16Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: 17'Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in ^ their own land, they defiled it by 'their way and by their doings; their way before Me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity. "Where- fore I poured out My fury upon them for the blood which they had shed upon the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols; 19and I scattered them among the natiorfs, and they were dispersed through the countries; according to their way and according to their doings I judged them. 20And when they came unto the nations, whither they came, they profaned My holy name; in that men said of them These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of His land. 21But I had pity for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, whither they came. 22Therefore say unto the house of Israel* Thus saith the Lord GOD. I do not this for your sake, 0 house of Israel, but for My holy name, which ye have profaned among the nations, whither ye came. "And I will sanctify My great name, which hath been profaned among the nations, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. 24For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land. 26And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean; from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. 26A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. 27And I will put My spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep Mine ordinances, and do them. 28And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be My people, and I will be your God. 29And I will save you from all your uncleannesses; and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you. 30And EZEKIEL I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations. 31Then shall ye remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. 32Not for your sake do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you; be ashamed and confounded for your ways, 0 house of Israel.
33Thus saith the Lord GOD. In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be builded. 34And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by. 35And they shall say: This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited. 36Then the nations that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD have builded the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate; I the LORD have spoken it, and I will doit.
37Thus saith the Lord GOD: I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock. 38As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her ap- pointed seasons, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and they shall know that I am the LORD ' O 7 The hand of the LORD was upon ' me, and the LORD carried me out in a spirit, and set me down m the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones; 2and He caused me to pass by them round about, and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. 3And He said unto me: 'Son of man, can these bones live?' And I an- swered: 'O Lord GOD, Thou know- est.' 4ThenHesaiduntome: 'Proph- esy over these bones, and say unto them: 0 ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD: ^hus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live. 6And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and coyer you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.' 7So I prophesied as I was com- manded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a commotion, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. 8And I beheld, and, lo, there were sinews upon them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them. 9Then said He unto me: 'Prophesy unto the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, 0 breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.' 10SQ I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great host. nThen He said unto me: ' Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off. 12Therefore prophesy, and say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, 0 My people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel. 13And ye shall know that I am the EZEKIEL LOED, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, O My people. 14And I will put My spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I will place you in your own land; and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken, and performed it, saith the LORD/ 15And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: 16'And thou, son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it: For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions; then take another stick, and write upon it: For Joseph, the stick of Ephraom, and of all the house of Israel his companions; I7and join them for thee one to another into one stick, that they may become one in thy hand. 18And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying. Wilt thou not tell us what thou meanest by these?) 19say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put them unto him together with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in My hand. 20And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thy hand before their eyes. 21And say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, whither they are gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring thenr. into their own land; 22and I will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all; ^neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling- places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them; so shall they be My people, and I will be their God. 24And My servant David shall be king over them, and they all shall have one shepherd; they shall also walk in Mine ordinances, and observe My statutes, and do them. 25And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob My servant, where- in your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children's children, for ever; and David My servant shall be their prince for ever. 26Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them — it shall be an everlasting cove- nant with them; and I will estab- lish them, and multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in the midst of them for ever. 27My dwelling-place also shall be over them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 28And the "nations shall know that I am the LORD that sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for ever.'
O Q And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: 2'Son of man, set thy face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief (prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, 8and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal; *and I will turn thee about, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed most gorgeously, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords: 6Persia, Gush, and Put with them, all of them EZEKIEL EZEKIEL with^ shield and helmet; 6Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all Ms bands; even many peoples with thee. 7Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou guarded of them. 8After many days thou shalt be mustered for service, in the latter years thou shalt come against the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, against the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought forth out of the peoples, and they dwell safely all of them. 9And thou shalt ascend, thou shalt come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many peoples with thee.
10Thus saith the Lord GOD: It shall come to pass in that day, that things shall come into thy mind, and thou shalt devise an evil device, nand thou shalt say: I will go up against the land of unwalled villages; I will come upon them that are at quiet, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates; 12to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn thy hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and against the people that are gathered out of the nations, that have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the middle of the earth. 13Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the magnates thereof, shall say unto thee: Comest thou to take the spoil? hast thou assembled thy company to take the prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take great spoil?
"Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say unto Gog: Thus saith the Lord GOD: In that day when My people Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it? 15And thou shalt come from thy place out of the utter- most parts of the north, thou, and many peoples with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company and a mighty army; 16and thou shalt come up against My people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the end of days, and I will bring thee against My land, that the nations may know Me, when I shall be sanctified through thee, 0 Gog, before their eyes.
17Thus saith the Lord GOD: Art thou he of whom I spoke in old time by My servants the prophets of Israel, that prophesied in those days for many years, that I would bring thee against them? 18And it shall come to pass in that day, when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that My fury shall arise up in My nostrils. "For in My jealousy and in the fire of My wrath have I spoken: Surely in that day there shall be a* great shaking in the land of Israel; 20so that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the ground, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at My presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. 21And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith. the Lord Gop; every man's sword shall be against his brother. ^And I wall plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will cause to rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many peoples that are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hail- EZEKIEL stones, fire, and brimstone. 23Thus will I magnify Myself, and sanctify Myself, and I will make Myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am the LORD, QQ And thou, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say saith the Lord GOD. Behold, I ainst thee, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal; 2and I will turn thee about and lead thee on; and will cause thee to come up from the utter- most parts of the north; and I will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel; 3and I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand. 4Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the peoples that are with thee; I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort and to the beasts of the field, to be devoured, ^hou shalt fall upon the open field; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. 6And I will send a fire on Magog, and on them that dwell safely m the isles; and they shall know that I am the LORD. 7And My holy name will I make known in the midst of My people Israel; neither will I suffer My holy name to be pro- faned any more; and the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel. 8Behold, it cometh. and it shall be done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken. 9And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall make fires of *the weapons and use them as fuel, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall make fires of them seven years; 10so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests, for they shall make fires of the weapons; and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
nAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place fit for burial in Israel, the valley of them that pass through on the east of the sea; and it shall stop them that pass through; and ^ there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it The valley of aHamon- gog. 12And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land. 13Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them, and it shall be to them a renown- in the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD. 14And they shall set apart men of continual employ- ment, that shall pass through the land to bury with them that pass through those that remain upon the face of the land, to cleanse it, after the end of seven months shall they search. 15And when they that pass through shall pass through the land, and any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog. 16 And bHamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they cleanse the land 17And thou, son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD: Speak unto the birds of every sort, and to every beast of the field: Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to My feast that I do prepare for you, even a great feast, upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh and drink blood. a«The flesh of the mighty shall ye eat, and the blood of the princes of the earth shall ye drink; » That is, The mufatude of Gog rams, lambs, and goats, bullocks, fathngs of Bashan are they all of them. 19And ye shall eat fat till ye be b That is, Multitude.
EZEKIEL full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of My feast which I have prepared for you. 20And ye shall be filled at My table with horses and horsemen, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD. 2lAnd I will set My glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see My judgment that I have executed, and My hand that I have laid upon them. 22So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God, from that day and forward. 23And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went in- to captivity for their iniquity, because they broke faith with Me, and I hid - My face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword. 24According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I unto them; and I hid My face from them.
25Theref ore thus saith the Lord GOD: Now will I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have compassion upon the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name. 26And they shall bear their shame, and all' their breach of faith which they have committed against Me, when they shall dwell safely in their land, and none shall make them afraid; 27when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations, 28And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity among the na- tions, and have gathered them unto their own land; and I will leave none of them any more there; 29neither will I hide My face any more from them; for I have poured out My spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.'
Af\ In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the self- same day, the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me thither. 2In the visions of God brought He me into the land of Israel, and set me down upon a very high mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city on the south. 3And He brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed;« and he stood in the gate. 4And the man said unto me: 'Son of man, be- hold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thy heart upon all that I shall show thee, for to the in- tent that I might show them unto thee art thou brought hither; declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.7 5And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long, of a cubit and a hand- breadth each; so he measured the ' breadth of the building, one reed, and the height, one reed.
6Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the steps thereof; and he measured the jamb of the gate, one reed broad, and the other jamb, one reed broad. 7And every cell was one reed long, and one reed broad; and the space between the cells was five cubits; and the jambs of the gate by the porch of the gate within were one reed. 8He measvired also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed. 9Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward. l°And EZEKIEL EZEKIEL the cells of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure, and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side. J1And he meas- ured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits; 12and a border before the cells, one cubit [on this side], and a border, one cubit on that side; and the cells, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side. 13 And he measured the gate from the roof of the one cell to the roof of the other, a breadth of five and twenty cubits; door against door. 14He made •also posts of threescore cubits; even unto the posts of the court in the gates round about. 15And from the forefront of the gate of the entrance unto the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits. 16And there were narrow windows to the cells and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches; and windows were round about inward; and upon each post were palm- trees.
17Then brought he me into the outer court, and, lo, there were chambers and a pavement, made for the court round about; thirty chambers were upon the pavement. 18And the pavement was by the side of the gates, corresponding unto the length of the gates, even the lower pavement. 19Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, a hundred cubits, eastward as also northward.
20And the gate of the outer court that looked toward the north, he meas- ured the length thereof and the breadth thereof. ^And the cells thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. ^And the win- dows thereof, and the arches thereof, and the palm-trees thereof, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and it was ascended by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them. 23And there was a gate to the inner court over against the other gate, northward as also eastward; and he measured from gate to gate a hundred cubits.
24And he led me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south; and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures. 25And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows; the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. 26And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them; and it had palm-trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof. 27And t^iere was a gate to the inner court toward the south; and he measured from gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits.
28Then he brought me to the in- ner court by the south gate; and he measured the south gate according to these measures, 29and the cells thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures; and there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about; it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad. 30And there were arches round about, five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad. 31And the arches thereof were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were upon the posts thereof; and the going up to it had eight steps.
32And he brought me into the inner EZEKIEL court toward the east; and he measured the gate according to these measures; ^and the cells thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, accord- ing to these measures; and there were windows therein and in the arches thereof round about; it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad. 34And the arches thereof were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side; and the going up to it had eight steps.
35And he brought me to the north gate; and he measured it according to these measures; 3<5the cells thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof; and there were windows therein round about; the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits 37And the posts thereof were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side; and the going up to it had eight steps.
38And a chamber with the entry thereof was by the posts at the gates; there was the burnt-offering to be washed. 39And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt-offering and the sin-offering and the guilt-offering. 40And on the one side without, as one goeth up to the entry of the gate toward the north, were two tables; and on the other side of the porch of the gate were two tables. ""Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereup- on to slay the sacrifices. ^Moreover there were four tables for the burnt- offering, of hewn stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high, whereupon to lay the instruments wherewith the burnt- offering and the sacrifice are slain.