Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered outside the gate. Therefore, let us go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach. For we have no continuing city here, but we seek one to come.
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Ezekiel
Ezekiel 1
¶1. Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day, as I was among the company of exiles by the River Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
2. On the fifth day of the month (it was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile),
3.the word of Jehovah certainly came to Ezekiel ben-Buzi, the priest, in the land of the Kasdim, by the River Chebar, and the hand of Jehovah was upon him there.
4. And I looked, and behold, a storm-wind came from the north, a great cloud, and a fire enveloping itself,[1] with a brightness around it, and out of the midst of it was, as it were, a spring of brilliance,[2] from the midst of the fire.
5. Also out of the midst of it was the likeness of four living creatures, and this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.
6. And each one had four faces, and each one had four wings.
7. And their feet were a straight foot, and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot, and they sparkled, as the appearance of burnished bronze.
8. And hands of a man came from underneath their wings on each of(?) the four sides, and the four of them had faces and wings.
9. Their wings were joined, one to another. They did not turn when they went; each one went straight forward.
10. As for the likeness of their faces, they four (masc) had faces of a man, and faces of a lion on the right side, and they four (fem) had faces of an ox on the left side, and they four (fem) had faces of an eagle.
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Ezekiel 2
¶1. And He said to me, “Son of man, stand to your feet, and I will speak to you.”
2. And the spirit entered into me as He spoke to me and stood me up on my feet. And I heard Him speaking to me.
¶3. And He said to me, “Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to the nations, the rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me, to this very day.
4. For the children are stiff-necked and hard-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you will say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God.’
5. And whether they listen or whether they refuse (for they are a rebellious house), they will know that a prophet has been among them.
¶6. And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them and their words. Do not be afraid though briars and thorns are with you, and you dwell among scorpions. Do not be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their faces, though they are a rebellious house.
7. But speak my words to them whether they listen or whether they refuse, for they are rebellious.
¶8. But as for you, son of man, hear what I am saying to you! Do not be rebellious like the rebellious house. Open your mouth and eat what I give you.
9. And I looked, and behold, a hand was extended toward me, and behold, and a scroll was in it.
10. And He spread it out before me, and it had writing on front and on back. And written on it were lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
Ezekiel 3
¶1. And He said to me, “Son of man, what you find, eat. Eat this scroll, and then go speak to the house of Israel.”
2. And so, I opened my mouth, and He fed me the scroll.
3. And He said to me, “Son of man, feed your belly, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I have given you. And so I ate it, and in my mouth, it was sweet as honey.
4. And He said to me, “Son of man, go! Go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them.
5.For you are not being sent to a people of an unintelligible speech and difficult language, but to the house of Israel,
6.not to many nations of an unintelligible speech and a difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I had sent you to them, they would have heard you.
7.But the house of Israel will not want to hear you, for they do not want to hear me, for the whole house of Israel are hard-headed and hard-hearted.
8.Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads.
9.As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead. Do not fear them! Do not be dismayed at their faces, though they are a rebellious house.”
10. Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, take into your heart all the words that I speak to you, and hear them with your ears,
11.and go! Go to the captivity of the children of your people and speak to them, and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Jehovah’, whether they hear or refuse.
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18. When I say to the wicked, ‘You will most certainly die,’ and you do not warn him, nor speak out to warn the wicked of his wicked way, that he might live, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require from your hand.
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11.And you will drink water by measure one-sixth of a hin each day. From time to time, you will drink.
12.And you will eat it as a cake of barley; before their eyes, you will bake it, using human dung.”
13. And the Lord said, “Thus will the children of Israel eat their polluted bread among the nations where I will banish them.”
14.Then I said, “Ah! Jehovah, my Master! Behold, my soul has not been defiled! I have not eaten of a carcass that died of itself or an animal torn a by wild beast! From my youth until now, no unclean flesh has come into my mouth!”
15.Then He said to me, “Very well. I give you cow dung instead of human dung; and you will make your bread with that.”
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19. And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you, and I will take away the stony heart from their flesh, and I will give them a heart of flesh
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¶1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
2.“Son of man, prophesy to the prophets of Israel who are prophesying, and you say to those who prophesy out of own hearts, ‘Hear the word of the Lord!
3.Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the prophets who prophesy, following after their own spirit, but have seen nothing!
4.Your prophets, O Israel, are like jackals among the ruins.
5.You have not gone up into the breaches, nor have you built a wall for the house of Israel to make a stand in the battle in the Day of the Lord.”
6. They have seen a vain vision and speak false divination, who say, “Jehovah has spoken, when Jehovah has not sent them. And yet, they expect their word to come to pass.
7. Isn’t it so, that you have seen a vain vision and have spoken false divination when you say, “Jehovah has spoken,” when I have not spoken?
8. Therefore, thus says the Lord God: Because you have spoken vanity and seen a lying vision, behold, I am against you, says the Lord God.
9.And my hand shall be upon the prophets who see vain visions and who practice false divination in the Assembly of my people. They shall not be on the roll of the house of Israel! They shall not be enrolled, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel. And then shall you know that I am the Lord God.
10.Because, O because they have caused my people to err, saying, ‘Peace!’ when there is no peace, and one man builds a wall, and behold, they smear it with whitewash,
11.you say to those who smear it with whitewash, that, behold, there will be an overflowing rain, and you, O hailstones, shall fall, and a stormy wind shall tear it apart.
12. Yea, behold, the wall shall fall! Shall it not be said to you, “What happened to the coating that you smeared on?”
13. Therefore, thus says the Lord God, In my wrath will I tear it apart with stormy winds, and an overwhelming rain in my anger, and hailstones in my wrath, unto complete destruction.
14. And I will tear down the wall that you have smeared with whitewash, and I will strike the land and remove its foundation, and it will fall and you will be destroyed in its midst. And then, you shall know that I am the Lord.
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Ezekiel 14
¶1. And men from the elders came in and sat down before me.
2. Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
3.“Son of man, these men have erected their idols upon their heart, and the stumbling-block of their iniquity have they put before their faces. Will I be inquired of at all for them?
4.Therefore, speak with them, and you say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: Every man of the house of Israel who erects his idols in his heart, and sets up the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and then comes to the prophet – I, Jehovah, will answer him accordingly, according to the multitude of his idols,
5.in order to take the house of Israel by their own heart, those who are alienated from me by their idols, all of them.’
6.Therefore, say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord God: Repent! Turn away from your idols, and turn your faces away from all your abominations!
7.For every man of the house of Israel, or of the sojourners who sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from following after me and erects his idols in his heart and sets up the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of me by him, I, Jehovah, will answer him myself.
8.And I will set my face against that man, and I will make him a sign and a byword, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people. And you shall know that I am the Lord.
9.And as for the prophet, when he is deceived and gives a message, I, Jehovah, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him, and I will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
10.And so, they will bear their punishment. The punishment of the one who inquires will be the same as the punishment of the prophet,
11.so that the house of Israel will no more go astray from following me, and they will no longer defile themselves with all their transgressions. And they will be my people, and I will be their God, says the Lord God.’”
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13.“Son of man! When a country sins against me, committing treachery, and I stretch out my hand against it, and I break its staff of bread and send famine against it, and cut off from it man and beast,
14.though these three men were in its midst, Noah, Daniel, and Job, by their righteousness they would deliver but their own souls, says the Lord, Jehovah.
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¶1. And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
2. “Son of man, make Jerusalem to know her abominations,
3.and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother was a Hittite.
4.As for your relatives, on the day you were born, your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to clean you up, nor were you rubbed at all with salt, nor were you even swaddled.
5.No eye took pity on you to do any of these things for you out of compassion for you, but you were tossed out into an open field because you were abhorred on the day you were born.
6.And when I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you – still in your blood – “Live!” Yes, I said to you in your blood, “Live!”
7.I made you flourish like a plant of the field, and you grew and became great, and you came into full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your hair was long, and yet, you were naked and bare.
8. I passed by you again and looked at you, and behold, it was your time of love. And I spread my garment over you and covered your nakedness, and I swore to you and entered into covenant with you, says the Lord, Jehovah, and you became mine.
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15. But you trusted in your beauty, and you played the whore because of your fame, and you poured out your fornication on anyone passing by; his it was.
16. And you took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful high places, and you committed whoredom on them – which things have not been, nor shall be.
17. And you took your beautiful objects made from my gold and from my silver which I had given you, and you made for yourself male images, and you committed whoredom with them.
18. And you took your colorfully woven garments and clothed them, and you offered my oil and my incense before them,
19.and my bread which I gave you – fine flour, and oil, and honey with which I fed you – and offered it before them for a placating aroma; and so it is, declares the Lord, Jehovah.
20. Moreover, you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them, to be eaten! Was your fornication a small thing,
21.that you slaughtered my children and gave them up, making them to pass over the fire for them?
22. And in all your abominations and whoredoms, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, squirming in your blood.
23. And it came to pass, after all your wickedness – Woe! Woe to you, declares the Lord, Jehovah! –
24.that you built for yourself an arched place and you made for yourself a high place in every open square;
25.at the head of every street, you built your high place, and you abhorred your beauty, and you spread your feet for anyone passing by, and multiplied your whoredoms.
26. And you played the harlot with the children of Egypt, your neighbors, great of flesh, and multiplied your whoredoms to provoke me to anger.
27. So then, behold! I stretched out my hand against you, and I diminished your portion, and I gave you over to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines who are ashamed of your lewd way.
28. And not yet satisfied, you played the whore with the children of Assyria, and even when you played the whore with them, you were not satisfied,
29.and so, you multiplied your whoredom to the land of merchants, Chaldea, and even with this, you were not satisfied!
30. How weakened is your heart, declares the Lord, Jehovah, seeing you do all these things, the work of a brazen whore,
31.building your arched place at the head of every street, and making your high place in every open square. Yet, you were unlike a prostitute in that you scoffed at payment.
32. You adulterous woman, who takes strangers instead of her Husband!
33. Men give a gift to all harlots. But you! You have given gifts to all your lovers, and have bribed them with your whoredoms to come to you from every direction!
34. So, with you in your whoredoms, it is different from other women. No one caused you to play the harlot, but you give payment, and no payment is given you. Therefore, you are different.
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38. And I will judge you with the judgments of women who commit adultery and murder; and I will bring on you the blood of fury and jealousy.
39. And I will give you into their hand, and they will tear down your eminent place, and they will pull down your high place, and they will strip you of your clothes, and take away your lovely things, and they will cast you aside, naked and bare.
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¶59. For thus says the Lord, Jehovah: I will certainly do to you as you have done who have despised the oath and broken the covenant.
60. Yet, I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish with you an everlasting covenant.
61. Then, you will call to mind your ways and be ashamed when I take away your sisters, both the older and the younger, and give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant,
62.and I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am Jehovah,
63.so that you will remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth again because of your disgrace, when I am pacified concerning you for all that you have done, says the Lord, Jehovah.
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3.As I live, says the Lord God, I will damn myself if you will any longer use this parable in Israel.
4.Behold, all souls are mine, the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son; they are mine. The soul that sins, it shall die!
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21.Moreover, the wicked who turns from all his sin that he has done, and keeps all my statutes, and does what is just and right shall surely live; he shall not die.
22.None of his transgressions which he committed will be remembered against him. He shall live because of his righteousness which he has done.
23.Do I take any pleasure in the death of a wicked man, says the Lord God, and not rather in his repentance from his ways, so that he may live?
24.Furthermore, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and does wrong, doing according to any of the abominations that a wicked man does, and lives so, none of his righteousness that he has done will be remembered. Because of his treachery which he has committed and because of his sin which he has sinned, he shall die.
25.But you say, ‘The way of the Lord is unjust.’ Hear, now, O house of Israel! My way is unjust‽ Are not your ways unjust?
26.When a righteous man turns from his righteousness and does wrong, he will die because of those deeds; for his wrong which he has done, he will die.
27.And when an evil man turns from his wickedness which he has been doing, and he does what is just and right, he shall keep his soul alive.
28.Inasmuch as he considered and repented of all his transgressions which he committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
29.Yet, the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is unjust.’ My ways are unjust, O house of Israel‽ Are not your ways unjust?
30.Thus will I judge each man among you according to his ways, O house of Israel, says the Lord God. Repent! Yea, turn from all your transgressions, that iniquity be no stumbling-block for you!
31.Cast away from yourselves all your transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit, for why will you die, O house of Israel?
32.For I take no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the Lord God. So, repent and live!
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25. So, I also gave them statutes that were not good and judgments by which they could not have life.
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33. As I live, says the Lord God, I will damn myself if I will not be King over you with a strong hand, and outstretched arm, and poured-out wrath![3]
34. And I will bring you out from the nations and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered, with a strong hand and outstretched arm and poured-out wrath!
35. And I will bring you to the wilderness of the nations, and there will I enter into judgment with you, face to face.
36. As I judged your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I judge you, says the Lord God.
37. And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and then bring you into the bond of the covenant.
38. I also will purge from among you the rebels and those who transgress against me. And I will cause them to come out of the country where they are strangers. But it will not enter into the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am Jehovah.
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46.Son of man! Set your face toward the road to Teman, and drop a word toward the south, and prophesy toward the forested field of the Negev.
47.And say to the forest of the Negev, “Thus says the Lord God, Watch me! I am going to kindle a fire in you, and it will consume every green tree and every dry tree that is in you. The raging flame shall not be quenched, and all people from south to north will be scorched by it.”
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¶6. And you, son of man, groan with a broken heart! Groan bitterly before their eyes!
7. And it shall come to pass when they say to you, “Why are you groaning?” that you will say, “Because of the news that has come!” And every heart will melt, and all hands will grow feeble, and every spirit will faint, and all knees will grow weak as water. Behold! It is coming, and it will come to pass, says the Lord Jehovah.
¶8. And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
9. Son of man, prophesy, and say, “Thus says the Lord!” Say, “A sword! A sword is sharpened and it has also been polished!”
10. It is sharpened to make a great slaughter. It is polished so that it will flash like lightning. Should we rejoice? The sword despises every tree, the tribe of my son,
11.though he ordained it to be polished, to be held in the hand. This sword is sharpened, and it is polished to be put into the hand of the slayer.
12. Cry out and howl, O son of man, for it is upon my people! It is upon all the princes of Israel; they are thrown to the sword. They are my people! Therefore beat on your thigh!
13. It is for testing, but what if it also despises the tribe? It shall be no more, says the Lord Jehovah.
¶14. As for you, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together! And let the sword strike twice! Three times! It is a sword for the polluted people, the sword of a mortally wounded mighty man, that surrounds them.
15. I have set the point[4] of a sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt and their ruins be multiplied. Ah! It is being made to glitter – it is grasped for slaughter.
16. Be ready, O sword! Set up, right or left, wherever you are assigned.
17. And I also will strike my hands together, and I will satisfy my anger. I, Jehovah have spoken!
¶18. And the word of the Lord came to me saying,
19. As for you, son of man, you appoint two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come; both will start out from the same location. And you erect a sign; erect it at the head of the way to the city.
20. You will appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabba, the sons of Ammon, and to Judah, to fortified Jerusalem.
21. For the King of Babylon stood at the fork in the road, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows; he consulted the teraphim; he looked in the liver.
22. In his right hand was the divination of Jerusalem, to set up battering rams to make an opening for slaughter, to lift up the voice with a shout, to set up battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds to build a ramp.
23. But to them, in their eyes, it will be like false divination, the oaths sworn against them. But He will be bringing their iniquity to remembrance, that they may be taken.
24. Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you made your iniquity to be remembered, your transgressions to be uncovered, with all your sins and your deeds to be seen – therefore, you have made yourself to be remembered, to be taken by force.
¶25. And as for you, O mortally wounded, wicked prince of Israel, whose day will come during the iniquity of the end time,
26.thus says the Lord God: Take away the turban; take off the crown! Let this be instead: exalt him who is lowly, and bring him low who is exalted!
27. A ruin! A ruin! A ruin will I make it (such has never happened!) until he comes whose right it is, and to him will I give it.
¶28. And you, son of man, you prophesy and say, “Thus says the Lord God concerning the sons of Ammon and concerning their reproach!” And say, “A sword! A sword is drawn for slaughter, polished to consume like lightning,
29.while they see vain visions for you, divining a lie for you, to appoint you against the necks of the polluted, wicked people, those whose day will come at the time of iniquity of the end!
30.Return it to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, will I judge you.
31.And I will pour out my indignation upon you; with the fire of my wrath will I breathe on you. And I will give you into the hands of brutal men, men skillful in destruction.
32.You will be fuel for the fire, your blood will be in the midst of the land. You will not be remembered – for I, Jehovah, have spoken.”
Ezekiel 22
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Ezekiel 24
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6. Therefore thus says my Lord, Jehovah: “Woe to the bloody city, the pot whose filth is in her, and whose filthiness has not gone out of her! Take it out, piece after piece; the lot did not fall on her.
7.For her blood-guilt is in her midst. She put it on an exposed, high rock! She did not pour it out on the ground to cover it with dust!
8.To cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have put her blood-guilt on an exposed, high rock, that it may not be covered!”
¶9. Therefore thus says my Lord, Jehovah: “Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pyre great.
10.Pile up the logs! Light the fire to consume the flesh and mix in the spices, and let the bones be burned up!
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13. Because I cleansed you from your uncleanness and lewdness, and you would not be clean from your uncleanness, therefore you will not be cleansed anymore until I have satisfied my wrath against you.
14. I, Jehovah, have said it is coming, and I will bring it about! I will not hold back! I will show no pity, and I will not relent! They will judge you as your ways and as your deeds deserve, says the Lord Jehovah.
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Ezekiel 26
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Ezekiel 27
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Ezekiel 28
[against the prince and the king of Tyre]
¶1. And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
2.“Son of man, Say to the prince of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord Jehovah: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said “I am a god; I have lived in the dwelling-place of God, in the heart of the seas.” But you are a man, and not a god (though you make your heart like the heart of God).
3.Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; they can keep no secret from you.
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12. Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say to him, “Thus says the Lord God: You are the epitome of symmetry, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
13.You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering: sardius, topaz, and diamond; beryl, onyx, and jasper; sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle. Your timbrels[?] and your engravings were with gold.
14.You are an anointed cherub that covers, and I put you on the holy mountain of God. You have walked freely in the midst of the stones of fire.
15.You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created until unrighteousness was found in you.
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24. There will no longer be a pricking brier or thorn causing pain to the house of Israel among those around them that treated them with contempt, and they shall know that I am the Lord God.
¶25. Thus says the Lord, Jehovah: When I have gathered the house of Israel out of the nations where they were scattered, I will sanctify them in the sight of the Gentiles, and they will dwell in their own land, which I gave to my servant Jacob.
26. Yea, they will safely dwell in it and build houses and plant vineyards, and they will dwell safely while I execute judgments upon all those around them who despise them, and they shall know that I am Jehovah their God.
Ezekiel 29
[against Pharaoh and for Egypt. Against Tyre]
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Ezekiel 30
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Ezekiel 31
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Ezekiel 32
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17. And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
18.“Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt and cast it down, she and the daughters of the grand nations, to the lower parts of the earth with them who go down to the Pit.
19.Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down, and be laid down with the uncircumcised!
20.They shall fall in the midst of those slain by the sword. She is given over to the sword. They will drag her down, and all her multitudes.
21.The leaders of the mighty men will say to him from the midst of Sheol, with his helpers. They are gone down. They lie with the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
22.Assyria is there, and all her assembly around her, all of them slain, felled by the sword.
23.whose graves are situated in the sides of the Pit, and her assembly is around her grave, all of them slain, felled by the sword, who spread terror in the land of the living.
24.Elam is there, and all her multitude around her grave, all of them slain, felled by the sword, who went down uncircumcised to the netherworld who spread terror in the land of the living, and they bore their shame with those who go down into the Pit.
25.In the midst of the slain have they made her a bed, with all her multitude, her graves all around it. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though her terror was spread in the land of the living. Yet, they bore their infamy with those who go down to the Pit. He is placed in the midst of those who are slain.
26. There is Meshech-Tubal, and all her multitude are around her grave. All of them are uncircumcised, having been slain with the sword, though they spread their terror in the land of the living.~
27.Nor do they lie with the fallen mighty men from among the uncircumcised who have gone down to Sheol, though they place their weapons of war and their swords under their heads, but their iniquities will be upon their bodies, though terror of her mighty men was in the land of the living.
28.But you, you will be crushed in the midst of the uncircumcised, and you lie with those slain by the sword.
29.Edom is there, her kings and all her princes who in spite of their might were given over with those slain by the sword. They lie with the uncircumcised and with those who go down to the Pit.
30.The princes of the north are there, all of them, and all the Zidonians, who go down with the slain, put to shame with their terror and their might. Yea, the uncircumcised lie with those slain by the sword. And they will bear their infamy with those who go down to the Pit.
31.Pharaoh will see them and be comforted because of all his multitudes slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and his army, says Lord Jehovah.
32.Though I spread his terror in the land of the living, yet he will be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with those slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude, says Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 33
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11.Say to them “As I live, says the Lord God, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, O house of Israel?”
12.So then, you, O son of man, say to the sons of your people, “The righteousness of a righteous man shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression. And as for the wickedness of the wicked man, he shall not be condemned because of it in the day he repents from his wickedness. Nor shall the righteous man be able to live because of his righteous deeds in the day of his sin.
13.When I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, but then he trusts in his own righteousness and does wrong, none of his righteousness shall be remembered, but because of his wrong that he has done, he shall die in it.
14.Or when I say to the wicked man, ‘You shall surely die!’ and then he turns from his sin and does what is just and right,
15.if the wicked restores the pledge, repays what he stole, walks in the statutes of life, not doing wrong, he will surely live and not die.
16.None of his sin which he committed will be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right. He shall live.”
17.Yet the children of my people say, “The way of the Lord is not equal.” But theirs is the way that is not equal!
18.When a righteous man turns from his righteousness and does wrong, then he shall die because of it.
19.And if a wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he shall live on account of that.
20.Yet, you say, “The way of the Lord is not equal”! I will judge you, O house of Israel, each man according to his ways.
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30.As for you, O son of man, the children of your people are talking about you by the walls and at the doors of houses, and they speak, one to another, each to his brother, saying, “Come, I pray, and let’s hear what the word will be that comes from Jehovah!”
31. And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them! Though with their mouth, they show much love, their heart goes after their unjust gain.
32.Behold, you are to them like one who sings love songs with a beautiful voice while playing skillfully on an instrument, for they hear your words, but they do not do them.
33.But when it comes – behold, it is coming! – then they will know that a prophet has been in their midst.
Ezekiel 34
[against the shepherds of God’s flock]
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12.As a shepherd seeks his own flock on a day when he is in the midst of his sheep that are scattered, so will I seek out my sheep and rescue them out of all the places where they were scattered in a day of clouds and thick darkness.
13.I will bring them out from the nations and gather them from the lands, and will bring them to their own land, and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the streams and in all the dwelling places of the country.
14.I will feed them in a good pasture, and their fold will be on the high mountains of Israel; there will they lie down in a good fold, and they will feed in rich pastures upon the mountains of Israel.
15.I myself will feed my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord God.
16.I will seek that which is lost, and bring back that which is cast out, and I will bind up that which is injured, and I will make the weak strong, but that which is fat and strong will I destroy; I will feed that one with judgment.
17.And as for you, my flock, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I judge between one sheep and another, between the rams and the he-goats.
18.Is it a small thing to you, that you eat up the good pasture and trample with your feet what is left of your pastures, and that you drink clear water but foul the rest with your feet?
19.As for my flock, they must eat what is trodden with your feet and drink what is fouled by your feet.
20.Therefore, thus says the Lord God to them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between fat sheep and lean sheep.
21.Because you have thrust with side and shoulder, and because you have gored all the weak with your horns until you scattered them abroad,
22.therefore will I rescue my flock, and they will no longer be a prey. Moreover, I will judge between one sheep and another.
23.I have raised up one shepherd to be over them, and he will feed them, even David my servant; he will feed them and be their shepherd.
24.And I, Jehovah, will be their God, and my servant David will be a Prince in their midst. I, Jehovah, have spoken!
25.And I will make for them a covenant of peace so that I rid the land of dangerous beasts, and men will live in the wilderness in safety, and sleep in the woods.
26.And I will make them, and the areas around my hill, a blessing, and I will send down the rain in its season. There will be showers of blessing,
27.and the tree of the field will yield its fruit, and the land will yield its increase. And they will be safe on their own land, and they shall know that I am Jehovah when I break the bars of their yoke and snatch them out of the hand of those who enslaved them.
28.And they will no longer be a prey for the Gentiles, neither will the beast of the land devour them, but they will live in security, and nothing will make them afraid.
29.And I will cause acclaimed crops to come up for them so that they no longer waste away with famine in the land and never again bear the reproach of the Gentiles.
30.And they shall know that I, Jehovah their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord, Jehovah.
31.And you, my flock, the flock of my pasture, you are men. I am your God, says the Lord God.”
Ezekiel 35
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Ezekiel 36
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7.therefore, thus says the Lord God: I have lifted up my hand. I will damn myself if the heathen that are around you do not bear their own reproach!
8.But you, O mountains of Israel, you will put forth your branches and yield your fruit for my people Israel when they are about to come.
9.For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you will be tilled and sown.
10.And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel – all of it! – and the cities will be inhabited, and the desolate places will be built.
11.I will certainly multiply man and beast upon you, and they will multiply and bear fruit. And I will settle you as in your former times, and I will do you more good than at the first, and you will know that I am Jehovah.
12.I will cause men to walk over you, even my people Israel, and they will possess you, and you will be their inheritance, and you will never again be bereaved of them.
13.Thus says the Lord God: Because they say to you, ‘You, O land are a devourer of men and a bereaver of your own nation.’
14.Therefore, you will no longer devour men or again bereave your own nation, says the Lord God.
15.Neither will I cause the invective of the heathen against you to be heard any longer, nor will you bear the reproach of the nations, nor will you bring ruin to your nation again, says the Lord God.
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20. And when they came to the Gentiles, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name so that men said of them, “These are the people of Jehovah, yet they had to leave His land.”
21. But I was concerned about my holy name which the house of Israel had profaned among the Gentiles where they had gone.
¶22. Therefore, say to the house of Israel, “Thus says the Lord Jehovah: I will not do this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have dishonored among the nations where you have gone.
23.And I will sanctify my great name which was profaned among the Gentiles, which you profaned in their midst, says the Lord Jehovah, and the Gentiles will know that I am Jehovah when I am sanctified in you before their eyes.
24.And I will take you from among the Gentiles and gather you out of all countries, and I will bring you to your land
25.and sprinkle clean water upon you, and you will be clean. And I will cleanse you from all your uncleanness and from all your idols.
26.I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
27.And I will put my Spirit within you, and I will enable you to walk according to my statutes and my judgments, and you will diligently keep them.
28.Then you will live in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you will be my people, and I will be your God.
29.And I will deliver you from all your uncleanness, and I will summon the grain and multiply it, and I will not give you famine.
30.And I will make the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field abundant, so that you no longer bear the reproach of famine before the Gentiles.
31.And you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, and you will be loathsome in your own sight because of your sins and because of your abominations.
32.I will not do this for your sake, says the Lord, Jehovah. Be it known to you! Be ashamed and confounded because of your ways, O house of Israel!
¶33. Thus says the Lord, Jehovah: On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will also cause all the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places will be built.
34. And the land that was made desolate will be worked instead of being the desolation that it was in the sight of all who passed by.
35. And they will say, “This land that was made desolate has become like the garden of Eden! And the cities that were laid waste, and made desolate, and left in ruins are unassailable and inhabited!”
36. And the nations around you that are left will know that I, Jehovah, have rebuilt the places that were thrown down, and I have planted the desolated place. I, Jehovah, have spoken, and I will do it!
¶37. Thus says the Lord God: I will be asked this for the house of Israel, to do for them; I will multiply them like a flock of men,
38.like a flock of holy men, like the flock of Jerusalem during her appointed feasts. Thus will desolate cities be filled with a flock of men, and they will know that I am the Lord.”
Ezekiel 37
¶1. The hand of the Lord was upon me, and He took me out, by the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones.
2. And he made me pass by them, all around, and behold, there were very many on the valley floor, and behold, they were very dry.
3. And He said to me, “Son of man, will these bones come back to life?” And I said, “O Lord God, you alone know.”
4. Then He said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, ‘O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!
5.Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.
6.And I will lay sinews upon you, and I will make flesh grow on you, and I will spread skin over you, and I will put breath into you, and you will live, and you will know that I am Jehovah. ’”
7. So I prophesied as I was commanded, and there was a sound as I was prophesying, and there was a shaking, and bones joined together, bone to its bone!
8. Then I looked, and there were sinews upon them, and then, flesh grew, and skin spread over them above that, but there was no breath in them.
9. Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, thus says the Lord God: From the four winds come, breath, and breathe into these slain men, that they may live.”
10. So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they came to life, and they stood on their feet, an extraordinarily great army.
11. And He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones have dried up, and our hope has perished. We are utterly cut off.’
12.Therefore, prophesy and say to them, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will open your graves and bring you up out of your graves, O my people, and I will bring you to the land of Israel.
13.And you shall know that I am the Lord when I open your graves and bring you up out of your graves, O my people,
14.and put my spirit in you and you come to life, and I give you rest upon the land. Then you will know that I the Lord spoke, and I brought it to pass, says the Lord.”
¶15. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
16.“Now, you son of man, take one stick and write on it, ‘For Judah and for the children of Israel united with him’. And take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and all the house of Israel united with him.’
17.Then bring them together to you, one against the other, as one stick, and they will become one in your hand.
18.And when the children of your people speak to you, saying, ‘Will you not tell us what these are to you?’,
19.say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am taking the stick of Joseph that is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel united with him, and I will put them with him, with the stick of Judah, and I will make them into one stick, and they will be one in my hand.”
20.And the sticks that you wrote on will be in your hand in their sight.
21. Then say to them, “Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them from every direction and bring them into their own land.
22. And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And there will be one King over them all, and they will no longer be two nations, and no longer be divided into two kingdoms.
23. And they will no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their abominations, or with any of their transgressions, but I will rescue them from all the places they have lived and where they have sinned, and I will purify them. And they will be my people, and I will be their God.
24. And David my servant will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them, and they will walk in my judgments and keep my statutes, and they will do them.
25. And they will dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers dwelt; they will dwell in it, they, and their sons, and their son’s sons forever, and David my servant will be their prince forever.
26. And I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them, and I will establish them and multiply them, and I will put my sanctuary in their midst forever.
27. Then my tabernacle will be with them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
28. And the nations will know that I, Jehovah, sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forever.
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9. And you will come up like a devastating storm; you will come like a cloud to cover the land, you and all your hordes, and many nations with you.
¶10. Thus says the Lord, Jehovah! It shall come to pass on the very day they come up that thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.
11. And you will say, “I will go up against the land of unprotected villages; I will come against the quiet people, all of them living securely, dwelling without a wall, and no gates and bars for themselves,”
12.to take spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places now inhabited, even against the people gathered out of the nations, who have livestock and goods, who dwell on the pre-eminent part of the earth.
13. Sheba and Dedan, and merchants of Tarshish, and all her young lions, will say to you, “Have you come to take spoil and to carry off plunder? Have you gathered your assembly in order to carry away silver and gold, to take livestock and goods, to seize great spoil?”
14. Therefore, prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, “Thus says the Lord, Jehovah: On the day when my people Israel dwell securely, will you not take note of it?
15.And you shall come out of your place, from places far to the north, you and many nations with you, all of them riding horses, a great assembly and a large army.
16.And you will come up against my people Israel like a cloud to cover the land; in the last days shall it come to pass that I will bring you against my land so that the nations may know me, when I sanctify myself in you before their eyes, O Gog!
¶17. “Thus says the Lord, Jehovah: Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days by the hand of my servants, the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days that I would bring you up against them?
¶18.But it shall come to pass on that day, the day that Gog comes against the land of Israel, declares the Lord, Jehovah, that my hot anger will come up within me,
19.and in my jealousy, in my fiery wrath – I have spoken! – I will damn myself if there is not on that day a great quaking in the land of Israel.
20.And fish of the sea, and bird of the sky, and beast of the field, and every creeping thing that creeps on the ground, and every human who is on the face of the earth shall quake, and the mountains shall be cast down, and the cliffs shall collapse, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
21.And for all my mountains, I will call for a sword against him, says the Lord, Jehovah. Every man’s sword will be against his brother.
22.And I will judge him with a plague, and with blood, and an overwhelming downpour, and I will make stones of hail, fire, and sulfur to rain upon him, and upon all his hordes, and upon the many nations that are with him.
23.And I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and make myself known in the sight of many nations, and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
Ezekiel 39
¶1.And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal!
2.And I will deceive you, and lead you on,[5] and I will bring you up from the remote north, and I will cause you to come against the mountains of Israel,
3.and then I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and make your arrows drop from your right hand.
4.Upon the mountains of Israel will you fall, you and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with you. I will give you as food to predatory birds of all kinds and to the beast of the field.
5.You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, says the Lord God.”
6.I will send a fire upon Gog, and upon those who inhabit the isles, for a sacrifice, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
7.And I will make my holy Name known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not cause my holy name to be polluted any longer. And the nations shall know that I, Jehovah, the Holy One, am with Israel.
8.Behold, it is coming, and it shall be done, declares the Lord, Jehovah, this day of which I have spoken.
9. And those who live in the cities of Israel will go out and make fires with the weaponry and will burn it: bucklers and shields, bows and arrows, clubs and spears. And they will make fires with them seven years.
10. And they will not pick up wood from the fields nor cut wood out of the forests, for they will make fires with the weaponry. And they will spoil those who were spoiling them, and they will plunder those who were plundering them, declares the Lord, Jehovah.
¶11. And it shall come to pass on that day that I will give to Gog a place for burial there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by, east of the sea, and it will stop those who pass by. And they will bury Gog and all his multitude there, and they will call it “The Valley of Hamon-Gog”.[6]
12. And for seven months, the house of Israel will be burying them to purify the land,
13.and all the people of the land will do the burying. And the day I glorify myself will be a memorable day for them, declares the Lord, Jehovah.
14. And they will designate men who will pass through the land on a regular basis, burying the trespassers that remain on the face of the land, to purify it. At the end of the seven months, they will begin to search.
15. And when those who pass through the land go over it and see a human bone, one will put up a marker beside it until the buriers bury it in the Valley of Hamon-Gog.
16. (The name of the city is also Hamonah.) Thus will they cleanse the land.
17. As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord, Jehovah: Tell every sort of bird and every wild beast, “Assemble and come! Gather from all around to my sacrifice that I am making for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel! And you will eat flesh and drink blood.
18.You will eat the flesh of mighty men, and you will drink the blood of princes of the earth; rams, he-lambs, and he-goats, bulls – fatlings of Bashan, all of them.
19.And at my sacrifice which I am making for you, you will eat fat until you are full, and you will drink blood until you are drunk.
20.And at my table, you will be filled with horse and charioteer, mighty men, and all men of war”, declares the Lord, Jehovah.
21. And I will establish my glory among the nations when all the nations see my judgment that I have executed and my hand that I have laid upon them.
22. And from that day forward shall the house of Israel know that I, Jehovah, am their God.
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Ezekiel 40
1. In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was destroyed, on that selfsame day, the hand of the Lord was upon me, and He brought me there
2.in visions. God brought me to the land of Israel, and He let me down on a very high mountain, and above it was something like a structure of a city toward the south.
3. And He brought me there, and behold, a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze. In his hand was a flax cord and a measuring reed. And he was standing in the gate.
4. And the man said to me, “Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and pay close attention to everything that I show you because you have been brought here that you might see it. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel.
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¶1. Then he led me to the gate, the gate that faces toward the east.
2. And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the east, and His voice was like the sound of many waters, and the earth shone with His glory.
3. And this vision was like a vision that I had seen, like the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city, and visions like the vision that I saw at the river Chebar. And I fell on my face.
4. And the glory of the Lord came to the house by way of the gate that faces toward the east.
5. And the Spirit took me up and brought me to the inner court, and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house.
6. And I heard one speaking to me from the house (and a man was standing beside me),
7.and He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of my throne, and the place for the soles of my feet where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever, and the house of Israel, neither they nor their kings, will again defile my holy name with their whoredoms and with the carcasses of their kings in their high places.
8.In setting their threshold by my threshold, and their doorpost beside my doorpost, and the wall between me and them, they defiled my holy name with their abominations that they practiced, so that I consumed them in my anger.
9.Let them now put away their whoredom and the carcasses of their kings far from me, and then, I will dwell with them forever.
10.You, son of man, describe the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities, and let them measure the pattern.
11.And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, show them the design of the house, and its arrangement, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its design and all its statutes. And all my designs and all its laws make known to them, and write it out for their eyes, and let them follow all its designs and all its statutes, and carry them out.
12.This is the law of the house: on the top of the mountain, all its boundary round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
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19.And you shall give to the priests, the Levites who are of the seed of Zadok, who approach me to minister to me, says the Lord God, a bullock from the herd for a sin offering.
20.And you shall take some of its blood and put it on its four horns, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border round about; thus shall you purify it and make atonement for it.
21.And you shall take the bullock of the sin offering, and he shall burn it at the appointed place of the house, outside the sanctuary.
22.And on the second day, you shall offer an unblemished male from the goats for a sin offering, and they shall purify the altar just as they purified it with the bullock.
23.And when you finish purifying it, you shall offer an unblemished bullock from the herd and an unblemished ram from the flock.
24.And you shall offer them before the Lord, and the priests shall cast salt on them and offer them for a burnt offering to the Lord.
25.Seven days shall you prepare a goat for a daily sin offering; they shall also prepare a bullock from the herd and an unblemished ram from the flock.
26.Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; and they shall be ordained.
27.And when they have completed these days, then it shall be that on the eighth day and onward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings, and I will accept you, says the Lord God.”
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¶1. Then he brought me back to the door of the house, and behold, from underneath the threshold of the house water was flowing out eastward (for the front of the house was eastward), and then the water went down from underneath the right side of the house, from the south side, toward the altar.
2. And he brought me out by way of the north gate, and he led me around the road outside to the outer gate, the road that faces east, and behold, water was trickling from the right side.
3. Then going on eastward, the man with the line in his hand measured one thousand cubits. And he had me to pass through the water; the waters were ankle-deep.
4. Then he measured another thousand, and he had me to pass through the water; the water was knee-deep. And he measured another thousand, and he had me to pass through waters waist-deep.
5. And he measured another thousand, and it was a river that I was not able to pass through, for the water had risen and become waters for swimming, a river that could not be crossed.
6. And he said to me, “Son of man, do you see?” Then he led me and brought me back to the bank of the river.
7. And when he had brought me back, then behold, on the bank of the river were very many trees, on this side and that.
8. And he said to me, “These waters are going out toward the eastern region, and they descend to the Arabah, and then they will enter the sea when they have been brought forth to the sea, and its waters will be healed.
9. And it shall come to pass that every creature that swarms will live; wherever the streams go, they will live. And there will be very many fish because these waters went there, and they were healed. Everything lives where the stream goes in.
10. And it shall come to pass that fishermen will stand on its shore; from En-gedi to En-eglaim will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish will be of very many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.
11. Its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they are given for salt.
12. And on the river, on this bank and that, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf will not wither, and whose fruit will not fail. Month by month, each tree will bear new fruit because of the water which flows out from the sanctuary, and its fruit will be for food, and its leaves, for healing.
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22. And it shall be that you apportion it by lot as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners who sojourn among you who have come and begotten children among you. And they shall be to you as native sons of Israel; they shall be apportioned an inheritance with you, among the tribes of Israel.
23. And it shall be that within the tribe in which the sojourner sojourns, there shall you assign his inheritance, says the Lord God.
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Footnotes
[1] Hebrew uncertain.
[2] Hebrew uncertain.
[3] Literally, “ – if I will not be King…” The curse intended with this oath is so unthinkable – God’s death and damnation – that it is not even uttered. See also, 36:7; 38:19.
[4] Hebrew uncertain.
[5] Hebrew uncertain.
[6] Or, “Multitude of Gog”.