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of Sidon, both

Cherethim.

I will give up the city of Ammon for vengeance rejoicing from their heart camels pastures, and the children of to destroy the Israelites to Alex. forever. Ammon for a pasture of sheep: and ye a man; 16 therefore thus says the Lord; shall know that I am the Lord. "For Behold, I will stretch out my hand thus says the Lord; Because thou hast upon the Philistines, and will utterly clapped thine hands, and stamped with destroy the Cretans, and + Aler. the thy foot, and heartily rejoiced against will cut off the remnant judges (peras) the land of Israel; therefore I will that dwell by the sea-coast. corruptions of stretch out my hand against thee, and 17 And I will execute great I will make thee a spoil to the nations; vengeance upon them; and they shall and I will utterly destroy thee from know that I am the Lord, when I among the peoples, and I will com- have brought my vengeance upon pletely cut thee off from out of the them. countries: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. Thus says the Lord; Because Moab has said, Behold, are not the house of Israel and Juda like all the other nations? 9 Therefore, + Gr. paralyse. behold, I will weaken the shoulder of Moab from his frontier cities, even the choice land, the house of Bethasimuth above the fountain of the city, by the sea-side. 10 I have given him the children of Kedem in addition to the children of Ammon for an inheritance, that there may be no remembrance of the children of + Alex. + Ammon.* .+ 11 And I will exenations.' cute vengeance on Moab; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

among the

+

26. And it came to pass in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, because Sor has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is crushed: the nations are destroyed: she is turned to me: she that was full is made desolate: 3 therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, O Sor, and I will bring up many nations against thee, as the sea comes up with its waves. 4And they shall cast down the walls of Sor, and shall cast down thy towers: and I will scrape her dust from off her, and make her a bare rock. 5 She shall be

7

+ Lit. a re

a freshing of

in the midst of the sea 12 Thus says the Lord; Because of place for repairing nets: for nets. +Gr. Idumea. what the Idumeans have I have spoken it, says the Lord: and done in taking vengeance on the house it shall be a spoil for the nations. of Juda, and because they have re- "And her daughters, which are in the membered injuries, and have exacted field shall be slain with the sword, and full recompense; 13 therefore thus says they shall know that I am the Lord. the Lord; I will also stretch out my For thus says the Lord; Behold, I hand upon Idumea, and will utterly will bring up against thee, O Sor, Nadestroy out of it man and beast; and buchodonosor king of Babylon from will make it desolate; and they that the north, he is a king of kings, with are pursued out of Thæman shall fall horses, and chariots, and horsemen, by the sword. 14 And I will execute and a concourse of very many nations. my vengeance on Idumea by the hand He shall slay thy daughters that are of my people Israel: and they shall in the field with the sword, and shall deal in Idumea according to mine set a watch against thee, and build anger and according to my wrath, and forts around thee, and carry a rampart they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord. 15 Therefore thus says the Lord, Because the Philistines have wrought revengefully, and raised up

round against thee, and set up warlike works, and array his spears against thee. He shall cast down with his swords thy walls and thy towers. 10 By

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depths of the earth, as in everlasting desolation, with them that go down to the pit, that thou mayest not be inhabited, nor stand upon the land of life; 21 I will make thee a destruction, and thou shalt be no more for ever, says the Lord God.

reason of the multitude of his horses | bring thee down to them that go down their dust shall cover thee, and by to the pit, to the people of old time, reason of the sound of his horsemen and shall cause thee to dwell in the and the wheels of his chariots thy walls shall be shaken, when he enters into thy gates, as one entering into a city from the plain. With the hoofs of his horses they shall trample all thy streets: he shall slay thy people with the sword, and shall bring down to the ground the support of thy strength. And he shall prey upon thy power, and plunder thy substance, and shall cast down thy walls, and break down thy pleasant houses: and he shall cast thy stones and thy timber and thy dust into the midst of thy sea. 13 And he shall destroy the multitude of thy musicians, and the sound of thy psalteries shall be heard no more. 14And I will make thee a bare rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the Lord have spoken it, says the Lord.

15 For thus says the Lord God to Sor; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, while the wounded are groaning, while they have drawn a sword in the midst of thee? 16 And all the princes of the nations of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and shall take off their crowns from + Lit. mitres. their heads, and shall take off their embroidered raiment: they shall be utterly amazed; they shall sit upon the ground, and fear their own destruction, and shall groan over thee. 17 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and shall say to thee, How art thou destroyed from out of the sea, +Aler.+'which the renowned city, that was strong in brought her terror upon all and her inha-her inhabitants. 18 And the isles shall be alarmed her traders. at the day of thy fall. 19 For thus says the Lord, the Lord; When I Alex. thee shall make the city desoa desolate city. late, as the cities that shall not be inhabited, when I have brought the deep up upon thee, 20 and great waters shall cover thee; and I shall

the sea, she

bitants.'

+ Or, perhaps

+

3

27. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 'And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation against Sor; and thou shalt say to Sor that dwells at the entrance of the sea, to the mart of the nations coming from many islands, Thus says the Lord to Sor; Thou hast said, I have clothed myself with my beauty. In the heart of the sea thy sons have put beauty upon thee for Beelim. 5 Cedar in Senir was employed for thee in building: boards of cypress timber were taken out of Libanus, and wood to make thee masts of fir. "They made thine oars of wood out of the land of Basan; thy sacred utensils they made of ivory, thy shady houses of wood from the isles of Chetiim. Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt supplied thy couch, to put honour upon thee, and to clothe thee with blue and purple from the isles of Elisai; and they became thy coverings. And thy princes were the dwellers in Sidon, and the haps read as Aradians were thy rowers: ig thy wise men, O Sor, who were in thee, these were thy pilots. elders of the Biblians, and their wise men, who were in thee, these helped thy counsel: and all the ships of the sea and their rowers traded for thee to the utmost west. 10 Persians and Lydians and Libyans were in thine army: thy warriors hung in thee shields and helmets; these gave thee thy glory. " The sons of the Aradians and thine army were upon thy walls; there were guards in thy towers: they hung their quivers on thy battlements round

8

-per ישבי +

9 The

הובל*

'world.'

dians.

+

33

very

ambiguous.

about; these completed thy beauty. | were thy merchants, in abundance, 12 The Carthaginians were thy mer- with thy trading population: Heb. 27 chants because of the abundance of all and thou wast filled and thy strength; they furnished thy mar- heavily loaded in the heart of the sea. ket with silver, and gold, and iron, 26 Thy rowers have brought thee and tin, and lead. 13 Greece, both the into great waters: the south wind has +ban Tubal whole world, and the adja- broken thee in the heart of the sea. read for cent coasts, these traded 27 Thy forces, and thy gain, and that with thee in the * persons of of thy traders, and thy rowers, and + See Rev. 18. men, and they gave as thy thy pilots, and thy counsellors, and merchandise vessels of brass. 14 Out of they that traffic with thee, and all thy the house of Thogarma horses and warriors that are in thee: and all thy horsemen furnished thy market. 15 The company in the midst of thee shall + Alex. Ara- sons of the Rhodians were perish in the heart of the sea, in the thy merchants; from the day of thy fall. 28 At the cry of thy islands they multiplied thy merchan- voice thy pilots shall be greatly terridise, even elephants' teeth and to fied. 29 And all the rowers and the them that came in thou didst return mariners shall come down from the thy prices, 16 even men as thy mer- ships, and the pilots of the sea shall chandise, from the multitude of thy stand on the land. 30 And they shall + Gr. mixed. *trading population, myrrh wail over thee with their voice, and and embroidered works from Tharsis: cry bitterly, and put earth on their Ramoth also and Chorchor furnished heads, and spread ashes under them. thy market. 17 Juda and the children 32 And their sons shall take up a lament of Israel, these were thy merchants; for thee, even a lamentation for Sor, in the sale of corn and ointments and saying, How large a reward hast cassia: and they gave the best honey, thou gained from the sea? thou hast and oil, and resin, to thy trading popu- filled nations out of thine abundance; lation. 18 The people of Damascus were and out of thy mixed merchandise thou thy merchants by reason of the abund- hast enriched all the kings of the earth. + Alex. olvov. ance of all thy power; wine 34 Now art thou broken in the sea, thy out of Chelbon, and wool from Mile-traders are in the deep + Gr. mixed, tus; and they brought wine into thy water, and all thy company pulation. market. 19 Out of Asel came wrought in the midst of thee: all thy rowers iron, and there is the sound of wheels have fallen. 35 All the dwellers in the among thy trading population. 20 The islands have mourned over thee, and people of Dadan were thy merchants, their kings have been utterly amazed, with choice cattle for chariots. 21 Ara- and their countenance has wept. 36 Merbia and all the princes of Kedar, these chants from the nations have hissed at were thy traders with thee, bringing thee; thou art utterly destroyed, and camels, and lambs, and rams, in which shalt not be any more for ever. they trade with thee. 22 The merchants of Sabba and Ramma, these 28. And the word of the Lord came were thy merchants, with choice spices, to me, saying, "And thou, son of man, and precious stones: and they brought say to the prince of Tyrus, Thus says gold to thy market. 23 Charra, and the Lord; Because thine heart has Chanaa, these were thy merchants: been exalted, and thou hast said, I am Assur, and Charman, were thy mer- God, I have inhabited the dwelling of chants: 24 bringing for merchandise God in the heart of the sea; yet thou blue, and choice stores bound with art man and not God, though thou cords, and cypress wood. 25 Ships hast set thine heart as the heart of

or, foreign po

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5

God: art thou wiser than Daniel? or have not the wise instructed thee with their knowledge? Hast thou gained power for thyself by thine own knowledge or thine own prudence, and gotten gold and silver in thy treasures? By thy abundant knowledge and thy traffic thou hast multiplied thy power; thy heart has been lifted up by thy power. Therefore thus says the Lord; Since thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God; because of this, behold, I will bring on thee strange plagues from the nations; and they shall draw their swords against thee, and against the beauty of thy knowledge, and they shall bring down thy beauty to destruction. And they shall bring thee down; and thou shalt die the death of the slain in the heart of the sea. 9 Wilt thou indeed say, I am God, before them that slay thee? whereas Alex. + in thou art man, and not God.* the multitude 10 Thou shalt perish by the wound thee.' hands of strangers among the multitude of the uncircumcised: for I have spoken it, says the Lord.

of them that

the garden of God.

+

hast filled thy storehouses with iniquity, and hast sinned: therefore thou hast been cast down wounded from the mount of God, and the cherub has brought thee out of the midst of the stones of fire. 17 Thy heart has been lifted up because of thy beauty; thy knowledge has been corrupted with thy beauty: because of the multitude of thy sins I have cast thee to the ground, I have caused thee to be put to open shame before kings. 18 Because of the multitude of thy sins and the iniquities of thy merchandise, I have profaned thy sacred things; and I will bring fire out of the midst of thee, this shall devour thee; and I will make thee to be ashes upon thy land before all that see thee. 19 And all that know thee among the nations shall groan over thee: thou art gone to destruction, and thou shalt not exist any more.

20 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 21 Son of man, set thy face against Sidon, and prophesy against it, 22 and say, Thus says the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, O "And the word of the Lord came Sidon; and I will be glorified in thee; to me, saying, 12 Son of man, take up and thou shalt know that I am the a lamentation for the prince of Tyre, Lord, when I have wrought judgments and say to him, Thus says the Lord in thee, and I will be sanctified in thee. God; Thou art a seal of resemblance, 23 Blood and death shall be in thy and crown of beauty. 13 Thou wast in streets; and men wounded with swords +Heb. in Eden the delight of the paradise shall fall in thee and on every side of of God; thou hast bound thee; and they shall know that I am upon thee every precious stone, the the Lord. 24 And there shall no more sardius, and topaz, and emerald, and be in the house of Israel a thorn of carbuncle, and sapphire, and jasper, bitterness and a pricking + More lit. and silver, and gold, and ligure, and briar proceeding from them briar of pain. agate, and amethyst, and chrysolite, that are round about them, who disand beryl, and onyx: and thou hast honoured them; and they shall know filled thy treasures and thy stores in that I am the Lord. 25 Thus says the thee with gold. 14 From the day that Lord God; I will also gather Israel thou wast created thou wast with the from the nations, among whom they cherub: I set thee on the holy mount have been scattered, and I will be of God; thou wast in the midst of the sanctified among them, and before the stones of fire. 15 Thou wast faultless peoples and nations: and they shall in thy days, from the day that thou dwell upon their land, which I gave Gr. the ini- Wast created, until 'iniquity to my servant Jacob. 26 Yea, they was found in thee. 16 Of shall dwell upon it safely, + Gr. in hope. the abundance of thy merchandise thou and they shall build houses, and plant

quities.

vineyards, and dwell securely, when I shall execute judgment on all that have dishonoured them, even on those that are round about them; and they shall know that I am the Lord their God, and the God of their fathers.

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borders of the Ethiopians. "No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it, and it shall not be inhabited for forty years. 12 And I will cause her land to be utterly destroyed in the midst of a land that is desolate, and her cities shall be desolate forty years in the midst of cities that are desolate: and I will disperse Egypt among the na- Gr.pulverize. tions, and will utterly scatter them into the countries.

+

29. In the twelfth year, in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2Son of man, set thy face against Pharao king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against the 13 Thus says the Lord; After forty whole of Egypt: and say, Thus says years I will gather the Egyptians from the Lord; Behold, I am against Pha- the nations among whom they have rao, the great dragon that lies in the been scattered; 14 and I will turn the midst of his rivers, that says, The rivers captivity of the Egyptians, +See Eph.4.8. are mine, and I made them. And I and will cause them to dwell E. V. margin. will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will in the land of Phathore, in the land cause the fish of thy river to stick to whence they were taken; 15 and it shall Gr. wings. thy sides, and I will bring be a base kingdom beyond all other thee up out of the midst of thy river: kingdoms; it shall not any more be 5 and I will quickly cast down thee exalted over the nations; and I will and all the fish of thy river: thou shalt make them few in number, that they fall on the face of the plain, and shalt may not be great among the nations. by no means be gathered, and shalt 16 And they shall no more be to the not be brought together: I have given house of Israel a confidence bringing thee for food to the wild beasts of the iniquity to remembrance, when they earth and to the fowls of the sky. And follow after them; and they shall know all the dwellers in Egypt shall know that I am the Lord. 17 Ånd it came that I am the Lord, because thou hast to pass in the twenty-seventh year, on been a staff of reed to the house of the first day of the first month, the Israel. 7 When they took hold of thee word of the Lord came to me, saying, with their hand, thou didst break; 18 Son of man, Nabuchodonosor king and when every hand was clapped of Babylon caused his army to serve a against them, and when they leaned great service against Tyre; every head on thee, thou wast utterly broken, and was bald, and every shoulder peeled; didst crush the loins of them all. yet there was no reward to 4 μαδών, Heb. 8 Therefore thus says the Lord; Be- him or to his army serving in Greek lethold, I will bring a sword upon thee, against Tyre, nor for the ters. and will cut off from thee man and service wherewith they served against beast; and the land of Egypt shall it. 19 Thus says the Lord God; Bebe ruined and desert; and they shall hold, I will give to Nabuchodonosor know that I am the Lord; because king of Babylon the land of Egypt,' thou sayest, The rivers are mine, and and he shall take the plunI made them. 10 Therefore, behold, I der thereof, and seize the am against thee, and against all thy spoils thereof; and it shall rivers, and I will give up the land of be a reward for his army. Egypt to desolation, and for his service wherewith the sword, and destruction, he served against Tyre, from Magdol and Syene even to the have given him the land of Egypt;*

9

+ Heb. 7 ambiguous. +

Be-him

20

word probably

Heb. & Alex. and he multitude." In return Alex. + 'for

shall take her

all they did for

I me.'