the houses of your desire given up to destruction: they will put your stones and your wood and your dust deep in the water. ^26:13I will put an end to the noise of your songs, and the sound of your instruments of music will be gone for ever. ^26:14I will make you an uncovered rock: you will be a place for the stretching out of nets; there will be no building you up again: for I the Lord have said it, says the Lord. ^26:15This is what the Lord has said to Tyre: Will not the sea-lands be shaking at the sound of your fall, when the wounded give cries of pain, when men are put to the sword in you? ^26:16Then all the rulers of the sea will come down from their high seats, and put away their robes and take off their clothing of needlework: they will put on the clothing of grief, they will take their seats on the earth, shaking with fear every minute and overcome with wonder at you. ^26:17And they will send up a song of grief for you, and say to you, What destruction has come on you, how are you cut off from the sea, the noted town, which was strong in the sea, she and her people, causing the fear of them to come on all the dry land! ^26:18Now the sea-lands will be shaking in the day of your fall; and all the ships on the sea will be overcome with fear at your going. ^26:19For this is what the Lord has said: I will make you a waste town, like the towns which are unpeopled; when I make the deep come upon you, covering you with great waters. ^26:20Then I will make you go down with those who go down into the underworld, to the people of the past, causing your living-place to be in the deepest parts of the earth, in places long unpeopled, with those who go down into the deep, so that there will be no one living in you; and you will have no glory in the land of the living. ^26:21I will make you a thing of fear, and you will come to an end: even if you are looked for, you will not be seen again for ever, says the Lord.

^27:1The word of the Lord came to me again, saying, ^27:2And you, son of man, make a song of grief for Tyre; ^27:3And say to Tyre, O you who are seated at the doorway of the sea, trading for the peoples with the great sea-lands, these are the words of the Lord: You, O Tyre, have said, I am a ship completely beautiful. ^27:4Your builders have made your outlines in the heart of the seas, they have made you completely beautiful. ^27:5They have made all your boards of fir-trees from Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make the supports for your sails. ^27:6Of oak-trees from Bashan they have made your driving blades; they have made your floors of ivory and boxwood from the sea-lands of Kittim. ^27:7The best linen with needlework from Egypt was your sail, stretched out to be a flag for you; blue and purple from the sea-lands of Elishah gave you shade. ^27:8The people of Zidon and Arvad were your boatmen; the wise men of Zemer were in you; they were guiding your ships; ^27:9The responsible men of Gebal and its wise men were in you, making your boards watertight: all the ships of the sea with their seamen were in you trading in your goods. ^27:10Cush and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war, hanging up their body-covers and head-dresses of war in you: they gave you your glory. ^27:11The men of Arvad in your army were on your walls, and were watchmen in your towers, hanging up their arms on your walls round about; they made you completely beautiful. ^27:12Tarshish did business with you because of the great amount of your wealth; they gave silver, iron, tin, and lead for your goods. ^27:13Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders; they gave living men and brass vessels for your goods. ^27:14The people of Togarmah gave horses and war-horses and transport beasts for your goods. ^27:15The men of Rodan were your traders: a great number of sea-lands did business with you: they gave you horns of ivory and ebony as an offering. ^27:16Edom did business with you because of the great number of things which you made; they gave emeralds, purple, and needlework, and the best linen and coral and rubies for your goods. ^27:17Judah and the land of Israel were your traders; they gave grain of Minnith and sweet cakes and honey and oil and perfume for your goods. ^27:18Damascus did business with you because of the great amount of your wealth, with wine of Helbon and white wool. ^27:19... for your goods: they gave polished iron and spices for your goods. ^27:20Dedan did trade with you in cloths for the backs of horses. ^27:21Arabia and all the rulers of Kedar did business with you; in lambs and sheep and goats, in these they did business with you. ^27:22The traders of Sheba and Raamah did trade with you; they gave the best of all sorts of spices and all sorts of stones of great price and gold for your goods. ^27:23Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traders of Asshur and all the Medes: ^27:24These were your traders in beautiful robes, in rolls of blue and needlework, and in chests of coloured cloth, corded with cords and made of cedar-wood, in them they did trade with you. ^27:25Tarshish ships did business for you in your goods: and you were made full, and great was your glory in the heart of the seas. ^27:26Your boatmen have taken you into great waters: you have been broken by the east wind in the heart of the seas. ^27:27Your wealth and your goods, the things in which you do trade, your seamen and those guiding your ships, those who make your boards watertight, and those who do business with your goods, and all your men of war who are in you, with all who have come together in you, will go down into the heart of the seas in the day of your downfall. ^27:28At the sound of the cry of your ships' guides, the boards of the ship will be shaking. ^27:29And all the boatmen, the seamen and those who are expert at guiding a ship through the sea, will come down from their ships and take their places on the land; ^27:30And their voices will be sounding over you, and crying bitterly they will put dust on their heads, rolling themselves in the dust: ^27:31And they will have the hair of their heads cut off because of you, and will put haircloth on their bodies, weeping for you with bitter grief in their souls, even with bitter sorrow. ^27:32And in their weeping they will make a song of grief for you, sorrowing over you and saying, Who is like Tyre, who has come to an end in the deep sea? ^27:33When your goods went out over the seas, you made numbers of peoples full; the wealth of the kings of the earth was increased with your great wealth and all your goods. ^27:34Now that you are broken by the seas in the deep waters, your goods and all your people will go down with you. ^27:35All the people of the sea-lands are overcome with wonder at you, and their kings are full of fear, their faces are troubled. ^27:36Those who do business among the peoples make sounds of surprise at you; you have become a thing of fear, you have come to an end for ever.

^28:1The word of the Lord came to me again, saying, ^28:2Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, This is what the Lord has said: Because your heart has been lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I am seated on the seat of God in the heart of the seas; but you are man and not God, though you have made your heart as the heart of God: ^28:3See, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret which is deeper than your knowledge: ^28:4By your wisdom and deep knowledge you have got power for yourself, and put silver and gold in your store-houses: ^28:5By your great wisdom and by your trade your power is increased, and your heart is lifted up because of your power: ^28:6For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have made your heart as the heart of God, ^28:7See, I am sending against you strange men, feared among the nations: they will let loose their swords against your bright wisdom, they will make your glory a common thing. ^28:8They will send you down to the underworld, and your death will be the death of those who are put to the sword in the heart of the seas. ^28:9Will you say, in the face of those who are taking your life, I am God? but you are man and not God in the hands of those who are wounding you. ^28:10Your death will be the death of those who are without circumcision, by the hands of men from strange lands: for I have said it, says the Lord. ^28:11Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^28:12Son of man, make a song of grief for the king of Tyre, and say to him, This is what the Lord has said: You are all-wise and completely beautiful; ^28:13You were in Eden, the garden of God; every stone of great price was your clothing, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the emerald and the carbuncle: your store-houses were full of gold, and things of great price were in you; in the day when you were made they were got ready. ^28:14I gave you your place with the winged one; I put you on the mountain of God; you went up and down among the stones of fire. ^28:15There has been no evil in your ways from the day when you were made, till sin was seen in you. ^28:16Through all your trading you have become full of violent ways, and have done evil: so I sent you out shamed from the mountain of God; the winged one put an end to you from among the stones of fire. ^28:17Your heart was lifted up because you were beautiful, you made your wisdom evil through your sin: I have sent you down, even to the earth; I have made you low before kings, so that they may see you. ^28:18By all your sin, even by your evil trading, you have made your holy places unclean; so I will make a fire come out from you, it will make a meal of you, and I will make you as dust on the earth before the eyes of all who see you. ^28:19All who have knowledge of you among the peoples will be overcome with wonder at you: you have become a thing of fear, and you will never be seen again. ^28:20And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^28:21Son of man, let your face be turned to Zidon, and be a prophet against it, and say, ^28:22These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, O Zidon; and I will get glory for myself in you: and they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I send my punishments on her, and I will be seen to be holy in her. ^28:23And I will send on her disease and blood in her streets; and the wounded will be falling in the middle of her, and the sword will be against her on every side; and they will be certain that I am the Lord. ^28:24And there will no longer be a plant with sharp points wounding the children of Israel, or a thorn troubling them among any who are round about them, who put shame on them; and they will be certain that I am the Lord. ^28:25This is what the Lord has said: When I have got together the children of Israel from the peoples among whom they are wandering, and have been made holy among them before the eyes of the nations, then they will have rest in the land which is theirs, which I gave to my servant Jacob ^28:26And they will be safe there, building houses and planting vine-gardens and living without fear; when I have sent my punishments on all those who put shame on them round about them; and they will be certain that I am the Lord their God.

^29:1In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^29:2Son of man, let your face be turned against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and be a prophet against him and against all Egypt: ^29:3Say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great river-beast stretched out among his Nile streams, who has said, The Nile is mine, and I have made it for myself. ^29:4And I will put hooks in your mouth, and the fish of your streams will be hanging from your skin; and I will make you come up out of your streams, with all the fish of your streams hanging from your skin. ^29:5And I will let you be in the waste land, you and all the fish of your streams: you will go down on the face of the land; you will not be taken up or put to rest in the earth; I have given you for food to the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven. ^29:6And it will be clear to all the people of Egypt that I am the Lord, because you have been a false support to the children of Israel. ^29:7When they took a grip of you in their hands, you were crushed so that their arms were broken: and when they put their weight on you for support, you were broken and all their muscles gave way. ^29:8For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am sending a sword on you, cutting off from you man and beast. ^29:9And the land of Egypt will be an unpeopled waste; and they will be certain that I am the Lord: because he has said, The Nile is mine, and I made it. ^29:10See, then, I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an unpeopled waste, from Migdol to Syene, even as far as the edge of Ethiopia. ^29:11No foot of man will go through it and no foot of beast, and it will be unpeopled for forty years. ^29:12I will make the land of Egypt a waste among the countries which are made waste, and her towns will be unpeopled among the towns which have been made waste, for forty years: and I will send the Egyptians in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries. ^29:13For this is what the Lord has said: At the end of forty years I will get the Egyptians together from the peoples where they have gone in flight: ^29:14I will let the fate of Egypt be changed, and will make them come back into the land of Pathros, into the land from which they came; and there they will be an unimportant kingdom. ^29:15It will be the lowest of the kingdoms, and never again will it be lifted up over the nations: I will make them small, so that they may not have rule over the nations. ^29:16And Egypt will no longer be the hope of the children of Israel, causing sin to come to mind when their eyes are turned to them: and they will be certain that I am the Lord. ^29:17Now in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^29:18Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, made his army do hard work against Tyre, and the hair came off every head and every arm was rubbed smooth: but he and his army got no payment out of Tyre for the hard work which he had done against it. ^29:19For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am giving the land of Egypt to Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon: he will take away her wealth, and take her goods by force and everything which is there; and this will be the payment for his army. ^29:20I have given him the land of Egypt as the reward for his hard work, because they were working for me, says the Lord. ^29:21In that day I will make a horn put out buds for the children of Israel, and I will let your words come freely among them, and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

^30:1The word of the Lord came to me again, saying, ^30:2Son of man, be a prophet, and say, These are the words of the Lord: Give a cry, Aha, for the day! ^30:3For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near, a day of cloud; it will be the time of the nations. ^30:4And a sword will come on Egypt, and cruel pain will be in Ethiopia, when they are falling by the sword in Egypt; and they will take away her wealth and her bases will be broken down. ^30:5Ethiopia and Put and Lud and all the mixed people and Libya and the children of the land of the Cherethites will all be put to death with them by the sword. ^30:6This is what the Lord has said: The supporters of Egypt will have a fall, and the pride of her power will come down: from Migdol to Syene they will be put to the sword in it, says the Lord. ^30:7And she will be made waste among the countries which have been made waste, and her towns will be among the towns which are unpeopled. ^30:8And they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have put a fire in Egypt and all her helpers are broken. ^30:9In that day men will go out quickly to take the news, causing fear in untroubled Ethiopia; and bitter pain will come on them as in the day of Egypt; for see, it is coming. ^30:10This is what the Lord has said: I will put an end to great numbers of the people of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon. ^30:11He and the people with him, causing fear among the nations, will be sent for the destruction of the land; their swords will be let loose against Egypt and the land will be full of dead. ^30:12And I will make the Nile streams dry, and will give the land into the hands of evil men, causing the land and everything in it to be wasted by the hands of men from a strange country: I the Lord have said it. ^30:13This is what the Lord has said: In addition to this, I will give up the images to destruction and put an end to the false gods in Noph; never again will there be a ruler in the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt. ^30:14And I will make Pathros a waste, and put a fire in Zoan, and send my punishments on No. ^30:15I will let loose my wrath on Sin, the strong place of Egypt, cutting off the mass of the people of No. ^30:16And I will put a fire in Egypt; Syene will be twisting in pain, and No will be broken into, as by the onrush of waters. ^30:17The young men of On and Pi-beseth will be put to the sword: and these towns will be taken away prisoners. ^30:18And at Tehaphnehes the day will become dark, when the yoke of Egypt is broken there, and the pride of her power comes to an end: as for her, she will be covered with a cloud, and her daughters will be taken away prisoners. ^30:19And I will send my punishments on Egypt: and they will be certain that I am the Lord. ^30:20Now in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^30:21Son of man, the arm of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, has been broken by me, and no band has been put round it to make it well, no band has been twisted round it to make it strong for gripping the sword. ^30:22For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and by me his strong arm will be broken; and I will make the sword go out of his hand. ^30:23And I will send the Egyptians in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries. ^30:24And I will make the arms of the king of Babylon strong, and will put my sword in his hand: but Pharaoh's arms will be broken, and he will give cries of pain before him like the cries of a man wounded to death. ^30:25And I will make the arms of the king of Babylon strong, and the arms of Pharaoh will be hanging down; and they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and it is stretched out against the land of Egypt. ^30:26And I will send the Egyptians in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

^31:1Now in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^31:2Son of man, say to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and to his people; Whom are you like in your great power? ^31:3See, a pine-tree with beautiful branches and thick growth, giving shade and very tall; and its top was among the clouds. ^31:4It got strength from the waters and the deep made it tall: its streams went round about its planted land and it sent out its waterways to all the trees of the field. ^31:5In this way it became taller than all the trees of the field; and its branches were increased and its arms became long because of the great waters. ^31:6In its branches all the birds of heaven came to rest, and under its arms all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and great nations were living in its shade. ^31:7So it was beautiful, being so tall and its branches so long, for its root was by great waters. ^31:8No cedars were equal to it in the garden of God; the fir-trees were not like its branches, and plane-trees were as nothing in comparison with its arms; no tree in the garden of God was so beautiful. ^31:9I made it beautiful with its mass of branches: so that all the trees in the garden of God were full of envy of it. ^31:10For this cause the Lord has said: Because he is tall, and has put his top among the clouds, and his heart is full of pride because he is so high, ^31:11I have given him up into the hands of a strong one of the nations; he will certainly give him the reward of his sin, driving him out. ^31:12And men from strange lands, who are to be feared among the nations, after cutting him off, have let him be: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches have come down; his arms are broken by all the waterways of the land; all the peoples of the earth have gone from his shade, and have let him be. ^31:13All the birds of heaven have come to rest on his broken stem where it is stretched on the earth, and all the beasts of the field will be on his branches: ^31:14In order that no trees by the waters may be lifted up in their growth, putting their tops among the clouds; and that no trees which are watered may take their place on high: for they are all given up to death, to the lowest parts of the earth among the children of men, with those who go down to the underworld. ^31:15This is what the Lord has said: The day when he goes down to the underworld, I will make the deep full of grief for him; I will keep back her streams and the great waters will be stopped: I will make Lebanon dark for him, and all the trees of the field will be feeble because of him. ^31:16I will send shaking on the nations at the sound of his fall, when I send him down to the underworld with those who go down into the deep: and on earth they will be comforting themselves, all the trees of Eden, the best of Lebanon, even all the watered ones. ^31:17And they will go down with him to the underworld, to those who have been put to the sword; even those who were his helpers, living under his shade among the nations ^31:18Whom then are you like? for you will be sent down with the trees of Eden into the lowest parts of the earth: there you will be stretched out among those without circumcision, with those who were put to the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his people, says the Lord.

^32:1And it came about in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^32:2Son of man, make a song of grief for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, Young lion of the nations, destruction has come on you; and you were like a sea-beast in the seas, sending out bursts of water, troubling the waters with your feet, making their streams dirty. ^32:3This is what the Lord has said: My net will be stretched out over you, and I will take you up in my fishing-net. ^32:4And I will let you be stretched on the land; I will send you out violently into the open field; I will let all the birds of heaven come to rest on you and will make the beasts of all the earth full of you. ^32:5And I will put your flesh on the mountains, and make the valleys full of your blood. ^32:6And the land will be watered with your blood, and the waterways will be full of you. ^32:7And when I put out your life, the heaven will be covered and its stars made dark; I will let the sun be covered with a cloud and the moon will not give her light. ^32:8All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you, and put dark night on your land, says the Lord. ^32:9And the hearts of numbers of peoples will be troubled, when I send your prisoners among the nations, into a country which is strange to you. ^32:10And I will make a number of peoples overcome with wonder at you, and their kings will be full of fear because of you, when my sword is waved before them: they will be shaking every minute, every man fearing for his life, in the day of your fall. ^32:11For this is what the Lord has said: The sword of the king of Babylon will come on you. ^32:12I will let the swords of the strong be the cause of the fall of your people; all of them men to be feared among the nations: and they will make waste the pride of Egypt, and all its people will come to destruction. ^32:13And I will put an end to all her beasts which are by the great waters, and they will never again be troubled by the foot of man or by the feet of beasts. ^32:14Then I will make their waters clear and their rivers will be flowing like oil, says the Lord. ^32:15When I make Egypt an unpeopled waste, cutting off from the land all the things in it; when I send punishment on all those living in it, then it will be clear to them that I am the Lord. ^32:16It is a song of grief, and people will give voice to it, the daughters of the nations will give voice to it, even for Egypt and all her people, says the Lord. ^32:17And in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^32:18Son of man, let your voice be loud in sorrow for the people of Egypt and send them down, even you and the daughters of the nations; I will send them down into the lowest parts of the earth, with those who go down into the underworld. ^32:19Are you more beautiful than any? go down, and take your rest among those without circumcision, ^32:20Among those who have been put to the sword: they will give a resting-place with them to all their people. ^32:21The strong among the great ones will say to him from the underworld, Are you more beautiful than any? go down, you and your helpers, and take your rest among those without circumcision, and those who have been put to the sword. ^32:22There is Asshur and all her army, round about her last resting-place: all of them put to death by the sword: ^32:23Whose resting-places are in the inmost parts of the underworld, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living. ^32:24There is Elam and all her people, round about her last resting-place: all of them put to death by the sword, who have gone down without circumcision into the lowest parts of the earth, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld: ^32:25They have made a bed for her among the dead, and all her people are round about her resting-place: all of them without circumcision, put to death with the sword; for they were a cause of fear in the land of the living, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld: they have been given a place among those who have been put to the sword. ^32:26There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her people, round about her last resting-place: all of them without circumcision, put to death by the sword; for they were a cause of fear in the land of the living. ^32:27And they have been put to rest with the fighting men who came to their end in days long past, who went down to the underworld with their instruments of war, placing their swords under their heads, and their body-covers are over their bones; for their strength was a cause of fear in the land of the living. ^32:28But you will have your bed among those without circumcision, and will be put to rest with those who have been put to death with the sword. ^32:29There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who have been given a resting-place with those who were put to the sword: they will be resting among those without circumcision, even with those who go down to the underworld. ^32:30There are the chiefs of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, who have gone down with those who have been put to the sword: they are shamed on account of all the fear caused by their strength; they are resting there without circumcision, among those who have been put to the sword, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld. ^32:31Pharaoh will see them and be comforted on account of all his people: even Pharaoh and all his army, put to death by the sword, says the Lord. ^32:32For he put his fear in the land of the living: and he will be put to rest among those without circumcision, with those who have been put to death with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his people, says the Lord.

^33:1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^33:2Son of man, give a word to the children of your people, and say to them, When I make the sword come on a land, if the people of the land take a man from among their number and make him their watchman: ^33:3If, when he sees the sword coming on the land, by sounding the horn he gives the people news of their danger; ^33:4Then anyone who, hearing the sound of the horn, does not take note of it, will himself be responsible for his death, if the sword comes and takes him away. ^33:5On hearing the sound of the horn, he did not take note; his blood will be on him; for if he had taken note his life would have been safe. ^33:6But if the watchman sees the sword coming, and does not give a note on the horn, and the people have no word of the danger, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them; he will be taken away in his sin, but I will make the watchman responsible for his blood. ^33:7So you, son of man, I have made you a watchman for the children of Israel; and you are to give ear to the word of my mouth and give them news from me of their danger. ^33:8When I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly overtake you; and you say nothing to make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his way; death will overtake that evil man in his evil-doing, but I will make you responsible for his blood. ^33:9But if you make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his way for the purpose of turning him from it, and he is not turned from his way, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, but your life will be safe. ^33:10And you, son of man, say to the children of Israel, You say, Our wrongdoing and our sins are on us and we are wasting away in them; how then may we have life? ^33:11Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the evil-doer; it is more pleasing to me if he is turned from his way and has life: be turned, be turned from your evil ways; why are you looking for death, O children of Israel? ^33:12And you, son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the upright man will not make him safe in the day when he does wrong; and the evil-doing of the evil man will not be the cause of his fall in the day when he is turned from his evil-doing; and the upright man will not have life because of his righteousness in the day when he does evil. ^33:13When I say to the upright that life will certainly be his; if he puts his faith in his righteousness and does evil, not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory; but in the evil he has done, death will overtake him. ^33:14And when I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly be your fate; if he is turned from his sin and does what is ordered and right; ^33:15If the evil-doer lets one who is in his debt have back what is his, and gives back what he had taken by force, and is guided by the rules of life, doing no evil; life will certainly be his, death will not overtake him. ^33:16Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in mind against him: he has done what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his. ^33:17But the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: when it is they whose way is not equal. ^33:18When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him in it. ^33:19And when the evil man, turning away from his evil-doing, does what is ordered and right, he will get life by it. ^33:20And still you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O children of Israel, I will be your judge, giving to everyone the reward of his ways. ^33:21Now in the twelfth year after we had been taken away prisoners, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, one who had got away in flight from Jerusalem came to me, saying, The town has been taken. ^33:22Now the hand of the Lord had been on me in the evening, before the man who had got away came to me; and he made my mouth open, ready for his coming to me in the morning; and my mouth was open and I was no longer without voice. ^33:23And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^33:24Son of man, those who are living in these waste places in the land of Israel say, Abraham was but one, and he had land for his heritage: but we are a great number; the land is given to us for our heritage. ^33:25For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: You take your meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted up to your images, and you are takers of life: are you to have the land for your heritage? ^33:26You put your faith in your swords, you do disgusting things, everyone takes his neighbour's wife: are you to have the land for your heritage? ^33:27This is what you are to say to them: The Lord has said, By my life, truly, those who are in the waste places will be put to the sword, and him who is in the open field I will give to the beasts for their food, and those who are in the strong places and in holes in the rocks will come to their death by disease. ^33:28And I will make the land a waste and a cause of wonder, and the pride of her strength will come to an end; and the mountains of Israel will be made waste so that no one will go through. ^33:29Then they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have made the land a waste and a cause of wonder, because of all the disgusting things which they have done, ^33:30And as for you, son of man, the children of your people are talking together about you by the walls and in the doorways of the houses, saying to one another, Come now, give ear to the word which comes from the Lord. ^33:31And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves. ^33:32And truly you are to them like a love song by one who has a very pleasing voice and is an expert player on an instrument: for they give ear to your words but do them not. ^33:33And when this comes about (see, it is coming), then it will be clear to them that a prophet has been among them.

^34:1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^34:2Son of man, be a prophet against the keepers of the flock of Israel, and say to them, O keepers of the sheep! this is the word of the Lord: A curse is on the keepers of the flock of Israel who take the food for themselves! is it not right for the keepers to give the food to the sheep? ^34:3You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food. ^34:4You have not made the diseased ones strong or made well that which was ill; you have not put bands on the broken or got back that which had been sent away or made search for the wandering ones; and the strong you have been ruling cruelly. ^34:5And they were wandering in every direction because there was no keeper: and they became food for all the beasts of the field. ^34:6And my sheep went out of the way, wandering through all the mountains and on every high hill: my sheep went here and there over all the face of the earth; and no one was troubled about them or went in search of them. ^34:7For this cause, O keepers of the flock, give ear to the word of the Lord: ^34:8By my life, says the Lord, truly, because my sheep have been taken away, and my sheep became food for all the beasts of the field, because there was no keeper, and my keepers did not go in search of the sheep, but the keepers took food for themselves and gave my sheep no food; ^34:9For this reason, O you keepers of the flock, give ear to the word of the Lord; ^34:10This is what the Lord has said: See I am against the keepers of the flock, and I will make search and see what they have done with my sheep, and will let them be keepers of my sheep no longer; and the keepers will no longer get food for themselves; I will take my sheep out of their mouths so that they may not be food for them. ^34:11For this is what the Lord has said: Truly, I, even I, will go searching and looking for my sheep. ^34:12As the keeper goes looking for his flock when he is among his wandering sheep, so I will go looking for my sheep, and will get them safely out of all the places where they have been sent wandering in the day of clouds and black night. ^34:13And I will take them out from among the peoples, and get them together from the countries, and will take them into their land; and I will give them food on the mountains of Israel by the water-streams and wherever men are living in the country. ^34:14I will give them good grass-land for their food, and their safe place will be the mountains of the high place of Israel: there they will take their rest in a good place, and on fat grass-land they will take their food on the mountains of Israel. ^34:15I myself will give food to my flock, and I will give them rest, says the Lord. ^34:16I will go in search of that which had gone wandering from the way, and will get back that which had been sent in flight, and will put bands on that which was broken, and give strength to that which was ill: but the fat and the strong I will give up to destruction; I will give them for their food the punishment which is theirs by right. ^34:17And as for you, O my flock, says the Lord, truly, I will be judge between sheep and sheep, the he-sheep and the he-goats. ^34:18Does it seem a small thing to you to have taken your food on good grass-land while the rest of your grass-land is stamped down under your feet? and that after drinking from clear waters you make the rest of the waters dirty with your feet? ^34:19And as for my sheep, their food is the grass which has been stamped on by your feet, and their drink the water which has been made dirty by your feet. ^34:20For this reason the Lord has said to them, Truly, I, even I, will be judge between the fat sheep and the thin sheep. ^34:21Because you have been pushing with side and leg, pushing the diseased with your horns till they were sent away in every direction; ^34:22I will make my flock safe, and they will no longer be taken away, and I will be judge between sheep and sheep. ^34:23And I will put over them one keeper, and he will give them food, even my servant David; he will give them food and be their keeper. ^34:24And I the Lord will be their God and my servant David their ruler; I the Lord have said it. ^34:25And I will make with them an agreement of peace, and will put an end to evil beasts through all the land: and they will be living safely in the waste land, sleeping in the woods. ^34:26And I will give the rain at the right time, and I will make the shower come down at the right time; there will be showers of blessing. ^34:27And the tree of the field will give its fruit and the earth will give its increase, and they will be safe in their land; and they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have had their yoke broken and have given them salvation from the hands of those who made them servants. ^34:28And their goods will no longer be taken by the nations, and they will not again be food for the beasts of the earth; but they will be living safely and no one will be a cause of fear to them. ^34:29And I will give them planting-places of peace, and they will no longer be wasted from need of food or put to shame by the nations. ^34:30And they will be certain that I the Lord their God am with them, and that they, the children of Israel, are my people, says the Lord. ^34:31And you are my sheep, the sheep of my grass-lands, and I am your God, says the Lord.

^35:1Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^35:2Son of man, let your face be turned to Mount Seir, and be a prophet against it, ^35:3And say to it, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am against you, O Mount Seir, and my hand will be stretched out against you, and I will make you a waste and a cause for wonder. ^35:4I will make your towns unpeopled and you will be a waste; and you will be certain that I am the Lord. ^35:5Because yours has been a hate without end, and you have given up the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their trouble, in the time of the punishment of the end: ^35:6For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have been sinning through blood, blood will come after you. ^35:7And I will make Mount Seir a cause for wonder and a waste, cutting off from it all comings and goings. ^35:8I will make his mountains full of those who have been put to death; in your valleys and in all your water-streams men will be falling by the sword. ^35:9I will make you waste for ever, and your towns will be unpeopled: and you will be certain that I am the Lord. ^35:10Because you have said, The two nations and the two countries are to be mine, and we will take them for our heritage; though the Lord was there: ^35:11For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, I will do to you as you have done in your wrath and in your envy, which you have made clear in your hate for them; and I will make clear to you who I am when you are judged by me. ^35:12And you will see that I the Lord have had knowledge of all the bitter things which you have said against the mountains of Israel, saying, They have been made waste, they are given to us to take for our heritage. ^35:13And you have made yourselves great against me with your mouths, increasing your words against me; and it has come to my ears. ^35:14This is what the Lord has said: Because you were glad over my land when it was a waste, so will I do to you: ^35:15You will become a waste, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

^36:1And you, son of man, be a prophet about the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord: ^36:2This is what the Lord has said: Because your hater has said against you, Aha! and, The old waste places are our heritage, we have taken them: ^36:3For this cause be a prophet, and say, This is what the Lord has said: Because, even because they have been glad over you and put you to shame on every side, because you have become a heritage for the rest of the nations, and you are taken up on the lips of talkers and in the evil talk of the people: ^36:4For this reason, you mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, to the unpeopled wastes and to the towns where no one is living, from which the goods have been taken and which have been put to shame by the rest of the nations who are round about: ^36:5For this cause the Lord has said: Truly, in the heat of my bitter feeling I have said things against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who have taken my land as a heritage for themselves with the joy of all their heart, and with bitter envy of soul have made attacks on it: ^36:6For this cause be a prophet about the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, This is what the Lord has said: Truly, in my bitter feeling and in my wrath I have said these things, because you have undergone the shame of the nations: ^36:7For this cause the Lord has said, See, I have taken an oath that the nations which are round about you are themselves to undergo the shame which they have put on you. ^36:8But you, O mountains of Israel, will put out your branches and give your fruit to my people Israel; for they are ready to come. ^36:9For truly I am for you, and I will be turned to you, and you will be ploughed and planted: ^36:10And I will let your numbers be increased, all the children of Israel, even all of them: and the towns will be peopled and the waste places will have buildings; ^36:11Man and beast will be increased in you, and they will have offspring and be fertile: I will make you thickly peopled as you were before, and will do more for you than at the first: and you will be certain that I am the Lord. ^36:12Yes, I will have you walked on by the feet of men, even my people Israel; they will have you for a heritage and you will be theirs, and never again will you take their children from them. ^36:13This is what the Lord has said: Because they say to you, You, O land, are the destruction of men, causing loss of children to your nation; ^36:14For this reason you will no longer take the lives of men and will never again be the cause of loss of children to your nation, says the Lord. ^36:15And I will not let the shaming of the nations come to your ears, and no longer will you be looked down on by the peoples, says the Lord. ^36:16Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^36:17Son of man, when the children of Israel were living in their land, they made it unclean by their way and their acts: their way before me was as when a woman is unclean at the time when she is kept separate. ^36:18So I let loose my wrath on them because of those whom they had violently put to death in the land, and because they had made it unclean with their images: ^36:19And I sent them in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries: I was their judge, rewarding them for their way and their acts. ^36:20And when they came among the nations, wherever they went, they made my holy name unclean, when it was said of them, These are the people of the Lord who have gone out from his land. ^36:21But I had pity for my holy name which the children of Israel had made unclean wherever they went. ^36:22For this cause say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: I am doing this, not because of you, O children of Israel, but because of my holy name, which you have made unclean among the nations wherever you went. ^36:23And I will make holy my great name which has been made unclean among the nations, which you have made unclean among them; and it will be clear to the nations that I am the Lord, says the Lord, when I make myself holy in you before their eyes. ^36:24For I will take you out from among the nations, and get you together from all the countries, and take you into your land. ^36:25And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean. ^36:26And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh. ^36:27And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them. ^36:28So that you may go on living in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you will be to me a people, and I will be to you a God. ^36:29And I will make you free from all your unclean ways: and at my voice the grain will come up and be increased, and I will not let you be short of food. ^36:30And I will make the tree give more fruit and the field fuller produce, and no longer will you be shamed among the nations for need of food. ^36:31And at the memory of your evil ways and your wrongdoings, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of your evil-doings and your disgusting ways, O children of Israel. ^36:32Not because of you am I doing it, says the Lord; let it be clear to you, and be shamed and made low because of your ways, O children of Israel. ^36:33This is what the Lord has said: In the day when I make you clean from all your evil-doings I will let the towns be peopled and there will be building on the waste places. ^36:34And the land which was waste will be farmed, in place of being a waste in the eyes of everyone who went by. ^36:35And they will say, This land which was waste has become like the garden of Eden; and the towns which were unpeopled and wasted and pulled down are walled and peopled. ^36:36Then the rest of the nations round about you will be certain that I the Lord am the builder of the places which were pulled down and the planter of that which was waste: I the Lord have said it, and I will do it. ^36:37This is what the Lord has said: The children of Israel will again make prayer to me for this, that I may do it for them; I will make them increased with men like a flock. ^36:38Like sheep for the offerings, like the sheep of Jerusalem at her fixed feasts, so the unpeopled towns will be made full of men: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

^37:1The hand of the Lord had been on me, and he took me out in the spirit of the Lord and put me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones; ^37:2And he made me go past them round about: and I saw that there was a very great number of them on the face of the wide valley, and they were very dry. ^37:3And he said to me, Son of man, is it possible for these bones to come to life? And I made answer, and said, It is for you to say, O Lord. ^37:4And again he said to me, Be a prophet to these bones, and say to them, O you dry bones, give ear to the word of the Lord. ^37:5This is what the Lord has said to these bones: See, I will make breath come into you so that you may come to life; ^37:6And I will put muscles on you and make flesh come on you, and put skin over you, and breath into you, so that you may have life; and you will be certain that I am the Lord. ^37:7So I gave the word as I was ordered: and at my words there was a shaking of the earth, and the bones came together, bone to bone. ^37:8And looking I saw that there were muscles on them and flesh came up, and they were covered with skin: but there was no breath in them. ^37:9And he said to me, Be a prophet to the wind, be a prophet, son of man, and say to the wind, The Lord has said: Come from the four winds, O wind, breathing on these dead so that they may come to life. ^37:10And I gave the word at his orders, and breath came into them, and they came to life and got up on their feet, a very great army. ^37:11Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the children of Israel: and see, they are saying, Our bones have become dry our hope is gone, we are cut off completely. ^37:12For this cause be a prophet to them, and say, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am opening the resting-places of your dead, and I will make you come up out of your resting-places, O my people; and I will take you into the land of Israel. ^37:13And you will be certain that I am the Lord by my opening the resting-places of your dead and making you come up out of your resting-places, O my people. ^37:14And I will put my spirit in you, so that you may come to life, and I will give you a rest in your land: and you will be certain that I the Lord have said it and have done it, says the Lord. ^37:15And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^37:16And you, son of man, take one stick, writing on it, For Judah and for the children of Israel who are in his company: then take another stick, writing on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and all the children of Israel who are in his company: ^37:17Then, joining them one to another, make them one stick, so that they may be one in your hand. ^37:18And when the children of your people say to you, Will you not make clear to us what these things have to do with us? ^37:19Then say to them, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am taking the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel who are in his company; and I will put it on the stick of Judah and make them one stick, and they will be one in my hand. ^37:20And the sticks with your writing on them will be in your hand before their eyes. ^37:21And say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am taking the children of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and will get them together on every side, and take them into their land: ^37:22And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king over them all: and they will no longer be two nations, and will no longer be parted into two kingdoms: ^37:23And they will no longer make themselves unclean with their images or with their hated things or with any of their sins: but I will give them salvation from all their turning away in which they have done evil, and will make them clean; and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God. ^37:24And my servant David will be king over them; and they will all have one keeper: and they will be guided by my orders and will keep my rules and do them. ^37:25And they will be living in the land which I gave to Jacob, my servant, in which your fathers were living; and they will go on living there, they and their children and their children's children, for ever: and David, my servant, will be their ruler for ever. ^37:26And I will make an agreement of peace with them: it will be an eternal agreement with them: and I will have mercy on them and make their numbers great, and will put my holy place among them for ever. ^37:27And my House will be over them; and I will be to them a God, and they will be to me a people. ^37:28And the nations will be certain that I who make Israel holy am the Lord, when my holy place is among them for ever.

^38:1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^38:2Son of man, let your face be turned against Gog, of the land of Magog, the ruler of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and be a prophet against him, ^38:3And say, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am against you, O Gog, ruler of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal: ^38:4And turning you round, I will put hooks in your mouth and make you come out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them in full war-dress, a great force with breastplate and body-cover, all of them armed with swords: ^38:5Persia, Cush, and Put with them; all of them with body-cover and metal head-dress: ^38:6Gomer and all her forces; the people of Togarmah in the inmost parts of the north, with all his forces: a great number of peoples with you. ^38:7Be ready, make yourself ready, you and all the forces who are with you, and be ready for my orders. ^38:8After a long time you will get your orders: in the last years you will come into the land which has been given back from the sword, which has been got together out of a great number of peoples, on the mountains of Israel which have ever been a waste: but it has been taken out from the peoples and they will be living, all of them, without fear of danger. ^38:9And you will go up, you will come like a storm, you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your forces, and a great number of peoples with you. ^38:10This is what the Lord has said: In that day it will come about that things will come into your mind, and you will have thoughts of an evil design: ^38:11And you will say, I will go up to the land of small unwalled towns; I will go to those who are quiet, living, all of them, without fear of danger, without walls or locks or doors: ^38:12To take their property by force and go off with their goods; turning your hand against the waste places which now are peopled, and against the people who have been got together out of the nations, who have got cattle and goods for themselves, who are living in the middle of the earth. ^38:13Sheba, and Dedan and her traders, Tarshish with all her traders, will say to you, Have you come to take our goods? have you got your armies together to take away our property by force? to take away silver and gold, cattle and goods, to go off with great wealth? ^38:14For this cause, son of man, be a prophet and say to Gog, These are the words of the Lord: In that day, when my people Israel are living without fear of danger, will you not be moved against them? ^38:15And you will come from your place in the inmost parts of the north, you and a great number of peoples with you, all of them on horseback, a great force and a strong army: ^38:16And you will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land; and it will come about, in the last days, that I will make you come against my land, so that the nations may have knowledge of me when I make myself holy in you, O Gog, before their eyes. ^38:17This is what the Lord has said: You are he of whom I gave them word in earlier times by my servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those days went on saying, year after year, that I would make you come up against them. ^38:18And it will come about in that day, when Gog comes up against the land of Israel, says the Lord, that my wrath will come up, and my passion and my bitter feeling. ^38:19For in the fire of my wrath I have said, Truly, in that day there will be a great shaking in the land of Israel; ^38:20So that the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven and the beasts of the field and everything moving on the earth, and all the men who are on the face of the earth, will be shaking before me, and the mountains will be overturned and the high places will come down, and every wall will come falling down to the earth. ^38:21And I will send to all my mountains for a sword against him, says the Lord: every man's sword will be against his brother. ^38:22And I will take up my cause against him with disease and with blood; and I will send down on him and on his forces and on the peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower and great ice-drops, fire, and burning. ^38:23And I will make my name great and make myself holy, and I will make myself clear to a number of nations; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

^39:1And you, son of man, be a prophet against Gog, and say, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, O Gog, ruler of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal: ^39:2And turning you round, I will be your guide, and make you come up from the inmost parts of the north; I will make you come on to the mountains of Israel: ^39:3And with a blow I will send your bow out of your left hand and your arrows falling from your right hand. ^39:4On the mountains of Israel you will come down, you and all your forces and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to cruel birds of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be their food. ^39:5You will come down in the open field: for I have said it, says the Lord. ^39:6And I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who are living in the sea-lands without fear: and they will be certain that I am the Lord. ^39:7And I will make clear my holy name among my people Israel; I will no longer let my holy name be made unclean: and the nations will be certain that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. ^39:8See, it is coming and it will be done, says the Lord; this is the day of which I have given word. ^39:9And those who are living in the towns of Israel will go out and make fires of the instruments of war, burning the body-covers and the breastplates, the bows and the arrows and the sticks and the spears, and for seven years they will make fires of them: ^39:10And they will take no wood out of the field or have any cut down in the woods; for they will make their fires of the instruments of war: and they will take by force the property of those who took their property, and go off with the goods of those who took their goods, says the Lord. ^39:11And it will come about in those days, that I will give to Gog a last resting-place there in Israel, in the valley of Abarim on the east of the sea: and those who go through will be stopped: and there Gog and all his people will be put to rest, and the place will be named, The valley of Hamon-gog. ^39:12And the children of Israel will be seven months putting them in the earth, so as to make the land clean. ^39:13And all the people of the land will put them in the earth; and it will be to their honour in the day when I let my glory be seen, says the Lord. ^39:14And they will put on one side men to do no other work but to go through the land and put in the earth the rest of those who are still on the face of the land, to make it clean: after seven months are ended they are to make a search. ^39:15And while they go through the land, if anyone sees a man's bone, he is to put up a sign by the place till those who are doing the work have put it in the earth in the valley of Hamon-gog. ^39:16And there they will put all the army of Gog in the earth. So they will make the land clean. ^39:17And you, son of man, this is what the Lord has said: Say to the birds of every sort and to all the beasts of the field, Get together and come; come together on every side to the offering which I am putting to death for you, a great offering on the mountains of Israel, so that you may have flesh for your food and blood for your drink. ^39:18The flesh of the men of war will be your food, and your drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of sheep and lambs, of he-goats, of oxen, all of them fat beasts of Bashan. ^39:19You will go on feasting on the fat till you are full, and drinking the blood till you are overcome with it, of my offering which I have put to death for you. ^39:20At my table you will have food in full measure, horses and war-carriages, great men and all the men of war, says the Lord. ^39:21And I will put my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see my punishments which I have put into effect, and my hand which I have put on them. ^39:22So the children of Israel will be certain that I am the Lord their God, from that day and for the future. ^39:23And it will be clear to the nations that the children of Israel were taken away prisoners for their evil-doing; because they did wrong against me, and my face was covered from them: so I gave them up into the hands of their attackers, and they all came to their end by the sword. ^39:24In the measure of their unclean ways and their sins, so I did to them; and I kept my face covered from them. ^39:25For this cause the Lord has said, Now I will let the fate of Jacob be changed, and I will have mercy on all the children of Israel, and will take care of the honour of my holy name. ^39:26And they will be conscious of their shame and of all the wrong which they have done against me, when they are living in their land with no sense of danger and with no one to be a cause of fear to them; ^39:27When I have taken them back from among the peoples and got them together out of the lands of their haters, and have made myself holy in them before the eyes of a great number of nations. ^39:28And they will be certain that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them away as prisoners among the nations, and have taken them together back to their land; and I have not let one of them be there any longer. ^39:29And my face will no longer be covered from them: for I have sent the out-flowing of my spirit on the children of Israel, says the Lord.

^40:1In the twenty-fifth year after we had been taken away prisoners, in the first month of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the town was taken, on the very same day, the hand of the Lord was on me, and he took me there. ^40:2In the visions of God he took me into the land of Israel, and put me down on a very high mountain, on which there was, as it seemed, a building like a town opposite me. ^40:3He took me there, and I saw a man, looking like brass, with a linen cord in his hand and a measuring rod: and he was stationed in the doorway. ^40:4And the man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes and give hearing with your ears, and take to heart everything I am going to let you see; for in order that I might let you see them, you have come here: and give an account of all you see to the children of Israel. ^40:5And there was a wall on the outside of the house all round, and in the man's hand there was a measuring rod six cubits long by a cubit and a hand's measure: so he took the measure of the building from side to side, one rod; and from base to top, one rod. ^40:6Then he came to the doorway looking to the east, and went up by its steps; and he took the measure of the doorstep, one rod wide. ^40:7And the watchmen's rooms were one rod long and one rod wide; and the space between the rooms was five cubits; the doorstep of the doorway, by the covered way of the doorway inside, was one rod. ^40:8And he took the measure of the covered way of the doorway inside, ^40:9Eight cubits; and its uprights, two cubits; the covered way of the doorway was inside. ^40:10And the rooms of the doorway on the east were three on this side and three on that; all three were of the same size; and the uprights on this side and on that were of the same size. ^40:11And he took the measure of the opening of the doorway, ten cubits wide; and the way down the doorway was thirteen cubits; ^40:12And the space in front of the rooms, a cubit on this side and a cubit on that side; and the rooms six cubits on this side and six cubits on that. ^40:13And he took the measure of the doorway from the back of one room to the back of the other, twenty-five cubits across, from door to door. ^40:14And he took the measure of the covered way, twenty cubits; and opening from the covered way of the doorway was the open square round about. ^40:15And from before the opening of the doorway to before the inner covered way of the doorway was fifty cubits. ^40:16And the rooms and their uprights had sloping windows inside the doorway all round, and in the same way the covered way had windows all round on the inside: and on every upright there were palm-trees. ^40:17Then he took me into the outer square, and there were rooms and a stone floor made for the open square all round: there were thirty rooms on the stone floor. ^40:18And the stone floor was by the side of the doorways, and was as wide as the doorways were long, even the lower floor. ^40:19Then he took the measure of the square across, from before the lower doorway inside to before the inner doorway outside, one hundred cubits. And he took me in the direction of the north, ^40:20And there was a doorway to the outer square, looking to the north; and he took the measure of it to see how wide and how long it was. ^40:21And it had three rooms on this side of it and three on that; its uprights and its covered ways were the same size as those of the first doorway: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. ^40:22And its windows, and the windows of its covered ways, and its palm-trees, were the same as those of the doorway looking to the east; and there were seven steps up to it; and the covered way went inside. ^40:23And there was a doorway to the inner square opposite the doorway on the north, like the doorway on the east; and he took the measure from doorway to doorway, a hundred cubits. ^40:24And he took me to the south, and I saw a doorway looking to the south: and he took the measure of its rooms and its uprights and its covered ways by these measures. ^40:25And there were windows in it and in the covered way all round, like the other windows: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. ^40:26And there were seven steps up to it, and its covered way went inside: and it had palm-trees, one on this side and one on that, on its uprights. ^40:27And there was a doorway to the inner square looking to the south: he took the measure from doorway to doorway to the south, a hundred cubits. ^40:28Then he took me to the inner square by the south doorway: and he took the measure of the south doorway by these measures; ^40:29And the rooms in it and the uprights and the covered ways, by these measures: ^40:30And there were windows in it and in the covered way all round: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. ^40:31The covered way was on the side nearest the outer square; and there were palm-trees on the uprights: and there were eight steps going up to it. ^40:32And he took me into the inner square facing the east: and he took the measure of the doorway by these measures; ^40:33And of the rooms in it and its uprights and its covered ways, by these measures: and there were windows in it and in the covered way round about: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. ^40:34And the covered way was on the side nearest the outer square; there were palm-trees on the uprights, on this side and on that: and there were eight steps going up to it. ^40:35And he took me to the north doorway: and he took the measure of it by these measures; ^40:36Its rooms, its uprights, and its covered way had the same measures, and its covered way had windows all round: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. ^40:37Its uprights were on the side nearest to the outer square; there were palm-trees on the uprights, on this side and on that: and there were eight steps going up to it. ^40:38And there was a room with a door in the covered way of the doorway, where the burned offering was washed. ^40:39And in the covered way of the doorway there were two tables on this side and two tables on that side, on which the burned offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error were put to death: ^40:40On the outer side, to the north, as one goes up to the opening of the doorway, were two tables. ^40:41There were four tables on one side and four tables on the other, by the side of the doorway; eight tables, on which they put to death the beasts for the offerings. ^40:42And there were four tables for the burned offering, made of cut stone, one and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide and a cubit high, where the instruments were placed which were used for putting to death the burned offering and the beasts for the offerings. ^40:43And they had edges all round as wide as a man's hand: and on the tables was the flesh of the offerings. ^40:44And he took me into the inner square, and there were two rooms in the inner square, one at the side of the north doorway, facing south; and one at the side of the south doorway, facing north. ^40:45And he said to me, This room, facing south, is for the priests who have the care of the house. ^40:46And the room facing north is for the priests who have the care of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who, from among the sons of Levi, come near to the Lord to do the work of his house. ^40:47And he took the measure of the open square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide, being square; and the altar was in front of the house. ^40:48Then he took me to the covered way before the house, and took the measure of its uprights, five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and the doorway was fourteen cubits wide; and the side-walls of the doorway were three cubits on one side and three cubits on the other. ^40:49The covered way was twenty cubits long and twelve cubits wide, and they went up to it by ten steps; and there were pillars by the uprights, one on one side and one on the other.

^41:1And he took me to the Temple, and took the measure of the uprights, six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other. ^41:2And the door-opening was ten cubits wide; and the side walls of the door-opening were five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. ^41:3And he went inside and took the measure of the uprights of the door-opening, two cubits: and the door-opening, six cubits; and the side-walls of the door-opening were seven cubits on one side and seven cubits on the other. ^41:4And by his measure it was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide in front of the Temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place. ^41:5Then he took the measure of the wall of the house, which was six cubits; and of the side-rooms round the house, which were four cubits wide. ^41:6And the side-rooms, room over room, were three times thirty; there were inlets in the wall of the house for the side-rooms round about, for supports in the wall of the house. ^41:7The side-rooms became wider as they went higher up the house, by the amount of the space let into the wall up round about the house, because of the inlets in the house; and one went up from the lowest floor by steps to the middle, and from the middle to the upper floor. ^41:8And I saw that the house had a stone floor all round; the bases of the side-rooms were a full rod of six great cubits high. ^41:9The wall supporting the side-rooms on the outside was five cubits thick: and there was a free space of five cubits between the side-rooms of the house. ^41:10And between the rooms was a space twenty cubits wide all round the house. ^41:11And the free space had doors opening from the side-rooms, one door on the north and one door on the south: and the free space was five cubits wide all round. ^41:12And the building which was in front of the separate place at the side to the west was seventy cubits wide; the wall of the building was five cubits thick all round and ninety cubits long. ^41:13And he took the measure of the house; it was a hundred cubits long; and the separate place and the building with its walls was a hundred cubits long; ^41:14And the east front of the house and of the separate place was a hundred cubits wide. ^41:15And he took the measure of the building in front of the separate place which was at the back of it, and the pillared walks on one side and on the other side; they were a hundred cubits long; and the Temple and the inner part and its outer covered way were covered in; ^41:16And the sloping windows and the covered ways round all three of them were of shakiph-wood all round from the level of the earth up to the windows; ^41:17And there was a roof over the doorway and as far as the inner house, and to the outside and on the wall all round, inside and outside. ^41:18And it had pictured forms of winged beings and palm-trees; a palm-tree between two winged ones, and every winged one had two faces; ^41:19So that there was the face of a man turned to the palm-tree on one side, and the face of a young lion on the other side: so it was made all round the house. ^41:20From earth level up to the windows there were winged ones and palm-trees pictured on the wall. ^41:21... ^41:22The altar was made of wood, and was three cubits high and two cubits long; it had angles, and its base and sides were of wood; and he said to me, This is the table which is before the Lord. ^41:23The Temple had two doors. ^41:24And the holy place had two doors, and the doors had two turning leaves, two for one and two for the other. ^41:25And on them were pictured winged ones and palm-trees, as on the walls; and a ... of wood was on the front of the covered way outside. ^41:26And there were sloping windows and palm-trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the covered way: and the side-rooms of the house and the ...