Ezekiel 6–38

6And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ²Son of man, ^aset thy face toward ^bthe mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, ^3bbAnd say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God; Thus saith the Lord God ^cto the mountains, and ^cto the hills, to ^cdthe rivers, and ^ceto the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and ^fI will destroy your high places. ⁴And your altars shall be desolate, and ^fyour ^||images shall be broken: and ^fgI will cast down your slain men before your idols. ⁵And ^fI will ^†lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and ^gI ^hwill scatter your bones round about your altars. ⁶In all your dwellingplaces the cities ⁱshall be laid waste, and ^fthe high places ^gshall be desolate; that your altars ⁱmay be laid waste and ^jmade desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your ^kimages may be cut down, and your works may be abolished. ⁷And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, ^land ye shall know that I am the Lord.

^8mYet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have ⁿsome that shall escape the sword among the nations, ^owhen ye shall be scattered through the countries. ⁹And ⁿthey that escape of you ^mpshall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because ^qI am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and ^rwith their eyes, which ^sgo a whoring after their idols: and ^ptthey shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. ¹⁰And ^lthey shall know that I am the Lord, and that ^uI have not said ^vin vain that I would do this evil unto them.

¹¹Thus saith the Lord God; Smite ^wwith thine hand, and ^xstamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for ^ythey shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. ^12yHe that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: ^zthus will I accomplish my fury upon them. ¹³Then ^lshall ye know that I am the Lord, ^awhen their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, ^bupon every high hill, ^cin all the tops of the mountains, and ^bunder every green tree, and ^cunder every thick ^doak, the place where they did offer ^esweet savour to all their idols. ¹⁴So will I ^fstretch out my hand upon them, and ^gmake the land desolate, yea, ^||more desolate than the wilderness toward ⁱDiblath, ^kin all their habitations: ^land they shall know that I am the Lord.

7Moreover 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. ^25†Destruction 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.

8^*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 an hand, and ⁱtook me by a lock of mine head; and ^jthe spirit lifted 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 toward the north. So I lifted 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 toward 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 toward the east; and ⁿthey worshipped ^othe sun toward 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…