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Ezekiel, starting at chapter 31
{31:1} It happened in the eleventh year, in the third [month], in
the first [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me,
saying, {31:2} Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his
multitude: Whom are you like in your greatness? {31:3} Behold, the
Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a
forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the
thick boughs. {31:4} The waters nourished it, the deep made it to
grow: its rivers ran all around its plantation; and it sent out its
channels to all the trees of the field. {31:5} Therefore its stature
was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were
multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters,
when it shot [them] forth. {31:6} All the birds of the sky made their
nests in its boughs; and under its branches did all the animals of the
field bring forth their young; and under its shadow lived all great
nations. {31:7} Thus was it beautiful in its greatness, in the length
of its branches; for its root was by many waters. {31:8} The cedars in
the garden of God could not hide it; the fir trees were not like its
boughs, and the plane trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree
in the garden of God like it in its beauty. {31:9} I made it beautiful
by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that
were in the garden of God, envied it. {31:10} Therefore thus said the
Lord Yahweh: Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his
top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
{31:11} I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the
nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his
wickedness. {31:12} Strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut
him off, and have left him: on the mountains and in all the valleys
his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the
watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone
down from his shadow, and have left him. {31:13} On his ruin all the
birds of the sky shall dwell, and all the animals of the field shall
be on his branches; {31:14} to the end that none of all the trees by
the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top
among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their
height, [even] all who drink water: for they are all delivered to
death, to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children
of men, with those who go down to the pit. {31:15} Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning: I
covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers; and the great
waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the
trees of the field fainted for him. {31:16} I made the nations to
shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with
those who descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice
and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower
parts of the earth. {31:17} They also went down into Sheol with him to
those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, [that]
lived under his shadow in the midst of the nations. {31:18} To whom
are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden?
yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts
of the earth: you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with
those who are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his
multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.
{32:1} It happened in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the
first [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
{32:2} Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and tell him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations: yet are
you as a monster in the seas; and you did break forth with your
rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their
rivers. {32:3} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will spread out my net on
you with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my
net. {32:4} I will leave you on the land, I will cast you forth on the
open field, and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you,
and I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you. {32:5} I
will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your
height. {32:6} I will also water with your blood the land in which you
swim, even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of
you. {32:7} When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and
make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon
shall not give its light. {32:8} All the bright lights of the sky will
I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord
Yahweh. {32:9} I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I
shall bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries
which you have not known. {32:10} Yes, I will make many peoples amazed
at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall
brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment,
every man for his own life, in the day of your fall. {32:11} For thus
says the Lord Yahweh: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come on
you. {32:12} By the swords of the mighty will I cause your multitude
to fall; the terrible of the nations are they all: and they shall
bring to nothing the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall be
destroyed. {32:13} I will destroy also all its animals from beside
many waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor
the hoofs of animals trouble them. {32:14} Then will I make their
waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord
Yahweh. {32:15} When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and
waste, a land destitute of that of which it was full, when I shall
strike all those who dwell therein, then shall they know that I am
Yahweh. {32:16} This is the lamentation with which they shall lament;
the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith; over Egypt, and
over all her multitude, shall they lament therewith, says the Lord
Yahweh. {32:17} It happened also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth
[day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
{32:18} Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them
down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower
parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit. {32:19} Whom
do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.
{32:20} They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the
sword: she is delivered to the sword; draw her away and all her
multitudes. {32:21} The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out
of the midst of Sheol with those who help him: they are gone down,
they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword. {32:22}
Asshur is there and all her company; her graves are all around her;
all of them slain, fallen by the sword; {32:23} whose graves are set
in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is around her
grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in
the land of the living. {32:24} There is Elam and all her multitude
around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone
down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their
terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with
those who go down to the pit. {32:25} They have set her a bed in the
midst of the slain with all her multitude; her graves are around her;
all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was
caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with
those who go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of those who are
slain. {32:26} There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude; their
graves are around them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword;
for they caused their terror in the land of the living. {32:27} They
shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who
are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their
swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for
[they were] the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
{32:28} But you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and
shall lie with those who are slain by the sword. {32:29} There is
Edom, her kings and all her princes, who in their might are laid with
those who are slain by the sword: they shall lie with the
uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit. {32:30} There
are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who
are gone down with the slain; in the terror which they caused by their
might they are put to shame; and they lie uncircumcised with those who
are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to
the pit. {32:31} Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over
all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword,
says the Lord Yahweh. {32:32} For I have put his terror in the land of
the living; and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised,
with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his
multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.
{33:1} The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {33:2} Son of man,
speak to the children of your people, and tell them, When I bring the
sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among
them, and set him for their watchman; {33:3} if, when he sees the
sword come on the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
{33:4} then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn't take
warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be on
his own head. {33:5} He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn't
take warning; his blood shall be on him; whereas if he had taken
warning, he would have delivered his soul. {33:6} But if the watchman
sees the sword come, and doesn't blow the trumpet, and the people
aren't warned, and the sword comes, and take any person from among
them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require
at the watchman's hand. {33:7} So you, son of man, I have set you a
watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth,
and give them warning from me. {33:8} When I tell the wicked, O wicked
man, you shall surely die, and you don't speak to warn the wicked from
his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will
I require at your hand. {33:9} Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of
his way to turn from it, and he doesn't turn from his way; he shall
die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul. {33:10} You,
son of man, tell the house of Israel: Thus you speak, saying, Our
transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them; how
then can we live? {33:11} Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh,
I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked
turn from his way and live: turn you, turn you from your evil ways;
for why will you die, house of Israel? {33:12} You, son of man, tell
the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall
not deliver him in the day of his disobedience; and as for the
wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he
turns from his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be able
to live thereby in the day that he sins. {33:13} When I tell the
righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his
righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall
be remembered; but in his iniquity that he has committed, therein
shall he die. {33:14} Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall
surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and
right; {33:15} if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which
he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no
iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. {33:16} None of his
sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him: he has
done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live. {33:17} Yet
the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but
as for them, their way is not equal. {33:18} When the righteous turns
from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die
therein. {33:19} When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does
that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby. {33:20} Yet you
say, The way of the Lord is not equal. House of Israel, I will judge
you everyone after his ways. {33:21} It happened in the twelfth year
of our captivity, in the tenth [month], in the fifth [day] of the
month, that one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying,
The city has been struck. {33:22} Now the hand of Yahweh had been on
me in the evening, before he who was escaped came; and he had opened
my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened,
and I was no more mute. {33:23} The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
{33:24} Son of man, they who inhabit those waste places in the land of
Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but
we are many; the land is given us for inheritance. {33:25} Therefore
tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You eat with the blood, and lift
up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the
land? {33:26} You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and you
defile everyone his neighbor's wife: and shall you possess the land?
{33:27} You shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: As I live,
surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword; and
him who is in the open field will I give to the animals to be
devoured; and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves shall
die of the pestilence. {33:28} I will make the land a desolation and
an astonishment; and the pride of her power shall cease; and the
mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that none shall pass
through. {33:29} Then shall they know that I am Yahweh, when I have
made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their
abominations which they have committed. {33:30} As for you, son of
man, the children of your people talk of you by the walls and in the
doors of the houses, and speak one to another, everyone to his
brother, saying, Please come and hear what is the word that comes
forth from Yahweh. {33:31} They come to you as the people comes, and
they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don't
do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart
goes after their gain. {33:32} Behold, you are to them as a very
lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an
instrument; for they hear your words, but they don't do them. {33:33}
When this comes to pass, (behold, it comes), then shall they know that
a prophet has been among them.
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