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Deuteronomy 6.1: 6Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land that you go over to possess;

Deuteronomy 6.2: 2 that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

Deuteronomy 6.3: 3 Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 6.5: 5 You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

Deuteronomy 6.6: 6 These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

Deuteronomy 6.7: 7 and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Deuteronomy 6.8: 8 You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

Deuteronomy 6.9: 9 You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates.

Deuteronomy 6.10: 10 It shall be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities which you didn’t build,

Deuteronomy 6.11: 11 and houses full of all good things which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat and be full;

Deuteronomy 6.12: 12 then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Deuteronomy 6.13: 13 You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.

Deuteronomy 6.14: 14 You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you,

Deuteronomy 6.15: 15 for Yahweh your God among you is a jealous God, lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 6.16: 16 You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

Deuteronomy 6.17: 17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.

Deuteronomy 6.18: 18 You shall do that which is right and good in Yahweh’s sight, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,

Deuteronomy 6.19: 19 to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.

Deuteronomy 6.20: 20 When your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you mean?”

Deuteronomy 6.21: 21 then you shall tell your son, “We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;

Deuteronomy 6.22: 22 and Yahweh showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;

Deuteronomy 6.23: 23 and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers.

Deuteronomy 6.24: 24 Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today.

Deuteronomy 6.25: 25 It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”

Nehemiah 1.2: 2 Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and certain men out of Judah; and I asked them about the Jews who had escaped, who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 1.3: 3 They said to me, “The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”

Nehemiah 1.4: 4 When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God1 of heaven,

Nehemiah 1.5: 5 and said, “I beg you, Yahweh,2 the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:

Nehemiah 1.6: 6 Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father’s house have sinned.

Nehemiah 1.7: 7 We have dealt very corruptly against you, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which you commanded your servant Moses.

Nehemiah 1.8: 8 “Remember, I beg you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you trespass, I will scatter you among the peoples;

Nehemiah 1.9: 9 but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’

Nehemiah 1.10: 10 “Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power, and by your strong hand.

Nehemiah 1.11: 11 Lord,3 I beg you, let your ear be attentive now to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.”

Nehemiah 2.1: 2In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I picked up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence.

Nehemiah 2.2: 2 The king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.”

Nehemiah 2.3: 3 I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?”

Nehemiah 2.5: 5 I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may build it.”

Nehemiah 2.6: 6 The king said to me (the queen was also sitting by him), “How long will your journey be? When will you return?”

Nehemiah 2.7: 7 Moreover I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah;

Nehemiah 2.8: 8 and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple, for the wall of the city, and for the house that I will occupy.”

Nehemiah 2.9: 9 Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.

Nehemiah 2.10: 10 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

Nehemiah 2.12: 12 I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There wasn’t any animal with me, except the animal that I rode on.

Nehemiah 2.13: 13 I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal’s well, then to the dung gate, and inspected the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and its gates were consumed with fire.

Nehemiah 2.14: 14 Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king’s pool, but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.

Nehemiah 2.15: 15 Then I went up in the night by the brook, and inspected the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

Nehemiah 2.16: 16 The rulers didn’t know where I went, or what I did. I had not as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work.

Nehemiah 2.17: 17 Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let’s build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won’t be disgraced.”

Nehemiah 2.18: 18 I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, as also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me.

They said, “Let’s rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.

Nehemiah 2.19: 19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”

Nehemiah 2.20: 20 Then I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, his servants, will arise and build; but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.”

Nehemiah 3.1: 3Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate. They sanctified it, and set up its doors. They sanctified it even to the tower of Hammeah, to the tower of Hananel.

Nehemiah 3.2: 2 Next to him the men of Jericho built. Next to them Zaccur the son of Imri built.

Nehemiah 3.3: 3 The sons of Hassenaah built the fish gate. They laid its beams, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

Nehemiah 3.4: 4 Next to them, Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz made repairs. Next to them, Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel made repairs. Next to them, Zadok the son of Baana made repairs.

Nehemiah 3.5: 5 Next to them, the Tekoites made repairs; but their nobles didn’t put their necks to the Lord’s work.

Nehemiah 3.6: 6 Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah repaired the old gate. They laid its beams, and set up its doors, and its bolts, and its bars.

Nehemiah 3.7: 7 Next to them, Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, repaired the residence of the governor beyond the River.

Nehemiah 3.8: 8 Next to him, Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths, made repairs. Next to him, Hananiah, one of the perfumers, made repairs, and they fortified Jerusalem even to the wide wall.

Nehemiah 3.9: 9 Next to them, Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, made repairs.

Nehemiah 3.10: 10 Next to them, Jedaiah the son of Harumaph made repairs across from his house. Next to him, Hattush the son of Hashabneiah made repairs.

Nehemiah 3.11: 11 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hasshub the son of Pahathmoab, repaired another portion, and the tower of the furnaces.

Nehemiah 3.12: 12 Next to him, Shallum the son of Hallohesh, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, he and his daughters, made repairs.

Nehemiah 3.13: 13 Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the valley gate. They built it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and one thousand cubits1 of the wall to the dung gate.

Nehemiah 3.14: 14 Malchijah the son of Rechab, the ruler of the district of Beth Haccherem repaired the dung gate. He built it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

Nehemiah 3.15: 15 Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah repaired the spring gate. He built it, and covered it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king’s garden, even to the stairs that go down from David’s city.

Nehemiah 3.16: 16 After him, Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of Beth Zur, made repairs to the place opposite the tombs of David, and to the pool that was made, and to the house of the mighty men.

Nehemiah 3.17: 17 After him, the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani made repairs. Next to him, Hashabiah, the ruler of half the district of Keilah, made repairs for his district.

Nehemiah 3.18: 18 After him, their brothers, Bavvai the son of Henadad, the ruler of half the district of Keilah made repairs.

Nehemiah 3.19: 19 Next to him, Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, repaired another portion, across from the ascent to the armory at the turning of the wall.

Nehemiah 3.20: 20 After him, Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired another portion, from the turning of the wall to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.

Nehemiah 3.21: 21 After him, Meremoth the son of Uriah the son of Hakkoz repaired another portion, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib.

Nehemiah 3.23: 23 After them, Benjamin and Hasshub made repairs across from their house. After them, Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah made repairs beside his own house.

Nehemiah 3.24: 24 After him, Binnui the son of Henadad repaired another portion, from the house of Azariah to the turning of the wall, and to the corner.

Nehemiah 3.25: 25 Palal the son of Uzai made repairs opposite the turning of the wall, and the tower that stands out from the upper house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh made repairs.

Nehemiah 3.26: 26 (Now the temple servants lived in Ophel, to the place opposite the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stands out.)

Nehemiah 3.27: 27 After him the Tekoites repaired another portion, opposite the great tower that stands out, and to the wall of Ophel.

Nehemiah 3.28: 28 Above the horse gate, the priests made repairs, everyone across from his own house.

Nehemiah 3.29: 29 After them, Zadok the son of Immer made repairs across from his own house. After him, Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east gate made repairs.

Nehemiah 3.30: 30 After him, Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, repaired another portion. After him, Meshullam the son of Berechiah made repairs across from his room.

Nehemiah 3.31: 31 After him, Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths to the house of the temple servants, and of the merchants, made repairs opposite the gate of Hammiphkad, and to the ascent of the corner.

Nehemiah 3.32: 32 Between the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate, the goldsmiths and the merchants made repairs.

Nehemiah 4.1: 4But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and was very indignant, and mocked the Jews.

Nehemiah 4.2: 2 He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?”

Nehemiah 4.3: 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.”

Nehemiah 4.4: 4 “Hear, our God; for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity.

Nehemiah 4.5: 5 Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”

Nehemiah 4.6: 6 So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height: for the people had a mind to work.

Nehemiah 4.7: 7 But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be filled, they were very angry;

Nehemiah 4.8: 8 and they all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion among us.

Nehemiah 4.9: 9 But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night because of them.

Nehemiah 4.10: 10 Judah said, “The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading, and there is much rubble; so that we are not able to build the wall.”

Nehemiah 4.11: 11 Our adversaries said, “They will not know or see, until we come in among them and kill them, and cause the work to cease.”

Nehemiah 4.12: 12 When the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”

Nehemiah 4.13: 13 Therefore I set guards in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places. I set the people by family groups with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

Nehemiah 4.14: 14 I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them! Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses.”

Nehemiah 4.15: 15 When our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, all of us returned to the wall, everyone to his work.

Nehemiah 4.16: 16 From that time forth, half of my servants did the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.

Nehemiah 4.17: 17 Those who built the wall, and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands did the work, and with the other held his weapon.

Nehemiah 4.18: 18 Among the builders, everyone wore his sword at his side, and so built. He who sounded the trumpet was by me.

Nehemiah 4.19: 19 I said to the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and large, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another.

Nehemiah 4.20: 20 Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally there to us. Our God will fight for us.”

Nehemiah 4.21: 21 So we did the work. Half of the people held the spears from the rising of the morning until the stars appeared.

Nehemiah 4.22: 22 Likewise at the same time I said to the people, “Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day.”

Nehemiah 4.23: 23 So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes. Everyone took his weapon to the water.

Nehemiah 5.1: 5Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

Nehemiah 5.2: 2 For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”

Nehemiah 5.3: 3 There were also some who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”

Nehemiah 5.4: 4 There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.

Nehemiah 5.5: 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold,1 we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

Nehemiah 5.7: 7 Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.

Nehemiah 5.8: 8 I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.

Nehemiah 5.9: 9 Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

Nehemiah 5.10: 10 I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.

Nehemiah 5.11: 11 Please restore to them, even today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them.”

Nehemiah 5.12: 12 Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say.”

Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.

Nehemiah 5.13: 13 Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even may he be shaken out and emptied like this.”

All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.

Nehemiah 5.14: 14 Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor.

Nehemiah 5.15: 15 But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels2 of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.

Nehemiah 5.16: 16 Yes, I also continued in the work of this wall. We didn’t buy any land. All my servants were gathered there to the work.

Nehemiah 5.17: 17 Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred fifty men, in addition to those who came to us from among the nations that were around us.

Nehemiah 5.18: 18 Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep. Also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine. Yet for all this, I didn’t demand the governor’s pay, because the bondage was heavy on this people.

Nehemiah 5.19: 19 Remember me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.

Nehemiah 6.1: 6Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates)

Nehemiah 6.2: 2 Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come! Let’s meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to harm me.

Nehemiah 6.3: 3 I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I can’t come down. Why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?”

Nehemiah 6.4: 4 They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.

Nehemiah 6.5: 5 Then Sanballat sent his servant to me the same way the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,

Nehemiah 6.6: 6 in which was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall. You would be their king, according to these words.

Nehemiah 6.7: 7 You have also appointed prophets to proclaim of you at Jerusalem, saying, ‘There is a king in Judah!’ Now it will be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let’s take counsel together.”

Nehemiah 6.8: 8 Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.”

Nehemiah 6.9: 9 For they all would have made us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done.” But now, strengthen my hands.

Nehemiah 6.10: 10 I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, “Let us meet together in God’s house, within the temple, and let’s shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to kill you. Yes, in the night they will come to kill you.”

Nehemiah 6.11: 11 I said, “Should a man like me flee? Who is there that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.”

Nehemiah 6.12: 12 I discerned, and behold, God had not sent him; but he pronounced this prophecy against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

Nehemiah 6.13: 13 He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

Nehemiah 6.14: 14 “Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.”

Nehemiah 6.15: 15 So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days.

Nehemiah 6.16: 16 When all our enemies heard of it, all the nations that were around us were afraid, and they lost their confidence; for they perceived that this work was done by our God.

Nehemiah 6.17: 17 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came to them.

Nehemiah 6.18: 18 For there were many in Judah sworn to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah as wife.

Nehemiah 6.19: 19 Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.

Nehemiah 7.1: 7Now when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers and the singers and the Levites were appointed,

Nehemiah 7.2: 2 I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

Nehemiah 7.3: 3 I said to them, “Don’t let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house.”

Nehemiah 7.4: 4 Now the city was wide and large; but the people were few therein, and the houses were not built.

Nehemiah 7.5: 5 My God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be listed by genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found this written in it:

Nehemiah 7.6: 6 These are the children of the province who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, everyone to his city,

Nehemiah 7.7: 7 who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah.

Nehemiah 7.11: 11 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab: two thousand eight hundred eighteen.

Nehemiah 7.29: 29 The men of Kiriath Jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth: seven hundred forty-three.

Nehemiah 7.34: 34 The children of the other Elam: one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

Nehemiah 7.37: 37 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono: seven hundred twenty-one.

Nehemiah 7.39: 39 The priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua: nine hundred seventy-three.

Nehemiah 7.41: 41 The children of Pashhur: one thousand two hundred forty-seven.

Nehemiah 7.43: 43 The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah: seventy-four.

Nehemiah 7.45: 45 The gatekeepers: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai: one hundred thirty-eight.

Nehemiah 7.46: 46 The temple servants: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

Nehemiah 7.47: 47 the children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon,

Nehemiah 7.48: 48 the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai,

Nehemiah 7.49: 49 the children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar,

Nehemiah 7.50: 50 the children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda,

Nehemiah 7.51: 51 the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah.

Nehemiah 7.52: 52 The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephushesim,

Nehemiah 7.53: 53 the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,

Nehemiah 7.54: 54 the children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,

Nehemiah 7.55: 55 the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,

Nehemiah 7.57: 57 The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,

Nehemiah 7.58: 58 the children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,

Nehemiah 7.59: 59 the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth Hazzebaim, and the children of Amon.

Nehemiah 7.60: 60 All the temple servants and the children of Solomon’s servants were three hundred ninety-two.

Nehemiah 7.61: 61 These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers’ houses, nor their offspring,1 whether they were of Israel:

Nehemiah 7.62: 62 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda: six hundred forty-two.

Nehemiah 7.63: 63 Of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.

Nehemiah 7.64: 64 These searched for their genealogical records, but couldn’t find them. Therefore they were deemed disqualified and removed from the priesthood.

Nehemiah 7.65: 65 The governor told that they should not eat of the most holy things until a priest stood up to minister with Urim and Thummim.

Nehemiah 7.66: 66 The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,

Nehemiah 7.67: 67 in addition to their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven. They had two hundred forty-five singing men and singing women.

Nehemiah 7.68: 68 Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five;

Nehemiah 7.69: 69 their camels, four hundred thirty-five; their donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.

Nehemiah 7.70: 70 Some from among the heads of fathers’ households gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold,2 fifty basins, and five hundred thirty priests’ garments.

Nehemiah 7.71: 71 Some of the heads of fathers’ households gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas3 of silver.

Nehemiah 7.72: 72 That which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, plus two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven priests’ garments.

Nehemiah 7.73: 73 So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel, lived in their cities.

Nehemiah 8.1: 8All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the wide place that was in front of the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel.

Nehemiah 8.2: 2 Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.

Nehemiah 8.3: 3 He read from it before the wide place that was in front of the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those who could understand. The ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law.

Nehemiah 8.4: 4 Ezra the scribe stood on a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

Nehemiah 8.5: 5 Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people (for he was above all the people), and when he opened it, all the people stood up.

All the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” with the lifting up of their hands. They bowed their heads, and worshiped Yahweh with their faces to the ground.

Nehemiah 8.7: 7 Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law; and the people stayed in their place.

Nehemiah 8.8: 8 They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.

Nehemiah 8.9: 9 Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, “Today is holy to Yahweh your God. Don’t mourn, nor weep.” For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.

Nehemiah 8.10: 10 Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

Nehemiah 8.11: 11 So the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Hold your peace, for the day is holy. Don’t be grieved.”

Nehemiah 8.12: 12 All the people went their way to eat, to drink, to send portions, and to celebrate, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.

Nehemiah 8.13: 13 On the second day, the heads of fathers’ households of all the people, the priests, and the Levites were gathered together to Ezra the scribe, to study the words of the law.

Nehemiah 8.14: 14 They found written in the law how Yahweh had commanded by Moses that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;

Nehemiah 8.15: 15 and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the mountain, and get olive branches, branches of wild olive, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make temporary shelters,1 as it is written.”

Nehemiah 8.16: 16 So the people went out, and brought them, and made themselves temporary shelters,2 everyone on the roof of his house, in their courts, in the courts of God’s house, in the wide place of the water gate, and in the wide place of Ephraim’s gate.

Nehemiah 8.17: 17 All the assembly of those who had come back out of the captivity made temporary shelters,3 and lived in the temporary shelters; for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the children of Israel had not done so. There was very great gladness.

Nehemiah 8.18: 18 Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. They kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.

Nehemiah 9.1: 9Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them.

Nehemiah 9.2: 2 The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

Nehemiah 9.3: 3 They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Yahweh their God a fourth part of the day; and a fourth part they confessed, and worshiped Yahweh their God.

Nehemiah 9.4: 4 Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani of the Levites stood up on the stairs, and cried with a loud voice to Yahweh their God.

Nehemiah 9.5: 5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless Yahweh your God from everlasting to everlasting! Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise!

Nehemiah 9.6: 6 You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.

Nehemiah 9.7: 7 You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram, brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, gave him the name of Abraham,

Nehemiah 9.8: 8 found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.

Nehemiah 9.9: 9 “You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,

Nehemiah 9.10: 10 and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is today.

Nehemiah 9.11: 11 You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.

Nehemiah 9.12: 12 Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.

Nehemiah 9.13: 13 “You also came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,

Nehemiah 9.14: 14 and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant,

Nehemiah 9.15: 15 and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought water out of the rock for them for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.

Nehemiah 9.16: 16 “But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,

Nehemiah 9.17: 17 and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.

Nehemiah 9.18: 18 Yes, when they had made themselves a molded calf, and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed awful blasphemies;

Nehemiah 9.19: 19 yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.

Nehemiah 9.20: 20 You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.

Nehemiah 9.21: 21 “Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn’t grow old, and their feet didn’t swell.

Nehemiah 9.22: 22 Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you allotted according to their portions. So they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

Nehemiah 9.23: 23 You also multiplied their children as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you said to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

Nehemiah 9.24: 24 “So the children went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they pleased.

Nehemiah 9.25: 25 They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

Nehemiah 9.26: 26 “Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

Nehemiah 9.27: 27 Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hands of their adversaries.

Nehemiah 9.28: 28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore you left them in the hands of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them; yet when they returned, and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times you delivered them according to your mercies,

Nehemiah 9.29: 29 and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.

Nehemiah 9.30: 30 Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not listen. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

Nehemiah 9.31: 31 “Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.

Nehemiah 9.32: 32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, on our priests, on our prophets, on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.

Nehemiah 9.33: 33 However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.

Nehemiah 9.34: 34 Also our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them.

Nehemiah 9.35: 35 For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land which you gave before them. They didn’t turn from their wicked works.

Nehemiah 9.36: 36 “Behold, we are servants today, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it.

Nehemiah 9.37: 37 It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

Nehemiah 9.38: 38 Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”

Nehemiah 10.1: 10Now those who sealed were: Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,

Nehemiah 10.9: 9 The Levites: namely, Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;

Nehemiah 10.10: 10 and their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,

Nehemiah 10.14: 14 The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,

Nehemiah 10.28: 28 The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters—everyone who had knowledge, and understanding—

Nehemiah 10.29: 29 joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;

Nehemiah 10.30: 30 and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

Nehemiah 10.31: 31 and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

Nehemiah 10.32: 32 Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel1 for the service of the house of our God;

Nehemiah 10.33: 33 for the show bread, for the continual meal offering, for the continual burnt offering, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

Nehemiah 10.34: 34 We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on Yahweh our God’s altar, as it is written in the law;

Nehemiah 10.35: 35 and to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of all kinds of trees, year by year, to Yahweh’s house;

Nehemiah 10.36: 36 also the firstborn of our sons, and of our livestock, as it is written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God;

Nehemiah 10.37: 37 and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, our wave offerings, the fruit of all kinds of trees, and the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

Nehemiah 10.38: 38 The priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes. The Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the rooms, into the treasure house.

Nehemiah 10.39: 39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the wave offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the rooms, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, and the priests who minister, with the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not forsake the house of our God.

Nehemiah 11.1: 11The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem. The rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the other cities.

Nehemiah 11.2: 2 The people blessed all the men who willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 11.3: 3 Now these are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem; but in the cities of Judah everyone lived in his possession in their cities: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the children of Solomon’s servants.

Nehemiah 11.4: 4 Some of the children of Judah and of the children of Benjamin lived in Jerusalem. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez;

Nehemiah 11.5: 5 and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Colhozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of the Shilonite.

Nehemiah 11.6: 6 All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were four hundred sixty-eight valiant men.

Nehemiah 11.7: 7 These are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jeshaiah.

Nehemiah 11.9: 9 Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer; and Judah the son of Hassenuah was second over the city.

Nehemiah 11.11: 11 Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of God’s house,

Nehemiah 11.12: 12 and their brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred twenty-two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,

Nehemiah 11.13: 13 and his brothers, chiefs of fathers’ households, two hundred forty-two; and Amashsai the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,

Nehemiah 11.14: 14 and their brothers, mighty men of valor, one hundred twenty-eight; and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim.

Nehemiah 11.15: 15 Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;

Nehemiah 11.16: 16 and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of God’s house;

Nehemiah 11.17: 17 and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who was the chief to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers; and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.

Nehemiah 11.18: 18 All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four.

Nehemiah 11.19: 19 Moreover the gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were one hundred seventy-two.

Nehemiah 11.20: 20 The residue of Israel, of the priests, the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, everyone in his inheritance.

Nehemiah 11.21: 21 But the temple servants lived in Ophel: and Ziha and Gishpa were over the temple servants.

Nehemiah 11.22: 22 The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the business of God’s house.

Nehemiah 11.23: 23 For there was a commandment from the king concerning them, and a settled provision for the singers, as every day required.

Nehemiah 11.24: 24 Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king’s hand in all matters concerning the people.

Nehemiah 11.25: 25 As for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and its towns, in Dibon and its towns, in Jekabzeel and its villages,

Nehemiah 11.30: 30 Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, and Azekah and its towns. So they encamped from Beersheba to the valley of Hinnom.

Nehemiah 11.31: 31 The children of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns,

Nehemiah 11.36: 36 Of the Levites, certain divisions in Judah settled in Benjamin’s territory.

Nehemiah 12.1: 12Now these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

Nehemiah 12.7: 7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, and Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua.

Nehemiah 12.8: 8 Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who was over the thanksgiving, he and his brothers.

Nehemiah 12.9: 9 Also Bakbukiah and Unno, their brothers, were close to them according to their offices.

Nehemiah 12.10: 10 Jeshua became the father of Joiakim, and Joiakim became the father of Eliashib, and Eliashib became the father of Joiada,

Nehemiah 12.11: 11 and Joiada became the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan became the father of Jaddua.

Nehemiah 12.12: 12 In the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers’ households: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;

Nehemiah 12.22: 22 As for the Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, there were recorded the heads of fathers’ households; also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian.

Nehemiah 12.23: 23 The sons of Levi, heads of fathers’ households, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.

Nehemiah 12.24: 24 The chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers close to them, to praise and give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch next to watch.

Nehemiah 12.25: 25 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were gatekeepers keeping the watch at the storehouses of the gates.

Nehemiah 12.26: 26 These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest and scribe.

Nehemiah 12.27: 27 At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with giving thanks, and with singing, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and with harps.

Nehemiah 12.28: 28 The sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain around Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites;

Nehemiah 12.29: 29 also from Beth Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had built themselves villages around Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 12.30: 30 The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

Nehemiah 12.31: 31 Then I brought up the princes of Judah on the wall, and appointed two great companies who gave thanks and went in procession. One went on the right hand on the wall toward the dung gate;

Nehemiah 12.32: 32 and after them went Hoshaiah, with half of the princes of Judah,

Nehemiah 12.35: 35 and some of the priests’ sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph;

Nehemiah 12.36: 36 and his brothers, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was before them.

Nehemiah 12.37: 37 By the spring gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of David’s city, at the ascent of the wall, above David’s house, even to the water gate eastward.

Nehemiah 12.38: 38 The other company of those who gave thanks went to meet them, and I after them, with the half of the people, on the wall, above the tower of the furnaces, even to the wide wall,

Nehemiah 12.39: 39 and above the gate of Ephraim, and by the old gate, and by the fish gate, and the tower of Hananel, and the tower of Hammeah, even to the sheep gate: and they stood still in the gate of the guard.

Nehemiah 12.40: 40 So the two companies of those who gave thanks in God’s house stood, and I, and the half of the rulers with me;

Nehemiah 12.41: 41 and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;

Nehemiah 12.42: 42 and Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. The singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.

Nehemiah 12.43: 43 They offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women and the children also rejoiced; so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even far away.

Nehemiah 12.44: 44 On that day, men were appointed over the rooms for the treasures, for the wave offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites; for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites who waited.

Nehemiah 12.45: 45 They performed the duty of their God, and the duty of the purification, and so did the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.

Nehemiah 12.46: 46 For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.

Nehemiah 12.47: 47 All Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the gatekeepers, as every day required; and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.

Nehemiah 13.1: 13On that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and it was found written in it that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever,

Nehemiah 13.2: 2 because they didn’t meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them; however our God turned the curse into a blessing.

Nehemiah 13.3: 3 It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel.

Nehemiah 13.4: 4 Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the rooms of the house of our God, being allied to Tobiah,

Nehemiah 13.5: 5 had prepared for him a great room, where before they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, the singers, and the gatekeepers; and the wave offerings for the priests.

Nehemiah 13.6: 6 But in all this, I was not at Jerusalem; for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king; and after some days I asked leave of the king,

Nehemiah 13.7: 7 and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a room in the courts of God’s house.

Nehemiah 13.8: 8 It grieved me severely. Therefore I threw all Tobiah’s household stuff out of the room.

Nehemiah 13.9: 9 Then I commanded, and they cleansed the rooms. I brought into them the vessels of God’s house, with the meal offerings and the frankincense again.

Nehemiah 13.10: 10 I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had each fled to his field.

Nehemiah 13.11: 11 Then I contended with the rulers, and said, “Why is God’s house forsaken?” I gathered them together, and set them in their place.

Nehemiah 13.12: 12 Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain, the new wine, and the oil to the treasuries.

Nehemiah 13.13: 13 I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and their business was to distribute to their brothers.

Nehemiah 13.14: 14 Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don’t wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances.

Nehemiah 13.15: 15 In those days I saw some men treading wine presses on the Sabbath in Judah, bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys; also with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; and I testified against them in the day in which they sold food.

Nehemiah 13.16: 16 Some men of Tyre also lived there, who brought in fish and all kinds of wares, and sold on the Sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 13.17: 17 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, “What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day?

Nehemiah 13.18: 18 Didn’t your fathers do this, and didn’t our God bring all this evil on us, and on this city? Yet you bring more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”

Nehemiah 13.19: 19 It came to pass that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. I set some of my servants over the gates, so that no burden should be brought in on the Sabbath day.

Nehemiah 13.20: 20 So the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares camped outside of Jerusalem once or twice.

Nehemiah 13.21: 21 Then I testified against them, and said to them, “Why do you stay around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on, they didn’t come on the Sabbath.

Nehemiah 13.22: 22 I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.

Nehemiah 13.23: 23 In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;

Nehemiah 13.24: 24 and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.

Nehemiah 13.25: 25 I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.

Nehemiah 13.26: 26 Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.

Nehemiah 13.27: 27 Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?”

Nehemiah 13.28: 28 One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me.

Nehemiah 13.29: 29 Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

Nehemiah 13.30: 30 Thus I cleansed them from all foreigners, and appointed duties for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work;

Nehemiah 13.31: 31 and for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good.

Ezekiel 1.1: 1Now in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.1

Ezekiel 1.2: 2 In the fifth of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,

Ezekiel 1.3: 3 Yahweh’s2 word came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and Yahweh’s hand was there on him.

Ezekiel 1.4: 4 I looked, and behold,3 a stormy wind came out of the north: a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness around it, and out of the middle of it as it were glowing metal, out of the middle of the fire.

Ezekiel 1.5: 5 Out of its center came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: They had the likeness of a man.

Ezekiel 1.7: 7 Their feet were straight feet. The sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like burnished bronze.

Ezekiel 1.8: 8 They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides. The four of them had their faces and their wings like this:

Ezekiel 1.9: 9 Their wings were joined to one another. They didn’t turn when they went. Each one went straight forward.

Ezekiel 1.10: 10 As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man. The four of them had the face of a lion on the right side. The four of them had the face of an ox on the left side. The four of them also had the face of an eagle.

Ezekiel 1.11: 11 Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above. Two wings of each one touched another, and two covered their bodies.

Ezekiel 1.12: 12 Each one went straight forward: where the spirit was to go, they went. They didn’t turn when they went.

Ezekiel 1.13: 13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches. The fire went up and down among the living creatures. The fire was bright, and lightning went out of the fire.

Ezekiel 1.14: 14 The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

Ezekiel 1.15: 15 Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, there was one wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces of it.

Ezekiel 1.16: 16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl. The four of them had one likeness. Their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.

Ezekiel 1.17: 17 When they went, they went in their four directions. They didn’t turn when they went.

Ezekiel 1.18: 18 As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full of eyes all around.

Ezekiel 1.19: 19 When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them. When the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

Ezekiel 1.20: 20 Wherever the spirit was to go, they went. The spirit was to go there. The wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

Ezekiel 1.21: 21 When those went, these went. When those stood, these stood. When those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

Ezekiel 1.22: 22 Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of an expanse, like an awesome crystal to look at, stretched out over their heads above.

Ezekiel 1.23: 23 Under the expanse, their wings were straight, one toward the other. Each one had two which covered on this side, and each one had two which covered their bodies on that side.

Ezekiel 1.24: 24 When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of an army. When they stood, they let down their wings.

Ezekiel 1.25: 25 There was a voice above the expanse that was over their heads. When they stood, they let down their wings.

Ezekiel 1.26: 26 Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire4 stone. On the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.

Ezekiel 1.27: 27 I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it all around, from the appearance of his waist and upward; and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.

Ezekiel 1.28: 28 As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around.

This was the appearance of the likeness of Yahweh’s glory. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.

Ezekiel 2.1: 2He said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.”

Ezekiel 2.2: 2 The Spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and I heard him who spoke to me.

Ezekiel 2.3: 3 He said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day.

Ezekiel 2.4: 4 The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord1 Yahweh says.’

Ezekiel 2.5: 5 They, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse, for they are a rebellious house, yet they will know that there has been a prophet among them.

Ezekiel 2.6: 6 You, son of man, don’t be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you dwell among scorpions. Don’t be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 2.7: 7 You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse; for they are most rebellious.

Ezekiel 2.8: 8 But you, son of man, hear what I tell you. Don’t be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth, and eat that which I give you.”

Ezekiel 2.9: 9 When I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me; and, behold, a scroll of a book was in it.

Ezekiel 2.10: 10 He spread it before me. It was written within and without; and lamentations, mourning, and woe were written in it.

Ezekiel 3.1: 3He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.”

Ezekiel 3.3: 3 He said to me, “Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you.”

Ezekiel 3.4: 4 He said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.

Ezekiel 3.5: 5 For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;

Ezekiel 3.6: 6 not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can’t understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.

Ezekiel 3.7: 7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to me; for all the house of Israel are obstinate1 and hard-hearted.

Ezekiel 3.8: 8 Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.

Ezekiel 3.9: 9 I have made your forehead as a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.”

Ezekiel 3.10: 10 Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, receive in your heart and hear with your ears all my words that I speak to you.

Ezekiel 3.11: 11 Go to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says,’ whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse.

Ezekiel 3.12: 12 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, saying, “Blessed be Yahweh’s glory from his place.”

Ezekiel 3.13: 13 I heard the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, even the noise of a great rushing.

Ezekiel 3.14: 14 So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and Yahweh’s hand was strong on me.

Ezekiel 3.15: 15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.

Ezekiel 3.17: 17 “Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.

Ezekiel 3.18: 18 When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.

Ezekiel 3.19: 19 Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn’t turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.”

Ezekiel 3.20: 20 “Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

Ezekiel 3.21: 21 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he will surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.”

Ezekiel 3.22: 22 Yahweh’s hand was there on me; and he said to me, “Arise, go out into the plain, and I will talk with you there.”

Ezekiel 3.23: 23 Then I arose, and went out into the plain, and behold, Yahweh’s glory stood there, like the glory which I saw by the river Chebar. Then I fell on my face.

Ezekiel 3.24: 24 Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet. He spoke with me, and said to me, “Go, shut yourself inside your house.

Ezekiel 3.25: 25 But you, son of man, behold, they will put ropes on you, and will bind you with them, and you will not go out among them.

Ezekiel 3.26: 26 I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, that you will be mute, and will not be able to correct them; for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 3.27: 27 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says.’ He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.”

Ezekiel 4.1: 4“You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 4.2: 2 Lay siege against it, build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it. Also set camps against it and plant battering rams against it all around.

Ezekiel 4.3: 3 Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city. Then set your face toward it. It will be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 4.4: 4 “Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. According to the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.

Ezekiel 4.5: 5 For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 4.6: 6 “Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have appointed forty days, each day for a year, to you.

Ezekiel 4.7: 7 You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.

Ezekiel 4.8: 8 Behold, I put ropes on you, and you shall not turn yourself from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege.

Ezekiel 4.9: 9 “Take for yourself also wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel. Make bread of it. According to the number of the days that you will lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it.

Ezekiel 4.10: 10 Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels1 a day. From time to time you shall eat it.

Ezekiel 4.11: 11 You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin.2 From time to time you shall drink.

Ezekiel 4.12: 12 You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.”

Ezekiel 4.13: 13 Yahweh said, “Even thus will the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.”

Ezekiel 4.14: 14 Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals. No abominable meat has come into my mouth!”

Ezekiel 4.15: 15 Then he said to me, “Behold, I have given you cow’s dung for man’s dung, and you shall prepare your bread on it.”

Ezekiel 4.16: 16 Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness. They will drink water by measure, and in dismay;

Ezekiel 4.17: 17 that they may lack bread and water, be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

Ezekiel 5.1: 5“You, son of man, take a sharp sword. You shall take it as a barber’s razor to yourself, and shall cause it to pass over your head and over your beard. Then take balances to weigh and divide the hair.

Ezekiel 5.2: 2 A third part you shall burn in the fire in the middle of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled. You shall take a third part, and strike with the sword around it. A third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.

Ezekiel 5.3: 3 You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in the folds of your robe.

Ezekiel 5.4: 4 Of these again you shall take, and cast them into the middle of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From it a fire will come out into all the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 5.5: 5 “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the middle of the nations, and countries are around her.

Ezekiel 5.6: 6 She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.’

Ezekiel 5.7: 7 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have followed the ordinances of the nations that are around you;

Ezekiel 5.8: 8 therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.

Ezekiel 5.9: 9 I will do in you that which I have not done, and which I will not do anything like it any more, because of all your abominations.

Ezekiel 5.10: 10 Therefore the fathers will eat the sons within you, and the sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you; and I will scatter the whole remnant of you to all the winds.

Ezekiel 5.11: 11 Therefore as I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you. My eye won’t spare, and I will have no pity.

Ezekiel 5.12: 12 A third part of you will die with the pestilence, and they will be consumed with famine within you. A third part will fall by the sword around you. A third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.

Ezekiel 5.13: 13 “‘Thus my anger will be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I will be comforted. They will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them.

Ezekiel 5.14: 14 “‘Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.

Ezekiel 5.15: 15 So it will be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes—I, Yahweh, have spoken it—

Ezekiel 5.16: 16 when I send on them the evil arrows of famine that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you. I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread.

Ezekiel 5.17: 17 I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood will pass through you. I will bring the sword on you. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.’”

Ezekiel 6.2: 2 “Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy to them,

Ezekiel 6.3: 3 and say, ‘You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh! The Lord Yahweh says to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: “Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places.

Ezekiel 6.4: 4 Your altars will become desolate, and your incense altars will be broken. I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

Ezekiel 6.5: 5 I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols. I will scatter your bones around your altars.

Ezekiel 6.6: 6 In all your dwelling places, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

Ezekiel 6.7: 7 The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am Yahweh.

Ezekiel 6.8: 8 “‘“Yet I will leave a remnant, in that you will have some that escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the countries.

Ezekiel 6.9: 9 Those of you that escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols. Then they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

Ezekiel 6.10: 10 They will know that I am Yahweh. I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them.”’

Ezekiel 6.11: 11 “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Strike with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say, “Alas!” Because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel; for they will fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

Ezekiel 6.12: 12 He who is far off will die of the pestilence. He who is near will fall by the sword. He who remains and is besieged will die by the famine. Thus I will accomplish my wrath on them.

Ezekiel 6.13: 13 You will know that I am Yahweh, when their slain men are among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered pleasant aroma to all their idols.

Ezekiel 6.14: 14 I will stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 7.2: 2 “You, son of man, the Lord Yahweh says to the land of Israel, ‘An end! The end has come on the four corners of the land.

Ezekiel 7.3: 3 Now is the end on you, and I will send my anger on you, and will judge you according to your ways. I will bring on you all your abominations.

Ezekiel 7.4: 4 My eye will not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations will be among you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’

Ezekiel 7.5: 5 “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘An evil! A unique evil! Behold, it comes.

Ezekiel 7.6: 6 An end has come. The end has come! It awakes against you. Behold, it comes.

Ezekiel 7.7: 7 Your doom has come to you, inhabitant of the land! The time has come! The day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting, on the mountains.

Ezekiel 7.8: 8 Now I will shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways. I will bring on you all your abominations.

Ezekiel 7.9: 9 My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways. Your abominations will be among you. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, strike.

Ezekiel 7.10: 10 “‘Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has gone out. The rod has blossomed. Pride has budded.

Ezekiel 7.11: 11 Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them will remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth. There will be nothing of value among them.

Ezekiel 7.12: 12 The time has come! The day draws near. Don’t let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its multitude.

Ezekiel 7.13: 13 For the seller won’t return to that which is sold, although they are still alive; for the vision concerns the whole multitude of it. None will return. None will strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

Ezekiel 7.14: 14 They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but no one goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all its multitude.

Ezekiel 7.15: 15 “‘The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within. He who is in the field will die by the sword. He who is in the city will be devoured by famine and pestilence.

Ezekiel 7.16: 16 But those of those who escape, they will escape and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, everyone in his iniquity.

Ezekiel 7.18: 18 They will also clothe themselves with sackcloth, and horror will cover them. Shame will be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.

Ezekiel 7.19: 19 They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold won’t be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls or fill their bellies; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.

Ezekiel 7.20: 20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things therein. Therefore I have made it to them as an unclean thing.

Ezekiel 7.21: 21 I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a plunder; and they will profane it.

Ezekiel 7.22: 22 I will also turn my face from them, and they will profane my secret place. Robbers will enter into it, and profane it.

Ezekiel 7.23: 23 “‘Make chains; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

Ezekiel 7.24: 24 Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will possess their houses. I will also make the pride of the strong to cease. Their holy places will be profaned.

Ezekiel 7.25: 25 Destruction comes! They will seek peace, and there will be none.

Ezekiel 7.26: 26 Mischief will come on mischief, and rumor will be on rumor. They will seek a vision of the prophet; but the law will perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

Ezekiel 7.27: 27 The king will mourn, and the prince will be clothed with desolation. The hands of the people of the land will be troubled. I will do to them after their way, and according to their own judgments I will judge them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 8.1: 8In the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, the Lord Yahweh’s hand fell on me there.

Ezekiel 8.2: 2 Then I saw, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his waist and downward, fire; and from his waist and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal.

Ezekiel 8.3: 3 He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.

Ezekiel 8.4: 4 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the appearance that I saw in the plain.

Ezekiel 8.5: 5 Then he said to me, “Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward the north.”

So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and saw, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.

Ezekiel 8.6: 6 He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they do? Even the great abominations that the house of Israel commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you will again see yet other great abominations.”

Ezekiel 8.7: 7 He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.

Ezekiel 8.9: 9 He said to me, “Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.”

Ezekiel 8.10: 10 So I went in and looked, and saw every form of creeping things, abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed around on the wall.

Ezekiel 8.11: 11 Seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel stood before them. In the middle of them Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan stood, every man with his censer in his hand; and the smell of the cloud of incense went up.

Ezekiel 8.12: 12 Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, ‘Yahweh doesn’t see us. Yahweh has forsaken the land.’”

Ezekiel 8.13: 13 He said also to me, “You will again see more of the great abominations which they do.”

Ezekiel 8.14: 14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh’s house which was toward the north; and I saw the women sit there weeping for Tammuz.

Ezekiel 8.15: 15 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? You will again see yet greater abominations than these.”

Ezekiel 8.16: 16 He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh’s house; and I saw at the door of Yahweh’s temple, between the porch and the altar, there were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward Yahweh’s temple, and their faces toward the east. They were worshiping the sun toward the east.

Ezekiel 8.17: 17 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger. Behold, they put the branch to their nose.

Ezekiel 8.18: 18 Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.”

Ezekiel 9.1: 9Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, “Cause those who are in charge of the city to draw near, each man with his destroying weapon in his hand.”

Ezekiel 9.2: 2 Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lies toward the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand. One man in the middle of them was clothed in linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side. They went in, and stood beside the bronze altar.

Ezekiel 9.3: 3 The glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house; and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn by his side.

Ezekiel 9.4: 4 Yahweh said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”

Ezekiel 9.5: 5 To the others he said in my hearing, “Go through the city after him, and strike. Don’t let your eye spare, neither have pity.

Ezekiel 9.6: 6 Kill utterly the old man, the young man, the virgin, little children and women; but don’t come near any man on whom is the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.”

Ezekiel 9.7: 7 He said to them, “Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!”

Ezekiel 9.8: 8 While they were killing, and I was left, I fell on my face, and cried, and said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Will you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring out of your wrath on Jerusalem?”

Ezekiel 9.9: 9 Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’

Ezekiel 9.10: 10 As for me also, my eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head.”

Ezekiel 9.11: 11 Behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, “I have done as you have commanded me.”

Ezekiel 10.1: 10Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire1 stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

Ezekiel 10.2: 2 He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, “Go in between the whirling wheels, even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city.”

Ezekiel 10.3: 3 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

Ezekiel 10.4: 4 Yahweh’s glory mounted up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Yahweh’s glory.

Ezekiel 10.5: 5 The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.

Ezekiel 10.6: 6 It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim,” that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.

Ezekiel 10.7: 7 The cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took some of it, and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out.

Ezekiel 10.8: 8 The form of a man’s hand appeared here in the cherubim under their wings.

Ezekiel 10.9: 9 I looked, and behold, there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub. The appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone.

Ezekiel 10.10: 10 As for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, like a wheel within a wheel.

Ezekiel 10.11: 11 When they went, they went in their four directions. They didn’t turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it. They didn’t turn as they went.

Ezekiel 10.12: 12 Their whole body, including their backs, their hands, their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes all around, even the wheels that the four of them had.

Ezekiel 10.13: 13 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, “the whirling wheels”.

Ezekiel 10.14: 14 Every one them had four faces. The first face was the face of the cherub. The second face was the face of a man. The third face was the face of a lion. The fourth was the face of an eagle.

Ezekiel 10.15: 15 The cherubim mounted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.

Ezekiel 10.16: 16 When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also didn’t turn from beside them.

Ezekiel 10.17: 17 When they stood, these stood. When they mounted up, these mounted up with them; for the spirit of the living creature was in them.

Ezekiel 10.18: 18 Yahweh’s glory went out from over the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.

Ezekiel 10.19: 19 The cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went out, with the wheels beside them. Then they stood at the door of the east gate of Yahweh’s house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

Ezekiel 10.20: 20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.

Ezekiel 10.21: 21 Every one had four faces, and every one four wings. The likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.

Ezekiel 10.22: 22 As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves. They each went straight forward.

Ezekiel 11.1: 11Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of Yahweh’s house, which looks eastward. Behold, twenty-five men were at the door of the gate; and I saw among them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.

Ezekiel 11.2: 2 He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;

Ezekiel 11.3: 3 who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. This is the cauldron, and we are the meat.’

Ezekiel 11.5: 5 Yahweh’s Spirit fell on me, and he said to me, “Speak, ‘Yahweh says: “Thus you have said, house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.

Ezekiel 11.6: 6 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.

Ezekiel 11.7: 7 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Your slain whom you have laid in the middle of it, they are the meat, and this is the cauldron; but you will be brought out of the middle of it.

Ezekiel 11.8: 8 You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 11.9: 9 “I will bring you out of the middle of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.

Ezekiel 11.10: 10 You will fall by the sword. I will judge you in the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

Ezekiel 11.11: 11 This will not be your cauldron, neither will you be the meat in the middle of it. I will judge you in the border of Israel.

Ezekiel 11.12: 12 You will know that I am Yahweh, for you have not walked in my statutes, You have not executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you.”’”

Ezekiel 11.13: 13 When I prophesied, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?”

Ezekiel 11.15: 15 “Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far away from Yahweh. This land has been given to us for a possession.’”

Ezekiel 11.16: 16 “Therefore say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet I will be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they have come.”’

Ezekiel 11.17: 17 “Therefore say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.”

Ezekiel 11.18: 18 “‘They will come there, and they will take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there.

Ezekiel 11.19: 19 I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

Ezekiel 11.20: 20 that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 11.21: 21 But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 11.22: 22 Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels were beside them. The glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

Ezekiel 11.23: 23 Yahweh’s glory went up from the middle of the city, and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city.

Ezekiel 11.24: 24 The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to the captives.

Ezekiel 11.25: 25 Then I spoke to the captives all the things that Yahweh had shown me.

Ezekiel 12.2: 2 “Son of man, you dwell in the middle of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don’t see, who have ears to hear, and don’t hear; for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 12.3: 3 “Therefore, you son of man, prepare your stuff for moving, and move by day in their sight. You shall move from your place to another place in their sight. It may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 12.4: 4 You shall bring out your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for moving. You shall go out yourself at evening in their sight, as when men go out into exile.

Ezekiel 12.5: 5 Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your stuff out that way.

Ezekiel 12.6: 6 In their sight you shall bear it on your shoulder, and carry it out in the dark. You shall cover your face, so that you don’t see the land, for I have set you for a sign to the house of Israel.”

Ezekiel 12.7: 7 I did so as I was commanded. I brought out my stuff by day, as stuff for moving, and in the evening I dug through the wall with my hand. I brought it out in the dark, and bore it on my shoulder in their sight.

Ezekiel 12.9: 9 “Son of man, hasn’t the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’

Ezekiel 12.10: 10 “Say to them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “This burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel among whom they are.”’

Ezekiel 12.11: 11 “Say, ‘I am your sign. As I have done, so will it be done to them. They will go into exile, into captivity.

Ezekiel 12.12: 12 “‘The prince who is among them will bear on his shoulder in the dark, and will go out. They will dig through the wall to carry things out that way. He will cover his face, because he will not see the land with his eyes.

Ezekiel 12.13: 13 I will also spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he will die there.

Ezekiel 12.14: 14 I will scatter toward every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his bands. I will draw out the sword after them.

Ezekiel 12.15: 15 “‘They will know that I am Yahweh when I disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries.

Ezekiel 12.16: 16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 12.18: 18 “Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness.

Ezekiel 12.19: 19 Tell the people of the land, ‘The Lord Yahweh says concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: “They will eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, and all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.

Ezekiel 12.20: 20 The cities that are inhabited will be laid waste, and the land will be a desolation. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”’”

Ezekiel 12.22: 22 “Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, ‘The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?’

Ezekiel 12.23: 23 Tell them therefore, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I will make this proverb to cease, and they will no more use it as a proverb in Israel;”’ but tell them, ‘“The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision.

Ezekiel 12.24: 24 For there will be no more any false vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 12.25: 25 For I am Yahweh. I will speak, and the word that I speak will be performed. It will be no more deferred; for in your days, rebellious house, I will speak the word, and will perform it,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 12.27: 27 “Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, ‘The vision that he sees is for many days to come, and he prophesies of times that are far off.’

Ezekiel 12.28: 28 “Therefore tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “None of my words will be deferred any more, but the word which I speak will be performed,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 13.2: 2 “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word:

Ezekiel 13.3: 3 The Lord Yahweh says, “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

Ezekiel 13.5: 5 You have not gone up into the gaps or built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in Yahweh’s day.

Ezekiel 13.6: 6 They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, ‘Yahweh says;’ but Yahweh has not sent them. They have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed.

Ezekiel 13.7: 7 Haven’t you seen a false vision, and haven’t you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, ‘Yahweh says;’ but I have not spoken?”

Ezekiel 13.8: 8 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have spoken falsehood and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 13.9: 9 “My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who utter lying divinations. They will not be in the council of my people, neither will they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither will they enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 13.10: 10 “‘Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, “Peace;” and there is no peace. When one builds up a wall, behold, they plaster it with whitewash.

Ezekiel 13.11: 11 Tell those who plaster it with whitewash that it will fall. There will be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones, will fall. A stormy wind will tear it.

Ezekiel 13.12: 12 Behold, when the wall has fallen, won’t it be said to you, “Where is the plaster with which you have plastered it?”

Ezekiel 13.13: 13 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath. There will be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.

Ezekiel 13.14: 14 So I will break down the wall that you have plastered with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be uncovered. It will fall, and you will be consumed in the middle of it. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

Ezekiel 13.15: 15 Thus I will accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on those who have plastered it with whitewash. I will tell you, ‘The wall is no more, neither those who plastered it;

Ezekiel 13.16: 16 to wit, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace,’” says the Lord Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 13.17: 17 You, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy against them,

Ezekiel 13.18: 18 and say, “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Woe to the women who sew pillows on all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head of persons of every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves?

Ezekiel 13.19: 19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.’

Ezekiel 13.20: 20 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I am against your pillows, with which you hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms. I will let the souls go, even the souls whom you hunt to make them fly.

Ezekiel 13.21: 21 I will also tear your kerchiefs, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they will be no more in your hand to be hunted. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

Ezekiel 13.22: 22 Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive.

Ezekiel 13.23: 23 Therefore you shall no more see false visions, nor practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 14.1: 14Then some of the elders of Israel came to me, and sat before me.

Ezekiel 14.3: 3 “Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?

Ezekiel 14.4: 4 Therefore speak to them, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I Yahweh will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols;

Ezekiel 14.5: 5 that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.”’

Ezekiel 14.6: 6 “Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Return, and turn yourselves from your idols! Turn away your faces from all your abominations.

Ezekiel 14.7: 7 “‘“For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Yahweh will answer him by myself.

Ezekiel 14.8: 8 I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

Ezekiel 14.9: 9 “‘“If the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from among my people Israel.

Ezekiel 14.10: 10 They will bear their iniquity. The iniquity of the prophet will be even as the iniquity of him who seeks him;

Ezekiel 14.11: 11 that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 14.13: 13 “Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of its bread, and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal;

Ezekiel 14.14: 14 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 14.15: 15 “If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it is made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals;

Ezekiel 14.16: 16 though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They only would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.

Ezekiel 14.17: 17 “Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal;’

Ezekiel 14.18: 18 though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only would be delivered themselves.

Ezekiel 14.19: 19 “Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal;

Ezekiel 14.20: 20 though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.”

Ezekiel 14.21: 21 For the Lord Yahweh says: “How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, the famine, the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal!

Ezekiel 14.22: 22 Yet, behold, there will be left a remnant in it that will be carried out, both sons and daughters. Behold, they will come out to you, and you will see their way and their doings. Then you will be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought on it.

Ezekiel 14.23: 23 They will comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; then you will know that I have not done all that I have done in it without cause,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 15.2: 2 “Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, the vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest?

Ezekiel 15.3: 3 Will wood be taken of it to make anything? Will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel on it?

Ezekiel 15.4: 4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has devoured both its ends, and the middle of it is burned. Is it profitable for any work?

Ezekiel 15.5: 5 Behold, when it was whole, it was suitable for no work. How much less, when the fire has devoured it, and it has been burned, will it yet be suitable for any work?”

Ezekiel 15.6: 6 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 15.7: 7 I will set my face against them. They will go out from the fire, but the fire will devour them. Then you will know that I am Yahweh, when I set my face against them.

Ezekiel 15.8: 8 I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 16.3: 3 and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says to Jerusalem: “Your origin and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite. An Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.

Ezekiel 16.4: 4 As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut. You weren’t washed in water to cleanse you. You weren’t salted at all, nor wrapped in blankets at all.

Ezekiel 16.5: 5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, because you were abhorred in the day that you were born.

Ezekiel 16.6: 6 “‘“When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’ Yes, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’

Ezekiel 16.7: 7 I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament. Your breasts were formed, and your hair grew; yet you were naked and bare.

Ezekiel 16.8: 8 “‘“Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.

Ezekiel 16.9: 9 “‘“Then washed I you with water. Yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil.

Ezekiel 16.10: 10 I clothed you also with embroidered work, and put sealskin sandals on you. I dressed you with fine linen and covered you with silk.

Ezekiel 16.11: 11 I decked you with ornaments, put bracelets on your hands, and put a chain on your neck.

Ezekiel 16.12: 12 I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

Ezekiel 16.13: 13 Thus you were decked with gold and silver. Your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered work. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. You were exceedingly beautiful, and you prospered to royal estate.

Ezekiel 16.14: 14 Your renown went out among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 16.15: 15 “‘“But you trusted in your beauty, and played the prostitute because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone who passed by. It was his.

Ezekiel 16.16: 16 You took some of your garments, and made for yourselves high places decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them. This shall not happen, neither shall it be.

Ezekiel 16.17: 17 You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them.

Ezekiel 16.18: 18 You took your embroidered garments, covered them, and set my oil and my incense before them.

Ezekiel 16.19: 19 My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you even set it before them for a pleasant aroma; and so it was,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 16.20: 20 “‘“Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter,

Ezekiel 16.21: 21 that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire to them?

Ezekiel 16.22: 22 In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were wallowing in your blood.

Ezekiel 16.23: 23 “‘“It has happened after all your wickedness. Woe, woe to you!” says the Lord Yahweh,

Ezekiel 16.24: 24 “that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street.

Ezekiel 16.25: 25 You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution.

Ezekiel 16.26: 26 You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.

Ezekiel 16.27: 27 See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your portion, and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.

Ezekiel 16.28: 28 You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute with them, and yet you weren’t satisfied.

Ezekiel 16.29: 29 You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren’t satisfied with this.

Ezekiel 16.30: 30 “‘“How weak is your heart,” says the Lord Yahweh, “since you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;

Ezekiel 16.31: 31 in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.

Ezekiel 16.32: 32 “‘“A wife who commits adultery! Who takes strangers instead of her husband!

Ezekiel 16.33: 33 People give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.

Ezekiel 16.34: 34 You are different from other women in your prostitution, in that no one follows you to play the prostitute; and whereas you give hire, and no hire is given to you, therefore you are different.”’

Ezekiel 16.36: 36 ‘The Lord Yahweh says, “Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them;

Ezekiel 16.37: 37 therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated. I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.

Ezekiel 16.38: 38 I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

Ezekiel 16.39: 39 I will also give you into their hand, and they will throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places. They will strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful jewels. They will leave you naked and bare.

Ezekiel 16.40: 40 They will also bring up a company against you, and they will stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

Ezekiel 16.41: 41 They will burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute, and you will also give no hire any more.

Ezekiel 16.42: 42 So I will cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my jealousy will depart from you. I will be quiet, and will not be angry any more.

Ezekiel 16.43: 43 “‘“Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head,” says the Lord Yahweh: “and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.

Ezekiel 16.44: 44 “‘“Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you, saying, ‘As is the mother, so is her daughter.’

Ezekiel 16.45: 45 You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

Ezekiel 16.46: 46 Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom with her daughters.

Ezekiel 16.47: 47 Yet you have not walked in their ways, nor done their abominations; but soon you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.

Ezekiel 16.48: 48 As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.

Ezekiel 16.49: 49 “‘“Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters. She also didn’t strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Ezekiel 16.50: 50 They were arrogant, and committed abomination before me. Therefore I took them away when I saw it.

Ezekiel 16.51: 51 Samaria hasn’t committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all your abominations which you have done.

Ezekiel 16.52: 52 You also bear your own shame yourself, in that you have given judgment for your sisters; through your sins that you have committed more abominable than they, they are more righteous than you. Yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.

Ezekiel 16.53: 53 “‘“I will reverse their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of your captives among them;

Ezekiel 16.54: 54 that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed because of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them.

Ezekiel 16.55: 55 Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will return to their former estate; and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former estate; and you and your daughters will return to your former estate.

Ezekiel 16.56: 56 For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride,

Ezekiel 16.57: 57 before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all who are around her, the daughters of the Philistines, who despise you all around.

Ezekiel 16.58: 58 You have borne your lewdness and your abominations,” says Yahweh.

Ezekiel 16.59: 59 “‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

Ezekiel 16.60: 60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.

Ezekiel 16.61: 61 Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your sisters, your elder sisters and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.

Ezekiel 16.62: 62 I will establish my covenant with you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh;

Ezekiel 16.63: 63 that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 17.2: 2 “Son of man, tell a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;

Ezekiel 17.3: 3 and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar.

Ezekiel 17.4: 4 He cropped off the topmost of its young twigs, and carried it to a land of traffic. He planted it in a city of merchants.

Ezekiel 17.5: 5 “‘“He also took some of the seed of the land, and planted it in fruitful soil. He placed it beside many waters. He set it as a willow tree.

Ezekiel 17.6: 6 It grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him. So it became a vine, produced branches, and shot out sprigs.

Ezekiel 17.7: 7 “‘“There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. Behold, this vine bent its roots toward him, and shot out its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it.

Ezekiel 17.8: 8 It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might produce branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a good vine.”’

Ezekiel 17.9: 9 “Say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Will it prosper? Won’t he pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? It can’t be raised from its roots by a strong arm or many people.

Ezekiel 17.10: 10 Yes, behold, being planted, will it prosper? Won’t it utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It will wither in the beds where it grew.”’”

Ezekiel 17.12: 12 “Say now to the rebellious house, ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took its king, and its princes, and brought them to him to Babylon.

Ezekiel 17.13: 13 He took some of the royal offspring,1 and made a covenant with him. He also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land;

Ezekiel 17.14: 14 that the kingdom might be brought low, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.

Ezekiel 17.15: 15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the covenant, and still escape?

Ezekiel 17.16: 16 “‘As I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the middle of Babylon he will die.

Ezekiel 17.17: 17 Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company won’t help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons.

Ezekiel 17.18: 18 For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things. He won’t escape.

Ezekiel 17.19: 19 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘As I live, I will surely bring on his own head my oath that he has despised and my covenant that he has broken.

Ezekiel 17.20: 20 I will spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.

Ezekiel 17.21: 21 All his fugitives in all his bands will fall by the sword, and those who remain will be scattered toward every wind. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it.’

Ezekiel 17.22: 22 “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘I will also take some of the lofty top of the cedar, and will plant it. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.

Ezekiel 17.23: 23 I will plant it in the mountain of the height of Israel; and it will produce boughs, and bear fruit, and be a good cedar. Birds of every kind will dwell in the shade of its branches.

Ezekiel 17.24: 24 All the trees of the field will know that I, Yahweh, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree flourish.

Ezekiel 18.2: 2 “What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying,

Ezekiel 18.3: 3 “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “you shall not use this proverb any more in Israel.

Ezekiel 18.4: 4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine. The soul who sins, he shall die.

Ezekiel 18.10: 10 “If he fathers a son who is a robber who sheds blood, and who does any one of these things,

shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood will be on him.

Ezekiel 18.14: 14 “Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father’s sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;

Ezekiel 18.18: 18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he will die in his iniquity.

Ezekiel 18.19: 19 “Yet you say, ‘Why doesn’t the son bear the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he will surely live.

Ezekiel 18.20: 20 The soul who sins, he shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

Ezekiel 18.21: 21 “But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

Ezekiel 18.22: 22 None of his transgressions that he has committed will be remembered against him. In his righteousness that he has done, he shall live.

Ezekiel 18.23: 23 Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?” says the Lord Yahweh; “and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

Ezekiel 18.24: 24 “But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

Ezekiel 18.25: 25 “Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal?

Ezekiel 18.26: 26 When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done he shall die.

Ezekiel 18.27: 27 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he will save his soul alive.

Ezekiel 18.28: 28 Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

Ezekiel 18.29: 29 Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ House of Israel, aren’t my ways fair? Aren’t your ways unfair?

Ezekiel 18.30: 30 “Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity will not be your ruin.

Ezekiel 18.31: 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

Ezekiel 18.32: 32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!

Ezekiel 20.1: 20In the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Yahweh, and sat before me.

Ezekiel 20.3: 3 “Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Is it to inquire of me that you have come? As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will not be inquired of by you.”’

Ezekiel 20.4: 4 “Will you judge them, son of man? Will you judge them? Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers.

Ezekiel 20.5: 5 Tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “In the day when I chose Israel, and swore to the offspring of the house of Jacob, and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, ‘I am Yahweh your God;’

Ezekiel 20.6: 6 in that day I swore to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.

Ezekiel 20.7: 7 I said to them, ‘Each of you throw away the abominations of his eyes. Don’t defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.’

Ezekiel 20.8: 8 “‘“But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me. They didn’t all throw away the abominations of their eyes. They also didn’t forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the middle of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 20.9: 9 But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 20.10: 10 So I caused them to go out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.

Ezekiel 20.11: 11 I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them.

Ezekiel 20.12: 12 Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.

Ezekiel 20.13: 13 “‘“But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

Ezekiel 20.14: 14 But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

Ezekiel 20.15: 15 Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

Ezekiel 20.16: 16 because they rejected my ordinances, and didn’t walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.

Ezekiel 20.17: 17 Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn’t destroy them. I didn’t make a full end of them in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 20.18: 18 I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers. Don’t observe their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

Ezekiel 20.19: 19 I am Yahweh your God. Walk in my statutes, keep my ordinances, and do them.

Ezekiel 20.20: 20 Make my Sabbaths holy. They shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.’

Ezekiel 20.21: 21 “‘“But the children rebelled against me. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and didn’t keep my ordinances to do them, which if a man does, he shall live in them. They profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 20.22: 22 Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

Ezekiel 20.23: 23 Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;

Ezekiel 20.24: 24 because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.

Ezekiel 20.25: 25 Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live.

Ezekiel 20.26: 26 I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused all that opens the womb to pass through the fire, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Yahweh.”’

Ezekiel 20.27: 27 “Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Moreover, in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.

Ezekiel 20.28: 28 For when I had brought them into the land which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering. There they also made their pleasant aroma, and there they poured out their drink offerings.

Ezekiel 20.29: 29 Then I said to them, ‘What does the high place where you go mean?’ So its name is called Bamah1 to this day.”’

Ezekiel 20.30: 30 “Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Do you pollute yourselves in the way of your fathers? Do you play the prostitute after their abominations?

Ezekiel 20.31: 31 When you offer your gifts, when you make your sons pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols to this day? Should I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you!

Ezekiel 20.32: 32 “‘“That which comes into your mind will not be at all, in that you say, ‘We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.’

Ezekiel 20.33: 33 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, I will be king over you.

Ezekiel 20.34: 34 I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the countries in which you are scattered with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out.

Ezekiel 20.35: 35 I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

Ezekiel 20.36: 36 Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 20.37: 37 “I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

Ezekiel 20.38: 38 I will purge out from among you the rebels and those who disobey me. I will bring them out of the land where they live, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 20.39: 39 “‘As for you, house of Israel, the Lord Yahweh says: “Go, everyone serve his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but you shall no more profane my holy name with your gifts and with your idols.

Ezekiel 20.40: 40 For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh, “there all the house of Israel, all of them, shall serve me in the land. There I will accept them, and there I will require your offerings and the first fruits of your offerings, with all your holy things.

Ezekiel 20.41: 41 I will accept you as a pleasant aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered. I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.

Ezekiel 20.42: 42 You will know that I am Yahweh when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the country which I swore to give to your fathers.

Ezekiel 20.43: 43 There you will remember your ways, and all your deeds in which you have polluted yourselves. Then you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.

Ezekiel 20.44: 44 You will know that I am Yahweh, when I have dealt with you for my name’s sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, you house of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 20.46: 46 “Son of man, set your face toward the south, and preach toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South.

Ezekiel 20.47: 47 Tell the forest of the South, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word: The Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree. The burning flame will not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north will be burned by it.

Ezekiel 20.48: 48 All flesh will see that I, Yahweh, have kindled it. It will not be quenched.”’”

Ezekiel 20.49: 49 Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! They say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’”

Ezekiel 21.2: 2 “Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and preach toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel.

Ezekiel 21.3: 3 Tell the land of Israel, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, and will draw my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.

Ezekiel 21.4: 4 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore my sword will go out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north.

Ezekiel 21.5: 5 All flesh will know that I, Yahweh, have drawn my sword out of its sheath. It will not return any more.”’

Ezekiel 21.6: 6 “Therefore sigh, you son of man. You shall sigh before their eyes with a broken heart1 and with bitterness.

Ezekiel 21.7: 7 It shall be, when they ask you, ‘Why do you sigh?’ that you shall say, ‘Because of the news, for it comes! Every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 21.13: 13 “For there is a trial. What if even the rod that condemns will be no more?” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 21.19: 19 “Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come. They both will come out of one land, and mark out a place. Mark it out at the head of the way to the city.

Ezekiel 21.20: 20 You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

Ezekiel 21.21: 21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows back and forth. He consulted the teraphim.2 He looked in the liver.

Ezekiel 21.22: 22 In his right hand was the lot for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, and to build forts.

Ezekiel 21.23: 23 It will be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken.

Ezekiel 21.24: 24 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have caused your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear; because you have come to memory, you will be taken with the hand.

Ezekiel 21.25: 25 “‘You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,

Ezekiel 21.26: 26 the Lord Yahweh says: “Remove the turban, and take off the crown. This will not be as it was. Exalt that which is low, and humble that which is high.

Ezekiel 21.27: 27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it. This also will be no more, until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it.”’

Ezekiel 21.28: 28 “You, son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says this concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach:

Ezekiel 22.2: 2 “You, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.

Ezekiel 22.3: 3 You shall say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “A city that sheds blood within herself, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!

Ezekiel 22.4: 4 You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made! You have caused your days to draw near, and have come even to your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.

Ezekiel 22.5: 5 Those who are near, and those who are far from you, will mock you, you infamous one, full of tumult.

Ezekiel 22.6: 6 “‘“Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.

Ezekiel 22.7: 7 In you have they treated father and mother with contempt.1 Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

Ezekiel 22.8: 8 You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

Ezekiel 22.9: 9 Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.

Ezekiel 22.10: 10 In you have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness. In you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.

Ezekiel 22.11: 11 One has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. Another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.

Ezekiel 22.12: 12 In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 22.13: 13 “‘“Behold, therefore I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been within you.

Ezekiel 22.14: 14 Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I will deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it.

Ezekiel 22.15: 15 I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries. I will consume your filthiness out of you.

Ezekiel 22.16: 16 You will be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”’”

Ezekiel 22.18: 18 “Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the middle of the furnace. They are the dross of silver.

Ezekiel 22.19: 19 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the middle of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 22.20: 20 As they gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the middle of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.

Ezekiel 22.21: 21 Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you will be melted in the middle of it.

Ezekiel 22.22: 22 As silver is melted in the middle of the furnace, so you will be melted in the middle of it; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.’”

Ezekiel 22.24: 24 “Son of man, tell her, ‘You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation.’

Ezekiel 22.25: 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets within it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made many widows within it.

Ezekiel 22.26: 26 Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths. So I am profaned among them.

Ezekiel 22.27: 27 Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

Ezekiel 22.28: 28 Her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, ‘The Lord Yahweh says,’ when Yahweh has not spoken.

Ezekiel 22.29: 29 The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

Ezekiel 22.30: 30 “I sought for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.

Ezekiel 22.31: 31 Therefore I have poured out my indignation on them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way on their heads,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 23.2: 2 “Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.

Ezekiel 23.3: 3 They played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their youthful nipples were caressed there.

Ezekiel 23.4: 4 Their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.

Ezekiel 23.5: 5 “Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,

Ezekiel 23.6: 6 who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.

Ezekiel 23.7: 7 She gave herself as a prostitute to them, all of them the choicest men of Assyria. She defiled herself with the idols of whoever she lusted after.

Ezekiel 23.8: 8 She hasn’t left her prostitution since leaving Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her. They caressed her youthful nipples; and they poured out their prostitution on her.

Ezekiel 23.9: 9 “Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.

Ezekiel 23.10: 10 These uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters; and they killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women; for they executed judgments on her.

Ezekiel 23.11: 11 “Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lusting than she, and in her prostitution which was more depraved than the prostitution of her sister.

Ezekiel 23.12: 12 She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and rulers, her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

Ezekiel 23.14: 14 “She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with red,

Ezekiel 23.15: 15 dressed with belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like princes, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

Ezekiel 23.16: 16 As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

Ezekiel 23.17: 17 The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution. She was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

Ezekiel 23.18: 18 So she uncovered her prostitution and uncovered her nakedness. Then my soul was alienated from her, just like my soul was alienated from her sister.

Ezekiel 23.19: 19 Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 23.20: 20 She lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

Ezekiel 23.21: 21 Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the caressing of your nipples by the Egyptians because of your youthful breasts.

Ezekiel 23.22: 22 “Therefore, Oholibah, the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side:

Ezekiel 23.23: 23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; all of them desirable young men, governors and rulers, princes and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.

Ezekiel 23.24: 24 They will come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples. They will set themselves against you with buckler, shield, and helmet all around. I will commit the judgment to them, and they will judge you according to their judgments.

Ezekiel 23.25: 25 I will set my jealousy against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will take away your nose and your ears. Your remnant will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and the rest of you will be devoured by the fire.

Ezekiel 23.26: 26 They will also strip you of your clothes, and take away your beautiful jewels.

Ezekiel 23.27: 27 Thus I will make your lewdness to cease from you, and remove your prostitution from the land of Egypt; so that you will not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.’

Ezekiel 23.28: 28 “For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of them from whom your soul is alienated.

Ezekiel 23.29: 29 They will deal with you in hatred, and will take away all your labor, and will leave you naked and bare. The nakedness of your prostitution will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution.

Ezekiel 23.30: 30 These things will be done to you, because you have played the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted with their idols.

Ezekiel 23.31: 31 You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.’

Ezekiel 23.35: 35 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and your prostitution.’”

Ezekiel 23.36: 36 Yahweh said moreover to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.

Ezekiel 23.37: 37 For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire to them to be devoured.

Ezekiel 23.38: 38 Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

Ezekiel 23.39: 39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, they have done this in the middle of my house.

Ezekiel 23.40: 40 “Furthermore you sisters have sent for men who come from far away, to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came; for whom you washed yourself, painted your eyes, decorated yourself with ornaments,

Ezekiel 23.41: 41 and sat on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you set my incense and my oil.

Ezekiel 23.42: 42 “The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her. With men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads.

Ezekiel 23.43: 43 Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, ‘Now they will play the prostitute with her, and she with them.’

Ezekiel 23.44: 44 They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute. So they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.

Ezekiel 23.45: 45 Righteous men will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

Ezekiel 23.46: 46 “For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘I will bring up a mob against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed.

Ezekiel 23.47: 47 The company will stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords. They will kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

Ezekiel 23.48: 48 “‘Thus I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to be lewd like you.

Ezekiel 23.49: 49 They will recompense your lewdness on you, and you will bear the sins of your idols. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 24.1: 24Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 24.2: 2 “Son of man, write the name of the day, this same day. The king of Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this same day.

Ezekiel 24.3: 3 Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says,

Ezekiel 24.13: 13 “‘“In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you won’t be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.

Ezekiel 24.14: 14 I, Yahweh, have spoken it. It will happen, and I will do it. I won’t go back. I won’t spare. I won’t repent. According to your ways, and according to your doings, they will judge you,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 24.16: 16 “Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.

Ezekiel 24.17: 17 Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for the dead. Bind your headdress on you, and put your sandals on your feet. Don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat mourner’s bread.”

Ezekiel 24.18: 18 So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at evening my wife died. So I did in the morning as I was commanded.

Ezekiel 24.19: 19 The people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what these things are to us, that you do so?”

Ezekiel 24.21: 21 ‘Speak to the house of Israel, “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 24.22: 22 You will do as I have done. You won’t cover your lips or eat mourner’s bread.

Ezekiel 24.23: 23 Your turbans will be on your heads, and your sandals on your feet. You won’t mourn or weep; but you will pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.

Ezekiel 24.24: 24 Thus Ezekiel will be a sign to you; according to all that he has done, you will do. When this comes, then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.’”’”

Ezekiel 24.25: 25 “You, son of man, shouldn’t it be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters,

Ezekiel 24.26: 26 that in that day he who escapes will come to you, to cause you to hear it with your ears?

Ezekiel 24.27: 27 In that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped, and you will speak, and be no more mute. So you will be a sign to them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 25.2: 2 “Son of man, set your face toward the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them.

Ezekiel 25.3: 3 Tell the children of Ammon, ‘Hear the word of the Lord Yahweh! The Lord Yahweh says, “Because you said, ‘Aha!’ against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity:

Ezekiel 25.4: 4 therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of the east for a possession. They will set their encampments in you, and make their dwellings in you. They will eat your fruit and they will drink your milk.

Ezekiel 25.5: 5 I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a resting place for flocks. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 25.6: 6 For the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have clapped your hands, stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the contempt of your soul against the land of Israel;

Ezekiel 25.7: 7 therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand on you, and will deliver you for a plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish out of the countries. I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 25.8: 8 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because Moab and Seir say, ‘Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations;’

Ezekiel 25.9: 9 therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim,

Ezekiel 25.10: 10 to the children of the east, to go against the children of Ammon; and I will give them for a possession, that the children of Ammon may not be remembered among the nations.

Ezekiel 25.11: 11 I will execute judgments on Moab. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 25.12: 12 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and taken revenge on them;”

Ezekiel 25.13: 13 therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “I will stretch out my hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman. They will fall by the sword even to Dedan.

Ezekiel 25.14: 14 I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel. They will do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath. Then they will know my vengeance,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 25.15: 15 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because the Philistines have taken revenge, and have taken vengeance with contempt of soul to destroy with perpetual hostility;”

Ezekiel 25.16: 16 therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I will stretch out my hand on the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.

Ezekiel 25.17: 17 I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I lay my vengeance on them.”’”

Ezekiel 26.1: 26In the eleventh year, in the first of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 26.2: 2 “Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, ‘Aha! She is broken! She who was the gateway of the peoples has been returned to me. I will be replenished, now that she is laid waste;’

Ezekiel 26.3: 3 therefore the Lord Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.

Ezekiel 26.4: 4 They will destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.

Ezekiel 26.5: 5 She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the middle of the sea; for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh. ‘She will become plunder for the nations.

Ezekiel 26.6: 6 Her daughters who are in the field will be slain with the sword. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’

Ezekiel 26.7: 7 “For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will bring on Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with horses, with chariots, with horsemen, and an army with many people.

Ezekiel 26.8: 8 He will kill your daughters in the field with the sword. He will make forts against you, cast up a mound against you, and raise up the buckler against you.

Ezekiel 26.9: 9 He will set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.

Ezekiel 26.10: 10 By reason of the abundance of his horses, their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen, of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he enters into your gates, as men enter into a city which is broken open.

Ezekiel 26.11: 11 He will tread down all your streets with the hoofs of his horses. He will kill your people with the sword. The pillars of your strength will go down to the ground.

Ezekiel 26.12: 12 They will make a plunder of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise. They will break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses. They will lay your stones, your timber, and your dust in the middle of the waters.

Ezekiel 26.13: 13 I will cause the noise of your songs to cease. The sound of your harps won’t be heard any more.

Ezekiel 26.14: 14 I will make you a bare rock. You will be a place for the spreading of nets. You will be built no more; for I Yahweh have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 26.15: 15 “The Lord Yahweh says to Tyre: ‘Won’t the islands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made within you?

Ezekiel 26.16: 16 Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground, and will tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.

Ezekiel 26.19: 19 “For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘When I make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I bring up the deep on you, and the great waters cover you;

Ezekiel 26.20: 20 then I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 26.21: 21 I will make you a terror, and you will no more have any being. Though you are sought for, yet you will never be found again,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 27.3: 3 and tell Tyre, ‘You who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands, the Lord Yahweh says:

They have made your benches of ivory inlaid in cypress wood from the islands of Kittim.

Ezekiel 27.11: 11 The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls all around,

Ezekiel 27.12: 12 “‘“Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches. They traded for your wares with silver, iron, tin, and lead.

Ezekiel 27.13: 13 “‘“Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders. They traded the persons of men and vessels of bronze for your merchandise.

Ezekiel 27.14: 14 “‘“They of the house of Togarmah traded for your wares with horses, war horses, and mules.

Ezekiel 27.15: 15 “‘“The men of Dedan traded with you. Many islands were the market of your hand. They brought you horns of ivory and ebony in exchange.

Ezekiel 27.16: 16 “‘“Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks. They traded for your wares with emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies.

Ezekiel 27.17: 17 “‘“Judah and the land of Israel were your traders. They traded wheat of Minnith, confections, honey, oil, and balm for your merchandise.

Ezekiel 27.18: 18 “‘“Damascus was your merchant for the multitude of your handiworks, by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with the wine of Helbon, and white wool.

Ezekiel 27.19: 19 “‘“Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus were among your merchandise.

Ezekiel 27.20: 20 “‘“Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths for riding.

Ezekiel 27.21: 21 “‘“Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar were the merchants of your hand; in lambs, rams, and goats. In these, they were your merchants.

Ezekiel 27.22: 22 “‘“The traders of Sheba and Raamah were your traders. They traded for your wares with the chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.

Ezekiel 27.23: 23 “‘“Haran, Canneh, and Eden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were your traders.

Ezekiel 27.24: 24 These were your traders in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and embroidered work, and in chests of rich clothing, bound with cords and made of cedar, among your merchandise.

Ezekiel 27.25: 25 “‘“The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise.

Ezekiel 28.2: 2 “Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:

Ezekiel 28.4: 4 by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches,

Ezekiel 28.12: 12 “Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:

Ezekiel 28.15: 15 You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created,

Ezekiel 28.16: 16 By the abundance of your commerce, your insides were filled with violence,

Ezekiel 28.19: 19 All those who know you among the peoples will be astonished at you.

Ezekiel 28.21: 21 “Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,

Ezekiel 28.24: 24 “‘“There will be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are around them that scorned them. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 28.25: 25 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “When I have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and am sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then they will dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob.

Ezekiel 28.26: 26 They will dwell in it securely. Yes, they will build houses, plant vineyards, and will dwell securely, when I have executed judgments on all those who scorn them all around. Then they will know that I am Yahweh their God.”’”

Ezekiel 29.1: 29In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 29.2: 2 “Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.

Ezekiel 29.6: 6 “‘“All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 29.7: 7 When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore all their shoulders. When they leaned on you, you broke, and paralyzed all of their thighs.”

Ezekiel 29.8: 8 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will bring a sword on you, and will cut off man and animal from you.

Ezekiel 29.9: 9 The land of Egypt will be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.

Ezekiel 29.10: 10 therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your rivers. I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia.

Ezekiel 29.11: 11 No foot of man will pass through it, nor will any animal foot pass through it. It won’t be inhabited for forty years.

Ezekiel 29.12: 12 I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the middle of the countries that are desolate. Her cities among the cities that are laid waste will be a desolation forty years. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.”

Ezekiel 29.13: 13 “‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered.

Ezekiel 29.14: 14 I will reverse the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth. They will be a lowly kingdom, there.

Ezekiel 29.15: 15 It will be the lowest of the kingdoms. It won’t lift itself up above the nations any more. I will diminish them, so that they will no longer rule over the nations.

Ezekiel 29.16: 16 It will no longer be the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after them. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”’”

Ezekiel 29.17: 17 It came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 29.18: 18 “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet he had no wages, nor did his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.

Ezekiel 29.19: 19 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He will carry off her multitude, take her plunder, and take her prey. That will be the wages for his army.

Ezekiel 29.20: 20 I have given him the land of Egypt as his payment for which he served, because they worked for me,’ says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 29.21: 21 “In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth among them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 30.5: 5 “‘“Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all the mixed people, Cub, and the children of the land that is allied with them, will fall with them by the sword.”

Ezekiel 30.7: 7 “They will be desolate in the middle of the countries that are desolate.

Ezekiel 30.9: 9 “‘“In that day messengers will go out from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid. There will be anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes.”

Ezekiel 30.20: 20 In the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 30.21: 21 “Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Behold, it has not been bound up, to apply medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it become strong to hold the sword.

Ezekiel 30.22: 22 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong arm, and that which was broken. I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

Ezekiel 30.23: 23 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

Ezekiel 30.24: 24 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand; but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before the king of Babylon with the groaning of a mortally wounded man.

Ezekiel 30.25: 25 I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh will fall down. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he stretches it out on the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 30.26: 26 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 31.1: 31In the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 31.5: 5 Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field;

Ezekiel 31.10: 10 “Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

Ezekiel 31.11: 11 I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations. He will surely deal with him. I have driven him out for his wickedness.

Ezekiel 31.12: 12 Strangers, the tyrants of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him. His branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the valleys and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land. All the peoples of the earth have gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

Ezekiel 31.13: 13 All the birds of the sky will dwell on his ruin, and all the animals of the field will be on his branches;

Ezekiel 31.14: 14 to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, and don’t set their top among the thick boughs. Their mighty ones don’t stand up on their height, even all who drink water; for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, among the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.’

Ezekiel 31.15: 15 “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘In the day when he went down to Sheol 1 I caused a mourning. I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers. The great waters were stopped. I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

Ezekiel 31.16: 16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol2 with those who descend into the pit. All the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.

Ezekiel 31.17: 17 They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, who lived under his shadow in the middle of the nations.

Ezekiel 31.18: 18 “‘To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You will lie in the middle of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword.

Ezekiel 32.1: 32In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, “Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 32.2: 2 ‘Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him,

Ezekiel 32.12: 12 I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of the mighty.

Ezekiel 32.16: 16 “‘“This is the lamentation with which they will lament. The daughters of the nations will lament with this. They will lament with it over Egypt, and over all her multitude,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 32.17: 17 Also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 32.18: 18 “Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.

Ezekiel 32.19: 19 Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.

Ezekiel 32.20: 20 They will fall among those who are slain by the sword. She is delivered to the sword. Draw her away with all her multitudes.

Ezekiel 32.21: 21 The strong among the mighty will speak to him out of the middle of Sheol 1 with those who help him. They have gone down. The uncircumcised lie still, slain by the sword.

Ezekiel 32.22: 22 “Asshur is there with all her company. Her graves are all around her. All of them slain, fallen by the sword;

Ezekiel 32.23: 23 whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 32.24: 24 “There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit.

Ezekiel 32.25: 25 They have set her a bed among the slain with all her multitude. Her graves are around her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. He is put among those who are slain.

Ezekiel 32.26: 26 “There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude. Their graves are around them, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 32.27: 27 They will not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 32.28: 28 “But you will be broken among the uncircumcised, and will lie with those who are slain by the sword.

Ezekiel 32.29: 29 “There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, who in their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword. They will lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit.

Ezekiel 32.30: 30 “There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the slain. They are put to shame in the terror which they caused by their might. They lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.

Ezekiel 32.31: 31 “Pharaoh will see them, and will be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 32.32: 32 “For I have put his terror in the land of the living. He will be laid among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 33.2: 2 “Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, ‘When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;

Ezekiel 33.3: 3 if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blows the trumpet, and warns the people;

Ezekiel 33.4: 4 then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn’t heed the warning, if the sword comes, and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head.

Ezekiel 33.5: 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn’t take warning. His blood will be on him; whereas if he had heeded the warning, he would have delivered his soul.

Ezekiel 33.6: 6 But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes, and takes any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’

Ezekiel 33.7: 7 “So you, son of man: I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warnings from me.

Ezekiel 33.8: 8 When I tell the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man will die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at your hand.

Ezekiel 33.9: 9 Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn’t turn from his way; he will die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.

Ezekiel 33.10: 10 “You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: ‘You say this, “Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them. How then can we live?”’

Ezekiel 33.11: 11 Tell them, ‘“As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?”’

Ezekiel 33.12: 12 “You, son of man, tell the children of your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him in the day of his disobedience. And as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not fall by it in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither will he who is righteous be able to live by it in the day that he sins.

Ezekiel 33.13: 13 When I tell the righteous that he will surely live; if he trusts in his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed.

Ezekiel 33.14: 14 Again, when I say to the wicked, “You will surely die;” if he turns from his sin, and does that which is lawful and right;

Ezekiel 33.15: 15 if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he will surely live. He will not die.

Ezekiel 33.16: 16 None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has done that which is lawful and right. He will surely live.

Ezekiel 33.17: 17 “‘Yet the children of your people say, “The way of the Lord is not fair;” but as for them, their way is not fair.

Ezekiel 33.18: 18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he will even die therein.

Ezekiel 33.19: 19 When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he will live by it.

Ezekiel 33.20: 20 Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is not fair.” House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.’”

Ezekiel 33.21: 21 In the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, “The city has been defeated!”

Ezekiel 33.22: 22 Now Yahweh’s hand had been on me in the evening, before he who had escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.

Ezekiel 33.24: 24 “Son of man, those who inhabit the waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, ‘Abraham was one, and he inherited the land; but we are many. The land is given us for inheritance.’

Ezekiel 33.25: 25 Therefore tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. So should you possess the land?

Ezekiel 33.26: 26 You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. So should you possess the land?”’

Ezekiel 33.27: 27 “You shall tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “As I live, surely those who are in the waste places will fall by the sword. I will give he who is in the open field to the animals to be devoured; and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves will die of the pestilence.

Ezekiel 33.28: 28 I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment. The pride of her power will cease. The mountains of Israel will be desolate, so that no one will pass through.

Ezekiel 33.29: 29 Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which they have committed.”’

Ezekiel 33.30: 30 “As for you, son of man, the children of your people talk about you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak to one another, everyone to his brother, saying, ‘Please come and hear what the word is that comes out from Yahweh.’

Ezekiel 33.31: 31 They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

Ezekiel 33.32: 32 Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don’t do them.

Ezekiel 33.33: 33 “When this comes to pass—behold, it comes—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”

Ezekiel 34.2: 2 “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep?

Ezekiel 34.3: 3 You eat the fat. You clothe yourself with the wool. You kill the fatlings, but you don’t feed the sheep.

Ezekiel 34.4: 4 You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor.

Ezekiel 34.5: 5 They were scattered, because there was no shepherd. They became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.

Ezekiel 34.6: 6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought.”

Ezekiel 34.8: 8 “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd. My shepherds didn’t search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn’t feed my sheep.”

Ezekiel 34.10: 10 The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against the shepherds. I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep. The shepherds won’t feed themselves any more. I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.”

Ezekiel 34.11: 11 “‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.

Ezekiel 34.12: 12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so I will seek out my sheep. I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

Ezekiel 34.13: 13 I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.

Ezekiel 34.14: 14 I will feed them with good pasture; and their fold will be on the mountains of the height of Israel. There they will lie down in a good fold. They will feed on fat pasture on the mountains of Israel.

Ezekiel 34.15: 15 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 34.16: 16 “I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.”’

Ezekiel 34.17: 17 “As for you, O my flock, the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.

Ezekiel 34.18: 18 Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? And to have drunk of the clear waters, but must you foul the residue with your feet?

Ezekiel 34.19: 19 As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.’

Ezekiel 34.20: 20 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says to them: ‘Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

Ezekiel 34.21: 21 Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad;

Ezekiel 34.22: 22 therefore I will save my flock, and they will no more be a prey. I will judge between sheep and sheep.

Ezekiel 34.23: 23 I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.

Ezekiel 34.24: 24 I, Yahweh, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.

Ezekiel 34.25: 25 “‘I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land. They will dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

Ezekiel 34.26: 26 I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing. I will cause the shower to come down in its season. There will be showers of blessing.

Ezekiel 34.27: 27 The tree of the field will yield its fruit, and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them.

Ezekiel 34.28: 28 They will no more be a prey to the nations, neither will the animals of the earth devour them; but they will dwell securely, and no one will make them afraid.

Ezekiel 34.29: 29 I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they will no more be consumed with famine in the land, and not bear the shame of the nations any more.

Ezekiel 34.30: 30 They will know that I, Yahweh, their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 34.31: 31 You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 35.2: 2 “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

Ezekiel 35.3: 3 and tell it, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you. I will make you a desolation and an astonishment.

Ezekiel 35.4: 4 I will lay your cities waste, and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

Ezekiel 35.5: 5 “‘“Because you have had a perpetual hostility, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;

Ezekiel 35.6: 6 therefore, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will prepare you for blood, and blood will pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, therefore blood will pursue you.

Ezekiel 35.7: 7 Thus I will make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation. I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.

Ezekiel 35.8: 8 I will fill its mountains with its slain. The slain with the sword will fall in your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses.

Ezekiel 35.9: 9 I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

Ezekiel 35.10: 10 “‘“Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries will be mine, and we will possess it;’ whereas Yahweh was there:

Ezekiel 35.11: 11 therefore, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.

Ezekiel 35.12: 12 You will know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They have been laid desolate. They have been given us to devour.’

Ezekiel 35.13: 13 You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me. I have heard it.”

Ezekiel 35.14: 14 The Lord Yahweh says: “When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

Ezekiel 35.15: 15 As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 36.1: 36You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, “You mountains of Israel, hear Yahweh’s word.

Ezekiel 36.2: 2 The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because the enemy has said against you, “Aha!” and, “The ancient high places are ours in possession!”’

Ezekiel 36.3: 3 therefore prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;”

Ezekiel 36.4: 4 therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: The Lord Yahweh says to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which have become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around;

Ezekiel 36.5: 5 therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.”’

Ezekiel 36.6: 6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the mountains, the hills, the watercourses and the valleys, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations.”

Ezekiel 36.7: 7 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “I have sworn, ‘Surely the nations that are around you will bear their shame.’

Ezekiel 36.8: 8 “‘“But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot out your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come.

Ezekiel 36.9: 9 For, behold, I am for you, and I will come to you, and you will be tilled and sown.

Ezekiel 36.10: 10 I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it. The cities will be inhabited, and the waste places will be built.

Ezekiel 36.11: 11 I will multiply man and animal on you. They will increase and be fruitful. I will cause you to be inhabited as you were before, and you will do better than at your beginnings. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

Ezekiel 36.12: 12 Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel. They will possess you, and you will be their inheritance, and you will never again bereave them of their children.”

Ezekiel 36.13: 13 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because they say to you, ‘You are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver of your nation;’

Ezekiel 36.14: 14 therefore you shall devour men no more, and not bereave your nation any more,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 36.15: 15 “I won’t let you hear the shame of the nations any more. You won’t bear the reproach of the peoples any more, and you won’t cause your nation to stumble any more,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 36.17: 17 “Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and by their deeds. Their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.

Ezekiel 36.18: 18 Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols.

Ezekiel 36.19: 19 I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. I judged them according to their way and according to their deeds.

Ezekiel 36.20: 20 When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, ‘These are Yahweh’s people, and have left his land.’

Ezekiel 36.21: 21 But I had respect for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went.

Ezekiel 36.22: 22 “Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I don’t do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.

Ezekiel 36.23: 23 I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh,” says the Lord Yahweh, “when I am proven holy in you before their eyes.

Ezekiel 36.24: 24 “‘“For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.

Ezekiel 36.25: 25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.

Ezekiel 36.26: 26 I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

Ezekiel 36.27: 27 I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.

Ezekiel 36.28: 28 You will dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. You will be my people, and I will be your God.

Ezekiel 36.29: 29 I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you.

Ezekiel 36.30: 30 I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.

Ezekiel 36.31: 31 “‘“Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

Ezekiel 36.32: 32 I don’t do this for your sake,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Let it be known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel.”

Ezekiel 36.33: 33 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited and the waste places will be built.

Ezekiel 36.34: 34 The land that was desolate will be tilled instead of being a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.

Ezekiel 36.35: 35 They will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The waste, desolate, and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.’

Ezekiel 36.36: 36 Then the nations that are left around you will know that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate. I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it.”

Ezekiel 36.37: 37 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “For this, moreover, I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.

Ezekiel 36.38: 38 As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so the waste cities will be filled with flocks of men. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 37.1: 37Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me out in Yahweh’s Spirit, and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.

Ezekiel 37.2: 2 He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry.

Ezekiel 37.4: 4 Again he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, ‘You dry bones, hear Yahweh’s word.

Ezekiel 37.5: 5 The Lord Yahweh says to these bones: “Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you will live.

Ezekiel 37.6: 6 I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you will live. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”’”

Ezekiel 37.7: 7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. As I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, there was an earthquake. Then the bones came together, bone to its bone.

Ezekiel 37.8: 8 I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them.

Ezekiel 37.9: 9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.”’”

Ezekiel 37.10: 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceedingly great army.

Ezekiel 37.11: 11 Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’

Ezekiel 37.12: 12 Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.

Ezekiel 37.13: 13 You will know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.

Ezekiel 37.14: 14 I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live. Then I will place you in your own land; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it,” says Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 37.16: 16 “You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, ‘For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions.’ Then take another stick, and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions.’

Ezekiel 37.17: 17 Then join them for yourself to one another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.

Ezekiel 37.18: 18 “When the children of your people speak to you, saying, ‘Won’t you show us what you mean by these?’

Ezekiel 37.19: 19 tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in my hand.

Ezekiel 37.20: 20 The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.”’

Ezekiel 37.21: 21 Say to them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, where they have gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land.

Ezekiel 37.22: 22 I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. One king will be king to them all. They will no longer be two nations. They won’t be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.

Ezekiel 37.23: 23 They won’t defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. So they will be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 37.24: 24 “‘“My servant David will be king over them. They all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.

Ezekiel 37.25: 25 They will dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived. They will dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children’s children, forever. David my servant will be their prince forever.

Ezekiel 37.26: 26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them. I will place them, multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forever more.

Ezekiel 37.27: 27 My tent also will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Ezekiel 37.28: 28 The nations will know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is among them forever more.”’”

Ezekiel 38.2: 2 “Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,

Ezekiel 38.3: 3 and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.

Ezekiel 38.4: 4 I will turn you around, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords;

Ezekiel 38.5: 5 Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

Ezekiel 38.6: 6 Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes; even many peoples with you.

Ezekiel 38.7: 7 “‘“Be prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies who are assembled to you, and be a guard to them.

Ezekiel 38.8: 8 After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought out of the peoples, and they will dwell securely, all of them.

Ezekiel 38.9: 9 You will ascend. You will come like a storm. You will be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.”

Ezekiel 38.10: 10 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

Ezekiel 38.11: 11 You will say, ‘I will go up to the land of unwalled villages. I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

Ezekiel 38.12: 12 to take the plunder and to take prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth.’

Ezekiel 38.13: 13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, will ask you, ‘Have you come to take the plunder? Have you assembled your company to take the prey, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?’”’

Ezekiel 38.14: 14 “Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell Gog, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “In that day when my people Israel dwells securely, will you not know it?

Ezekiel 38.15: 15 You will come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you, and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army.

Ezekiel 38.16: 16 You will come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land. It will happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I am sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.”

Ezekiel 38.17: 17 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Are you he of whom I spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for years that I would bring you against them?

Ezekiel 38.18: 18 It will happen in that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that my wrath will come up into my nostrils.

Ezekiel 38.19: 19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath I have spoken. Surely in that day there will be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

Ezekiel 38.20: 20 so that the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the animals of the field, all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface of the earth will shake at my presence. Then the mountains will be thrown down, the steep places will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground.

Ezekiel 38.21: 21 I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Every man’s sword will be against his brother.

Ezekiel 38.22: 22 I will enter into judgment with him with pestilence and with blood. I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, with great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.

Ezekiel 38.23: 23 I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”’

Ezekiel 39.1: 39“You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.

Ezekiel 39.2: 2 I will turn you around, and will lead you on, and will cause you to come up from the uttermost parts of the north; and I will bring you onto the mountains of Israel.

Ezekiel 39.3: 3 I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand.

Ezekiel 39.4: 4 You will fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with you. I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals of the field to be devoured.

Ezekiel 39.5: 5 You will fall on the open field; for I have spoken it,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 39.6: 6 “I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who dwell securely in the islands. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.

Ezekiel 39.7: 7 “‘“I will make my holy name known among my people Israel. I won’t allow my holy name to be profaned any more. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.

Ezekiel 39.8: 8 Behold, it comes, and it will be done,” says the Lord Yahweh. “This is the day about which I have spoken.

Ezekiel 39.9: 9 “‘“Those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out, and will make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the war clubs and the spears, and they will make fires with them for seven years;

Ezekiel 39.10: 10 so that they will take no wood out of the field, and not cut down any out of the forests; for they will make fires with the weapons. They will plunder those who plundered them, and rob those who robbed them,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 39.11: 11 “‘“It will happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea; and it will stop those who pass through. They will bury Gog and all his multitude there; and they will call it ‘The valley of Hamon Gog’.

Ezekiel 39.12: 12 “‘“The house of Israel will be burying them for seven months, that they may cleanse the land.

Ezekiel 39.13: 13 Yes, all the people of the land will bury them; and they will become famous in the day that I will be glorified,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 39.14: 14 “‘“They will set apart men of continual employment, who will pass through the land. Those who pass through will go with those who bury those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it. After the end of seven months they will search.

Ezekiel 39.15: 15 Those who pass through the land will pass through; and when anyone sees a man’s bone, then he will set up a sign by it, until the undertakers have buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog.

Ezekiel 39.16: 16 Hamonah will also be the name of a city. Thus they will cleanse the land.”’

Ezekiel 39.17: 17 “You, son of man, the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, “Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat meat and drink blood.

Ezekiel 39.18: 18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

Ezekiel 39.19: 19 You shall eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

Ezekiel 39.20: 20 You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war,” says the Lord Yahweh.’

Ezekiel 39.21: 21 “I will set my glory among the nations. Then all the nations will see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.

Ezekiel 39.22: 22 So the house of Israel will know that I am Yahweh their God, from that day and forward.

Ezekiel 39.23: 23 The nations will know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.

Ezekiel 39.24: 24 I did to them according to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions. I hid my face from them.

Ezekiel 39.25: 25 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Now I will reverse the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel. I will be jealous for my holy name.

Ezekiel 39.26: 26 They will bear their shame, and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they dwell securely in their land, and no one will make them afraid,

Ezekiel 39.27: 27 when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations.

Ezekiel 39.28: 28 They will know that I am Yahweh their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered them to their own land. Then I will leave none of them captive any more.

Ezekiel 39.29: 29 I won’t hide my face from them any more; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 40.1: 40In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was struck, in the same day, Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me there.

Ezekiel 40.2: 2 In the visions of God he brought me into the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, on which was something like the frame of a city to the south.

Ezekiel 40.3: 3 He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

Ezekiel 40.4: 4 The man said to me, “Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I will show you; for you have been brought here so that I may show them to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel.”

Ezekiel 40.5: 5 Behold, there was a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed six cubits1 long, of a cubit and a hand width each. So he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.

Ezekiel 40.6: 6 Then he came to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate, one reed wide; and the other threshold, one reed wide.

Ezekiel 40.7: 7 Every lodge was one reed long and one reed wide. Between the lodges was five cubits. The threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.

Ezekiel 40.8: 8 He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.

Ezekiel 40.9: 9 Then he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.

Ezekiel 40.10: 10 The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side. The three of them were of one measure. The posts had one measure on this side and on that side.

Ezekiel 40.11: 11 He measured the width of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;

Ezekiel 40.12: 12 and a border before the lodges, one cubit on this side, and a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.

Ezekiel 40.13: 13 He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a width of twenty-five cubits, door against door.

Ezekiel 40.14: 14 He also made posts, sixty cubits; and the court reached to the posts, around the gate.

Ezekiel 40.15: 15 From the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.

Ezekiel 40.16: 16 There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate all around, and likewise to the arches. Windows were around inward. Palm trees were on each post.

Ezekiel 40.17: 17 Then he brought me into the outer court. Behold, there were rooms and a pavement made for the court all around. Thirty rooms were on the pavement.

Ezekiel 40.18: 18 The pavement was by the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.

Ezekiel 40.19: 19 Then he measured the width from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, both on the east and on the north.

Ezekiel 40.20: 20 He measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court which faces toward the north.

Ezekiel 40.21: 21 The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side. Its posts and its arches were the same as the measure of the first gate: its length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.

Ezekiel 40.22: 22 Its windows, its arches, and its palm trees were the same as the measure of the gate which faces toward the east. They went up to it by seven steps. Its arches were before them.

Ezekiel 40.23: 23 There was a gate to the inner court facing the other gate, on the north and on the east. He measured one hundred cubits from gate to gate.

Ezekiel 40.24: 24 He led me toward the south; and behold, there was a gate toward the south. He measured its posts and its arches according to these measurements.

Ezekiel 40.25: 25 There were windows in it and in its arches all around, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.

Ezekiel 40.26: 26 There were seven steps to go up to it, and its arches were before them. It had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on its posts.

Ezekiel 40.27: 27 There was a gate to the inner court toward the south. He measured one hundred cubits from gate to gate toward the south.

Ezekiel 40.28: 28 Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate. He measured the south gate according to these measurements;

Ezekiel 40.29: 29 with its lodges, its posts, and its arches, according to these measurements. There were windows in it and in its arches all around. It was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits wide.

Ezekiel 40.30: 30 There were arches all around, twenty-five cubits long, and five cubits wide.

Ezekiel 40.31: 31 Its arches were toward the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts. The ascent to it had eight steps.

Ezekiel 40.32: 32 He brought me into the inner court toward the east. He measured the gate according to these measurements;

Ezekiel 40.33: 33 with its lodges, its posts, and its arches, according to these measurements. There were windows in it and in its arches all around. It was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits wide.

Ezekiel 40.34: 34 Its arches were toward the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts on this side and on that side. The ascent to it had eight steps.

Ezekiel 40.35: 35 He brought me to the north gate, and he measured it according to these measurements;

Ezekiel 40.36: 36 its lodges, its posts, and its arches. There were windows in it all around. The length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits.

Ezekiel 40.37: 37 Its posts were toward the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts on this side and on that side. The ascent to it had eight steps.

Ezekiel 40.38: 38 A room with its door was by the posts at the gates. They washed the burnt offering there.

Ezekiel 40.39: 39 In the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, on which to kill the burnt offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering.

Ezekiel 40.40: 40 On the one side outside, as one goes up to the entry of the gate toward the north, were two tables; and on the other side, which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables.

Ezekiel 40.41: 41 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate: eight tables, on which they killed the sacrifices.

Ezekiel 40.42: 42 There were four tables for the burnt offering, of cut stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high. They laid the instruments with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice on them.

Ezekiel 40.43: 43 The hooks, a hand width long, were fastened within all around. The meat of the offering was on the tables.

Ezekiel 40.44: 44 Outside of the inner gate were rooms for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate. They faced toward the south. One at the side of the east gate faced toward the north.

Ezekiel 40.45: 45 He said to me, “This room, which faces toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the house.

Ezekiel 40.46: 46 The room which faces toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who from among the sons of Levi come near to Yahweh to minister to him.”

Ezekiel 40.47: 47 He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits wide, square. The altar was before the house.

Ezekiel 40.48: 48 Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side. The width of the gate was three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side.

Ezekiel 40.49: 49 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the width eleven cubits; even by the steps by which they went up to it. There were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.

Ezekiel 41.1: 41He brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits wide on the one side, and six cubits wide on the other side, which was the width of the tent.

Ezekiel 41.2: 2 The width of the entrance was ten cubits;1 and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side. He measured its length, forty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits.

Ezekiel 41.3: 3 Then he went inward and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the width of the entrance, seven cubits.

Ezekiel 41.4: 4 He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the temple. He said to me, “This is the most holy place.”

Ezekiel 41.5: 5 Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the width of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on every side.

Ezekiel 41.6: 6 The side rooms were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in order. They entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side rooms all around, that they might be supported, and not penetrate the wall of the house.

Ezekiel 41.7: 7 The side rooms were wider on the higher levels, because the walls were narrower at the higher levels. Therefore the width of the house increased upward; and so one went up from the lowest level to the highest through the middle level.

Ezekiel 41.8: 8 I saw also that the house had a raised base all around. The foundations of the side rooms were a full reed of six great cubits.

Ezekiel 41.9: 9 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side rooms, on the outside, was five cubits. That which was left was the place of the side rooms that belonged to the house.

Ezekiel 41.10: 10 Between the rooms was a width of twenty cubits around the house on every side.

Ezekiel 41.11: 11 The doors of the side rooms were toward an open area that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south. The width of the open area was five cubits all around.

Ezekiel 41.12: 12 The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.

Ezekiel 41.13: 13 So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long;

Ezekiel 41.14: 14 also the width of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, one hundred cubits.

Ezekiel 41.15: 15 He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits from the inner temple, and the porches of the court

Ezekiel 41.16: 16 the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, opposite the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and from the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),

Ezekiel 41.17: 17 to the space above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure.

Ezekiel 41.18: 18 It was made with cherubim and palm trees. A palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces;

Ezekiel 41.19: 19 so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. It was made like this through all the house all around.

Ezekiel 41.20: 20 Cherubim and palm trees were made from the ground to above the door. The wall of the temple was like this.

Ezekiel 41.21: 21 As for the temple, the door posts were squared. As for the face of the sanctuary, its appearance was as the appearance of the temple.

Ezekiel 41.22: 22 The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits. Its corners, its length, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that is before Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 41.24: 24 The doors had two leaves each, two turning leaves: two for the one door, and two leaves for the other.

Ezekiel 41.25: 25 There were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm trees, like those made on the walls. There was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside.

Ezekiel 41.26: 26 There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch. This is how the side rooms of the house and the thresholds were arranged.

Ezekiel 42.1: 42Then he brought me out into the outer court, the way toward the north. Then he brought me into the room that was opposite the separate place, and which was opposite the building toward the north.

Ezekiel 42.2: 2 Before the length of one hundred cubits1 was the north door, and the width was fifty cubits.

Ezekiel 42.3: 3 Opposite the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third floor.

Ezekiel 42.4: 4 Before the rooms was a walk of ten cubits’ width inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.

Ezekiel 42.5: 5 Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building.

Ezekiel 42.6: 6 For they were in three stories, and they didn’t have pillars as the pillars of the courts. Therefore the uppermost was set back more than the lowest and the middle from the ground.

Ezekiel 42.7: 7 The wall that was outside by the side of the rooms, toward the outer court before the rooms, its length was fifty cubits.

Ezekiel 42.8: 8 For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits. Behold, before the temple were one hundred cubits.

Ezekiel 42.9: 9 From under these rooms was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court.

Ezekiel 42.10: 10 In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were rooms.

Ezekiel 42.11: 11 The way before them was like the appearance of the rooms which were toward the north; according to their length so was their width: and all their exits were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.

Ezekiel 42.12: 12 According to the doors of the rooms that were toward the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them.

Ezekiel 42.13: 13 Then he said to me, “The north rooms and the south rooms, which are before the separate place, are the holy rooms, where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, with the meal offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.

Ezekiel 42.14: 14 When the priests enter in, then they shall not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but they shall lay their garments in which they minister there; for they are holy. Then they shall put on other garments, and shall approach that which is for the people.”

Ezekiel 42.15: 15 Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out by the way of the gate which faces toward the east, and measured it all around.

Ezekiel 42.16: 16 He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around.

Ezekiel 42.17: 17 He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed all around.

Ezekiel 42.18: 18 He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

Ezekiel 42.19: 19 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

Ezekiel 42.20: 20 He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, the length five hundred, and the width five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.

Ezekiel 43.1: 43Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks toward the east.

Ezekiel 43.2: 2 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east. His voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth was illuminated with his glory.

Ezekiel 43.3: 3 It was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.

Ezekiel 43.4: 4 Yahweh’s glory came into the house by the way of the gate which faces toward the east.

Ezekiel 43.5: 5 The Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, Yahweh’s glory filled the house.

Ezekiel 43.6: 6 I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man stood by me.

Ezekiel 43.7: 7 He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell among the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places;

Ezekiel 43.8: 8 in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their door post beside my door post. There was a wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed. Therefore I have consumed them in my anger.

Ezekiel 43.9: 9 Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me. Then I will dwell among them forever.

Ezekiel 43.10: 10 “You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.

Ezekiel 43.11: 11 If they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its ordinances, and all its forms, and all its laws; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form of it, and all its ordinances, and do them.

Ezekiel 43.12: 12 “This is the law of the house. On the top of the mountain the whole limit around it shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

Ezekiel 43.13: 13 “These are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit1 is a cubit and a hand width): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the width a cubit, and its border around its edge a span;2 and this shall be the base of the altar.

Ezekiel 43.14: 14 From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the width one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the width a cubit.

Ezekiel 43.15: 15 The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns.

Ezekiel 43.16: 16 The altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides.

Ezekiel 43.17: 17 The ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and its bottom shall be a cubit around; and its steps shall look toward the east.”

Ezekiel 43.18: 18 He said to me, “Son of man, the Lord Yahweh says: ‘These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they make it, to offer burnt offerings on it, and to sprinkle blood on it.

Ezekiel 43.19: 19 You shall give to the Levitical priests who are of the offspring of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘a young bull for a sin offering.

Ezekiel 43.20: 20 You shall take of its blood, and put it on its four horns, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around. You shall cleanse it and make atonement for it that way.

Ezekiel 43.21: 21 You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burned in the appointed place of the house, outside of the sanctuary.

Ezekiel 43.22: 22 “On the second day you shall offer a male goat without defect for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.

Ezekiel 43.23: 23 When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without defect, and a ram out of the flock without defect.

Ezekiel 43.24: 24 You shall bring them near to Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to Yahweh.

Ezekiel 43.25: 25 “Seven days you shall prepare every day a goat for a sin offering. They shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without defect.

Ezekiel 43.26: 26 Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it. So shall they consecrate it.

Ezekiel 43.27: 27 When they have accomplished the days, it shall be that on the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings. Then I will accept you,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 44.1: 44Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks toward the east; and it was shut.

Ezekiel 44.2: 2 Yahweh said to me, “This gate shall be shut. It shall not be opened, no man shall enter in by it; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has entered in by it. Therefore it shall be shut.

Ezekiel 44.3: 3 As for the prince, he shall sit in it as prince to eat bread before Yahweh. He shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out the same way.”

Ezekiel 44.4: 4 Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked, and behold, Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house; so I fell on my face.

Ezekiel 44.5: 5 Yahweh said to me, “Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the ordinances of Yahweh’s house, and all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary.

Ezekiel 44.6: 6 You shall tell the rebellious, even the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “You house of Israel, let that be enough of all your abominations,

Ezekiel 44.7: 7 in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, to add to all your abominations.

Ezekiel 44.8: 8 You have not performed the duty of my holy things; but you have set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves.”

Ezekiel 44.9: 9 The Lord Yahweh says, “No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel.

Ezekiel 44.10: 10 “‘“But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they will bear their iniquity.

Ezekiel 44.11: 11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house. They shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.

Ezekiel 44.12: 12 Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel. Therefore I have lifted up my hand against them,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and they will bear their iniquity.

Ezekiel 44.13: 13 They shall not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they will bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.

Ezekiel 44.14: 14 Yet I will make them performers of the duty of the house, for all its service, and for all that will be done therein.

Ezekiel 44.15: 15 “‘“But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me. They shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 44.16: 16 “They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my instruction.

Ezekiel 44.17: 17 “‘“It will be that, when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments. No wool shall come on them while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.

Ezekiel 44.18: 18 They shall have linen turbans on their heads, and shall have linen trousers on their waists. They shall not clothe themselves with anything that makes them sweat.

Ezekiel 44.19: 19 When they go out into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the holy rooms. They shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments.

Ezekiel 44.20: 20 “‘“They shall not shave their heads, or allow their locks to grow long. They shall only cut off the hair of their heads.

Ezekiel 44.21: 21 None of the priests shall drink wine when they enter into the inner court.

Ezekiel 44.22: 22 They shall not take for their wives a widow, or her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

Ezekiel 44.23: 23 They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

Ezekiel 44.24: 24 “‘“In a controversy they shall stand to judge. They shall judge it according to my ordinances. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts. They shall make my Sabbaths holy.

Ezekiel 44.25: 25 “‘“They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves.

Ezekiel 44.27: 27 In the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 44.28: 28 “‘They shall have an inheritance. I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel. I am their possession.

Ezekiel 44.29: 29 They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.

Ezekiel 44.30: 30 The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest. You shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.

Ezekiel 44.31: 31 The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it is bird or animal.

Ezekiel 45.1: 45“‘“Moreover, when you divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an offering to Yahweh, a holy portion of the land. The length shall be the length of twenty-five thousand reeds, and the width shall be ten thousand. It shall be holy in all its border all around.

Ezekiel 45.2: 2 Of this there shall be a five hundred by five hundred square for the holy place; and fifty cubits1 for its pasture lands all around.

Ezekiel 45.3: 3 Of this measure you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand, and a width of ten thousand. In it shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy.

Ezekiel 45.4: 4 It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to Yahweh. It shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.

Ezekiel 45.5: 5 Twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in width, shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, as a possession for themselves, for twenty rooms.

Ezekiel 45.6: 6 “‘“You shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand wide, and twenty-five thousand long, side by side with the offering of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

Ezekiel 45.7: 7 “‘“What is for the prince shall be on the one side and on the other side of the holy offering and of the possession of the city, in front of the holy offering and in front of the possession of the city, on the west side westward, and on the east side eastward; and in length answerable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.

Ezekiel 45.8: 8 In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel. My princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.”

Ezekiel 45.9: 9 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 45.10: 10 “You shall have just balances, a just ephah,2 and a just bath.

Ezekiel 45.11: 11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain one tenth of a homer,3 and the ephah one tenth of a homer. Its measure shall be the same as the homer.

Ezekiel 45.12: 12 The shekel4 shall be twenty gerahs.5 Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.6

Ezekiel 45.13: 13 “‘“This is the offering that you shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat; and you shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley;

Ezekiel 45.14: 14 and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, one tenth of a bath out of the cor, which is ten baths, even a homer; (for ten baths are a homer;)7

Ezekiel 45.15: 15 and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Israel—for a meal offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 45.16: 16 “All the people of the land shall give to this offering for the prince in Israel.

Ezekiel 45.17: 17 It shall be the prince’s part to give the burnt offerings, the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, the meal offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.”

Ezekiel 45.18: 18 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “In the first month, in the first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without defect; and you shall cleanse the sanctuary.

Ezekiel 45.19: 19 The priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it on the door posts of the house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court.

Ezekiel 45.20: 20 So you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple. So you shall make atonement for the house.

Ezekiel 45.21: 21 “‘“In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

Ezekiel 45.22: 22 On that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.

Ezekiel 45.23: 23 The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to Yahweh, seven bulls and seven rams without defect daily the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering.

Ezekiel 45.24: 24 He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah8 for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin9 of oil to an ephah.

Ezekiel 45.25: 25 “‘“In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, he shall do like that for seven days; according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meal offering, and according to the oil.”

Ezekiel 46.1: 46“‘The Lord Yahweh says: “The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

Ezekiel 46.2: 2 The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate; and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

Ezekiel 46.3: 3 The people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate before Yahweh on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.

Ezekiel 46.4: 4 The burnt offering that the prince shall offer to Yahweh shall be on the Sabbath day six lambs without defect and a ram without defect;

Ezekiel 46.5: 5 and the meal offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the meal offering for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin1 of oil to an ephah.2

Ezekiel 46.6: 6 On the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without defect, and six lambs, and a ram. They shall be without defect.

Ezekiel 46.7: 7 He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for the bull, and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs according as he is able, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

Ezekiel 46.8: 8 When the prince enters, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go out by its way.

Ezekiel 46.9: 9 “‘“But when the people of the land come before Yahweh in the appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he who enters by the way of the south gate shall go out by the way of the north gate. He shall not return by the way of the gate by which he came in, but shall go out straight before him.

Ezekiel 46.10: 10 The prince shall go in with them when they go in. When they go out, he shall go out.

Ezekiel 46.11: 11 “‘“In the feasts and in the solemnities the meal offering shall be an ephah 3 for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

Ezekiel 46.12: 12 When the prince prepares a free will offering, a burnt offering or peace offerings as a free will offering to Yahweh, one shall open for him the gate that looks toward the east; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out; and after his going out one shall shut the gate.

Ezekiel 46.13: 13 “‘“You shall prepare a lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering to Yahweh daily. Morning by morning you shall prepare it.

Ezekiel 46.14: 14 You shall prepare a meal offering with it morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephah,4 and the third part of a hin of oil, to moisten the fine flour; a meal offering to Yahweh continually by a perpetual ordinance.

Ezekiel 46.15: 15 Thus they shall prepare the lamb, the meal offering, and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt offering.”

Ezekiel 46.16: 16 “‘The Lord Yahweh says: “If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons, it is his inheritance. It shall belong to his sons. It is their possession by inheritance.

Ezekiel 46.17: 17 But if he gives of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as for his inheritance, it shall be for his sons.

Ezekiel 46.18: 18 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession. He shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my people not each be scattered from his possession.”’”

Ezekiel 46.19: 19 Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy rooms for the priests, which looked toward the north. Behold, there was a place on the back part westward.

Ezekiel 46.20: 20 He said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the meal offering; that they not bring them out into the outer court, to sanctify the people.”

Ezekiel 46.21: 21 Then he brought me out into the outer court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and behold, in every corner of the court there was a court.

Ezekiel 46.22: 22 In the four corners of the court there were courts enclosed, forty cubits5 long and thirty wide. These four in the corners were the same size.

Ezekiel 46.23: 23 There was a wall around in them, around the four, and boiling places were made under the walls all around.

Ezekiel 46.24: 24 Then he said to me, “These are the boiling houses, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.”

Ezekiel 47.1: 47He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, waters flowed out from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the front of the house faced toward the east. The waters came down from underneath, from the right side of the house, on the south of the altar.

Ezekiel 47.2: 2 Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me around by the way outside to the outer gate, by the way of the gate that looks toward the east. Behold, waters ran out on the right side.

Ezekiel 47.3: 3 When the man went out eastward with the line in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits,1 and he caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the ankles.

Ezekiel 47.4: 4 Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through waters that were to the waist.

Ezekiel 47.5: 5 Afterward he measured one thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass through; for the waters had risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be walked through.

Ezekiel 47.7: 7 Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

Ezekiel 47.8: 8 Then he said to me, “These waters flow out toward the eastern region, and will go down into the Arabah. Then they will go toward the sea; and flow into the sea which will be made to flow out; and the waters will be healed.

Ezekiel 47.9: 9 It will happen, that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, will live. Then there will be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters have come there, and the waters of the sea will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river comes.

Ezekiel 47.10: 10 It will happen, that fishermen will stand by it. From En Gedi even to En Eglaim will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish will be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceedingly many.

Ezekiel 47.11: 11 But the miry places of it, and its marshes, will not be healed. They will be given up to salt.

Ezekiel 47.12: 12 By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for healing.”

Ezekiel 47.13: 13 The Lord Yahweh says: “This shall be the border, by which you shall divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions.

Ezekiel 47.14: 14 You shall inherit it, one as well as another; for I swore to give it to your fathers. This land will fall to you for inheritance.

“On the north side, from the great sea, by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad;

Ezekiel 47.16: 16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer Hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.

Ezekiel 47.17: 17 The border from the sea, shall be Hazar Enon at the border of Damascus; and on the north northward is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.

Ezekiel 47.18: 18 “The east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the north border to the east sea you shall measure. This is the east side.

Ezekiel 47.19: 19 “The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook, to the great sea. This is the south side southward.

Ezekiel 47.20: 20 “The west side shall be the great sea, from the south border as far as opposite the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.

Ezekiel 47.21: 21 “So you shall divide this land to yourselves according to the tribes of Israel.

Ezekiel 47.22: 22 It will happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and to the aliens who live among you, who will father children among you. Then they shall be to you as the native-born among the children of Israel. They shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

Ezekiel 47.23: 23 It shall happen, that in whatever tribe the stranger lives, there you shall give him his inheritance,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 48.1: 48“Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath (and they shall have their sides east and west), Dan, one portion.

Ezekiel 48.2: 2 “By the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, Asher, one portion.

Ezekiel 48.3: 3 “By the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west side, Naphtali, one portion.

Ezekiel 48.4: 4 “By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one portion.

Ezekiel 48.5: 5 “By the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one portion.

Ezekiel 48.6: 6 “By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west side, Reuben, one portion.

Ezekiel 48.7: 7 “By the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, Judah, one portion.

Ezekiel 48.8: 8 “By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand reeds in width, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side to the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the middle of it.

Ezekiel 48.9: 9 “The offering that you shall offer to Yahweh shall be twenty-five thousand reeds in length, and ten thousand in width.

Ezekiel 48.10: 10 For these, even for the priests, shall be the holy offering: toward the north twenty-five thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in width, and toward the east ten thousand in width, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length: and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in the middle of it.

Ezekiel 48.11: 11 It shall be for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn’t go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

Ezekiel 48.12: 12 It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land, a most holy thing, by the border of the Levites.

Ezekiel 48.13: 13 “Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in width. All the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the width ten thousand.

Ezekiel 48.14: 14 They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy to Yahweh.

Ezekiel 48.15: 15 “The five thousand that are left in the width, in front of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for pasture lands; and the city shall be in the middle of it.

Ezekiel 48.16: 16 These shall be its measurements: the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.

Ezekiel 48.17: 17 The city shall have pasture lands: toward the north two hundred fifty, and toward the south two hundred fifty, and toward the east two hundred fifty, and toward the west two hundred fifty.

Ezekiel 48.18: 18 The remainder in the length, alongside the holy offering, shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it shall be alongside the holy offering. Its increase shall be for food to those who labor in the city.

Ezekiel 48.19: 19 Those who labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.

Ezekiel 48.20: 20 All the offering shall be a square of twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand. You shall offer it as a holy offering, with the possession of the city.

Ezekiel 48.21: 21 “The remainder shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering toward the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the west border, alongside the portions, it shall be for the prince. The holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the middle of it.

Ezekiel 48.22: 22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the middle of that which is the prince’s, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.

Ezekiel 48.23: 23 “As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side, Benjamin, one portion.

Ezekiel 48.24: 24 “By the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon, one portion.

Ezekiel 48.25: 25 “By the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one portion.

Ezekiel 48.26: 26 “By the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun, one portion.

Ezekiel 48.27: 27 “By the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one portion.

Ezekiel 48.28: 28 “By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the brook, to the great sea.

Ezekiel 48.29: 29 “This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 48.30: 30 “These are the exits of the city: On the north side four thousand and five hundred reeds by measure;

Ezekiel 48.31: 31 and the gates of the city shall be named after the tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.

Ezekiel 48.32: 32 “At the east side four thousand and five hundred reeds, and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.

Ezekiel 48.33: 33 “At the south side four thousand and five hundred reeds by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.

Ezekiel 48.34: 34 “At the west side four thousand and five hundred reeds, with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.

Ezekiel 48.35: 35 “It shall be eighteen thousand reeds around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, ‘Yahweh is there.’

1 1:4 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

2 1:5 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

3 1:11 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

1 3:13 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.

1 5:5 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

2 5:15 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

1 7:61 or, seed

2 7:70 a daric was a gold coin issued by a Persian king, weighing about 8.4 grams or about 0.27 troy ounces each.

3 7:71 A mina is about 600 grams or 1.3 U. S. pounds, so 2,200 minas is about 1.3 metric tons.

1 8:15 or, booths

2 8:16 or, booths

3 8:17 or, booths

1 10:32 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

1 1:1 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

2 1:3 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

3 1:4 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

4 1:26 or, lapis lazuli

1 2:4 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

1 3:7 Literally, have a hard forehead

1 4:10 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

2 4:11 A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.

1 10:1 or, lapis lazuli

1 17:13 or, seed

1 20:29 “Bamah” means “High Place”.

1 21:6 literally, the breaking of your thighs

2 21:21 teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.

1 22:7 Literally, made light of father and mother.

1 28:13 or, lapis lazuli

1 31:15 Sheol is the place of the dead.

2 31:16 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 32:21 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 40:5 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. Thus, a 6-cubit measuring reed would have been about 3 yards or about 2.74 meters long.

1 41:2 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.

1 42:2 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.

1 43:13 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.

2 43:13 A span is the length from the tip of a man’s thumb to the tip of his little finger when his hand is stretched out (about half a cubit, or 9 inches, or 22.8 cm.)

1 45:2 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.

2 45:10 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

3 45:11 1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels

4 45:12 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

5 45:12 a gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains

6 45:12 A mina is about 600 grams or 1.3 U. S. pounds.

7 45:14 1 cor is the same as 1 homer in volume, and is about 211 liters, 55.9 gallons, or 6 bushels. 1 bath is about 21.1 liters, 5.59 gallons, or 2.4 pecks.

8 45:24 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

9 45:24 A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.

1 46:5 A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.

2 46:5 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

3 46:11 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

4 46:14 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

5 46:22 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.

1 47:3 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.