the scribe of the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city. 052:026 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. 052:027 The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land. 052:028 This is the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand twenty-three Jews; 052:029 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty-two persons; 052:030 in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty-five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred. 052:031 It happened in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the [first] year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison; 052:032 and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon, 052:033 and changed his prison garments. [Jehoiachin] ate bread before him continually all the days of his life: 052:034 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life. Book 25 Lamentations 001:001 How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces is become tributary! 001:002 She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies. 001:003 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; she dwells among the nations, she finds no rest: all her persecutors overtook her within the straits. 001:004 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness. 001:005 Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary. 001:006 From the daughter of Zion all her majesty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, they are gone without strength before the pursuer. 001:007 Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help her, The adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations. 001:008 Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing; all who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yes, she sighs, and turns backward. 001:009 Her filthiness was in her skirts; she didn't remember her latter end; therefore is she come down wonderfully; she has no comforter: see, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself. 001:010 The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things: for she has seen that the nations are entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom you did command that they should not enter into your assembly. 001:011 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: look, Yahweh, and see; for I am become abject. 001:012 Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there be any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, With which Yahweh has afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger. 001:013 From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day. 001:014 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they are come up on my neck; he has made my strength to fail: The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand. 001:015 The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men in the midst of me; He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men: The Lord has trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah. 001:016 For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water; Because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed. 001:017 Zion spreads forth her hands; there is none to comfort her; Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are round about him should be his adversaries: Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing. 001:018 Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity. 001:019 I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me: My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls. 001:020 See, Yahweh; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death. 001:021 They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they shall be like me. 001:022 Let all their wickedness come before you; Do to them, as you have done to me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint. 002:001 How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, And hasn't remembered his footstool in the day of his anger. 002:002 The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; he has profaned the kingdom and the princes of it. 002:003 He has cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours round about. 002:004 He has bent his bow like an enemy, he has stood with his right hand as an adversary, Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Zion he has poured out his wrath like fire. 002:005 The Lord is become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds; He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. 002:006 He has violently taken away his tent, as if it were of a garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly: Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, Has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest. 002:007 The Lord has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary; He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: They have made a noise in the house of Yahweh, as in the day of a solemn assembly. 002:008 Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together. 002:009 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh. 002:010 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust on their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. 002:011 My eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city. 002:012 They tell their mothers, Where is grain and wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom. 002:013 What shall I testify to you? what shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is great like the sea: who can heal you? 002:014 Your prophets have seen for you false and foolish visions; They have not uncovered your iniquity, to bring back your captivity, But have seen for you false oracles and causes of banishment. 002:015 All that pass by clap their hands at you; They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? 002:016 All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it. 002:017 Yahweh has done that which he purposed; he has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; He has thrown down, and has not pitied: He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; he has exalted the horn of your adversaries. 002:018 Their heart cried to the Lord: wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no respite; don't let the apple of your eye cease. 002:019 Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street. 002:020 Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord? 002:021 The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: You have killed them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered, [and] not pitied. 002:022 You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side; There was none that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh's anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up has my enemy consumed. 003:001 I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 003:002 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. 003:003 Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day. 003:004 My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones. 003:005 He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 003:006 He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead. 003:007 He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy. 003:008 Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer. 003:009 He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked. 003:010 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places. 003:011 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate. 003:012 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. 003:013 He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys. 003:014 I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. 003:015 He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood. 003:016 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes. 003:017 You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity. 003:018 I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh. 003:019 Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. 003:020 My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me. 003:021 This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope. 003:022 [It is of] Yahweh's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't fail. 003:023 They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. 003:024 Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him. 003:025 Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him. 003:026 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh. 003:027 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. 003:028 Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him. 003:029 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. 003:030 Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach. 003:031 For the Lord will not cast off forever. 003:032 For though he cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. 003:033 For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men. 003:034 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth, 003:035 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High, 003:036 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn't approve. 003:037 Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn't command it? 003:038 Doesn't evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High? 003:039 Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? 003:040 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh. 003:041 Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens. 003:042 We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned. 003:043 You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied. 003:044 You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through. 003:045 You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples. 003:046 All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us. 003:047 Fear and the pit are come on us, devastation and destruction. 003:048 My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 003:049 My eye pours down, and doesn't cease, without any intermission, 003:050 Until Yahweh look down, and see from heaven. 003:051 My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city. 003:052 They have chased me sore like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause. 003:053 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me. 003:054 Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off. 003:055 I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon. 003:056 You heard my voice; don't hide your ear at my breathing, at my cry. 003:057 You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, Don't be afraid. 003:058 Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life. 003:059 Yahweh, you have seen my wrong; judge you my cause. 003:060 You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me. 003:061 You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their devices against me, 003:062 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. 003:063 See you their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song. 003:064 You will render to them a recompense, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands. 003:065 You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them. 003:066 You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh. 004:001 How is the gold become dim! [how] is the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street. 004:002 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! 004:003 Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. 004:004 The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them. 004:005 Those who did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. 004:006 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid on her. 004:007 Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire. 004:008 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. 004:009 Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field. 004:010 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people. 004:011 Yahweh has accomplished his wrath, he has poured out his fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured the foundations of it. 004:012 The kings of the earth didn't believe, neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem. 004:013 [It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her. 004:014 They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men can't touch their garments. 004:015 Depart you, they cried to them, Unclean! depart, depart, don't touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn [here]. 004:016 The anger of Yahweh has scattered them; he will no more regard them: They didn't respect the persons of the priests, they didn't favor the elders. 004:017 Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save. 004:018 They hunt our steps, so that we can't go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. 004:019 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. 004:020 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations. 004:021 Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of Uz: The cup shall pass through to you also; you shall be drunken, and shall make yourself naked. 004:022 The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion; he will no more carry you away into captivity: He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom; he will uncover your sins. 005:001 Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach. 005:002 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens. 005:003 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows. 005:004 We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us. 005:005 Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest. 005:006 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 005:007 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities. 005:008 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand. 005:009 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness. 005:010 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine. 005:011 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah. 005:012 Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored. 005:013 The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood. 005:014 The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music. 005:015 The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning. 005:016 The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned. 005:017 For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim; 005:018 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it. 005:019 You, Yahweh, abide forever; Your throne is from generation to generation. 005:020 Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time? 005:021 Turn you us to you, Yahweh, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old. 005:022 But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us. Book 26 Ezekiel 001:001 Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. 001:002 In the fifth [day] of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity, 001:003 the word of Yahweh came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of Yahweh was there on him. 001:004 I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness round about it, and out of the midst of it as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire. 001:005 Out of the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man. 001:006 Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings. 001:007 Their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled like burnished brass. 001:008 They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings [thus]: 001:009 their wings were joined one to another; they didn't turn when they went; each one went straight forward. 001:010 As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and they four had the face of a lion on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four had also the face of an eagle. 001:011 Their faces and their wings were separate above; two [wings] of each one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies. 001:012 Each one went straight forward: where the spirit was to go, they went; they didn't turn when they went. 001:013 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches: [the fire] went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning. 001:014 The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning. 001:015 Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, one wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces of it. 001:016 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl: and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel. 001:017 When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn't turn when they went. 001:018 As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four had their rims full of eyes round about. 001:019 When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. 001:020 Wherever the spirit was to go, they went; there was the spirit to go: and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. 001:021 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. 001:022 Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of an expanse, like the awesome crystal to look on, stretched forth over their heads above. 001:023 Under the expanse were their wings straight, the one toward the other: each one had two which covered on this side, and every one had two which covered on that side, their bodies. 001:024 When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of an army: when they stood, they let down their wings. 001:025 There was a voice above the expanse that was over their heads: when they stood, they let down their wings. 001:026 Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire{or, lapis lazuli} stone; and on the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above. 001:027 I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it round about, from the appearance of his waist and upward; and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness round about him. 001:028 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahweh. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke. 002:001 He said to me, Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you. 002:002 The Spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and I heard him who spoke to me. 002:003 He said to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to nations that are rebellious, which have rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day. 002:004 The children are impudent and stiff-hearted: I am sending you to them; and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh. 002:005 They, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house), yet shall know that there has been a prophet among them. 002:006 You, son of man, don't be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you do dwell among scorpions: don't be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house. 002:007 You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious. 002:008 But you, son of man, hear what I tell you; don't be you rebellious like that rebellious house: open your mouth, and eat that which I give you. 002:009 When I looked, behold, a hand was put forth to me; and, behold, a scroll of a book was therein; 002:010 He spread it before me: and it was written within and without; and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe. 003:001 He said to me, Son of man, eat that which you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel. 003:002 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll. 003:003 He said to me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness. 003:004 He said to me, Son of man, go, get you to the house of Israel, and speak with my words to them. 003:005 For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel; 003:006 not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you. 003:007 But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are of hard forehead and of a stiff heart. 003:008 Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads. 003:009 As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: don't be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house. 003:010 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears. 003:011 Go, get you to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. 003:012 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, [saying], Blessed be the glory of Yahweh from his place. 003:013 [I heard] the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, even the noise of a great rushing. 003:014 So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Yahweh was strong on me. 003:015 Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days. 003:016 It happened at the end of seven days, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 003:017 Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. 003:018 When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand. 003:019 Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn't turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul. 003:020 Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand. 003:021 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul. 003:022 The hand of Yahweh was there on me; and he said to me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with you. 003:023 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and behold, the glory of Yahweh stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face. 003:024 Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet; and he spoke with me, and said to me, Go, shut yourself within your house. 003:025 But you, son of man, behold, they shall lay bands on you, and shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them: 003:026 and I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth, that you shall be mute, and shall not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house. 003:027 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: He who hears, let him hear; and he who forbears, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house. 004:001 You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before you, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem: 004:002 and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it round about. 004:003 Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. 004:004 Moreover lie you on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity. 004:005 For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days: so shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 004:006 Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it to you. 004:007 You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it. 004:008 Behold, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege. 004:009 Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make you bread of it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, shall you eat of it. 004:010 Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shall you eat it. 004:011 You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shall you drink. 004:012 You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man. 004:013 Yahweh said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them. 004:014 Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth. 004:015 Then he said to me, Behold, I have given you cow's dung for man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread thereon. 004:016 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay: 004:017 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity. 005:001 You, son of man, take a sharp sword; [as] a barber's razor shall you take it to you, and shall cause it to pass on your head and on your beard: then take balances to weigh, and divide the hair. 005:002 A third part shall you burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third part, and strike with the sword round about it; and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them. 005:003 You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in your skirts. 005:004 Of these again shall you take, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; from it shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel. 005:005 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her. 005:006 She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are round about her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them. 005:007 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you are turbulent more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you; 005:008 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations. 005:009 I will do in you that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all your abominations. 005:010 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of you, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you; and the whole remnant of you will I scatter to all the winds. 005:011 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish [you]; neither shall my eye spare, and I also will have no pity. 005:012 A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you; and a third part shall fall by the sword round about you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them. 005:013 Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I shall be comforted; and they shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them. 005:014 Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are round about you, in the sight of all that pass by. 005:015 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are round about you, when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Yahweh, have spoken it;) 005:016 when I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread; 005:017 and I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they shall bereave you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring the sword on you: I, Yahweh, have spoken it. 006:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 006:002 Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy to them, 006:003 and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places. 006:004 Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. 006:005 I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. 006:006 In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your incense altars may be hewn down, and your works may be abolished. 006:007 The slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know that I am Yahweh. 006:008 Yet will I leave a remnant, in that you shall have some that escape the sword among the nations, when you shall be scattered through the countries. 006:009 Those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. 006:010 They shall know that I am Yahweh: I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them. 006:011 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Smite with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel; for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. 006:012 He who is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he who is near shall fall by the sword; and he who remains and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my wrath on them. 006:013 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered sweet savor to all their idols. 006:014 I will stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations: and they shall know that I am Yahweh. 007:001 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 007:002 You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh to the land of Israel, An end: the end is come on the four corners of the land. 007:003 Now is the end on you, and I will send my anger on you, and will judge you according to your ways; and I will bring on you all your abominations. 007:004 My eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am Yahweh. 007:005 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: An evil, an only evil; behold, it comes. 007:006 An end is come, the end is come; it awakes against you; behold, it comes. 007:007 Your doom is come to you, inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the day is near, [a day of] tumult, and not [of] joyful shouting, on the mountains. 007:008 Now will I shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways; and I will bring on you all your abominations. 007:009 My eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will bring on you according to your ways; and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, do strike. 007:010 Behold, the day, behold, it comes: your doom is gone forth; the rod has blossomed, pride has budded. 007:011 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness; none of them [shall remain], nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth: neither shall there be eminency among them. 007:012 The time is come, the day draws near: don't let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all the multitude of it. 007:013 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they be yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude of it, none shall return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life. 007:014 They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but none goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all the multitude of it. 007:015 The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within: he who is in the field shall die with the sword: and he who is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him. 007:016 But those of those who escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity. 007:017 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water. 007:018 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads. 007:019 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Yahweh: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity. 007:020 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations [and] their detestable things therein: therefore have I made it to them as an unclean thing. 007:021 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 profane it. 007:022 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my secret [place]; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it. 007:023 Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. 007:024 Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pride of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be profaned. 007:025 Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none. 007:026 Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor; and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders. 007:027 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do to them after their way, and according to their own judgments will I judge them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. 008:001 It happened 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 Yahweh fell there on me. 008:002 Then I saw, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his waist and downward, fire; and from his waist and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal. 008:003 He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner [court] that looks toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy. 008:004 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the appearance that I saw in the plain. 008:005 Then said he to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and see, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. 008:006 He said to me, Son of man, see you what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but you shall again see yet other great abominations. 008:007 He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall. 008:008 Then said he to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had dug in the wall, behold, a door. 008:009 He said to me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here. 008:010 So I went in and saw; and see, every form of creeping things, and abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed on the wall round about. 008:011 There stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense went up. 008:012 Then said he to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chambers of imagery? for they say, Yahweh doesn't see us; Yahweh has forsaken the land. 008:013 He said also to me, You shall again see yet other great abominations which they do. 008:014 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh's house which was toward the north; and see, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz. 008:015 Then said he to me, Have you seen [this], son of man? you shall again see yet greater abominations than these. 008:016 He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh's house; and see, at the door of the temple of Yahweh, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward the temple of Yahweh, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshipping the sun toward the east. 008:017 Then he said to me, Have you seen [this], 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 turned again to provoke me to anger: and behold, they put the branch to their nose. 008:018 Therefore will I also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them. 009:001 Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause you them that have charge over the city to draw near, every man with his destroying weapon in his hand. 009:002 Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lies toward the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man in the midst of them clothed in linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side. They went in, and stood beside the bronze altar. 009:003 The glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house: and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer's inkhorn by his side. 009:004 Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in the midst of it. 009:005 To the others he said in my hearing, Go you through the city after him, and strike: don't let your eye spare, neither have you pity; 009:006 kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house. 009:007 He said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go you forth. They went forth, and struck in the city. 009:008 It happened, while they were smiting, and I was left, that I fell on my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring out of your wrath on Jerusalem? 009:009 Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion: for they say, Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn't see. 009:010 As for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head. 009:011 Behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as you have commanded me. 010:001 Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire{or, lapis lazuli} stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. 010:002 He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the whirling [wheels], even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. He went in as I watched. 010:003 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. 010:004 The glory of Yahweh mounted 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 Yahweh's glory. 010:005 The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks. 010:006 It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim, that he went in, and stood beside a wheel. 010:007 The cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took [of it], and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out. 010:008 There appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand under their wings. 010:009 I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone. 010:010 As for their appearance, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel have been within a wheel. 010:011 When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn't turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it; they didn't turn as they went. 010:012 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. 010:013 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling [wheels]. 010:014 Every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third face the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. 010:015 The cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar. 010:016 When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also didn't turn from beside them. 010:017 When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in them. 010:018 The glory of Yahweh went forth from over the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim. 010:019 The cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels beside them: and they stood at the door of the east gate of Yahweh's house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above. 010:020 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim. 010:021 Every one had four faces, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings. 010:022 As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one straight forward. 011:001 Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of Yahweh's house, which looks eastward: and see, at the door of the gate twenty-five men; and I saw in the midst of them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. 011:002 He said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city; 011:003 who say, [The time] is not near to build houses: this [city] is the caldron, and we are the flesh. 011:004 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man. 011:005 The Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me, Speak, Thus says Yahweh: Thus have you said, house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind. 011:006 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled the streets of it with the slain. 011:007 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this [city] is the caldron; but you shall be brought forth out of the midst of it. 011:008 You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you, says the Lord Yahweh. 011:009 I will bring you forth out of the midst of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you. 011:010 You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. 011:011 This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall you be the flesh in the midst of it; I will judge you in the border of Israel; 011:012 and you shall know that I am Yahweh: for you have not walked in my statutes, neither have you executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you. 011:013 It happened, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel? 011:014 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 011:015 Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, [are they] to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from Yahweh; to us is this land given for a possession. 011:016 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they are come. 011:017 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. 011:018 They shall come there, and they shall take away all the detestable things of it and all the abominations of it from there. 011:019 I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh; 011:020 that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. 011:021 But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads, says the Lord Yahweh. 011:022 Then did the cherubim lift up their wings, and the wheels were beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above. 011:023 The glory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city, and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city. 011:024 The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me. 011:025 Then I spoke to them of the captivity all the things that Yahweh had shown me. 012:001 The word of Yahweh also came to me, saying, 012:002 Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don't see, who have ears to hear, and don't hear; for they are a rebellious house. 012:003 Therefore, you son of man, prepare you stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and you shall remove from your place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house. 012:004 You shall bring forth your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing; and you shall go forth yourself at even in their sight, as when men go forth into exile. 012:005 Dig you through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby. 012:006 In their sight shall you bear it on your shoulder, and carry it forth in the dark; you shall cover your face, that you don't see the land: for I have set you for a sign to the house of Israel. 012:007 I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for removing, and in the even I dug through the wall with my hand; I brought it forth in the dark, and bore it on my shoulder in their sight. 012:008 In the morning came the word of Yahweh to me, saying, 012:009 Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, What do you? 012:010 Say you to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This burden [concerns] the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel among whom they are. 012:011 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done to them; they shall go into exile, into captivity. 012:012 The prince who is among them shall bear on his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, because he shall not see the land with his eyes. 012:013 My net also will I spread on him, and he shall be taken in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there. 012:014 I will scatter toward every wind all who are round about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them. 012:015 They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries. 012:016 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. 012:017 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 012:018 Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness; 012:019 and tell the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, [and despoiled] of all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein. 012:020 The cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. 012:021 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 012:022 Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails? 012:023 Tell them therefore, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but tell them, The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision. 012:024 For there shall be no more any false vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel. 012:025 For I am Yahweh; I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be performed; it shall be no more deferred: for in your days, rebellious house, will I speak the word, and will perform it, says the Lord Yahweh. 012:026 Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 012:027 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he sees is for many day to come, and he prophesies of times that are far off. 012:028 Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: There shall none of my words be deferred any more, but the word which I shall speak shall be performed, says the Lord Yahweh. 013:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 013:002 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say you to those who prophesy out of their own heart, Hear you the word of Yahweh: 013:003 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! 013:004 Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places. 013:005 You have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of Yahweh. 013:006 They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, Yahweh says; but Yahweh has not sent them: and they have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed. 013:007 Haven't you seen a false vision, and haven't you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, Yahweh says; but I have not spoken? 013:008 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have spoken falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, says the Lord Yahweh. 013:009 My hand shall be against the prophets who see false visions, and who divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh. 013:010 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there is no peace; and when one builds up a wall, behold, they daub it with whitewash: 013:011 tell those who daub it with whitewash, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it. 013:012 Behold, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where is the daubing with which you have daubed it? 013:013 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath; and there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it. 013:014 So will I break down the wall that you have daubed with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation of it shall be uncovered; and it shall fall, and you shall be consumed in the midst of it: and you shall know that I am Yahweh. 013:015 Thus will I accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on those who have daubed it with whitewash; and I will tell you, The wall is no more, neither those who daubed it; 013:016 [to wit], the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, says the Lord Yahweh. 013:017 You, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy you against them, 013:018 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the women who sew pillows on all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head of [persons of] every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves? 013:019 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies. 013:020 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against your pillows, with which you there hunt the souls to make [them] fly, and I will tear them from your arms; and I will let the souls go, even the souls who you hunt to make [them] fly. 013:021 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. 013:022 Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive: 013:023 Therefore you shall no more see false visions, nor practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. 014:001 Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me, and sat before me. 014:002 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 014:003 Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them? 014:004 Therefore speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I Yahweh will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols; 014:005 that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols. 014:006 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Return you, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations. 014:007 For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Yahweh will answer him by myself: 014:008 and I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. 014:009 If the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. 014:010 They shall bear their iniquity: the iniquity of the prophet shall be even as the iniquity of him who seeks [to him]; 014:011 that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says the Lord Yahweh. 014:012 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 014:013 Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of the bread of it, and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal; 014:014 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says the Lord Yahweh. 014:015 If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals; 014:016 though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only should be delivered, but the land should be desolate. 014:017 Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal; 014:018 though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only should be delivered themselves. 014:019 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal; 014:020 though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness. 014:021 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: How much more when I send my four sore judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal! 014:022 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be carried forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth to you, and you shall see their way and their doings; and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought on it. 014:023 They shall comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, says the Lord Yahweh. 015:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 015:002 Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, the vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest? 015:003 Shall wood be taken of it to make any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon? 015:004 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has devoured both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned: is it profitable for any work? 015:005 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less, when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned, shall it yet be meet for any work! 015:006 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 015:007 I will set my face against them; they shall go forth from the fire, but the fire shall devour them; and you shall know that I am Yahweh, when I set my face against them. 015:008 I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, says the Lord Yahweh. 016:001 Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 016:002 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations; 016:003 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: Your birth and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite. 016:004 As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither were you washed in water to cleanse you; you weren't salted at all, nor swaddled at all. 016:005 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, for that your person was abhorred, in the day that you were born. 016:006 When I passed by you, and saw you weltering in your blood, I said to you, [Though you are] in your blood, live; yes, I said to you, [Though you are] in your blood, live. 016:007 I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament; your breasts were fashioned, and your hair was grown; yet you were naked and bare. 016:008 Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Yahweh, and you became mine. 016:009 Then washed I you with water; yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil. 016:010 I clothed you also with embroidered work, and shod you with sealskin, and I girded you about with fine linen, and covered you with silk. 016:011 I decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck. 016:012 I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head. 016:013 Thus you were decked with gold and silver; and your clothing was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work; you ate fine flour, and honey, and oil; and you were exceeding beautiful, and you prospered to royal estate. 016:014 Your renown went forth among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you, says the Lord Yahweh. 016:015 But you did trust in your beauty, and played the prostitute because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone who passed by; his it was. 016:016 You took of your garments, and made for yourselves high places decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them: [the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so]. 016:017 You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them; 016:018 and you took your embroidered garments, and covered them, and did set my oil and my incense before them. 016:019 My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you did even set it before them for a sweet savor; and [thus] it was, says the Lord Yahweh. 016:020 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your prostitution a small matter, 016:021 that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through [the fire] to them? 016:022 In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and was weltering in your blood. 016:023 It is happen after all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you! says the Lord Yahweh), 016:024 that you have built to you a vaulted place, and have made you a lofty place in every street. 016:025 You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution. 016:026 You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to anger. 016:027 See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary [food], and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way. 016:028 You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute with them, and yet you weren't satisfied. 016:029 You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren't satisfied with this. 016:030 How weak is your heart, says the Lord Yahweh, seeing you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute; 016:031 in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay. 016:032 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband! 016:033 They give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution. 016:034 You are different from [other] women in your prostitution, in that none follows you to play the prostitute; and whereas you give hire, and no hire is given to you, therefore you are different. 016:035 Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh: 016:036 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them; 016:037 therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated; I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness. 016:038 I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy. 016:039 I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places; and they shall strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful jewels; and they shall leave you naked and bare. 016:040 They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords. 016:041 They shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; and I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute, and you shall also give no hire any more. 016:042 So will I cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from you, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry. 016:043 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head, says the Lord Yahweh: and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations. 016:044 Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use [this] proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. 016:045 You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. 016:046 Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. 016:047 Yet have you not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], you were more corrupt than they in all your ways. 016:048 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters. 016:049 Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 016:050 They were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw [good]. 016:051 Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all your abominations which you have done. 016:052 You also, bear you your own shame, in that you have given judgment for your sisters; through your sins that you have committed more abominable than they, they are more righteous that you: yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters. 016:053 I will turn again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of your captives in the midst of them; 016:054 that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed because of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them. 016:055 Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate; and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate; and you and your daughters shall return to your former estate. 016:056 For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride, 016:057 before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all who are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, who do despite to you round about. 016:058 You have borne your lewdness and your abominations, says Yahweh. 016:059 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant. 016:060 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant. 016:061 Then shall you remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters, your elder [sisters] and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant. 016:062 I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh; 016:063 that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done, says the Lord Yahweh. 017:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 017:002 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel; 017:003 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar: 017:004 he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs of it, and carried it to a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants. 017:005 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow tree. 017:006 It grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots of it were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs. 017:007 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and behold, this vine did bend its roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it. 017:008 It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine. 017:009 Say you, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots of it, and cut off the fruit of it, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? and not by a strong arm or much people can it be raised from the roots of it. 017:010 Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind touches it? it shall wither in the beds where it grew. 017:011 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 017:012 Say now to the rebellious house, Don't you know what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took the king of it, and the princes of it, and brought them to him to Babylon: 017:013 and he took of the seed royal, and made a covenant with him; he also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land; 017:014 that the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand. 017:015 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape who does such things? shall he break the covenant, and yet escape? 017:016 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die. 017:017 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons. 017:018 For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things; he shall not escape. 017:019 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As I live, surely my oath that he has despised, and my covenant that he has broken, I will even bring it on his own head. 017:020 I will spread my net on him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me. 017:021 All his fugitives in all his bands shall fall by the sword, and those who remain shall be scattered toward every wind: and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it. 017:022 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also take of the lofty top of the cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain: 017:023 in the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it; and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all birds of every wing; in the shade of the branches of it shall they dwell. 017:024 All the trees of the field shall know that I, Yahweh, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish; I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it. 018:001 The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying, 018:002 What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? 018:003 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, you shall not have [occasion] any more to use this proverb in Israel. 018:004 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die. 018:005 But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right, 018:006 and has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor's wife, neither has come near to a woman in her impurity, 018:007 and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment; 018:008 he who has not given forth on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man, 018:009 has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, says the Lord Yahweh. 018:010 If he fathers a son who is a robber, a shedder of blood, and who does any one of these things, 018:011 and who does not any of those [duties], but even has eaten on the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife, 018:012 has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination, 018:013 has given forth on interest, and has taken increase; shall he then live? he shall not live: he has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be on him. 018:014 Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father's sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like; 018:015 who has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor's wife, 018:016 neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge, neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment; 018:017 who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live. 018:018 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity. 018:019 Yet say you, Why does not the son bear the iniquity of the father? when the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live. 018:020 The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him. 018:021 But if the wicked turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 018:022 None of his transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him: in his righteousness that he has done he shall live. 018:023 Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? says the Lord Yahweh; and not rather that he should return from his way, and live? 018:024 But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them shall he die. 018:025 Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren't your ways unequal? 018:026 When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die. 018:027 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. 018:028 Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 018:029 Yet says the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal? 018:030 Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways, says the Lord Yahweh. Return you, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. 018:031 Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel? 018:032 For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the Lord Yahweh: therefore turn yourselves, and live. 019:001 Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, 019:002 and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs. 019:003 She brought up one of her cubs: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men. 019:004 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt. 019:005 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion. 019:006 He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men. 019:007 He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fullness of it, because of the noise of his roaring. 019:008 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit. 019:009 They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel. 019:010 Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. 019:011 It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches. 019:012 But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off and withered; the fire consumed them. 019:013 Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land. 019:014 Fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation. 020:001 It happened in the seventh year, in the fifth [month], the tenth [day] of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Yahweh, and sat before me. 020:002 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 020:003 Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell