my soul; therefore will I hope in kim.

25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh cim.

26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

their calamitick ss I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my

cry.

57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

58 O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul: thou hast redeem

28 He sitteth alone and keepethed my life. silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

29 He putteth his mouth in the dust: if so be there may be hope.

30 He giveth his cheek to him that siteth him he is filled full with reproach.

31 For the LORD will not cast off for ever:

32 But though be cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

33 For he doth not affict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

36 To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.

59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong judge thou my cause.

60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me. 61 Thou hast heard their reproach, LORD, and all their imaginations against me;

62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music.

64 Render unto them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

66 Persecute and destroy them in anger, from under the heavens of the LORD. CHAP. IV.

37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the LORD com-TTOW is the gold become dim! ho Tandeth it not? is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.

38 Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good? 39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

41 Let us lift up our heart with our bands unto God in the heavens.

42 We have transgressed, and have rebelled thou hast not pardoned.

43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that car prayer should not pass through.

2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they es teemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

3 Even the sea-monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.

5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were 45 Thou hast made us as the off-brought up in scarlet embrace dungScouring and refuse in the midst of hills. the people.

46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.

7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sap

49 Mue eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any internis-phire: sion,

50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.

51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart, because of all the daughters of my city.

2 Mine enemies chased ine sore, like a bird, without cause.

53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. 54 Waters flowed over mine head: then I said, I cut off.

8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the

field.

10 The hands of the pitiful women have vodden their own children: they

EZEKIEL. Her complaint to God in prayer.

11 The LORD hath accomplished REMEMBER, O LORD, what is come

THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET EZEKIEL.

NOW TOW it came to pass in the thir-hoiachin's captivity, tieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as pressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

Ezekiel's vision

CHAP. II.

His commission. whirlwind came out of the north, a of the living creature was in the great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, wheels. and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amoer, out of the midst of the fire.

5 Aiso out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they Lad the likeness of a man.

6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.

7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.

9 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides: and they four had their faces and their wings.

9 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went they went every oue straight forward.

10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side: they four also had the face of an eagle.

1 Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went and they turned not when they went.

13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures, and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.

14 And the living creatures ran, and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

15 Now as I beheld the living creatares, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with

his four faces.

21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.

23 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.

24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host when they stood, they let down their wings.

25 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.

26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.

27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it bad brightness round about.

23 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake. CHAP. II.

AND he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee.

16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of 2 And the spirit entered into me a beryl: and they four had one like-when he spake unto me, and set me ness and their appearance and their upon my feet, that I heard him that work was as it were a wheel in the spake unto me. middle of a wheel.

17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.

18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.

19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were Hited up.

3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel. to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me they and their fa thers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.

4 For they are impudent children and stiff-hearted: 1 do send thee unto them, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.

5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among tuem.

90 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was thetr spirit to go, and the wheels were lifted up 6 And thou, son of min, be not over against them: for the spirit afraid of them, neither be afraid of

Ezekiel's commission.

EZEKIEL. The rule of prophecy their words, theagh briers and thorns wings of the living creatures that be with thee, and thou dost dwell touched one another, and the noise among scorpions: be not afraid of of the wheels over against them, and their words, nor be disn.ayed at their a noise of a great rushing. looks, though they be a rebellious house.

7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.

8 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee: Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that 1 give thee.

9 And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and lo, a roll of a book was therein;

10 And he spread it before me and it was written within and without and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and wo. CHAP. III. MOR OREOVER he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the

house of Israel.

2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.

3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as boney for sweetness.

4 And he said unto me, Son of nan, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.

5 For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel:

14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the band of the LORD was strong upon me.

15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.

16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from bis wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in bis iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine band.

19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and be turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

20 Again, When a righteous men doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and 1 lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him waming, he shall die in his sin, and his 6 Not to many people of a strange righteousness which he hath done shali speech and of an hard language, not be remembered: but his blood whose words thou canst not under-will I require at thine hand. stand. Surely, had I sent thee to 21 Nevertheless, if thou warn the them, they would have hearkened un-righteous man, that the righteous sin to thee. not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.

7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.

22 And the band of the LORD was there upon me and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.

8 Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy 23 Then I arose, and went forth forehead strong against their fore-into the plain: and behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.

heads.

9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of nian, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and bear with thine ears.

11 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

12 Then the spirit took me up and I heard behind ine a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.

13 I heard also the noise of the

24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.

25 But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:

26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover, for they are a re bellious house.

27 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth, let him hear: and he that forbeareth, let him for

HOU also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusaem;

And lay siege against it, and uild a fort against it; and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it; and set battering rams against it round about.

3 Moreover, take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron Letween thee and the city; and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house

of Israel.

4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it, thou shalt bear their iniquity.

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15 Then he said unto me, Lo, t have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread

therewith.

AND thou, son of man, take thee

a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

2 Thou shalt Curn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and 5 For 1 have laid upon thee the smite about it with a knife: and a years of their iniquity, according to third part thou shalt scatter in the the number of the days, three hun-wind; and I will draw out a sword dred and ninety days: so shalt thou after them. bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.

6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, 4 Then take of them again, and cast and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the them into the midst of the fire, and Louse of Judah forty days: I have ap-burn them in the fire; for thereof pointed thee each day for a year. shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.

7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.

5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are

8 And behold, I will lay bands up-round about her. on thee, and thou shalt not turr thee from one side to another, till the bast ended the days of thy siege.

9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou

eat it.

11 Thou shalt drink also water! by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou

drink.

19 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their siglit.

13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their deiled pread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.

14 Then said 1, Ah Lord GOD behold, my soul hath not been polluted; for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my montb

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6 And she bath changed my judg ments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judg ments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you:

8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even 1, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee, in the sight of the nations.

9 And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto 1 wi!! not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.

10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will scatter into all the winds,

11 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy de testable things, and with all thine

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