The Book of Ezekiel

Chapter 1
1 It came to be in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth of the month, while I was in the midst of the exiles, by the stream Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw appearances of Elohim.
2 On the fifth of the month, it being the fifth year of the exile of king Jehoiachin,
3 the word of Yahweh came, yea came to Ezekiel son of Buzi, the priest, in the land of the Chaldeans, by the stream Chebar, and the hand of Yahweh came on me there.
4 I looked, and behold, a tempestuous wind was coming from the north, a great cloud with fire taking hold of itself, and a bright light to it round about, and from its midst was what was like the sparkle of amber from the midst of the fire.
5 Out of its midst loomed the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: They had the likeness of a human.
6 Yet each had four faces, and there were four wings to each of them.
7 Their feet were upright , and the soles of their feet were like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they coruscated like the sparkle of scintillating copper.
8 They had human hands under their wings; it was on their four sides that the four of them had their faces and their wings.
9 Their wings were joined each to its fellow. They would not turn about when they went; each went straight forward.
10 As for the likeness of their faces, each had the face of a human, and the four of them had the face of a lion to the right, and the four of them had the face of a bull on the left, and the four of them had the face of a vulture.
11 Such were their faces. And their wings were parted upward; each had two joining each other, and two covering their bodies.
12 And each went straight forward; where the spirit urged them to go, they would go; they would not turn about when they went.
13 And in the midst of the living creatures was an appearance like consuming embers of fire; like the appearance of torches, it went about between the living creatures. There was a bright light to the fire, and from the fire came forth lightning.
14 The living creatures, ran and returned like the appearance of a streak of lightning.
15 As I was observing the living creatures, behold, there was one wheel on the earth beside each of the four-faced living creatures.
16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like the sparkle of topaz, and the four of them had one likeness, their appearance and their work being just like a wheel in the midst of a wheel.
17 When they went they would go toward one of their four directions; they would not turn about when they went.
18 As for their rims they had loftiness, and they had fearfulness, for their rims were full of eyes round about for the four of them.
19 When the living creatures went, the wheels would go beside them, and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels would be lifted up also.
20 Where the spirit urged them to go they would go, there as the spirit urged them to go, and the wheels were lifted up with them, for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
21 When they went these would go, and when they stood still these would stand still, and when they were lifted up from the earth the wheels would be lifted up with them, for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
22 The likeness over the heads of the living creatures was an atmosphere like sparkling ice, fear inspiring, stretched out over their heads upward.
23 And beneath the atmosphere their wings were upright, each to its fellow; each also had two covering them, that is, each had two covering them about their bodies.
24 And I heard the sound of their wings when they went, like the sound of many waters, like the voice of Him Who-Suffices, the sound of a din like the sound of an army camp. When they stood still, they would relax their wings.
25 Then there came a voice above the atmosphere that was over their head. When they stood still they would relax their wings.
26 Above the atmosphere that was over their head, like the appearance of sapphire stone, was the likeness of a throne. And on this likeness of a throne was a likeness like the appearance of a human on it, upward.
27 And I saw what was like the sparkle of amber, like the appearance of fire enclosed round about it, from the appearance of His waist and upward; and from the appearance of His waist and downward I saw what was like the appearance of fire; and there was a bright light round about Him.
28 Like the appearance of the bow which comes in the clouds in the day of downpour, so was the appearance of the bright light round about. It was the appearance of the likeness of Yahweh’s glory. When I saw it I fell on my face. Then I heard the voice of One speaking.

Chapter 2
1 And He said to me: Son of humanity, stand on your feet, and I shall speak with you.
2 Then the spirit came into me, just as He spoke to me, and it stood me on my feet, and I heard Him speaking to me.
3 And He said to me: Son of humanity, I am sending you to the sons of Israel, to nations, the revolters who have revolted against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me until this very day.
4 The sons with obstinate faces and unyielding heart, I am sending you to them, and you will say to them, Thus says my Lord Yahweh.
5 And they, whether they hearken or forbear, for they are a rebellious house, they will know that a prophet is in their midst.
6 And you, son of humanity, do not fear because of them, and do not fear because of their words, though they are inflaming-nettles and palm-thorns to you, and you are dwelling with scorpions; do not fear because of their words, and do not be dismayed because of their faces, for they are a rebellious house.
7 But you will speak My words to them whether they hearken or forbear, for they are a rebellious house.
8 Now you, son of humanity, hear what I am speaking to you. Do not become rebellious like the rebellious house. Open wide your mouth, and eat what I am giving to you.
9 And I saw, and behold, a hand was put forth toward me, and behold, in it was the roll of a scroll.
10 Then He spread it before me, and it was written on both the face and the back; on it were written dirges, sad words and woe.

Chapter 3
1 And He said to me: Son of humanity, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.
2 So I opened my mouth, and He fed me with this scroll
3 and said to me, Son of humanity, you shall feed your belly, and you shall fill your bowels with this scroll that I am giving to you. So I ate it, and it was in my mouth like honey for sweetness.
4 Then He said to me, Son of humanity, go, enter unto the house of Israel, and you will speak with My words to them;
5 for not to a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue are you sent, but to the house of Israel,
6 not to many peoples, deep of lip and heavy of tongue, whose words you cannot make out. Assuredly if I sent you to them, they would hearken to you.
7 Yet the house of Israel are not willing to hearken to you, for they are not willing to hearken to Me. Indeed the whole house of Israel unyielding of forehead and obstinate of heart are they.
8 Behold, I will make your face steadfast to match their faces, and your forehead unyielding to match their forehead.
9 Like corundum more unyielding than rock, so I will make your forehead. You shall not fear them nor be dismayed by their faces, for they are a rebellious house.
10 And He said to me, Son of humanity, all My words which I am speaking to you, take into your heart, and hear with your ears.
11 Go, enter unto the exiles, unto the sons of your people, and you will speak to them and say to them, Thus says my Lord Yahweh, whether they hearken or they forbear.
12 Then the spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the sound of a great quaking at the raising up of the glory of Yahweh from its place,
13 and the sound of the wings of the living creatures brushing against each other, and the sound of the wheels with them, and the sound of a great quaking.
14 The spirit lifted me up and took me, and I went, bitter in the fury of my spirit, while the hand of Yahweh was unyielding upon me.
15 And I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, the dwellers at the stream Chebar; and where they were dwelling, there I also dwelt seven days, desolate in their midst.
16 And it came to be at the end of seven days that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
17 Son of humanity, I have appointed you a watchman for the house of Israel; when you hear the word from My mouth, then you will give warning to them from Me.
18 When I say to the wicked one, You shall die, yea die, yet you do not warn him, you do not even speak to warn the wicked one of his wicked way, to preserve his life, that wicked one shall die in his depravity, but his blood I shall seek to exact from your hand.
19 Yet you, if you do warn the wicked one, and he does not turn back from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his depravity, but you will have rescued your soul.
20 Again, when a righteous one turns back from his righteousness and does iniquity when I put a stumbling block before him, he shall die. If you do not warn him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous acts which he had done shall not be remembered, but his blood I shall seek to exact from your hand.
21 Yet you, if you do warn him, this righteous one, by no means to sin, and he, the righteous one, does not sin, he shall live, yea live for taking warning, and you will have rescued your soul.
22 Then the hand of Yahweh came on me there, and He said to me: Rise, go forth to the valley, and there I shall speak with you.
23 Hence I rose and went forth to the valley; and behold, the glory of Yahweh was there, standing like the appearance of glory which I had seen by the stream Chebar; and I fell on my face.
24 Then the spirit came into me, and it stood me on my feet. And He spoke with me and said to me: Come, lock yourself inside your house.
25 As for you, son of humanity, behold, they will put ropes on you and bind you with them, and you shall not go forth in their midst.
26 I shall cause your tongue to cling to your palate, and you will be mute, so that you shall not continue as a man reproving them, for they are a rebellious house.
27 Yet when I speak with you again I shall open your mouth, and you will say to them, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: The one who hears shall hear, and the one who forbears shall forbear, for they are a rebellious house.

Chapter 4
1 Now you, son of humanity, take for yourself a brick and put it before you, and delineate on it the city, Jerusalem.
2 Then place a siege against it, and build siege work against it, and construct an earthwork against it, and set camps against it, and place battering rams against it round about.
3 Then you, take for yourself an iron flat pan, and place it as a sidewall of iron between you and the city, and set your face against it that it may come under siege, and besiege it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
4 And you, lie on your left side, and place the depravity of the house of Israel on it; as the number of days that you lie on it, so shall you bear their depravity.
5 For I assign upon you the years of their depravity to match the number of days, 390 days when you will bear the depravity of the house of Israel.
6 After you finish these days, lie on your right side for the second period when you will bear the depravity of the house of Judah forty days: a day for a year, a day for a year, I set it upon you.
7 Then toward the siege of Jerusalem you shall set your face with your arm bared, and you will prophesy against it.
8 And behold, I will put ropes on you, and you shall not turn from side to side until you finish your days of siege.
9 As for you, take for yourself some wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt, and put them into one vessel, and make of them bread for yourself; for the number of days that you are lying on your side, 390 days, you shall eat of it.
10 Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight twenty shekels each day; you shall eat of it from set time to set time.
11 And you shall drink water by quantity one sixth of a hin; you shall drink from set time to set time.
12 You shall eat it as an ember cake of barley; as for it, on ordures of human excrement shall you bake it on embers before their eyes.
13 And Yahweh said: Thus shall the sons of Israel eat their bread, unclean, among the nations where I shall expel them.
14 Yet I answered, Alas, my Lord Yahweh, behold, my soul has never been so defiled! even anything having died of itself or torn to pieces by beasts I have not eaten from my youth until now, nor has vile flesh come into my mouth!
15 So He said to me, See, I allow you cow chips instead of human ordure, and you may prepare your bread on them.
16 And He said to me: Son of humanity, behold, I am breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and in anxiety, and they shall drink water by quantity and in desolation,
17 so that they may lack bread and water and may be appalled, each one and his brother, and they are putrefied in their depravity.

Chapter 5
1 As for you, son of humanity, take to yourself a sharp blade, a barbers’ razor; you shall take it to yourself and pass it over your head and over your beard. Then you will take for yourself scales for weighing the hairs, and apportion them.
2 A third you shall consume with luminous fire in the midst of the city as the days of siege are fulfilled; you will take another third which you shall smite with a sword round about it; and a third shall you toss to the wind; and I shall unsheathe a sword after them.
3 Then you will take from there a few hairs in number, and bundle them in your hems.
4 Then you shall take some more of them and fling them into the midst of the fire and so burn them in the fire; from it fire shall go forth to the whole house of Israel.
5 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: This Jerusalem, in the midst of the nations I placed her, And round about her are the lands.
6 Yet she rebelled against My ordinances with wickedness more than the nations, And against My statutes more than the lands that are round about her; Indeed they rejected My ordinances, And My statutes, they did not walk according to them.
7 Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh: Because you have clamored more than the nations that are round about you and have not walked according to My statutes nor done My ordinances, and you have not even acted according to the ordinances of the nations that are round about you,
8 therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, even I, and I will execute judgments in your midst before the eyes of the nations.
9 I will do among you what I have never done and the like of which I shall never do again, because of all your abhorrences.
10 Therefore, fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers when I execute judgments among you, and I will toss away all your remnant to every wind.
11 Therefore, as I live, averring is my Lord Yahweh, assuredly, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your abominations and all your abhorrences, I Myself also shall hack down, And My eye shall not commiserate, Nor shall even I Myself take pity.
12 A third of you shall die by plague And shall be consumed by famine in your midst; Another third shall fall by the sword round about you; And a third shall I toss away to every wind; And I shall unsheathe a sword after them.
13 Then My anger will be finished, And I will give rest to My fury against them, And I will console Myself; Then they will know that I, Yahweh, I have spoken in My jealousy When I finish My fury among them.
14 I shall give you over to desertion And to reproach among the nations round about you Before the eyes of everyone passing by.
15 And you will become a reproach and a taunt, An admonition and an appalling object to the nations that are round about you, When I execute judgments among you in anger And in fury and with furious correctives, (I, Yahweh, have spoken)
16 When I send the evil arrows of famine among them, Which come to be for ruin, When I send them to ruin you And I add more famine upon you, And I break your staff of bread.
17 I will send upon you famine and wild animal, And they will bereave you, And plague and bloodshed shall pass among you, And I shall bring the sword upon you; I, Yahweh, I have spoken.

Chapter 6
1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
2 Son of humanity, set your face toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy to them,
3 and say: Mountains of Israel, hear the word of my Lord Yahweh: Thus says my Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, To the channels and to the ravines: Behold Me, I will bring upon you a sword, And I will destroy your high-places.
4 Your altars will be desolated, And your incense stands will be broken; I will cast down your slain before your idol clods,
5 I will lay the corpses of the sons of Israel before their idol clods, And I will toss away your bones around your altars.
6 In all your dwelling places the cities shall be deserted, And the high-places shall be desolated, That your altars may be deserted and be desolated, And your idol clods will be broken and eradicated, And your incense stands will be hacked down, And your works will be wiped out,
7 And the slain will fall in your midst; Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
8 Yet I will reserve a remnant in that there will be for you some delivered from the sword among the nations, when I toss you away among the lands.
9 Then your delivered ones will remember Me among the nations where they are taken captive, when I break their prostituting heart which has withdrawn from Me, and their eyes which prostituted after their idol clods, and they will be disgusted in view of themselves at the evils they have done in all their abhorrences.
10 Then they will know that I, Yahweh, have not spoken gratuitously to do this evil to them.
11 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Smite your palm, and stamp your foot, And cry, Ah! over all the evil abhorrences of the house of Israel, Who shall fall by sword, by famine and by plague.
12 The far off one shall die by plague, And the near one shall fall by sword, And he who remains and is preserved from these shall die by famine, When I finish My fury among them.
13 Then you will know that I am Yahweh when your slain lie in the presence of your idol clods round about your altars on every high hill, on all the summits of the mountains and under every flourishing tree and under every leafy terebinth, any place where they lifted up a fragrant odor to all their idol clods.
14 I will stretch out My hand against them and give the land over to desolation after desolation in all their dwelling places from the wilderness to Riblah; then they will know that I am Yahweh.

Chapter 7
1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
2 As for you, son of humanity, thus says my Lord Yahweh to the ground of Israel: The end comes! Comes the end upon the four wings of the land!
3 Now is the end upon you, When I will send My anger against you, And I will judge you according to your ways And turn upon you all your abhorrences.
4 My eye shall not commiserate over you, Nor shall I take pity; But I shall bring upon you your ways, And your own abhorrences shall occur in your midst; Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
5 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Evil! one evil! Behold, it is coming!
6 The end comes! Comes the end! It awakes against you; Behold it is coming!
7 The full circle comes to you, dweller of the land; The era comes; The day is near, One of discomfiture and not of vintage-shouting on the mountains.
8 Now it is near when I shall pour out My fury upon you, And I will finish My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways And turn upon you all your abhorrences.
9 My eye shall not commiserate, Nor shall I take pity, But I shall bring upon you your ways, And your own abhorrences shall occur in your midst; Then you will know that I, Yahweh, am smiting.
10 Behold, the day! Behold, it is coming! The full circle has come forth. Prevarication blossoms; Arrogance buds;
11 Violence has risen into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, None of their throng, And none of their superabundance, Nor any pretext among them.
12 The era comes! The day touches close! Let not the buyer rejoice, And let not the seller mourn, For My hot anger is against all its throng.
13 Indeed the sellers shall not return to the sale, Though their life is still among the living, For the vision is for all its throng; it shall not turn back; Each man, because of his depravity, he shall not hold fast to his life.
14 They blow the trumpet and prepare everything, Yet there is no one going to the battle, For My hot anger is against all its throng.
15 The battle with the sword is outside, And the plague and the famine are inside; Whoever is in the field shall die by the sword, And whoever is in the city, famine and plague shall devour him.
16 Yet if their delivered ones are delivered, And they come to the mountains like doves of the ravines, All of them shall be discomfited, each in his depravity.
17 All hands shall slacken, And all knees shall flow with water.
18 They will gird on sackcloth, And shuddering will cover them; Shame will be on all faces And baldness on all their heads.
19 Their silver they shall fling into the streets, And their gold shall become like an impurity; Their silver or their gold cannot rescue them in the day of Yahweh’s rage; They shall not satisfy their soul, And their bowels they shall not fill with it, For it becomes the stumbling block of their depravity.
20 Its stately ornament they used for pride, And they made from it their abhorrent images, their abominations. Therefore I make it an impurity to them.
21 I give it into the hand of aliens as plunder, And to the wicked of the earth as loot, And they will profane it.
22 I will turn about My face from them That they may profane My sanctum, That burglars may enter it and profane it.
23 Prepare the chain! For the land itself is full of judgment bloodsheddings, And the city itself is full of violence.
24 I will bring evil ones of the nations, And they will take over their houses; I will eradicate their proud strongholds, And their grand sanctuary will be profaned.
25 The mortal horror comes! And they seek peace, yet there will be none.
26 Woe on woe is coming, And report after report is arising; They seek a vision from prophet, Yet law shall perish from priest and counsel from elders.
27 The king shall mourn, And the prince shall be clothed with desolation, And the hands of the people of the land shall be flustered; After their way shall I do to them, And by their judgments shall I judge them; Then they will know that I am Yahweh.

Chapter 8
1 It came to be in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me, and there the hand of my Lord Yahweh fell on me.
2 When I observed, behold, there was a likeness with the appearance of a human; from the appearance of his waist and downward was fire, and from his waist and upward like the appearance of a stormwarning, like the sparkle of amber.
3 He stretched out the model of a hand and took me by the tufts of my head, and the spirit lifted me between the earth and the heavens and brought me to Jerusalem in appearances of Elohim to the portal of the inner gateway which faces northward, where was the seat of the figure of jealousy which produces jealousy.
4 And behold, there was the glory of Yahweh Elohim of Israel like the appearance which I had seen in the valley.
5 And He said to me: Son of humanity, now lift your eyes toward the north. So I lifted my eyes toward the north, and behold, in the north of the gateway of the altar was that figure of jealousy in the entry.
6 And He said to me: Son of humanity, do you see what they are doing, the great abhorrences that the house of Israel is committing here to keep Me far from My sanctuary? Yet you shall see again still greater abhorrences.
7 Then He brought me to the portal of the court, and I saw that behold, there was one hole in the sidewall.
8 He said to me, Son of humanity, burrow now into the sidewall; so I burrowed into the sidewall, and behold, there was one opening.
9 And He said to me, Enter and see the evil abhorrences that they are doing here.
10 So I entered and saw, and behold, every style of reptile and abominable beast, and all the idol clods of the house of Israel were delineated on the sidewall all around.
11 And seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing in their midst, were standing before them, and each man had his censer in his hand, and a sweet-smelling cloud of incense was ascending.
12 Then He said to me: Do you see, son of humanity, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in darkness, each man in the chambers of his fancy? For they are saying, Yahweh is not seeing us; Yahweh has forsaken the land.
13 And He said to me: You shall see again still greater abhorrences that they are committing.
14 Next He brought me to the portal of the gateway of the house of Yahweh which is toward the north, and behold, women were sitting there, lamenting for Tammuz.
15 And He said to me, Do you see, son of humanity? You shall see again still greater abhorrences than these.
16 Then He brought me to the inner court of the house of Yahweh, and behold, at the portal of the temple of Yahweh between the portico and the altar were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of Yahweh and their faces eastward, and they were prostrating themselves eastward to the sun.
17 And He said to me: Do you see, son of humanity? Is it a slight thing for the house of Judah to commit the abhorrences which they commit here? For they fill the land with violence, and they again and again provoke Me to vexation, and behold, they are putting forth the pruned slip to their nose.
18 So indeed I Myself shall deal with them in fury; My eye shall not commiserate, nor shall I take pity. When they call in My ears with a loud voice, I shall not hear them.

Chapter 9
1 Then He called in my ears with a loud voice, saying: Draw near, you supervisors of the city, each with his ruinous weapon in his hand.
2 And behold, six men came from the direction of the upper gate which faces northward, each with his shattering weapon in his hand. And another man was in their midst, clothed in linen with the writing kit of a scribe at his waist. They came and stood beside the copper altar.
3 Now the glory of the Elohim of Israel was taken up from the cherub, on which it had been, to the sill of the house. He called to the man clothed in linen who had the writing kit of a scribe at his waist.
4 And Yahweh said to him: Pass through in the midst of the city, in the midst of Jerusalem, and you will mark a mark on the foreheads of the men who are sighing and groaning over all the abhorrences being committed in her midst.
5 And to these six He said in my ears: Pass through in the city after him and smite. Your eye must not commiserate, and you must not take pity.
6 Old and choice young men and virgin and little one and women you shall kill in massacre, but do not come close to any one who has the mark on him; now you shall start from My sanctuary. So they started with the men, the elders, who were before the house.
7 And He said to them: Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain; go forth! So they went forth and smote in the city.
8 And it came to be while they smote and I remained alone, I fell on my face and cried out and said, Alas my Lord Yahweh, will You massacre all the remnant of Israel when You pour out Your fury upon Jerusalem?
9 Yet He said to me: The depravity of the house of Israel and Judah is most exceedingly great. The land is filled with blood, and the city is full of prevarication, for they say, Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh is not seeing!
10 So I as well, My eye shall not commiserate, nor shall I take pity; I will bring their way upon their own head.
11 Then behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the writing kit at his waist, brought back word, saying, I have done just as You instructed me.

Chapter 10
1 I looked, and behold, on the atmosphere which was over the head of the cherubim there was something like a sapphire stone; an appearance like a throne appeared over them.
2 And He spoke to the man clothed in linen and said: Enter to the place between the rolling wheels beneath the cherubim, and fill both your hands with embers of fire from among the cherubim, and sprinkle them over the city. So he entered before my eyes.
3 Now the cherubim were standing on the right side of the house when the man entered, and the cloud filled the inner court.
4 Then the glory of Yahweh rose high from the cherubim to the sill of the house, and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the bright light of the glory of Yahweh.
5 And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outside court, like the sound of El Who-Suffices when He speaks.
6 It came to be when He instructed the man clothed in linen, saying: Take fire from between the rolling wheels from among the cherubim, he entered and stood beside a wheel.
7 Then a cherub put forth his hand from among the cherubim to the fire which was among the cherubim, and he lifted it and gave it into both hands of the one clothed in linen. So he took it and went forth.
8 It appeared that the cherubim had the model of a human hand under their wings.
9 Also I looked, and behold, there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and one wheel beside each other cherub, and the appearance of the wheels was like the sparkle of topaz stone.
10 As for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, as though there was a wheel in the midst of a wheel.
11 When they went they would go toward one of their four directions; they would not turn about when they went, for the place toward which the head wheel faced, the others would go after it; they would not turn about when they went.
12 Their entire flesh, their rims, their hands, their wings and the wheels were full of eyes round about for the four of them and their wheels.
13 These wheels were called: The Rolling Wheels, in my ears.
14 Each had four faces: one face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a human, and the third was the face of a lion, and the fourth was the face of a vulture.
15 Then the cherubim were raised high. This was the living creature that I saw by the stream Chebar.
16 When the cherubim went, the wheels would go beside them, and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to rise high from the earth, the wheels would not turn about, even they, from beside them.
17 When they stood still, these would stand still; and when they rose high, these would be raised high with them, for the spirit of the living creature was in these.
18 Then the glory of Yahweh went forth from the sill of the house and stood over the cherubim.
19 And the cherubim lifted up their wings and were raised high from the earth before my eyes as they went forth, and the wheels were with them. It stood at the portal of the eastern gateway of the house of Yahweh with the glory of the Elohim of Israel over them upward.
20 It was the living creature which I saw beneath the Elohim of Israel at the stream Chebar, and I knew that they were cherubim.
21 The four each had four faces, and each had four wings; and the likeness of human hands was under their wings.
22 As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I had seen by the stream Chebar, their appearance and themselves; they went, each one straight forward.

Chapter 11
1 Then the spirit lifted me up and brought me to the eastern gateway of the house of Yahweh, which faces eastward. And behold, in the portal of the gateway were twenty-five men; and I saw in their midst Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, chiefs of the people.
2 Yahweh said to me: Son of humanity, these are the men who devise lawlessness and counsel evil counsel in this city,
3 who say, Is it not near for building houses? It is the pot, and we are the flesh.
4 Therefore, prophesy against them; prophesy, son of humanity.
5 Then the spirit of Yahweh fell on me; and He said to me: Say, Thus says Yahweh: So you say, house of Israel; what is coming up in your spirit I Myself know it.
6 You have multiplied your slain in this city and have filled its streets with the slain.
7 Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh: Your slain whom you have placed in its midst, they are the flesh, and it is the pot. Yet I will bring you forth from its midst.
8 You have feared the sword, and I shall bring the sword upon you, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
9 I will bring you forth from its midst and give you into the hand of aliens, and I will execute judgments upon you.
10 By the sword you shall fall. At the boundary of Israel I shall judge you, and you will know that I am Yahweh.
11 It shall not be a pot for you, nor shall you be flesh in its midst. At the boundary of Israel I shall judge you,
12 and you will know that I am Yahweh, since you have not walked in My statutes and have not executed My ordinances; instead you have acted according to the ordinances of the nations that are round about you.
13 Now it came to be as I prophesied that Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell on my face and cried out with a loud voice and said, Alas, my Lord Yahweh, are You making a full end of the remnant of Israel?
14 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
15 Son of humanity, your brothers, your brothers, the men of your deportation, and all the house of Israel, all of it, are those of whom the dwellers of Jerusalem say: Go far from Yahweh! To us it is given: the land for a tenancy!
16 Therefore say, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Though I have removed them far among the nations, and though I have scattered them among the lands, yet I shall become a sanctuary to them a little while in the lands where they have come.
17 Therefore say, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: I will convene you from the peoples and gather you from the lands in which you have been scattered, and give you the ground of Israel.
18 And they will come back there and take away all its abominations and all its abhorrences from it.
19 Then I will give them another heart, And a new spirit shall I bestow within them; I will take away the heart of stone from their flesh, And I will give them a heart of flesh,
20 That they may walk in My statutes, And they may observe My ordinances and obey them; So they will become My people, And I Myself shall become their Elohim, says Yahweh.
21 Yet as for those whose heart is going after their abominations and their abhorrences, I will bring their way on their head, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
22 Then the cherubim lifted up their wings with the wheels beside them while the glory of the Elohim of Israel was over them upward.
23 And the glory of Yahweh ascended from the midst of the city and stood over the mountain which is east of the city.
24 Yet the spirit lifted me up and brought me to Chaldea, to the exiles, in an appearance, by the spirit of Elohim. Then the appearance which I had seen ascended from me,
25 and I spoke to the exiles all the words of Yahweh which He had shown me.

Chapter 12
1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
2 Son of humanity, you are dwelling in the midst of the rebellious house, those who have eyes to see yet do not see, those who have ears to hear yet do not hear, for they are a rebellious house.
3 As for you, son of humanity, prepare for yourself gear for exile, and emigrate by day before their eyes; you will emigrate from your place to another place before their eyes. Perhaps they shall see that they are a rebellious house.
4 Bring forth your gear as gear for exile by day before their eyes; then you yourself shall go forth in the evening before their eyes like those going forth into exile.
5 Before their eyes burrow for yourself through the sidewall, and bring forth the gear through it.
6 Before their eyes you shall carry it on your shoulder; in the darkening you shall bring it forth; your face you shall cover that you not see the earth, for I make you a portent to the house of Israel.
7 I did so, just as I was instructed; I brought forth my gear as gear for exile, by day, and in the evening I burrowed for myself through the sidewall with my hand; in the darkening I brought the gear forth; on my shoulder I carried it before their eyes.
8 Then the word of Yahweh came to me in the morning, saying:
9 Son of humanity, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, What are you doing?
10 Say to them, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: The prince is this load in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel, they who are in its midst.
11 Say: I am a portent to you; just as I have done, so shall it be done to them. They shall go into exile, into captivity.
12 And the prince who is in their midst shall carry his gear on his shoulder; in the darkening he shall go forth; they shall burrow into the sidewall to bring forth the gear through it; he shall cover his face because he shall not see the earth with his eyes.
13 I will spread My net over him, And he will be grasped in My weir trap; I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, Yet he shall not see it and shall die there.
14 All who are round about him to help him with all his combatants, I shall toss away to every wind, and a sword shall I unsheathe after them.
15 Then they will know that I am Yahweh when I scatter them among the nations and toss them away among the lands.
16 Yet from them I will reserve a few men in number from sword, from famine and from plague, that they may relate all their abhorrences among the nations where they come; then they will know that I am Yahweh.
17 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
18 Son of humanity, you shall eat your bread in quaking, And you shall drink your water in disturbance and anxiety.
19 Then say to the people of the land, Thus says my Lord Yahweh to the dwellers of Jerusalem upon the ground of Israel: They shall eat their bread in anxiety, And they shall drink their water in desolation, That their land may be desolated of its fullness Because of the violence of all the dwellers in it;
20 The cities that are indwelt shall be deserted, And the land shall become a desolation; Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
21 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
22 Son of humanity, what is this proverb you have concerning the ground of Israel, saying: The days prolong, and every vision perishes?
23 Therefore, say to them, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: I will eradicate this proverb, and they shall not quote it any longer in the house of Israel. But rather speak to them: The days come near, and the fulfillment of every vision.
24 For there shall no longer be any futile vision or slick divination in the midst of the sons of Israel.
25 For I am Yahweh; I shall speak whatever word I shall speak, and it shall be done; it shall not be protracted any longer, but in your days, rebellious house, I shall speak the word, and I will do it, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
26 Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
27 Son of humanity, behold, the house of Israel is saying, The vision which he is perceiving is for many days ahead, and he is prophesying of far off eras.
28 Therefore, say to them, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: No longer shall any of My words be protracted; when I am speaking a word it shall be done, averring is my Lord Yahweh.

Chapter 13
1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
2 Son of humanity, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are prophesying, and say to the prophets who speak out of their own heart: Hear the word of Yahweh;
3 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Woe to the decadent prophets Who are following after their own spirit And according to what they have not seen.
4 Like foxes in deserted places are your prophets, Israel.
5 You have not ascended into the breaches, Or diked the stone dike for the house of Israel, To stand in the battle in the day of Yahweh.
6 They envision futility and divine a lie, who are saying, Averring is Yahweh! when Yahweh did not send them, yet they wait for their word to be confirmed.
7 Have you not perceived a futile vision, And spoken a lying divination, When you say, Averring is Yahweh, Yet I have not spoken?
8 Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh: Because you speak futility and envision a lie, therefore behold, I am against you, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
9 My hand will come upon the prophets who are perceiving futility and divining a lie; They shall not come into the council of My people, Nor shall they be written in the registration of the house of Israel, Nor shall they enter on the ground of Israel; Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
10 It is because, yes because they have beguiled My people, Saying: Peace, when there is no peace! While one is building a flimsy wall, Behold, they plaster it with lime-wash.
11 Say to the plasterers of lime-wash, It shall fall; There will come an overwhelming downpour, And I shall make hailstones that shall fall, And a tempestuous wind shall rend it.
12 When, behold, the sidewall falls, shall it not be said to you, Where is the plaster which you plastered?
13 Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh: I will rend with a tempestuous wind in My fury, And an overwhelming downpour shall come in My anger, And hailstones in fury to a finish.
14 I will demolish the sidewall which you plastered with lime-wash And bring it in contact with the earth, So that its foundation is exposed. When it falls, you will be consumed in its midst; Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
15 I will finish My fury against the sidewall And against those who plaster it with lime-wash; And I shall say to you: The sidewall is no more, And those who plastered it are no more,
16 Israel’s prophets who prophesied to Jerusalem, And perceived for her a vision of peace When there was no peace, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
17 As for you, son of humanity, set your face toward the daughters of your people, who prophesy of themselves from their own heart; prophesy against them
18 and say, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Woe to those who sew armbands on all upper arms and make kerchiefs for the head of all who rise up to hunt souls. Shall you hunt the souls of My people, while your own souls you keep alive?
19 You are profaning Me to My people for handfuls of barley and morsels of bread, putting to death souls who should not die and keeping alive souls who should not live, when you lie to My people who hearken to the lie.
20 Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against your armbands wherewith you are hunting souls like birds; I will tear them off your arms and send free the souls whom you were hunting, freeing the souls like birds.
21 I will tear off your kerchiefs and rescue My people from your hand, and they shall no longer be in your hand like game; then you will know that I am Yahweh.
22 Because you make sore the heart of the righteous with falsehood, when I Myself would not cause him pain, and you reinforce the hands of the wicked so that he does not turn back from his evil way, to preserve his life,
23 therefore you shall no more envision futility, and you shall not divine by divination any longer; so I will rescue My people from your hand, and you will know that I am Yahweh.

Chapter 14
1 Some men of the elders of Israel came to me and sat before me.
2 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
3 Son of humanity, these men have set up their idol clods in their heart, and they have put their stumbling block of depravity before their faces. Shall I let Myself be inquired of, yea be inquired of by them?
4 Therefore speak to them, and you will say to them, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Each man of the house of Israel who is setting up his idol clods in his heart and is placing his stumbling block of depravity before his face, yet comes to the prophet, I, Yahweh, I will answer him in regard to it because of his many idol clods,
5 that I may grasp the house of Israel through their hearts which are alienated from Me, all of them, by their idol clods.
6 Therefore, say to the house of Israel, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Turn about and turn back from your idol clods, And from all your abhorrences turn back your faces.
7 For each man of the house of Israel and of the sojourner who is sojourning in Israel, who is sequestering himself from following Me, and is setting up his idol clods in his heart, and is placing his stumbling block of depravity before his face, yet comes to the prophet to inquire of Me through him, I, Yahweh, I will answer him by Myself.
8 I will set My face against that man and place him for a sign and for proverbs, and cut him off from the midst of My people; then you will know that I am Yahweh.
9 As for the prophet, if he is enticed, and he speaks a word, I, Yahweh, I enticed that prophet. I will stretch out My hand against him and exterminate him from the midst of My people Israel.
10 They will bear their depravity; as the depravity of the inquirer, so shall the depravity of the prophet be treated,
11 that the house of Israel may not stray any longer from following Me nor defile themselves further with all their transgressions, but they may become My people, and I shall become their Elohim, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
12 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
13 Son of humanity, the land, when it is sinning against Me by offending with offense, then I will stretch out My hand against it and break its staff of bread, and send famine upon it and cut off from it human and beast.
14 And if those three men, Noah, Daniel and Job, were in its midst, they themselves by their righteousness would rescue only their own soul, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
15 Suppose also I cause wild animals to pass through the land, and they bereave it so that it becomes a desolation without anyone passing through because of the presence of the animals,
16 and were these three men in its midst, as I live, averring is my Lord Yahweh, neither sons nor daughters would they rescue; they themselves alone would be rescued, and the land would become a desolation.
17 Or if I should bring a sword on that land, and I said: Let the sword pass through the land that I may cut off from it human and beast,
18 and were these three men in its midst, as I live, averring is my Lord Yahweh, they would rescue neither sons nor daughters, for they themselves alone would be rescued.
19 Or if I should send a plague upon that land, and I poured out My fury against it in blood, to cut off from it human and beast,
20 and were Noah, Daniel and Job in its midst, as I live, averring is my Lord Yahweh, neither son nor daughter would they rescue; they themselves by their righteousness would rescue only their own soul.
21 For thus says my Lord Yahweh: Indeed then, My four evil judgments, sword and famine and wild animal and plague I send against Jerusalem, to cut off from it human and beast.
22 Yet behold, a salvage is left in it, who are brought forth, sons and daughters; behold, they are coming forth to you. When you see their way and their practices, you will be consoled over the evil that I bring upon Jerusalem, all that I bring upon it.
23 They will make you consoled when you see their way and their practices, and you will know that not gratuitously have I done all that I have done in it, averring is my Lord Yahweh.

Chapter 15
1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
2 Son of humanity, how is the wood of the vine different from any other wood, the pruned slip which has come to be among the trees of the wildwood?
3 Shall wood be taken from it to use for work? Or shall men take a peg from it to hang any implement on it?
4 Behold, to the fire is it given for fuel; the fire devours both its ends, and its middle is charred; is it fit for work?
5 Behold, even when it is flawless, it cannot be used for work; how much less when fire devours it, and it is charred! Then can it still be used for work?
6 Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh: Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the wildwood which I give to the fire for fuel, so I will give up the dwellers of Jerusalem.
7 And I will set My face against them. Though they escape forth from the fire, yet the fire shall devour them. Then you will know that I am Yahweh, when I set My face against them
8 and give the land over to desolation because they have offended with an offense, averring is my Lord Yahweh.

Chapter 16
1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
2 Son of humanity, make known to Jerusalem her abhorrences;
3 and say, Thus says my Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite; your father was the Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.
4 As for your birth, on the day you were born, your navel cord was not cut, you were not washed in water for safety, you were not even rubbed with salt, and you were not even swaddled.
5 No eye commiserated over you, to do one of these for you, to take pity on you. But you were flung onto the open field, with loathing for your soul on the day you were born.
6 Then I passed by you and saw you weltering in your blood; and I said to you in your blood, Live! Yes I said to you in your blood, Live!
7 I will make you a myriad like the sprouting of the field. Thus you increased and grew great; you became an ornament of ornaments; your breasts were readied, and your hair sprouted; yet you were naked and denuded.
8 Again I passed by you and saw you, and behold, your time was the time of affection; so I spread My hem over you and covered your nakedness; I swore an oath to you and entered into covenant with you, averring is my Lord Yahweh, and you became Mine.
9 Then I washed you with water, I laved your blood off you, And I rubbed you with oil.
10 I clothed you with brocade, And I sandaled you with azure; I bound you up in cambric, And I covered you with gossamer.
11 I ornamented you with ornaments, And I indeed put bracelets on your wrists And a decorative chain about your throat.
12 I placed a pendant on your nose And earrings on your ears And a beautiful crown on your head.
13 So you ornamented yourself with gold and silver, and your clothing was cambric and gossamer and brocade; you ate flour and honey and oil; you were very exceedingly lovely and were fit for royalty.
14 Your renown went forth among the nations for your loveliness, for it was consummate through My honor which I placed on you, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
15 Yet you trusted in your loveliness and prostituted your renown, and you poured out your prostitutions on everyone passing by; it became his.
16 You took some of your garments, and you made yourself flecked high-places-mats, and you committed prostitution on them. (You should not enter, nor should it be.)
17 You also took your beautiful jewels made from My gold and My silver which I had given to you, and you made yourself male images and committed prostitution with them.
18 You even took your garments of brocade with which you covered them, and My oil and My incense you set before them.
19 My bread which I had given to you, the flour and oil and honey which I fed you, you set it before them for a fragrant odor. And so it happened, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
20 Then you took your sons and your daughters whom you had borne for Me, and you sacrificed them to these images to be devoured. Was your prostitution too little
21 that you slew My children and gave them in passing them through fire to these images?
22 And with all your abhorrences and your prostitutions you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and denuded, weltering in your blood, as you were.
23 Then it came to be after all your evil (woe, woe to you!), averring is my Lord Yahweh,
24 that you built yourself an eminence, and you made yourself a high shrine in every square.
25 At every crossroad you built your high shrine, and you made your loveliness abhorrent; you distended your feet to everyone passing by, while you increased your prostitutions.
26 You committed prostitution with the sons of Egypt, your neighbors, great of flesh, and you increased your prostitutions to provoke Me to vexation.
27 Yet behold, I stretched out My hand against you, and I diminished your dole; I gave you over to the greedy soul of those hating you, the daughters of the Philistines who were mortified by your lewd conduct.
28 Also you committed prostitution with the sons of Assyria in your insatiable lust; yea you committed prostitution with them, yet even then you were not satisfied.
29 So you increased your prostitution with that land of the trafficker, toward Chaldea, yet even in this you were not satisfied.
30 How feeble was your heart, averring is my Lord Yahweh, when you did all these things, the acts of an insistent, prostituting woman,
31 when you built your eminence at every crossroad, and you made your high shrine in every square, yet you were not like a prostitute, since you scoffed at a fee.
32 The adulterous wife is taking fees in place of her husband;
33 to all prostitutes men are giving payment, yet you gave your payments to all your lovers, and you bribed them to come to you from all around, in your prostitutions.
34 With you there was an overturning in your prostitutions from the way of such women, for no one solicited prostitution from you, and you gave a fee when a fee was not given to you; thus you were an overturning.
35 Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh.
36 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Because your brazenness was poured out and your nakedness was revealed by your prostitutions with your lovers, and because of all your abhorrent idol clods and the blood of your children which you gave to them,
37 therefore behold, I am convening all your lovers with whom you have been congenial, and all whom you have loved with all whom you have hated; I will convene them against you from all around, and I will expose your nakedness to them that they may see all your nakedness.
38 I will judge you with the judgments of adulteresses and shedders of blood, and I will give you over to the blood of fury and jealousy.
39 I will give you into their hand, and they will demolish your eminence and break down your high shrines. They will strip you of your garments and take your beautiful jewels and leave you naked and denuded.
40 Then they will bring up an assembled force against you, and they will pelt you with stones. They will run you through with their swords
41 and burn your houses with fire. Thus they will deal out judgments upon you before the eyes of many women, and I will cause you to cease from prostituting, and moreover you shall not give a fee any longer.
42 Then I will give rest to My fury against you, and My jealousy will withdraw from you, and I will be quiet and shall not be vexed any longer.
43 Because you did not remember the days of your youth and disturbed Me with all these things, so I also, lo! I will bring your way on your head, averring is my Lord Yahweh. Have you not committed lewdness over and above all your abhorrences?
44 Behold, everyone who quotes a proverb concerning you is saying: Like mother, so her daughter.
45 You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; you are sister to your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
46 Your elder sister was Samaria, she and her daughters, dwelling at your left; and your sister, younger than you, dwelling at your right, was Sodom and her daughters.
47 Did you not walk in their ways and commit their abhorrences? In a small, little while, you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
48 As I live, averring is my Lord Yahweh, your sister Sodom, she and her daughters, has assuredly not done as you have done, you and your daughters.
49 Behold, this was the depravity of Sodom, your sister: For herself and her daughters there was pomp, surfeiting with bread and quiet ease, yet she did not hold fast the hand of the humble and needy.
50 They were haughty and committed abhorrences before Me; so I put them away just as you see.
51 Even Samaria did not sin half of your sins, but you have increased your abhorrences more than they and have made your sisters look righteous by all your abhorrences which you have committed.
52 Indeed you, bear your mortification seeing that you have mediated for your sisters by your sins which you have made more abhorrent than theirs. They are more righteous than you. So indeed you, be ashamed and bear your mortification in that you have made your sisters look righteous.
53 Yet I will reverse their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and I will reverse your captivity in their midst,
54 that you may bear your mortification and be mortified by all that you have done in which you brought comfort to them.
55 Then your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, they shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters, they shall return to their former state, and you and your daughters, you shall return to your former state.
56 Sodom your sister was not a name reported by your mouth in the day of your pride,
57 ere your evil was exposed. Likewise there is reproach now from the daughters of Edom and all around her, the daughters of the Philistines who disdain you from round about.
58 Your lewdness and your abhorrences, you yourself will bear them, averring is Yahweh.
59 For thus says my Lord Yahweh: I will do to you just as you have done who have despised the oath of imprecation by annulling the covenant.
60 Yet I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will set up for you an eonian covenant.
61 Then you will remember your ways and be mortified, when you take your sisters who are older than you with those who are younger than you, and I give them to you as daughters, yet not by your covenant.
62 I will set up My covenant with you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh,
63 that you may remember, and you will be so ashamed that your mouth shall not be opening any longer because of your mortification, when I make a propitiatory shelter for you for all that you have done, averring is my Lord Yahweh.

Chapter 17
1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
2 Son of humanity, propound an enigma, and indite an allegory to the house of Israel;
3 and you will say, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: The greatest vulture with the greatest wings, the longest of pinion, the fullest of feather, which had variegated colors, came to Lebanon and took hold of the wooly foliage of the cedar.
4 He plucked off its top young shoot and brought it to the land of the trafficker; he placed it in a city of traders.
5 Then he took of the seed of the land and put it in a seedbed. He took it by much water; he placed it like a willow,
6 that it should sprout and become a vine, extending, low of stature, and should turn around its branches toward him, and its roots should remain under him. It became a vine and produced branch-shoots and put forth foliage.
7 There was also another great vulture with great wings and many feathers, and behold, this vine bent its roots toward him, and it sent its branches toward him that he might irrigate it away from the beds of its planting.
8 To a good field by much water it was transplanted that it might produce boughs and bear fruit, to become a noble vine.
9 Say, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Shall it prosper? Shall he not pull away its roots so that its fruit be blighted and dry up? All its unprotected sprouts shall dry up, yet not with a great arm or many people to take it up from its roots.
10 Behold, transplanted, shall it prosper? When the east wind assaults it, shall it not dry up, yea dry up? On the beds of its sprouting it shall dry up.
11 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
12 Son of humanity, say now to the rebellious house, Do you not know what these things mean? Say: Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and he took its king and its chief officials, and he brought them with him to Babylon.
13 Then he took one of the royal seed and contracted a covenant with him and brought him under an oath of imprecation, and he took the subjectors of the land,
14 that the kingdom would become low, so as not to lift itself up, but by keeping the covenant with him it might stand.
15 Yet he revolted against him by sending his messengers to Egypt that they might give him horses and many people. Shall he prosper? Shall he escape who does these things? Can he annul the covenant and escape?
16 As I live, averring is my Lord Yahweh, assuredly in the place ruled by the king who made him king, whose oath of imprecation he despised, and whose covenant with him he annulled, in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
17 Nor with his great army and vast assembled force shall Pharaoh do anything for him in battle when earthwork is constructed and siege work is built up to cut off many souls.
18 He despised the oath of imprecation by annulling the covenant. Behold, he put out his hand and did all these things; he shall not escape.
19 Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh: As I live, assuredly My oath of imprecation which he despised, and My covenant which he annulled, I will bring it on his head.
20 I will spread My net over him, and he will be grasped in My weir trap; I will bring him to Babylon, and I will enter into judgment with him there for his offense with which he offended against Me.
21 And all his choice men among all his combatants, they shall fall by the sword, and the remainder shall be spread to every wind; then you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken.
22 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Then I Myself will take of the wooly foliage of the high cedar, and I will set it; From its topmost young shoots I shall pluck off a tender one, And I Myself will transplant it on a lofty and eminent mountain.
23 On the high mountain of Israel I shall transplant it, And it will bear boughs and yield fruit, And it will become a noble cedar; Under it every animal will tabernacle, And every bird of every wing; In the shadow of its branches shall they tabernacle.
24 Then all the trees of the field will know that I am Yahweh; I lay low the lofty tree, I elevate the low tree, I dry up the sappy tree, And I cause the tree that is dry to bud. I Yahweh have spoken, and I will do it.

Chapter 18
1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
2 Son of humanity, what do you people mean? You are quoting this proverb on the ground of Israel, saying: The fathers ate unripe grapes, And the children’s teeth become blunted.
3 As I live, averring is my Lord Yahweh, the quoting of this proverb shall assuredly not apply to you in Israel any longer.
4 Behold, all souls, they are Mine! The soul of the father even as the soul of the son, they are Mine! The soul that is sinning, it shall die.
5 For a man shall be righteous when he executes right judgment and justice;
6 he does not eat on the mountains, nor lift his eyes to the idol clods of the house of Israel; he does not defile the wife of his associate, nor approach his wife in her impurity.
7 He does not tyrannize another man, restores his pledge to the debtor, does not snatch goods by pillaging, gives his bread to the famishing and covers the naked with a garment.
8 He does not lend at advance interest nor takes any accrued interest. He reverses his hand from iniquity and executes true judgment between man and man.
9 He walks in My statutes and observes My ordinances, to do truth; he is righteous; he shall live, yea live, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
10 Yet if he begets a son who is a burglar, who sheds blood or commits   only one of these sins,
11 and who does not do all these duties, but rather eats on the mountains and defiles the wife of his associate,
12 who tyrannizes the humble and needy one, snatches goods by pillaging, does not restore the pledge and lifts his eyes to the idol clods, who commits abhorrences,
13 who lends at advance interest and takes accrued interest, will he live? He shall not live! For all these abhorrences which he commits he shall die, yea die; his blood shall come upon him.
14 And behold, if one begets a son who sees all the sins of his father which he has committed, and who fears and does not commit sins like these,
15 who does not eat on the mountains and does not lift his eyes to the idol clods of the house of Israel, who does not defile the wife of his associate,
16 who does not tyrannize another man, does not even stipulate a pledge, and does not snatch goods by pillaging, who gives his bread to the famishing and covers the naked with a garment,
17 who reverses his hand from depravity, does not take advance interest or accrued interest, who executes My ordinances and walks in My statutes, he shall not die for the depravity of his father; he shall live, yea live.
18 As for his father, seeing that he exploits by extortion, he snatches goods by pillaging a brother and does what is not good in the midst of his people, behold, he will die in his depravity.
19 Now you say, For what reason does the son not bear the depravity of the father? When the son himself executes right judgment and justice, observes all My statutes and is doing them, he shall live, yea live.
20 The soul that is sinning, it shall die; the son shall not bear the depravity of the father, and the father shall not bear the depravity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous one shall be reckoned to him, and the wickedness of the wicked one shall be reckoned to him.
21 Yet if the wicked one should turn back from all his sins which he had committed, and he observes all My statutes and executes right judgment and justice, he shall live, yea live; he shall not die.
22 Any of his transgressions which he had committed shall not be remembered against him. In his righteousness which he does shall he live.
23 Am I delighting, yea delighting in the death of the wicked, averring is my Lord Yahweh, and not rather in his turning back from his ways that he may live?
24 Yet when the righteous one turns back from his righteousness and commits iniquity like all the abhorrences which the wicked one commits, shall he do so and live? All his righteous acts which he did shall not be remembered; in his offense with which he offended and in his sin with which he sinned, in them shall he die.
25 Still you say, The way of my Lord is irregular! Hear now, house of Israel! Is My way irregular? Are not rather your ways irregular?
26 When the righteous one turns back from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it; in his iniquity which he commits he shall die.
27 And when the wicked one turns back from his wickedness which he committed and is executing right judgment and justice, he shall keep alive his soul.
28 When he sees and turns back from all his transgressions which he committed, he shall live, yea live; he shall not die.
29 Yet the house of Israel says, The way of my Lord is irregular! Are My ways irregular, house of Israel? Are not rather your ways irregular?
30 Therefore, I shall judge you, each according to his ways, house of Israel, averring is my Lord Yahweh. Turn about and turn back from all your transgressions so that they shall not become a stumbling block of depravity for you.
31 Fling away from you all your transgressions by which you transgressed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit; why should you die, house of Israel?
32 For I am not delighting in the death of him who dies, averring is my Lord Yahweh. Now turn back and live!

Chapter 19
1 As for you, lift up a dirge for the princes of Israel,
2 and say: What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She reclined in the midst of the sheltered lions; She made her whelps to increase.
3 She elevated one of her whelps; He became a sheltered lion, And he learned to tear the prey to pieces; He devoured man.
4 Then the nations summoned against him; He was grasped in their pit, And they brought him with gaffs to the land of Egypt.
5 When she saw that she had waited And her expectation had perished, She took another one of her whelps, And set him up as a sheltered lion.
6 And he walked in the midst of the lions; He became a sheltered lion, And he learned to tear the prey to pieces; He devoured man.
7 He smashed their citadels, And he caused their cities to be deserted, So that the earth and its fullness were desolated at the sound of his roaring.
8 Then nations set upon him round about from the provinces, And they spread their net over him; He was grasped in their pit.
9 They put him in a cage with gaffs, And they brought him to the king of Babylon; They brought him into fastnesses That his voice might not be heard again on Israel’s hills.
10 Your mother was like a vine of your vineyard, transplanted by waters; It became fruitful and full of boughs because of abundant water.
11 It had strong mainstems which were fit for scepters of rulers; It soared aloft in its stature among the leafy trees, And it was made apparent by its loftiness, by the abundance of its branches.
12 Yet it was plucked up in fury; It was flung down to the earth; And the east wind dried up its branch-shoots; They broke off and dried up; Its strong mainstem, fire devoured it.
13 And now it is transplanted into the wilderness, Into an arid and thirsty land.
14 Fire went forth from the mainstem of its branch-shoots; It devoured its fruit, And no strong mainstem remained on it for a scepter, to rule. This is a dirge, and it has become a dirge.

Chapter 20
1 It came to be in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, that some men of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Yahweh. And they sat down before me.
2 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
3 Son of humanity, speak to the elders of Israel, and you will say to them, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Have you come to inquire of Me? As I live, should I let Myself be inquired of by you? averring is my Lord Yahweh.
4 Shall you judge them; shall you judge, son of humanity? Inform them of the abhorrences of their fathers,
5 and you will say to them, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: On the day I chose Israel, I lifted My hand in swearing to the seed of the house of Jacob, and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt; I lifted My hand in swearing to them, saying: I am Yahweh your Elohim.
6 On that day I lifted My hand in swearing to them to bring them forth from the land of Egypt to a land which I had explored for them, gushing with milk and honey. Stateliest is it of all the lands.
7 And I said to them: Fling away, each of you, the abominations of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idol clods of Egypt; I am Yahweh your Elohim.
8 Yet they defied Me, and they would not hearken to Me; each of them, they did not fling away the abominations of their eyes, and they did not forsake the idol clods of Egypt. Hence I resolved to pour out My fury on them, to vent My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
9 Yet I acted on account of My Name so that it not be profaned before the eyes of the nations in whose midst they were, before whose eyes I was made known by bringing them forth from the land of Egypt.
10 So I did bring them forth from the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.
11 Then I gave them My statutes, and I made known to them My ordinances, for the human who does them will also live by them.
12 And I also gave My sabbaths to them to become a sign between Me and them, to make known that it is I, Yahweh, Who hallows them.
13 But the house of Israel defied Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My statutes and rejected My ordinances, though the human who does them will also live by them. And they profaned My sabbaths exceedingly; hence I resolved to pour out My fury on them in the wilderness, to finish them.
14 Yet I acted on account of My Name so that it not be profaned before the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I brought them forth.
15 However, I did lift My hand in swearing to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given to them, gushing with milk and honey; stateliest is it of all the lands.
16 This was because they rejected My ordinances, and they did not walk in My statutes, and they profaned My sabbaths, for their heart went after their idol clods.
17 Yet My eye commiserated over them to keep from ruining them, and I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.
18 Then I said to their children in the wilderness: Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, and do not observe their ordinances, and do not defile yourselves with their idol clods.
19 I am Yahweh your Elohim; walk in My statutes, and observe My ordinances, and do them.
20 Hallow My sabbaths that they become a sign between Me and you, to make known that I am Yahweh your Elohim.
21 But the children defied Me. They did not walk in My statutes, and they did not observe My ordinances, to do them, though the human who does them also will live by them, and they profaned My sabbaths. Hence I resolved to pour out My fury on them, to vent My anger against them in the wilderness.
22 Yet I reversed My hand. I acted on account of My Name so that it not be profaned before the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I brought them forth.
23 However, I did lift My hand in swearing to them in the wilderness, to scatter them among the nations and to toss them away throughout the lands,
24 because My ordinances they did not do, and My statutes they rejected, and My sabbaths they profaned, and their eyes continued following the idol clods of their fathers.
25 I also gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances in which they could not live.
26 I was defiling them in their gifts when they made all opening up the womb pass through fire, that I might make them desolate, in order that they may know that I am Yahweh.
27 Therefore, speak to the house of Israel, son of humanity, and you will say to them, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: By this further way your fathers taunted Me when they offended Me with an offense:
28 When I brought them into the land concerning which I had lifted My hand in swearing to give it to them, and they saw every high hill and every leafy tree, then they sacrificed their sacrifices there, and they brought their vexatious offering there, and they placed their fragrant odor offerings there, and they libated their libations there.
29 Hence I said to them, What is this high-place where you are coming? So its name is called Bamah until this day.
30 Therefore, say to the house of Israel, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Are you defiling yourselves in the way of your fathers, and are you committing prostitution in following their abominations?
31 When you bear your gifts when you pass your children through the fire, you are defiling yourselves by all your idol clods until this day. And should I let Myself be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live, averring is my Lord Yahweh, should I let Myself be inquired of by you?
32 What has ascended upon your spirit, it shall not occur, nay occur, that which you are saying: We shall become like the nations, like the families of foreign lands, ministering to wood and stone.
33 As I live, averring is my Lord Yahweh, assuredly with a steadfast hand and an outstretched arm and with fury poured out I shall reign over you!
34 I will bring you forth from the peoples and convene you from the lands in which you are scattered, with a steadfast hand and an outstretched arm and with fury poured out.
35 I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples and enter into judgment with you there, face to face.
36 Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
37 I will make you pass under the club and bring you into the bond of the covenant.
38 I will purify you of the revolters and those who transgress against Me. From the land of their sojournings I shall bring them forth, yet they shall not come to the ground of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
39 As for you, house of Israel, thus says my Lord Yahweh, each of you go on and serve his idol clods, yet afterward if you are not hearkening to Me, then you shall not profane My holy Name any longer with your gifts and your idol clods.
40 For on My holy mountain, on the high mountain of Israel, averring is my Lord Yahweh, there all the house of Israel, all of it, shall serve Me in the land. There I shall accept them, and there I shall require your heave offerings and your presentations of firstfruits with all your holy donations.
41 With a fragrant odor I shall accept you when I bring you forth from the peoples and I convene you from the lands into which you are scattered; and I will be hallowed in you before the eyes of the nations.
42 Then you will know that I am Yahweh when I bring you to the ground of Israel, to the land concerning which I lifted My hand in swearing to give it to your fathers.
43 There you will remember your ways and all your practices by which you were defiled, and you will be disgusted in view of yourselves at all your evil deeds which you have done.
44 Then you will know that I am Yahweh, when I deal with you on account of My Name, not according to your evil ways or according to your corrupt practices, house of Israel, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
45 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
46 Son of humanity, set your face toward the southerly way, and preach against the south, and prophesy against the wildwood of the fields in the Negeb.
47 You will say to the wildwood of the Negeb, Hear the word of Yahweh; thus says my Lord Yahweh: Behold, I shall ravage in you with fire, and it will devour in you every sappy tree and every dry tree. The blazing blaze shall not be quenched, and every face from the Negeb to the north will be seared by it.
48 Then all flesh will see that I, Yahweh, have made it blaze up. It shall not be quenched.
49 Yet I said, Alas, my Lord Yahweh, they are saying of me, Is he not one who keeps inditing allegories?

Chapter 21
1 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
2 Son of humanity, set your face toward Jerusalem, and preach against their sanctuary, and prophesy against the ground of Israel.
3 You will say to the ground of Israel, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, and I will bring forth My sword from its scabbard and cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.
4 Because I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore My sword shall come forth from its scabbard against all flesh from the Negeb to the north.
5 Then all flesh will know that I, Yahweh, have brought forth My sword from its scabbard; it shall not return again.
6 As for you, son of humanity, sigh with breaking waist, and with bitterness you shall sigh before their eyes.
7 And it will come when they say to you, Why are you sighing? you will say, Because of the report, for it is coming: Every heart will be melted, And all hands will fall slack; Every spirit will be dimmed, And all knees shall turn to water; Behold, it is coming, And it shall happen, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
8 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
9 Son of humanity, prophesy, and you will say, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: A sword, a sword is sharpened! And it is burnished too!
10 That it may slaughter a slaughter, it is sharpened! That it may become like lightning, it is burnished! (Or should we be elated? My son, you have rejected the club and every counsel.)
11 One is giving it to be burnished, To be grasped in the palm. It, the sword, is sharpened, And it is burnished, To place it in the hand of a killer.
12 Cry out and howl, son of humanity, For it comes to be among My people; It is among all the princes of Israel; They are toppled to the sword with My people; Therefore, slap your thigh in grief.
13 (For it is tested. Yet what if this club also is rejected? Shall it not come? averring is my Lord Yahweh.)
14 Now you, son of humanity, prophesy, And smite palm against palm; Let the sword strike twice, even a third time; It is a sword for those to be slain, The great sword for those to be slain, The one trembling over them,
15 So that the heart may dissolve And many be stumbled at all their gateways, I have appointed slaughter by sword; Ah! it is made to flash! It is burnished for slaughter!
16 Show yourself sharp! go right! Set yourself! go left! Whither your face is set.
17 I Myself also shall smite My palm against My palm, And I will give rest to My fury. I, Yahweh, have spoken
18 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
19 And you, son of humanity, mark out for yourself two ways on which the sword of the king of Babylon may come. The two of them should come forth from the same land. And put up a signpost at the head of the way to the city; at the head of
20 the way you shall place it for the sword to come against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon and against Judah in fortressed Jerusalem.
21 For the king of Babylon will stand at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to divine by divination. He will shake out arrows, consult household idols and examine the liver.
22 Into his right hand will come the divination against Jerusalem, to place battering rams, to open the mouth with battlecry, to raise high the voice with shouting, to place battering rams against the gates, to construct an earthwork, and to build siege work.
23 Yet in their eyes it will seem to them like a futile divination, these oaths that were sworn to them, but this will cause their depravity to be remembered, that they be apprehended.
24 Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh: Because you cause your depravity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are exposed, so that your sins are made apparent in all your practices because you are thus remembered you shall be apprehended by the palm.
25 As for you, profane, wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come in an era of depravity’s climax,
26 thus says my Lord Yahweh: Take off the turban, and heave away the crown. This shall not remain like this! Elevate the low, and abase the lofty!
27 Depraved, depraved, depraved shall I constitute it! Moreover, this will not be restored until He comes to Whom judgment belongs, And I give it to Him.
28 As for you, son of humanity, prophesy, and you will say, Thus says my Lord Yahweh as to the sons of Ammon and their reproaching; you will say: Sword, sword, unloosed for slaughter, Burnished to devour, that it may flash!
29 (It is because they envisioned futility about you, because they divined lies about you.) You will be applied to the necks of profane, wicked people, Whose day has come in an era of depravity’s climax.
30 Return it to its scabbard. In the place where you were created, In the land of your origin, I shall judge you;
31 I will pour out My indignation against you; In the fire of My rage I shall blow out upon you, And I will give you into the hand of brutish men, craftsmen of ruin.
32 You shall become fuel for the fire; Your blood shall be in the midst of the countryside; You shall not be remembered, for I, Yahweh, have spoken.

Chapter 22
1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
2 Now you, son of humanity, shall you judge, shall you judge the city of bloodshed? You will make known to it all its abhorrences.
3 You will say, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: City, which sheds blood in its midst, so that its era may come, And which makes for itself idol clods to be defiled with,
4 You have incurred guilt with your blood which you have shed, And you are defiled with your idol clods which you have made; You are bringing near your days, And are coming to the era of your years; Therefore, I give you over to the reproach of the nations And the scoffing of all the lands.
5 Those near to you and those far from you shall scoff at you, Unclean of name, great of discomfiture.
6 Behold, the princes of Israel among you, Each has his arm of power which they use in order to shed blood.
7 Men among you maledict father and mother; Toward the sojourner they deal with extortion in your midst; The orphan and widow they tyrannize among you.
8 You despise My holy things, And you profane My sabbaths.
9 Defaming men are among you in order to shed blood, And people among you eat on the mountains; They commit lewdness in your midst.
10 One exposes the nakedness of his father among you; They humiliate among you the isolated woman in her uncleanness.
11 A man commits abhorrence with the wife of his associate, Another man defiles his daughter-in-law with lewdness, And another man humiliates among you his sister, the daughter of his father.
12 They take a bribe among you in order to shed blood; You take advance interest and accrued interest, And you are making dishonest gain from your associates by extortion; You have forgotten Me, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
13 Behold, I will smite My palms at your dishonest gain which you have made and over your bloodguilt which has occurred in your midst.
14 Shall your heart stand firm or your hands be steadfast in the days when I deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken, and I will act.
15 I will scatter you among the nations And toss you away among the lands, And I will completely remove your uncleanness from you.
16 You will be profaned within yourself before the eyes of the nations; Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
17 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
18 Son of humanity, the house of Israel has become dross to Me; they all are copper and tin and iron and lead in the midst of a crucible; they have become dross of silver.
19 Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh: Because all of you have become dross, therefore behold, I shall gather you together into the midst of Jerusalem.
20 Like the gathering together of silver and copper and iron and lead and tin into the midst of a crucible, to blow on it with fire to melt it down, so I shall gather you together in My anger and in My fury, and I will blow, and I will melt you down.
21 I will collect you together and blow upon you with the fire of My rage, and you will be melted down in its midst.
22 Like the melting down of silver in the midst of a crucible, so shall you be melted down in its midst; then you will know that I, Yahweh, I have poured out My fury on you.
23 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
24 Son of humanity, say to it, You are a land which has not been rained upon; It has not received its downpour in the day of indignation;
25 A conspiracy of its princes is in its midst, Like a roaring lion, tearing the prey to pieces; They devour one’s soul; They are taking his assets and precious things; They increase its widows in its midst.
26 Its priests do violence to My law, And they are profaning My holy things; Between holy and profane they do not differentiate, And the difference between the unclean and clean they do not make known; They obscure their eyes from My sabbaths, And I am being profaned in their midst.
27 Its chief officials in its midst are like wolves tearing the prey to pieces, To shed blood, to destroy souls in order to gain dishonest gain.
28 Its prophets plaster them with lime-wash, Envisioning futility and divining lies about them, Saying: Thus says my Lord Yahweh, when Yahweh has not spoken.
29 The people of the land exploit by extortion And snatch goods by pillaging; They tyrannize the humble and needy one, And they exploit the sojourner without redress.
30 I sought a man from them who would dike a stone dike, And who would stand in the breach before Me in behalf of the land so that it not be ruined, Yet not one did I find.
31 So I shall pour out My indignation on them; In the fire of My rage I will finish them; I will bring their way on their head, averring is my Lord Yahweh.

Chapter 23
1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
2 Son of humanity, there were two women, daughters of one mother,
3 and they committed prostitution in Egypt; in their youth they committed prostitution. There their breasts were squashed, and there the nipples of their virginity were handled.
4 Their names were Aholah, the elder, and Aholibah, her sister; they came to be Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names: Aholah is Samaria, and Aholibah is Jerusalem.
5 Yet Aholah committed prostitution while under My authority, and she doted on her lovers, on Assyria, those near by,
6 clothed in blue, viceroys and prefects, choice young men, coveted, all of them, horsemen, riding horses.
7 She bestowed her prostitutions on them, choice sons of Assyria, all of them; and with all on whom she doted, with all their idol clods she was defiled.
8 She did not forsake her prostitutions begun in Egypt, for they had lain with her in her youth, and they had handled the nipples of her virginity and poured out their prostitutions on her.
9 Therefore, I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the sons of Assyria on whom she doted.
10 They exposed her nakedness; they took away her sons and her daughters and killed her with the sword, so that she became a byword among women after judgment had been executed upon her.
11 Her sister Aholibah saw this, yet she became corrupted in her doting more than her sister, and her prostitutions were worse than the prostitutions of her sister.
12 She doted on the sons of Assyria, viceroys and prefects, those near by, clothed in panoply, horsemen, riding horses, choice young men, coveted, all of them.
13 And I saw that she was defiled. Both of them went the same way,
14 yet she continued her prostitutions further. When she saw mortals delineated on the sidewall, images of Chaldeans delineated with ocher,
15 girded with belts about their waists, extended gorgeous turbans on their heads, all of them in appearance like high officers, a likeness of the sons of Babylon whose land of birth is Chaldea,
16 then she doted on them by the sight of her eyes, and she sent messengers to them to Chaldea.
17 So the sons of Babylon came to her, to the bed of endearments, and they defiled her with their prostitution; and she was defiled by them until her soul was disaffected from them.
18 She exposed her prostitutions and exposed her nakedness, and My soul was disaffected from her just as My soul had been disaffected from her sister.
19 Yet she increased her prostitutions, remembering the days of her youth when she committed prostitution in the land of Egypt.
20 She doted on concubinage with them, whose flesh was like the flesh of donkeys, and the effusion of horses was like their effusion.
21 So you revisited the lewdness of your youth when those of Egypt handled your nipples, squashing the breasts of your youth.
22 Therefore, Aholibah (thus says my Lord Yahweh), behold, I will rouse your lovers against you, from whom your soul is disaffected, and I will bring them against you from round about,
23 the sons of Babylon and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the sons of Assyria with them, choice young men, coveted, viceroys and prefects, all of them, high officers and heralded men, riding horses, all of them.
24 They will come against you from the north with chariot and rolling wheel and with an assembled force of peoples. Large shield and buckler and helmet shall they place against you round about. I will set judgment before them, and they will judge you by their own customs.
25 I will turn My zeal against you, and they will deal with you in fury; they shall take away your nose and your ears, and the last of you shall fall by the sword. They themselves shall take away your sons and your daughters, and the last of you shall be devoured by fire.
26 They will strip you of your garments and take away your beautiful jewels.
27 I will eradicate your lewdness from you and your prostitution begun in the land of Egypt; you shall not lift your eyes to them, and you shall not remember Egypt any longer.
28 For thus says my Lord Yahweh: Behold I am giving you into the hand of those whom you hate, into the hand of those from whom your soul is disaffected.
29 They will deal with you in hatred and take away all the result of your labor; they will leave you naked and denuded, and the nakedness of your prostitutions will be exposed; your lewdness and your prostitutions
30 will bring these things on you because you prostituted after the nations, by which you are defiled with their idol clods.
31 You walked in the way of your sister, and so I will put her cup into your hand.
32 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: You shall drink the cup of your sister, The cup deep and wide; It shall become an object of laughter and derision, It contains so much.
33 You shall be filled with drunkenness and affliction, The cup of desolation, yea desolation, The cup of your sister, Samaria.
34 You will drink it and drain it dry, And you shall pick clean its shards; And you shall pull away your breasts, For I Myself have spoken, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
35 Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh: Because you have forgotten Me and flung Me behind your back, so also you have to bear your lewdness and your prostitutions.
36 Then Yahweh said to me: Son of humanity, shall you judge Aholah and Aholibah? Tell them their abhorrences.
37 For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands; they have committed adultery with their idol clods, and they have even passed their sons whom they bore for Me through fire to them for food.
38 This furthermore they have done to Me: They defiled My sanctuary on that day and profaned My sabbaths.
39 When they slew their sons for their idol clods, they came into My sanctuary on that day to profane it. And behold, they did thus in the midst of My house.
40 Also they sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came. For them you bathed, you penciled your eyes and ornamented yourself with ornaments.
41 Then you were seated on a glorious couch with a table arrayed before it, and My incense and My oil you placed upon it.
42 The sound of a carefree throng was about it, and of men from a multitude of humanity who were brought carousing from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on their hands and a beautiful crown on their heads.
43 Then I said about her who was worn out with adulteries, Now let them prostitute her prostitution with her!
44 So they would come to her; as one comes to a prostituting woman, so they came to Aholah and Aholibah, the lewd women.
45 Yet righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment for adulteresses, and the judgment for those who shed blood, for they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.
46 For thus says my Lord Yahweh: Bring up an assembled force against them, and give them over to commotion and to plunder.
47 The assembled force will pelt them with stones and clear them off with their swords; they shall kill their sons and their daughters and burn their houses with fire.
48 So I will eradicate lewdness from the land, and all the women will be admonished so that they not act according to your lewdness.
49 They will bring your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the sins of your idol clods. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.

Chapter 24
1 The word of Yahweh came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, saying:
2 Son of humanity, write for yourself the name of the day, this very day. The king of Babylon has borne down upon Jerusalem on this very day.
3 Now indite an allegory against the rebellious house, and you will say to them, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Set the pot on the hearthstones; Set it on the hearthstones, And then pour water into it;
4 Gather into it pieces of meat, Every good piece, thigh and shoulder; Fill it with choice bones.
5 Take the choice of the flock, And also stack the wood under it; Boil its pieces of meat, And cook its bones in its midst.
6 Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh: Woe to the city of bloodshed! To the pot whose corrosion is in it, And its corrosion does not go forth from it! Piece by piece, bring it forth; The lot must not fall on it.
7 For the blood shed by her remains in her midst; On the weathered crag she has placed it; She has not poured it out on the earth to cover it with soil.
8 To bring up fury, to avenge with vengeance I have left the blood shed by her on the weathered crag that it not be covered.
9 Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh: Woe to the city of bloodshed! I Myself shall even make the stack greater.
10 Increase the wood! Make the fire flare up! Cook well the flesh, And empty out the broth, And let the bones be charred!
11 Then let it stay empty on its burning embers That it may be well-heated And its copper become red-hot, So that its uncleanness will be melted down in its midst, And its corrosion may be completely removed.
12 She has tired of sorrows, Yet her great corrosion is not coming forth from her; Into the fire with her corrosion!
13 In view of your lewd uncleanness, and because I sought to cleanse you, yet you would not be cleansed from your uncleanness, you shall not be cleansed further until I give rest to My fury against you.
14 I, Yahweh, have spoken: It is coming, and I will do it; I shall not renounce it, Nor shall I commiserate, Nor shall I regret. According to your ways and according to your practices I will judge you, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
15 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
16 Son of humanity, behold, I am taking away from you by a stroke what is coveted in your eyes. Yet you shall not wail nor lament, Nor shall your tears come.
17 As for groaning, be still; For the dying you shall not make mourning; Bind up your beautiful turban upon you, And place your sandals on your feet. Do not muffle your upper lip Nor eat the bread of grieving men.
18 So I spoke to the people in the morning. In the evening my wife died, yet I did just as I was instructed on the next morning.
19 Then the people said to me, Will you not tell us what these things that you are doing mean for us?
20 So I replied to them: The word of Yahweh, it came to me, saying:
21 Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Behold, I shall profane My sanctuary, your proud strength, coveted in your eyes and venerated by your soul. As for your sons and your daughters whom you left, they shall fall by the sword.
22 Yet you will do just as I have done; You shall not muffle your upper lip Nor eat the bread of grieving men.
23 Put your beautiful turbans on your heads And your sandals on your feet; You shall not wail nor lament. Yet you will be putrefied in your depravities, And you will growl, each to his brother.
24 Thus Ezekiel will be a portent to you. According to all that he has done, you shall do; when it comes, then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
25 As for you, son of humanity, in that day shall I not take away from them their strength, the elation of their vaunting, what is coveted in their eyes, and the uplifting of their soul, their sons and their daughters?
26 In that day the delivered one shall come to you with the report for your ears.
27 In that day your mouth shall be opened toward the delivered one, and you shall speak and not be mute any longer. And you will be a portent to them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.

Chapter 25
1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
2 Son of humanity, set your face toward the sons of Ammon, and prophesy against them.
3 And you will say to the sons of Ammon, Hear the word of my Lord Yahweh. Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Because you say Aha! over My sanctuary, since it is profaned, and over the ground of Israel, since it is desolated, and over the house of Judah, since they have gone into exile,
4 therefore behold, I am giving you to the sons of the east for a tenancy, and they will settle their domiciles among you and place among you their tabernacles. They shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.
5 I will make Rabbah a homestead for camels, and the settlements of the sons of Ammon a reclining place for the flock. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
6 For thus says my Lord Yahweh: Because you clap your hand and you stamp your foot, and you are rejoicing with all your disdain from the soul over the ground of Israel,
7 therefore, behold Me! I will stretch out My hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations, and I will cut you off from the peoples and destroy you from the lands; I shall exterminate you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
8 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Because Moab and Seir say, Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations,
9 therefore behold, I shall open up the flank of Moab, depriving it of the cities, all its cities unto its end, the stately honor of the land: Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon and Kiriathaim.
10 To the sons of the east I will give it along with the sons of Ammon for a tenancy, that with the sons of Ammon, it may not be remembered among the nations,
11 and in Moab I shall execute judgments. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.
12 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Because Edom has acted against the house of Judah with avenging vengeance, and they incurred guilt, yea guilt when they avenged themselves upon them,
13 therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh: I will stretch out My hand against Edom; I will cut off from it human and beast and give it over to desertion. From Teman to Dedan they shall fall by the sword.
14 I will bring My vengeance upon Edom by the hand of My people Israel, and they will deal with Edom according to My anger and according to My fury. Then they will know My vengeance, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
15 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Because the Philistines acted in vengeance, and they avenged vengeance with disdain of soul to ruin with eonian enmity,
16 therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh: Behold, I shall stretch out My hand against the Philistines; I will cut off the Kerethites and destroy the remnant along the sea shore.
17 I will deal out among them great vengeance with furious correctives. Then they will know that I am Yahweh when I bring My vengeance among them.

Chapter 26
1 It came to be in the eleventh year, on day one of the month that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
2 Son of humanity, because of what Tyre says against Jerusalem, Aha! the doorway of the peoples is broken! It will be turned around to me! I shall be filled, now that she is laid waste!
3 therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Tyre! I will cast up many nations against you, as the sea casts up its billows.
4 They will ruin the walls of Tyre And demolish her towers; Thus I will scrape away her soil from her And make her a weathered crag.
5 She shall become a place for spreading out seine nets in the midst of the sea; For I Myself have spoken, averring is my Lord Yahweh; She will become plunder for the nations,
6 And her daughter towns in the field shall be killed by the sword. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.
7 For thus says my Lord Yahweh: Behold, I shall bring against Tyre from the north, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, with horse and with chariot and with horsemen, and an assembled force with many people.
8 Your daughter towns in the field, he shall kill with the sword; He will set up siege work against you And construct an earthwork against you, And he will raise the large shield against you.
9 He shall bring the impact of his battering ram upon your walls, And your towers he shall break down with his iron-bars.
10 Because of the accumulation of his horses their dust shall cover you; Because of the sound of horseman, rolling wheel and chariot, your walls shall quake, When he enters your gates like those who enter a city rent by breaches.
11 With the hooves of his horses he shall tramp down all your streets, Your people he shall kill with the sword, And the monuments of your strength shall come down to the earth.
12 They will loot your estate And plunder the gains of your trade; They will demolish your walls And shall break down your coveted houses; Your stones and your timber and your soil they shall cast in the midst of the water.
13 Then I will cause the clamor of your songs to cease; And the sound of your harps shall not be heard any longer.
14 I will make you a weathered crag; You shall become a place for spreading out seine nets; You shall not be rebuilt again, For I, Yahweh, have spoken, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
15 Thus says my Lord Yahweh to Tyre: Shall not the coastlands quake at the sound of your downfall, when the wounded groan, when the sword kills in your midst?
16 Then all the princes of the sea will descend from their thrones, and they will take off their outer robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They shall be clothed with tremblings. They shall sit on the earth, and they will tremble every moment and be appalled over you.
17 So they will lift up a dirge over you and say to you: How you have perished, You have been eradicated from the seas, The city that was praised, that was steadfast on the sea, She and her dwellers who cast dismay of them on all its dwellers!
18 Now the coastlands are trembling on the day of your downfall, And the coastlands by the sea are flustered at your going forth.
19 For thus says my Lord Yahweh: When I make you a wasted city like cities that are not indwelt, when I bring up the abyss over you, and the many waters cover you,
20 then I will bring you down with descenders to the crypt, to people of the eon, and I will cause you to dwell in the nether parts of the earth, in places deserted from the eon, with descenders to the crypt, that you may not be indwelt; yet I will give stately honor in the land of the living.
21 I shall make you a decadent thing, and you will be no more; you shall be sought, yet you shall not be found again for the eon, averring is my Lord Yahweh.

Chapter 27
1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
2 Now you, son of humanity, lift up a dirge over Tyre,
3 and you will say to Tyre who dwells at the entrance of the sea, trader for the peoples to many coastlands: Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Tyre, you said, I am of consummate loveliness.
4 In the heart of the seas were your boundaries; Your builders completed your loveliness:
5 Of firs from Senir they built for you all your planks; They took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you;
6 Of oaks from Bashan they made your oars; They made your prow of ivory set in box tree wood from the coasts of Kittim;
7 Embroidered cambric from Egypt served as your sail, to serve as your banner; Of blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah was your awning.
8 Dwellers of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; Your wise, Tyre, were within you; they were your pilots;
9 Elders of Gebal and her wise were within you, your gap repairers; All the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to negotiate for your market wares;
10 Persia and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war; Shield and helmet they hung up in you; They brought honor to you;
11 Sons of Arvad and your army manned your walls round about, And Gammadites were on your towers; They hung up their cuirasses on your walls round about; They completed your loveliness.
12 Tarshish was your merchant because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth; for silver, iron, tin and lead they sold your commodities.
13 Javan, Tubal and Meshech, they were your traders; for human souls and copper utensils they sold your market wares.
14 From Beth-togarmah, for horses and steeds and mules they sold your commodities.
15 Sons of Dedan were your traders; many coastlands were agents of merchandise at your side; they recompensed with horns of ivory and with ebony as levy for you.
16 Syria was your merchant because of your many products; for carbuncles, purple, embroidery and fine linen, corals and brilliant gems they sold your commodities.
17 Judah and the land of Israel, they were your traders; for wheat of Minnith, green figs, honey, oil and balm they sold your market wares.
18 Damascus was your merchant for your many products because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth, trading for wine of Helbon and wool of Zahar.
19 Vedan and Javan from Uzal sold your commodities; wrought iron, cassia and aromatic reed were exchanged for your market wares.
20 Dedan was your trader for free flowing cloaks for riding.
21 Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, they were merchants at your side; for butting lambs and rams and he-goats, for them they were your merchants.
22 The traders of Sheba and Raamah, they were your traders; for every principal aromatic and for every precious stone and gold they sold your commodities.
23 Charan and Canneh and Eden, the traders of Sheba, Assyria and Chilmad were your traders.
24 They were your traders for things consummate, folds of blue cloth and embroidery, and carpets of rich fabric bound up with cord lines and long lasting, your traders for these.
25 Ships of Tarshish were your conveyers for your market wares. So you were filled and very heavily stocked in the heart of the seas.
26 Into many waters your rowers brought you; The east wind broke you apart in the heart of the seas.
27 Your wealth, your commodities, your market wares, Your mariners and your pilots, Your gap repairers and negotiators of your market wares, And all your men of war who were in you, And all your assembled force which was in your midst, They shall fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall.
28 At the sound of your pilots’ outcry the common lands shall quake.
29 From their ships will descend all the handlers of the oar, the mariners; All the pilots of the sea shall stand upon the earth.
30 They will make their voice heard over you, And they shall cry out bitterly, And they shall cast up dust on their heads; They shall wallow in ashes.
31 They will make themselves bald with baldness for you, And gird themselves with sackcloth; They will lament for you in bitterness of soul with bitter wailing.
32 They will lift up a dirge for you in their sorrow, And they will intone over you: Who was like Tyre, Like the still one in the midst of the sea?
33 When your commodities went forth from the seas you satisfied many peoples; With your vast wealth and your market wares you enriched the kings of the earth.
34 Now you are broken by the seas in the depths of the waters; Your market wares and all your assembled force in your midst have fallen.
35 All the dwellers of the coastlands are appalled over you, And their kings are horrified with horror; Their faces are disheartened.
36 The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; You have become a decadent thing, And you will be no more until the eon.

Chapter 28
1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
2 Son of humanity, say to the governor of Tyre, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is haughty, and you are saying, I am an el! I sit on the seat of the elohim in the heart of the seas! yet you are human and not an el, though you are deeming your heart like the heart of the elohim
3 Behold, you are wiser than Daniel! All obstructed matters, they do not mystify you!
4 By your wisdom and by your understanding you have made an estate for yourself! And you are getting gold and silver into your treasuries!
5 By your vast wisdom in your trading you have increased your estate, And your heart has become haughty by your estate.
6 Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh: Because you have deemed your heart like the heart of the elohim,
7 therefore behold, I shall bring against you aliens, the most terrifying of the nations, and they will unsheathe their swords against you and the loveliness made by your wisdom, and they will profane your shining splendor.
8 They shall bring you down to the pit, and you will die the deaths of the slain in the heart of the seas.
9 Shall you then say, yea say, I am elohim, before your killers, when you are shown to be human and not an el in the hand of those who wound you?
10 You shall die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of aliens, for I Myself have spoken, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
11 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
12 Son of humanity, lift up a dirge over the king of Tyre, and you will say to him: Thus says my Lord Yahweh: You were a seal-imprint of a model, Full of wisdom and consummate in loveliness.
13 You were in the luxury of the garden of Elohim; Of every precious stone was your boothlike pavilion, Carnelian, peridot and diamond, Topaz, onyx and jasper, Sapphire, carbuncle and emerald; And with gold have you filled your flanks And your alcoves which are in you. In the day of your creation they established
14 the anointed cherub’s booth. And I bestowed you in the holy mountain of Elohim; You were in the midst of the fiery stones.
15 You walked flawless in your ways from the day of your creation, Until iniquity was found in you
16 in the increase of your trading. They filled your midst with violence, and you sinned; So I shall put you as profane out of the mountain of Elohim, And the cherub of the booth will destroy you out of the midst of the fiery stones.
17 Your heart was haughty because of your loveliness; You made your wisdom a ruin because of your shining splendor; I will fling you down on the earth; I will set you before kings to make a spectacle of you.
18 Because of your many depravities, In the iniquity of your trading, you profaned your sanctuary; So I shall bring forth fire from your midst; It will devour you; And I shall turn you to ashes on the earth before the eyes of all who see you.
19 All who know you among the peoples will be appalled over you; You will become a decadent thing, And you will be no more until the eon.
20 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
21 Son of humanity, set your face toward Sidon and prophesy against her,
22 and you will say, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Sidon, And I will be glorified in your midst; Then they will know that I am Yahweh When I execute judgments in her, And I am hallowed in her.
23 I will send plague into her And bloodshed in her streets, And the slain will fall in her midst When the sword comes upon her from round about. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.
24 No longer shall there be a festering palm-thorn for the house of Israel, Or a painful thorn from all round about them who disdain them. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
25 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: When I convene the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and I am hallowed among them before the eyes of the nations, they will dwell on their ground which I gave to My servant, to Jacob,
26 and they will dwell on it in trust. They will build houses and plant vineyards, and they will dwell in trust, when I execute judgments on all who disdain them, from round about them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh their Elohim.

Chapter 29
1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
2 Son of humanity, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against Egypt, all of it.
3 Speak and you will say, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, The great monster, reclining in the midst of its waterways, Which says, Mine is my waterway, And I made it for myself.
4 I will put gaffs in your cheeks, And I will cause the fish of your waterways to cling to your scales. I will bring you up from the midst of your waterways, And all the fish of your waterways which cling to your scales.
5 And I will abandon you to the wilderness, You and all the fish of your waterways; You shall lie fallen on the open field; You shall not be gathered nor brought together; I will give you as food to the land animal and the flyer of the heavens.
6 Then all the dwellers of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh. Because you were a support-staff of reed to the house of Israel
7 When they grasped you by the palm you would splinter, And you would rend open all their shoulders; When they leaned on you you would break, And you would make all their waists totter
8 Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh: Behold, I shall bring a sword against you, and I will cut off from you human and beast,
9 so that the land of Egypt will become a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am Yahweh. Because you say, The waterway is mine, and I made it,
10 therefore behold, I am against you and against your waterways; and I will give over the land of Egypt to waste, sword and desolation from Migdol to Syene and as far as the boundary of Cush.
11 No foot of a human shall pass through it, and no foot of a beast shall pass through it, and it shall not be indwelt for forty years.
12 I will give over the land of Egypt to desolation in the midst of desolated lands, and her cities shall become a desolation in the midst of deserted cities forty years. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and toss them away among the lands.
13 For thus says my Lord Yahweh: At the end of forty years I shall convene the Egyptians from the peoples where they are scattered.
14 I will reverse the captivity of Egypt, and I will restore them to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin. There they will be a lowly kingdom.
15 Of all the kingdoms it shall be lowest, and it shall not lift itself over the nations any longer. I will decrease them so that they will not hold sway among the nations.
16 No longer shall it be the trust to the house of Israel, reminding them of their depravity when they turned around after them. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
17 It came to be in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on day one of the month that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
18 Son of humanity, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has made his army serve with great service against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder burnished, yet no reward has come to him or to his army from Tyre for the service which he served against it.
19 Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh: Behold, I shall give to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon the land of Egypt; and he will carry away her superabundance and loot her loot and plunder her plunder, and it will be the reward for his army;
20 as his wage for which he served I give him the land of Egypt for what they did for Me, averring is My Lord Yahweh.
21 In that day I shall make a horn sprout for the house of Israel, and I shall give you an opening of the mouth in their midst. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.

Chapter 30
1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
2 Son of humanity, prophesy, and you will say, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Howl! Woe for the day!
3 For a day is near; Yahweh’s day is near; It shall be a cloudy day, an era of the nations.
4 A sword will come upon Egypt, And sore travail will come upon Cush, When the slain one falls in Egypt, And they take away her superabundance; And her foundations are demolished.
5 Cush and Put and Lud And all the mixed multitude and Cub, And the sons of the land of the covenant, They shall fall by the sword with them.
6 Thus says Yahweh: The supporters of Egypt will fall, And her proud strength will come down; From Migdol to Syene they shall fall in her by the sword, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
7 They will be desolated in the midst of desolate lands, And their cities shall lie in the midst of wasted cities.
8 Then they will know that I am Yahweh When I set fire in Egypt, And all her helpers are broken apart.
9 In that day messengers shall go forth from before Me in boats to make unsuspecting Cush tremble, and sore travail will come among them in Egypt’s day, for behold, it is coming.
10 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: I will eradicate the superabundance of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.
11 He and his people with him, the terrifiers of the nations, will be brought to ruin the land. They will unsheathe their swords against Egypt, And they will fill the land with the slain.
12 I will make the waterways drained And sell the land into the hand of evildoers; I will desolate the land and its fullness by the hand of aliens; I, Yahweh, have spoken.
13 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: I will destroy the idol clods And eradicate the forbidden idols from Noph; A prince shall not arise from the land of Egypt any longer, And I will put fear in the land of Egypt.
14 I will desolate Pathros And set fire in Zoan And execute judgments in No.
15 I will pour out My fury on Sin, the stronghold of Egypt, And cut off the superabundance of No.
16 I will set fire in Egypt; Sin shall travail, yea travail, And No shall be rent by breaches, While Noph will have distresses even by day.
17 As for the choice young men of Aven and Pi-beseth, by the sword shall they fall; And the cities themselves shall go into captivity.
18 In Tehaphnehes the day will become dark When I break there the yoke-bars of Egypt; And her proud strength will be eradicated in her; As for her, a cloud shall cover her, And her daughters, they shall go into captivity.
19 Thus I will execute judgments in Egypt; Then they will know that I am Yahweh.
20 It came to be in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
21 Son of humanity, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and behold, it is not bound up to allow healing by placing a bandage, to bind it up so as to make it steadfast in grasping a sword.
22 Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and I will break both his arms, the steadfast one and the broken one, and I will make the sword fall from his hand.
23 I will scatter Egypt among the nations and toss them away among the lands.
24 I will make steadfast the arms of the king of Babylon and give My sword into his hands; I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will moan before him with moanings like one mortally wounded.
25 I will make steadfast the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall. Then they will know that I am Yahweh when I give My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt.
26 I will scatter Egypt among the nations and toss them away among the lands. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.

Chapter 31
1 It came to be in the eleventh year, in the third month, on day one of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
2 Son of humanity, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his throng: To whom are you like in your greatness?
3 Behold, there was a box tree, a cedar in Lebanon, With lovely boughs and in shady woodland, And of lofty stature, And among the leafy trees arose its wooly foliage.
4 The waters made it great; The abyss made it rise high; Its place of planting had its streams flowing round about, And it sent its trenches to all the trees of the field.
5 Therefore, its stature was loftier than all the trees of the field, And its forking branches increased, And its foliage grew long from the abundant water, in its sending forth.
6 In its forked branches nested every flyer of the heavens, And every animal of the field gave birth under its foliage, While all the great nations dwelt in its shade.
7 It was lovely in its greatness, In the length of its branches, For its roots reached to many waters.
8 Even the cedars in the garden of Elohim, they could not match it, Firs were not like it in its forked branches, And plane trees were not like it in foliage; Of all the trees in the garden of Elohim none was like it in its loveliness.
9 I made it lovely with the multitude of its branches. And all the trees of Eden were jealous of it in the garden of Elohim.
10 Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh: Because it became lofty in stature, and is lifting up its wooly foliage among the leafy trees, and its heart is raised high in its loftiness,
11 I shall give it into the hand of the subjector of nations to do what he shall do with it; according to its wickedness I will drive it out.
12 Aliens, the terrifying nations, shall cut it down, and they shall abandon it on the mountains. Its branches will fall into every ravine, and its foliage shall be broken in all the channels of the earth. Then all the peoples of the earth shall go down from its shade and abandon it.
13 On its fallen trunk every flyer of the heavens shall roost, and every animal of the field will stay upon its foliage,
14 that none of all the trees by the waters may be lofty in their stature, nor lift up their wooly foliage among the leafy trees, nor shall all that drink of the waters stand up by them in their loftiness. For all of them will be given up to death, to the nether parts of the earth in the midst of sons of humanity, to descenders to the crypt.
15 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: In the day it descends to the unseen I will inflict mourning: On its account I will cover the abyss, and I shall withhold its streams, and the vast waters shall be shut up; on its account I shall make Lebanon somber, and on its account all the trees of the field will swoon.
16 At the sound of its fall I will make the nations quake when I bring it down to the unseen with descenders to the crypt; and in the nether parts of the earth all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all that drink of the waters shall be comforted.
17 They also will descend with it to the unseen, to those slain by the sword and its armed force; they will dwell in its shade in the midst of the nations.
18 To whom are you like, thus in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? You also will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the nether parts of the earth; In the midst of the uncircumcised shall you lie with those slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his throng, averring is my Lord Yahweh.

Chapter 32
1 It came to be in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month on day one of the month that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
2 Son of humanity, lift up a dirge over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and you will say to him: To a sheltered lion of the nations are you likened, And you are like a monster in the seas; You are rushing forth in your streams And roiling the waters with your feet And fouling their streams.
3 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: I will spread My net over you with an assembled force of many peoples, And I will bring you up in My seine net.
4 Then I will abandon you in the countryside; On the open field I shall cast you forth; I will cause every flyer of the heavens to roost on you And have all the land animals surfeit themselves upon you.
5 I will put your flesh on the mountains And fill the ravines with your maggots.
6 I will irrigate the countryside with your fluid, With your blood up to the mountains, And the channels themselves shall be filled from you.
7 When you are quenched out, I will cover the heavens And make their stars somber; The sun, I shall cover it with a cloud, And the moon shall not illumine with its light.
8 All the luminaries of light in the heavens, I shall make them somber over you, And I will bring darkness over your land, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
9 I will provoke the heart of many peoples to vexation When I bring your broken parts among the nations, To lands that you have not known.
10 On your account I will desolate many peoples, And on your account their kings shall be horrified with horror When I brandish My sword in their faces, And they will tremble every moment, Each for his soul in the day of your downfall.
11 For thus says my Lord Yahweh: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come on you.
12 By the swords of masters of war I shall cast down your throng; Terrifiers of the nations are they all. They will devastate the pomp of Egypt, And all its throng will be exterminated.
13 I will destroy all its beasts from beside many waters, And no human foot shall roil them any longer, Nor shall the hooves of beasts roil them.
14 Then I shall cause their waters to sink down And their streams to flow like oil, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
15 When I give over the land of Egypt to desolation, And the land is desolated of its fullness, When I smite all who dwell in it, Then they will know that I am Yahweh.
16 This is a dirge, and they will intone it; The daughters of the nations shall intone it; Over Egypt and over all its throng they shall intone it, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
17 It came to be in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the fifteenth of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
18 Son of humanity, make a plaint over the throng of Egypt, you and the daughters of the noble nations, and bid it descend to the nether parts of the earth with descenders to the crypt.
19 Are you more pleasant than others? Descend and be laid with the uncircumcised.
20 They shall fall in the midst of those slain by the sword; it is given to the sword; draw it down with all its throngs.
21 The masterful subjectors shall speak to him from the midst of the unseen; they will descend with his helpers; they will lie with the uncircumcised, those slain by the sword.
22 Assyria is there and all its assembled force; round about him are his tombs, all of them slain, fallen by the sword,
23 whose tombs are put in the recesses of the crypt. Its assembled force shall be round about its tomb, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who had spread dismay in the land of the living.
24 Elam is there and all its throng round about its tomb, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who descended uncircumcised to the nether parts of the earth, who spread dismay before them in the land of the living, and who bear their mortification with descenders to the crypt.
25 They make a bed for it in the midst of the slain, with all its throng; its tombs are round about him, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for dismay of them had been spread in the land of the living, yet they bear their mortification with descenders to the crypt. In the midst of the slain is he placed.
26 Meshech-Tubal is there and all its throng; round about him are its tombs, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they spread dismay before them in the land of the living.
27 Yet they are not lying with the fallen masters of war of the uncircumcised, who descended to the unseen with their weapons of war, and who put their swords under their heads, and their large shields rest on their bones; for there was dismay of the masters in the land of the living.
28 You also shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and you shall lie with those slain by the sword.
29 Edom is there, its kings and all its princes, who, for all their mastery, are put with those slain by the sword; they lie with the uncircumcised and with descenders to the crypt.
30 The overlords of the north are there, all of them, and all the Sidonians who descended with the slain, who, for the dismay they caused by their mastery, are put to shame, and they lie uncircumcised with those slain by the sword, and they bear their mortification with descenders to the crypt.
31 Pharaoh shall see them, and he will comfort himself concerning all his throng slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his army, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
32 For I have spread dismay before him in the land of the living, and he will be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with those slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his throng, averring is my Lord Yahweh.

Chapter 33
1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
2 Son of humanity, speak to the sons of your people, and you will say to them, The land, suppose I bring a sword over it, and the people of the land take aside one man from their whole number and set him as their watchman.
3 When he sees the sword coming over the land, he blows the trumpet and warns the people.
4 If any hearer hears the sound of the trumpet, but does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be on his head.
5 He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; his blood shall be on him. Yet had he taken warning he would have delivered forth his soul.
6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes a soul from them, that one is taken in his depravity, yet I shall require his blood from the hand of the watchman.
7 Now you, son of humanity, I have appointed you a watchman for the house of Israel. When you hear the word from My mouth, then you will give warning to them from Me.
8 When I say to the wicked one, Wicked one, you shall die, yea die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked one of his way, that wicked one shall die in his depravity, but his blood I shall seek to exact from your hand.
9 Yet you, if you do warn the wicked one of his way, to turn back from it, and he does not turn back from his way, he shall die in his depravity, but you will have rescued your soul.
10 Now you, son of humanity, say to the house of Israel: Thus have you spoken, saying, Seeing that our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and in them we are being putrefied, how can we then live?
11 Say to them: As I live, averring is my Lord Yahweh, I assuredly am not delighting in the death of the wicked one, but rather that the wicked one may turn back from his way and live. Turn back! Turn back from your evil ways! Why should you die, house of Israel?
12 Yet you, son of humanity, say to the sons of your people: The righteousness of the righteous one shall not rescue him in the day of his transgression; as for the wickedness of the wicked one, he shall not be caused to stumble by it in the day he turns back from his wickedness, and the righteous one cannot live by it in the day he sins.
13 When I say of the righteous one, He shall live, yea live, yet he trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, all his righteous acts shall not be remembered; in his iniquity which he committed, in it shall he die.
14 Also when I say to the wicked one, You shall die, yea die, and he turns back from his sins and executes right judgment and justice,
15 yea the wicked one restores the pledge, he repays the pillage, he walks in the statutes of life without doing iniquity, he shall live, yea live and not die.
16 All his sins which he has sinned shall not be remembered against him; he has executed right judgment and justice; he shall live, yea live.
17 Yet the sons of your people say, The way of my Lord is irregular! But they, their way is irregular.
18 When the righteous one turns back from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die in them.
19 And when the wicked one turns back from his wickedness and executes right judgment and justice, he shall live by them.
20 Yet you say, The way of my Lord is irregular! I shall judge you, house of Israel, each according to his ways.
21 It came to be in the twelfth year, in the tenth month, on the fifth of the month of our exile, a delivered one from Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city has been smitten.
22 Now the hand of Yahweh had come on me the evening before the delivered one had come. And He opened my mouth before the man came to me in the morning; thus my mouth was opened, and I was not mute any longer.
23 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
24 Son of humanity, the dwellers of these deserted places on the ground of Israel are speaking, saying, Abraham was one, and he tenanted the land, yet we are many; to us the land is given for a tenancy.
25 Therefore say to them, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: You are eating meat with the blood, and you are lifting up your eyes to your idol clods, and you are shedding blood, and shall you tenant the land?
26 You men stand reliant upon your sword, you women commit an abhorrence, and each man defiles the wife of his associate, and shall you tenant the land?
27 Thus shall you say to them, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: As I live, assuredly those who are in the deserted places shall fall by the sword, and whoever is in the open field I will give him to the wild animal for food, and those who are in the fastnesses and in caves shall die by the plague.
28 I will give up the land to desolation after desolation, and its proud strength will be eradicated, and the mountains of Israel will be desolate because there will be no one passing through.
29 Then they will know that I am Yahweh when I give up the land to desolation after desolation on account of all their abhorrences which they have done.
30 But you, son of humanity, the sons of your people are speaking about you beside the sidewalls and in the portals of the houses, and one speaks to the other, each to his brother, saying: Come now and hear what the word is that is going forth from Yahweh.
31 They shall come to you as a large entrance of people and shall sit before you as My people should, and will hear your words, yet they shall not do them. Indeed they only produce dotings with their mouths, and their heart goes after their own gain.
32 Behold, to them you are like a song of dotings, lovely of voice and skillful in playing, and they will hear your words, yet they will not be doing them.
33 But when it comes (behold, it shall come!), they will know that a prophet is in their midst.

Chapter 34
1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
2 Son of humanity, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and you will say to them, to the shepherds, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been grazing themselves! Should the shepherds not graze the flock?
3 The curds you eat, and with the wool you clothe yourselves; the plump you slaughter, but the flock you do not graze.
4 The ailing you do not make steadfast, and the ill you do not heal, and the broken you do not bind up; the outcast you do not bring back, and the lost you do not seek, but with brunt force you hold sway over them, and with rigor.
5 Hence the sheep of My flock are scattered without a shepherd; they become food for all the wild animals of the field as they are scattered.
6 The sheep of My flock stray aimlessly in all the mountains and on every high hill, and over the surface of the entire earth the sheep of My flock are scattered with no one inquiring for them and no one seeking them.
7 Therefore, shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:
8 As I live, averring is my Lord Yahweh, assuredly, because My flock became plunder, and My flock became food for all the wild animals of the field because there is no shepherd, and the shepherds do not inquire for My flock, and the shepherds graze themselves, and they do not graze My flock,
9 therefore, shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh,
10 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against the shepherds; I will inquire after My flock at their hand and cause them to cease grazing My flock, nor shall the shepherds graze themselves any longer; I will rescue the sheep of My flock from their mouths so that they shall not continue as food for them.
11 For thus says my Lord Yahweh: Behold, I Myself will inquire after the sheep of My flock and make a quest for them.
12 Like the quest of a shepherd for his drove in the day of cloud and murkiness when he is in the midst of his flock that is spreading out, so I shall make a quest for the sheep of My flock, and I will rescue them from all the places where they are scattered in the day of cloud and murkiness.
13 I will bring them forth from the peoples and convene them from the lands, and I will bring them to their own ground and graze them on the mountains of Israel, by the channels and in all the dwelling places of the land.
14 I shall graze them in good pasture, and on the high hills of Israel shall be their homestead. There they shall recline in a good homestead, and they shall graze in fertile pasture on the mountains of Israel.
15 I Myself shall graze the sheep of My flock, and I Myself shall cause them to recline, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
16 The lost I shall seek, and the outcast I shall restore, and the broken I shall bind up, and the ailing I shall make steadfast. Yet the stout and the unyielding one I shall exterminate; I shall graze them with judgment.
17 As for you, My flock, thus says my Lord Yahweh: Behold, I shall judge between one flockling and another flockling. To the rams and he-goats:
18 Is it too little for you to graze on the good pasture, that you must also tramp down the rest of your pastures with your feet, and to drink the clear-settled water, that you must also foul the rest with your feet?
19 My flock must graze on that tramped down by your feet and drink what is fouled with your feet.
20 Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh to them: Behold Me, I will judge between the plump flockling and the lean flockling.
21 Because you thrust with side and shoulder, and with your horns you gore all the ailing until you have scattered them about the open places,
22 therefore I will save My flock, and they shall not be plunder any longer. I will judge between flockling and flockling.
23 Then I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will graze them My servant David. He shall graze them, and he shall be their shepherd.
24 I, Yahweh, shall be their Elohim, and My servant David will be prince in their midst; I, Yahweh, have spoken.
25 I will contract with them a covenant of peace, and I will eradicate the wild animal from the land; they will dwell in the wilderness in trust and sleep in the wildwoods.
26 I will make these places and those around My hill a blessing: I will cause the downpour to descend in its season; downpours of blessing shall come.
27 The tree of the field will give its fruit, and the land shall give its crop; they will stay on their ground in trust and know that I am Yahweh when I break the slider bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hand of those who force service on them.
28 They shall not be plunder for the nations any longer, and the wild animal of the earth shall not devour them. They will dwell in trust, and no one shall make them tremble.
29 I will set up for them a planting of well-being, and no longer shall they be gathered in by famine in the land, nor shall they bear mortifying from the nations any longer.
30 Then they will know that I, Yahweh their Elohim, am with them, and they, the house of Israel, are My people, averring is My Lord Yahweh.
31 And you, My flock, you are the human flock of My pasture; I am Yahweh your Elohim, averring is my Lord Yahweh.

Chapter 35
1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
2 Son of humanity, Set your face toward Mount Seir, and prophesy against it.
3 You will say to it, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir! I will stretch out My hand against you And give you over to desolation after desolation.
4 I shall make your cities a waste, And you shall become a desolation; Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
5 Because you held eonian enmity and turned against the sons of Israel by means of the sword in the era of their calamity, in the era of depravity’s end,
6 therefore, as I live, averring is my Lord Yahweh, indeed I shall give you over to bloodshed, and bloodshed shall pursue you; since you have not hated bloodshed, bloodshed shall pursue you.
7 I will give Mount Seir over to desolation after desolation, and cut off from it all who pass through and return.
8 I will fill its mountains with its slain; your hills and your ravines and all your channels, those slain by the sword shall fall in them.
9 I shall make you eonian desolations, and your cities shall not be indwelt; then you will know that I am Yahweh.
10 Because you say, These two nations and these two lands shall become mine, and we will take it over, though Yahweh is there,
11 therefore, as I live, averring is my Lord Yahweh, I will deal according to your anger and according to your jealousy which you have shown in your hatred of them, and I will become known among them when I judge you.
12 Then you will know that I, Yahweh, I have heard all your indignities which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are desolate; they are given to us as food.
13 You magnify yourselves against Me with your mouth, and you make your words impertinent against Me; I have heard it.
14 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: When the entire earth rejoices, I shall make you a desolation.
15 As you express rejoicing at the allotment of the house of Israel because it is desolate, so I shall do to you; you shall become a desolation, Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it! Then they will know that I am Yahweh.

Chapter 36
1 Yet you, son of humanity, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and you will say, Mountains of Israel, hear the word of Yahweh:
2 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Because the enemy says of you, Aha! The eonian high-places are ours for a tenancy!
3 therefore, prophesy, and you will say, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Because, indeed because desolation and gasping are with you from round about, so that you become the tenancy of the remainder of the nations, and you are taken up on the lip of slander and the gossip of the people,
4 therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of my Lord Yahweh: Thus says my Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the channels and to the ravines, to the desolate wastes and to the forsaken cities, which have become plunder and derision for the remainder of the nations which are round about,
5 therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh: Assuredly with the fire of My jealousy I speak against the remainder of the nations, and against Edom, all of it, which has made My land a tenancy for themselves with rejoicing of every heart, with disdain of soul, that its common land may become plunder.
6 Therefore, prophesy over the ground of Israel, and you will say to the mountains and to the hills, to the channels and to the ravines, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Behold, in My jealousy and in My fury I speak because you bear the mortifying of the nations.
7 Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh: I lift My hand in swearing: Assuredly, the nations that are around you, they shall bear their mortification.
8 Yet you, mountains of Israel, shall produce your boughs and bear your fruit for My people Israel, for they draw near in coming back.
9 For behold, I am for you, And I will turn around to you, And you will be served and sown.
10 I will increase humanity on you, all the house of Israel, all of it, And the cities will be indwelt, And the deserted places shall be rebuilt.
11 I will increase on you human and beast, And they will be abundant and fruitful; I will make you indwelt as you were formerly, And I will bring more good than in your beginnings. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
12 I will lead humanity, My people Israel, to you, And they will tenant you, And you will become their allotment, And you will never again make them bereaved.
13 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Because they are saying to you, You are a land that devours humans, and you have become a bereaver of your two nations,
14 therefore, you shall not devour humans any longer, and you shall not bereave your two nations any longer, averring is My Lord Yahweh.
15 I shall not let the mortifying of the nations against you be heard any longer, and the reproach of the peoples you shall not bear any longer, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
16 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
17 Son of humanity, the house of Israel when dwelling on their ground defiled it by their conduct and by their practices; their conduct seemed before Me like the uncleanness of an isolated woman.
18 So I poured out My fury on them because of the blood which they poured out on the land and because of their idol clods by which they defiled it.
19 I scattered them among the nations, and they were tossed away among the lands; according to their conduct and according to their practices I judged them.
20 When they came to the nations, wherever they came, they got My holy Name profaned when it was said of them, These are the people of Yahweh, and they have gone forth from His land.
21 Yet I shall take pity for My holy Name which the house of Israel got profaned among the nations where they came.
22 Therefore, say to the house of Israel, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Not on your account shall I act, house of Israel, but rather for My holy Name which you got profaned among the nations where you have come.
23 I will hallow My great Name which has been profaned among the nations, which you got profaned in their midst. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh, averring is my Lord Yahweh, when I am hallowed among you before their eyes.
24 Then I will take you from the nations And gather you together from all the lands, And I will bring you to your own ground.
25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, And you will be clean from all your uncleannesses, And from all your idol clods I shall cleanse you.
26 I will give you a new heart, And a new spirit will I bestow within you, And I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, And I will give you a heart of flesh.
27 My spirit shall I bestow within you, And I will make it that you shall walk in My statutes and observe My ordinances, And you will obey them.
28 Then you will dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers, And you will become My people, And I shall become your Elohim.
29 When I save you from all your uncleannesses I will call to the grain and increase it, and I shall not lay famine on you.
30 I will increase the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field so that you may no longer suffer the reproach of famine among the nations.
31 Then you will remember your evil ways and your actions which were not good, and you will be disgusted in view of yourselves on account of your depravities and your abhorrences.
32 Not on your account will I be doing this, averring is my Lord Yahweh, let it be known to you. Be ashamed and be mortified for your ways, house of Israel.
33 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: In the day I cleanse you from all your depravities, then I will cause the cities to be indwelt, and the deserted places will be rebuilt;
34 and the desolate land shall be served, whereas it had become a desolation to the eyes of everyone passing by.
35 Hence people will say, This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden, and the cities that were deserted and desolate and demolished are indwelt and fortressed.
36 Then the nations which remain around you will know that I, Yahweh, have rebuilt what was demolished; I have replanted what was desolate; I, Yahweh, have spoken, and I will do it.
37 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: This also I shall let Myself be inquired of by the house of Israel to do for them: I shall increase them with humanity like a flock of sheep.
38 Like a flock for holy offerings, like a flock of sheep in Jerusalem in her appointed festivals, so shall the deserted cities become filled with flocks of humanity. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.

Chapter 37
1 The hand of Yahweh came on me. He brought me forth by the spirit of Yahweh and stopped me in the midst of a valley. It was full of bones.
2 He made me pass through them all around, and behold, there were exceedingly many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry.
3 He said to me: Son of humanity, shall these bones live? And I answered, My Lord Yahweh, You know.
4 Then He said to me: Prophesy over these bones, and you will say to them, Dry bones, hear the word of Yahweh.
5 Thus says my Lord Yahweh to these bones: Behold, I will bring spirit into you, and you will live.
6 I will bestow sinews on you and bring up flesh upon you and encase you with skin. I will bestow spirit in you, and you will live. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
7 So I prophesied just as I was instructed, and as I prophesied there was a sound, and behold, a quaking! And the bones drew near, each bone to its next bone.
8 As I watched, behold, sinews appeared on them, and flesh came up, and skin encased them overall; yet there was no spirit in them.
9 Then He said to me: Prophesy to the spirit; prophesy, son of humanity, and you will say to the spirit, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Come from the four winds, O spirit, and blow into these who were killed, so that they may live.
10 When I prophesied as He had instructed me, the spirit came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, a most exceedingly great assembly.
11 Then He said to me: Son of humanity, these bones are the whole house of Israel, who hitherto have been saying, Our bones are dry, and our expectation has perished. We have gotten ourselves severed.
12 Therefore, prophesy, and you will say to them, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will open your tombs, and I will bring you up from your tombs, My people, and bring you to the ground of Israel.
13 Then you will know that I am Yahweh when I open your tombs and when I bring you up from your tombs, My people.
14 I will bestow My spirit in you, and you will live, and I will settle you on your own ground. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken, and I will do it, averring is Yahweh.
15 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
16 As for you, son of humanity, take for yourself one stick, and write on it: For Judah and for the sons of Israel joined with him; then take another stick, and write on it: For Joseph (Ephraim’s stick) and all the house of Israel joined with him.
17 Bring them near, one to the other, into one stick for yourself that they may become one in your hand.
18 Yet whenever the sons of your people should ask you, saying, Will you not tell us what you mean by these?
19 speak to them, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph which is in Ephraim’s hand, and of the tribes of Israel joined with him, and I will put, with them, the stick of Judah on it; I will make them one stick, and they will become one in My hand.
20 With the sticks on which you wrote held in your hand before their eyes,
21 speak to them, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Behold, I shall take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will convene them from all around and bring them to their own ground.
22 I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be king for them all. They shall no longer be two nations, nor shall they be divided into two kingdoms any longer.
23 They shall not defile themselves any longer with their idol clods, with their abominations and with all their transgressions. I will save them from all their backslidings in which they have sinned and will cleanse them. They will become My people, and I Myself shall become their Elohim.
24 My servant David will be king over them, and there shall come to be one shepherd for them all. They shall walk in My ordinances and observe My statutes, and they will do them.
25 Thus they will dwell on the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, in which your fathers dwelt; they will dwell on it, they and their sons and their sons’ sons throughout the eon, and David My servant will be their prince for the eon.
26 I will contract with them a covenant of peace; It shall come to be an eonian covenant with them; I will establish them and increase them; I will put My sanctuary in their midst for the eon,
27 And My tabernacle will be over them. Thus I will become their Elohim, And they shall become My people.
28 Then the nations will know that I, Yahweh, am hallowing Israel When My sanctuary comes to be in their midst for the eon.

Chapter 38
1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
2 Son of humanity, set your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, head prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him.
3 And you will say, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you Gog, head prince of Meshech and Tubal.
4 I will turn you about and put gaffs in your cheeks, and I will bring you forth with all your army, horses and horsemen, clothed in panoply, all of them, a vast assembled force, with large shield and buckler, grasping swords, all of them.
5 Persia, Cush and Put are with them, all of them with buckler and helmet.
6 Gomer and all its combatants, Beth-togarmah from remote parts of the north and all its combatants, many peoples are with you.
7 Be ready and prepare yourself, you and all your assembled force which are assembled about you, and you will be in My charge.
8 After many days you shall be mustered; in the latter years you shall come to the land restored from the sword, convened from many peoples on the mountains of Israel, which had become a continual waste, which was brought forth from the peoples, and now they dwell in trust, all of them.
9 You will ascend; like a thunderstorm you shall come; like a cloud covering the earth you shall become, you and all your combatants and many peoples with you.
10 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: It will come to be in that day that plans shall ascend on your heart, and you will devise an evil devising.
11 You will say, I shall ascend against a land of unwalled villages; I shall come on quiet people who are dwelling in trust (all of them dwelling without walls, and there are no bars or double doors for them),
12 to loot loot and to plunder plunder, to reverse your hand against the deserted places now indwelt, and against the people gathered from the nations, who have gotten cattle and acquisitions, who dwell at the center of the earth.
13 Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all its traders shall say to you: Do you come to loot loot? Do you assemble your assembled force to plunder plunder, to carry off silver and gold, to take away cattle and acquisitions, to loot great loot?
14 Therefore, prophesy, son of humanity, and you will say to Gog, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: In that day when My people Israel dwell in trust, shall you not rouse up?
15 You will come from your place, from the remote parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, riding horses, all of them, a great assembled force and a vast army.
16 Then you will ascend against My people Israel like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days it shall be; and I will bring you against My land that all the nations may know Me when I am hallowed through you before their eyes, Gog.
17 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Is it you of whom I spoke in former days by means of My servants, the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for years, to bring you against them?
18 It will come in that day, in the day Gog comes against the ground of Israel, averring is my Lord Yahweh, that My fury shall ascend in My anger
19 and in My jealousy. I speak in the fire of My rage: Assuredly, in that day a great earthquake shall come upon the ground of Israel.
20 The fish of the sea, the flyer of the heavens, the wild animal of the field, every creeping thing that moves about on the ground and every human who is on the surface of the ground will quake before Me; the mountains will be demolished, the cliffs will fall, and every wall shall fall to the earth.
21 I will call a sword against him on all My mountains, averring is my Lord Yahweh; each man’s sword shall be against his brother.
22 I will enter into judgment upon him with plague and with bloodshed, and I shall rain an overflowing downpour and hailstones, fire and sulfur upon him, upon his combatants and upon the many peoples who are with him.
23 Thus I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself, and I will become known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.

Chapter 39
1 Now you, son of humanity, prophesy against Gog, and you will say, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you Gog, head prince of Meshech and Tubal.
2 I will turn you about and drive you along and bring you up from the remote parts of the north, and I will bring you to the mountains of Israel.
3 I will smite your bow from your left hand, and I shall make your arrows fall from your right hand.
4 You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your combatants and the peoples who are with you. To the bird of prey, the bird of every wing and the wild animal of the field I will give you as food.
5 On the open field you shall fall, for I have spoken, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
6 I will send fire on Magog and among those dwelling on the coastlands in trust. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.
7 I shall make known My holy Name in the midst of My people Israel, and I shall not let My holy Name be profaned any longer. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is coming, and it will happen, averring is my Lord Yahweh. That is the day of which I spoke.
9 Then the dwellers of the cities of Israel will go forth to consume, and they will ignite the weapons, buckler and large shield, bow and arrows and hand stave and lance; and they will consume them with fire seven years.
10 They need not carry wood from the field nor chop down any from the wildwoods, for they shall consume the weapons with fire. Thus they will loot those who looted them, and plunder those who plundered them, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
11 It will come in that day that I shall give to Gog a place for a burying ground there in Israel: the Ravine of the Trespassers, east of the Sea; it will be blocked with the trespassers, for there they will entomb Gog and all his throng, and they will call it, Ravine of Hamon-gog.
12 The house of Israel will entomb them for seven months in order to cleanse the land.
13 All the people of the land will entomb them, and it will be to their renown in the day I am glorified, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
14 And they shall set apart men for continual employment to pass through the land to entomb any trespassers who are left on the surface of the land, so as to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they shall begin investigating.
15 When the searchers pass through the land, and one sees a human bone, he will build a cairn beside it to serve until those who entomb can entomb it in the Ravine of Hamon-gog.
16 ( Also the name of a city there is Hamonah.) Thus they will cleanse the land.
17 Now you, son of humanity (thus says my Lord Yahweh), say to the bird of every wing and to all the wild animals of the field: Convene and come! Gather from round about to My sacrifice which I am offering for you, a great sacrifice, on the mountains of Israel, and you will eat flesh and drink blood.
18 You shall eat the flesh of masters of war, and you shall drink the blood of earth’s princes: rams, butting lambs, he-goats, young bulls, fatlings of Bashan, all of them.
19 You will eat fat until surfeited and drink blood until drunk from My sacrifices which I have slaughtered for you.
20 You will be surfeited at My table with horse and chariot steed, with master and every man of war, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
21 I will bestow My glory among the nations, and all the nations will see My judgment which I execute and My hand which I lay on them.
22 Then the house of Israel will know that I am Yahweh their Elohim, from that day and beyond.
23 And the nations will know that those of the house of Israel were deported for their depravity, because they offended Me, so that I concealed My face from them and gave them into the hand of their foes, and they fell by the sword, all of them.
24 I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and according to their transgression when I concealed My face from them.
25 Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh: Now I shall reverse the captivity of Jacob, and I will have compassion on the whole house of Israel and will be jealous for My holy Name.
26 They will bear their mortification and all their offense, by which they offended Me, when they dwell on their ground in trust, and there is no one to make them tremble,
27 when I bring them back from the peoples and convene them from the lands of their enemies and am hallowed in them before the eyes of many nations.
28 Then they will know that I am Yahweh their Elohim when, after I had deported them among the nations, I collect them together on their ground and leave none of them behind there any longer.
29 I shall not conceal My face from them any longer when I pour out My spirit on the house of Israel, averring is my Lord Yahweh.

Chapter 40
1 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was smitten, on this very day the hand of Yahweh came on me, and He brought me there.
2 In appearances of Elohim He brought me to the land of Israel, and He rested me on a very lofty mountain, and on it was a citylike-building in the south.
3 He brought me there, and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of copper. In his hand was a twined cord of flax and a measuring reed, and he was standing in the gateway.
4 The man spoke to me: Son of humanity, see with your eyes and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you, for you are brought hither that you might be shown; tell all that you see to the house of Israel.
5 Behold, there was a wall outside the house all around; the measuring reed in the man’s hand was six cubits (of a cubit and a handbreadth), and he measured the width of the structure: one reed; and the rise: one reed.
6 Then he entered the gateway which faced eastward, and ascended its steps; and he measured the threshold of the gateway: one reed wide (and another threshold: one reed wide),
7 then the anteroom: one reed long and one reed wide, and the space between the anterooms: five cubits, then the threshold of the gateway beside the portico of the gateway on the inside: one reed.
8 Then he measured the portico of the gateway:
9 eight cubits, and its pillars: two cubits; the portico of the gateway was on the inside.
10 There were anterooms of the gateway on the east side, three hence and three thence; each three of them had the same measure; also the pillars had the same measure hence and thence.
11 Then he measured the width of the portal of the gateway: ten cubits; the length of the gateway: thirteen cubits.
12 The boundary rail before the anterooms was one cubit hence, and one cubit for the boundary rail thence. The anteroom was six cubits hence and six cubits thence.
13 He also measured the gateway from the roof-level of one anteroom to its opposite roof-level, a width of twenty-five cubits, with one portal in front of the other portal. [
14 And he measured the facade of the portico: twenty cubits, and adjoining the portico was the court of the gateway, all around.]
15 From the facade of the gateway of arrival to the facade of the inner portico of the gateway was fifty cubits.
16 There were embrasured windows for the anterooms and for their portico on the inside of the gateway, all around; and thus for the portico there were windows all around on the inside; and on the pillars there were palms.
17 Then he brought me to the outside court, and behold, there were rooms and a pavement made about the court all around; thirty rooms were on the pavement.
18 The pavement ran along the flank of the gateways to correspond with the length of the gateways (this was the lower level pavement).
19 He measured the width of the court from the inward facade of the lower level gateway to the outside facade of the inner gateway, a hundred cubits, for the east. As for the north:
20 The gateway for the outside court which faced north, he measured its length and its width.
21 Its anterooms, three hence and three thence, and its pillars and its portico were as the measure of the first gateway; fifty cubits was its length, and the width was twenty-five cubits.
22 Its windows of its portico and its palms were as the measure of the gateway which faced east. They ascended to it by seven steps, and its portico was before them.
23 There was a gateway to the inner court in front of the north gateway, just as for the east, and he measured from gateway to gateway: a hundred cubits.
24 Then he conducted me the way to the south, and behold, there was a gateway on the south side; he measured its pillars and its portico, according to those previous measures.
25 It and its portico had windows all around, like the windows of those others. Its length was fifty cubits, and its width twenty-five cubits.
26 Also there were seven steps for its ascent, and its portico was before them; it had palms, one hence and one thence, on its pillars.
27 There was a gateway to the inner court on the south side, and he measured from gateway to gateway toward the south side, a hundred cubits.
28 After this he brought me to the inner court by the south gateway, and he measured the south gateway according to those previous measures.
29 Its anterooms and its pillars and its portico were according to those previous measures; it and its portico had windows all around. Its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits. [
30 There was a portico all around, twenty-five cubits in length and five cubits in width.]
31 Its portico was for the outside court, and there were palms on its pillars, and eight steps for its ascent.
32 He then brought me to the east side of the inner court, and he measured the gateway according to those previous measures.
33 Its anterooms and its pillars and its portico were also according to those previous measures; it and its portico had windows all around. Its length was fifty cubits, and its width twenty-five cubits.
34 Its portico was for the outside court; there were palms on its pillars hence and thence, and eight steps for its ascent.
35 Then he brought me to the north gateway, and he measured according to those previous measures,
36 its anterooms, its pillars and its portico; it had windows all around. Its length was fifty cubits, and width twenty-five cubits.
37 Its portico was for the outside court; there were palms on its pillars hence and thence, and eight steps for its ascent.
38 There was a room with its opening into the portico of the gateway; there they rinsed out the ascent offering.
39 And in the portico of the gateway were two tables hence, and two tables thence, for slaying on them the ascent offering and the sin offering and the guilt offering.
40 Also at the shoulder outside, as one ascends to the portal of the north gateway were two tables, and at the other shoulder which was by the portico of the gateway were two tables.
41 So there were four tables hence, and four tables thence at the shoulder of the gateway, eight tables in all; on them they slew the sacrifices.
42 As for the four tables for the ascent offering, they were of trimmed stones, in length one and a half cubits, in width one and a half cubits, and in elevation one cubit; on them also they left the instruments with which they slew the ascent offering and the sacrifice.
43 There was a ridge of one handbreadth prepared on the inside all around; and on the tables was the flesh of the approach present.
44 There were two rooms outside the inner gateway in the inner court, one at the shoulder of the north gateway, facing south, and one at the shoulder of the south gateway facing north.
45 The man spoke to me: This room which has its face toward the south is for the priests who are keeping charge of the house;
46 and the room which has its face toward the north is for the priests who are keeping charge of the altar; they are the sons of Zadok who, of the sons of Levi, come near to Yahweh to minister to Him.
47 Then he measured the court, in length a hundred cubits, and in width a hundred cubits, square, with the altar before the house.
48 He then brought me to the portico of the house, and he measured each pillar of the portico, five cubits hence, and five cubits thence. The width of the gate entrance was fourteen cubits, and the shoulders of the gate entrance three cubits hence, and three cubits thence.
49 The length of the portico was twenty cubits, and the width twelve cubits; they ascended into it by ten steps, and there were columns by the pillars, one hence, and one thence.

Chapter 41
1 Then he brought me to the temple and measured the pillars. Six cubits in width hence, and six cubits in width thence was the width of the pillars.
2 The width of the portal was ten cubits, and the shoulders of the portal were five cubits hence, and five cubits thence. He measured the length of the temple, forty cubits, and its width, twenty cubits.
3 Next he entered inside and measured each pillar of the portal, two cubits, and the portal, six cubits, and the shoulders of the portal, seven cubits hence, and seven cubits thence.
4 He measured its length, twenty cubits, and its width, twenty cubits corresponding to the face of the temple. And he said to me, This is the holy of holies.
5 Then he measured the sidewall of the house, six cubits thick, and the width of the angle cell, four cubits all around the house round about.
6 The angle cells were on three levels, angle cell over angle cell, thirty times. There were support ledges along the sidewall of the house for the angle cells all around, to serve as holders, so that the rafters should not be held in the sidewall of the house.
7 The surrounding ramp for the angle cells widened upward and upward, for the structure surrounding the house led upward and upward all around the house; therefore the house had extra width upward. Thus one may ascend from the lower level to the uppermost by the middle.
8 I also saw that the house had an elevation all around, foundations for the angle cells, a full reed of six armlength cubits.
9 The width of the sidewall of the angle cell on the outside was five cubits, and the space left open between the angle cells of the house
10 and the rooms was twenty cubits in width round about the house all around.
11 The angle cell had portals to the space left open, one portal to the north side, and another portal to the south. The width of the barrier-wall all around the space left open was five cubits.
12 The building which stood at the edge of the west side overlooking the severance area was seventy cubits in width, and the sidewall of the building was five cubits in width all around, and its length was ninety cubits.
13 He then measured the house, a hundred cubits in length, and the severance area and the building and its sidewalls, a hundred cubits in length.
14 The width of the facade of the house and the severance area to the east was a hundred cubits.
15 He also measured the length of the building overlooking the severance area at its back with its ledgework, hence and thence, a hundred cubits. The temple inside and the portico of the court
16 were ceiled, and the embrasured windows and the ledgework round about had in their three parts in front of the threshold a wainscoting of wood all around, even from the earth unto the windows and the window coverings.
17 On the area above the portal and about the inner house and the outside and for all the sidewall all around both on the inner and the outside was a measured pattern.
18 It was made of cherubim and palms with a palm between cherub and cherub. Each cherub had two faces;
19 the face of a human turned toward the palm hence, and the face of a sheltered lion turned toward the palm thence; this was done for the entire house all around.
20 From the earth unto above the portal cherubim and palms were made, also on the sidewall of the temple.
21 The temple jamb was rectangular. Before the holy place was something in appearance like the appearance of
22 an altar of wood, three cubits in elevation, and its length was two cubits, and its width two cubits. It had cutout corners, and its socketed base and its sidewalls were of wood. And he spoke to me: This is the table which stands before Yahweh.
23 The temple had two doors, as also the holy place.
24 The two doors were double doors that turned about, double doors for the one door, and double doors for the other.
25 On them, on the doors of the temple were made cherubim and palms just as they were made on the sidewalls. Thick timber was on the facade of the portico outside.
26 There were embrasured windows and palms hence and thence on the shoulders of the portico and the angle cells of the house and the thick timbers.

Chapter 42
1 Then he brought me forth by way of the northern gate, into the outside court, and he brought me to the complex of rooms that was in front of the severance area and in front of the building to the north.
2 As for the facade, its length was a hundred cubits on the north edge, and the width was fifty cubits.
3 In front of the twenty cubits of the inner court and in front of the pavement of the outside court, it arose ledgework adjoining ledgework in three levels.
4 Before the rooms there was a walk of ten cubits’ width to the inner area; the length was a hundred cubits; Their portals were to the north.
5 The upper rooms were shortened, for the ledgework took away more space from them than from the lower and from the middle levels of the building.
6 For they were on three levels, and there were no columns for them like the columns of the courts. Therefore it was terraced from the earth as it rose from the lower and from the middle levels.
7 There was a barrier-wall that was outside to correspond with the rooms, going the way to the outside court before the rooms; its length was fifty cubits;
8 since the length of the rooms of the outside court was fifty cubits, hence adjoining the temple the total length was a hundred cubits.
9 The portals of these rooms were entries from the east for one who enters them from the outside court.
10 Along the width of the barrier-wall of the court on the south side before the severance area and before the building were other rooms,
11 with a pathway before them. They were in appearance like the rooms that were on the north side as to their length and their width, and in all their exits, and according to their layout, and according to their portals.
12 As for the portals of the rooms on the south side, there was a portal at the head of the rooms on the south side, there was a portal at the head of the pathway, the pathway along the face of the protective barrier-wall, for them to enter on the east side.
13 Then he said to me: The north rooms and the south rooms which are before the severance area, they are the holy rooms where the priests who come near to Yahweh shall eat the holiest of holy offerings; there they shall keep laid up the holiest of holy offerings: the approach present and the sin offering and the guilt offering, for the place is holy.
14 When the priests enter they shall not go forth from the holy place to the outside court until they shall keep laid up there their garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They shall clothe themselves with other garments before they come near to the place of the people.
15 When he had finished the measuring of the inner house, he brought me forth by way of the gateway that faced the east side, and he measured it all around.
16 He measured the side of the east wind with the measuring reed, five hundred reed cubits by the reed measure. Turning about,
17 he measured the side of the north wind, five hundred reed cubits by the reed measure. Turning about
18 to the side of the south wind, he measured five hundred reed cubits by the reed measure.
19 Then he turned about to the side of the west wind and measured five hundred reed cubits by the reed measure.
20 He measured it on the sides of all four winds. It had a wall all around, five hundred cubits in length and five hundred cubits in width, to separate the holy from the profane.

Chapter 43
1 Then he conducted me to a gate, the gate facing east.
2 And behold, the glory of the Elohim of Israel came from the east. His voice was like the sound of many waters, and the earth was enlightened by His glory.
3 The appearance was like the appearance which I saw, like the very appearance I saw when He came to ruin the city, and the appearances were like the appearance which I saw by the stream Chebar. And I fell on my face.
4 The glory of Yahweh entered the house by way of the gate which faced east.
5 Then the spirit lifted me and brought me to the inner court. And behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house.
6 And I heard one speaking to me from the house while the man was standing beside me.
7 He said to me: Son of humanity, see the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I shall tabernacle in the midst of the sons of Israel for the eon. No longer shall the house of Israel defile My holy Name, they and their kings with their prostitutions and with the corpses of their kings in their sepulchers.
8 When they put their threshold by My threshold and their doorjamb beside My doorjamb with only a sidewall between Me and them, they defiled My holy Name with their abhorrences which they did, and I consumed them in My anger.
9 Now let them put their prostitutions and the corpses of their kings far from Me, and I will tabernacle in their midst for the eon.
10 You, son of humanity, tell the house of Israel of the house so that they may be mortified over their depravities when they measure its outline.
11 When they are mortified over all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house and its established arrangements, its exits and its entrances, all its forms and all its statutes, all its forms and all its laws, and write it down before their eyes that they may observe all its forms and all its statutes and do them.
12 This is the law of the house: On the summit of the mountain, all its territory all around is a holy of holies. Behold, this is the law of the house.
13 Now these are the measures of the altar, in cubits where a cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth: The collecting-trench is one cubit deep and a cubit wide, with its boundary rim of one span around its lip. And this is the elevation of the altar:
14 From the collecting-trench on the earth unto the lower ledge is two cubits, and the width one cubit; and from the small ledge unto the great ledge is four cubits, and the width one cubit.
15 The altar-hearth-of El is four cubits high, and from the altar-hearth-of-El upward are four horns.
16 The altar-hearth-of-El is twelve cubits long by twelve cubits wide, a square with its four sides.
17 The ledge is fourteen cubits long by fourteen cubits wide on its four sides, and the boundary rim around it is half a cubit, and its collecting-trench round about is a cubit; its steps face east.
18 Then he said to me, Son of humanity, thus says my Lord Yahweh: These are the statutes of the altar in the day it is made to offer up the ascent offering on it and to sprinkle blood on it.
19 You will give to the priests, the Levites, they who are of the seed of Zadok, who come near to Me, averring is My Lord Yahweh, to minister to Me, a bull calf of the herd for a sin offering.
20 You will take of its blood and put it on its four horns and on the four corners of the ledge and on the boundary rim round about; thus you will make a sin offering for it and a propitiatory shelter for it.
21 Then you will take the young bull of the sin offering, and one must burn it in an appointed place of the house outside the sanctuary.
22 On the second day you shall bring near a flawless hairy goat for a sin offering, and they will purify the altar from sin just as they purified it from sin with the young bull.
23 When you finish with purifying it from sin, you shall bring near a flawless bull calf of the herd and a flawless ram of the flock.
24 You will bring them near before Yahweh, and the priests will fling salt on them and offer them up for an ascent offering to Yahweh.
25 Seven days shall you daily prepare a hairy goat as a sin offering; they also shall prepare a bull calf of the herd, and a ram of the flock, flawless ones.
26 Seven days shall they make a propitiatory shelter for the altar, and cleanse it; thus they will consecrate it.
27 When they conclude the days it will come on the eighth day and beyond that the priests shall offer your ascent offerings and your peace offerings on the altar, and I will accept you, averring is my Lord Yahweh.

Chapter 44
1 Then he brought me back the way of the outside gate of the sanctuary which faced east, yet it was locked.
2 And Yahweh said to me: This gate shall remain locked. It shall not be opened, and no man shall enter by it, for Yahweh Elohim of Israel entered by it; so it will remain locked.
3 It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before Yahweh. He shall enter by way of the portico of the gateway, and by that way he shall go forth.
4 Then he brought me by way of the north gateway before the house. I looked, and behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh, and I fell on my face.
5 Yahweh said to me: Son of humanity, set your heart, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I am speaking to you about all the statutes of the house of Yahweh, and about all its laws; set your heart upon the entry of the house with all the exits of the sanctuary.
6 You will say to the rebellious house, to the house of Israel, Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Enough of you! with all your abhorrences, house of Israel,
7 when you bring sons of foreigners, uncircumcised of heart and uncircumcised of flesh, to come into My sanctuary to profane it, My house, when you bring near My bread, the fat and the blood; thus you annul My covenant by all your abhorrences.
8 You have not kept the charge of My holy things but place foreigners as the keepers of My charge in My sanctuary for you.
9 Thus says My Lord Yahweh: Any son of a foreigner, uncircumcised of heart and uncircumcised of flesh, shall not enter My sanctuary, indeed any son of a foreigner who is in the midst of the sons of Israel;
10 but rather the Levites who wandered far from Me when Israel strayed, they who strayed from Me after their idol clods, they will bear their depravity.
11 They will be ministers in My sanctuary, with the supervision for the gateways of the house, and ministers for the house. They shall slay the ascent offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.
12 Because they ministered to them before their idol clods and they became a stumbling block of depravity to the house of Israel, therefore I have lifted My hand against them, averring is my Lord Yahweh, and they will bear their depravity.
13 They shall not come close to Me to serve Me as priests or to come close to any of My holy things, to the holies of holies. They will bear their mortification and their abhorrences which they have done.
14 I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all its service and everything which must be done in it.
15 Yet the Levitical priests, sons of Zadok, who kept the charge of My sanctuary when the sons of Israel strayed from Me, they shall come near to Me to minister to Me, and they will stand before Me to offer to Me the fat and the blood, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
16 They shall come into My sanctuary, and they shall come near to My table, to minister to Me, and they will keep My charge.
17 It will be when they come to the gateways of the inner court, they shall be clothed with flaxen garments, and no wool shall be on them when they minister in the gateways of the inner court and within the house.
18 Beautiful flaxen turbans shall be on their heads, and flaxen breeches shall be on their waists; they shall not be girded so as to sweat.
19 Yet when they go forth into the outside court, to the outside court to the people, they shall strip off their garments in which they were ministering, and they will leave them in the holy rooms and clothe themselves with other garments so that they do not make the people holy with their garments.
20 They shall not shave their heads nor let their locks go; they shall poll, yea poll their heads.
21 For every priest: They shall not drink wine when they come into the inner court.
22 Also they shall not take a widow or one driven out to themselves as wives, but rather virgins of the seed of the house of Israel; yet they may take the widow who had become a widow of a priest.
23 They shall direct My people to distinguish between the holy and the profane, and they shall inform them the difference between the unclean and the clean.
24 In a controversy it is they who shall officiate in judgment; in accord with My ordinances, thus they will judge it; My laws and My statutes shall they observe at all My appointed times, and My sabbaths shall they hallow.
25 A priest shall not come where there is a dead person, defiling himself; only for father or for mother, for son or for daughter, for brother or for a sister who has no husband shall they defile themselves.
26 After his cleansing they shall number seven days for him;
27 and in the day he enters the holy place, into the inner court to minister in the holy place, he shall offer his sin offering, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
28 This will become theirs for an allotment, for I am their Allotment; you shall not give them a holding in Israel, for I am their Holding.
29 The approach present, the sin offering and the guilt offering, they shall eat them, and every devoted thing in Israel shall become theirs.
30 The first of all the firstfruits of all, and every heave offering of all, from all your heave offerings, it shall become the priests’. And the first of your coarse meal you shall give to the priest that a blessing may rest on your house.
31 The priests shall not eat anything having died of itself or torn to pieces, of fowl or of beast.

Chapter 45
1 When you cast lots for the land as an allotment, you shall set aside as a heave offering to Yahweh a holy portion of the land, in length 25,000 cubits long, and 10,000 in width. It shall be holy in all its boundary round about.
2 From this shall be reserved for the sanctuary a portion 500 cubits by 500 cubits square, round about, with 50 cubits for its common, round about.
3 From this measured section you shall measure off a portion 25,000 cubits in length and 10,000 in width, and within it shall be the sanctuary, a holy of holies.
4 It is a holy portion of the land for the priests who minister in the sanctuary; it shall be for those who come near to minister to Yahweh. For them it shall be a place for houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.
5 A portion 25,000 cubits in length and 10,000 in width shall be for the Levites who minister in the house, for them as a holding, for cities to dwell in.
6 As a holding of the city you shall assign a portion 5,000 cubits in width and 25,000 in length to correspond with the holy heave offering portion; it shall be for all the house of Israel.
7 The prince shall have a portion on this and on that side of the holy heave offering portion and of the holding of the city, adjoining the holy heave offering portion and adjoining the holding of the city on the west edge westward and on the east edge eastward, and in length to correspond with one of the tribal portions from the west boundary to the east boundary
8 of the land. It shall be his as a holding in Israel; hence My princes shall not tyrannize My people any more, and they shall leave the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
9 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: Enough of you, princes of Israel! Put away violence and devastation, and execute right judgment and justice. Heave away your oustings of My people, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
10 You shall use just scales and a just ephah and a just bath measure.
11 The ephah and the bath shall hold one regular measurement, so that the bath carries one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer. Its regular measurement shall be based on the homer.
12 The shekel shall be twenty gerahs, five shekels shall be five, and ten shekels shall be ten, and fifty shekels shall be a mina for you.
13 This is the heave offering which you shall raise up: one sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat, and you will give one sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley;
14 and the statutory allowance of oil, the oil measured by the bath: one tenth of a bath from the cor (as ten baths are a homer, so ten baths are a cor).
15 Also one flockling from a flock of two hundred, from the families of Israel shall be due for an approach present and for an ascent offering and for peace offerings to make a propitiatory shelter over them, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
16 All the people of the land shall be obliged to provide this heave offering for the prince in Israel.
17 Yet on the prince’s part, he shall be obliged for the ascent offerings and the approach present and the libation on the festivals and new moons and sabbaths and on all the appointed assemblies of the house of Israel. He shall provide the sin offering, the approach present, the ascent offering and the peace offerings to make a propitiatory shelter on behalf of the house of Israel.
18 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: In the first month, on day one of the month, you shall take a flawless bull calf of the herd and purify the sanctuary from sin.
19 The priest will take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorjambs of the house and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar and on the jambs of the gateway of the inner court.
20 So also shall you do on the seventh of the month for anyone who has erred and for the simple. Thus you will make a propitiatory shelter for the house.
21 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month you shall hold the passover festival; for seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten.
22 On that day the prince will provide on behalf of himself and on behalf of all the people of the land a young bull for a sin offering.
23 Through the seven days of the festival he shall provide daily for seven days an ascent offering to Yahweh, seven young bulls and seven rams, flawless, and a hairy goat daily for a sin offering;
24 and he shall provide as an approach present an ephah of flour for each young bull, and an ephah of flour for each ram, with a hin of oil for each ephah.
25 In the seventh month from the fifteenth day of the month, in the festival of the seven days, he shall provide these same as the sin offering, as the ascent offering, as the approach present and oil.

Chapter 46
1 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: The gate of the inner court facing east shall be locked on the six days of work, yet on the day of the sabbath it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
2 Then the prince will enter by way of the portico of the gateway outside and stand at the doorjamb of the gate while the priests present his ascent offering and his peace offerings, and he will worship at the sill of the gate and then go forth. Yet the gate shall not be locked until the evening.
3 Also the people of the land will worship before Yahweh at the portal of that gateway on sabbaths and new moons.
4 The ascent offering which the prince shall offer to Yahweh on the sabbath day will be six flawless he-lambs and a flawless ram,
5 with an approach present of an ephah of flour for the ram, and for the he-lambs the approach present will be the gift of his hand and a hin of oil for each ephah.
6 On the day of the new moon it will be a flawless bull calf of the herd and six he-lambs and a ram; they shall be flawless.
7 And he shall provide an approach present of an ephah of flour for the young bull and an ephah for the ram, and for the he-lambs he will give whatever his hand can afford and a hin of oil for each ephah.
8 When the prince enters, he shall come by way of the portico of the gateway, and by the same way he shall go forth.
9 Yet when the people of the land enter before Yahweh at the appointed times, whoever enters by way of the north gateway to worship shall go forth by way of the south gateway, and whoever enters by way of the south gateway shall go forth by way of the north gateway. He shall not return by way of the gateway through which he entered but shall go forth straight ahead of him.
10 Yet when they enter the prince shall enter in their midst, and when they go forth he shall go forth.
11 On the festivals and the appointed assemblies, the approach present shall be an ephah of flour for the young bull and an ephah of flour for the ram, and for the he-lambs a gift of his hand, and a hin of oil for each ephah.
12 When the prince shall present a voluntary ascent offering or voluntary peace offerings to Yahweh, then the gate facing the east will be opened for him, and he will present his ascent offering and his peace offerings just as he shall do on the sabbath day. Then he will go forth, and after he goes forth the gate will be locked.
13 You shall present daily a year-old, flawless he-lamb, an ascent offering to Yahweh; morning by morning shall you present it.
14 And you shall present an approach present with it, morning by morning, a sixth of an ephah of flour and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the flour, an approach present to Yahweh, a statute of eonian continuance.
15 They will present the he-lamb and the approach present and the oil morning by morning, a continual ascent offering.
16 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: If the prince gives a gift out of his allotment to any of his sons, it shall pass to his sons; it is their holding by allotment.
17 Yet if he gives a gift out of his allotment to one of his servants, then it will belong to him until the year of liberty when it will return to the prince. His allotment is for his sons only; it shall become theirs.
18 The prince shall not take from the allotment of the people, tyrannizing them out of their holding; out of his own holding shall he give allotments to his sons so that My people may not be scattered, each from his holding.
19 Then he brought me through the entry which was on the shoulder of the gateway to the holy rooms for the priests which face northward, and behold, there was a place in the flanks westward.
20 And he said to me, This is the place where the priests shall cook the guilt and the sin offerings, and where they shall bake the approach present so as not to bring them forth into the outside court and so hallow the people.
21 Then he brought me forth to the outside court and led me to the four cutout corners of the court, and behold, there was a court in each cutout corner of the court, a court in each cutout corner of the court.
22 In the four cutout corners of the court were small courts forty cubits in length and thirty in width; these four cutout corners were of one measure.
23 There was a row of stone round about in them, round about for these four, and there were cooking places made below the rows round about.
24 And he said to me, These are areas for cooking where the ministers of the house shall cook the sacrifices of the people.

Chapter 47
1 He brought me back to the portal of the house. And behold, there was water coming forth from under the sill of the house eastward, for the facade of the house faced east; the water descended from underneath along the right shoulder of the house, south of the altar.
2 Then he brought me forth by way of the north gateway and led me around on the outside to the outside gateway that faced the direction of the east, and behold, water was spouting from the right shoulder.
3 As the man went forth to the east with a measuring tape in his hand he measured 1,000 cubits and had me pass through the water; the water came to the ankles.
4 He measured another 1,000 cubits and had me pass through the water; the water came to the knees. He measured a further 1,000 cubits and had me pass through water to the waist.
5 When he measured another 1,000 cubits it was a torrent which I was not able to cross, for the waters had grown to become waters for swimming, a torrent which could not be crossed.
6 He said to me, Do you see, son of humanity? And he conducted me and brought me back to the ridge of the watercourse.
7 When I got back, behold, there were very many trees on the ridge of the watercourse, on this side and on that side.
8 And he said to me: These waters go forth toward the eastern circuit and descend to the Arabah where they enter the sea; these being brought forth into the sea, the waters there are healed.
9 It will come to be that every living soul that swarms wherever the watercourse is coming shall live, and there will be very many fish, for these waters will come there; the waters shall be healed, and everything will live wherever the watercourse shall come.
10 It will come to be that fishermen shall stand beside it; from En-gedi unto En-eglaim there shall be places for spreading out seine nets; according to its many kinds its fish shall be like the fish of the Great Sea, very many.
11 Its marshes and its pools, however, shall not be healed; they will be left for salt.
12 By the watercourse along its ridge on this side and on that side shall grow up every food tree. Its leaf shall not decay, nor shall its fruit come to end; for each of its months it shall yield firstfruit, for its waters are they which go forth from the sanctuary; its fruit will be for food and its leaf for healing.
13 Thus says my Lord Yahweh: This is the boundary in which you shall allot the land for the twelve tribes of Israel (Joseph having two districts).
14 You will allot it to each as to his brother. As I lifted My hand in swearing to give it to your fathers so will this land fall to you by allotment.
15 This is the boundary of the land: On the northward edge: From the Great Sea by way of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath, Zedad,
16 Berothah and Sibraim which is between the boundary of Damascus and the boundary of Hamath, to Hazar-hatticon which is on the boundary of Hauran.
17 So the boundary comes from the Sea to Hazar-enan, to the north of the boundary of Damascus, with the boundary of Hamath to the north of it. This is the north edge.
18 And the east edge: From between Hauran and Damascus and between Gilead and the land of Israel with the Jordan as the boundary you shall measure to the eastern sea. This is the eastward edge.
19 And the south edge southward: From Tamar unto the waters of Meribah at Kadesh, to the Wadi and on to the Great Sea. This is the southward edge, to the south.
20 And the west edge: The Great Sea is the boundary unto a point over against Lebo-hamath. This is the west edge.
21 You will apportion this land for yourselves according to the tribes of Israel.
22 So it will be that you shall allocate it as an allotment for yourselves and for the sojourners who are sojourning in your midst, who beget sons in your midst. They will be to you as natives among the sons of Israel; with you they shall be allocated an allotment in the midst of the tribes of Israel.
23 It will be that the tribe in which the sojourner sojourns, there shall you give him his allotment, averring is my Lord Yahweh.

Chapter 48
1 These are the names of the tribes: At the northward end along the Hethlon road from Lebo-hamath to Hazar-enan, and the boundary of Damascus northward by the Hamath side, these areas shall be his from the east edge unto the west: Dan, one.
2 Adjoining the boundary of Dan, from the east edge unto the westward edge: Asher, one.
3 Adjoining the boundary of Asher, from the eastward edge unto the westward edge: Naphtali, one.
4 Adjoining the boundary of Naphtali from the eastward edge unto the westward edge: Manasseh, one.
5 Adjoining the boundary of Manasseh from the eastward edge unto the westward edge: Ephraim, one.
6 Adjoining the boundary of Ephraim from the east edge unto the westward edge: Reuben, one.
7 Adjoining the boundary of Reuben from the east edge unto the westward edge: Judah, one.
8 Adjoining the boundary of Judah from the east edge unto the westward edge shall be the heave offering portion which you shall raise up 25,000 cubits in width, and in length as one of the tribal portions, from the eastward edge unto the westward edge, and the sanctuary will lie in its midst.
9 The heave offering which you shall raise up to Yahweh shall be 25,000 cubits in length and 10,000 in width.
10 The holy heave offering shall be assigned to these: For the priests, a portion northward of 25,000 cubits long, and westward of 10,000 in width, and eastward of 10,000 in width, and southward of 25,000 in length, and Yahweh’s sanctuary will lie in its midst.
11 This hallowed area shall be for the priests of the sons of Zadok, who kept My charge, who did not go astray when the sons of Israel went astray, even as the Levites went astray.
12 It will be a special heave offering for them out of the heave offering of the land, a holy of holies adjoining the boundary of the Levites.
13 For the Levites: A portion abreast of the boundary of the priests, 25,000 cubits in length, and 10,000 in width. The whole length shall be 25,000 cubits, and the width 10,000 cubits.
14 They shall not sell any of it, nor exchange it, nor transfer this principal piece of the land, for it is holy to Yahweh.
15 As for the rest, 5,000 cubits in width by 25,000 in length, it is profane, for the city, for dwellings and for common pasture land. The city shall be in its midst,
16 and these are its measurements: The north edge shall be 4,500 cubits, and the south edge 4,500 cubits, and the east edge 4,500 cubits, and the west edge 4,500 cubits.
17 The common pasture land for the city will spread northward 250 cubits, and southward 250 cubits, and eastward 250 cubits, and westward 250 cubits.
18 The rest will lie in length abreast the holy heave offering 10,000 cubits eastward and 10,000 cubits westward; it will lie abreast the holy heave offering, and its harvest yield will be for bread for those who serve the city,
19 and the force that serves the city from all the tribes of Israel shall cultivate it.
20 The entire heave offering will be 25,000 by 25,000 cubits; you shall set aside the holy heave offering as a square along with the holding of the city.
21 The rest is for the prince, on this and on that side of the holy heave offering and of the holding of the city adjoining the 25,000 cubits of the heave offering unto the boundary eastward, and westward adjoining the 25,000 cubits unto the boundary westward, corresponding to the tribal portions; this is for the prince. The holy heave offering and the sanctuary of the house will lie in its midst,
22 also the holding of the Levites as well as the holding of the city, in the midst of what belongs to the prince; the rest that shall lie between the boundary of Judah and the boundary of Benjamin, it shall belong to the prince.
23 As for the rest of the tribes: From the eastward edge unto the westward edge: Benjamin, one.
24 Adjoining the boundary of Benjamin from the eastward edge unto the westward edge: Simeon, one.
25 Adjoining the boundary of Simeon from the eastward edge unto the westward edge: Issachar, one.
26 Adjoining the boundary of Issachar from the eastward edge unto the westward edge: Zebulun, one.
27 Adjoining the boundary of Zebulun from the eastward edge unto the westward edge: Gad, one.
28 Adjoining the boundary of Gad on the south edge southward will run the boundary from Tamar unto the waters of Meribah at Kadesh to the Wadi on to the Great Sea.
29 That is the land which you shall allocate as an allotment for the tribes of Israel, and those are their portions, averring is my Lord Yahweh.
30 These are the exits of the city: On the north edge, 4,500 cubits in measurement,
31 the gates of the city (with the names of the tribes of Israel) will be three gates facing northward: The gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.
32 On the eastward edge of 4,500 cubits will be three gates: The gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.
33 The southward edge of 4,500 cubits in measurement will have three gates: The gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.
34 The westward edge of 4,500 cubits will have three gates: The gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.
35 Round about it will be 18,000 cubits. And the name of the city from that day on will be: Yahweh-is-there.