cherubs. 4 + 9. And he cried in mine ears with | I have any mercy: I have recompensed a loud voice, saying, The judgment of their ways upon their heads. Î1 And, the city has drawn nigh; and each had behold, the man clothed with the the weapons of destruction in his hand. long robe, and girt with the girdle 2And, behold, six men came from the about his loins, answered and said, way of the high gate that looks toward I have done as thou didst command the north, and each one's axe was in me. his hand; and there was one man in the midst of them clothed with a long 10. Then I looked, and, behold, robe down to the feet, and a sapphire over the firmament that was above girdle was on his loins: and they came the head of the cherubs there was in and stood near the brazen altar. a likeness of a throne over them, And the glory of the God of Israel, as a sapphire stone. 2 And he said that was upon them, went up from to the man clothed with the long +Alex. on the the cherubs to the porch robe, Go in between the wheels + of the house. And he that are under the cherubs, and fill *See chap. 47. called the man that was thine hands with coals of fire from clothed with the long robe, who had between the cherubs, and scatter them the girdle on his loins; and said to over the city. And he went in in my him, Go through the midst of Jeru- sight. And the cherubs stood on the salem, and set a mark on the foreheads right hand of the house, as the man of the men that groan and that grieve went in; and the cloud filled the for all the iniquities that are done in inner court. 4 Then the glory of the the midst of them. And he said the Lord departed from the cherubs to the first in my hearing, Go after him into porch of the house; and the tv. p. s. the city, and smite: and let not your cloud filled the house, and the court eyes spare, and have no mercy. Slay was filled with the brightness of the + Gr. to 'utterly old man and youth, glory of the Lord. And the sound abolition. and virgin, and infants, and of the cherubs' wings was heard as far women: but go ye not nigh any on as the outer court, as the voice of whom is the mark: begin at my the Almighty God speaking. Heb. word in Or, holy sanctuary. So they began "And it came to when pass, with the elder men who were he gave a charge to the man clothed within in the house. And he said to with the sacred robe, saying, Take them, Defile the house, and go out fire from between the wheels from and fill the ways with dead bodies, between the cherubs, that he went in, and smite. And it came to pass as and stood near the wheels. And he they were smiting, that I fell upon my stretched forth his hand into the midst face, and cried out, and said, Alas, Ŏ of the fire that was between the cherubs, + Gr. art thou Lord! wilt thou destroy and took thereof, and put it into the destroying. the remnant of Israel, in hands of the man clothed with the pouring out thy wrath upon Jeru- sacred robe: and he took it, and went salem? 9 Then said he to me, The out. And I saw the cherubs having iniquity of the house of Israel and the likeness of men's hands under Juda is become very exceedingly great: their wings. And I saw and, behold, for the land is filled with many nations, four wheels stood by the cherubs, one and the city is filled with iniquity and wheel by each cherub: and the apuncleanness: because they have said, pearance of the wheels was as the apThe Lord has forsaken the earth, The pearance of a carbuncle stone. 10 And Lord looks not upon it. 10 Therefore as for their appearance, there was one mine eye shall not spare, neither will likeness to the four, as if there should things, or, persons. 9 5 + Greek letters. + Gr. parts. + Gr. one, q. d. No. 1. was called on, &c. 4 but Alex.auths, sc. the city, avrov perhaps for ὑμῶν αὐτῶν. be a wheel in the midst of a wheel. | ward: and behold at the entrance of 11 When they went, they went on their the gate were about five and twenty four sides; they turned men; and I saw in the midst of them not when they went, for whichever Jechonias the son of Ezer, and Phalway the first head looked, tias the son of Banæas, the leaders of they went; and they turned the people. And the Lord said to not as they went. 12 And their backs, me, Son of man, these are the men and their hands, and their wings, and that devise vanities, and take evil the wheels, were full of eyes round counsel in this city: 3who say, Have +lit. Gelgel about the four wheels. not the houses been newly built? This 13 And these wheels were is the caldron, and we are the flesh. called Gelgel in my hearing. 15And Therefore prophesy against them, lit. this liv. the cherubs were the same prophesy, son of man. 5 And the ing creature. living creatures which I saw Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and by the river of Chobar. 16 And when said to me, Say; Thus says the Lord; the cherubs went, the wheels went, Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: and they were close to them: and when and I know the devices of your spirit. the cherubs lifted up their wings to "Ye have multiplied your dead in this mount up from the earth, their wheels city, and ye have filled your ways turned not. 17 When they stood, the with slain men. Therefore + Gr. their, wheels stood; and when they mounted thus says the Lord; Your up, the wheels mounted up with them: dead whom ye have smitten because the spirit of life was in them. in the midst of it, these are 18 Then the glory of the Lord departed the flesh, and this city is the caldron: from the house, and went but I will bring you forth out of the house. up on the cherubs. 19 And midst of it. Ye fear the sword; and the cherubs lifted up their wings, and I will bring a sword upon you, says mounted up from the earth in my the Lord. sight: when they went forth, the forth out of + Or, joined to wheels were also beside deliver you them, v. p. s. them, and they stood at the +Gr. opposite. entrance of the front gate of the house of the Lord; and the glory of the God of Israel was upon them above. 20 This is the living creature which I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chobar; and + Or, the I knew that they were cherubs. *cherubs. 21 Each one had four faces, and each one had eight wings; and under their wings was the likeness of men's hands. 22 And as for the likeness of their faces, these are the same faces which I saw under the glory of the God of Israel by the river of Chobar: and they went each straight forward. + Alex. the porch of the + 11. Moreover the Spirit took me up, and brought me to the front gate of the house of the Lord, that looks east 9 And I will bring you the midst of it, and will into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you. 10 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you on the mountains of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 13 And it came to pass, while I was prophesying, that Phaltias the son of Banæas died. And I fell upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Alas, alas, O Lord! wilt thou utterly destroy the remnant of Israel? 14 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 15 Son of man, thy brethren, and the men of thy captivity, and all the house of Israel are 'come to the full, to whom the inhabit- + Heb. ants of Jerusalem said, E.V. wholly. Keep ye far away from the Lord: the land is given to us for an inheritance. 16 Therefore say thou, Thus says the Lord; I will cast them off among the up 5 on men's nations, and will disperse them into that they may see that it is a provokevery land, yet will I be to them for ing house. And thou shalt carry a little sanctuary in the countries forth thy baggage, baggage for capwhich they shall enter. 17 Therefore tivity, by day before their eyes: and say thou, Thus says the Lord; I will thou shalt go forth at even, as a capalso take them from the heathen, and tive goes forth, in their sight. Dig gather them out of the lands wherein for thyself into the wall of the house, I have scattered them, and will give and thou shalt pass through it in their them the land of Israel. 18 And they sight: thou shalt be lifted up on men's shall enter in there, and shall remove shoulders, and shalt go forth in secret: all the abominations of it, and all its thou shalt cover thy face, + Gr. hidden. iniquities from it. 19 And I will give and shalt not see the ground: because them another heart, and will put a I have made thee a sign to the house new spirit within them; and will ex- of Israel. And I did thus according tract the heart of stone from their to all that he commanded me; and Ĭ flesh, and give them a heart of flesh: carried forth my baggage for captivity 20 that they may walk in my command- by day, and in the evening I dug ments, and keep mine ordinances, and through the wall for myself, and went do them: and they shall be to me a out secretly; I was taken people, and I will be to them a God. shoulders before them. And the 21 And as for the heart that was set upon word of the Lord came to me in the their abominations and their iniquities, morning, saying, 'Son of man, have as their heart went after them, I have not the house of Israel, the provoking recompensed their ways on their heads, house, said to thee, What doest thou? says the Lord. 22 Then the cherubs 10 Say to them, Thus says the Lord lifted up their wings, and the wheels God, the Prince and the beside them; and the glory of the God Ruler in Israel, even to all of Israel was over them above. 23 And the house of Israel who are the glory of the Lord went up from in the midst of them, say, the midst of the city, and stood on the I am performing signs: as I have mountain which was in front of the done, so shall it be to him: they shall city. 24 And the Spirit took me up, go into banishment and captivity. and brought me to the land of the 12 And the prince in the midst of them Chaldeans, to the captivity, in a vision shall be borne upon shoulders, and by the Spirit of God: and I went up shall go forth in secret through the after the vision which I saw. 25 And wall, and shall dig so that he may go I spoke to the captivity all the words forth thereby: he shall cover his face, of the Lord which he had showed me. that he may not be seen by any eye, and he himself shall not see the ground. 13 And I will spread out my net upon him, and he shall be caught in my toils: and I will bring him + Lit. siege, to Babylon to the land of &c. the Chaldeans; but he shall not see it, though he shall die there. 14 And I will scatter to every wind all his assistants round about him, and all that help him; and I will draw out a sword after them. 15 And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have scattered them among the nations; and I 12. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of the iniquities of those, who have eyes to see, and see not; and have ears to hear, and hear not because it is a provoking house. Thou therefore, son of man, prepare thyself baggage for going Lit. of cap into captivity by day in tivity. their sight; and thou shalt be led into captivity from thy place into another place in their sight; 3 + + 11 Alex. Say to the prince and Israel and to the ruler in all the house, &c. hemming in, will disperse them in the countries. | shall linger, which I shall speak: I 16 And I will leave of them a few men will speak and do, says the Lord. in number spared from the sword, and from famine, and from pestilence; that they may declare all their iniquities among the nations whither they have gone; and they shall know that I am the Lord. + Gr. in un ye 5 thou shalt say that prophesy own heart.' 13. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel, and thou shalt prophesy, and shalt say to them, Hear the word of Alex. + 'that the Lord: thus says the prophesy, and Lord, Woe to them that to the prophets prophesy out of their own out of their heart, and who see nothing at all. Thy prophets, O Israel, are like foxes in the deserts. They have not continued steadfast, and they have gathered flocks against the house of Israel, they that say, In the day of the Lord, have not stood, Or, stood up, seeing false visions, prophe- or, risen up. sying vanities, who say, The Lord says, and the Lord has not sent them, and they began to try to confirm the word. 7 Have ye not seen a false vision? and spoken vain prophecies? And therefore say, Thus says the Lord; Because your words are false, and your prophecies are vain, therefore, behold, I am against you, says the Lord. 17 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 18 Son of man, eat thy bread with sorrow, and drink thy water with torment and affliction. 19 And thou shalt say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord to the inhabitants of Jerusalem on the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread in scarcity, and shall drink their water in desolation, that the land may be desolate with all that it contains: for all that dwell in it are ungodly. 20 And their inhabited cities godliness. shall be laid utterly waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 21 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 22 Son of man, what is your parable on the land of Israel, that ye say, The days are long, the vision has perished? 23 Therefore say to them, 9 And I will stretch forth Thus says the Lord; I will even set my hand against the prophets that see aside this parable, and the house of false visions, and those that utter vaniIsrael shall no more at all use this ties: they shall not partake of the parable: for thou shalt say to them, 'instruction of my people, tion, or, corThe days are at hand, and the import neither shall they be written rection. of every vision. 24 For there shall no in the roll of the house of Israel, and more be any false vision, nor any one they shall not enter into the land of prophesying flatteries in the midst of Israel; and they shall know that I am the children of Israel. 25 For I the the Lord. 10 Because they have caused Lord will speak my words; I will my people to err, saying, Peace; and speak and perform them and will no there is no peace; and one builds a more delay, for in your days, O pro- wall, and they plaster it, it shall fall. voking house, I will speak the word," Say to them that plaster it. It shall and will perform it, says the Lord. fall; and there shall be a flooding 26 Moreover the word of the Lord came rain; and I will send great stones to me, saying, 27 Son of man, behold, upon their joinings, and they shall the provoking house of Israel boldly fall; and there shall be a sweeping say, The vision which this man sees is wind, and it shall be broken. 12 And for many days, and he prophesies for lo! the wall has fallen; and will they + Or, times long seasons, Therefore not say to you, Where is or, What is say to them, Thus says the your plaster wherewith ye See 2 Pet. 3.4. Lord; Henceforth none of my words plastered it? 13 Therefore thus says afar off. 28 + + Gr. instruc become of? the Lord; I will even cause to burst in order to strengthen the hands of the wicked, that he should not at all turn from his evil way and live: 23 therefore ye shall not see false visions, and forth a sweeping blast with fury, and there shall be a flooding rain in my wrath; and in my fury I will bring on great stones for complete destruction. ye shall no more utter prophecies: but And I will break down the wall I will deliver my people out of your which ye have plastered, and it shall hand; and ye shall know that I am fall; and I will lay it on the ground, the Lord. and its foundations shall be discovered, and it shall fall; and ye shall be consumed with rebukes: and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 13 And I will accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that plaster it; it shall fall: and I said to you, The wall is not, nor they that plaster it, 16 even the prophets of Israel, who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, says the Lord. 17 And thou, son of man, set thy face firmly against the daughters of thy people, that prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy against them. 18 And thou shalt say, Thus says the Lord, Woe to the women that sew pillows under every elbow, and make kerchiefs on the head of every stature to pervert souls! The souls of my people are perverted, and they have saved souls alive. 19 And they have 'dishonoured + Gr. profaned. me before my people for a handful of barley, and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls which should not die, and to save alive the souls which should not live, while ye speak to a people hearing vain speeches. 20 Therefore thus says the Lord God, Behold, I am against your pillows, + Or, on which whereby ye there confound souls, and I will tear them away from your arms, and will set at liberty their souls which ye pervert to scatter them. 21 And I will tear your kerchiefs, and will rescue my people out of your hand, and they shall no longer be in your hands to be confounded; and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 22 Because ye have perverted the heart of the righteous, whereas I perverted him not, and that ye gather. 2 14. And there came to me men of the people of Israel, of the elders, and sat before me. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of 3 man, these men have conceived their devices in their hearts, and have set before their faces the punishment of their iniquities: shall I indeed answer them? Therefore speak to them, and thou shalt say to them, Thus says the Lord; Any man of the house of Israel, who shall conceive his devices in his heart, and shall set the punishment of his iniquity before his face, and shall come to the prophet; I the Lord will answer him according to the things in which his mind is entangled, 5 that he should turn aside the house of Israel, according to their hearts that are estranged from me * in their or, through thoughts. Therefore say their devices. to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord, the Lord, Be converted, and turn from your evil practices, and from all your sins, and turn your faces back again. 7 For any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, who shall separate +Gr. have been himself from me, and conceive his imaginations in his heart, and set before his face the punishment of his iniquity, and come to the prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the Lord will answer him, according to the things wherein he is entangled. 8 alienated. And I will set my face against that man, and will make him desolate and ruined, and will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 9 And if a prophet should cause to err and should speak, I the Lord have caused that |
