JEZEKIEL. + there. CHAPTER I. VERSES 1-21. Inixteenth of the reign of Nembad 227 24. "And their body. + 15 And Alex. & Heb. supply v. 14. creatures ran "And the living and returned at the appear ance of Bezec.' 1. NOW it came to pass in the thir- face of an eagle to the four. tieth year, in the fourth month, on the the four had their wings spread out fifth day of the month, that I was in above; each one had two joined to one the midst of the captivity by the river another, and two covered their bodies. of Chobar; and the heavens were 12 And each one went straight + Lit. over opened, and I saw visions of God. forward: wherever the spirit 2 On the fifth day of the month; this was going they went, and turned not was the fifth year of the captivity of back. 13 And in the midst of the living king Joakim. 3 And the word of the creatures there was an appearance as Lord came to Jezekiel the priest, the of burning coals of fire, as an appearson of Buzi, in the land of the Chal-ance of lamps turning + i. e. revolvdeans, by the river of Chobar; and the among the living creatures; ing. hand of the Lord was upon me. And and the brightness of fire, and out of +Heb. & Alex. I looked, and, behold, a the fire came forth lightning. sweeping wind came from I looked, and, behold, the the north, and a great cloud on it, and four had each one wheel on there was brightness round about it, the ground near the living and gleaming fire, and in the midst of creatures. 16 And the apit as it were the appearance of amber pearance of the wheels was in the midst of the fire, and brightness as the appearance of beryl: and the in it. "And in the midst as it were four had one likeness: and their work the likeness of four living creatures. was as it were a wheel in a wheel. And this was their appearance; the 17 They went on their four sides: likeness of a man was upon them. they turned not as they + Or, parts. And each one had four faces, and went; 18 neither did their backs turn: each one had four wings. And their and they were high and I beheld legs were straight; and their feet were them, and the backs of them four were winged, and there were sparks, like full of eyes round about. 19 And gleaming brass, and their wings were when the living creatures went, the light. And the hand of a man was wheels went by them: and when the under their wings on their four sides. living creatures lifted themselves off 9+ And the faces of them four the earth, the wheels were lifted off. Alex.+and turned not when they went; 20 Wherever the cloud happened to be, the wings of they went every one straight there was the spirit 'ready forward. 10 And the like- to go: the wheels went and power. one to another.' ness of their faces was the were lifted up with them; creatures face of a man, and the face of a lion on because the spirit of life was probably. the right to the four; and the face of in the wheels. 21 When those went, a calf on the left to the four; and the the wheels went; and when those stood, + Gr. parts. their faces and them four were joined + + Or, with + sc. the living noise. Alex. + the sound of the Mighty One, when they went sound of 5 a + Heb. & Alex. for they are dren and stiffsend thee to impudent chil hearted, I do 8 the wheels stood; and when those lifted this day. 4+ And thou shalt say to themselves off the earth, they were them, Thus says the Lord. lifted off with them: for the spirit of Whether then indeed they life was in the wheels. 22 And the shall hear or fear, (for it is likeness over the heads of the living provoking house), yet they creatures was as a firmament, as the shall know that thou art a them.' appearance of crystal, spread out over prophet in the midst of them. And their wings above. 23 And their wings thou, son of man, fear them not, nor were spread out under the firmament, be dismayed at their face; (for they * See 2 Cor. + Or, clapping reaching one to the other; will madden and will rise or making a two wings to each, cover-up against thee round about, 11.28. Ovveevueva, ing their bodies. 24 And I and thou dwellest in the midst of joined with. heard the sound of their scorpions): be not afraid of their wings when they went, as the sound words, nor be dismayed at their counAlex. + as of much water: and when tenance, for it is a provoking house. they stood, their wings And thou shalt speak my words to were let down. 25 And them, whether they will hear or fear: there was the lo! a voice from above the for it is a provoking house. And speech as the firmament 26 that was over thou, son of man, hear him that speaks their head, there was as the to thee; be not thou provoking, as of a sapphire the provoking house: open thy mouth, appearance 9 And I *Alex.+'when stone, and the likeness of a and eat what I give thee. throne upon it: and upon looked, and behold, a hand stretched were let down.' the likeness of the throne out to me, and in it a volume of a + Gr. ceased. was the likeness as an ap- book. 10 And he unrolled it before me: pearance of a man above. 27 And I and in it the front and the back were saw as it were the resemblance of written upon: and there was written amber from the appearance in it Lamentation, and mournful song, of the loins and upwards, and woe. And he said to me, Son and from the appearance of of man, eat this volume, and go and the loins and under I saw speak to the children of Israel. 2 So an appearance of fire, and the bright- he opened my mouth, and caused me + Gr. σráσis ness thereof round about. to eat the volume. standing, or, 28 As the appearance of the Ald. ὅρασις. bow when it is in the cloud in days of rain, so was the * form of the brightness round about. sound of an army,' nearly according to the Heb. they stood their wings + Heb. & Alex. 'as the appearance of fire within it round about.' condition. + 2. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And I saw and fell upon my face, and heard the voice of one speaking: and he said to me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak to thee. And the Spirit came upon me, and took me up, and raised me, and set me on my feet: and I heard him speaking to me. 3 And he said to me, Son of man, I send thee forth to the house of Israel, them that provoke me; who have provoked me, they and their fathers, to 3 4 3. And he said to me, Son of man, thy mouth shall eat, and thy belly shall be filled with this volume that is given to thee. So I ate it; and it was in my mouth as sweet honey. And he said to me, Son of man, go thy way, and go in to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them. 5 For thou art not sent to a people of hard speech, but to the house of Gr. of deep Israel; neither to many tongue. nations of other speech and other tongues, nor of harsh language, whose words thou wouldest not understand: although if I had sent thee to such, they would have hearkened to thee. But the house of Israel will not be 6 8 10 9 Βάσανος in Old ment, as kódα torment, 1 John willing to hearken to thee; for they | wicked, and he turn not from his will not hearken to me: for all the wickedness, and from his way, that house of Israel are stubborn and hard- wicked man shall die in his iniquity, hearted. And, behold, I have made and thou shalt deliver thy soul. 20 And thy face strong against their faces, and when the righteous turns away from +Gr. victory, I will strengthen thy power his righteousness, and commits a tressee Heb. against their power. And pass, and I shall bring punishment it shall be continually stronger than a before him, he shall die, lit. torment, rock: be not afraid of them, neither because thou didst not warn Test. seems to be dismayed at their faces, because it him: he shall even die in signify punishis a provoking house. And he said his sins, because his right- sin N.T.does to me, Son of man, receive into thine eousness shall not be re- 4. 18. heart all the words that I have spoken membered; but his blood will I require to thee, and hear them with thine ears. at thine hand. 21 But if thou warn And go thy way, go in to the cap- the righteous not to sin, and he sin tivity, to the children of thy people, not, the righteous shall surely live, and thou shalt speak to them, and say because thou hast warned him; and to them, Thus says the Lord; whether thou shalt deliver thine own soul. they will hear, or whether they will forbear. 12 Then the Spirit took me up, and I heard behind me the voice as of a great earthquake, saying, Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place. 13 And I perceived the sound of the wings of the living creatures clapping one to the other, and the sound of the wheels was near them, and the sound of the earthquake. 14 And the Spirit lifted me, and took me up, and I went in the impulse of my spirit; and the hand of the Lord was mighty upon me. word. 15 Then I passed through the air +See Hebrew. and came into the captivity, and went round to them that dwelt by the river of Chobar who were there; and I sat there seven days, 'conversing sc. in the old in the midst of them. 16And sense of the after the seven days the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, 17 I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel; and thou shalt hear a word of my mouth, and shalt threaten them from me. 18 When I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou hast not warned him, to give warning to the wicked, to turn from his ways, that he should live; that wicked man should die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand. 19 But if thou warn the 22 And the hand of the Lord came upon me; and he said to me, Arise, and go forth into the plain, and there shalt thou be spoken to. 23 And I arose, and went forth to the plain: and, behold, the glory of the Lord stood there, according to the vision, and according to the glory of the Lord, which I saw by the river of Chobar: and I fell on my face. 24 Then the Spirit came upon me, and set me on my feet, and spoke to me, and said to me, Go in, and shut thyself up in the midst of thine house. 25 And thou, son of man, behold, bonds are prepared for thee, and they shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not come forth of the midst of them. 26 Also I will bind thy tongue, and thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: because it is a provoking house. 27 But when I speak to thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say to them, Thus says the Lord, He that hears, let him hear; and he that is disobedient, let him be disobedient: because it is a provoking house. 4. And thou, son of man, take thee a brick, and thou shalt set it before thy face, and shalt portray on it the city, even Jerusalem. And thou shalt besiege it, and build works against it, 3 + + shall the children of Israel eat unclean 17 bread and water; and a man and his brother shall be brought to ruin, and they shall pine away in their iniquities. and throw up a mound round about it, and pitch camps against it, and set up engines round about. And take thou to thyself an iron pan, and thou shalt set it for an iron wall between thee and the city: and thou shalt set thy face against it, and it shall be in a siege, and thou shalt besiege it. This is a sign to the children of Israel. And thou shalt lie upon thy left side, and lay the iniquities of the house of Israel upon it, according to the number of the hundred and fifty days during which thou shalt lie upon it: and thou shalt bear their iniquities. 5 For I have appointed thee their iniquities for a number of days, for a hundred and ninety days: so thou shalt bear the iniquities of the house of Israel. And lit. these thou shalt accomplish this, things. and then shalt lie on thy right side, and shalt bear the iniquities of the house of Juda forty days: I 5. And thou, son of man, take thee have appointed thee a day for a year. a sword sharper than a barber's razor; 7 So thou shall set thy face to the siege thou shalt procure it for thyself, of Jerusalem, and shalt strengthen and shalt bring it upon thine head, thine arm, and shalt prophesy against and upon thy beard: and thou shalt it. And, behold, I have prepared take a pair of scales, and shalt separate bonds for thee, and thou mayest not the hair. 2 A fourth part + Gr. them, turn from thy one side to the other, thou shalt burn in the fire masculine. until the days of thy siege shall be in the midst of the city, at the fulfilaccomplished. 9 Take thou also to ment of the days of the siege: and thee wheat, and barley, and beans, thou shalt take a fourth part, and burn and lentiles, and millet, and bread-it up in the midst of it: and a fourth + Or, oats. corn; and thou shalt cast part thou shalt cut with a them into one earthen vessel, and shalt sword round about it: and a fourth make them into loaves for thyself; part thou shalt scatter to the wind; and and thou shalt eat them a hundred and I will draw out a sword + Gr. empty, ninety days, according to the number after them. And thou shalt or, exhaust. of the days during which thou sleepest take thence a few in number, and shalt on thy side. 10 And thou shalt eat thy wrap them in the fold of thy garment. food by weight, twenty shekels a day: And thou shalt take of these again, from time to time shalt thou eat them. and cast them into the midst of the fire, 11 And thou shalt drink water by and burn them up with fire: from measure, even from time to time thou thence shall come forth fire; and thou shalt drink the sixth part of a hin. thalt say to the whole house of Israel, 12 And thou shalt eat them as a barley5 Thus says the Lord; This is Jerusalit. hide, cake: thou shalt bake them lem: I have set her and the countries whence έγκρυ pías, a cake. before their eyes in man's round about her in the midst of the dung. 13 And thou shalt say, Thus nations. And thou shalt declare mine says the Lord God of Israel; Thus ordinances to the lawless one from out 4 6 + Of the city. of the nations; and my statutes to the shafts of famine, then they shall be sinful one of the countries round about consumed, and I will break the strength her: because they have rejected mine of thy bread. 17 So I will send forth ordinances, and have not walked in my against thee famine and evil beasts, and statutes. 7 Therefore thus says the I will take vengeance upon thee; and Lord, Because your occasion for sin pestilence and blood shall pass through has been taken from the nations round upon thee; and I will bring a sword. about you, and ye have not walked in upon thee round about. I the Lord my statutes, nor kept mine ordinances, have spoken. nay, ye have not even done according to the ordinances of the nations round 8 6 6. And the word of the Lord came about you; therefore thus says the to me, saying, 2 Son of man, set thy Lord; Behold, I am against thee, and face against the mountains of Israel, I will execute judgment in the midst and prophesy against them; and thou of thee in the sight of the nations. shalt say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear ? And I will do in thee things which I the word of the Lord; thus says the have not done, and the like of which I Lord to the mountains, and to the hills, +Gr. according to. will not do again, for all and to the valleys, and to the forests; thine abominations. 10 Therefore the Behold, I bring a sword upon you, fathers shall eat their children in the and your high places shall be utterly midst of thee, and children shall eat destroyed. And your altars shall be their fathers; and I will execute judg- broken to pieces, and your consecrated ments in thee, and I will scatter all that plats shall be destroyed, and I will cast are left of thee to every wind. "There- down your slain men before your idols. fore, as I live, says the Lord; surely, be- 5 And I will scatter your bones round cause thou hast defiled my holy things about your altars, and in all your with all thine abominations, I also will habitations: the cities shall be made reject thee; mine eye shall not spare, desolate, and the high places utterly and I will have no mercy. 12 A fourth laid waste; that your altars may be part of thee shall be cut off by pesti- destroyed, and your idols be broken to lence, and a fourth part of thee shall pieces, and your consecrated plats be be consumed in the midst of thee with abolished. And slain men shall fall famine: and as for another fourth part in the midst of you, and ye shall know of thee, I will scatter them to every that I am the Lord. 8 When there wind; and a fourth part of thee shall are some of you escaping from the fall by the sword round about thee, sword among the Gentiles, and when and I will draw out a sword after them. ye are scattered in the countries; then 13 And my wrath and mine anger shall they of you that escape among the be accomplished upon them: and thou nations whither they were carried capshalt know that I the Lord have spoken tive shall remember me; (I have sworn in my jealousy, when I have accom- an oath against their heart + Gr. their plished mine anger upon them. 14 And that goes a-whoring from sons. I will make thee desolate, and thy me, and their eyes that go +Heb. & Alex. daughters round about thee, in the a-whoring after their prac- know that I the sight of every one that passes through. tices;) and they shall mourn said in vain 15 And thou shalt be mourned over and over themselves for all their that I would miserable among the nations round abominations. 10+ And they to them.' about thee, when I have executed shall know that I the Lord have judgments in thee in the vengeance of spoken. my wrath. I the Lord have spoken. 16 And when I have sent against them 9 'and they shall Lord have not do all this evil 11 Thus says the Lord; or, make a noise. Clap with thy hand, and stamp with |