28 The 21 suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. 29 And all that handle the oar, the Before CHRIST, 588. pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. 9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, 21 or, waves. be a man, and no god, in the hand of him shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land; 30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly,| and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: 31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird themselves with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter] wailing. 32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyre, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea? 22 Heb. terrors. 23 Heb. shalt 1 Heb. heart. 33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy Is. 31. 3. merchandise. 34 In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall. 35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be terribly afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance. 36 The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be 22 a terror, and 23 never shalt be any more. CHAP. XXVIII. 2 Heb. By that 3 slayeth thee. 10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God. 11 ¶ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus saith the Lord GoD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the 4 sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the 5 beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. 14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till ini the great.quity was found in thee. ness of thy wisdom. 3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; 5 or, chrysothere is no secret that they can hide from lite. thee: 4 With thy wisdom and with thy understanding thou hast gained for thee riches, and hast gained gold and silver into thy treasures: 5 2 By thy great wisdom and by thy 16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 17 Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. 18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thy iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee; and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. 19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more. 20 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 21 Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it, 22 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; traffick hast thou increased thy riches, 6 or, chryso- Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and thy heart is lifted up because of thy prase. riches: 6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God; 7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against 7 Heb. terthe beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall rors. defile thy brightness. 8 They shall bring thee down to the and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her. 23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD. 24 And there shall be no more, a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are around them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD. Before 589. 34 25 Thus saith the Lord GOD; when I 26 And they shall dwells safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yes, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that 9 despise them around them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God. CHAP. XXIX. 9 or, spoil. Ps.74.13.14. Isa. 27. 1. & 1 Heb. face of the field. 1 The judgment of Pharaoh, for his treachery Israel shall be restored. N the tenth year, in the tenth month, word of the LORD came to me, saying, 3 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GoD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is my own, and I have made it for myself. 2 Heb. are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. 13 ¶ Yet thus saith the Lord God; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered: 14 And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a 5 base kingdom. 15 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will dimin ish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. 16 And it shall be no more the confi dence of the house of Israel, which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD. 17¶ And it came to pass in the seven wastes of and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, waste. 3 Heb. Isa. 19. 23. 18 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyre, for the service that he had served against it: 4 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick Jer. 46. 26. Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to to thy scales, and I will bring thee out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick to thy scales. 5 And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the 1 open fields; thou shalt not be brought togeth-4 or, birth. er, nor gathered: I have given thee for food to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of heaven. 6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because 5 Heb. low. they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. 7 When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou didst break, and make all their loins to be at a stand. Heb. spoil her spoil, 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; 7 or, for his Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, hire. and cut off man and beast out of thee. 9 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that 1 or, unhap I am the LORD: because he hath said, py day. The river is mine, and I have made it. 10 Behold, therefore, I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will 2 or, fear. make the land of Egypt 2 utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of 3 Syene even to the border of Cush. 3 Heb. Phut. 11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years. 4 Heb. chil 12 And I will make the land of Egypt dren. desolate in the midst of the countries that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and 6 take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. 20 I have given him the land of Egypt 7 for his labor with which he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD. 21 In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD. Tme, saying, 2 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Alas the 1 day! 3 For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen. 4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great 2 pain shall be in Cush, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down. 5 Cush, and 3 Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Kub, and the 4 men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword. 6 Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD. 7 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted. 8 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed. 9 In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Cushites afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for lo, it cometh. 10 Thus saith the Lord God; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon. Before 594. 5 Heb. bro- 6 Heb. 7 Heb. the fullness 10 or, Heliop. 11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw "olis. their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain. 12 And I will make the rivers 6 dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked and I will make the land waste, and 7 all that is in it, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it. a 11 or, Pu- 12 or, re 13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will strained. also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt. 14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in 8 Zoan, and will exe-1 cute judgments in No. 15 And I will pour my fury upon 9 Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No. Heb. fair of branch es. 2 or, nour. 16 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be "ished. rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily. 17 The young men of 10 Aven and of 11 Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity. him up. 23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. 24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man. 25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt. 26 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD. CHAP. XXXI. 1 A relation to Pharaoh, 3 of the glory of Assyria, 10 and the fall of it for pride. 18 The like destruction of Egypt. ΑΝ ND it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? 3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon i with fair branches, and with a shady cover, and of a high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. 4 The waters 2 made him great, the deep 3 set him up on high with her rivers running round his plants, and sent out her 4 little rivers to all the trees of the field. 5 Therefore his hight was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, 5 when he shot forth. 6 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shade 18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be 12 darkened, when I shall break there 3or, brought dwelt all great nations. the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity. 19 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the LORD. 4 or, condu 7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters. 8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir-trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut-trees were not like his branches; not any tree 20 And it came to pass in the elev-5 or, when it in the garden of God was like to him in sent them enth year, in the first month, in the sev- forth. enth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying, his beauty. 9 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees 21 Son of man, I have broken the arm a Dan. 4. 12. of Eden, that were in the garden of God, of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to Gen. 2. 8. hold the sword. 22 Therefore thus saith the Lord GoD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand. 6 Heb. in do- envied him. 10 Therefore thus saith the Lord Gop; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in hight, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his hight; 11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness. s Before CHRIST, 587. or, stand upon themselves for their hight. abyss, or, lower region. 9 Heb. to be black. 13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches: 14 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their hight, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees 7 stand up in their hight, all that drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit. 15 Thus saith the Lord Gon; In the 10 or, abyss. day when he went down to the 8 grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its floods, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon 9 to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. 16 I made the nations to shake at the 11 abyss, or, lower re gion. 5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy hight. 6 I will also water with thy blood 2 the land in which thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee. 7 And when I shall extinguish thee, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. 8 All the 3 bright lights of heaven will I make 4 dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD. 9 I will also 5 vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known. 10 Yes, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall. 11 For thus saith the Lord God; sound of his fall, when I cast him down lor, dragon. The sword of the king of Babylon shall to the 10 grave with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, come upon thee. 12 By the swords of the mighty will I the choice and best of Lebanon, all that c. 12. 13. & cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth. 17 They also went down into the 11 grave with him to them that are slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shade in the midst of the heathen. 18 To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden to the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD. CHAP. XXXII. 1 A lamentation for the fearful fall of Egypt: 11 The sword of Babylon shall destroy it: 17 It shall be brought down among all the uncircumcised nations. A 3 17.20. 2or, the land of thy swimming. Isa. 13. 10. 3. 15. Heb. light of the light in heaven. the nations, all of them: and they shall lay waste the pomp of Egypt, and all its multitude shall be destroyed. 13 I will destroy also all its beasts from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man disturb them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts disturb them. 14 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD. 15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be 6 destitute of that of which it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell in it, then shall they know that I am the LORD. 16 This is the lamentation with which they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall ND it came to pass in the twelfth Heb. them lament for her, even for Egypt, and for year, in the twelfth month, in 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 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a 1 whale in the seas: and thou didst come forth with thy rivers, and disturb the waters with thy feet, and render their rivers foul. 3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net. 4 Then will I leave thee upon the land, and I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee. 6 dark. 5 Heb. pro voke to an ger, or, grief. all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD. 17 ¶ It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, Heb. deso-to the nether parts of the earth, with late from them that go down into the pit. the full.. ness of it. 7 or, the sword is laid. sabyss, or, lower re." gion. 19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised. 20 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: 7 she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes. 21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of the 8 grave with them that help him: they 626 Before are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, CHRIST, slain by the sword. 22 Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword: 587. 23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is around her 9or, disgrave: all of them slain, fallen by the maying. sword, who caused 9 terror in the land of the living. 24 There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit. 25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: 10 Heb. with her graves are around him: all of them weapons of uncircumcised, slain by the sword: their war. though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that are slain. 26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are around him all of them uncircumcised, slain he prophesieth the desolation of the land. 30 God's judgment upon the mockers of the prophets. AGAIN the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say to them, 1 When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their borders, and set him for their watchman: 3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he shall blow the trumpet, and warn the people; 4 Then 2 whoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword shall come and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.' 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. 6 But if the watchman shall see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword shall come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. a 7¶ So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman to the house of Israel; by the sword, though they caused their 11 Heb. giv: therefore thou shalt hear the word at my terror in the land of the living. 27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, who are gone down to the grave, 10 with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. 28 Yes, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword. 29 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, who with their might are 11 laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit. 1 2 en, or, put. Heb. A land when Heb. he mouth, and warn them from me. 8 When I say to the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand. 9 Nevertheless, if thou shalt warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he shall not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. 10 T Therefore, O thou son of man, that hear-speak to the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and ing hearour sins are upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live? eth. 11 Say to them, As I live, saith the 30 There are the princes of the north, a c. 3. 17, &c. Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the all of them, and all the Zidonians, who are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them death of the wicked; but that the wicked should turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for that are slain by the sword, and bear 2 Sam. 14. why will ye die, O house of Israel? their shame with them that go down to the pit. 31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD. 14. c. 18. 32. cc. 18. 31. 32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them & c. 18. 24. that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD. CHAP. XXXIII. ' 12 Therefore, thou son of man, say to the children of thy people, The & righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his rightcousness in the day that he sinneth. 13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he shall trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it. 14 Again, when I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he shall turn from his sin, and do 3 that which is lawful and right; |