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The Book of the Prophet

Isaiah

Isaiah 1.0:

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Isaiah 1.1: 1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

Isaiah 1.2: 2 Hear, heavens,

and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken:

“I have nourished and brought up children

and they have rebelled against me.

Isaiah 1.3: 3 The ox knows his owner,

and the donkey his master’s crib;

but Israel doesn’t know.

My people don’t consider.”

Isaiah 1.4: 4 Ah sinful nation,

a people loaded with iniquity,

offspring of evildoers,

children who deal corruptly!

They have forsaken Yahweh.

They have despised the Holy One of Israel.

They are estranged and backward.

Isaiah 1.5: 5 Why should you be beaten more,

that you revolt more and more?

The whole head is sick,

and the whole heart faint.

Isaiah 1.6: 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it:

wounds, welts, and open sores.

They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.

Isaiah 1.7: 7 Your country is desolate.

Your cities are burned with fire.

Strangers devour your land in your presence

and it is desolate,

as overthrown by strangers.

Isaiah 1.8: 8 The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard,

like a hut in a field of melons,

like a besieged city.

Isaiah 1.9: 9 Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant,

we would have been as Sodom.

We would have been like Gomorrah.

Isaiah 1.10: 10 Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom!

Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

Isaiah 1.11: 11 “What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh.

“I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams

and the fat of fed animals.

I don’t delight in the blood of bulls,

or of lambs,

or of male goats.

Isaiah 1.12: 12 When you come to appear before me,

who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

Isaiah 1.13: 13 Bring no more vain offerings.

Incense is an abomination to me.

New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations:

I can’t stand evil assemblies.

Isaiah 1.14: 14 My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts.

They are a burden to me.

I am weary of bearing them.

Isaiah 1.15: 15 When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you.

Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear.

Your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 1.16: 16 Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean.

Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes.

Cease to do evil.

Isaiah 1.17: 17 Learn to do well.

Seek justice.

Relieve the oppressed.

Defend the fatherless.

Plead for the widow.”

Isaiah 1.18: 18 “Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh:

“Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.

Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Isaiah 1.19: 19 If you are willing and obedient,

you will eat the good of the land;

Isaiah 1.20: 20 but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword;

for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”

Isaiah 1.21: 21 How the faithful city has become a prostitute!

She was full of justice.

Righteousness lodged in her,

but now there are murderers.

Isaiah 1.22: 22 Your silver has become dross,

your wine mixed with water.

Isaiah 1.23: 23 Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves.

Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards.

They don’t defend the fatherless,

neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Isaiah 1.24: 24 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies,

the Mighty One of Israel, says:

“Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries,

and avenge myself on my enemies.

Isaiah 1.25: 25 I will turn my hand on you,

thoroughly purge away your dross,

and will take away all your tin.

Isaiah 1.26: 26 I will restore your judges as at the first,

and your counselors as at the beginning.

Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness,

a faithful town.’

Isaiah 1.27: 27 Zion shall be redeemed with justice,

and her converts with righteousness.

Isaiah 1.28: 28 But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together,

and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.

Isaiah 1.29: 29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired,

and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.

Isaiah 1.30: 30 For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades,

and as a garden that has no water.

Isaiah 1.31: 31 The strong will be like tinder,

and his work like a spark.

They will both burn together,

and no one will quench them.”

Isaiah 2.0:

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Isaiah 2.1: 1 This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

Isaiah 2.2: 2 It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains,

and shall be raised above the hills;

and all nations shall flow to it.

Isaiah 2.3: 3 Many peoples shall go and say,

“Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh,

to the house of the God of Jacob;

and he will teach us of his ways,

and we will walk in his paths.”

For the law shall go out of Zion,

and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.

Isaiah 2.4: 4 He will judge between the nations,

and will decide concerning many peoples.

They shall beat their swords into plowshares,

and their spears into pruning hooks.

Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,

neither shall they learn war any more.

Isaiah 2.5: 5 House of Jacob, come, and let’s walk in the light of Yahweh.

Isaiah 2.6: 6 For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob,

because they are filled from the east,

with those who practice divination like the Philistines,

and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.

Isaiah 2.7: 7 Their land is full of silver and gold,

neither is there any end of their treasures.

Their land also is full of horses,

neither is there any end of their chariots.

Isaiah 2.8: 8 Their land also is full of idols.

They worship the work of their own hands,

that which their own fingers have made.

Isaiah 2.9: 9 Man is brought low,

and mankind is humbled;

therefore don’t forgive them.

Isaiah 2.10: 10 Enter into the rock,

and hide in the dust,

from before the terror of Yahweh,

and from the glory of his majesty.

Isaiah 2.11: 11 The lofty looks of man will be brought low,

the arrogance of men will be bowed down,

and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 2.12: 12 For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and arrogant,

and for all that is lifted up;

and it shall be brought low:

Isaiah 2.13: 13 for all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up,

for all the oaks of Bashan,

Isaiah 2.14: 14 for all the high mountains,

for all the hills that are lifted up,

Isaiah 2.15: 15 for every lofty tower,

for every fortified wall,

Isaiah 2.16: 16 for all the ships of Tarshish,

and for all pleasant imagery.

Isaiah 2.17: 17 The loftiness of man shall be bowed down,

and the arrogance of men shall be brought low;

and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 2.18: 18 The idols shall utterly pass away.

Isaiah 2.19: 19 Men shall go into the caves of the rocks,

and into the holes of the earth,

from before the terror of Yahweh,

and from the glory of his majesty,

when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

Isaiah 2.20: 20 In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver

and their idols of gold,

which have been made for themselves to worship,

to the moles and to the bats,

Isaiah 2.21: 21 to go into the caverns of the rocks,

and into the clefts of the ragged rocks,

from before the terror of Yahweh,

and from the glory of his majesty,

when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

Isaiah 2.22: 22 Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils;

for of what account is he?

Isaiah 3.0:

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Isaiah 3.1: 1 For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support,

the whole supply of bread,

and the whole supply of water;

Isaiah 3.2: 2 the mighty man,

the man of war,

the judge,

the prophet,

the diviner,

the elder,

Isaiah 3.3: 3 the captain of fifty,

the honorable man,

the counselor,

the skilled craftsman,

and the clever enchanter.

Isaiah 3.4: 4 I will give boys to be their princes,

and children shall rule over them.

Isaiah 3.5: 5 The people will be oppressed,

everyone by another,

and everyone by his neighbor.

The child will behave himself proudly against the old man,

and the wicked against the honorable.

Isaiah 3.6: 6 Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying,

“You have clothing, you be our ruler,

and let this ruin be under your hand.”

Isaiah 3.7: 7 In that day he will cry out, saying, “I will not be a healer;

for in my house is neither bread nor clothing.

You shall not make me ruler of the people.”

Isaiah 3.8: 8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen;

because their tongue and their doings are against Yahweh,

to provoke the eyes of his glory.

Isaiah 3.9: 9 The look of their faces testify against them.

They parade their sin like Sodom.

They don’t hide it.

Woe to their soul!

For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

Isaiah 3.10: 10 Tell the righteous “Good!”

For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

Isaiah 3.11: 11 Woe to the wicked!

Disaster is upon them;

for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

Isaiah 3.12: 12 As for my people, children are their oppressors,

and women rule over them.

My people, those who lead you cause you to err,

and destroy the way of your paths.

Isaiah 3.13: 13 Yahweh stands up to contend,

and stands to judge the peoples.

Isaiah 3.14: 14 Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people

and their leaders:

“It is you who have eaten up the vineyard.

The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 3.15: 15 What do you mean that you crush my people,

and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

Isaiah 3.16: 16 Moreover Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Zion are arrogant,

and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes,

walking to trip as they go,

jingling ornaments on their feet;

Isaiah 3.17: 17 therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion,

and Yahweh will make their scalps bald.”

Isaiah 3.18: 18 In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces,

Isaiah 3.19: 19 the earrings, the bracelets, the veils,

Isaiah 3.20: 20 the headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume containers, the charms,

Isaiah 3.21: 21 the signet rings, the nose rings,

Isaiah 3.22: 22 the fine robes, the capes, the cloaks, the purses,

Isaiah 3.23: 23 the hand mirrors, the fine linen garments, the tiaras, and the shawls.

Isaiah 3.24: 24 It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness;

instead of a belt, a rope;

instead of well set hair, baldness;

instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth;

and branding instead of beauty.

Isaiah 3.25: 25 Your men shall fall by the sword,

and your mighty in the war.

Isaiah 3.26: 26 Her gates shall lament and mourn.

She shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

Isaiah 4.0:

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Isaiah 4.1: 1 Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.”

Isaiah 4.2: 2 In that day, Yahweh’s branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.

Isaiah 4.3: 3 It will happen that he who is left in Zion and he who remains in Jerusalem shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in Jerusalem,

Isaiah 4.4: 4 when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning.

Isaiah 4.5: 5 Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all the glory will be a canopy.

Isaiah 4.6: 6 There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.

Isaiah 5.0:

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Isaiah 5.1: 1 Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard.

My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

Isaiah 5.2: 2 He dug it up,

gathered out its stones,

planted it with the choicest vine,

built a tower in the middle of it,

and also cut out a wine press in it.

He looked for it to yield grapes,

but it yielded wild grapes.

Isaiah 5.3: 3 “Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,

please judge between me and my vineyard.

Isaiah 5.4: 4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it?

Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

Isaiah 5.5: 5 Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard.

I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up.

I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.

Isaiah 5.6: 6 I will lay it a wasteland.

It won’t be pruned or hoed,

but it will grow briers and thorns.

I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”

Isaiah 5.7: 7 For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel,

and the men of Judah his pleasant plant:

and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression;

for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

Isaiah 5.8: 8 Woe to those who join house to house,

who lay field to field, until there is no room,

and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!

Isaiah 5.9: 9 In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: “Surely many houses will be desolate,

even great and beautiful, unoccupied.

Isaiah 5.10: 10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,

and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.”

Isaiah 5.11: 11 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink,

who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

Isaiah 5.12: 12 The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts;

but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh,

neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

Isaiah 5.13: 13 Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge.

Their honorable men are famished,

and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

Isaiah 5.14: 14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire,

and opened its mouth without measure;

and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

Isaiah 5.15: 15 So man is brought low,

mankind is humbled,

and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;

Isaiah 5.16: 16 but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice,

and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

Isaiah 5.17: 17 Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture,

and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.

Isaiah 5.18: 18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood,

and wickedness as with cart rope,

Isaiah 5.19: 19 who say, “Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it;

let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come,

that we may know it!”

Isaiah 5.20: 20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;

who put darkness for light,

and light for darkness;

who put bitter for sweet,

and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5.21: 21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,

and prudent in their own sight!

Isaiah 5.22: 22 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine,

and champions at mixing strong drink;

Isaiah 5.23: 23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe,

but deny justice for the innocent!

Isaiah 5.24: 24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,

and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame,

so their root shall be as rottenness,

and their blossom shall go up as dust,

because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies,

and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 5.25: 25 Therefore Yahweh’s anger burns against his people,

and he has stretched out his hand against them and has struck them.

The mountains tremble,

and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets.

For all this, his anger is not turned away,

but his hand is still stretched out.

Isaiah 5.26: 26 He will lift up a banner to the nations from far away,

and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth.

Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.

Isaiah 5.27: 27 No one shall be weary nor stumble among them;

no one shall slumber nor sleep,

neither shall the belt of their waist be untied,

nor the strap of their sandals be broken,

Isaiah 5.28: 28 whose arrows are sharp,

and all their bows bent.

Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint,

and their wheels like a whirlwind.

Isaiah 5.29: 29 Their roaring will be like a lioness.

They will roar like young lions.

Yes, they shall roar,

and seize their prey and carry it off,

and there will be no one to deliver.

Isaiah 5.30: 30 They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea.

If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress.

The light is darkened in its clouds.

Isaiah 6.0:

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Isaiah 6.1: 1 In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.

Isaiah 6.2: 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew.

Isaiah 6.3: 3 One called to another, and said,

“Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies!

The whole earth is full of his glory!”

Isaiah 6.4: 4 The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.

Isaiah 6.5: 5 Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”

Isaiah 6.6: 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.

Isaiah 6.7: 7 He touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.”

Isaiah 6.8: 8 I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?”

Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!”

Isaiah 6.9: 9 He said, “Go, and tell this people,

‘You hear indeed,

but don’t understand.

You see indeed,

but don’t perceive.’

Isaiah 6.10: 10 Make the heart of this people fat.

Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes;

lest they see with their eyes,

hear with their ears,

understand with their heart,

and turn again, and be healed.”

Isaiah 6.11: 11 Then I said, “Lord, how long?”

He answered,

“Until cities are waste without inhabitant,

houses without man,

the land becomes utterly waste,

Isaiah 6.12: 12 and Yahweh has removed men far away,

and the forsaken places are many within the land.

Isaiah 6.13: 13 If there is a tenth left in it,

that also will in turn be consumed,

as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stump remains when they are cut down;

so the holy seed is its stock.”

Isaiah 7.0:

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Isaiah 7.1: 1 In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

Isaiah 7.2: 2 David’s house was told, “Syria is allied with Ephraim.” His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.

Isaiah 7.3: 3 Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller’s field.

Isaiah 7.4: 4 Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

Isaiah 7.5: 5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have plotted evil against you, saying,

Isaiah 7.6: 6 “Let’s go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let’s divide it among ourselves, and set up a king within it, even the son of Tabeel.”

Isaiah 7.7: 7 This is what the Lord Yahweh says: “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.”

Isaiah 7.8: 8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people.

Isaiah 7.9: 9 The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’”

Isaiah 7.10: 10 Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying,

Isaiah 7.11: 11 “Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.”

Isaiah 7.12: 12 But Ahaz said, “I won’t ask. I won’t tempt Yahweh.”

Isaiah 7.13: 13 He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?

Isaiah 7.14: 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Isaiah 7.15: 15 He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good.

Isaiah 7.16: 16 For before the child knows to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.

Isaiah 7.17: 17 Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah, even the king of Assyria.

Isaiah 7.18: 18 It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

Isaiah 7.19: 19 They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges, and on all pastures.

Isaiah 7.20: 20 In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.

Isaiah 7.21: 21 It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep.

Isaiah 7.22: 22 It shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter; for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left within the land.

Isaiah 7.23: 23 It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.

Isaiah 7.24: 24 People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns.

Isaiah 7.25: 25 All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of oxen, and for sheep to tread on.”

Isaiah 8.0:

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Isaiah 8.1: 1 Yahweh said to me, “Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash Baz’;

Isaiah 8.2: 2 and I will take for myself faithful witnesses to testify: Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.”

Isaiah 8.3: 3 I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then Yahweh said to me, “Call his name ‘Maher Shalal Hash Baz.’

Isaiah 8.4: 4 For before the child knows how to say, ‘My father,’ and, ‘My mother,’ the riches of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried away by the king of Assyria.”

Isaiah 8.5: 5 Yahweh spoke to me yet again, saying,

Isaiah 8.6: 6 “Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;

Isaiah 8.7: 7 now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.

Isaiah 8.8: 8 It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through. It will reach even to the neck. The stretching out of its wings will fill the width of your land, Immanuel.

Isaiah 8.9: 9 Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!

Isaiah 8.10: 10 Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”

Isaiah 8.11: 11 For Yahweh spoke this to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

Isaiah 8.12: 12 “Don’t say, ‘A conspiracy!’ concerning all about which this people say, ‘A conspiracy!’ neither fear their threats, nor be terrorized.

Isaiah 8.13: 13 Yahweh of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.

Isaiah 8.14: 14 He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.

Isaiah 8.15: 15 Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”

Isaiah 8.16: 16 Wrap up the covenant. Seal the law among my disciples.

Isaiah 8.17: 17 I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Isaiah 8.18: 18 Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.

Isaiah 8.19: 19 When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter,” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

Isaiah 8.20: 20 Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

Isaiah 8.21: 21 They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,

Isaiah 8.22: 22 and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

Isaiah 9.0:

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Isaiah 9.1: 1 But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

Isaiah 9.2: 2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light.

The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.

Isaiah 9.3: 3 You have multiplied the nation.

You have increased their joy.

They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder.

Isaiah 9.4: 4 For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.

Isaiah 9.5: 5 For all the armor of the armed man in the noisy battle, and the garments rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.

Isaiah 9.6: 6 For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 9.7: 7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.

Isaiah 9.8: 8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob,

and it falls on Israel.

Isaiah 9.9: 9 All the people will know,

including Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,

Isaiah 9.10: 10 “The bricks have fallen,

but we will build with cut stone.

The sycamore fig trees have been cut down,

but we will put cedars in their place.”

Isaiah 9.11: 11 Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin,

and will stir up his enemies,

Isaiah 9.12: 12 The Syrians in front,

and the Philistines behind;

and they will devour Israel with open mouth.

For all this, his anger is not turned away,

but his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 9.13: 13 Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them,

neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.

Isaiah 9.14: 14 Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail,

palm branch and reed, in one day.

Isaiah 9.15: 15 The elder and the honorable man is the head,

and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.

Isaiah 9.16: 16 For those who lead this people lead them astray;

and those who are led by them are destroyed.

Isaiah 9.17: 17 Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men,

neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows;

for everyone is profane and an evildoer,

and every mouth speaks folly.

For all this his anger is not turned away,

but his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 9.18: 18 For wickedness burns like a fire.

It devours the briers and thorns;

yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest,

and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Isaiah 9.19: 19 Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up;

and the people are the fuel for the fire.

No one spares his brother.

Isaiah 9.20: 20 One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry;

and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied.

Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:

Isaiah 9.21: 21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah.

For all this his anger is not turned away,

but his hand is stretched out still.

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Isaiah 10.1: 1 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;

Isaiah 10.2: 2 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Isaiah 10.3: 3 What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

Isaiah 10.4: 4 They will only bow down under the prisoners,

and will fall under the slain.

For all this his anger is not turned away,

but his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 10.5: 5 Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

Isaiah 10.6: 6 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Isaiah 10.7: 7 However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.

Isaiah 10.8: 8 For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings?

Isaiah 10.9: 9 Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?”

Isaiah 10.10: 10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

Isaiah 10.11: 11 shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

Isaiah 10.12: 12 Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks.

Isaiah 10.13: 13 For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.

Isaiah 10.14: 14 My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”

Isaiah 10.15: 15 Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

Isaiah 10.16: 16 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.

Isaiah 10.17: 17 The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.

Isaiah 10.18: 18 He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.

Isaiah 10.19: 19 The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number.

Isaiah 10.20: 20 It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

Isaiah 10.21: 21 A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

Isaiah 10.22: 22 For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

Isaiah 10.23: 23 For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will make a full end, and that determined, throughout all the earth.

Isaiah 10.24: 24 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, says “My people who dwell in Zion, don’t be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did.

Isaiah 10.25: 25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”

Isaiah 10.26: 26 Yahweh of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up like he did against Egypt.

Isaiah 10.27: 27 It will happen in that day that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.

Isaiah 10.28: 28 He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage.

Isaiah 10.29: 29 They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.

Isaiah 10.30: 30 Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!

Isaiah 10.31: 31 Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.

Isaiah 10.32: 32 This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 10.33: 33 Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.

Isaiah 10.34: 34 He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.

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Isaiah 11.1: 1 A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse,

and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.

Isaiah 11.2: 2 Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him:

the spirit of wisdom and understanding,

the spirit of counsel and might,

the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.

Isaiah 11.3: 3 His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh.

He will not judge by the sight of his eyes,

neither decide by the hearing of his ears;

Isaiah 11.4: 4 but he will judge the poor with righteousness,

and decide with equity for the humble of the earth.

He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth;

and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

Isaiah 11.5: 5 Righteousness will be the belt of his waist,

and faithfulness the belt of his waist.

Isaiah 11.6: 6 The wolf will live with the lamb,

and the leopard will lie down with the young goat,

the calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together;

and a little child will lead them.

Isaiah 11.7: 7 The cow and the bear will graze.

Their young ones will lie down together.

The lion will eat straw like the ox.

Isaiah 11.8: 8 The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole,

and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.

Isaiah 11.9: 9 They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain;

for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh,

as the waters cover the sea.

Isaiah 11.10: 10 It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.

Isaiah 11.11: 11 It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

Isaiah 11.12: 12 He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

Isaiah 11.13: 13 The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim.

Isaiah 11.14: 14 They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west. Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will obey them.

Isaiah 11.15: 15 Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, and will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals.

Isaiah 11.16: 16 There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, like there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

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Isaiah 12.1: 1 In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.

Isaiah 12.2: 2 Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

Isaiah 12.3: 3 Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.

Isaiah 12.4: 4 In that day you will say, “Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted!

Isaiah 12.5: 5 Sing to Yahweh, for he has done excellent things! Let this be known in all the earth!

Isaiah 12.6: 6 Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”

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Isaiah 13.1: 1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

Isaiah 13.2: 2 Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

Isaiah 13.3: 3 I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.

Isaiah 13.4: 4 The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army for the battle.

Isaiah 13.5: 5 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

Isaiah 13.6: 6 Wail, for Yahweh’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Isaiah 13.7: 7 Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt.

Isaiah 13.8: 8 They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.

Isaiah 13.9: 9 Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.

Isaiah 13.10: 10 For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

Isaiah 13.11: 11 I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the arrogance of the terrible.

Isaiah 13.12: 12 I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.

Isaiah 13.13: 13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger.

Isaiah 13.14: 14 It will happen that like a hunted gazelle, and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.

Isaiah 13.15: 15 Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

Isaiah 13.16: 16 Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.

Isaiah 13.17: 17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.

Isaiah 13.18: 18 Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.

Isaiah 13.19: 19 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

Isaiah 13.20: 20 It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.

Isaiah 13.21: 21 But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there.

Isaiah 13.22: 22 Wolves will cry in their fortresses, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.

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Isaiah 14.1: 1 For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 14.2: 2 The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh’s land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

Isaiah 14.3: 3 It will happen in the day that Yahweh will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,

Isaiah 14.4: 4 that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!”

Isaiah 14.5: 5 Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,

Isaiah 14.6: 6 who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained.

Isaiah 14.7: 7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out in song.

Isaiah 14.8: 8 Yes, the cypress trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us.”

Isaiah 14.9: 9 Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

Isaiah 14.10: 10 They all will answer and ask you, “Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?”

Isaiah 14.11: 11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.

Isaiah 14.12: 12 How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

Isaiah 14.13: 13 You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!

Isaiah 14.14: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”

Isaiah 14.15: 15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.

Isaiah 14.16: 16 Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms,

Isaiah 14.17: 17 who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities, who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?”

Isaiah 14.18: 18 All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.

Isaiah 14.19: 19 But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.

Isaiah 14.20: 20 You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever.

Isaiah 14.21: 21 Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.

Isaiah 14.22: 22 “I will rise up against them,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son’s son,” says Yahweh.

Isaiah 14.23: 23 “I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Isaiah 14.24: 24 Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

Isaiah 14.25: 25 that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.

Isaiah 14.26: 26 This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.

Isaiah 14.27: 27 For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

Isaiah 14.28: 28 This burden was in the year that king Ahaz died.

Isaiah 14.29: 29 Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.

Isaiah 14.30: 30 The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.

Isaiah 14.31: 31 Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all of you; for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.

Isaiah 14.32: 32 What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

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Isaiah 15.1: 1 The burden of Moab.

For in a night, Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing. For in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing.

Isaiah 15.2: 2 They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off.

Isaiah 15.3: 3 In their streets, they clothe themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.

Isaiah 15.4: 4 Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. Their souls tremble within them.

Isaiah 15.5: 5 My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for on the way to Horonaim, they raise up a cry of destruction.

Isaiah 15.6: 6 For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.

Isaiah 15.7: 7 Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows.

Isaiah 15.8: 8 For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab, its wailing to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beer Elim.

Isaiah 15.9: 9 For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more on Dimon, a lion on those of Moab who escape, and on the remnant of the land.

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Isaiah 16.1: 1 Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

Isaiah 16.2: 2 For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

Isaiah 16.3: 3 Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive!

Isaiah 16.4: 4 Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortionist is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.

Isaiah 16.5: 5 A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.

Isaiah 16.6: 6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing.

Isaiah 16.7: 7 Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken.

Isaiah 16.8: 8 For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea.

Isaiah 16.9: 9 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen.

Isaiah 16.10: 10 Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.

Isaiah 16.11: 11 Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.

Isaiah 16.12: 12 It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, that he will not prevail.

Isaiah 16.13: 13 This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab in time past.

Isaiah 16.14: 14 But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, “Within three years, as a worker bound by contract would count them, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant will be very small and feeble.”

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Isaiah 17.1: 1 The burden of Damascus.

“Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.

Isaiah 17.2: 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid.

Isaiah 17.3: 3 The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Isaiah 17.4: 4 “It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.

Isaiah 17.5: 5 It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.

Isaiah 17.6: 6 Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree,” says Yahweh, the God of Israel.

Isaiah 17.7: 7 In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 17.8: 8 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherah poles, or the incense altars.

Isaiah 17.9: 9 In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.

Isaiah 17.10: 10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

Isaiah 17.11: 11 In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

Isaiah 17.12: 12 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!

Isaiah 17.13: 13 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

Isaiah 17.14: 14 At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.

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Isaiah 18.1: 1 Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;

Isaiah 18.2: 2 that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!”

Isaiah 18.3: 3 All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen!

Isaiah 18.4: 4 For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

Isaiah 18.5: 5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.

Isaiah 18.6: 6 They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will eat them in the summer, and all the animals of the earth will eat them in the winter.

Isaiah 18.7: 7 In that time, a present will be brought to Yahweh of Armies from a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Yahweh of Armies, Mount Zion.

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Isaiah 19.1: 1 The burden of Egypt.

“Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it.

Isaiah 19.2: 2 I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

Isaiah 19.3: 3 The spirit of Egypt will fail within it. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.

Isaiah 19.4: 4 I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord. A fierce king will rule over them,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

Isaiah 19.5: 5 The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.

Isaiah 19.6: 6 The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.

Isaiah 19.7: 7 The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away, and be no more.

Isaiah 19.8: 8 The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.

Isaiah 19.9: 9 Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded.

Isaiah 19.10: 10 The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul.

Isaiah 19.11: 11 The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?”

Isaiah 19.12: 12 Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt.

Isaiah 19.13: 13 The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, who are the cornerstone of her tribes.

Isaiah 19.14: 14 Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

Isaiah 19.15: 15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do.

Isaiah 19.16: 16 In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble and fear because of the shaking of Yahweh of Armies’s hand, which he shakes over them.

Isaiah 19.17: 17 The land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt. Everyone to whom mention is made of it will be afraid, because of the plans of Yahweh of Armies, which he determines against it.

Isaiah 19.18: 18 In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of Armies. One will be called “The city of destruction.”

Isaiah 19.19: 19 In that day, there will be an altar to Yahweh in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to Yahweh at its border.

Isaiah 19.20: 20 It will be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh of Armies in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to Yahweh because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior and a defender, and he will deliver them.

Isaiah 19.21: 21 Yahweh will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know Yahweh in that day. Yes, they will worship with sacrifice and offering, and will vow a vow to Yahweh, and will perform it.

Isaiah 19.22: 22 Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.

Isaiah 19.23: 23 In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.

Isaiah 19.24: 24 In that day, Israel will be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing within the earth;

Isaiah 19.25: 25 because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.”

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Isaiah 20.1: 1 In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it;

Isaiah 20.2: 2 at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your sandals from off your feet.” He did so, walking naked and barefoot.

Isaiah 20.3: 3 Yahweh said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia,

Isaiah 20.4: 4 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Isaiah 20.5: 5 They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

Isaiah 20.6: 6 The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?’”

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Isaiah 21.1: 1 The burden of the wilderness of the sea.

As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.

Isaiah 21.2: 2 A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.

Isaiah 21.3: 3 Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I so am dismayed that I can’t see.

Isaiah 21.4: 4 My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.

Isaiah 21.5: 5 They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!

Isaiah 21.6: 6 For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.

Isaiah 21.7: 7 When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”

Isaiah 21.8: 8 He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

Isaiah 21.9: 9 Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.

Isaiah 21.10: 10 You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.

Isaiah 21.11: 11 The burden of Dumah.

One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”

Isaiah 21.12: 12 The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”

Isaiah 21.13: 13 The burden on Arabia.

In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of Dedanites.

Isaiah 21.14: 14 They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.

Isaiah 21.15: 15 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.

Isaiah 21.16: 16 For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,

Isaiah 21.17: 17 and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”

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Isaiah 22.1: 1 The burden of the valley of vision.

What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?

Isaiah 22.2: 2 You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.

Isaiah 22.3: 3 All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.

Isaiah 22.4: 4 Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Isaiah 22.5: 5 For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, in the valley of vision, a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.”

Isaiah 22.6: 6 Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.

Isaiah 22.7: 7 Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.

Isaiah 22.8: 8 He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.

Isaiah 22.9: 9 You saw the breaches of David’s city, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

Isaiah 22.10: 10 You counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.

Isaiah 22.11: 11 You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who planed it long ago.

Isaiah 22.12: 12 In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;

Isaiah 22.13: 13 and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”

Isaiah 22.14: 14 Yahweh of Armies revealed himself in my ears, “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

Isaiah 22.15: 15 The Lord, Yahweh of Armies says, “Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,

Isaiah 22.16: 16 ‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!”

Isaiah 22.17: 17 Behold, Yahweh will overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you firmly.

Isaiah 22.18: 18 He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you shame of your lord’s house.

Isaiah 22.19: 19 I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down from your station.

Isaiah 22.20: 20 It will happen in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,

Isaiah 22.21: 21 and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

Isaiah 22.22: 22 I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.

Isaiah 22.23: 23 I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house.

Isaiah 22.24: 24 They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers.

Isaiah 22.25: 25 “In that day,” says Yahweh of Armies, “the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way. It will be cut down and fall. The burden that was on it will be cut off, for Yahweh has spoken it.”

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Isaiah 23.1: 1 The burden of Tyre.

Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.

Isaiah 23.2: 2 Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon that pass over the sea, have replenished.

Isaiah 23.3: 3 On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations.

Isaiah 23.4: 4 Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, “I have not travailed, nor given birth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.”

Isaiah 23.5: 5 When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report of Tyre.

Isaiah 23.6: 6 Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast!

Isaiah 23.7: 7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel?

Isaiah 23.8: 8 Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?

Isaiah 23.9: 9 Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

Isaiah 23.10: 10 Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more.

Isaiah 23.11: 11 He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction of Canaan’s strongholds.

Isaiah 23.12: 12 He said, “You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will have no rest.”

Isaiah 23.13: 13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people didn’t exist. The Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made it a ruin.

Isaiah 23.14: 14 Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste!

Isaiah 23.15: 15 It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in the song of the prostitute.

Isaiah 23.16: 16 Take a harp; go about the city, you prostitute that has been forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs, that you may be remembered.

Isaiah 23.17: 17 It will happen after the end of seventy years that Yahweh will visit Tyre. She will return to her wages, and will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth.

Isaiah 23.18: 18 Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

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Isaiah 24.1: 1 Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.

Isaiah 24.2: 2 It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest.

Isaiah 24.3: 3 The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.

Isaiah 24.4: 4 The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.

Isaiah 24.5: 5 The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah 24.6: 6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.

Isaiah 24.7: 7 The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.

Isaiah 24.8: 8 The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.

Isaiah 24.9: 9 They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.

Isaiah 24.10: 10 The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

Isaiah 24.11: 11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.

Isaiah 24.12: 12 The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.

Isaiah 24.13: 13 For it will be so within the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.

Isaiah 24.14: 14 These shall lift up their voice. They will shout for the majesty of Yahweh. They cry aloud from the sea.

Isaiah 24.15: 15 Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea!

Isaiah 24.16: 16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous!

But I said, “I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!” The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.

Isaiah 24.17: 17 Fear, the pit, and the snare, are on you who inhabit the earth.

Isaiah 24.18: 18 It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the middle of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.

Isaiah 24.19: 19 The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.

Isaiah 24.20: 20 The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and it will fall and not rise again.

Isaiah 24.21: 21 It will happen in that day that Yahweh will punish the army of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.

Isaiah 24.22: 22 They will be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and will be shut up in the prison; and after many days they will be visited.

Isaiah 24.23: 23 Then the moon will be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Armies will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and glory will be before his elders.

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Isaiah 25.1: 1 Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.

Isaiah 25.2: 2 For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.

Isaiah 25.3: 3 Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you.

Isaiah 25.4: 4 For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

Isaiah 25.5: 5 As the heat in a dry place you will bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low.

Isaiah 25.6: 6 In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.

Isaiah 25.7: 7 He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

Isaiah 25.8: 8 He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

Isaiah 25.9: 9 It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”

Isaiah 25.10: 10 For Yahweh’s hand will rest in this mountain.

Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.

Isaiah 25.11: 11 He will spread out his hands in the middle of it, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands.

Isaiah 25.12: 12 He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

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Isaiah 26.1: 1 In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah:

“We have a strong city.

God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.

Isaiah 26.2: 2 Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter:

the one which keeps faith.

Isaiah 26.3: 3 You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace,

because he trusts in you.

Isaiah 26.4: 4 Trust in Yahweh forever;

for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.

Isaiah 26.5: 5 For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city.

He lays it low.

He lays it low even to the ground.

He brings it even to the dust.

Isaiah 26.6: 6 The foot shall tread it down,

even the feet of the poor

and the steps of the needy.”

Isaiah 26.7: 7 The way of the just is uprightness.

You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.

Isaiah 26.8: 8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, we have waited for you.

Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.

Isaiah 26.9: 9 With my soul I have desired you in the night.

Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly;

for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Isaiah 26.10: 10 Let favor be shown to the wicked,

yet he will not learn righteousness.

In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully,

and will not see Yahweh’s majesty.

Isaiah 26.11: 11 Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see;

but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed.

Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.

Isaiah 26.12: 12 Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us,

for you have also done all our work for us.

Isaiah 26.13: 13 Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us,

but we will only acknowledge your name.

Isaiah 26.14: 14 The dead shall not live.

The departed spirits shall not rise.

Therefore you have visited and destroyed them,

and caused all memory of them to perish.

Isaiah 26.15: 15 You have increased the nation, O Yahweh.

You have increased the nation!

You are glorified!

You have enlarged all the borders of the land.

Isaiah 26.16: 16 Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you.

They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.

Isaiah 26.17: 17 Just as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery,

is in pain and cries out in her pangs,

so we have been before you, Yahweh.

Isaiah 26.18: 18 We have been with child.

We have been in pain.

We gave birth, it seems, only to wind.

We have not worked any deliverance in the earth;

neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

Isaiah 26.19: 19 Your dead shall live.

My dead bodies shall arise.

Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust;

for your dew is like the dew of herbs,

and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

Isaiah 26.20: 20 Come, my people, enter into your rooms,

and shut your doors behind you.

Hide yourself for a little moment,

until the indignation is past.

Isaiah 26.21: 21 For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity.

The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.

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Isaiah 27.1: 1 In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

Isaiah 27.2: 2 In that day, sing to her, “A pleasant vineyard!

Isaiah 27.3: 3 I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.

Isaiah 27.4: 4 Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.

Isaiah 27.5: 5 Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”

Isaiah 27.6: 6 In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.

Isaiah 27.7: 7 Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed?

Isaiah 27.8: 8 In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.

Isaiah 27.9: 9 Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.

Isaiah 27.10: 10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.

Isaiah 27.11: 11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

Isaiah 27.12: 12 It will happen in that day that Yahweh will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel.

Isaiah 27.13: 13 It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

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Isaiah 28.1: 1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!

Isaiah 28.2: 2 Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one. Like a storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand.

Isaiah 28.3: 3 The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.

Isaiah 28.4: 4 The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.

Isaiah 28.5: 5 In that day, Yahweh of Armies will become a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty to the residue of his people,

Isaiah 28.6: 6 and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

Isaiah 28.7: 7 They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

Isaiah 28.8: 8 For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness.

Isaiah 28.9: 9 Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

Isaiah 28.10: 10 For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.

Isaiah 28.11: 11 But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language,

Isaiah 28.12: 12 to whom he said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to weary,” and “This is the refreshing;” yet they would not hear.

Isaiah 28.13: 13 Therefore Yahweh’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.

Isaiah 28.14: 14 Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem:

Isaiah 28.15: 15 “Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’”

Isaiah 28.16: 16 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

Isaiah 28.17: 17 I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.

Isaiah 28.18: 18 Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it.

Isaiah 28.19: 19 As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message.”

Isaiah 28.20: 20 For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.

Isaiah 28.21: 21 For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his unusual work, and bring to pass his act, his extraordinary act.

Isaiah 28.22: 22 Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.

Isaiah 28.23: 23 Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech!

Isaiah 28.24: 24 Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?

Isaiah 28.25: 25 When he has leveled its surface, doesn’t he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?

Isaiah 28.26: 26 For his God instructs him in right judgment and teaches him.

Isaiah 28.27: 27 For the dill are not threshed with a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.

Isaiah 28.28: 28 Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don’t grind it.

Isaiah 28.29: 29 This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

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Isaiah 29.1: 1 Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;

Isaiah 29.2: 2 then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth.

Isaiah 29.3: 3 I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you.

Isaiah 29.4: 4 You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.

Isaiah 29.5: 5 But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.

Isaiah 29.6: 6 She will be visited by Yahweh of Armies with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire.

Isaiah 29.7: 7 The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night.

Isaiah 29.8: 8 It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn’t satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that.

Isaiah 29.9: 9 Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

Isaiah 29.10: 10 For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.

Isaiah 29.11: 11 All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t, for it is sealed;”

Isaiah 29.12: 12 and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t read.”

Isaiah 29.13: 13 The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

Isaiah 29.14: 14 therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”

Isaiah 29.15: 15 Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”

Isaiah 29.16: 16 You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

Isaiah 29.17: 17 Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?

Isaiah 29.18: 18 In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

Isaiah 29.19: 19 The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 29.20: 20 For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—

Isaiah 29.21: 21 who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

Isaiah 29.22: 22 Therefore Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, says concerning the house of Jacob: “Jacob shall no longer be ashamed, neither shall his face grow pale.

Isaiah 29.23: 23 But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the middle of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

Isaiah 29.24: 24 They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction.”

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Isaiah 30.1: 1 “Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

Isaiah 30.2: 2 who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

Isaiah 30.3: 3 Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

Isaiah 30.4: 4 For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.

Isaiah 30.5: 5 They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”

Isaiah 30.6: 6 The burden of the animals of the South.

Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.

Isaiah 30.7: 7 For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.

Isaiah 30.8: 8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.

Isaiah 30.9: 9 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law;

Isaiah 30.10: 10 who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

Isaiah 30.11: 11 Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”

Isaiah 30.12: 12 Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,

Isaiah 30.13: 13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.

Isaiah 30.14: 14 He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”

Isaiah 30.15: 15 For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,

Isaiah 30.16: 16 but you said, “No, for we will flee on horses;” therefore you will flee; and, “We will ride on the swift;” therefore those who pursue you will be swift.

Isaiah 30.17: 17 One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill.

Isaiah 30.18: 18 Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

Isaiah 30.19: 19 For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.

Isaiah 30.20: 20 Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;

Isaiah 30.21: 21 and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

Isaiah 30.22: 22 You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!”

Isaiah 30.23: 23 He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.

Isaiah 30.24: 24 The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory feed, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.

Isaiah 30.25: 25 There will be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Isaiah 30.26: 26 Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

Isaiah 30.27: 27 Behold, Yahweh’s name comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation. His tongue is as a devouring fire.

Isaiah 30.28: 28 His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.

Isaiah 30.29: 29 You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock.

Isaiah 30.30: 30 Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.

Isaiah 30.31: 31 For through Yahweh’s voice the Assyrian will be dismayed. He will strike him with his rod.

Isaiah 30.32: 32 Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which Yahweh will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons.

Isaiah 30.33: 33 For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

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Isaiah 31.1: 1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help,

and rely on horses,

and trust in chariots because they are many,

and in horsemen because they are very strong,

but they don’t look to the Holy One of Israel,

and they don’t seek Yahweh!

Isaiah 31.2: 2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster,

and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers,

and against the help of those who work iniquity.

Isaiah 31.3: 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God;

and their horses flesh, and not spirit.

When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble,

and he who is helped shall fall,

and they all shall be consumed together.

Isaiah 31.4: 4 For Yahweh says to me,

“As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey,

if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him,

will not be dismayed at their voice,

nor abase himself for their noise,

so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.

Isaiah 31.5: 5 As birds hovering, so Yahweh of Armies will protect Jerusalem.

He will protect and deliver it.

He will pass over and preserve it.”

Isaiah 31.6: 6 Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.

Isaiah 31.7: 7 For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—sin which your own hands have made for you.

Isaiah 31.8: 8 “The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man;

and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour him.

He will flee from the sword,

and his young men will become subject to forced labor.

Isaiah 31.9: 9 His rock will pass away by reason of terror,

and his princes will be afraid of the banner,”

says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion,

and his furnace in Jerusalem.

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Isaiah 32.1: 1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness,

and princes shall rule in justice.

Isaiah 32.2: 2 A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind,

and a covert from the storm,

as streams of water in a dry place,

as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.

Isaiah 32.3: 3 The eyes of those who see will not be dim,

and the ears of those who hear will listen.

Isaiah 32.4: 4 The heart of the rash will understand knowledge,

and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.

Isaiah 32.5: 5 The fool will no longer be called noble,

nor the scoundrel be highly respected.

Isaiah 32.6: 6 For the fool will speak folly,

and his heart will work iniquity,

to practice profanity,

and to utter error against Yahweh,

to make empty the soul of the hungry,

and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Isaiah 32.7: 7 The ways of the scoundrel are evil.

He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words,

even when the needy speaks right.

Isaiah 32.8: 8 But the noble devises noble things;

and he will continue in noble things.

Isaiah 32.9: 9 Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice!

You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!

Isaiah 32.10: 10 For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women;

for the vintage will fail.

The harvest won’t come.

Isaiah 32.11: 11 Tremble, you women who are at ease!

Be troubled, you careless ones!

Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked,

and put sackcloth on your waist.

Isaiah 32.12: 12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,

for the fruitful vine.

Isaiah 32.13: 13 Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land;

yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

Isaiah 32.14: 14 For the palace will be forsaken.

The populous city will be deserted.

The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever,

a delight for wild donkeys,

a pasture of flocks,

Isaiah 32.15: 15 until the Spirit is poured on us from on high,

and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,

and the fruitful field is considered a forest.

Isaiah 32.16: 16 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness;

and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field.

Isaiah 32.17: 17 The work of righteousness will be peace,

and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

Isaiah 32.18: 18 My people will live in a peaceful habitation,

in safe dwellings,

and in quiet resting places,

Isaiah 32.19: 19 though hail flattens the forest,

and the city is leveled completely.

Isaiah 32.20: 20 Blessed are you who sow beside all waters,

who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.

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Isaiah 33.1: 1 Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed,

and who betray, but nobody betrayed you!

When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed;

and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.

Isaiah 33.2: 2 Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you.

Be our strength every morning,

our salvation also in the time of trouble.

Isaiah 33.3: 3 At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled.

When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.

Isaiah 33.4: 4 Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers.

Men will leap on it as locusts leap.

Isaiah 33.5: 5 Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high.

He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

Isaiah 33.6: 6 There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.

The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.

Isaiah 33.7: 7 Behold, their valiant ones cry outside;

the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.

Isaiah 33.8: 8 The highways are desolate.

The traveling man ceases.

The covenant is broken.

He has despised the cities.

He doesn’t respect man.

Isaiah 33.9: 9 The land mourns and languishes.

Lebanon is confounded and withers away.

Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.

Isaiah 33.10: 10 “Now I will arise,” says Yahweh.

“Now I will lift myself up.

Now I will be exalted.

Isaiah 33.11: 11 You will conceive chaff.

You will give birth to stubble.

Your breath is a fire that will devour you.

Isaiah 33.12: 12 The peoples will be like the burning of lime,

like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.

Isaiah 33.13: 13 Hear, you who are far off, what I have done;

and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.”

Isaiah 33.14: 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid.

Trembling has seized the godless ones.

Who among us can live with the devouring fire?

Who among us can live with everlasting burning?

Isaiah 33.15: 15 He who walks righteously

and speaks blamelessly,

he who despises the gain of oppressions,

who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe,

who stops his ears from hearing of blood,

and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—

Isaiah 33.16: 16 he will dwell on high.

His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks.

His bread will be supplied.

His waters will be sure.

Isaiah 33.17: 17 Your eyes will see the king in his beauty.

They will see a distant land.

Isaiah 33.18: 18 Your heart will meditate on the terror.

Where is he who counted?

Where is he who weighed?

Where is he who counted the towers?

Isaiah 33.19: 19 You will no longer see the fierce people,

a people of a deep speech that you can’t comprehend,

with a strange language that you can’t understand.

Isaiah 33.20: 20 Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals.

Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation,

a tent that won’t be removed.

Its stakes will never be plucked up,

nor will any of its cords be broken.

Isaiah 33.21: 21 But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty,

a place of wide rivers and streams,

in which no galley with oars will go,

neither will any gallant ship pass by there.

Isaiah 33.22: 22 For Yahweh is our judge.

Yahweh is our lawgiver.

Yahweh is our king.

He will save us.

Isaiah 33.23: 23 Your rigging is untied.

They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their mast.

They couldn’t spread the sail.

Then the prey of a great plunder was divided.

The lame took the prey.

Isaiah 33.24: 24 The inhabitant won’t say, “I am sick.”

The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity.

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Isaiah 34.1: 1 Come near, you nations, to hear!

Listen, you peoples.

Let the earth and all it contains hear,

the world, and everything that comes from it.

Isaiah 34.2: 2 For Yahweh is enraged against all the nations,

and angry with all their armies.

He has utterly destroyed them.

He has given them over for slaughter.

Isaiah 34.3: 3 Their slain will also be cast out,

and the stench of their dead bodies will come up.

The mountains will melt in their blood.

Isaiah 34.4: 4 All of the army of the sky will be dissolved.

The sky will be rolled up like a scroll,

and all its armies will fade away,

as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.

Isaiah 34.5: 5 For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky.

Behold, it will come down on Edom,

and on the people of my curse, for judgment.

Isaiah 34.6: 6 Yahweh’s sword is filled with blood.

It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats,

with the fat of the kidneys of rams;

for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah,

And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

Isaiah 34.7: 7 The wild oxen will come down with them,

and the young bulls with the mighty bulls;

and their land will be drunken with blood,

and their dust made greasy with fat.

Isaiah 34.8: 8 For Yahweh has a day of vengeance,

a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

Isaiah 34.9: 9 Its streams will be turned into pitch,

its dust into sulfur,

And its land will become burning pitch.

Isaiah 34.10: 10 It won’t be quenched night nor day.

Its smoke will go up forever.

From generation to generation, it will lie waste.

No one will pass through it forever and ever.

Isaiah 34.11: 11 But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it.

The owl and the raven will dwell in it.

He will stretch the line of confusion over it,

and the plumb line of emptiness.

Isaiah 34.12: 12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there;

and all its princes shall be nothing.

Isaiah 34.13: 13 Thorns will come up in its palaces,

nettles and thistles in its fortresses;

and it will be a habitation of jackals,

a court for ostriches.

Isaiah 34.14: 14 The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves,

and the wild goat will cry to his fellow.

Yes, the night creature shall settle there,

and shall find herself a place of rest.

Isaiah 34.15: 15 The arrow snake will make her nest there,

and lay, hatch, and gather under her shade.

Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every one with her mate.

Isaiah 34.16: 16 Search in the book of Yahweh, and read:

not one of these will be missing.

None will lack her mate.

For my mouth has commanded,

and his Spirit has gathered them.

Isaiah 34.17: 17 He has cast the lot for them,

and his hand has divided it to them with a measuring line.

They shall possess it forever.

From generation to generation they will dwell in it.

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Isaiah 35.1: 1 The wilderness and the dry land will be glad.

The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.

Isaiah 35.2: 2 It will blossom abundantly,

and rejoice even with joy and singing.

Lebanon’s glory will be given to it,

the excellence of Carmel and Sharon.

They will see Yahweh’s glory,

the excellence of our God.

Isaiah 35.3: 3 Strengthen the weak hands,

and make the feeble knees firm.

Isaiah 35.4: 4 Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong!

Don’t be afraid!

Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution.

He will come and save you.

Isaiah 35.5: 5 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened,

and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

Isaiah 35.6: 6 Then the lame man will leap like a deer,

and the tongue of the mute will sing;

for waters will break out in the wilderness,

and streams in the desert.

Isaiah 35.7: 7 The burning sand will become a pool,

and the thirsty ground springs of water.

Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay.

Isaiah 35.8: 8 A highway will be there, a road,

and it will be called “The Holy Way”.

The unclean shall not pass over it,

but it will be for those who walk in the Way.

Wicked fools shall not go there.

Isaiah 35.9: 9 No lion will be there,

nor will any ravenous animal go up on it.

They will not be found there;

but the redeemed will walk there.

Isaiah 35.10: 10 Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return,

and come with singing to Zion;

and everlasting joy will be on their heads.

They will obtain gladness and joy,

and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

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Isaiah 36.1: 1 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

Isaiah 36.2: 2 The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway.

Isaiah 36.3: 3 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder came out to him.

Isaiah 36.4: 4 Rabshakeh said to them, “Now tell Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What confidence is this in which you trust?

Isaiah 36.5: 5 I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

Isaiah 36.6: 6 Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

Isaiah 36.7: 7 But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar?’”

Isaiah 36.8: 8 Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.

Isaiah 36.9: 9 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Isaiah 36.10: 10 Have I come up now without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, “Go up against this land, and destroy it.”’”

Isaiah 36.11: 11 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t speak to us in the Jews’ language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

Isaiah 36.12: 12 But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”

Isaiah 36.13: 13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!

Isaiah 36.14: 14 The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you.

Isaiah 36.15: 15 Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us. This city won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”’

Isaiah 36.16: 16 Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern;

Isaiah 36.17: 17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

Isaiah 36.18: 18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.” Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?

Isaiah 36.19: 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

Isaiah 36.20: 20 Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”

Isaiah 36.21: 21 But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”

Isaiah 36.22: 22 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

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Isaiah 37.1: 1 When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.

Isaiah 37.2: 2 He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.

Isaiah 37.3: 3 They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to give birth.

Isaiah 37.4: 4 It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”

Isaiah 37.5: 5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

Isaiah 37.6: 6 Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘Yahweh says, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

Isaiah 37.7: 7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”’”

Isaiah 37.8: 8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

Isaiah 37.9: 9 He heard news concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “He has come out to fight against you.” When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

Isaiah 37.10: 10 “Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

Isaiah 37.11: 11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered?

Isaiah 37.12: 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?

Isaiah 37.13: 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?’”

Isaiah 37.14: 14 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before Yahweh.

Isaiah 37.15: 15 Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying,

Isaiah 37.16: 16 “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

Isaiah 37.17: 17 Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.

Isaiah 37.18: 18 Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the countries and their land,

Isaiah 37.19: 19 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.

Isaiah 37.20: 20 Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.”

Isaiah 37.21: 21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,

Isaiah 37.22: 22 this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

Isaiah 37.23: 23 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 37.24: 24 By your servants, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field.

Isaiah 37.25: 25 I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”

Isaiah 37.26: 26 “‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.

Isaiah 37.27: 27 Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.

Isaiah 37.28: 28 But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.

Isaiah 37.29: 29 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

Isaiah 37.30: 30 “‘This shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from it; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

Isaiah 37.31: 31 The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

Isaiah 37.32: 32 For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.’

Isaiah 37.33: 33 “Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.

Isaiah 37.34: 34 He will return the way that he came, and he won’t come to this city,’ says Yahweh.

Isaiah 37.35: 35 ‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”

Isaiah 37.36: 36 Then Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

Isaiah 37.37: 37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.

Isaiah 37.38: 38 As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.

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Isaiah 38.1: 1 In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’”

Isaiah 38.2: 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh,

Isaiah 38.3: 3 and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Isaiah 38.4: 4 Then Yahweh’s word came to Isaiah, saying,

Isaiah 38.5: 5 “Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

Isaiah 38.6: 6 I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.

Isaiah 38.7: 7 This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken.

Isaiah 38.8: 8 Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps.”’” So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.

Isaiah 38.9: 9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and had recovered of his sickness.

Isaiah 38.10: 10 I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol.

I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

Isaiah 38.11: 11 I said, “I won’t see Yah,

Yah in the land of the living.

I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

Isaiah 38.12: 12 My dwelling is removed,

and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent.

I have rolled up my life like a weaver.

He will cut me off from the loom.

From day even to night you will make an end of me.

Isaiah 38.13: 13 I waited patiently until morning.

He breaks all my bones like a lion.

From day even to night you will make an end of me.

Isaiah 38.14: 14 I chattered like a swallow or a crane.

I moaned like a dove.

My eyes weaken looking upward.

Lord, I am oppressed.

Be my security.”

Isaiah 38.15: 15 What will I say?

He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it.

I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

Isaiah 38.16: 16 Lord, men live by these things;

and my spirit finds life in all of them:

you restore me, and cause me to live.

Isaiah 38.17: 17 Behold, for peace I had great anguish,

but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption;

for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

Isaiah 38.18: 18 For Sheol can’t praise you.

Death can’t celebrate you.

Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

Isaiah 38.19: 19 The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today.

The father shall make known your truth to the children.

Isaiah 38.20: 20 Yahweh will save me.

Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in Yahweh’s house.

Isaiah 38.21: 21 Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.”

Isaiah 38.22: 22 Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to Yahweh’s house?”

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Isaiah 39.1: 1 At that time, Merodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been sick, and had recovered.

Isaiah 39.2: 2 Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them.

Isaiah 39.3: 3 Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and asked him, “What did these men say? From where did they come to you?”

Hezekiah said, “They have come from a country far from me, even from Babylon.”

Isaiah 39.4: 4 Then he asked, “What have they seen in your house?”

Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.”

Isaiah 39.5: 5 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of Yahweh of Armies:

Isaiah 39.6: 6 ‘Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up until today, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says Yahweh.

Isaiah 39.7: 7 ‘They will take away your sons who will issue from you, whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king of Babylon’s palace.’”

Isaiah 39.8: 8 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “For there will be peace and truth in my days.”

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Isaiah 40.1: 1 “Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

Isaiah 40.2: 2 “Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”

Isaiah 40.3: 3 The voice of one who calls out,

“Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness!

Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

Isaiah 40.4: 4 Every valley shall be exalted,

and every mountain and hill shall be made low.

The uneven shall be made level,

and the rough places a plain.

Isaiah 40.5: 5 Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed,

and all flesh shall see it together;

for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”

Isaiah 40.6: 6 The voice of one saying, “Cry!”

One said, “What shall I cry?”

“All flesh is like grass,

and all its glory is like the flower of the field.

Isaiah 40.7: 7 The grass withers,

the flower fades,

because Yahweh’s breath blows on it.

Surely the people are like grass.

Isaiah 40.8: 8 The grass withers,

the flower fades;

but the word of our God stands forever.”

Isaiah 40.9: 9 You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain.

You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength!

Lift it up! Don’t be afraid!

Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold, your God!”

Isaiah 40.10: 10 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one,

and his arm will rule for him.

Behold, his reward is with him,

and his recompense before him.

Isaiah 40.11: 11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd.

He will gather the lambs in his arm,

and carry them in his bosom.

He will gently lead those who have their young.

Isaiah 40.12: 12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,

and marked off the sky with his span,

and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket,

and weighed the mountains in scales,

and the hills in a balance?

Isaiah 40.13: 13 Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit,

or has taught him as his counselor?

Isaiah 40.14: 14 Who did he take counsel with,

and who instructed him,

and taught him in the path of justice,

and taught him knowledge,

and showed him the way of understanding?

Isaiah 40.15: 15 Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket,

and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance.

Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

Isaiah 40.16: 16 Lebanon is not sufficient to burn,

nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.

Isaiah 40.17: 17 All the nations are like nothing before him.

They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

Isaiah 40.18: 18 To whom then will you liken God?

Or what likeness will you compare to him?

Isaiah 40.19: 19 A workman has cast an image,

and the goldsmith overlays it with gold,

and casts silver chains for it.

Isaiah 40.20: 20 He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot.

He seeks a skillful workman to set up a carved image for him that will not be moved.

Isaiah 40.21: 21 Haven’t you known?

Haven’t you heard?

Haven’t you been told from the beginning?

Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth?

Isaiah 40.22: 22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,

and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;

who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,

and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,

Isaiah 40.23: 23 who brings princes to nothing,

who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.

Isaiah 40.24: 24 They are planted scarcely.

They are sown scarcely.

Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground.

He merely blows on them, and they wither,

and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

Isaiah 40.25: 25 “To whom then will you liken me?

Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.

Isaiah 40.26: 26 Lift up your eyes on high,

and see who has created these,

who brings out their army by number.

He calls them all by name.

by the greatness of his might,

and because he is strong in power,

not one is lacking.

Isaiah 40.27: 27 Why do you say, Jacob,

and speak, Israel,

“My way is hidden from Yahweh,

and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?”

Isaiah 40.28: 28 Haven’t you known?

Haven’t you heard?

The everlasting God, Yahweh,

the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint.

He isn’t weary.

His understanding is unsearchable.

Isaiah 40.29: 29 He gives power to the weak.

He increases the strength of him who has no might.

Isaiah 40.30: 30 Even the youths faint and get weary,

and the young men utterly fall;

Isaiah 40.31: 31 but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength.

They will mount up with wings like eagles.

They will run, and not be weary.

They will walk, and not faint.

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Isaiah 41.1: 1 “Keep silent before me, islands,

and let the peoples renew their strength.

Let them come near,

then let them speak.

Let’s meet together for judgment.

Isaiah 41.2: 2 Who has raised up one from the east?

Who called him to his foot in righteousness?

He hands over nations to him

and makes him rule over kings.

He gives them like the dust to his sword,

like the driven stubble to his bow.

Isaiah 41.3: 3 He pursues them

and passes by safely,

even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.

Isaiah 41.4: 4 Who has worked and done it,

calling the generations from the beginning?

I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”

Isaiah 41.5: 5 The islands have seen, and fear.

The ends of the earth tremble.

They approach, and come.

Isaiah 41.6: 6 Everyone helps his neighbor.

They say to their brothers, “Be strong!”

Isaiah 41.7: 7 So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith.

He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil,

saying of the soldering, “It is good;”

and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.

Isaiah 41.8: 8 “But you, Israel, my servant,

Jacob whom I have chosen,

the offspring of Abraham my friend,

Isaiah 41.9: 9 You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth,

and called from its corners,

and said to you, ‘You are my servant, I have chosen you and have not cast you away.’

Isaiah 41.10: 10 Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you.

Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God.

I will strengthen you.

Yes, I will help you.

Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Isaiah 41.11: 11 Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded.

Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.

Isaiah 41.12: 12 You will seek them, and won’t find them,

even those who contend with you.

Those who war against you will be as nothing,

as a non-existent thing.

Isaiah 41.13: 13 For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand,

saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid.

I will help you.’

Isaiah 41.14: 14 Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob,

and you men of Israel.

I will help you,” says Yahweh.

“Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 41.15: 15 Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth.

You will thresh the mountains,

and beat them small,

and will make the hills like chaff.

Isaiah 41.16: 16 You will winnow them,

and the wind will carry them away,

and the whirlwind will scatter them.

You will rejoice in Yahweh.

You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 41.17: 17 The poor and needy seek water, and there is none.

Their tongue fails for thirst.

I, Yahweh, will answer them.

I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

Isaiah 41.18: 18 I will open rivers on the bare heights,

and springs in the middle of the valleys.

I will make the wilderness a pool of water,

and the dry land springs of water.

Isaiah 41.19: 19 I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness.

I will set cypress trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert;

Isaiah 41.20: 20 that they may see, know, consider, and understand together,

that Yahweh’s hand has done this,

and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

Isaiah 41.21: 21 Produce your cause,” says Yahweh.

“Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.

Isaiah 41.22: 22 “Let them announce and declare to us what will happen!

Declare the former things, what they are,

that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them;

or show us things to come.

Isaiah 41.23: 23 Declare the things that are to come hereafter,

that we may know that you are gods.

Yes, do good, or do evil,

that we may be dismayed,

and see it together.

Isaiah 41.24: 24 Behold, you are nothing,

and your work is nothing.

He who chooses you is an abomination.

Isaiah 41.25: 25 “I have raised up one from the north, and he has come,

from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name,

and he shall come on rulers as on mortar,

and as the potter treads clay.

Isaiah 41.26: 26 Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know?

and before, that we may say, ‘He is right?’

Surely, there is no one who declares.

Surely, there is no one who shows.

Surely, there is no one who hears your words.

Isaiah 41.27: 27 I am the first to say to Zion, ‘Behold, look at them;’

and I will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem.

Isaiah 41.28: 28 When I look, there is no man,

even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.

Isaiah 41.29: 29 Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing.

Their molten images are wind and confusion.

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Isaiah 42.1: 1 “Behold, my servant, whom I uphold,

my chosen, in whom my soul delights:

I have put my Spirit on him.

He will bring justice to the nations.

Isaiah 42.2: 2 He will not shout,

nor raise his voice,

nor cause it to be heard in the street.

Isaiah 42.3: 3 He won’t break a bruised reed.

He won’t quench a dimly burning wick.

He will faithfully bring justice.

Isaiah 42.4: 4 He will not fail nor be discouraged,

until he has set justice in the earth,

and the islands wait for his law.”

Isaiah 42.5: 5 God Yahweh,

he who created the heavens and stretched them out,

he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it,

he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:

Isaiah 42.6: 6 “I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness.

I will hold your hand.

I will keep you,

and make you a covenant for the people,

as a light for the nations,

Isaiah 42.7: 7 to open the blind eyes,

to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon,

and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

Isaiah 42.8: 8 “I am Yahweh.

That is my name.

I will not give my glory to another,

nor my praise to engraved images.

Isaiah 42.9: 9 Behold, the former things have happened

and I declare new things.

I tell you about them before they come up.”

Isaiah 42.10: 10 Sing to Yahweh a new song,

and his praise from the end of the earth,

you who go down to the sea,

and all that is therein,

the islands and their inhabitants.

Isaiah 42.11: 11 Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices,

with the villages that Kedar inhabits.

Let the inhabitants of Sela sing.

Let them shout from the top of the mountains!

Isaiah 42.12: 12 Let them give glory to Yahweh,

and declare his praise in the islands.

Isaiah 42.13: 13 Yahweh will go out like a mighty man.

He will stir up zeal like a man of war.

He will raise a war cry.

Yes, he will shout aloud.

He will triumph over his enemies.

Isaiah 42.14: 14 “I have been silent a long time.

I have been quiet and restrained myself.

Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.

Isaiah 42.15: 15 I will destroy mountains and hills,

and dry up all their herbs.

I will make the rivers islands,

and will dry up the pools.

Isaiah 42.16: 16 I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know.

I will lead them in paths that they don’t know.

I will make darkness light before them,

and crooked places straight.

I will do these things,

and I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 42.17: 17 “Those who trust in engraved images,

who tell molten images,

‘You are our gods,’

will be turned back.

They will be utterly disappointed.

Isaiah 42.18: 18 “Hear, you deaf,

and look, you blind,

that you may see.

Isaiah 42.19: 19 Who is blind, but my servant?

Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send?

Who is as blind as he who is at peace,

and as blind as Yahweh’s servant?

Isaiah 42.20: 20 You see many things, but don’t observe.

His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen.

Isaiah 42.21: 21 It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law

and make it honorable.

Isaiah 42.22: 22 But this is a robbed and plundered people.

All of them are snared in holes,

and they are hidden in prisons.

They have become captives, and no one delivers,

and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’

Isaiah 42.23: 23 Who is there among you who will give ear to this?

Who will listen and hear for the time to come?

Isaiah 42.24: 24 Who gave Jacob as plunder,

and Israel to the robbers?

Didn’t Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned?

For they would not walk in his ways,

and they disobeyed his law.

Isaiah 42.25: 25 Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him,

and the strength of battle.

It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know.

It burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.”

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Isaiah 43.1: 1 But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob,

and he who formed you, Israel, says:

“Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you.

I have called you by your name.

You are mine.

Isaiah 43.2: 2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you,

and through the rivers, they will not overflow you.

When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned,

and flame will not scorch you.

Isaiah 43.3: 3 For I am Yahweh your God,

the Holy One of Israel,

your Savior.

I have given Egypt as your ransom,

Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

Isaiah 43.4: 4 Since you have been precious and honored in my sight,

and I have loved you,

therefore I will give people in your place,

and nations instead of your life.

Isaiah 43.5: 5 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you.

I will bring your offspring from the east,

and gather you from the west.

Isaiah 43.6: 6 I will tell the north, ‘Give them up!’

and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back!

Bring my sons from far away,

and my daughters from the ends of the earth—

Isaiah 43.7: 7 everyone who is called by my name,

and whom I have created for my glory,

whom I have formed,

yes, whom I have made.’”

Isaiah 43.8: 8 Bring out the blind people who have eyes,

and the deaf who have ears.

Isaiah 43.9: 9 Let all the nations be gathered together,

and let the peoples be assembled.

Who among them can declare this,

and show us former things?

Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified,

or let them hear, and say, “That is true.”

Isaiah 43.10: 10 “You are my witnesses,” says Yahweh,

“With my servant whom I have chosen;

that you may know and believe me,

and understand that I am he.

Before me there was no God formed,

neither will there be after me.

Isaiah 43.11: 11 I myself am Yahweh.

Besides me, there is no savior.

Isaiah 43.12: 12 I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown,

and there was no strange god among you.

Therefore you are my witnesses”,

says Yahweh, “and I am God.

Isaiah 43.13: 13 Yes, since the day was, I am he.

There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

I will work, and who can hinder it?”

Isaiah 43.14: 14 Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.

Isaiah 43.15: 15 I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.”

Isaiah 43.16: 16 Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea,

and a path in the mighty waters,

Isaiah 43.17: 17 who brings out the chariot and horse,

the army and the mighty man

(they lie down together, they shall not rise;

they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick) says:

Isaiah 43.18: 18 “Don’t remember the former things,

and don’t consider the things of old.

Isaiah 43.19: 19 Behold, I will do a new thing.

It springs out now.

Don’t you know it?

I will even make a way in the wilderness,

and rivers in the desert.

Isaiah 43.20: 20 The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honor me,

because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert,

to give drink to my people, my chosen,

Isaiah 43.21: 21 the people which I formed for myself,

that they might declare my praise.

Isaiah 43.22: 22 Yet you have not called on me, Jacob;

but you have been weary of me, Israel.

Isaiah 43.23: 23 You have not brought me any of your sheep for burnt offerings,

neither have you honored me with your sacrifices.

I have not burdened you with offerings,

nor wearied you with frankincense.

Isaiah 43.24: 24 You have bought me no sweet cane with money,

nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices,

but you have burdened me with your sins.

You have wearied me with your iniquities.

Isaiah 43.25: 25 I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake;

and I will not remember your sins.

Isaiah 43.26: 26 Put me in remembrance.

Let us plead together.

Declare your case,

that you may be justified.

Isaiah 43.27: 27 Your first father sinned,

and your teachers have transgressed against me.

Isaiah 43.28: 28 Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary;

and I will make Jacob a curse,

and Israel an insult.”

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Isaiah 44.1: 1 Yet listen now, Jacob my servant,

and Israel, whom I have chosen.

Isaiah 44.2: 2 This is what Yahweh who made you,

and formed you from the womb,

who will help you says:

“Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant;

and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

Isaiah 44.3: 3 For I will pour water on him who is thirsty,

and streams on the dry ground.

I will pour my Spirit on your descendants,

and my blessing on your offspring:

Isaiah 44.4: 4 and they will spring up among the grass,

as willows by the watercourses.

Isaiah 44.5: 5 One will say, ‘I am Yahweh’s;’

and another will be called by the name of Jacob;

and another will write with his hand ‘to Yahweh,’

and honor the name of Israel.”

Isaiah 44.6: 6 This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel,

and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says:

“I am the first, and I am the last;

and besides me there is no God.

Isaiah 44.7: 7 Who is like me?

Who will call,

and will declare it,

and set it in order for me,

since I established the ancient people?

Let them declare the things that are coming,

and that will happen.

Isaiah 44.8: 8 Don’t fear,

neither be afraid.

Haven’t I declared it to you long ago,

and shown it?

You are my witnesses.

Is there a God besides me?

Indeed, there is not.

I don’t know any other Rock.”

Isaiah 44.9: 9 Everyone who makes a carved image is vain.

The things that they delight in will not profit.

Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.

Isaiah 44.10: 10 Who has fashioned a god,

or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?

Isaiah 44.11: 11 Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed;

and the workmen are mere men.

Let them all be gathered together.

Let them stand up.

They will fear.

They will be put to shame together.

Isaiah 44.12: 12 The blacksmith takes an ax,

works in the coals,

fashions it with hammers,

and works it with his strong arm.

He is hungry,

and his strength fails;

he drinks no water,

and is faint.

Isaiah 44.13: 13 The carpenter stretches out a line.

He marks it out with a pencil.

He shapes it with planes.

He marks it out with compasses,

and shapes it like the figure of a man,

with the beauty of a man,

to reside in a house.

Isaiah 44.14: 14 He cuts down cedars for himself,

and takes the cypress and the oak,

and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest.

He plants a cypress tree,

and the rain nourishes it.

Isaiah 44.15: 15 Then it will be for a man to burn;

and he takes some of it, and warms himself.

Yes, he burns it, and bakes bread.

Yes, he makes a god, and worships it;

he makes it a carved image, and falls down to it.

Isaiah 44.16: 16 He burns part of it in the fire.

With part of it, he eats meat.

He roasts a roast, and is satisfied.

Yes, he warms himself,

and says, “Aha! I am warm. I have seen the fire.”

Isaiah 44.17: 17 The rest of it he makes into a god,

even his engraved image.

He bows down to it and worships,

and prays to it, and says, “Deliver me; for you are my god!”

Isaiah 44.18: 18 They don’t know, neither do they consider:

for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see;

and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

Isaiah 44.19: 19 No one thinks,

neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say,

“I have burned part of it in the fire.

Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals.

I have roasted meat and eaten it.

Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination?

Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?”

Isaiah 44.20: 20 He feeds on ashes.

A deceived heart has turned him aside;

and he can’t deliver his soul,

nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”

Isaiah 44.21: 21 Remember these things, Jacob and Israel;

for you are my servant.

I have formed you.

You are my servant.

Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.

Isaiah 44.22: 22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions,

and, as a cloud, your sins.

Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

Isaiah 44.23: 23 Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it!

Shout, you lower parts of the earth!

Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees,

for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob,

and will glorify himself in Israel.

Isaiah 44.24: 24 Yahweh, your Redeemer,

and he who formed you from the womb says:

“I am Yahweh, who makes all things;

who alone stretches out the heavens;

who spreads out the earth by myself;

Isaiah 44.25: 25 who frustrates the signs of the liars,

and makes diviners mad;

who turns wise men backward,

and makes their knowledge foolish;

Isaiah 44.26: 26 who confirms the word of his servant,

and performs the counsel of his messengers;

who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited;’

and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be built,’

and ‘I will raise up its waste places;’

Isaiah 44.27: 27 who says to the deep, ‘Be dry,’

and ‘I will dry up your rivers;’

Isaiah 44.28: 28 Who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,’

even saying of Jerusalem, ‘She will be built;’

and of the temple, ‘Your foundation will be laid.’”

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Isaiah 45.1: 1 Yahweh says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:

Isaiah 45.2: 2 “I will go before you

and make the rough places smooth.

I will break the doors of bronze in pieces

and cut apart the bars of iron.

Isaiah 45.3: 3 I will give you the treasures of darkness

and hidden riches of secret places,

that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who call you by your name,

even the God of Israel.

Isaiah 45.4: 4 For Jacob my servant’s sake,

and Israel my chosen,

I have called you by your name.

I have given you a title,

though you have not known me.

Isaiah 45.5: 5 I am Yahweh, and there is no one else.

Besides me, there is no God.

I will strengthen you,

though you have not known me,

Isaiah 45.6: 6 that they may know from the rising of the sun,

and from the west,

that there is no one besides me.

I am Yahweh, and there is no one else.

Isaiah 45.7: 7 I form the light

and create darkness.

I make peace

and create calamity.

I am Yahweh,

who does all these things.

Isaiah 45.8: 8 Rain, you heavens, from above,

and let the skies pour down righteousness.

Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation,

and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it.

I, Yahweh, have created it.

Isaiah 45.9: 9 Woe to him who strives with his Maker—

a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth!

Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’

or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

Isaiah 45.10: 10 Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What have you become the father of?’

or to a mother, ‘What have you given birth to?’”

Isaiah 45.11: 11 Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel

and his Maker says:

“You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons,

and you command me concerning the work of my hands!

Isaiah 45.12: 12 I have made the earth, and created man on it.

I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens.

I have commanded all their army.

Isaiah 45.13: 13 I have raised him up in righteousness,

and I will make all his ways straight.

He shall build my city,

and he shall let my exiles go free,

not for price nor reward,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Isaiah 45.14: 14 Yahweh says: “The labor of Egypt,

and the merchandise of Ethiopia,

and the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you,

and they will be yours.

They will go after you.

They shall come over in chains.

They will bow down to you.

They will make supplication to you:

‘Surely God is in you; and there is no one else.

There is no other god.

Isaiah 45.15: 15 Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself,

God of Israel, the Savior.’”

Isaiah 45.16: 16 They will be disappointed,

yes, confounded, all of them.

Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.

Isaiah 45.17: 17 Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation.

You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

Isaiah 45.18: 18 For Yahweh who created the heavens,

the God who formed the earth and made it,

who established it and didn’t create it a waste,

who formed it to be inhabited says:

“I am Yahweh.

There is no other.

Isaiah 45.19: 19 I have not spoken in secret,

in a place of the land of darkness.

I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’

I, Yahweh, speak righteousness.

I declare things that are right.

Isaiah 45.20: 20 “Assemble yourselves and come.

Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations.

Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image,

and pray to a god that can’t save.

Isaiah 45.21: 21 Declare and present it.

Yes, let them take counsel together.

Who has shown this from ancient time?

Who has declared it of old?

Haven’t I, Yahweh?

There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior.

There is no one besides me.

Isaiah 45.22: 22 “Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth;

for I am God, and there is no other.

Isaiah 45.23: 23 I have sworn by myself.

The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked,

that to me every knee shall bow,

every tongue shall take an oath.

Isaiah 45.24: 24 They will say of me,

‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’”

Even to him will men come.

All those who raged against him will be disappointed.

Isaiah 45.25: 25 All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh,

and will rejoice!

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Isaiah 46.1: 1 Bel bows down.

Nebo stoops.

Their idols are carried by animals,

and on the livestock.

The things that you carried around are heavy loads,

a burden for the weary.

Isaiah 46.2: 2 They stoop and they bow down together.

They could not deliver the burden,

but they have gone into captivity.

Isaiah 46.3: 3 “Listen to me, house of Jacob,

and all the remnant of the house of Israel,

that have been carried from their birth,

that have been carried from the womb.

Isaiah 46.4: 4 Even to old age I am he,

and even to gray hairs I will carry you.

I have made, and I will bear.

Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

Isaiah 46.5: 5 “To whom will you compare me, and consider my equal,

and compare me, as if we were the same?

Isaiah 46.6: 6 Some pour out gold from the bag,

and weigh silver in the balance.

They hire a goldsmith,

and he makes it a god.

They fall down—

yes, they worship.

Isaiah 46.7: 7 They bear it on their shoulder.

They carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands there.

It cannot move from its place.

Yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer.

It cannot save him out of his trouble.

Isaiah 46.8: 8 “Remember this, and show yourselves men.

Bring it to mind again, you transgressors.

Isaiah 46.9: 9 Remember the former things of old:

for I am God, and there is no other.

I am God, and there is none like me.

Isaiah 46.10: 10 I declare the end from the beginning,

and from ancient times things that are not yet done.

I say: My counsel will stand,

and I will do all that I please.

Isaiah 46.11: 11 I call a ravenous bird from the east,

the man of my counsel from a far country.

Yes, I have spoken.

I will also bring it to pass.

I have planned.

I will also do it.

Isaiah 46.12: 12 Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted,

who are far from righteousness!

Isaiah 46.13: 13 I bring my righteousness near.

It is not far off,

and my salvation will not wait.

I will grant salvation to Zion,

my glory to Israel.

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Isaiah 47.1: 1 “Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon.

Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans.

For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.

Isaiah 47.2: 2 Take the millstones and grind flour.

Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs,

and wade through the rivers.

Isaiah 47.3: 3 Your nakedness will be uncovered.

Yes, your shame will be seen.

I will take vengeance,

and will spare no one.”

Isaiah 47.4: 4 Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name,

is the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 47.5: 5 “Sit in silence, and go into darkness,

daughter of the Chaldeans.

For you shall no longer be called

the mistress of kingdoms.

Isaiah 47.6: 6 I was angry with my people.

I profaned my inheritance

and gave them into your hand.

You showed them no mercy.

You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.

Isaiah 47.7: 7 You said, ‘I will be a princess forever,’

so that you didn’t lay these things to your heart,

nor did you remember the results.

Isaiah 47.8: 8 “Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures,

who sit securely,

who say in your heart,

‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.

I won’t sit as a widow,

neither will I know the loss of children.’

Isaiah 47.9: 9 But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day,

the loss of children and widowhood.

They will come on you in their full measure,

in the multitude of your sorceries,

and the great abundance of your enchantments.

Isaiah 47.10: 10 For you have trusted in your wickedness.

You have said, ‘No one sees me.’

Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you.

You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’

Isaiah 47.11: 11 Therefore disaster will come on you.

You won’t know when it dawns.

Mischief will fall on you.

You won’t be able to put it away.

Desolation will come on you suddenly,

which you don’t understand.

Isaiah 47.12: 12 “Stand now with your enchantments

and with the multitude of your sorceries,

in which you have labored from your youth,

as if you might profit,

as if you might prevail.

Isaiah 47.13: 13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels.

Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators, stand up and save you from the things that will happen to you.

Isaiah 47.14: 14 Behold, they are like stubble.

The fire will burn them.

They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame.

It won’t be a coal to warm at

or a fire to sit by.

Isaiah 47.15: 15 The things that you labored in will be like this:

those who have trafficked with you from your youth will each wander in his own way.

There will be no one to save you.

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Isaiah 48.1: 1 “Hear this, house of Jacob,

you who are called by the name of Israel,

and have come out of the waters of Judah.

You swear by Yahweh’s name,

and make mention of the God of Israel,

but not in truth, nor in righteousness—

Isaiah 48.2: 2 for they call themselves citizens of the holy city,

and rely on the God of Israel;

Yahweh of Armies is his name.

Isaiah 48.3: 3 I have declared the former things from of old.

Yes, they went out of my mouth, and I revealed them.

I did them suddenly, and they happened.

Isaiah 48.4: 4 Because I knew that you are obstinate,

and your neck is an iron sinew,

and your brow bronze;

Isaiah 48.5: 5 therefore I have declared it to you from of old;

before it came to pass I showed it to you;

lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them.

My engraved image and my molten image has commanded them.’

Isaiah 48.6: 6 You have heard it.

Now see all this.

And you, won’t you declare it?

“I have shown you new things from this time,

even hidden things, which you have not known.

Isaiah 48.7: 7 They are created now, and not from of old.

Before today, you didn’t hear them,

lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’

Isaiah 48.8: 8 Yes, you didn’t hear.

Yes, you didn’t know.

Yes, from of old your ear was not opened,

for I knew that you dealt very treacherously,

and were called a transgressor from the womb.

Isaiah 48.9: 9 For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger,

and for my praise, I hold it back for you

so that I don’t cut you off.

Isaiah 48.10: 10 Behold, I have refined you,

but not as silver.

I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

Isaiah 48.11: 11 For my own sake,

for my own sake, I will do it;

for how would my name be profaned?

I will not give my glory to another.

Isaiah 48.12: 12 “Listen to me, O Jacob,

and Israel my called:

I am he.

I am the first.

I am also the last.

Isaiah 48.13: 13 Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth,

and my right hand has spread out the heavens.

when I call to them, they stand up together.

Isaiah 48.14: 14 “Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear!

Who among them has declared these things?

He whom Yahweh loves will do what he likes to Babylon,

and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.

Isaiah 48.15: 15 I, even I, have spoken.

Yes, I have called him.

I have brought him

and he shall make his way prosperous.

Isaiah 48.16: 16 “Come near to me and hear this:

“From the beginning I have not spoken in secret;

from the time that it happened, I was there.”

Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me

with his Spirit.

Isaiah 48.17: 17 Yahweh,

your Redeemer,

the Holy One of Israel says:

“I am Yahweh your God,

who teaches you to profit,

who leads you by the way that you should go.

Isaiah 48.18: 18 Oh that you had listened to my commandments!

Then your peace would have been like a river

and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Isaiah 48.19: 19 Your offspring also would have been as the sand

and the descendants of your body like its grains.

His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.”

Isaiah 48.20: 20 Leave Babylon!

Flee from the Chaldeans!

With a voice of singing announce this,

tell it even to the end of the earth:

say, “Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!”

Isaiah 48.21: 21 They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts.

He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them.

He also split the rock and the waters gushed out.

Isaiah 48.22: 22 “There is no peace”, says Yahweh, “for the wicked.”

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Isaiah 49.1: 1 Listen, islands, to me.

Listen, you peoples, from afar:

Yahweh has called me from the womb;

from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.

Isaiah 49.2: 2 He has made my mouth like a sharp sword.

He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand.

He has made me a polished shaft.

He has kept me close in his quiver.

Isaiah 49.3: 3 He said to me, “You are my servant,

Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”

Isaiah 49.4: 4 But I said, “I have labored in vain.

I have spent my strength in vain for nothing;

yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh,

and my reward with my God.”

Isaiah 49.5: 5 Now Yahweh, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant,

says to bring Jacob again to him,

and to gather Israel to him,

for I am honorable in Yahweh’s eyes,

and my God has become my strength.

Isaiah 49.6: 6 Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob,

and to restore the preserved of Israel.

I will also give you as a light to the nations,

that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

Isaiah 49.7: 7 Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One,

says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers:

“Kings shall see and rise up,

princes, and they shall worship,

because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

Isaiah 49.8: 8 Yahweh says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time.

I have helped you in a day of salvation.

I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people,

to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,

Isaiah 49.9: 9 saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’;

to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’

“They shall feed along the paths,

and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.

Isaiah 49.10: 10 They shall not hunger nor thirst;

neither shall the heat nor sun strike them:

for he who has mercy on them will lead them.

He will guide them by springs of water.

Isaiah 49.11: 11 I will make all my mountains a road,

and my highways shall be exalted.

Isaiah 49.12: 12 Behold, these shall come from afar,

and behold, these from the north and from the west;

and these from the land of Sinim.”

Isaiah 49.13: 13 Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth!

Break out into singing, mountains,

for Yahweh has comforted his people,

and will have compassion on his afflicted.

Isaiah 49.14: 14 But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me,

and the Lord has forgotten me.”

Isaiah 49.15: 15 “Can a woman forget her nursing child,

that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?

Yes, these may forget,

yet I will not forget you!

Isaiah 49.16: 16 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands.

Your walls are continually before me.

Isaiah 49.17: 17 Your children hurry.

Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.

Isaiah 49.18: 18 Lift up your eyes all around, and see:

all these gather themselves together, and come to you.

As I live,” says Yahweh, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament,

and dress yourself with them, like a bride.

Isaiah 49.19: 19 “For, as for your waste and your desolate places,

and your land that has been destroyed,

surely now that land will be too small for the inhabitants,

and those who swallowed you up will be far away.

Isaiah 49.20: 20 The children of your bereavement will say in your ears,

‘This place is too small for me.

Give me a place to live in.’

Isaiah 49.21: 21 Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children

and am alone, an exile, and wandering back and forth?

Who has brought these up?

Behold, I was left alone. Where were these?’”

Isaiah 49.22: 22 The Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations,

and lift up my banner to the peoples.

They shall bring your sons in their bosom,

and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.

Isaiah 49.23: 23 Kings shall be your foster fathers,

and their queens your nursing mothers.

They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth,

and lick the dust of your feet.

Then you will know that I am Yahweh;

and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”

Isaiah 49.24: 24 Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty,

or the lawful captives be delivered?

Isaiah 49.25: 25 But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away,

and the plunder retrieved from the fierce,

for I will contend with him who contends with you

and I will save your children.

Isaiah 49.26: 26 I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh;

and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine.

Then all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior

and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

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Isaiah 50.1: 1 Yahweh says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away?

Or to which of my creditors have I sold you?

Behold, you were sold for your iniquities,

and your mother was put away for your transgressions.

Isaiah 50.2: 2 Why, when I came, was there no one?

When I called, why was there no one to answer?

Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem?

Or have I no power to deliver?

Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea.

I make the rivers a wilderness.

Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst.

Isaiah 50.3: 3 I clothe the heavens with blackness.

I make sackcloth their covering.”

Isaiah 50.4: 4 The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught,

that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary.

He awakens morning by morning,

he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

Isaiah 50.5: 5 The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear.

I was not rebellious.

I have not turned back.

Isaiah 50.6: 6 I gave my back to those who beat me,

and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair.

I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.

Isaiah 50.7: 7 For the Lord Yahweh will help me.

Therefore I have not been confounded.

Therefore I have set my face like a flint,

and I know that I won’t be disappointed.

Isaiah 50.8: 8 He who justifies me is near.

Who will bring charges against me?

Let us stand up together.

Who is my adversary?

Let him come near to me.

Isaiah 50.9: 9 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me!

Who is he who will condemn me?

Behold, they will all grow old like a garment.

The moths will eat them up.

Isaiah 50.10: 10 Who among you fears Yahweh

and obeys the voice of his servant?

He who walks in darkness

and has no light,

let him trust in Yahweh’s name,

and rely on his God.

Isaiah 50.11: 11 Behold, all you who kindle a fire,

who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves,

walk in the flame of your fire,

and among the torches that you have kindled.

You will have this from my hand:

you will lie down in sorrow.

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Isaiah 51.1: 1 “Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness,

you who seek Yahweh.

Look to the rock you were cut from,

and to the quarry you were dug from.

Isaiah 51.2: 2 Look to Abraham your father,

and to Sarah who bore you;

for when he was but one I called him,

I blessed him,

and made him many.

Isaiah 51.3: 3 For Yahweh has comforted Zion.

He has comforted all her waste places,

and has made her wilderness like Eden,

and her desert like the garden of Yahweh.

Joy and gladness will be found in them,

thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

Isaiah 51.4: 4 “Listen to me, my people;

and hear me, my nation,

for a law will go out from me,

and I will establish my justice for a light to the peoples.

Isaiah 51.5: 5 My righteousness is near.

My salvation has gone out,

and my arms will judge the peoples.

The islands will wait for me,

and they will trust my arm.

Isaiah 51.6: 6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens,

and look at the earth beneath;

for the heavens will vanish away like smoke,

and the earth will wear out like a garment.

Its inhabitants will die in the same way,

but my salvation will be forever,

and my righteousness will not be abolished.

Isaiah 51.7: 7 “Listen to me, you who know righteousness,

the people in whose heart is my law.

Don’t fear the reproach of men,

and don’t be dismayed at their insults.

Isaiah 51.8: 8 For the moth will eat them up like a garment,

and the worm will eat them like wool;

but my righteousness will be forever,

and my salvation to all generations.”

Isaiah 51.9: 9 Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh!

Awake, as in the days of old,

the generations of ancient times.

Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces,

who pierced the monster?

Isaiah 51.10: 10 Isn’t it you who dried up the sea,

the waters of the great deep;

who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?

Isaiah 51.11: 11 Those ransomed by Yahweh will return,

and come with singing to Zion.

Everlasting joy shall be on their heads.

They will obtain gladness and joy.

Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Isaiah 51.12: 12 “I, even I, am he who comforts you.

Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die,

and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

Isaiah 51.13: 13 Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker,

who stretched out the heavens,

and laid the foundations of the earth?

Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor,

when he prepares to destroy?

Where is the fury of the oppressor?

Isaiah 51.14: 14 The captive exile will speedily be freed.

He will not die and go down into the pit.

His bread won’t fail.

Isaiah 51.15: 15 For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea

so that its waves roar.

Yahweh of Armies is his name.

Isaiah 51.16: 16 I have put my words in your mouth

and have covered you in the shadow of my hand,

that I may plant the heavens,

and lay the foundations of the earth,

and tell Zion, ‘You are my people.’”

Isaiah 51.17: 17 Awake, awake!

Stand up, Jerusalem,

you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath.

You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering,

and drained it.

Isaiah 51.18: 18 There is no one to guide her among all the sons to whom she has given birth;

and there is no one who takes her by the hand among all the sons who she has brought up.

Isaiah 51.19: 19 These two things have happened to you—

who will grieve with you?—

desolation and destruction,

and famine and the sword.

How can I comfort you?

Isaiah 51.20: 20 Your sons have fainted.

They lie at the head of all the streets,

like an antelope in a net.

They are full of Yahweh’s wrath,

the rebuke of your God.

Isaiah 51.21: 21 Therefore now hear this, you afflicted,

and drunken, but not with wine:

Isaiah 51.22: 22 Your Lord Yahweh,

your God who pleads the cause of his people, says,

“Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering,

even the bowl of the cup of my wrath.

You will not drink it any more.

Isaiah 51.23: 23 I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you,

who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’

and you have laid your back as the ground,

like a street to those who walk over.”

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Isaiah 52.1: 1 Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion.

Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city:

for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.

Isaiah 52.2: 2 Shake yourself from the dust!

Arise, sit up, Jerusalem!

Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!

Isaiah 52.3: 3 For Yahweh says, “You were sold for nothing;

and you will be redeemed without money.”

Isaiah 52.4: 4 For the Lord Yahweh says:

“My people went down at the first into Egypt to live there:

and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause.

Isaiah 52.5: 5 “Now therefore, what do I do here,” says Yahweh,

“seeing that my people are taken away for nothing?

Those who rule over them mock,” says Yahweh,

“and my name is blasphemed continually all day long.

Isaiah 52.6: 6 Therefore my people shall know my name.

Therefore they shall know in that day that I am he who speaks.

Behold, it is I.”

Isaiah 52.7: 7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news,

who publishes peace,

who brings good news,

who proclaims salvation,

who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

Isaiah 52.8: 8 Your watchmen lift up their voice.

Together they sing;

for they shall see eye to eye when Yahweh returns to Zion.

Isaiah 52.9: 9 Break out into joy!

Sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem;

for Yahweh has comforted his people.

He has redeemed Jerusalem.

Isaiah 52.10: 10 Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations.

All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Isaiah 52.11: 11 Depart! Depart! Go out from there! Touch no unclean thing!

Go out from among her!

Cleanse yourselves, you who carry Yahweh’s vessels.

Isaiah 52.12: 12 For you shall not go out in haste,

neither shall you go by flight:

for Yahweh will go before you;

and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

Isaiah 52.13: 13 Behold, my servant will deal wisely.

He will be exalted and lifted up,

and will be very high.

Isaiah 52.14: 14 Just as many were astonished at you—

his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men—

Isaiah 52.15: 15 so he will cleanse many nations.

Kings will shut their mouths at him;

for they will see that which had not been told them,

and they will understand that which they had not heard.

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Isaiah 53.1: 1 Who has believed our message?

To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?

Isaiah 53.2: 2 For he grew up before him as a tender plant,

and as a root out of dry ground.

He has no good looks or majesty.

When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Isaiah 53.3: 3 He was despised

and rejected by men,

a man of suffering

and acquainted with disease.

He was despised as one from whom men hide their face;

and we didn’t respect him.

Isaiah 53.4: 4 Surely he has borne our sickness

and carried our suffering;

yet we considered him plagued,

struck by God, and afflicted.

Isaiah 53.5: 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions.

He was crushed for our iniquities.

The punishment that brought our peace was on him;

and by his wounds we are healed.

Isaiah 53.6: 6 All we like sheep have gone astray.

Everyone has turned to his own way;

and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 53.7: 7 He was oppressed,

yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth.

As a lamb that is led to the slaughter,

and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent,

so he didn’t open his mouth.

Isaiah 53.8: 8 He was taken away by oppression and judgment.

As for his generation,

who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living

and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

Isaiah 53.9: 9 They made his grave with the wicked,

and with a rich man in his death,

although he had done no violence,

nor was any deceit in his mouth.

Isaiah 53.10: 10 Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him.

He has caused him to suffer.

When you make his soul an offering for sin,

he will see his offspring.

He will prolong his days

and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.

Isaiah 53.11: 11 After the suffering of his soul,

he will see the light and be satisfied.

My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself;

and he will bear their iniquities.

Isaiah 53.12: 12 Therefore I will give him a portion with the great.

He will divide the plunder with the strong;

because he poured out his soul to death

and was counted with the transgressors;

yet he bore the sins of many

and made intercession for the transgressors.

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Isaiah 54.1: 1 “Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth;

break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child:

for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.

Isaiah 54.2: 2 “Enlarge the place of your tent,

and let them stretch out the curtains of your habitations;

don’t spare: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.

Isaiah 54.3: 3 For you will spread out on the right hand and on the left;

and your offspring will possess the nations

and settle in desolate cities.

Isaiah 54.4: 4 “Don’t be afraid, for you will not be ashamed.

Don’t be confounded, for you will not be disappointed.

For you will forget the shame of your youth.

You will remember the reproach of your widowhood no more.

Isaiah 54.5: 5 For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name.

The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer.

He will be called the God of the whole earth.

Isaiah 54.6: 6 For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit,

even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.

Isaiah 54.7: 7 “For a small moment I have forsaken you,

but I will gather you with great mercies.

Isaiah 54.8: 8 In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment,

but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.

Isaiah 54.9: 9 “For this is like the waters of Noah to me;

for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more go over the earth,

so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.

Isaiah 54.10: 10 For the mountains may depart,

and the hills be removed;

but my loving kindness will not depart from you,

and my covenant of peace will not be removed,”

says Yahweh who has mercy on you.

Isaiah 54.11: 11 “You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted,

behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors,

and lay your foundations with sapphires.

Isaiah 54.12: 12 I will make your pinnacles of rubies,

your gates of sparkling jewels,

and all your walls of precious stones.

Isaiah 54.13: 13 All your children will be taught by Yahweh;

and your children’s peace will be great.

Isaiah 54.14: 14 You will be established in righteousness.

You will be far from oppression,

for you will not be afraid,

and far from terror,

for it shall not come near you.

Isaiah 54.15: 15 Behold, they may gather together, but not by me.

Whoever gathers together against you will fall because of you.

Isaiah 54.16: 16 “Behold, I have created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame,

and forges a weapon for his work;

and I have created the destroyer to destroy.

Isaiah 54.17: 17 No weapon that is formed against you will prevail;

and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment.

This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants,

and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

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Isaiah 55.1: 1 “Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters!

Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat!

Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Isaiah 55.2: 2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread,

and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy?

Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good,

and let your soul delight itself in richness.

Isaiah 55.3: 3 Turn your ear, and come to me.

Hear, and your soul will live.

I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Isaiah 55.4: 4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples,

a leader and commander to the peoples.

Isaiah 55.5: 5 Behold, you shall call a nation that you don’t know;

and a nation that didn’t know you shall run to you,

because of Yahweh your God,

and for the Holy One of Israel;

for he has glorified you.”

Isaiah 55.6: 6 Seek Yahweh while he may be found.

Call on him while he is near.

Isaiah 55.7: 7 Let the wicked forsake his way,

and the unrighteous man his thoughts.

Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him,

to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Isaiah 55.8: 8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.

Isaiah 55.9: 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

so are my ways higher than your ways,

and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Isaiah 55.10: 10 For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky,

and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth,

and makes it grow and bud,

and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

Isaiah 55.11: 11 so is my word that goes out of my mouth:

it will not return to me void,

but it will accomplish that which I please,

and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

Isaiah 55.12: 12 For you shall go out with joy,

and be led out with peace.

The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing;

and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.

Isaiah 55.13: 13 Instead of the thorn the cypress tree will come up;

and instead of the brier the myrtle tree will come up.

It will make a name for Yahweh,

for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off.”

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Isaiah 56.1: 1 Yahweh says,

“Maintain justice

and do what is right,

for my salvation is near

and my righteousness will soon be revealed.

Isaiah 56.2: 2 Blessed is the man who does this,

and the son of man who holds it fast;

who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it

and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

Isaiah 56.3: 3 Let no foreigner who has joined himself to Yahweh speak, saying,

“Yahweh will surely separate me from his people.”

Do not let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”

Isaiah 56.4: 4 For Yahweh says, “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,

choose the things that please me,

and hold fast to my covenant,

Isaiah 56.5: 5 I will give them in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters.

I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.

Isaiah 56.6: 6 Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh

to serve him,

and to love Yahweh’s name,

to be his servants,

everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it,

and holds fast my covenant,

Isaiah 56.7: 7 I will bring these to my holy mountain,

and make them joyful in my house of prayer.

Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar;

for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”

Isaiah 56.8: 8 The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says,

“I will yet gather others to him,

in addition to his own who are gathered.”

Isaiah 56.9: 9 All you animals of the field,

come to devour,

all you animals in the forest.

Isaiah 56.10: 10 His watchmen are blind.

They are all without knowledge.

They are all mute dogs.

They can’t bark—

dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Isaiah 56.11: 11 Yes, the dogs are greedy.

They can never have enough.

They are shepherds who can’t understand.

They have all turned to their own way,

each one to his gain, from every quarter.

Isaiah 56.12: 12 “Come,” say they, “I will get wine,

and we will fill ourselves with strong drink;

and tomorrow will be as today,

great beyond measure.”

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Isaiah 57.1: 1 The righteous perish,

and no one lays it to heart.

Merciful men are taken away,

and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

Isaiah 57.2: 2 He enters into peace.

They rest in their beds,

each one who walks in his uprightness.

Isaiah 57.3: 3 “But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress,

you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.

Isaiah 57.4: 4 Whom do you mock?

Against whom do you make a wide mouth

and stick out your tongue?

Aren’t you children of disobedience

and offspring of falsehood,

Isaiah 57.5: 5 you who inflame yourselves among the oaks,

under every green tree;

who kill the children in the valleys,

under the clefts of the rocks?

Isaiah 57.6: 6 Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion.

They, they are your lot.

You have even poured a drink offering to them.

You have offered an offering.

Shall I be appeased for these things?

Isaiah 57.7: 7 On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed.

You also went up there to offer sacrifice.

Isaiah 57.8: 8 You have set up your memorial behind the doors and the posts,

for you have exposed yourself to someone besides me,

and have gone up.

You have enlarged your bed

and made you a covenant with them.

You loved what you saw on their bed.

Isaiah 57.9: 9 You went to the king with oil,

increased your perfumes,

sent your ambassadors far off,

and degraded yourself even to Sheol.

Isaiah 57.10: 10 You were wearied with the length of your ways;

yet you didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’

You found a reviving of your strength;

therefore you weren’t faint.

Isaiah 57.11: 11 “Whom have you dreaded and feared,

so that you lie,

and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart?

Haven’t I held my peace for a long time,

and you don’t fear me?

Isaiah 57.12: 12 I will declare your righteousness;

and as for your works, they will not benefit you.

Isaiah 57.13: 13 When you cry,

let those whom you have gathered deliver you;

but the wind will take them.

a breath will carry them all away:

but he who takes refuge in me will possess the land,

and will inherit my holy mountain.”

Isaiah 57.14: 14 He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way!

Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”

Isaiah 57.15: 15 For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity,

whose name is Holy, says:

“I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit,

to revive the spirit of the humble,

and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 57.16: 16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry;

for the spirit would faint before me,

and the souls whom I have made.

Isaiah 57.17: 17 I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him.

I hid myself and was angry;

and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

Isaiah 57.18: 18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him.

I will lead him also,

and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

Isaiah 57.19: 19 I create the fruit of the lips:

Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,”

says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”

Isaiah 57.20: 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea;

for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud.

Isaiah 57.21: 21 “There is no peace”, says my God,

“for the wicked.”

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Isaiah 58.1: 1 “Cry aloud! Don’t spare!

Lift up your voice like a trumpet!

Declare to my people their disobedience,

and to the house of Jacob their sins.

Isaiah 58.2: 2 Yet they seek me daily,

and delight to know my ways.

As a nation that did righteousness,

and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God,

they ask of me righteous judgments.

They delight to draw near to God.

Isaiah 58.3: 3 ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see?

Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’

“Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure,

and oppress all your laborers.

Isaiah 58.4: 4 Behold, you fast for strife and contention,

and to strike with the fist of wickedness.

You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.

Isaiah 58.5: 5 Is this the fast that I have chosen?

A day for a man to humble his soul?

Is it to bow down his head like a reed,

and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself?

Will you call this a fast,

and an acceptable day to Yahweh?

Isaiah 58.6: 6 “Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen:

to release the bonds of wickedness,

to undo the straps of the yoke,

to let the oppressed go free,

and that you break every yoke?

Isaiah 58.7: 7 Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry,

and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house?

When you see the naked,

that you cover him;

and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Isaiah 58.8: 8 Then your light will break out as the morning,

and your healing will appear quickly;

then your righteousness shall go before you,

and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

Isaiah 58.9: 9 Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer.

You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’

“If you take away from among you the yoke,

finger pointing,

and speaking wickedly;

Isaiah 58.10: 10 and if you pour out your soul to the hungry,

and satisfy the afflicted soul,

then your light will rise in darkness,

and your obscurity will be as the noonday;

Isaiah 58.11: 11 and Yahweh will guide you continually,

satisfy your soul in dry places,

and make your bones strong.

You will be like a watered garden,

and like a spring of water

whose waters don’t fail.

Isaiah 58.12: 12 Those who will be of you will build the old waste places.

You will raise up the foundations of many generations.

You will be called Repairer of the Breach,

Restorer of Paths with Dwellings.

Isaiah 58.13: 13 “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,

from doing your pleasure on my holy day;

and call the Sabbath a delight,

and the holy of Yahweh honorable;

and honor it,

not doing your own ways,

nor finding your own pleasure,

nor speaking your own words,

Isaiah 58.14: 14 then you will delight yourself in Yahweh,

and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth,

and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father;”

for Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.

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Isaiah 59.1: 1 Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save;

nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.

Isaiah 59.2: 2 But your iniquities have separated you and your God,

and your sins have hidden his face from you,

so that he will not hear.

Isaiah 59.3: 3 For your hands are defiled with blood,

and your fingers with iniquity.

Your lips have spoken lies.

Your tongue mutters wickedness.

Isaiah 59.4: 4 No one sues in righteousness,

and no one pleads in truth.

They trust in vanity,

and speak lies.

They conceive mischief,

and give birth to iniquity.

Isaiah 59.5: 5 They hatch adders’ eggs,

and weave the spider’s web.

He who eats of their eggs dies;

and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.

Isaiah 59.6: 6 Their webs won’t become garments.

They won’t cover themselves with their works.

Their works are works of iniquity,

and acts of violence are in their hands.

Isaiah 59.7: 7 Their feet run to evil,

and they hurry to shed innocent blood.

Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity.

Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

Isaiah 59.8: 8 They don’t know the way of peace;

and there is no justice in their ways.

They have made crooked paths for themselves;

whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.

Isaiah 59.9: 9 Therefore justice is far from us,

and righteousness doesn’t overtake us.

We look for light, but see darkness;

for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

Isaiah 59.10: 10 We grope for the wall like the blind.

Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes.

We stumble at noon as if it were twilight.

Among those who are strong, we are like dead men.

Isaiah 59.11: 11 We all roar like bears

and moan bitterly like doves.

We look for justice, but there is none,

for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Isaiah 59.12: 12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you,

and our sins testify against us;

for our transgressions are with us,

and as for our iniquities, we know them:

Isaiah 59.13: 13 transgressing and denying Yahweh,

and turning away from following our God,

speaking oppression and revolt,

conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Isaiah 59.14: 14 Justice is turned away backward,

and righteousness stands far away;

for truth has fallen in the street,

and uprightness can’t enter.

Isaiah 59.15: 15 Yes, truth is lacking;

and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.

Yahweh saw it,

and it displeased him that there was no justice.

Isaiah 59.16: 16 He saw that there was no man,

and wondered that there was no intercessor.

Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him;

and his righteousness sustained him.

Isaiah 59.17: 17 He put on righteousness as a breastplate,

and a helmet of salvation on his head.

He put on garments of vengeance for clothing,

and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

Isaiah 59.18: 18 According to their deeds,

he will repay as appropriate,

wrath to his adversaries,

recompense to his enemies;

he will repay the islands their due.

Isaiah 59.19: 19 So they will fear Yahweh’s name from the west,

and his glory from the rising of the sun;

for he will come as a rushing stream,

which Yahweh’s breath drives.

Isaiah 59.20: 20 “A Redeemer will come to Zion,

and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says Yahweh.

Isaiah 59.21: 21 “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

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Isaiah 60.1: 1 “Arise, shine; for your light has come,

and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

Isaiah 60.2: 2 For, behold, darkness will cover the earth,

and thick darkness the peoples;

but Yahweh will arise on you,

and his glory shall be seen on you.

Isaiah 60.3: 3 Nations will come to your light,

and kings to the brightness of your rising.

Isaiah 60.4: 4 “Lift up your eyes all around, and see:

they all gather themselves together.

They come to you.

Your sons will come from far away,

and your daughters will be carried in arms.

Isaiah 60.5: 5 Then you shall see and be radiant,

and your heart will thrill and be enlarged;

because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you.

The wealth of the nations will come to you.

Isaiah 60.6: 6 A multitude of camels will cover you,

the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah.

All from Sheba will come.

They will bring gold and frankincense,

and will proclaim the praises of Yahweh.

Isaiah 60.7: 7 All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you.

The rams of Nebaioth will serve you.

They will be accepted as offerings on my altar;

and I will beautify my glorious house.

Isaiah 60.8: 8 “Who are these who fly as a cloud,

and as the doves to their windows?

Isaiah 60.9: 9 Surely the islands will wait for me,

and the ships of Tarshish first,

to bring your sons from far,

their silver and their gold with them,

for the name of Yahweh your God,

and for the Holy One of Israel,

because he has glorified you.

Isaiah 60.10: 10 “Foreigners will build up your walls,

and their kings will serve you:

for in my wrath I struck you,

but in my favor I have had mercy on you.

Isaiah 60.11: 11 Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night, that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive.

Isaiah 60.12: 12 For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

Isaiah 60.13: 13 “The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress tree, the pine, and the box tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.

Isaiah 60.14: 14 The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you;

and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet.

They will call you Yahweh’s City,

the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 60.15: 15 “Whereas you have been forsaken and hated,

so that no one passed through you,

I will make you an eternal excellency,

a joy of many generations.

Isaiah 60.16: 16 You will also drink the milk of the nations,

and will nurse from royal breasts.

Then you will know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior,

your Redeemer,

the Mighty One of Jacob.

Isaiah 60.17: 17 For bronze I will bring gold;

for iron I will bring silver;

for wood, bronze,

and for stones, iron.

I will also make peace your governor,

and righteousness your ruler.

Isaiah 60.18: 18 Violence shall no more be heard in your land,

nor desolation or destruction within your borders;

but you will call your walls Salvation,

and your gates Praise.

Isaiah 60.19: 19 The sun will be no more your light by day;

nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you,

but Yahweh will be your everlasting light,

and your God will be your glory.

Isaiah 60.20: 20 Your sun will not go down any more,

nor will your moon withdraw itself;

for Yahweh will be your everlasting light,

and the days of your mourning will end.

Isaiah 60.21: 21 Then your people will all be righteous.

They will inherit the land forever,

the branch of my planting,

the work of my hands,

that I may be glorified.

Isaiah 60.22: 22 The little one will become a thousand,

and the small one a strong nation.

I, Yahweh, will do this quickly in its time.”

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Isaiah 61.1: 1 The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me,

because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble.

He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted,

to proclaim liberty to the captives

and release to those who are bound,

Isaiah 61.2: 2 to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor

and the day of vengeance of our God,

to comfort all who mourn,

Isaiah 61.3: 3 to provide for those who mourn in Zion,

to give to them a garland for ashes,

the oil of joy for mourning,

the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness,

that they may be called trees of righteousness,

the planting of Yahweh,

that he may be glorified.

Isaiah 61.4: 4 They will rebuild the old ruins.

They will raise up the former devastated places.

They will repair the ruined cities

that have been devastated for many generations.

Isaiah 61.5: 5 Strangers will stand and feed your flocks.

Foreigners will work your fields and your vineyards.

Isaiah 61.6: 6 But you will be called Yahweh’s priests.

Men will call you the servants of our God.

You will eat the wealth of the nations.

You will boast in their glory.

Isaiah 61.7: 7 Instead of your shame you will have double.

Instead of dishonor, they will rejoice in their portion.

Therefore in their land they will possess double.

Everlasting joy will be to them.

Isaiah 61.8: 8 “For I, Yahweh, love justice.

I hate robbery and iniquity.

I will give them their reward in truth

and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Isaiah 61.9: 9 Their offspring will be known among the nations,

and their offspring among the peoples.

All who see them will acknowledge them,

that they are the offspring which Yahweh has blessed.”

Isaiah 61.10: 10 I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh!

My soul will be joyful in my God,

for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation.

He has covered me with the robe of righteousness,

as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland

and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Isaiah 61.11: 11 For as the earth produces its bud,

and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up,

so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

Isaiah 62.0:

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Isaiah 62.1: 1 For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace,

and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest,

until her righteousness shines out like the dawn,

and her salvation like a burning lamp.

Isaiah 62.2: 2 The nations will see your righteousness,

and all kings your glory.

You will be called by a new name,

which Yahweh’s mouth will name.

Isaiah 62.3: 3 You will also be a crown of beauty in Yahweh‘s hand,

and a royal diadem in your God’s hand.

Isaiah 62.4: 4 You will not be called Forsaken any more,

nor will your land be called Desolate any more;

but you will be called Hephzibah,

and your land Beulah;

for Yahweh delights in you,

and your land will be married.

Isaiah 62.5: 5 For as a young man marries a virgin,

so your sons will marry you.

As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride,

so your God will rejoice over you.

Isaiah 62.6: 6 I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem.

They will never be silent day nor night.

You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,

Isaiah 62.7: 7 and give him no rest, until he establishes,

and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

Isaiah 62.8: 8 Yahweh has sworn by his right hand,

and by the arm of his strength,

“Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies,

and foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have labored,

Isaiah 62.9: 9 but those who have harvested it will eat it, and praise Yahweh.

Those who have gathered it will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.”

Isaiah 62.10: 10 Go through, go through the gates!

Prepare the way of the people!

Build up, build up the highway!

Gather out the stones!

Lift up a banner for the peoples.

Isaiah 62.11: 11 Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth,

“Say to the daughter of Zion,

‘Behold, your salvation comes!

Behold, his reward is with him,

and his recompense before him!’”

Isaiah 62.12: 12 They will call them “The Holy People,

Yahweh’s Redeemed”.

You will be called “Sought Out,

A City Not Forsaken”.

Isaiah 63.0:

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Isaiah 63.1: 1 Who is this who comes from Edom,

with dyed garments from Bozrah?

Who is this who is glorious in his clothing,

marching in the greatness of his strength?

“It is I who speak in righteousness,

mighty to save.”

Isaiah 63.2: 2 Why is your clothing red,

and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat?

Isaiah 63.3: 3 “I have trodden the wine press alone.

Of the peoples, no one was with me.

Yes, I trod them in my anger

and trampled them in my wrath.

Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments,

and I have stained all my clothing.

Isaiah 63.4: 4 For the day of vengeance was in my heart,

and the year of my redeemed has come.

Isaiah 63.5: 5 I looked, and there was no one to help;

and I wondered that there was no one to uphold.

Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me.

My own wrath upheld me.

Isaiah 63.6: 6 I trod down the peoples in my anger

and made them drunk in my wrath.

I poured their lifeblood out on the earth.”

Isaiah 63.7: 7 I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh

and the praises of Yahweh,

according to all that Yahweh has given to us,

and the great goodness toward the house of Israel,

which he has given to them according to his mercies,

and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

Isaiah 63.8: 8 For he said, “Surely, they are my people,

children who will not deal falsely;”

so he became their Savior.

Isaiah 63.9: 9 In all their affliction he was afflicted,

and the angel of his presence saved them.

In his love and in his pity he redeemed them.

He bore them,

and carried them all the days of old.

Isaiah 63.10: 10 But they rebelled

and grieved his Holy Spirit.

Therefore he turned and became their enemy,

and he himself fought against them.

Isaiah 63.11: 11 Then he remembered the days of old,

Moses and his people, saying,

“Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock?

Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?”

Isaiah 63.12: 12 Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses’ right hand?

Who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?

Isaiah 63.13: 13 Who led them through the depths,

like a horse in the wilderness,

so that they didn’t stumble?

Isaiah 63.14: 14 As the livestock that go down into the valley,

Yahweh’s Spirit caused them to rest.

So you led your people to make yourself a glorious name.

Isaiah 63.15: 15 Look down from heaven,

and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory.

Where are your zeal and your mighty acts?

The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.

Isaiah 63.16: 16 For you are our Father,

though Abraham doesn’t know us,

and Israel does not acknowledge us.

You, Yahweh, are our Father.

Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

Isaiah 63.17: 17 O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways,

and harden our heart from your fear?

Return for your servants’ sake,

the tribes of your inheritance.

Isaiah 63.18: 18 Your holy people possessed it but a little while.

Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.

Isaiah 63.19: 19 We have become like those over whom you never ruled,

like those who were not called by your name.

Isaiah 64.0:

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Isaiah 64.1: 1 Oh that you would tear the heavens,

that you would come down,

that the mountains might quake at your presence.

Isaiah 64.2: 2 As when fire kindles the brushwood,

and the fire causes the water to boil;

Make your name known to your adversaries,

that the nations may tremble at your presence!

Isaiah 64.3: 3 When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for,

you came down, and the mountains quaked at your presence.

Isaiah 64.4: 4 For from of old men have not heard,

nor perceived by the ear,

nor has the eye seen a God besides you,

who works for him who waits for him.

Isaiah 64.5: 5 You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness,

those who remember you in your ways.

Behold, you were angry, and we sinned.

We have been in sin for a long time.

Shall we be saved?

Isaiah 64.6: 6 For we have all become like one who is unclean,

and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment.

We all fade like a leaf;

and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Isaiah 64.7: 7 There is no one who calls on your name,

who stirs himself up to take hold of you;

for you have hidden your face from us,

and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

Isaiah 64.8: 8 But now, Yahweh, you are our Father.

We are the clay and you our potter.

We all are the work of your hand.

Isaiah 64.9: 9 Don’t be furious, Yahweh.

Don’t remember iniquity forever.

Look and see, we beg you,

we are all your people.

Isaiah 64.10: 10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness.

Zion has become a wilderness,

Jerusalem a desolation.

Isaiah 64.11: 11 Our holy and our beautiful house where our fathers praised you

is burned with fire.

All our pleasant places are laid waste.

Isaiah 64.12: 12 Will you hold yourself back for these things, Yahweh?

Will you keep silent and punish us very severely?

Isaiah 65.0:

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Isaiah 65.1: 1 “I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask.

I am found by those who didn’t seek me.

I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.

Isaiah 65.2: 2 I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people,

who walk in a way that is not good,

after their own thoughts;

Isaiah 65.3: 3 a people who provoke me to my face continually,

sacrificing in gardens,

and burning incense on bricks;

Isaiah 65.4: 4 who sit among the graves,

and spend nights in secret places;

who eat pig’s meat,

and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

Isaiah 65.5: 5 who say, ‘Stay by yourself,

don’t come near to me,

for I am holier than you.’

These are smoke in my nose,

a fire that burns all day.

Isaiah 65.6: 6 “Behold, it is written before me:

I will not keep silence,

but will repay,

yes, I will repay into their bosom,

Isaiah 65.7: 7 your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together”, says Yahweh,

“who have burned incense on the mountains,

and blasphemed me on the hills.

Therefore I will first measure their work into their bosom.”

Isaiah 65.8: 8 Yahweh says,

“As the new wine is found in the cluster,

and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’

so I will do for my servants’ sake,

that I may not destroy them all.

Isaiah 65.9: 9 I will bring offspring out of Jacob,

and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains.

My chosen will inherit it,

and my servants will dwell there.

Isaiah 65.10: 10 Sharon will be a fold of flocks,

and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in,

for my people who have sought me.

Isaiah 65.11: 11 “But you who forsake Yahweh,

who forget my holy mountain,

who prepare a table for Fortune,

and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;

Isaiah 65.12: 12 I will destine you to the sword,

and you will all bow down to the slaughter;

because when I called, you didn’t answer.

When I spoke, you didn’t listen;

but you did that which was evil in my eyes,

and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”

Isaiah 65.13: 13 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says,

“Behold, my servants will eat,

but you will be hungry;

behold, my servants will drink,

but you will be thirsty.

Behold, my servants will rejoice,

but you will be disappointed;

Isaiah 65.14: 14 Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart,

but you will cry for sorrow of heart,

and will wail for anguish of spirit.

Isaiah 65.15: 15 You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen;

and the Lord Yahweh will kill you.

He will call his servants by another name,

Isaiah 65.16: 16 so that he who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of truth;

and he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of truth;

because the former troubles are forgotten,

and because they are hidden from my eyes.

Isaiah 65.17: 17 “For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;

and the former things will not be remembered,

nor come into mind.

Isaiah 65.18: 18 But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create;

for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight,

and her people a joy.

Isaiah 65.19: 19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem,

and delight in my people;

and the voice of weeping and the voice of crying

will be heard in her no more.

Isaiah 65.20: 20 “No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days,

nor an old man who has not filled his days;

for the child will die one hundred years old,

and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.

Isaiah 65.21: 21 They will build houses and inhabit them.

They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

Isaiah 65.22: 22 They will not build and another inhabit.

They will not plant and another eat:

for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree,

and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands.

Isaiah 65.23: 23 They will not labor in vain

nor give birth for calamity;

for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed

and their descendants with them.

Isaiah 65.24: 24 It will happen that before they call, I will answer;

and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

Isaiah 65.25: 25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together.

The lion will eat straw like the ox.

Dust will be the serpent’s food.

They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,”

says Yahweh.

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Isaiah 66.1: 1 Yahweh says,

“Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool.

What kind of house will you build to me?

Where will I rest?

Isaiah 66.2: 2 For my hand has made all these things,

and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh:

“but I will look to this man,

even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit,

and who trembles at my word.

Isaiah 66.3: 3 He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man;

he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck;

he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood;

he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol.

Yes, they have chosen their own ways,

and their soul delights in their abominations:

Isaiah 66.4: 4 I also will choose their delusions,

and will bring their fears on them;

because when I called, no one answered;

when I spoke, they didn’t listen;

but they did that which was evil in my eyes,

and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”

Isaiah 66.5: 5 Hear Yahweh’s word,

you who tremble at his word:

“Your brothers who hate you,

who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said,

‘Let Yahweh be glorified,

that we may see your joy;’

but it is those who shall be disappointed.

Isaiah 66.6: 6 A voice of tumult from the city,

a voice from the temple,

a voice of Yahweh that repays his enemies what they deserve.

Isaiah 66.7: 7 “Before she travailed, she gave birth.

Before her pain came, she delivered a son.

Isaiah 66.8: 8 Who has heard of such a thing?

Who has seen such things?

Shall a land be born in one day?

Shall a nation be born at once?

For as soon as Zion travailed,

she gave birth to her children.

Isaiah 66.9: 9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to be delivered?” says Yahweh.

“Shall I who cause to give birth shut the womb?” says your God.

Isaiah 66.10: 10 “Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her.

Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;

Isaiah 66.11: 11 that you may nurse and be satisfied at the comforting breasts;

that you may drink deeply,

and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.”

Isaiah 66.12: 12 For Yahweh says, “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river,

and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream;

and you will nurse.

You will be carried on her side,

and will be dandled on her knees.

Isaiah 66.13: 13 As one whom his mother comforts,

so I will comfort you.

You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

Isaiah 66.14: 14 You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice,

and your bones will flourish like the tender grass.

Yahweh’s hand will be known among his servants;

and he will have indignation against his enemies.

Isaiah 66.15: 15 For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire,

and his chariots will be like the whirlwind;

to render his anger with fierceness,

and his rebuke with flames of fire.

Isaiah 66.16: 16 For Yahweh will execute judgment by fire and by his sword on all flesh;

and those slain by Yahweh will be many.

Isaiah 66.17: 17 “Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves to go to the gardens, behind one in the middle, eating pig’s meat, abominable things, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together,” says Yahweh.

Isaiah 66.18: 18 “For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and will see my glory.

Isaiah 66.19: 19 “I will set a sign among them, and I will send those who escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to far-away islands, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.

Isaiah 66.20: 20 They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an offering to Yahweh, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules, and on camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says Yahweh, as the children of Israel bring their offering in a clean vessel into Yahweh’s house.

Isaiah 66.21: 21 Of them I will also select priests and Levites,” says Yahweh.

Isaiah 66.22: 22 “For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me,” says Yahweh, “so your offspring and your name shall remain.

Isaiah 66.23: 23 It shall happen that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, all flesh will come to worship before me,” says Yahweh.

Isaiah 66.24: 24 “They will go out, and look at the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me; for their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”

Ezekiel 0.0:

The Book of

Ezekiel

Ezekiel 1.0:

1

Ezekiel 1.1: 1 Now 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.

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’s 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, 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 1.6: 6 Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings.

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 sapphire 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 2.0:

2

Ezekiel 2.1: 1 He 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 Lord 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 3.0:

3

Ezekiel 3.1: 1 He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.”

Ezekiel 3.2: 2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.

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.”

Then I ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.

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 obstinate 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 3.16: 16 At the end of seven days, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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.”

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Ezekiel 4.1: 1 “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 shekels 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. 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.

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Ezekiel 5.1: 1 “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.’”

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Ezekiel 6.1: 1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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.’”

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Ezekiel 7.1: 1 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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 7.17: 17 All hands will be feeble, and all knees will be weak as water.

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.’”

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Ezekiel 8.1: 1 In 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 8.8: 8 Then he said to me, “Son of man, dig now in the wall.”

When I had dug in the wall, I saw a door.

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.”

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Ezekiel 9.1: 1 Then 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.”

Then they began at the old men who were before the house.

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

They went out, and struck in the city.

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.”

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Ezekiel 10.1: 1 Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire 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.”

He went in as I watched.

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.

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Ezekiel 11.1: 1 Moreover 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 11.4: 4 Therefore prophesy against them. Prophesy, son of man.”

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 11.14: 14 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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.

So the vision that I had seen went up from me.

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

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Ezekiel 12.1: 1 Yahweh’s word also came to me, saying,

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 12.8: 8 In the morning, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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 12.17: 17 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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 12.21: 21 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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 12.26: 26 Again Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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.’”

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Ezekiel 13.1: 1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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 13.4: 4 Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.

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.’”

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Ezekiel 14.1: 1 Then some of the elders of Israel came to me, and sat before me.

Ezekiel 14.2: 2 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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 14.12: 12 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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.

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Ezekiel 15.1: 1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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.

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Ezekiel 16.1: 1 Again Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 16.2: 2 “Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations;

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 16.35: 35 “Therefore, prostitute, hear Yahweh’s word:

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.’”

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Ezekiel 17.1: 1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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 17.11: 11 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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, 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.

“‘I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it.’”

Ezekiel 18.0:

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Ezekiel 18.1: 1 Yahweh’s word came to me again, saying,

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

‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,

and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?

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 18.5: 5 “But if a man is just,

and does that which is lawful and right,

Ezekiel 18.6: 6 and has not eaten on the mountains,

hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel,

hasn’t defiled his neighbor’s wife,

hasn’t come near a woman in her impurity,

Ezekiel 18.7: 7 and has not wronged any,

but has restored to the debtor his pledge,

has taken nothing by robbery,

has given his bread to the hungry,

and has covered the naked with a garment;

Ezekiel 18.8: 8 he who hasn’t lent to them with interest,

hasn’t taken any increase from them,

who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity,

has executed true justice between man and man,

Ezekiel 18.9: 9 has walked in my statutes,

and has kept my ordinances,

to deal truly;

he is just,

he shall surely live,” says the Lord Yahweh.

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

Ezekiel 18.11: 11 or who does not do any of those things,

but even has eaten at the mountain shrines,

and defiled his neighbor’s wife,

Ezekiel 18.12: 12 has wronged the poor and needy,

has taken by robbery,

has not restored the pledge,

and has lifted up his eyes to the idols,

has committed abomination,

Ezekiel 18.13: 13 has lent with interest,

and has taken increase from the poor;

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 18.15: 15 who hasn’t eaten on the mountains,

hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel,

hasn’t defiled his neighbor’s wife,

Ezekiel 18.16: 16 hasn’t wronged any,

hasn’t taken anything to pledge,

hasn’t taken by robbery,

but has given his bread to the hungry,

and has covered the naked with a garment;

Ezekiel 18.17: 17 who has withdrawn his hand from the poor,

who hasn’t received interest or increase,

has executed my ordinances,

has walked in my statutes;

he shall not die for the iniquity of his father. He shall surely live.

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!

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Ezekiel 19.1: 1 “Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Ezekiel 19.2: 2 and say,

‘What was your mother?

A lioness.

She couched among lions,

in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs.

Ezekiel 19.3: 3 She brought up one of her cubs.

He became a young lion.

He learned to catch the prey.

He devoured men.

Ezekiel 19.4: 4 The nations also heard of him.

He was taken in their pit;

and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 19.5: 5 “‘Now when she saw that she had waited,

and her hope was lost,

then she took another of her cubs,

and made him a young lion.

Ezekiel 19.6: 6 He went up and down among the lions.

He became a young lion.

He learned to catch the prey.

He devoured men.

Ezekiel 19.7: 7 He knew their palaces,

and laid waste their cities.

The land was desolate,

with its fullness,

because of the noise of his roaring.

Ezekiel 19.8: 8 Then the nations attacked him on every side from the provinces.

They spread their net over him.

He was taken in their pit.

Ezekiel 19.9: 9 They put him in a cage with hooks,

and brought him to the king of Babylon.

They brought him into strongholds,

so that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.

Ezekiel 19.10: 10 “‘Your mother was like a vine

in your blood,

planted by the waters.

It was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

Ezekiel 19.11: 11 It had strong branches for the scepters of those who ruled.

Their stature was exalted among the thick boughs.

They were seen in their height

with the multitude of their branches.

Ezekiel 19.12: 12 But it was plucked up in fury.

It was cast down to the ground,

and the east wind dried up its fruit.

Its strong branches were broken off and withered.

The fire consumed them.

Ezekiel 19.13: 13 Now it is planted in the wilderness,

in a dry and thirsty land.

Ezekiel 19.14: 14 Fire has gone out of its branches.

It has devoured its fruit,

so that there is in it no strong branch to be a scepter to rule.’

This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.”

Ezekiel 20.0:

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Ezekiel 20.1: 1 In 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 20.2: 2 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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 Bamah 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 20.45: 45 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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 21.0:

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Ezekiel 21.1: 1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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 heart 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 21.8: 8 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 21.9: 9 “Son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘Yahweh says:

“A sword! A sword!

It is sharpened,

and also polished.

Ezekiel 21.10: 10 It is sharpened that it may make a slaughter.

It is polished that it may be as lightning.

Should we then make mirth?

The rod of my son condemns every tree.

Ezekiel 21.11: 11 It is given to be polished,

that it may be handled.

The sword is sharpened.

Yes, it is polished

to give it into the hand of the killer.”’

Ezekiel 21.12: 12 Cry and wail, son of man;

for it is on my people.

It is on all the princes of Israel.

They are delivered over to the sword with my people.

Therefore beat your thigh.

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 21.14: 14 “You therefore, son of man, prophesy,

and strike your hands together.

Let the sword be doubled the third time,

the sword of the fatally wounded.

It is the sword of the great one who is fatally wounded,

which enters into their rooms.

Ezekiel 21.15: 15 I have set the threatening sword against all their gates,

that their heart may melt,

and their stumblings be multiplied.

Ah! It is made as lightning.

It is pointed for slaughter.

Ezekiel 21.16: 16 Gather yourselves together.

Go to the right.

Set yourselves in array.

Go to the left,

wherever your face is set.

Ezekiel 21.17: 17 I will also strike my hands together,

and I will cause my wrath to rest.

I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”

Ezekiel 21.18: 18 Yahweh’s word came to me again, saying,

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. 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:

“A sword! A sword is drawn!

It is polished for the slaughter,

to cause it to devour,

that it may be as lightning;

Ezekiel 21.29: 29 while they see for you false visions,

while they divine lies to you,

to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded,

whose day has come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

Ezekiel 21.30: 30 Cause it to return into its sheath.

In the place where you were created,

in the land of your birth, I will judge you.

Ezekiel 21.31: 31 I will pour out my indignation on you.

I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath.

I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men,

skillful to destroy.

Ezekiel 21.32: 32 You will be for fuel to the fire.

Your blood will be in the middle of the land.

You will be remembered no more;

for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”’”

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Ezekiel 22.1: 1 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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. 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 22.17: 17 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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 22.23: 23 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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 23.0:

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Ezekiel 23.1: 1 Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,

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 23.13: 13 I saw that she was defiled. They both went the same way.

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 23.32: 32 “The Lord Yahweh says:

‘You will drink of your sister’s cup,

which is deep and large.

You will be ridiculed and held in derision.

It contains much.

Ezekiel 23.33: 33 You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,

with the cup of astonishment and desolation,

with the cup of your sister Samaria.

Ezekiel 23.34: 34 You will even drink it and drain it out.

You will gnaw the broken pieces of it,

and will tear your breasts;

for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh.

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 24.0:

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Ezekiel 24.1: 1 Again, 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,

“Put the cauldron on the fire.

Put it on,

and also pour water into it.

Ezekiel 24.4: 4 Gather its pieces into it,

even every good piece:

the thigh and the shoulder.

Fill it with the choice bones.

Ezekiel 24.5: 5 Take the choice of the flock,

and also a pile of wood for the bones under the cauldron.

Make it boil well.

Yes, let its bones be boiled within it.”

Ezekiel 24.6: 6 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says:

“Woe to the bloody city,

to the cauldron whose rust is in it,

and whose rust hasn’t gone out of it!

Take out of it piece after piece.

No lot is fallen on it.

Ezekiel 24.7: 7 “‘“For her blood is in the middle of her.

She set it on the bare rock.

She didn’t pour it on the ground,

to cover it with dust.

Ezekiel 24.8: 8 That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance,

I have set her blood on the bare rock,

that it should not be covered.”

Ezekiel 24.9: 9 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says:

“Woe to the bloody city!

I also will make the pile great.

Ezekiel 24.10: 10 Heap on the wood.

Make the fire hot.

Boil the meat well.

Make the broth thick,

and let the bones be burned.

Ezekiel 24.11: 11 Then set it empty on its coals,

that it may be hot,

and its bronze may burn,

and that its filthiness may be molten in it,

that its rust may be consumed.

Ezekiel 24.12: 12 She is weary with toil;

yet her great rust,

rust by fire, doesn’t leave her.

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 24.15: 15 Also Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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 24.20: 20 Then I said to them, “Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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 25.0:

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Ezekiel 25.1: 1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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.”’”

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Ezekiel 26.1: 1 In 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 26.17: 17 They will take up a lamentation over you, and tell you,

“How you are destroyed,

who were inhabited by seafaring men,

the renowned city,

who was strong in the sea,

she and her inhabitants,

who caused their terror to be on all who lived there!”

Ezekiel 26.18: 18 Now the islands will tremble in the day of your fall.

Yes, the islands that are in the sea will be dismayed at your departure.’

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 27.0:

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Ezekiel 27.1: 1 Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,

Ezekiel 27.2: 2 “You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;

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:

“You, Tyre, have said,

‘I am perfect in beauty.’

Ezekiel 27.4: 4 Your borders are in the heart of the seas.

Your builders have perfected your beauty.

Ezekiel 27.5: 5 They have made all your planks of cypress trees from Senir.

They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

Ezekiel 27.6: 6 They have made your oars of the oaks of Bashan.

They have made your benches of ivory inlaid in cypress wood from the islands of Kittim.

Ezekiel 27.7: 7 Your sail was of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt,

that it might be to you for a banner.

Blue and purple from the islands of Elishah was your awning.

Ezekiel 27.8: 8 The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers.

Your wise men, Tyre, were in you.

They were your pilots.

Ezekiel 27.9: 9 The old men of Gebal

and its wise men were your repairers of ship seams in you.

All the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you

to deal in your merchandise.

Ezekiel 27.10: 10 “‘“Persia, Lud, and Put were in your army,

your men of war.

They hung the shield and helmet in you.

They showed your beauty.

Ezekiel 27.11: 11 The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls all around,

and valiant men were in your towers.

They hung their shields on your walls all around.

They have perfected your beauty.

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.

You were replenished

and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.

Ezekiel 27.26: 26 Your rowers have brought you into great waters.

The east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.

Ezekiel 27.27: 27 Your riches,

your wares,

your merchandise,

your mariners,

your pilots,

your repairers of ship seams,

the dealers in your merchandise,

and all your men of war, who are in you,

with all your company which is among you,

will fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.

Ezekiel 27.28: 28 At the sound of the cry of your pilots,

the pasture lands will shake.

Ezekiel 27.29: 29 All who handle the oars,

the mariners and all the pilots of the sea,

will come down from their ships.

They will stand on the land,

Ezekiel 27.30: 30 and will cause their voice to be heard over you,

and will cry bitterly.

They will cast up dust on their heads.

They will wallow in the ashes.

Ezekiel 27.31: 31 They will make themselves bald for you,

and clothe themselves with sackcloth.

They will weep for you in bitterness of soul,

with bitter mourning.

Ezekiel 27.32: 32 In their wailing they will take up a lamentation for you,

and lament over you, saying,

‘Who is there like Tyre,

like her who is brought to silence in the middle of the sea?’

Ezekiel 27.33: 33 When your wares went out of the seas,

you filled many peoples.

You enriched the kings of the earth

with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise.

Ezekiel 27.34: 34 In the time that you were broken by the seas,

in the depths of the waters,

your merchandise

and all your company fell within you.

Ezekiel 27.35: 35 All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you,

and their kings are horribly afraid.

They are troubled in their face.

Ezekiel 27.36: 36 The merchants among the peoples hiss at you.

You have become a terror,

and you will be no more.”’”

Ezekiel 28.0:

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Ezekiel 28.1: 1 Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,

Ezekiel 28.2: 2 “Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:

“Because your heart is lifted up,

and you have said, ‘I am a god,

I sit in the seat of God,

in the middle of the seas;’

yet you are man,

and not God,

though you set your heart as the heart of God—

Ezekiel 28.3: 3 behold, you are wiser than Daniel;

there is no secret that is hidden from you;

Ezekiel 28.4: 4 by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches,

and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;

Ezekiel 28.5: 5 by your great wisdom

and by your trading you have increased your riches,

and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”

Ezekiel 28.6: 6 “‘therefore the Lord Yahweh says:

“Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,

Ezekiel 28.7: 7 therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you,

the terrible of the nations.

They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom.

They will defile your brightness.

Ezekiel 28.8: 8 They will bring you down to the pit.

You will die the death of those who are slain

in the heart of the seas.

Ezekiel 28.9: 9 Will you yet say before him who kills you, ‘I am God’?

But you are man, and not God,

in the hand of him who wounds you.

Ezekiel 28.10: 10 You will die the death of the uncircumcised

by the hand of strangers;

for I have spoken it,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 28.11: 11 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 28.12: 12 “Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:

“You were the seal of full measure,

full of wisdom,

and perfect in beauty.

Ezekiel 28.13: 13 You were in Eden,

the garden of God.

Every precious stone adorned you:

ruby, topaz, emerald,

chrysolite, onyx, jasper,

sapphire, turquoise, and beryl.

Gold work of tambourines

and of pipes was in you.

They were prepared in the day that you were created.

Ezekiel 28.14: 14 You were the anointed cherub who covers.

Then I set you up on the holy mountain of God.

You have walked up and down in the middle of the stones of fire.

Ezekiel 28.15: 15 You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created,

until unrighteousness was found in you.

Ezekiel 28.16: 16 By the abundance of your commerce, your insides were filled with violence,

and you have sinned.

Therefore I have cast you as profane out of God’s mountain.

I have destroyed you, covering cherub,

from the middle of the stones of fire.

Ezekiel 28.17: 17 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty.

You have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor.

I have cast you to the ground.

I have laid you before kings,

that they may see you.

Ezekiel 28.18: 18 By the multitude of your iniquities,

in the unrighteousness of your commerce,

you have profaned your sanctuaries.

Therefore I have brought out a fire from the middle of you.

It has devoured you.

I have turned you to ashes on the earth

in the sight of all those who see you.

Ezekiel 28.19: 19 All those who know you among the peoples will be astonished at you.

You have become a terror,

and you will exist no more.”’”

Ezekiel 28.20: 20 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 28.21: 21 “Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,

Ezekiel 28.22: 22 and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:

“Behold, I am against you, Sidon.

I will be glorified among you.

Then they will know that I am Yahweh,

when I have executed judgments in her,

and am sanctified in her.

Ezekiel 28.23: 23 For I will send pestilence into her,

and blood into her streets.

The wounded will fall within her,

with the sword on her on every side.

Then they will know that I am Yahweh.

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.”’”

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Ezekiel 29.1: 1 In 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 29.3: 3 Speak and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:

“Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,

the great monster that lies in the middle of his rivers,

that has said, ‘My river is my own,

and I have made it for myself.’

Ezekiel 29.4: 4 I will put hooks in your jaws,

and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales.

I will bring you up out of the middle of your rivers,

with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.

Ezekiel 29.5: 5 I’ll cast you out into the wilderness,

you and all the fish of your rivers.

You’ll fall on the open field.

You won’t be brought together or gathered.

I have given you for food to the animals of the earth

and to the birds of the sky.

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.

“‘“Because he has said, ‘The river is mine, and I have made it;’

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.”

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Ezekiel 30.1: 1 Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,

Ezekiel 30.2: 2 “Son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:

“Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’

Ezekiel 30.3: 3 For the day is near,

even Yahweh’s day is near.

It will be a day of clouds,

a time of the nations.

Ezekiel 30.4: 4 A sword will come on Egypt,

and anguish will be in Ethiopia,

when the slain fall in Egypt.

They take away her multitude,

and her foundations are broken down.

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 30.6: 6 “‘Yahweh says:

“They also who uphold Egypt will fall.

The pride of her power will come down.

They will fall by the sword in it from the tower of Seveneh,”

says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 30.7: 7 “They will be desolate in the middle of the countries that are desolate.

Her cities will be among the cities that are wasted.

Ezekiel 30.8: 8 They will know that I am Yahweh

when I have set a fire in Egypt,

and all her helpers are destroyed.

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 30.10: 10 “‘The Lord Yahweh says:

“I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease,

by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

Ezekiel 30.11: 11 He and his people with him,

the terrible of the nations,

will be brought in to destroy the land.

They will draw their swords against Egypt,

and fill the land with the slain.

Ezekiel 30.12: 12 I will make the rivers dry,

and will sell the land into the hand of evil men.

I will make the land desolate,

and all that is therein,

by the hand of strangers:

I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”

Ezekiel 30.13: 13 “‘The Lord Yahweh says:

“I will also destroy the idols,

and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis.

There will be no more a prince from the land of Egypt.

I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 30.14: 14 I will make Pathros desolate,

and will set a fire in Zoan,

and will execute judgments on No.

Ezekiel 30.15: 15 I will pour my wrath on Sin,

the stronghold of Egypt.

I will cut off the multitude of No.

Ezekiel 30.16: 16 I will set a fire in Egypt

Sin will be in great anguish.

No will be broken up.

Memphis will have adversaries in the daytime.

Ezekiel 30.17: 17 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth will fall by the sword.

They will go into captivity.

Ezekiel 30.18: 18 At Tehaphnehes also the day will withdraw itself,

when I break the yokes of Egypt, there.

The pride of her power will cease in her.

As for her, a cloud will cover her,

and her daughters will go into captivity.

Ezekiel 30.19: 19 Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt.

Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”’”

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.’”

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Ezekiel 31.1: 1 In the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 31.2: 2 “Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his multitude:

‘Whom are you like in your greatness?

Ezekiel 31.3: 3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon

with beautiful branches,

and with a forest-like shade,

of high stature;

and its top was among the thick boughs.

Ezekiel 31.4: 4 The waters nourished it.

The deep made it to grow.

Its rivers ran all around its plantation;

and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

Ezekiel 31.5: 5 Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field;

and its boughs were multiplied.

Its branches became long by reason of many waters,

when it spread them out.

Ezekiel 31.6: 6 All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs.

Under its branches, all the animals of the field gave birth to their young.

All great nations lived under its shadow.

Ezekiel 31.7: 7 Thus it was beautiful in its greatness,

in the length of its branches;

for its root was by many waters.

Ezekiel 31.8: 8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it.

The cypress trees were not like its boughs.

The pine trees were not as its branches;

nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.

Ezekiel 31.9: 9 I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches,

so that all the trees of Eden,

that were in the garden of God, envied it.’

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 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 Sheol 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.

“‘This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

Ezekiel 32.0:

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Ezekiel 32.1: 1 In 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,

“You were likened to a young lion of the nations;

yet you are as a monster in the seas.

You broke out with your rivers,

and troubled the waters with your feet,

and fouled their rivers.”

Ezekiel 32.3: 3 The Lord Yahweh says:

“I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples;

and they will bring you up in my net.

Ezekiel 32.4: 4 I will leave you on the land.

I will cast you out on the open field,

and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you.

I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you.

Ezekiel 32.5: 5 I will lay your flesh on the mountains,

and fill the valleys with your height.

Ezekiel 32.6: 6 I will also water the land in which you swim with your blood,

even to the mountains.

The watercourses will be full of you.

Ezekiel 32.7: 7 When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens

and make its stars dark.

I will cover the sun with a cloud,

and the moon won’t give its light.

Ezekiel 32.8: 8 I will make all the bright lights of the sky dark over you,

and set darkness on your land,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 32.9: 9 “I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples,

when I bring your destruction among the nations,

into the countries which you have not known.

Ezekiel 32.10: 10 Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you,

and their kings will be horribly afraid for you,

when I brandish my sword before them.

They will tremble at every moment,

every man for his own life,

in the day of your fall.”

Ezekiel 32.11: 11 For the Lord Yahweh says:

“The sword of the king of Babylon will come on you.

Ezekiel 32.12: 12 I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of the mighty.

They are all the ruthless of the nations.

They will bring the pride of Egypt to nothing,

and all its multitude will be destroyed.

Ezekiel 32.13: 13 I will destroy also all its animals from beside many waters.

The foot of man won’t trouble them any more,

nor will the hoofs of animals trouble them.

Ezekiel 32.14: 14 Then I will make their waters clear,

and cause their rivers to run like oil,”

says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 32.15: 15 “When I make the land of Egypt desolate and waste,

a land destitute of that of which it was full,

when I strike all those who dwell therein,

then they will know that I am Yahweh.

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 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.

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Ezekiel 33.1: 1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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 33.23: 23 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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.”

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Ezekiel 34.1: 1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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 34.7: 7 “‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear Yahweh’s word:

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 34.9: 9 Therefore, you shepherds, hear Yahweh’s word:

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.”

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Ezekiel 35.1: 1 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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.’”

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Ezekiel 36.1: 1 You, 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 36.16: 16 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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.’”

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Ezekiel 37.1: 1 Yahweh’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 37.3: 3 He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”

I answered, “Lord Yahweh, you know.”

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 37.15: 15 Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,

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.”’”

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Ezekiel 38.1: 1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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.”’

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Ezekiel 39.1: 1 “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.”

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Ezekiel 40.1: 1 In 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 cubits 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.

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Ezekiel 41.1: 1 He 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; 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 41.23: 23 The temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

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.

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Ezekiel 42.1: 1 Then 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 cubits 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.

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Ezekiel 43.1: 1 Afterward 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 cubit 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; 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.”

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Ezekiel 44.1: 1 Then 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 44.26: 26 After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.

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.

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Ezekiel 45.1: 1 “‘“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 cubits 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, 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, and the ephah one tenth of a homer. Its measure shall be the same as the homer.

Ezekiel 45.12: 12 The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.

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;)

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 ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin 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.”

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Ezekiel 46.1: 1 “‘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 hin of oil to an ephah.

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 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, 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 cubits 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.”

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Ezekiel 47.1: 1 He 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, 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 47.6: 6 He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen?”

Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the bank of the river.

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.

Ezekiel 47.15: 15 “This shall be the border of the land:

“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.

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Ezekiel 48.1: 1 “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.’

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PRAYER OF MANASSES

KING OF JUDAH,

WHEN HE WAS HELD CAPTIVE IN BABYLON

The Prayer of Manasses is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox Churches. It is included in an appendix to the Latin Vulgate Bible.

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Prayer of Manasses 1.1: 1 O LORD Almighty, that are in heaven, you God of our fathers, of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and of their righteous seed;

Prayer of Manasses 1.2: 2 who have made heaven and earth, with all the ornament thereof;

Prayer of Manasses 1.3: 3 who have bound the sea by the word of your commandment; who have shut up the deep, and sealed it by your terrible and glorious name;

Prayer of Manasses 1.4: 4 whom all things fear, yes, tremble before your power;

Prayer of Manasses 1.5: 5 for the majesty of your glory can’t be borne, and the anger of your threatening toward sinners is importable:

Prayer of Manasses 1.6: 6 your merciful promise is unmeasurable and unsearchable;

Prayer of Manasses 1.7: 7 for you are the Lord Most High, of great compassion, patient and abundant in mercy, and repent of bringing evils upon men.

Prayer of Manasses 1.8: 8 You, O Lord, according to your great goodness have promised repentance and forgiveness to those who have sinned against you: and of your infinite mercies have appointed repentance to sinners, that they may be saved. You therefore, O Lord, that are the God of the just, have not appointed repentance to the just, to Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, which have not sinned against you; but you have appointed repentance to me that am a sinner:

Prayer of Manasses 1.9: 9 for I have sinned above the number of the sands of the sea. My transgressions are multiplied, O Lord: my transgressions are multiplied, and I am not worthy to behold and see the height of heaven for the multitude of my iniquities.

Prayer of Manasses 1.10: 10 I am bowed down with many iron bands, that I can’t lift up my head by reason of my sins, neither have I any respite: for I have provoked your wrath, and done that which is evil before you: I didn’t do your will, neither did I keep your commandments: I have set up abominations, and have multiplied detestable things.

Prayer of Manasses 1.11: 11 Now therefore I bow the knee of my heart, beseeching you of grace.

Prayer of Manasses 1.12: 12 I have sinned, O Lord, I have sinned, and I acknowledge my iniquities:

Prayer of Manasses 1.13: 13 but, I humbly beseech you, forgive me, O Lord, forgive me, and destroy me not with my iniquities. Be not angry with me forever, by reserving evil for me; neither condemn me into the lower parts of the earth. For you, O Lord, are the God of those who repent;

Prayer of Manasses 1.14: 14 and in me you will show all your goodness: for you will save me, that am unworthy, according to your great mercy.

Prayer of Manasses 1.15: 15 And I will praise you forever all the days of my life: for all the army of heaven sings your praise, and yours is the glory forever and ever. Amen.