16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread. 17 So will I send upon you famine and evil • beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and ▼pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it. CHAPTER VI. 1 The Judgment of Israel for their idolatry. 8 A remnant shall be blessed. 11 The faithful are exhorted to lament their calamities. ND the word of the LORD came unto me, A saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, 3 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GoD; Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places. 4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your d images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. 5 And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. 6 In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished. 7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, A. Μ. 3410. w De. 32.23. x Le.26.22. у с.38.22. a c.20.46. b c.36.1. Mi.6.1,2 c Le.26.30. d sun images. e give. f 1Ki.13.2. Ki.23.14, 16. g sen images. h ver. 13. i Is.6.13. Je.44.28 J Ps.137.1. Da.9.2,3. k P.78.40. Js. 43.24. 1 Je.3.6,13. Im Nu. 15.39. c.14.4..7. 20.7..24. n Job 42.6. c.20.43. 36-31. o c.21.14. Final desolation of Israel. CHAPTER VII. 1 The final desolation of Israel. 16 The mourcial repentance of them that escape. 20 The enemies defile the sanctuary because of the Israelites' abominations. 25 0 der the type of a chain is showed their miserable captivity. MOREOVER the word of the Lord came me, saying, 2 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land. 3 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations. 4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense d thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 5 Thus saith the Lord GoD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. 6 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come. 7 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the & sounding again of the mountains. 8 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, pc.5.12,13. and will recompense thee for all thine abominations. that I am the LORD that smiteth. 10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded. 11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wick edness: none of them shall remain, nor o their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them. and ye shall know that I am the LORD. a La.1.9. 12 The time is come, the day draweth near: 15. gor, echo. 9 And they that escape of you shall rememberme among the nations whither they shall f Zep-1.14, let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall loathe 71 ■ themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. 10 And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them. 11 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thy hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. 12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them. 13 Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon a every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols. 14 So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD. h upon thee. Re. 20.13. J Mi.6.9. k Pr.16.18. 1 Je.6.7. for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. 14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready: but none goeth to the battle: mor,fumult for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. 15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him. 16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity. 17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water. 18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads. 19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, ration, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LoORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity. Ezekiel's image of jealousy. EZEKIEL.- CHAP. VIII., IX. Α. Μ. 3410. set it far a or, make 21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it. 22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the b robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. it unto bor, burg c 2ki.21.16. d Ps.106.41. places. f 2 Ch.7.20. g h cuting of 23 Make a chain: for the land is full of holy bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. 24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the d heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled. 25 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none. 26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. Je.4.20. i Ps. 74.9. I La.2.9. c.20.3, with their judgments Ja. 2.13. a c.20.1. bc.3.14,22. c c.1.26,27. 27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall d c.1.4. be clothed with desolation, and the hands of e Da.5.5. the people of the land shall be troubled: I will fe.40.2. do unto them after their way, and according | g Je.32.34. to their deserts will I judge them; and they h De.32.16, shall know that I am the LORD. 21. i c.3.22,23. k Pr.5.14. 1 Ps. 78.60. m c.20.8. God's wrath for idolatry 11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer 9 in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up. 12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the cham bers of his imagery? for they say, the LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth 13 He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. 14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. 15 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these. 16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between " the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. 17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo n Je.23.11. they put the branch to their nose. o Ro.1.23. q Nu.16.17. 2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the ap- p Je. 19.1. pearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of d amber. r Ep.5.12. 8 Ps. 73.11. t 2 Ti.3.13. a Joel 2.17. v c.11.1. 3 And he put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that wJe.2.27. looketh toward the north; where & was the De 4.19. seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy. 4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain. 5 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. 6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations. 2 Ki. 23.5. y or, Is there any than to. zc.5.11. a Pr.1.28. a is turned. b weapon c Re. 15.6. d upon his e c.3.23. I mark. Re.7.3. 7 And he brought me to the door of the court; & Ex.12.7. and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall. 8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. 9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. 10 So I went "in and saw; and behold every • form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portray portrayed upon the wall round about. h Ps.119. 18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity. and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them. CHAPTER IX 1 A vision, whereby is showed the preservation of some, 5 and the destruction of the rest. 8 God cannot be entreated for them. H E cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand. 2 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn d by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brazen altar. 3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side; 4 And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon & the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. 5 And to the others he said in my hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: 6 Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin mat my sanctuary. Then they 57.8 began at the ancient men which were before the house. 1Ki. 18.40. k to do struction. 1 Re.9.4. m Je.25.29. 1 Pe.4.17. 7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city. 8 And it came to pass, while they were Vision of the coals of fire. Presumption of the princes. Mface M of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. EZEKIEL.- CHAP. X., XI. slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue " of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem ? 9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the p filled with. of Chebar. 。 r house of Israel and Judah is exceeding • great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not. n Ge.18.23, o Je.5.1. 92 K1.24.4. ror, wrest- 15 And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river 16 And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted jugnent up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them 17 When they stood, these stood; and when 10 And as for me also, mine eye shall not returned they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head. 11 And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me. CHAPTER X. of thine. d c.1.13. Ex.98.10 Re.8.5. 19 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the Lord's house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above. 20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims. 21 Every one had four faces a-piece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings. 2 And he spake unto the man clothed with30.1. linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thy hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went me.1.15, &c same faces which I saw by the river of Che 7 And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clo- e Mi.21. thed with linen: who took it, and went out. 8 And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand under their wings. 9 And when I looked, m behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone. g0.122,27. 2 Pe.3.4. h Je.1.13. c.24.3,&c. i 1.58.1. 22 And the likeness of their faces was the bar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward. CHAPTER XI. 1 The presumption of the princes. 4 Their sin and judgment. 13 Ezekiel complain ine, God showeth him his purpose in saving a remnant, 21 and punishing the wickel 22 The glory of God leaveth the city. 24 Ezekiel is returned to the capuvity. M OREOVER * the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the beast gate of the Lord's house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes d of the people. 2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city: 3 Which say, It is not houses: this city is the the flesh. 4 Therefore prophesy phesy, O son of man. near; let us build caldron, and we be against them, pro 5 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them. 6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain. 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, 10 And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the P13923 they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: 13 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them mc.16.38. know that I am the LORD. Zedekiah's captivity typified. 594. 5 Dig 'thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby. EZEKIEL. - CHAP. XII. The Jews' presumptuous proverb. for ye have not walked in my statutes, nei-AM310 ther executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you. 13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then * fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel? 14 Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 15 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession. 16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come. 17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. qor, which. r Ezr.9.7. Ne. 9.34. 2K1.18.12. t Le 18.3, &c. De. 12.30, 31. Ps. 106.35. u De.7.4. Pr.6.15. ver.1. 6 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign & unto the house of Israel. 7 And I did so as I was commanded: I c.8.10, &c brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through the wall with my hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bare it upon my shoulder in their sight. Ac.5.5,10. c.9.8. w Le.26.44. De. 30.3,4. x Ps.90.1. 91.9. y Je.30.18. c.28.25. 34 13. 36.24. Am.9.14. z c.37.23. Col.3.5.8. TIL 2.12 a Je. 32.39: 1 Co. 1.10. b Ps.51.10. 0.18.31. Lu. 11.13. Jn. 14.26. c Zec.7.12. d 2Ki. 22.19. c.36.26. e Ps. 105.45. Ro.16.25. f Lu.1.6. 1 Co.11.2. g Je.24.7. Ho.2.23. 18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence. 19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and 4 le 1038. will give them a heart of d flesh: Jude 19. i c.22.31. 20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and c.10.19. they shall be my people, and I will be their God. k Zec.14.4. 1 c.3.12. me.2.7. 3.26,27. b Je.5.21. 21 But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and a 23.8. their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GoD. 22 Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above. 23 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city. 24 Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me. 25 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the LORD had showed me. THE word of the Lord also came unto me, 2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, p Je. 52.8, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house. 3 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare theer * stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be d they will consider, though they be a rebellious house. 4 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight, as • they that go forth into captivity. &c. 9.17.16. c.5.10,12. 8 c.6.8. 10. men of number. u c.4.16. u Zec.7.14. w the ful thereof. ness x Ps. 107.34. y Am.6.3. 8 And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, saying, 9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, What doest thou? 10 Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among them. 11 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done. so shall it be done unto them: they shall remove and go into captivity. 12 And the prince" that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not the ground with his eyes. 13 My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there. 14 And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them. 15 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations and disperse them in the countries. 16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD. 17 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 18 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness; 19 And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord God of the inhabitants of Jeru salem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein. 20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 21 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 22 Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth? 23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision. 24 For there shall be no more any vain vi The reproof of lying prophets. EZEKIEL.-CHAP. XIII., XIV. Prophetesses and their pillows. sion nor flattering divination within the house. of Israel. 25 For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; It shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GoD. 26 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 27 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off. 28 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GoD; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GoD. ND the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD; z Is. 14.24. a 2 Pe.3.4. b Je.44.28. & ατε prophets. b Je.14.14. 15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered mortar, and will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it; 16 To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord GOD. 17 Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy • walk after thou against them, d or, things which they have not seen. 18 And say, Thus saith the Lord GoD; WO to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the f Ps. 106.23 souls of my people, and will ye save the e or, breaches. g hedged. h Ep.6.13, i Re.6.17. | La.2.14. k Mat.24. 23,24. 11 TL4.1,2 m Ps.101.7. souls alive that come unto you? 19 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies ? 20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GoD; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls a to make them fly, and I 3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Wo unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, or council will tear them from your arms, and will let the and d have seen nothing! 4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. nor, secret, o Ezr.2.62. p Ho.9.3. Re.22.15. 8.11. 5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD. 9 Je.6.14. 6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The Lord saith and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word. 7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I have not spoken? 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GoD. ror, slight В с. 22.28. t Is.28.2,18. u Ja.30.30. v Mat.7.26, souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly. 21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 22 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life : 23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know w ver.9.21, that I am the LORD. 10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered mortar : 11 Say unto them which daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hail-for, that stones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it. 12 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daybed it? e Je.23.14. I should g quicken ing him. h c.12.24. Mi.3.6. 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GoD; I will i Ma. 13.22 came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me. 2 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I d be inquired of at all by them ? 4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GoD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according • to the multitude of his idols; 5 That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols. 6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GoD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations. even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; Jude 24. and there shall be an overflowing shower in a c.8.L mine anger, and great" hailstones in my fury b c.7.19. to consume it. c P. 101.3. 14 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered mortar, and bring it 42K13.13, separateth himself from me, and setteth up his 7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which e Ga.6.7. idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to inquire of him concernfor, others. ing me; I the LORD will answer him by myself: |