see Heb. tit. torment, Test. seems to signify punishin N.T. does Βάσανος in Old ment, as xóλa and thou shalt deliver thy soul. 20 And torment, 1 John willing to hearken to thee; for they | wicked, and he turn not from his will not hearken to me: for all the wickedness, and from his way, that house of Israel are stubborn and hard- wicked man shall die in his iniquity, hearted. And, behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and + Gr. victory, I will strengthen thy power against their power. And it shall be continually stronger than a rock: be not afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their faces, because it is a provoking house. 10 And he said to me, Son of man, receive into thine heart all the words that I have spoken to thee, and hear them with thine ears. "And go thy way, go in to the captivity, to the children of thy people, and thou shalt speak to them, and say to them, Thus says the Lord; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. 12 Then the Spirit took me up, and I heard behind me the voice as of a great earthquake, saying, Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place. 13 And I perceived the sound of the wings of the living creatures clapping one to the other, and the sound of the wheels was near them, and the sound of the earthquake. And the Spirit lifted me, and took me up, and I went in the impulse of my spirit; and the hand of the Lord was mighty upon me. 14 word. 15 Then I passed through the air + See Hebrew. and came into the captivity, and went round to them that dwelt by the river of Chobar who were there; and I sat there seven days, 'conversing + sc. in the old in the midst of them. 16 And sense of the after the seven days the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, 17 I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel; and thou shalt hear a word of my mouth, and shalt threaten them from me. 18 When I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou hast not warned him, to give warning to the wicked, to turn from his ways, that he should live; that wicked man should die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand. 19 But if thou warn the 22 And the hand of the Lord came upon me; and he said to me, Arise, and go forth into the plain, and there shalt thou be spoken to. 23 And I arose, and went forth to the plain: and, behold, the glory of the Lord stood there, according to the vision, and according to the glory of the Lord, which I saw by the river of Chobar: and I fell on my face. 24 Then the Spirit came upon me, and set me on my feet, and spoke to me, and said to me, Go in, and shut thyself up in the midst of thine house. 25 And thou, son of man, behold, bonds are prepared for thee, and they shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not come forth of the midst of them. 26 Also I will bind thy tongue, and thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: because it is a provoking house. 27 But when I speak to thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say to them, Thus says the Lord, He that hears, let him hear; and he that is disobedient, let him be disobedient: because it is a provoking house. 4. And thou, son of man, take thee a brick, and thou shalt set it before thy face, and shalt portray on it the city, even Jerusalem. 2 And thou shalt besiege it, and build works against it, Israel: surely my soul has 10.14. and throw up a mound round about | shall the children of Israel eat unclean it, and pitch camps against it, and set things among the Gentiles. 14 Then I up engines round about. And take said, Not so, Lord God of thou to thyself an iron pan, and thou shalt set it for an iron wall between thee and the city: and thou shalt set thy face against it, and it shall be in a siege, and thou shalt besiege it. This is a sign to the children of Israel. And thou shalt lie upon thy left side, and lay the iniquities of the house of Israel upon it, according to the number of the hundred and fifty days during which thou shalt lie upon it: and thou shalt bear their iniquities. 5 For I have appointed thee their iniquities for a number of days, for a hundred and ninety days: so thou shalt bear the iniquities of the house of Israel. And lit. these thou shalt accomplish this, things. and then shalt lie on thy right side, and shalt bear the iniquities of the house of Juda forty days: I have appointed thee a day for a year. So thou shall set thy face to the siege of Jerusalem, and shalt strengthen thine arm, and shalt prophesy against it. And, behold, I have prepared bonds for thee, and thou mayest not turn from thy one side to the other, until the days of thy siege shall be accomplished. Take thou also to thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and bread+ Or, oats. corn; and thou shalt cast them into one earthen vessel, and shalt make them into loaves for thyself; and thou shalt eat them a hundred and ninety days, according to the number of the days during which thou sleepest on thy side. 10 And thou shalt eat thy food by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat them. And thou shalt drink water by measure, even from time to time thou shalt drink the sixth part of a hin. 12 And thou shalt eat them as a barley 8 masculine. 5. And thou, son of man, take thee a sword sharper than a barber's razor; thou shalt procure it for thyself, and shalt bring it upon thine head, and upon thy beard: and thou shalt take a pair of scales, and shalt separate the hair. 2A fourth part + Gr. them, thou shalt burn in the fire in the midst of the city, at the fulfilment of the days of the siege: and thou shalt take a fourth part, and burn it up in the midst of it: and a fourth part thou shalt cut with a + Of the city. sword round about it: and a fourth part thou shalt scatter to the wind; and I will draw out a sword + Gr. empty, after them. And thou shalt or, exhaust. take thence a few in number, and shalt wrap them in the fold of thy garment. And thou shalt take of these again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them up with fire: from thence shall come forth fire; and thou thalt say to the whole house of Israel, 5 Thus says the Lord; This is Jerusalit. hide, cake: thou shalt bake them lem: I have set her and the countries whence έγκρυpías, a cake. before their eyes in man's round about her in the midst of the dung. 13 And thou shalt say, Thus nations. And thou shalt declare mine says the Lord God of Israel; Thus ordinances to the lawless one from out 4 9 of the nations; and my statutes to the sinful one of the countries round about her: because they have rejected mine ordinances, and have not walked in my statutes. 7 Therefore thus says the Lord, Because your occasion for sin has been taken from the nations round about you, and ye have not walked in my statutes, nor kept mine ordinances, nay, ye have not even done according to the ordinances of the nations round about you; therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, and I will execute judgment in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations. And I will do in thee things which I have not done, and the like of which I +Gr. according to. will not do again, *for all thine abominations. 10 Therefore the fathers shall eat their children in the midst of thee, and children shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and I will scatter all that are left of thee to every wind. "Therefore, as I live, says the Lord; surely, because thou hast defiled my holy things with all thine abominations, I also will reject thee; mine eye shall not spare, and I will have no mercy. 12 A fourth part of thee shall be cut off by pestilence, and a fourth part of thee shall be consumed in the midst of thee with famine: and as for another fourth part of thee, I will scatter them to every wind; and a fourth part of thee shall fall by the sword round about thee, and I will draw out a sword after them. 13 And my wrath and mine anger shall be accomplished upon them: and thou shalt know that I the Lord have spoken in my jealousy, when I have accomplished mine anger upon them. And I will make thee desolate, and thy daughters round about thee, in the sight of every one that passes through. 15 And thou shalt be mourned over and miserable among the nations round about thee, when I have executed judgments in thee in the vengeance of my wrath. I the Lord have spoken. 16 And when I have sent against them 14 shafts of famine, then they shall be consumed, and I will break the strength of thy bread. 17 So I will send forth against thee famine and evil beasts, and I will take vengeance upon thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through upon thee; and I will bring a sword upon thee round about. I the Lord have spoken. 5 4 6. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face against the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them; 3and thou shalt say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord; thus says the Lord to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the valleys, and to the forests; Behold, I bring a sword upon you, and your high places shall be utterly destroyed. And your altars shall be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats shall be destroyed, and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. And I will scatter your bones round about your altars, and in all your habitations: the cities shall be made desolate, and the high places utterly laid waste; that your altars may be destroyed, and your idols be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats be abolished. And slain men shall fall in the midst of you, and shall know ye that I am the Lord. When there are some of you escaping from the sword among the Gentiles, and when ye are scattered in the countries; then they of you that escape among the nations whither they were carried captive shall remember me; (I have sworn an oath against their heart + Gr. their that goes a-whoring from sons. me, and their eyes that go and they shall a-whoring after their prac- know that I the tices;) and they shall mourn said in vain over themselves for all their that I would abominations. 10+ And they to them." shall know that I the Lord have spoken. faces, or, per + Heb. & Alex. Lord have not do all this evil 11 Thus says the Lord; or, make a noise. | Clap with thy hand, and stamp with thy foot and say, 'Aha, aha! for all the + See Psalm abominations of the house 34. (35) 21. of Israel: they shall fall by the sword, and by pestilence, and by famine. 12 He that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that is far off shall die by the pestilence; and he that is in the siege shall be consumed with famine: and I will accomplish mine anger upon them. 13 Then ye shall know that I am the Lord, when your slain are in the midst of your idols round about your altars, on every high hill, and under every shady tree, where they offered a sweet savour to all their idols. 14 And I will stretch out my hand against them, and I will make the land desolate and ruined from the wilderness of Deblatha, in all their habitations: and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 8 the Lord. 5 For thus says the Lord; his iniquity,' בְּעֵינוֹ read as if 16 But they that escape of them shall be delivered, and shall be upon the 7. Moreover the word of the Lord mountains: and I will slay all the rest, came to me, saying, Also, thou, son of every one for his iniquities. 17 All man, say, Thus says the Lord; An hands shall be completely weakened, end is come to the land of Israel, the and all thighs shall be defiled with end is come on the four corners of the moisture. 18 And they shall gird themland. 3 The end is come on thee, the selves with sackcloth, and amazement inhabitant of the land: the time is shall cover them; and shame shall come, the day has drawn nigh, not be upon them, even upon every face, 19 with tumult, nor with pangs. Now and baldness upon every head. Their I will pour out mine anger upon thee silver shall be cast forth in the streets, near at hand, and I will accomplish and their gold shall be despised: their my wrath on thee: and I will judge souls shall not be satisfied, and their thee for thy ways, and recompense bellies shall not be filled: for it was the upon thee all thine abominations.punishment of their in- Gr. torment. "Mine eye shall not spare, nor will I iquities. 20 As for their choice ornahave any mercy: for I will recom- ments, they employed them for pride, pense thy ways upon thee, and thine and they made of them images of their abominations shall be in the midst of abominations: therefore have I made thee; and thou shalt know that I am the them uncleanness to them. 21 And Lord that smites thee. Now the end I will deliver them into the hands is come to thee, and I will send judg- of strangers to make or, tear asunder. ment upon thee: and I will take ven- them a prey, and to the pests of the geance on thy ways, and will recom- earth for a spoil; and they +Gr.mooÝV pense all thine abominations upon thee. shall profane them. 22 And and p Mine eye shall not spare, nor will I will turn away my face fasily con I have any mercy: for I will recom- from them, and they shall + Possibly the pense thy way upon thee, and thine defile my charge, and shall sanctuary,q.d. abominations shall be in the midst of go in to them unguardthee; and thou shalt know that I am edly, and profane them. 23 And they 7 צפה צפן founded. ἅγια. כפר bly read קפר for + + shall work uncleanness: because the [ abominations here so that I should land is full of strange nations, and the keep away from my sanctuary: and city is full of iniquity. 24 And I will thou shalt see yet greater iniquities. +Gr. raging. turn back the boasting of "And he brought me to the porch of their strength; and their holy things the court. And he said to me, Son shall be defiled. 25 And though pro- of man, dig: so I dug, and behold a +LXX. proba pitiation shall come, and door. 9 And he said to me, Go in, one shall seek peace, yet and behold the iniquities which they there shall be none. 26 There practise here. 10 So I went in and shall be woe upon woe, and there shall looked; and beheld vain abominations, be message upon message; and a vision and all the idols of the house of Israel, shall be sought from a prophet; but portrayed upon +them+ Alex. avтoû, the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders. 27 The prince shall clothe himself with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be made feeble: I will do to them according to their ways, and according to their judgments will I punish them; and they shall know that I am the Lord. him. 3 round about. And seventy him. elders of the house of Israel, and Jechonias the son of Saphan stood in their presence in the midst of them, and each one held his censer in his hand; and the smoke of the incense went up. 12And he said to me, Thou hast seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel do, each one of them in their secret chamber: because they have said, The Lord sees not; The Lord has forsaken the earth. 13 And he said to me, Thou shalt see yet greater iniquities which these do. 14And he brought me in to the porch of the house of the Lord that looks to the north; and, behold, there were women sitting there lamenting for Thammuz. 15 And he said to me, Son 8. And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the fifth month, on the fifth day of the month, I was sitting in the house, and the elders of Juda were sitting before me: and the hand of the Lord came upon me. 2And I looked, and, behold, the likeness of a man: from his loins and downwards there was fire, and from his loins 'upwards + Gr. above there was as the appearance of man, thou hast seen; but thou shalt of amber. And he stretched yet see evil practices greater than these. forth the likeness of a hand, and took 16 And he brought me into the inner me up by the crown of my head; and court of the house of the Lord, and at the Spirit lifted me up between the the entrance of the temple of the Lord, earth and sky, and brought me to Je- between the porch and the altar, were rusalem in a vision of God, to the about twenty men, with their back +Heb. & Alex. porch of the gate that looks parts toward the temple of the Lord, to the north, where was the and their faces turned the opposite pillar of the Purchaser. way; and these were worAnd, behold, the glory of the Lord shipping the sun. 17 And ambiguous. God of Israel was there, according to he said to me, Son of man, thou hast the vision which I saw in the plain. seen this. Is it a little thing to the And he said to me, Son of man, lift house of Juda to practise the iniquities up thine eyes toward the north. So I which they have practised here? for lifted up mine eyes toward the north, they have filled the land with iniquity: and, behold, I looked from the north and, behold, these are as scorners. toward the eastern gate. "And he said 18 Therefore will I deal with them in to me, Son of man, hast thou seen wrath: mine eye shall not spare, nor what these do? They commit great will I have any mercy. inner gate. 4 + Heb. ambiguous. + Heb. DTP |