prophet to err, and will stretch out my send upon Jerusalem my four sore hand upon him, and will utterly de-judgments, sword, and fa- + More lit. venstroy him from the midst of my people mine, and evil beasts, and geances. Israel. 10 And they shall bear their pestilence, to destroy from out of it iniquity according to the trespass of man and beast: 22 yet, behold, there him that asks; and it shall be in like shall be men left in it, the escaped manner to the prophet according to thereof, who shall lead forth of it sons the trespass: that the house of Israel and daughters: behold they shall go may no more go astray from me, and forth to you, and ye shall see their that they may no more defile them- ways and their thoughts: and ye shall selves with any of their transgressions: mourn over the evils which + Gr. repent so shall they be my people, and I will I have brought upon Jeru- over. be their God, says the Lord. salem, even all the evils which I have brought upon it. 23 And they shall comfort you, because ye shall see their ways and their thoughts: and ye shall know that I have not done in vain all that I have done in it, says the Lord. 15. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, "And thou, son of man 3 12 And the word of the Lord came to me saying, 13 Son of man, if a land shall sin against me by committing a trespass, then will I stretch out my hand upon it, and will break its staff of bread, and will send forth famine upon it, and will cut off from it man and beast. 14 And though these three men should be in the midst of it, Noe, of all the wood of the branches that and Daniel, and Job, they alone should are among the trees of the forest, what be delivered by their righteousness, shall be made of the wood of the vine? says the Lord. 15 If again I bring Will they take wood of it to make it evil beasts upon the land, and take fit for work? will they take of it a peg vengeance upon it, and it be ruined, to hang any vessel upon it? It is and there be no one to pass through only given to the fire to be consumed; for fear of the wild beasts: 16 and if the fire consumes that which is yearly these three men should be in the midst pruned of it, and it is or, from off of it, as I live, says the Lord, neither utterly gone. Will it be it. sons nor daughters shall be saved, but useful for any work? 5 Not even these only shall be saved, and the land while it is yet whole will it be useful shall be destroyed. 17 Or again if I for any work: if the fire shall have bring a sword upon that land, and say, utterly consumed it, will it still be fit Let the sword go through the land; for work? Therefore say, Thus says and I cut off from them man and the Lord, As the vine-tree among the beast: 18 though these three men were trees of the forest, which I have given in the midst of it, as I live, says the up to the fire to be consumed, so have Lord, they shall not deliver sons or I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem. daughters, but they only shall be saved 'And I will set my face against them; themselves. 19 Or if again I send pes- they shall go forth of the fire, and yet tilence upon that land, and pour out fire shall devour them; and they shall my wrath upon it in blood, to destroy know that I am the Lord, when I have from off it man and beast: 20 and Noe, set my face against them. And I will and Daniel, and Job, were in the give up the land to ruin, because they midst of it, as I live, says the Lord, have utterly transgressed, says the there shall be left them neither sons Lord. nor daughters; only they by their righteousness shall deliver their souls. 21 Thus says the Lord, And if I even 16. Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, tes 15 Thou didst trust in thy beauty, and didst go a-whoring because of thy renown, and didst pour out thy fornication on every passer by. 16 And thou didst take of thy garments, and madest to thyself idols of needlework, and didst go a-whoring after them, therefore thou shalt never come in, nor shall the like take place. "And thou tookest thy fair ornaments of my naments of thy gold and of my silver, of boasting. what I gave thee, and thou madest to thyself male images, and thou didst commit whoredom with them. 18 And thou didst take thy variegated apparel and didst clothe them, and thou didst set before them mine oil and mine in + Gr. the or tify to Jerusalem of her iniquities; | was of fine linen, and silk, and varie3 and thou shalt say, Thus says the gated work: thou didst eat fine flour, Lord to Jerusalem; Thy root and thy and oil, and honey, and didst become birth are of the land of Chanaan: thy extremely beautiful. 14 And thy name father was an Amorite, and thy mother went forth among the nations for thy a Chettite. And as for thy birth in beauty: because it was perfected with the day wherein thou wast born, thou elegance, and in the comeliness which didst not bind thy breasts, and thou I put upon thee, says the Lord. wast not washed in water, neither wast thou salted with salt, neither wast thou swathed in swaddling-bands. 5 Nor did mine eye pity thee, to do for thee one of all these things, to feel at all for thee; but thou wast cast out on the face of the field, because of the deformity of thy person, in the day wherein thou wast born. 6 And I passed by to thee, and saw thee polluted in thy blood; and I said to thee, Let there be life out of thy blood: increase; I have made thee as the springing grass of the field. So thou didst increase and grow, and didst enter into great cities: thy breasts were set, and thy hair grew, whereas thou wast + Shameful. naked and bare. And I cense. 19 And thou tookest my bread passed by thee and saw thee, and, behold, it was thy time and a time of Gr. resting resting; and I spread my vertentium, et wings over thee, and coversic melius, &ed thy shame, and swore Illud verò mo- to thee: and I entered into Cem Karaдvó- Covenant with thee, says the Lord, and thou becamest mine. And I washed thee #apbevíny Sw in water, and washed thy blood from thee, and anoint ones. q. d. di εὐφημισμόν. nendum, vo των, quæ Hebræo D'T respondet, ad νὴν potius spectare. + or, as if thou hadst committed fornication but didst also, &c. a little, thou + Alex. omits which I gave thee, (yea I fed thee with fine flour and oil and honey) and didst set them before them for a sweet-smelling savour: yea, it was so, says the Lord. 20 And thou tookest thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou borest and didst sacrifice these to them to be destroyed. Thou didst go a-whoring as if that were little, 21 and didst slay thy children, and gavest them + i. e. skirt. ed thee with oil. 10 And I up in offering them to clothed thee with embroidered gar- them for an expiation. 'them. +Aler.shod ments, and clothed thee 22 This is beyond all thy fornication, thee, by the beneath with purple, and and thou didst not remember thine ingirded thee with fine linen, fancy, when thou wast naked and bare, +Qy. mohair, and clothed thee with silk, and didst live though defiled in thy 11 and decked thee also with blood. 23 And it came to pass after all ornaments, and put bracelets on thine thy wickedness, says the Lord, 24 that hands, and a necklace on thy neck. thou didst build thyself a house of for+ Lit. an ear- 12 And I put a pendant on nication, and didst make thyself a thy nostril, and rings in public place public place in every 9. d. prostithine ears, and a crown of glory on street; 25 and on the head bulum. thine head. 13 So thou wast adorned of every way thou didst set up thy with gold and silver; and thy raiment fornications, and didst defile thy beauty, change of n for v. or something similar. ring. + + dinary food, as + Lit. lay thee or articles of and didst open thy feet to every passer | imaginations of thine iniquities, and by, and didst multiply thy fornication. for the blood of thy children which 26 And thou didst go a-whoring after thou hast given to them. 37 Therefore, the children of Egypt thy neighbours, behold, I will gather all thy lovers great of flesh; and didst go a-whoring with whom thou hast had connexion, often to provoke me to anger. 27And and all whom thou hast loved, with if I stretch out my hand against thee, all whom thou didst hate; and I will then will I abolish thy statutes and gather them against thee round about, + Perhaps or deliver thee up to the wills and will expose thy wickedness to in E. V. of them that hate thee, even them, and they shall see all thy shame. to the daughters of the Philistines that 38 And I will be avenged on thee with turned thee aside from the way wherein the vengeance of an adul- tie. due to. thou sinnedst. 28 And thou didst go teress, and I will bring in. a-whoring to the daughters of Assur, upon thee blood of fury and jealousy. and not even thus wast thou satisfied; 39 And I will deliver thee into their yea, thou didst go a-whoring, and wast hands, and they shall break down thy not satisfied. 29 And thou didst mul- house of harlotry, and destroy thine tiply thy covenants with the land of high place; and they shall strip thee the Chaldeans; and not even with of thy garments, and shall take thy these wast thou satisfied. 30Why should proud ornaments, and leave + The vessels I make a covenant with thy daughter, thee naked and bare. 40And thy glory. says the Lord, while thou doest all they shall bring multitudes upon thee, these things, the works of a harlot? and they shall stone thee with stones, and thou hast gone a-whoring in a and pierce thee with their swords. threefold degree with thy daughters. "And they shall burn thine houses 31 Thou hast built a house of harlotry with fire, and shall execute vengeance in every top of a way, and hast set up on thee in the sight of many women: thine high place in every street; and and I will turn thee back from harthou didst become as a harlot gather- lotry, and I will no more + Alex. thou ing hires. 32 An adulteress resembles give thee* rewards. 42 So give rewards. thee, taking rewards of her husband. will I slacken my fury +Or, hires. 33 She has even given rewards to all against thee, and my jealousy shall be that went a-whoring after her, and removed from thee, and I will rest, thou hast given rewards to all thy and be no more careful for thee. 43 Belovers, yea, thou didst load them with cause thou didst not remember thine rewards, that they should come to thee infancy, and thou didst grieve me in from every side for thy fornication. all these things; therefore, behold, I 34 And there has happened in thee per- have recompensed thy ways upon thine verseness in thy fornication beyond head, says the Lord: for thus hast other women, and they have com- thou wrought ungodliness above all mitted fornication with thee, in that thine other iniquities. + Or. was it thou givest hires over and above, and hires were not given to thee; and thus perverseness happened in thee. contrary with thee. shalt no more 44 These are all the things they have spoken against thee in a proverb, saying, 45 As is the mother, or, perhaps, so is thy mother's daugh- parable. See Appendix. ter: thou art she that has rejected her husband and her children; and the sisters of thy sisters have rejected their husbands and their children: your mother was a Chettite, and your father an Amorite. 46 Your elder sister who great deal more. sister. 5. 6. 59 + dwells on thy left hand is Samaria, | discovered, even now thou art the reshe and her daughters: and thy proach of the daughters of Syria, and younger sister, that dwells on thy right of all that are round about her, even of hand, is Sodom and her daughters. the daughters of the Philistines that 47 Yet notwithstanding thou hast not compass thee round about. 58 As for walked in their ways, neither hast thou thine ungodliness and thine iniquities, done according to their iniquities thou hast borne them, says the Lord. +q. d. but a within a little, but thou Thus says the Lord; I will even do hast exceeded them in all to thee as thou hast done, as thou hast thy ways. 48 As I live, says the Lord, dealt shamefully in these See Heb. Alex. + thy this Sodom and her daugh- things to transgress my covenant. ters have not done as thou 60 And I will remember my covenant and thy daughters have done. 49 More-made with thee in the days of thine over this was the sin of thy sister infancy, and I will estab-+Lit. raise up. Sodom, pride: she and her daughters lish to thee an everlasting covenant. + See 1 Tim. lived in pleasure, in fulness 61 Then thou shalt remember thy way, of bread and in abundance: and shalt be utterly dishonoured when this belonged to her and her daughters, thou receivest thine elder sisters with and they helped not the hand of the thy younger ones: and I will give poor and needy. 50 And they boasted, them to thee for building + See Hebrew. and wrought iniquities before me: so up, but not by thy covenant. 62 And I cut them off as I saw fit. 51 Also I will establish my covenant with thee; Samaria has not sinned according to and thou shalt know that I am the half of thy sins; but thou hast multi- Lord: 63 that thou mayest remember, plied thine iniquities beyond them, and be ashamed, and mayest no more and thou hast justified thy sisters in all be able to open thy mouth for thy thine iniquities which thou hast com- shame, when I am reconciled to thee mitted. 52 Thou therefore bear thy for all that thou hast done, says the punishment, for that thou hast cor- Lord. rupted thy sisters by thy sins which thou hast committed beyond them; 17. And the word of the Lord came and thou hast made them appear more to me, saying, 2 Son of man, relate a righteous than thyself: thou therefore tale, and speak a parable to the house be ashamed, and bear thy dishonour, of Israel: 3 and thou shalt say, Thus in that thou hast justified thy sisters. says the Lord; A great +Gr. the great 53 And I will turn their captivity, even eagle with large wings, the captivity of Sodom and her daugh- spreading them out very far, with ters; and I will turn the captivity of many claws, which has the design of Samaria and her daughters; and I will entering into Libanus-and he took turn thy captivity in the midst of them: the choice branches of the cedar: he 54 that thou mayest bear thy punish- cropped off the ends of the tender ment, and be dishonoured for all that twigs, and brought them into the land + Gr. out of. thou hast done in provoking of Chanaan; he laid them + Alex. of the me to anger. 55 And thy sister Sodom up in a walled city. And Heb. 2 of and her daughters shall be restored as he took of the seed of the traffic. they were at the beginning, and thou land, and sowed it in a field planted and thy daughters shall be restored as by much water; he set it Alex. evenye were at the beginning. 56 And in a conspicuous place. And gaz, fousurely thy sister Sodom was not men- it sprang up, and became a tioned by thy mouth in the days of weak and little vine, so right reading. thy pride, 57 before thy wickedness was that the branches thereof appcared* + + 5 eagle. Chaldeans, νοῦσαν, + Alex. αὐτῇ, probably the 9 21 or, offensive warlike engines. noured. upon it, and its roots were under it: | him king, who dishonoured my oath, and it became a vine, and put forth and who broke my covenant, shall shoots, and sent forth its tendrils. he die with him in the midst of BaAnd there was another great eagle, bylon. 17 And Pharao shall make with great wings and many claws: war upon him not with a large force and, behold, this vine bent itself or great multitude, in throwing up a round toward him, and her roots were mound, and in building of 'forts, to turned towards him, and she sent forth cut off souls. 18 Whereas her branches towards him, that he he has profaned the oath might water her together with the so as to break the covenant, lit. dishogrowth of her plantation. She thrives when, behold, I engaged in a fair field by much water, to pro- his hand, and he has done all these duce shoots and bear fruit, that she things to him, he shall not escape. might become a great vine. There-19 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord; fore say, Thus says the Lord; Shall it As I live, surely mine oath which he prosper? shall not the roots of her has profaned, and my covenant which tender stem and her fruit be blighted? he has transgressed, I will even recomyea, all her early shoots shall be dried pense it upon his head. 20 And I will up, and that not by a mighty arm, spread a net upon him, and he shall be nor by many people, to tear her up caught in its snare. 1+In+ Or, folds. from her roots. 10 And, behold, it every battle of his they shall + Alex.+‘and thrives: shall it prosper? shall it not fall by the sword, and I will him to Babywither as soon as the east wind touches scatter his remnant to every plead with him it? it shall be withered together with wind: and ye shall know there for his the growth of its shoots. that I the Lord have spoken. he committed 22 For thus says the Lord; against me.' I will even take of the choice branches of the cedar from the top thereof, I will crop off their hearts, and I will plant it on a high mountain: 23 and I will hang it on a lofty mountain of Israel: yea, I will plant it, and it shall put forth shoots, and shall bear fruit, and it shall be a great cedar: and every bird shall rest beneath it, even every fowl shall rest under its shadow: its branches shall be restored. all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord that bring low the high tree, and exalt the low tree, and wither the green tree, and cause the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken, and will do it. Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 12 Son of man, say now to the provoking house, Know ye not what these things were? say to them, Whenever the king of Babylon shall come against Jerusalem, then he shall take her king and her princes, + Or, with him. and shall take them home to Babylon. 13 And he shall take of the seed royal, and shall make a covenant with him, and shall bind him with an oath: and he shall take the princes of the land: 14 that it may become a weak kingdom, so as never to lift itself up, that he may keep his covenant, and establish it. 15 And if he shall revolt from him, to send his messengers into Egypt, that they may give him horses and much people; shall he prosper? shall he that acts an adversary be predoes contrary served? and shall he that transgresses the covenant be preserved? 16 As I live, says the Lord, verily in the same place where the king is that made + Or, acts per- as versely. Gr. things. + Alex. ἐν ᾧ ὁ Βασιλευς, in which the king is. + I will bring lon, and will Wrongs, which 24 And |