[15] And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, [16] Son of man, behold I take from thee the desire of thine eyes by violence: thou shalt not lament, neither shalt thou weep. [17] Thou shalt groan for blood, and have mourning upon thy loins; thy hair shall not be braided upon thee, and thy sandals shall be on thy feet; thou shalt in no wise be comforted by their lips, and thou shalt not eat the bread of men.
[18] And I spoke to the people in the morning, as he commanded me in the evening, and I did in the morning as it was commanded me. [19] And the people said to me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are that thou doest? [20] Then I said to them, The word of the Lord came to me, saying, [21] Say to the house of Israel,
Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the boast of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and for which your souls are concerned; and your sons and your daughters, whom ye have left, shall fall by the sword. [22] And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not be comforted at their mouth, and ye shall not eat the bread of men. [23] And your hair shall be upon your head, and your shoes on your feet: neither shall ye at all lament or weep; but ye shall pine away in your iniquities, and shall comfort every one his brother. [24] And Ezekiel shall be for a sign to you: according to all that I have done shall ye do, when these things shall come; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
[25] And thou, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take their strength from them, the pride of their boasting, the desires of their eyes, and the pride of their soul, their sons and their daughters, [26] that in that day he that escapes shall come to thee, to tell it thee in thine ears? [27] In that say thy mouth shall be opened to him that escapes; thou shalt speak, and shalt be no longer dumb: and thou shalt be for a sign to them, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Chapter 25
[1] And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, [2] Son of man, set thy face steadfastly against the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them; [3] and thou shalt say to the children of Ammon,
Hear ye the word of the Lord; thus saith the Lord; Forasmuch as ye have rejoiced against my sanctuary, because it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, because it was laid waste; and against the house of Juda, because they went into captivity; [4] therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of Kedem for an inheritance, and they shall lodge in thee with their stuff, and they shall pitch their tents in thee: they shall eat thy fruits, and they shall drink thy milk. [5] And I will give up the city of Ammon for camels’ pastures, and the children of Ammon for a pasture of sheep: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
[6] For thus saith the Lord; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with thy foot, and heartily rejoiced against the land of Israel; [7] therefore I will stretch out my hand against thee, and I will make thee a spoil to the nations; and I will utterly destroy thee from among the peoples, and I will completely cut thee off from out of the countries: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
[8] Thus saith the Lord; Because Moab has said, Behold, are not the house of Israel and Juda like all the other nations? [9] Therefore, behold, I will weaken the shoulder of Moab from his frontier cities, even the choice land, the house of Bethasimuth above the fountain of the city, by the sea-side. [10] I have given him the children of Kedem in addition to the children of Ammon for an inheritance, that there may be no remembrance of the children of Ammon. [11] And I will execute vengeance on Moab; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
[12] Thus saith the Lord; Because of what the Idumeans have done in taking vengeance on the house of Juda, and because they have remembered injuries, and have exacted full recompense; [13] therefore thus saith the Lord; I will also stretch out my hand upon Idumea, and will utterly destroy out of it man and beast; and will make it desolate; and they that are pursued out of Thaeman shall fall by the sword. [14] And I will execute my vengeance on Idumea by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall deal in Idumea according to mine anger and according to my wrath, and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord.
[15] Therefore thus saith the Lord, Because the Philistines have wrought revengefully, and raised up vengeance rejoicing from their heart to destroy the Israelites to a man; [16] therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will stretch out my hand upon the Philistines, and will utterly destroy the Cretans, and will cut off the remnant that dwell by the sea-coast. [17] And I will execute great vengeance upon them; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have brought my vengeance upon them.
Chapter 26
[1] And it came to pass in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
[2] Son of man, because Sor has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is crushed: the nations are destroyed: she is turned to me: she that was full is made desolate: [3] therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, O Sor, and I will bring up many nations against thee, as the sea comes up with its waves. [4] And they shall cast down the walls of Sor, and shall cast down thy towers: and I will scrape her dust from off her, and make her a bare rock. [5] She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for repairing nets: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord: and it shall be a spoil for the nations. [6] And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain with the sword, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
[7] For thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will bring up against thee, O Sor, Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon from the north: he is a king of kings, with horses, and chariots, and horsemen, and a concourse of very many nations. [8] He shall slay thy daughters that are in the field with the sword, and shall set a watch against thee, and build forts around thee, and carry a rampart round against thee, and set up warlike works, and array his spears against thee. [9] He shall cast down with his swords thy walls and thy towers. [10] By reason of thy multitude of his horses their dust shall cover thee, and by reason of the sound of his horsemen and the wheels of his chariots thy walls shall be shaken, when he enters into thy gates, as one entering into a city from the plain. [11] With the hoofs of his horses they shall trample all thy streets: he shall slay thy people with the sword, and shall bring down to the ground the support of thy strength.
[12] And he shall prey upon thy power, and plunder thy substance, and shall cast down thy walls, and break down thy pleasant houses: and he shall cast thy stones and thy timber and thy dust into the midst of thy sea. [13] And he shall destroy the multitude of thy musicians, and the sound of thy psalteries shall be heard no more. [14] And I will make thee a bare rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the Lord have spoken it, saith the Lord.
[15] For thus saith the Lord God to Sor; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, while the wounded are groaning, while they have drawn a sword in the midst of thee? [16] And all the princes of the nations of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and shall take off their crowns from their heads, and shall take off their embroidered raiment: they shall be utterly amazed; they shall sit upon the ground, and fear their own destruction, and shall groan over thee. [17] And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and shall say to thee, How art thou destroyed from out of the sea, the renowned city, that brought her terror upon all her inhabitants. [18] And the isles shall be alarmed at the day of thy fall.
[19] For thus saith the Lord God; When I shall make the city desolate, as the cities that shall not be inhabited, when I have brought the deep up upon thee, [20] and great waters shall cover thee; and I shall bring thee down to them that go down to the pit, to the people of old time, and shall cause thee to dwell in the depths of the earth, as in everlasting desolation, with them that go down to the pit, that thou mayest not be inhabited, nor stand upon the land of life; [21] I will make thee a destruction, and thou shalt be no more for ever, saith the Lord God.
Chapter 27
[1] And the word of the Lord came to me saying,
[2] And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation against Sor; [3] and thou shalt say to Sor that dwells at t
he entrance of the sea, to the mart of the nations coming from many islands, Thus saith the Lord to Sor;
Thou hast said, I have clothed myself with my beauty. [4] In the heart of the sea thy sons have put beauty upon thee for Beelim. [5] Cedar in Senir was employed for thee in building: boards of cypress timber were taken out of Libanus, and wood to make thee masts of fir. [6] They made thine oars of wood out of the land of Basan; thy sacred utensils they made of ivory, thy shady houses of wood from the isles of Chetiim. [7] Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt supplied the couch, to put honour upon thee, and to clothe thee with blue and purple from the isles of Elisai; and they became thy coverings.
[8] And thy princes were the dwellers in Sidon, and the Aradians were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Sor, who were in thee, these were thy pilots. [9] The elders of the Biblians, and their wise men, who were in thee, these helped thy counsel: and all the ships of the sea and their rowers traded for thee to the utmost west.
[10] Persians and Lydians and Libyans were in thine army: thy warriors hung in thee shields and helmets; these gave thee thy glory. [11] The sons of the Aradians and thine army were upon the walls; there were guards in thy towers: they hung their quivers on thy battlements round about; these completed thy beauty.
[12] The Carthaginians were thy merchants because of the abundance of all thy strength; they furnished thy market with silver, and gold, and iron, and tin, and lead. [13] Greece, both the whole world, and the adjacent coasts, these traded with thee in the persons of men, and they gave as thy merchandise vessels of brass.
[14] Out of the house of Thogarma horses and horsemen furnished the market. [15] The sons of the Rhodians were thy merchants; from the islands they multiplied thy merchandise, even elephants’ teeth: and to them that came in thou didst return thy prices, [16] even men as thy merchandise, from the multitude of thy trading population, myrrh and embroidered works from Tharsis: Ramoth also and Chorchor furnished thy market. [17] Juda and the children of Israel, these were thy merchants; in the sale of corn and ointments and cassia: and they gave the best honey, and oil, and resin, to thy trading population. [18] The people of Damascus were thy merchants by reason of the abundance of all thy power; wine out of Chelbon, and wool from Miletus; and they brought wine into thy market.
[19] Out of Asel came wrought iron, and there is the sound of wheels among thy trading population. [20] The people of Daedan were thy merchants, with choice cattle for chariots. [21] Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, these were thy traders with thee, bringing camels, and lambs, and rams, in which they trade with thee. [22] The merchants of Sabba and Ramma, these were thy merchants, with choice spices, and precious stones: and they brought gold to thy market. [23] Charra, and Chanaa, these were thy merchants: Assur, and Charman, were thy merchants: [24] bringing for merchandise blue, and choice stores bound with cords, and cypress wood. [25] Ships were thy merchants, in abundance, with thy trading population: and thou wast filled and very heavily loaded in the heart of the sea.
[26] Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the south wind has broken thee in the heart of the sea. [27] Thy forces, and thy gain, and that of thy traders, and thy rowers, and thy pilots, and thy counselors, and they that traffic with thee, and all thy warriors that are in thee: and all thy company in the midst of thee shall perish in the heart of the sea, in the day of thy fall. [28] At the cry of thy voice thy pilots shall be greatly terrified.
[29] And all the rowers and the mariners shall come down from the ships, and the pilots of the sea shall stand on the land. [30] And they shall wail over thee with their voice, and cry bitterly, and put earth on their heads, and spread ashes under them.
[31] 32 And their sons shall take up a lament for thee, even a lamentation for Sor, saying, [33] How large a reward hast thou gained from the sea? thou hast filled nations out of thine abundance; and out of thy mixed merchandise thou hast enriched all the kings of the earth. [34] Now art thou broken in the sea, thy traders are in the deep water, and all thy company in the midst of thee: all thy rowers have fallen. [35] All the dwellers in the islands have mourned over thee, and their kings have been utterly amazed, and their countenance has wept. [36] Merchants from the nations have hissed at thee; thou art utterly destroyed, and shalt not be any more for ever.
Chapter 28
[1] And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
[2] And thou, son of man, say to the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord; Because thine heart has been exalted, and thou hast said, I am God, I have inhabited the dwelling of God in the heart of the sea; yet thou art man and not God, though thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God: [3] art thou wiser than Daniel? or have not the wise instructed thee with their knowledge? [4] Hast thou gained power for thyself by thine own knowledge or thine own prudence, and gotten gold and silver in thy treasures? [5] By thy abundant knowledge and thy traffic thou hast multiplied thy power; thy heart has been lifted up by thy power.
[6] Therefore thus saith the Lord; Since thou hast set thine heart as the hart of God; [7] because of this, behold, I will bring on thee strange plagues from the nations; and they shall draw their swords against thee, and against the beauty of thy knowledge, [8] and they shall bring down thy beauty to destruction. And they shall bring thee down; and thou shalt die the death of the slain in the heart of the sea. [9] Wilt thou indeed say, I am God, before them that slay thee? whereas thou art man, and not God. [10] Thou shalt perish by the hands of strangers among the multitude of the uncircumcised: for I have spoken it, saith he Lord.
[11] And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, [12] Son of man, take up a lamentation for the prince of Tyre, and say to him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou art a seal of resemblance, and crown of beauty. [13] Thou wast in the delight of the paradise of God; thou hast bound upon thee every precious stone, the sardius, and topaz, and emerald, and carbuncle, and sapphire, and jasper, and silver, and gold, and ligure, and agate, and amethyst, and chrysolite, and beryl, and onyx: and thou hast filled thy treasures and thy stores in thee with gold. [14] From the day that thou wast created thou wast with the cherub: I set thee on the holy mount of God; thou wast in the midst of the stones of fire. [15] Thou wast faultless in thy days, from the day that thou wast created, until iniquity was found in thee.
[16] Of the abundance of thy merchandise thou hast filled thy storehouses with iniquity, and hast sinned: therefore thou hast been cast down wounded from the mount of God, and the cherub has brought thee out of the midst of the stones of fire. [17] Thy heart has been lifted up because of thy beauty; thy knowledge has been corrupted with thy beauty: because of the multitude of thy sins I have cast thee to the ground, I have caused thee to be put to open shame before kings. [18] Because of the multitude of thy sins and the iniquities of thy merchandise, I have profaned thy sacred things; and I will bring fire out of the midst of thee, this shall devour thee; and I will make thee to be ashes upon thy land before all that see thee. [19] And all that know thee among the nations shall groan over thee: thou art gone to destruction, and thou shalt not exist any more.
[20] And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, [21] Son of man, set thy face against Sidon, and prophesy against it, [22] and say, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, O Sidon; and I will be glorified in thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord, when I have wrought judgments in thee, and I will be sanctified in thee. [23] Blood and death shall be in thy streets; and men wounded with swords shall fall in thee and on every side of thee; and they shall know that I am the Lord. [24] And there shall no more be in the house of Israel a thorn of bitterness and a pricking briar proceeding from them that are round about them, who dishonoured them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
[25] Thus saith the Lord God; I will also gather Israel from the nations, among whom they have been scattered, and I will be sanctified among them, and before the peoples and nations: and they shall dwell upon their land, which I gave to my servant Jacob. [26] Yea, they shall dwell upon it safely, and they shall build ho
uses, and plant vineyards, and dwell securely, when I shall execute judgment on all that have dishonoured them, even on those that are round about them; and they shall know that I am the Lord their God, and the God of their fathers.
Chapter 29
[1] In the twelfth year, in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, [2] Son of man, set thy face against Pharao king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against the whole of Egypt: [3] and say,
Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against Pharao, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his rivers, that says, The rivers are mine, and I made them. [4] And I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy river to stick to thy sides, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy river: [5] and I will quickly cast down thee and all the fish of thy river: thou shalt fall on the face of the plain, and shalt by no means be gathered, and shalt not be brought together: I have given thee for food to the wild beasts of the earth and to the fowls of the sky. [6] And all the dwellers in Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, because thou hast been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. [7] When they took hold of thee with their hand, thou didst break: and when every hand was clapped against them, and when they leaned on thee, thou wast utterly broken, and didst crush the loins of them all.
[8] Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and will cut off from thee man and beast; [9] and the land of Egypt shall be ruined and desert; and they shall know that I am the Lord; because thou sayest, The rivers are mine, and I made them.
[10] Therefore, behold, I am against thee, and against all thy rivers, and I will give up the land of Egypt to desolation, and the sword, and destruction, from Magdol and Syene even to the borders of the Ethiopians. [11] No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it, and it shall not be inhabited for forty years.
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