6 or usurious increase, has wrought righteousness, and walked in mine ordinances; he shall not die for the iniquities of his father, he shall surely live. 18 But if his father grievously afflict, or plunder, he has + Or, transwrought enmity in the gression. midst of my people, and shall die in his iniquity. 21 parable shall no more be spoken in has turned back his hand from unIsrael. For all souls are mine; as the righteousness, has not received interest soul of the father, so also the soul of the son, they are mine: the soul that sins, it shall die. But the man who shall be just, who executes judgment and righteousness, who shall not eat upon the mountains, and shall not at all lift up his eyes to the devices of the house of Israel, and shall not defile his neighbour's wife, and shall not draw nigh to her that is removed, and 19 But ye will say, Why has not the shall not oppress any man, but shall son borne the iniquity of the father? return the pledge of the debtor, and Because the son has wrought judgshall be guilty of no plunder, shall ment and mercy, has kept all my give his bread to the hungry, and statutes, and done them, he shall clothe the naked; and shall not lend surely live. 20 But the soul that sins his money upon usury, and shall not shall die: and the son shall not bear receive usurious increase, and shall the iniquity of the father, nor shall the turn back his hand from injustice, father bear the iniquity of the son: shall execute righteous judgment be- the righteousness of the righteous shall tween a man and his neighbour, and be upon him, and the iniquity of the has walked in my commandments and transgressor shall be upon him. " And kept mine ordinances, to do them; he if the transgressor turn away from all is righteous, he shall surely live, says his iniquities which he has committed, the Lord. 10 And if he beget a mis- and keep all my commandments, and chievous son, shedding blood and com- do justice and mercy, he shall surely mitting sins, who has not walked in live, and shall by no means die. the way of his righteous father, but 22 None of his trespasses which he has has even eaten upon the mountains, committed shall be remembered: in and has defiled his neighbour's wife, his righteousness which he has done 12 and has oppressed the poor and he shall live. 23 Shall I at all desire needy, and has committed robbery, the death of the sinner, says the Lord, and not restored a pledge, and has set as I desire that he should prohis eyes upon idols, has wrought ini- turn from his evil way, and bably read for quities, 13 has lent upon usury, and live? 24 But when the taken usurious increase; he shall by righteous man turns away from his no means live: he has wrought all righteousness, and commits iniquity, these iniquities; he shall surely die; according to all the transgressions his blood shall be upon him. 14 And which the transgressor has wrought, if he beget a son, and the son see all his none of his righteousness which he has father's sins which he has wrought, and wrought shall be at all remembered: fear, and not do according to them, and in his trespass wherein he has tresif he has not eaten on the mountains, passed, and in his sins wherein he has and has not set his eyes on the devices sinned, in them shall he die. of the house of Israel, and has not de- ye have said, The way of the Lord is filed his neighbour's wife, 16 and has not straight. Hear now, Gr. Is not, not oppressed a man, and has not re- all the house of Israel; will &c. Alex. lit. tained the pledge, nor committed rob- not my way be straight? way be not bery, has given his bread to the hun-Is your way straight ? straight? gry, and has clothed the naked, "and 26 When the righteous turns away from 25 Yet Will not your 'therefore.' 8 + A rod of his righteousness and commits a tres-roaring. Then the nations set upon pass, and dies in the trespass which he him from the countries round about, has committed, he shall even die in it. and they spread their nets upon him: 27 And when the wicked man turns he was taken in their pit. 9And they away from his wickedness that he has put him in chains and in a cage, and committed, and shall do judgment and he came to the king of Babylon; and justice, he has kept his soul, 28 and has he cast him into prison, that his voice turned away from all his ungodliness should not be heard on the mountains which he has committed: he shall of Israel. 10 Thy mother was as a vine surely live, he shall not die. 29 Yet and as a blossom on a pomegranate the house of Israel say, The way of tree, planted by water: her fruit and the Lord is not right. Is not my way her shoots abounded by reason of much right, O house of Israel? is not your water. 11 And she became a rod for + Alex. + way wrong? 30+I will judge a tribe of princes, and was you, O house of Israel, says elevated in her bulk in the strength. the Lord, each one according to his midst of other trees, and + See Heb. way: be converted, and turn from all she saw her bulk in the your ungodliness, and it shall not be- multitude of her branches. 12 But she come to you the punishment of in- was broken down in wrath, she was iquity. Cast away from yourselves cast upon the ground, and the east all your ungodliness wherein ye have wind dried up her choice branches: sinned against me; and make to your- 'vengeance came upon them, Lit. they Gr. do ye selves a new heart and a and the rod of her strength were avenged. new spirit: for why should was withered; fire consumed it. 13 And "thereforeturn ye die, O house of Israel? now they have planted her in the and live.' 32 For I desire not the death wilderness, in a dry land. 14 And fire of him that dies, says the Lord.* is gone out of a rod of her choice boughs, and has devoured her; and there was no rod of strength in her. Her 'race is become a para- + See Hebrew. ble of lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation. 4 die. + Alex. + 31 + + 19. Moreover do thou take up a lamentation for the prince of Israel, 2 and say, Why is thy mother become a whelp in the midst of lions? in the midst of lions she has multiplied her whelps. 3 And one of her whelps sprang forth; he became a lion, and learnt to take prey, he devoured men. And the nations heard a report of +Lit. against. him; he was caught in their Lit. destruc. pit, and they brought him tion. into the land of Egypt in chains. 5 And she saw that he was driven away from her, and her hope See Heb. of him perished, and she took another of her whelps; she made him a lion. And he went up and down in the midst of lions, he became a lion, and learnt to take prey, he devoured men. And he prowled in his boldness and laid waste their cities, and made the land desolate, and the fulness of it, by the voice of his 11. 1. day of the 20. And it came to pass in the seventh year, on the fifteenth day of the month, there came men + Alex. 5th of the elders of the house month, 10th of Israel to inquire of the month. Lord, and they sat before me. 2 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 3Son of man, speak to the elders of the house of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Thus says the Lord; Are ye come to inquire of me? As I live, I will not be inquired of by you, says the Lord. Shall I utterly take vengeance on them, son of man? testify to them of the iniquities of their fathers: and thou shalt say to them, Thus says the Lord; From the day that I chose the house of Israel, 8 out my comb. and became known to the seed of the | brought them out. 15 But I lifted up house of Jacob, and was known to my hand against them in the wilderthem in the land of Egypt, and helped ness once for all, that I would not them with my hand, saying, I am the bring them into the land which I gave Lord your God. In that day I helped them, a land flowing with milk and them with my hand, to bring them honey, it is a 'sweeter than Gr. a honeyout of the land of Egypt into the land all lands: 16 because they + Heb. spied. Which I prepared for them, rejected mine ordinances, and walked Alex. swore. a land flowing with milk not in my commandments, but pro+ Gr. a honey- and honey, it is 'abundant faned my sabbaths, and went after the comb. beyond every land. And imaginations of their hearts. 17 Yet I said to them, Let every one cast mine eyes spared them, so as not to away the abominations of his eyes, and destroy them utterly, and I did not defile not yourselves with the devices make an end of them in the wilderof Egypt: I am the Lord your God. ness. 18 And I said to their children But they revolted from me, and in the wilderness, Walk not ye in the would not hearken to me: they cast customs of your fathers, and keep not not away the abominations of their their ordinances, and have no felloweyes, and forsook not the devices of ship with their practices, nor defile Egypt: then I said that I would pour yourselves with them. 19 I am the Lord wrath upon them, to accom- your God; walk in my commandplish my wrath upon them in the ments, and keep mine ordinances, and midst of Egypt. But I wrought so do them; 20 and hallow my sabbaths, that my name should not be at all pro- and let them be a sign between me and faned in the sight of the Gentiles, in you, that ye may know that I am the the midst of whom they are, among Lord your God. 21 But they provoked whom I was made known to them me, and their children walked not in in their sight, to bring them out of my commandments, and they took no the land of Egypt. 10 And heed to mine ordinances to do them, I brought I brought them into the which if a man shall do, he shall even wilderness. And I gave live in them, and they profaned my Egypt.' them my commandments, sabbaths: then I said that I would and made known to them mine ordi- pour out my wrath upon them in the nances, all which if a man shall do, he wilderness, to accomplish mine anger shall even live in them. 12 And I gave upon them. 22 But I wrought so that them my sabbaths, that they should my name might not be at all profaned be for a sign between me and them, before the Gentiles; and I brought that they should know that I am the them out in their sight. 23I lifted up Lord that sanctify them. 13 And I my hand against them in the wildersaid to the house of Israel in the ness, that I would scatter them among wilderness, Walk ye in my command- the Gentiles, and disperse them in the ments: but they walked not in them, countries; because they kept not mine and they rejected mine ordinances, ordinances, and rejected my commandwhich if a man shall do, he shall even ments, and profaned my sabbaths, live in them; and they grievously pro-and their eyes went after the imaginafaned my sabbaths: and I said that I tions of their fathers. 25 So I gave them would pour out my wrath upon them commandments that were not good, in the wilderness, to consume them. and ordinances in which they should 14 But I wrought so that my name not live. 26 And I will de- + Alex. gifts; should not be at all profaned before file them by their own de- so Hebrew, the Gentiles, before whose eyes I crees, when I pass through upon every + Alex. + 'and them out of the land of 11 + + 8. 53, אבד perhaps read CHAP. XX. v. 47. one that opens the womb, that I may | 38 And I will 'separate from among you destroy them. the ungodly and the re- + Gr. choose volters; for I will lead them out from you, forth out of their place of sojourning, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the Lord, even the Lord. 39 And as to you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord, even the Lord; +See 3 Kings 'Put away each one his evil practices, and hereafter for if ye hearken to me, then shall ye no more profane my holy name by your gifts and by devices. 40 For upon my holy mountain, on the high mountain, says the Lord, even the Lord, there shall all the house of Israel serve me for ever: and there will I accept you, and there will I have respect to your first-fruits, and the first-fruits of your offerings, in all your + Perhaps, holy things. I will ac- wave-offerings. cept you with a sweet-smelling savour, when I bring you out from the nations, and take you out of the countries wherein ye have been dispersed; and I will be sanctified among you in the sight of the nations. 42And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have brought you into the land of Israel, into the land concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers. And shall there remember your ways, and your devices wherewith ye defiled yourselves; and ye shall 'bewail yourselves for Lit. beat all your wickedness. 44And your faces. ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have done thus to you, that my name may not be profaned in your evil ways, and in your corrupt devices, says the Lord. 27 Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Thus says the Lord; Hitherto have your fathers provoked me in their trespasses in which they transgressed against me. 28 Whereas I brought them into the land concerning which I lifted up mine hand to give it them; and they looked upon every high hill, and every shady tree, and they sacrificed there to their gods, and offered there a sweet-smelling savour, and there they poured out their drinkofferings. 29 And I said to them, What is Abama, that ye go in thither? and they called its name Abama, until this day. 30 Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord, Do ye pollute yourselves with the iniquities of your fathers, and do ye a-whoring after their abominations, 31 and do ye pollute yourselves with the first-fruits of your gifts, in the offerings wherewith ye pollute yourselves in all your imaginations, until this day; and shall I answer you, O house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord, I will not answer you, neither shall this thing come upon your spirit. 32 And it shall not be as ye say, We will be as the nations, and as the tribes of the earth, to worship stocks and stones. 33 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord, I will reign over you with a strong hand, and with a high arm, and with outpoured wrath: 34 I will bring you out from the nations, and will take you out of the lands wherein ye were dispersed, with a strong hand, and with a high arm, and with outpoured wrath. 35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and will plead with you there face to face. 36 As I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I judge you, says the Lord. 37 And I will cause you to pass under my rod, and I will bring you in by number. 43 + 41 ye 45 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 46 Son of man, set thy face against Thæman, and + Heb. words. look toward Darom, and prophesy against the chief forest of 'Nageb, and thou shalt say to the forest of Nageb, Hear the word of the Lord; thus says the Lord, even the Lord; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall 2 3 tree. "And he made it ready for his שבט .Heb should be 21. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Therefore prophesy, son of man, set thy face steadfastly toward Jerusalem, and look toward their holy places, and thou shalt prophesy against the land of Israel, and thou shalt say to the land of Israel, Thus says the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, and I will draw forth + Gr. dagger. my sword out of its sheath, and I will destroy out of thee the transgressor and unrighteous. Because I will destroy out of thee the unrighteous and the transgressor, therefore so shall my sword come forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north: 5 and all flesh shall know that I the Lord have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath: it shall not return any more. And thou, son of man, groan with the breaking of thy loins; thou shalt even groan heavily in their sight. And it shall come to pass, if they shall say to thee, Wherefore dost thou groan? that thou shalt say, For the report; because it comes: and every heart shall break, and all hands shall become feeble, and all flesh and every spirit shall faint, and all thighs shall be defiled with moisture: behold, it comes, says the Lord. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, prophesy, and thou shalt say, Thus says the Lord; Say, Sword, sword, be sharpened and rage, 10 that thou mayest slay victims; be +Gr. paralys sharpened that thou mayest ening. be bright, ready for 'slaughter, slay, set at nought, despise every 14 And thou, ambiguous. son of man, prophesy, and clap thine hands, and take a second sword: the third sword is the sword of the slain, the great sword of the slain: and thou shalt strike them with amazement, lest the heart should faint + Alex. that 15 and the weak ones be their heart multiplied at every gate broken. they are given up to the slaughter of the sword: it is well fitted Lit. it has for slaughter, it is well happened well. fitted for glittering. 16 And do thou go on, sharpen thyself on the right and on the left, whithersoever thy face may set itself. 17 And I also will clap my hands, up. and 'let loose my fury: I +or, relax, the Lord have spoken it. 4 + ing, or, weak + Gr. stir itself q. d. moderate. choose 18 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, "And thou, son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may enter in : the two shall go forth of one country; and there shall be a force at the top of the way of the thou' read as city, thou shalt set it at the top of the way, 20 that the sword may enter in upon Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and upon Judea, and upon Jerusalem in the midst thereof. 21 For the king of Babylon shall stand on the old way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination, to make +Perhaps, bright the arrow, and to send forth. inquire of the graven images, and to examine the victims. 22 On his right was the divination against Jerusalem, bring forth, or, |