Ezekiel 7–9

Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ²Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God unto the land of ^aIsrael; ^bAn end, the end is come upon the four ^ccorners of the land. ³Now ^bis the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and ^dwill judge thee according to thy ways, and ^dwill recompense upon thee all thine abominations. ^4eAnd ^fmine eye shall not spare thee, ^fneither will I have pity: but ^egI will recompense thy ways upon thee, ^eand thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: ^hand ye shall know that I am the Lord.

⁵Thus saith the Lord God; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. ^6bAn end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come. ⁷ⁱThe morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: ^jthe time is come, ^ikthe day of trouble is near, and not the ^lsounding again of the mountains. ⁸Now will I ^mshortly ⁿpour out my fury upon thee, and ^oaccomplish mine anger upon thee: and ^dI will judge thee according to thy ways, and ^dwill recompense thee for all thine abominations. ^9efAnd mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: ^dI will recompense thee according to thy ways ^eand thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; ^ehand ye shall know that I am the Lord ^pthat smiteth. ¹⁰Behold the day, behold, it is come: ⁱthe morning is gone forth; ^qthe rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded. ^11rViolence is risen up into ^qsa rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their ^tmultitude, nor of any of theirs: ^uneither shall there be wailing for them. ^12ijThe time is come, the day draweth near: let not ^vthe buyer rejoice, nor ^vthe seller mourn: ^wfor wrath is upon all ^tthe multitude thereof. ¹³For ^xthe seller shall not return to ^ythat which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole ^tmultitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

^14zThey have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: ^wfor my wrath is upon all ^tthe multitude thereof. ^15aThe sword is without, and ^athe pestilence and ^athe famine within: ^bhe that is in the field shall die with the sword; and ^bhe that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him. ¹⁶But ^cthey that escape of them shall escape, and shall be ^ccon the mountains ^dlike doves of ^ccthe valleys, all of them mourning, every one ^efor his iniquity. ^17fAll ^ghands shall be feeble, and ^fall knees shall be ^hweak as water. ¹⁸They shall also ⁱgird themselves with sackcloth, and ^khorror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and ^lbaldness upon all their heads. ¹⁹They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: ^notheir silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them ⁿin the day of the wrath of the Lord: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is ^pthe stumblingblock of their iniquity.

²⁰As for ^qthe beauty of his ornament, he set it in ^qrmajesty: but ^sthey made the images of ^ttheir abominations and of ^ttheir detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them. ²¹And ^ttI will give it into the hands of ^uthe strangers ^vfor a prey, and to ^wthe wicked of the earth for a spoil; and ^uthey shall pollute it. ²²My face will I turn also from them, and ^uthey shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and ^udefile it. ^23xMake a chain: for ^ythe land is full of bloody crimes, and ^zthe city is full of violence. ²⁴Wherefore I will bring ^wthe worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make ^athe pomp of the strong to cease; and ^btheir holy places ^bcshall be defiled. ²⁵Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and ^dthere shall be none. ^26eMischief shall come ^fupon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; ^gthen shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but ^hthe law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from ⁱthe ancients. ²⁷The king shall mourn, and the prince ^jshall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: ^kI will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; ^mand they shall know that I am the Lord.

VIII.And it came to pass ^ain the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and ^bthe elders of Judah sat before me, that ^cthe hand of the Lord God fell there upon me. ²Then I beheld, and lo, ^da likeness as the appearance of fire: ^dfrom the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of ^ebrightness, ^fas the colour of amber. ³And ^ghe put forth ^hthe form of a hand, and ⁱtook me by a lock of mine head; and ^jthe spirit lift me up ^kbetween the earth and the heaven, and ^lbrought me ^min the visions of God to Jerusalem, ⁿto the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; ^owhere was the seat of ^pthe image of jealousy, ^qwhich provoketh to jealousy. ⁴And behold, ^rthe glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw ^sin the plain.

⁵Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way towards the north. So I lift up mine eyes the way toward the north, ^tand behold, northward at the gate of ^uthe altar this ^pimage of jealousy in the entry. ⁶He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even ^tuuthe great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations. ⁷And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold ^va hole in the wall. ⁸Then said he unto me, Son of man, ^vvdig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. ⁹And he said unto me, Go in, and ^tbehold the wicked abominations that they do here. ¹⁰So I went in and saw; and behold every form of ^wcreeping things, and ^tabominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, ^xpourtrayed upon the wall round about. ¹¹And there stood before them ^yseventy men of ^zthe ancients of the house of Israel, and ^ain the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of ^bShaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up. ¹²Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what ^zthe ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of ^chis imagery? for they say, ^deThe Lord seeth us not; ^dthe Lord hath forsaken the earth. ¹³He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.

¹⁴Then he brought me to the door of ^fthe gate of the Lord’s house which was towards the north; and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. ¹⁵Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these. ¹⁶And he brought me into ^gthe inner court of the Lord’s house, and behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, ^hbetween ⁱthe porch and ^kthe altar, were ^labout five and twenty men, ^mwith their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces towards the east; and ⁿthey worshipped ^othe sun towards the east. ¹⁷Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they ^uucommit the abominations which they commit here? for ^pthey have filled the land with ^qviolence, and have returned ^rto provoke me to anger: and lo, they put ^sthe branch to their nose. ^18tTherefore will I also deal in fury: ^umine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and ^vthough they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.

IX.He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them ^athat have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand. ²And behold, six ^bmen came from the way of ^cthe higher gate, ^dwhich lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and ^fone man among them was ^gclothed with linen, ^gwith a writer’s inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside ^hthe brasen altar. ³And ⁱthe glory of the God of Israel ^kwas gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to ^lthe threshold of the house. And he called to ^fthe man ^gclothed with linen, which had the writer’s inkhorn by his side; ⁴and the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city through the midst of Jerusalem, and ^oset a mark upon ^pthe foreheads of the men ^qthat sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. ⁵And to ^qqthe others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: ^rlet not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: ^6sslay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but ^tcome not near any man upon whom is ⁿthe mark; and ^ubegin at my sanctuary. Then they began at ^vthe ancient men which were before the house. ⁷And he said unto them, ^wDefile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.

⁸And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, ^xthat ^yI fell upon my face, and cried, and said, ^zAh Lord God, ^xwilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel ^ain thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem? ⁹Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and ^bthe land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, ^cThe Lord hath forsaken the earth, and ^dthe Lord seeth not. ¹⁰And as for me also, ^drmine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but ^eI will recompense their way upon their head. ¹¹And behold, ^fgthe man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.

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