"Thus saith the Lord GOD: In the day when he went down to the nether- world I caused the deep to mourn and cover itself for him, and I restrained the rivers thereof, and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. 16I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to the nether-world with them that descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the nether parts of the earth. 17They also went down into the nether-world with him unto them that are slain by the sword; yea, they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the nations.
18To 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 unto the nether parts of the earth; thou shalt lie in the midst of the un- circumcised, with them that are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD/ OO And it came jfco pass in the u* twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: 2<Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him: Thou didst liken thyself unto a young lion of the nations; Whereas thou art as a dragon in the And thou didst gush forth with thy rivers, And didst trouble the waters with thy feet, And foul their rivers. 3Thus saith the Lord GOD: I will therefore spread out My net over thee With a company of many peoples; EZEKIEL And they shall bring thee up in My net.
4And I will cast thee upon the land, I will hurl thee upon the open field, And will cause all the fowls of the heaven to settle upon thee, And I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee. 5And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, And fill the valleys with thy foulness.
6I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swunmest, even to the mountains; And the channels shall be full of thee.
7And when I shall extinguish thee, I will cover the heaven, And make the stars thereof black; I will cover the sun with a cloud, And the moon shall not give her light.
8AU the bright lights of heaven Will I make black over thee, And set darkness upon thy land, Saith the Lord GOD. 9I win also vex the hearts of many peoples, when I shall bring thy de- struction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known. 10Yea, I will make many peoples appalled 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 mo- ment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.
uFor thus saith the Lord GOD: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee. 12By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multi- tude to fall; The terrible of the nations are they all; And they shall spoil the pride of Egypt, And all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.
13I will destroy also all the beasts thereof From beside many waters; Neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, Nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them. "Then will I make their waters to settle, And cause their rivers to run like oil, Saith the Lord GOD. 15When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, A land destitute of that whereof it was full, When I shall smite all them that dwell therein, Then shall they know that I am the LORD. 16This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament; The daughters of the nations shall lament therewith; For Egypt, and for all her multitude, shall they lament therewith, Saith the Lord GOD.'
17It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: 18<Son of man, wail for 'the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, with the daughters of the mighty nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
19Whom dost thou pass in beauty? Go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.
2°They shaU fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword; she is delivered to the sword; draw her down and all her multitudes.
LThe strong among the mighty shall speak of him out of the midst of the nether-world with them that helped EZEKIEL him; they are gone down, they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword. 22Asshur is there and all her company; their graves are round about them; all of them slam, fallen by the sword; 23whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living. ^There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncir- cumcised 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. 25They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude; her graves are round about them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; because their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit; they are put in the midst of them that are slain. 26There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude; her graves are^round about them; all of them uncircum- cised, slain by the sword; because they caused their terror in the land of the living. 27And they that are inferior to the uncircumcised shall not he with the mighty that are §one down to the nether-world with their weapons of war, whose swords are laid under their heads, and whose iniquities are upon their bones; because the terror of the mighty was in the land of the living. 28But thou, in the midst of the uncircumcised shalt thou be broken and lie, even with them that are slain by the sword. 29There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who for all their might are laid with them that are slain by the sword; they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit. 30There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zi- donians, who are gone down with the slain, ashamed for all the terror which they caused by their might, and they lie uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit. 3lThese shall Pharaoh see, and shall be comforted over all his multitude; even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD. 32For I have put My terror in the land of the living; and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD/ * GOD/ * 0 O And the word of the LORD came ^u unto me, saying: 2'Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them: When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watch- man; 3if, when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the horn, and warn the people; ^hen whosoever heareth the sound of the horn, and taketh not warning, if the swor,d come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head; 5he heard the sound of the horn, and took not warning, his blood shall be upon him; whereas if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his soul. 6But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the horn, and the people be not warned, and the sword do come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will 1 require at the watchman's hand.
EZEKIEL 7So thou, son of man, I have se1 thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore, when thou shalt hear the word at My mouth, warn them from Me 8When I say unto the wicked: 0 wicked man, thou shalt surely die, and thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his in- iquity, but his blood will I require at thy hand. Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he turn not from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul.
10Therefore, 0 thou son of man, say unto the house of Israel. Thus ye speak, saying: Our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we pine away in them; how then can we five? nSay unto them: As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn ye, turn ye,from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? 12And thou, son of man, say unto the children of thy people. The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression; and as for the wicked- ness of the wicked, he shall not stum- ble thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall he that is righteous be able to live there- by m the day that he sinneth. 13When I say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his righteous- ness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, for it shall he die. "Again, when I say unto the wicked: Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; 16if the wicked restore the Dledce. eive back that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. 16None of his sins that he hath com- mitted shall be remembered against him; he hath done that which is law- ful aud right; he shall surely live. 17 Yet the children of thy people say: The way of the Lord is not equal; but as for them, their way is not equal. 18When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth in- iquity, he shall even die thereby. 19And when the wicked turneth from his wickedness, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall live there- by. 20Yet ye say. The way of the Lord is not equal. 0 house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.'
21And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying. 'The city is smitten.7 22Now the hand of the LORD had been upon me in the evening, before he that was escaped came; and He had opened my mouth against his coming to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb. ^Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: 24'Son of man, they that in- habit those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying: Abraham was one, and he inherited the land; but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance. 25Wherefore say unto them Thus saith the Lord GOD: Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes unto your idols, and shed Dlood; and shall ye possess the land? 26Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one lis neighbour's wife; and shall ye possess the land? 27Thus shalt thou EZEKIEL EZEKIEL say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD: As I live, surely they that are in the waste places shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be de- voured, and they that are in the strongholds and in the caves shall die of the pestilence. 28And I will make the land most desolate, and the pride of her power shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that none shall pass through. 29Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land most desolate, because of all their abominations which they have com- mitted.
30And as for thee, son of man, the children of thy people that talk of thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying. Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the LORD; 31and come unto thee as the people cometh, and sit before thee as My people, and hear thy words, but do them not— for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness; 32and, lo, thou art unto them as a love song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an in- strument; so they hear thy words, but they do them not— ^when this com- eth to pass — behold, it cometh — then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them ' QA And the word of the LORD came ^^ unto me, saying. 2' Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, even to the shepherds: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Woe unto the shepherds of Israel that have fed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the sheep? 3Ye did eat the fat, and ye clothed you with the wool, ye killed the fatlings; but ye fed not the sheep. ^The weak have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought back that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force have ye ruled over them and with rigour 6So were they scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the beasts of the field, and were scattered. 6My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill; yea, upon all the face of the earth were My sheep scattered, and there was none that did search or seek. 7Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD: 8As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely forasmuch as My sheep became a prey, and My sheep became food to all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did My shepherds search for My sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not My sheep; therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD. 10Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require My sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver My sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.
"For thus saith the Lord GOD* Behold, here am I, and I will search for My sheep, and seek them out. 12As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are separated, so will I seek out My sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places whither they have been scattered in the day of clouds and thick darkness. "And I will bring EZEKIEL EZEKIEL them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them upon the moun- tains of Israel, by the streams, and in all the habitable places of the country. 14I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be; there shall they lie down in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel. 15I will feed My sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD. 16I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; and the fat and the strong I will destroy, I will feed them in justice. 17And as for you, 0 My flock, thus saith the Lord GOD: Be- hold, I judge between cattle and cat- tle, even the rams and the he-goats. 18Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have fed upon the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the settled waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet? 19And as for My sheep, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.
20Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and the lean cattle. 21Because ye thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the weak with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad; there- fore will I save My flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle. MAnd I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even My servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. ^And I the LOED will be their God, and My servant David prince among them; I the LOED have spoken. 25 And I will make with them a cove- nant of peace, and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell safely in the wilder- ness, and sleep in the woods. 26And I will make them and the places round about My hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing. 27And the tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield her produce, and they shall be safe in their land; and they shall know that I am the LOED, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hajid of those that made bondmen of them. 28And they shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the beast of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid. 29And I will raise up unto them a plantation for renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the nations any more. 30And they shall know that I the LOED their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are My people, saith the Lord GOD. 31And ye My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, are men/ and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.'
Moreover the word of the LOED came unto me, saying: 2'Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it, 3and say unto it: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against thee, 0 mount Seir, and I will stretch out My hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate. 4I will lay EZEKIEL thy cities waste, and thou shalt.be desolate; and thou shalt know that '. am the LORD. ^Because thou has had a hatred of old, and hast hurle< the children of Israel unto the power of the sword in the tune of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end; therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee; surely thou hast hated thine own blood, therefore blood shall pursue thee. 7Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth through and him that returneth. 8And I will fill his moun- tains with his slain, in thy hills and in thy valleys and in all thy streams shall they fall that are slain with the sword. CI will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 10Because thou hast said: These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there; "therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will do according to thine anger and according to thine envy, which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make Myself known among them, when I shall judge thee. 12And thou shalt know that I the LORD have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying: They are laid des- olate, they are given us to devour. MAnd ye have magnified yourselves against Me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against Me; I have heard it. l4Thus saith the Lord GOD: When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate. 18As thou didst rejoice over the in- heritance of the house of Israel, be- cause it was desolate, so will I do unto thee; thou shalt be desolate, 0 mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
O £ And thou, son of man, prophesy ^ unto the mountains of Israel, and say: Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD. 2Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because the enemy hath said against you: Aha! even the ancient high places are ours in possession; therefore prophesy, •and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the rest of the nations, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people; therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are round about; Hhere- ?ore thus saith the Lord GOD: Surely n the fire of My jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that lave appointed My land unto them- selves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with disdain of soul, to cast it out for a prey; Hhere- bre prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and 10 the valleys: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I have spoken in My ealousy and in My fury, because ye lave borne the shame of the nations; therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: have lifted up My hand: Surely he nations that are round about you, EZEKIEL they shall bear their shame. 8But ye, 0 mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to My people Israel; for they are at hand to come. ^ 9For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown; 10and I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste places shall be builded; uand I will multiply upon you man and beast, and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 12Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel, and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance; and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of children. 13Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because they say unto you Thou land art a devourer of men, and hast been a bereaver of thy nations; therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD; "neither will I suffer the shame of the nations any more to be heard against thee, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the peoples any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to stumble any more, saith the Lord GOD.J