Israel's abominations. CHAP. VII.
Israel, hear the word of the Lord
GOD: Thus saith the Lord GoD
to the mountains, and to the hills,
to the rivers, and to the valleys;
Behold, I, even I, will bring a
sword upon you, and I will de-
stroy your high places.

4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

5 And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel be- MOREOVER the word of the fore their idols; and I will scattering, your bones round about your 2 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the 6 In all your dwelling-places land of Israel; An end, the end is the cities shall be laid waste, and come upon the four corners of the the high places shall be desolate; land.. that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them 13 Then shall ye know that I shall remain, nor of their multiam the LORD, when their slain tude, nor of any of theirs: neither men shall be among their idols shall there be wailing for them.. round about their altars, upon 12 The time is come, the day every high hill, in all the tops of draweth near: let not the buyer the mountains, and under every rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for green tree, and under every thick wrath is upon all the multitude oak, the place where they did thereof.

The mournful repentance

EZEKIEL,

of them that escape.

law shall perish from the priest,
and counsel from the ancients.
27 The king shall mourn, and the

13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude there-prince shall be clothed with deso

of, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none greth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.

16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, ail of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.

17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

lation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them, and they shall know that I am the LORD.

CHAP. VIII.

Vision of the Image of Jealousy. AND it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.

2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appear, ance of brightness, as the colour of amber.

3 And he put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the spirit lifted me up 19 They shall cast their silver in between the earth and the heaven, the streets, and their gold shall be and brought me in the visions of removed: their silver and their God to Jerusalem, to the door of gold shall not be able to deliver the inner gate that looketh toward them in the day of the wrath of the north; where was the seat of the LORD: they shall not satisfy the image of jealousy, which protheir souls, neither fill their bowels: voketh to jealousy. because it is the stumbling-block of their iniquity.

20 TAs for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.

21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place; for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

23 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease, and their holy places shall be defiled.

25 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be

none.

26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek vision of the prophet; but the

4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.

5 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jea lousy in the entry,

6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.

7 1 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.

8 Then said he unto me, Son o man, dig now in the wall and when I had digged in the wall, be hold a door.

9 And he said unto me, Go in. and behold the wicked abomina tions that they do here.

10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel,

Judah's idolatry.
CHAP. X.
pourtrayed upon the wall round
about.

The marked, preserved.

and they went in and stood beside the brazen altar.

11 And there stood before them 3 And the glory of the God of Isseventy men of the ancients of the racl was gone up from the cherub house of Israel, and in the midst whereupon he was, to the threshold of them stood Jaazaniah the son of of the house. And he called to the Shaphan, with every man his cen-man clothed with linen, which had ser in his hand; and a thick cloud the writer's inkhorn by his side; of incense went up.

12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.

4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that bo done in the midst thereof.

5 And to the others he said in 13 1 He said also unto me, Turn my hearing, Go ye after him thee yet again, and thou shalt through the city, and smite: let see greater abominations that they not your eyes spare, neither have do. ye pity:

14 Then he brought me to the 6 Slay utterly old and young door of the gate of the LORD's both maids, and little children, and house which was toward the north; women: but come not near any and behold, there sat women weep-man upon whom is the mark; and ing for Tammuz. begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.

15 1 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these..

16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house, and behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.

17 T Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger; and lo, they put the branch to their nose.

7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.

81 And it came to pass while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?

9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.

10 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.

18 Therefore will I also deal in fury mine eye shall not spare, 11 And behold, the man clothed neither will I have pity: and with linen, which had the inkhorn though they cry in mine ears with by his side, reported the matter, a loud voice, yet will I not hear saying, I have done as thou hast them. commanded me.

HE

CHAP. IX. The Marked, preserved. E cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.

CHAP. X.

Vision of the Coals of Fire. THEN I looked, and behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubim there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

2 And behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, 2 And he spake unto the man which lieth toward the north, and clothed with linen, and said, Go every man a slaughter-weapon in between the wheels, even under in his hand; and one man among the cherub, and fill thy hand them was clothed with linen, with with coals of fire from between a writer's inkhorn by his side: 1 the cherubims, and scatter them

Ezekiel's vision

EZEKIEL,

over the city. And he went in in my sight.

3 Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

4 Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD's glory.

5 And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almignty God when he speaketh.

6 And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.

71 And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it, and went out.

8 And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand under their wings.

9 And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels

was as the colour of a beryl stone. 10 And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.

11 When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they

went.

12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.

13 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel!

14 And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

15 And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.

16 And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them:

of the cherubims. and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them.

17 When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.

18 Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims.

19 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD's house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims.

21 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.

22 And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appear ances and themselves: they went every one straight forward.

CHAP. XI. The Princes' Sin and Judgment. M me up, and brought me unto OREOVER, the spirit lifted the east gate of the LORD's house, which looketh eastward: and be hold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.

2 Then said he unto me. Son of man, these are the men that de vise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:

3 Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.

4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.

5 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them.

6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.

7 Therefore thus saith the Lord Gon: Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron

Israel's restoration foretold.CHAP. XII. Type of Ezekiel's removing. but I will bring you forth out of the [my people, and I will be their God.

8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GoD.

9 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among

22 Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels be10 Ye shall fall by the sword; Iside them; and the glory of the will judge you in the border of Is- God of Israel was over them rael; and ye shall know that I am above. the LORD.