thus says the Lord God: 21 In that her multi + 4 + and put down in the land of have spoken. 13 For thus says the 30. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord; Woe, woe worth the day! 3 For the day of the Lord is nigh, a day of cloud; it shall be the end of the nations. And a sword shall come upon the Egyptians, and there shall be tumult in Ethiopia, and in Egypt men shall fall down slain +Alex. + and together, and her foundathey shall take tions shall fall. 5 Persians, tude.' and Cretans, and Lydians, and Libyans, and all the mixed multitude, and they of the children of my covenant, shall fall by the sword therein. And the supports of Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her strength shall come down from Magdol to Syene: they shall fall by the sword in it, says the Lord. And it shall be made desolate in the midst of desolate countries, and their cities shall be 20 And it came to pass in the eleventh desolate in the midst of the desolate year, in the first month, on the seventh cities: and they shall know that I day of the month, the word of the am the Lord, when I shall send fire Lord came to me, saying, 21 Son of upon Egypt, and when all that help man, I have broken the arms of Pharao, her shall be broken. In that day king of Egypt; and, behold, it has shall messengers go forth hasting to not been bound up to be healed, to destroy Ethiopia utterly, and there have a plaster put upon it, or to be shall be tumult among them in the strengthened to lay hold of the sword. day of Egypt: for, behold, it comes. 22 Therefore thus says the Lord God; + Or, is come. 10 Thus says the Lord, the Behold, I am against Pharao king of Lord; I will also destroy the multitude Egypt, and I will break his strong of the Egyptians by the hand of Na- and outstretched arms, and buchodonosor king of Babylon, "his will smite down his sword hand and his people's; they are plagues out of his hand. 23 And sent forth from the nations to destroy will disperse the Egyptians the land: and they all shall unsheath among the nations, and will into, &c. their swords against Egypt, and the utterly scatter them among the counland shall be filled with slain. 12 And tries. 24 And I will strengthen the + Alex. + and I will make their rivers de- arms of the king of Babylon, and put solate, and will destroy the my sword into his hand: and he shall land and the fulness of it by bring it upon Egypt, and shall take the hands of strangers: I the Lord her plunder and seize her spoils. 25 Yea, 8 I will sell the land into the hand of the wicked.' ΤΟ I Alex. + his both the outstretched and + More lit strong arms, the broken.' scatter Egypt thick with lit. shade. them. See 2 Ki. I will strengthen the arms of the king | clouds, and I saw when he was exalted; of Babylon, and the arms of Pharao " therefore I delivered him into the shall fail: and they shall know that I hands of the prince of the nations, am the Lord, when I have put my and he wrought his destruction. 12 And sword into the hands of the king of ravaging strangers from the nations Babylon, and he shall stretch it out have destroyed him, and have cast him over the land of Egypt. 26 And I will down upon the mountains: his branches disperse the Egyptians among the fell in all the valleys, and his boughs nations, and utterly scatter them were broken in every field of the land; among the countries; and they all shall and all the people of the nations are know that I am the Lord. gone down from their shelter, and have laid him low. 13 All the birds of the 31. And it came to pass in the sky have settled on his fallen trunk, eleventh year, in the third month, on and all the wild beasts of + Gr. fall. the first day of the month, the word the field came upon his boughs: 14 in of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 Son order that none of the trees by the of man, say to Pharao king of Egypt, water should exalt themselves by and to his multitude; To whom hast reason of their size: whereas they set thou compared thyself in thy haughti- their top in the midst of the clouds, ness? 3 Behold, the Assyrian was a yet they continued not in their high cypress in Libanus, and was fair in state in their place, all that +Heb. & Gr. by + Alex. + and shoots,* and high in stature: drank water, all were con- (2 Sam.) 2. 23. shady leaves, his top reached to the midst signed to death, to the depth of the of the clouds. The water earth, in the midst of the children of nourished him, the depth made him men, with them that go down to the grow tall; she led her rivers round pit. 15 Thus says the Lord God; about his plants, and she sent forth In the day wherein he went down to her streams to all the trees of the field. 5 Therefore was his stature exalted above all the trees of the field, and his branches spread far by the help of much water. All the birds of the sky made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches all the wild beasts of the field bred; the whole multitude of nations dwelt under his shadow. And he was fair in his height by reason of the multitude of his branches: for his roots were amidst much water. And such cypresses as this were in the paradise of God; and there were no pines like his shoots, and there were no firs like his branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty, because of the multitude of his branches: and the trees of God's paradise of delight envied him. 7 6 9 10 Therefore thus says the Lord; Because thou art grown great, and hast set thy top in the midst of the + + Lit. Eden, Hades, the deep mourned for him: push with the horn. 5 32. And it came to pass in the Heb. & Alex. twelfth year, in the tenth twelfth month. month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharao king of Egypt, and say to him, Thou art become like a lion of the nations, and as the serpent that is in the sea: and +Lit. butt, or, thou didst make assaults with thy rivers, and didst disturb the water with thy feet, and didst trample thy rivers. Thus says the Lord; I will also cast over thee the nets of many nations, and will bring thee up with my hook: and hook: and I will stretch thee upon the earth: the + Gr. filled. fields shall be covered with thee, and I will cause all the birds of the sky to settle upon thee, and I will fill with thee all the wild beasts of the earth. And I will cast thy flesh upon the mountains, and will saturate them with thy blood. And the land shall be drenched with thy dung, because of thy multitude upon the mountains: I will fill the valleys with from thee. thee. And I will vail the heavens when thou art extinguished, and will darken the stars thereof; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. All the bodies that give light in the sky, shall be darkened over thee, and I will bring darkness upon the earth, says the Lord God. And I will provoke to anger the heart of many people, when I shall lead thee captive among the nations, to a land which thou hast not known. 10 And many nations shall + Or, frown, mourn over thee, and their kings shall be utterly amazed, when my sword flies in their faces, as they wait for their own fall from the day of thy fall. 8 + Gr. of, or, or, scowl at thee. + For thus says the Lord God; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee, 12 with the swords of mighty pride of Egypt, and all her strength shall be crushed. 13 And I will destroy all her cattle from beside the great water; and the foot of man shall not trouble it any more, and the step of cattle shall no more trample it. 14 Thus shall their waters then be at rest, and their rivers shall flow like oil, says the Lord, 15 when I shall give up Egypt to destruction, and the land shall be made desolate with the fulness thereof; when I shall scatter all that dwell in it, and they shall know that I am the Lord. 16 There is a lamentation, and thou shalt utter it; and the daughters of the nations shall utter it, even for Egypt, and they shall mourn for it over all the strength thereof, says the Lord, the Lord. 17 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 18 Son of man, lament over the strength of Egypt, for the nations shall bring down her daughters dead to the depth of the earth, to them that go down to the pit. 19 They shall fall with him in the midst of them that are slain with the sword, and all his strength shall perish: the giants also shall say to thee, 20 Be thou in the depth of the pit: to whom art thou superior? yea, go down, and lie with the uncircumcised, in the midst of them that are slain with the sword. 22 There are Assur and all his company: all his slain have been laid there: 23 and their burial is in the depth of the pit, and his company are set round about his tomb: all the slain that fell by the sword, who had caused the fear of them to be upon the land of the living. 24 There is + Gr. life. Elam and all his host round about his tomb: all the slain that fell by the sword, and the uncircumcised that go down to the deep of the earth, who caused their fear to be upon the land of the living: and they have received their punishment with them that go down to the pit, 25 in the midst of the and Vat. readings. slain. 26 There were laid Mosoch, and + σαντο. 31 33. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people and thou shalt say to them, On whatsoever land I shall bring a sword, and the people of the land take one man of them, and set him for their watchman: 3 and he shall see the sword coming upon the land, and blow the trumpet, and sound an alarm to the people; and he that hears the sound of the trumpet shall hear indeed, and yet not take heed, and the sword shall come upon him, and 4 5 overtake him, his blood shall be upon his own head. Because he heard the sound of the trumpet, and took no heed, his blood shall be upon him: but the other, because he took heed, has delivered his soul. But if the watchman see the sword coming, and do not sound the trumpet, and the people do not watch; and the sword come, and take a soul from among them, that soul is taken because of its iniquity; but the blood thereof will I require at the watchman's hand. And thou, son of man, I have set thee as a watchman to the house of Israel, and thou shalt hear a word from my mouth. When I say to the sinner, Thou shalt surely die; if thou speak not to warn the wicked from his way, the wicked himself shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. But if thou forewarn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he turn not from his way, he shall die in his ungodliness; but thou hast delivered thine own soul. 10 And thou, son of man, say to the house of Israel; Thus have ye spoken, saying, Our errors, and our iniquities weigh upon us, and we pine away in them, and how then shall we live? 11 Say to them, Thus says the Lord; As I live, I desire not the death of the ungodly, as that the ungodly should turn from his way and live: turn ye *heartily from + Gr. with your way; for why will turning. ye die, O house of Israel? Gr. do ye die. 12 Say to the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him, in the day wherein he errs: and the iniquity of the ungodly shall not harm him, in the day wherein he turns from his iniquity, but the righteous erring shall not be able to deliver himself. 13 When I say to the righteous, Thou shalt live; italics are and he trusts in his right- found in Alex. eousness, and shall commit iniquity, none of his righteousnesses shall be remembered; in his unrighteousness which he has wrought, in it shall he + The words land desert, and it shall be made desolate because of all their abominations which they have wrought. to his brother. 30 And as for thee, son of man, the children of thy people are they that speak concerning thee by the walls, and in the porches of the houses, and they talk 'one to another, Gr. a man saying, Let us come together, and let us hear the words that proceed from the Lord. 31 They approach thee as a people comes together, and sit before thee, and hear thy words, but they will not do them: for there is falsehood in their mouth, and their heart goes after their pollutions. 32 And thou art to them as the sound of a sweet, well-tuned psaltery, and they will hear thy words, but they will not do them. 33 But whenever it shall come to pass, they will say, Behold, it is come: and they shall know that there was a prophet in the midst of them. die. And when I say to the un- make the land desert, and the pride of godly, Thou shalt surely die; and he her strength shall perish; and the shall turn from his sin, and do judg-mountains of Israel shall be made ment and justice, 15 and return the desolate by reason of no man passing pledge, and repay that which he has through. 29 And they shall know that robbed, and walk in the ordinances of I am the Lord; and I will make their life, so as to do no wrong; he shall surely live, and shall not die. 16 None of his sins which he has committed shall be remembered: because he has +Alex. aurois. Wrought judgment and righteousness; by them shall he live. 17 Yet the children of thy people will say, The way of the Lord is not straight: whereas this their way is not straight. 18 When the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and shall commit iniquities, then shall he die in them. 19 And when the sinner turns from his iniquity, and shall do judgment and righteousness, he shall live by them. 20 And this is that which ye said, The way of the Lord is not straight. I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one for his ways. 21 And it came Heb. & Alex. to pass in the tenth year of our captivity, in the twelfth month, on the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped from Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city is taken. 22 Now the hand of the Lord had come upon me in the evening, before he came; and he opened my mouth, when he came to me in the morning and my mouth was open, it was no longer kept closed. 23 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 24 Son of man, they that inhabit the desolate places on the land of Israel say, Abraam was one, and he possessed the land: and we are more numerous; to us the land is given for a possession. + See Append. 27+ Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God, As I live, surely they that are in the desolate places shall fall by swords, and they that are in the open plain, shall be given for food to the wild beasts of the field, and them that are in the fortified cities and them that are in the caves I will slay with pestilence. 28 And I will twelfth year. 34. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord God; O shepherds of Israel, do shepherds feed themselves? do not the shepherds feed the sheep? 3 Behold, ye feed on the milk, and clothe yourselves with the wool, and slay the fat: but ye feed not my sheep. The weak one ye have not strengthened, and the sick ye have not cherished, and the bruised ye have not bound up, and the stray one ye have not turned back, and the lost ye have not sought; and the strong ye have wearied with labour. And my sheep were scattered, because there were no shepherds: and they became meat to all the wild beasts of the field. 6 And |