Alex. +'Hear the Lord.' 11 + my sheep were scattered on every | the stray one, and will bind up that Alex. wáv. mountain, and on every which was broken, and will strengthen high hill: yea, they were scattered on the weak, and will guard + More lit. the face of the earth, and there was the strong, and will feed fainting. none to seek them out, nor to bring them with judgment. 17 And as for them back. Therefore, ye shepherds, you, ye sheep, thus says the Lord God, hear the word of the Lord. As I Behold, I will distinguish between live, says the Lord God, surely be- sheep and sheep, between rams and hecause my sheep became a prey, and goats. 18 And is it not enough for my sheep became meat to all the wild you that ye fed on the good pasture, beasts of the field, because there were that ye trampled with your feet the no shepherds, and the shepherds sought remnant of your pasture? and that ye not out my sheep, and the shepherds drank the standing water, that ye disfed themselves, but fed not my sheep. turbed the residue with your feet? For this cause, O shepherds, 10+ thus 19 So my sheep fed on that which ye the word of says the Lord God, Behold, had trampled with your feet; and they I am against the shepherds; drank the water that had been disand I will require my sheep at their turbed by your feet. hands, and will turn them back that they shall not feed my sheep, and the shepherds shall no longer feed them; and I will deliver my sheep out of their mouth, and they shall no longer be meat for them. For thus says the Lord God, Behold, I will seek out my sheep, and will visit them. 12 As the shepherd seeks his flock, in the day when there is darkness and cloud, in the midst of the sheep that are separated so will I seek out my Lit. drive sheep, and will bring them Alex. gather. back from every place where they were scattered in the day of cloud and darkness. 13 And I will bring them out from the Gentiles, and will gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land, and will feed them upon the mountains of Israel, and in the valleys, and in every inhabited place of the land. 14I will feed them in a good pasture, on a high mountain of Israel: and their folds shall be there, and they shall lie down, and there shall they rest in perfect prosperity, and they shall feed in a fat pasture on the mountains of Israel. 15 I will feed my sheep, and I will cause them to rest; and they shall know that I am the Lord: thus says the Lord God. 16 I will seek that which is lost, and I will recover them away. 20 Therefore thus says the Lord God; Behold, I will separate between the strong sheep and the weak sheep. 21 Ye did thrust with your sides and shoulders, and pushed with your horns, and ye cruelly treated all the 'sick. 22 Therefore I will save my + Gr. fainting. sheep, and they shall not be any more for a prey; and will judge between ram and ram. 23 And I will raise up one shepherd over them, and he shall tend them, even my servant David, and he shall be their shepherd; 24 and I the Lord will be to them a God, and David a prince in the midst of them; I the Lord have spoken it. 25 And I will make with David a covenant of peace, and I will utterly destroy evil beasts from off the land; and they shall dwell in the wilderness, and sleep in the forests. 26 And I will settle them round about my mountain; and I will give you 'the rain, the rain +q. d. the of blessing. 27 And the trees right sort of that are in the field shall pare ròv aptor, yield their fruit, and the John 6. 32. earth shall yield her strength, and they shall dwell in the confi- or, lit. in dence of peace on their hope of peace. land, and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken their yoke; and I will deliver them out of the hand of those that enslaved them. rain. Com thy jealousy hast vented in 28 And they shall no more be a spoil | even deal with thee according to thine to the nations, and the wild beasts of enmity, and I will be made Alex. + 'and the land shall no more at all devour known to thee when I shall according to them; and they shall dwell safely, and judge thee: 12 and thou shalt which thou there shall be none to make them know that I am the Lord. thy hatred afraid. 29 And I will raise up for them I have heard the voice of against them.’ a plant of peace, and they shall no thy blasphemies, whereas thou hast more perish with hunger upon the said, The desert mountains of Israel land, and they shall no more bear the are given to us for food; 13 and thou reproach of the nations. 30 And they hast spoken swelling words against shall know that I am the Lord their God, and they my people. O house of Israel, says the Lord God, 31 ye are my sheep, even the sheep of my flock, and I am the Lord your God, says the Lord God. 5 35. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it, and say to it, Thus says the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against thee, and will make thee a waste, and thou shalt be made desolate. And I will cause desolation in thy cities, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. Because thou hast been a perpetual enemy, and hast laid wait craftily for the house of Israel, with the hand of enemies with a sword, in the time of injustice, at the last: therefore, as I live, says the Lord, the Lord, verily thou hast sinned even to blood, therefore blood shall pursue + Gr. give. thee. 'And I will make Mount Seir a waste, and desolate, and I will destroy from off it men and cattle: and I will fill thy hills and thy valleys with slain men, and in all thy plains there shall fall in thee men slain with the sword. I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited any more: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. 10 Because thou saidst, The two nations and the two countries shall be mine, and I shall inherit them; whereas the Lord is there: "therefore, as I live, says the Lord, I will me with thy mouth: I have heard them. 14 Thus says the Lord; When all the earth is rejoicing, Lit. in the I will make thee desert. joy of, &c. 15 Thou shalt be desert, O Mount Seir, and all Idumea; and it shall be utterly consumed: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord their God. 36. And thou, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say to the mountains of Israel, 2 Hear ye the word of the Lord: thus says the Lord God; Because the enemy has said against you, Aha, the old waste places are become a possession for us: 3 therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God; Because ye have been dishonoured, and hated by those round about you, that ye might be a possession to the remainder of the nations, and ye became a by-word, and a reproach to the nations: therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord; Thus says the Lord to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the streams, and to the valleys, and to the places that have been made desolate and destroyed, and to the cities that have been deserted, and have become a spoil and a trampling to the nations that were left round about; therefore thus says the Lord; Verily in the fire of my wrath have I spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Idumea, because they have appropriated my land to themselves for a possession with joy, disregarding the lives of the inhabitants, Lit. having to destroy it by plunder : dishonoured. therefore prophesy concerning the 5 + Lit. your to you. land of Israel, and say to the moun- utterly scattered them through the tains, and to the hills, and to the countries: I judged them according to valleys, and to the forests, Thus says their way and according to their sin. the Lord; Behold, I have spoken in 20 And they went in among the nations, my jealousy and in my wrath, because among which they went, and they ye have borne the reproaches of the profaned my holy name, while it was heathen: therefore I will lift up my said of them, These are the people of hand against the nations that are the Lord, and they came forth out of round about you; they shall bear his land. 21 But I spared them for the their reproach. But your grapes and sake of my holy name, which the house your fruits, O mountains of Israel, of Israel profaned among the nations, shall my people eat; for they are among whom they went. 22 Therefore hoping to come. For, behold, I am say to the house of Israel, Thus says toward you, and I will have respect the Lord; I do not this, O house of to you, and ye shall be tilled and Israel, for your sakes, but † Lit. for, or, sown: 10 and I will multiply men because of my holy name, upon you, even all the house of Israel which ye have profaned among the to the end: and the cities shall be in- nations, among whom ye went. 23 And habited, and the desolate land shall be I will sanctify my great name, which built upon. And I will multiply was profaned among the nations, which men and cattle upon you; and I will ye profaned in the midst of them; and cause you to dwell as at the beginning, the nations shall know that I am the and will treat you well, as Lord, when I am sanctified among you beginning. in your former times: and before their eyes. 24 And I will take ye shall know that I am the Lord. you out from the nations, and will 12 And I will increase men upon you, gather you out of all the lands, and even my people Israel; and they shall will bring you into your own land: inherit you, and ye shall be to them 25 and I will sprinkle clean water upon for a possession; and ye shall no more you, and ye shall be purged from all be bereaved of them. 13 Thus says the your uncleannesses, and from all your Lord God: Because they said to thee, idols, and I will cleanse you. 26 And Thou land devourest men, and hast I will give you a new heart, and will been bereaved of thy nation; "there- put a new spirit in you: and I will fore thou shalt no more devour men, take away the heart of stone out of and thou shalt no more bereave thy your flesh, and will give you a heart nation, says the Lord God. 15 And of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit there shall no more be heard against in you, and will cause you to walk in you the reproach of the nations, and mine ordinances, and to keep my shall no more bear the revilings of judgments, and do them. the peoples, says the Lord God. shall dwell upon the land which I 16 And the word of the Lord came gave to your fathers; and ye shall be to me, saying, 17 Son of man, the to me a people, and I will be to you house of Israel dwelt upon their land, a God. 2 And I will save you from and defiled it by their way, and with all your uncleannesses: and I will their idols, and with their unclean-call for the corn, and multiply it, + Alex. + 'for nesses; and their way was and will not bring famine upon ye the blood which they shed in the 28 And ye before me like the unclean- you. 30 And I will multiply the fruit ness of a removed woman. of the trees, and the produce of the land, and they 18 So I poured out my wrath field, that ye may not bear the reupon them: 19 and I dis- proach of famine among the nations. persed them among the nations, and 31 And ye shall remember your evil defiled it their idols.' your. + Alex. be it shall be + 6 7 + 8 9 ways, and your practices that were not I will bring upon you the breath of good, and ye shall be hateful in your life: and I will lay sinews upon you, own sight for your transgressions and and will bring up flesh upon you, and Alex. vv, for your abominations. will spread skin upon you, and will 32 Not for your sakes do I put my Spirit into you, and ye shall this, says the Lord God, as live; and ye shall know that I am the known (or, it it is known to you: be ye Lord. So I prophesied as the Lord known) to you. ashamed and confounded commanded me: and it came to pass for your ways, O house of Israel. while I was prophesying, that, behold, 33 Thus says the Lord God; In the day there was a shaking, and Commonly wherein I shall cleanse you from all the bones approached each an earthquake. your iniquities I will also cause the one to his respective joint. And I cities to be inhabited, and the waste looked, and, behold, sinews and flesh places shall be built upon: 34 and the grew upon them, and skin + Lit. skins desolate land shall be cultivated, came upon them above: but came up upon. whereas it was desolate in the eyes of there was no breath in them. And every one that passed by. 35 And they he said to me, Prophesy to the wind, shall say, That desolate land is be- prophesy, son of man, and say to the come like a garden of delight; and the wind, Thus says the Lord; Come from waste and desolate and ruined cities the four winds, and breathe upon these + Lit. have sat. are inhabited. 36 And all dead men, and let them live. 10 So I the nations, as many as shall have been prophesied as he commanded me, and left round about you, shall know that the breath entered into them, and they I the Lord have built the ruined cities lived, and stood upon their feet, a very and planted the wasted lands: I the great congregation. "And the Lord Lord have spoken, and will do it. spoke to me, saying, Son of man, 37 Thus says the Lord God; Yet for these bones are the whole house of + Possibly this this will I be sought by the Israel: and they say, Our bones are house of Israel, to establish become dry, our hope has perished, them; I will multiply them even men we are quite spent. 12 Therefore proas sheep; 38 as holy sheep, as the sheep phesy and say, Thus says the Lord; of Jerusalem in her feasts; thus shall Behold, I will open your tombs, and the desert cities be full of flocks of will bring you up out of your tombs, men: and they shall know that I am and will bring you into the land of the Lord. Israel. 13 And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, that I may bring up my people from their graves. 14 And I will put my Spirit within you, and ye shall live, and I will place you upon your own land: and ye shall know that I am the Lord; I have spoken, and will do it, says the Lord. And 15 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, take for thyself a rod, and write upon it, Juda, and the children of Israel his adherents; and thou shalt take for thyself another rod, and thou shalt inscribe it for Joseph, the rod of Ephraim, and all the children of Israel time. 37. And the hand of the Lord came upon me, and the Lord brought me forth by the Spirit, and set me in the midst of the plain, and it was full of human bones. And he led me round + Gr.in a circle. about them + every way: and, behold, there were very many on the face of the plain, very dry. 4 he said to me, Son of man, will these bones live? and I said, O Lord God, thou knowest this. And he said to me, Prophesy upon these bones, and thou shalt say to them, Ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. 5 Thus says the Lord to these bones; Behold, 16 *that belong to him. 17 And thou peace; it shall be an everlasting coGr. that are shalt join them together venant with them; and I will estabadded to him. for thyself, so as that they lish my sanctuary in the midst of should bind themselves into one stick; them for ever. 27 And my + 2 Cor. 6. 16. and they shall be in thine hand. tabernacle shall be among them; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be my people. 28 And the nations shall know that I am the Lord that sanctifies them, when my sanctuary is in the midst of them for ever. + + 3 Gog and the &c. 18 And it shall come to pass, when the children of thy people shall say to thee, Wilt thou not tell us what thou meanest by these things? 19 Then shalt thou say to them, Thus says the Lord; Behold, I will take the tribe + Heb. D of Joseph, which is in the 38. And the word of the Lord came ambiguous. hand of Ephraim, and the to me, saying, 2Son of man, set thy tribes of Israel that belong to him, and face against Gog, and the land of MaI will add them to the tribe of Juda, gog, Rhos, prince of Mesoch and Thoand they shall become one rod in the bel, and prophesy against him, 3 and hand of Juda. 20 And the rods on say to him, Thus says the Lord, God; which thou didst write shall be in thine Behold, I am against thee, Rhos hand in their presence. 21 And thou prince of Mesoch and Tho- + Or, chief shalt say to them, Thus says the Lord, bel: 'and I will gather thee, prince; Alex. the Lord; Behold, I will take the and all thine host, horses prince of Rhos, whole house of Israel out of the midst and horsemen, all wearing of the nations, among whom they have breast-plates, with a great multitude, gone, and I will gather them from all shields and helmets and swords: 5 Perthat are round about them, and I will sians, and Ethiopians, and Libyans; bring them into the land of Israel. all with helmets and shields. Gomer, 22 And I will make them a nation in and all belonging to him; the house my land, even on the mountains of of Thorgama, from the end of the Gr. there Israel; and they shall have north, and all belonging to him; and prince of them. One prince: and they shall many nations with thee. Be thou be no more two nations, neither shall prepared, prepare thyself, thou, and they be divided any more at all into all thy multitude that is assembled two kingdoms: 23 that they may no with thee, and thou shalt be to me for more defile themselves with their idols; a guard. He shall be prepared after and I will deliver them from all their many days, and he shall come at the transgressions whereby they have sin- end of years, and shall come to a land ned, and will cleanse them; and they that is brought back from the sword, shall be to me a people, and I the when the people are gathered from Lord will be to them a God. 24 And many nations against the land of Israel, my servant David shall be a prince in which was entirely desolate: and he is the midst of them: there shall be one come forth out of the nations, and shepherd of them all; for they shall they shall all dwell securely. And walk in mine ordinances, and keep my thou shalt go up as rain, and shalt judgments, and do them. 25 And they arrive as a cloud to cover the land, shall dwell in their land, which I have and there shall be thou, Gr. thou given to my servant Jacob, where and all that are about thee, shalt be. their fathers dwelt; and they shall and many nations with thee. Alex. + and dwell upon and David says the Lord God; It shall also come and their chil- my servant shall be their to pass in that day, that Lit. words, 26 And I + dren for ever. prince for ever. thoughts shall come up will make with them a covenant of into thine heart, and thou shalt devise shall be one their children dren's chil it: 9 10 Thus i. e. things. |
