Ezekiel
Chapter 1
Ezek. 1:1 In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the Chebar river, the heavens were opened, and I saw a divine vision.
Ezek. 1:2 On the fifth day of the month (it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin),
Ezek. 1:3 the word of the LORD came to Ezekiel, the son of Buzi, the priest, in the land of the Chaldeans bythe Chebar river, and the hand of the LORD was upon him there.
Ezek. 1:4 As I looked, behold, a high wind was coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing intermittently and a radiance around it, and in the midst of the fire a gleaming metal.
Ezek. 1:5 And from the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had a human likeness,
Ezek. 1:6 but each had four faces, and each of them had four wings.
Ezek. 1:7 Their legs were straight and their feet were like a calf’s hoof, and they sparkled like polished bronze.
Ezek. 1:8 Under their wings on their four sides were human hands. As for the faces and wings of the four of them,
Ezek. 1:9 their wings touched one another. Each one of them went straight forward, without turning as they went.
Ezek. 1:10 As for the likeness of their faces, each had a human face; The four had the face of a lion on the right side, the four had the face of an ox on the left side, and the four had the face of an eagle.
Ezek. 1:11 Such were their faces. And their wings were spread out above. Each creature had two wings, each of which touched the wing of another, while two covered their bodies.
Ezek. 1:12 And each went straight forward. Wherever the spirit would go, they went, without turning as they went.
Ezek. 1:13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches. It moved back and forth among the living creatures. And the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
Ezek. 1:14 And the living creatures darted back and forth, like the appearance of a flash of lightning.
Ezek. 1:15 As I looked at the living creatures, behold, there was one wheel on the ground beside the living beings, for each of the four of them.
Ezek. 1:16 The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like sparkle of beryl. And all four of them had the same form, their appearance and workmanshipwere as if one wheel were within another.
Ezek. 1:17 When they went, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went.
Ezek. 1:18 And their rims were high and awesome, and the rims of all four wheels were full of eyes all around.
Ezek. 1:19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; when the living beings rose up from the ground, the wheels rose up.
Ezek. 1:20 Wherever the spirit wanted to go, they went, and the wheels rose along with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
Ezek. 1:21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those rose from the earth, the wheels rose along with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
Ezek. 1:22 Now over the heads of the living creatures there was something like an expanse, like the awesome gleam of crystal, spread out over their heads.
Ezek. 1:23 Under the expanse their wings were stretched out straight, one toward the other; And each creature had two wings covering its body.
Ezek. 1:24 When they moved, I heard the sound of their wings, like the sound of many waters as they went, like the voice of the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the sound of an army. When they stood still, they lowered their wings.
Ezek. 1:25 And a voice came from above the expanse that was over their heads; whenever they stood still, they let down their wings.
Ezek. 1:26 Above the platform over their heads was something like a sapphire shaped like a throne. High above on the throne was a form that appeared to be a man.
Ezek. 1:27 Then I saw from the appearance of his waist and upward something like amber that looked like fire all around. And downward from what had the appearance of his waist I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.
Ezek. 1:28 Like the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell on my face. Then I heard the voice of one speaking.
Chapter 2
Ezek. 2:1 And he said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.”
Ezek. 2:2 And as he spoke to me, the Spirit entered into me and set me on my feet, and I heard him speaking to me.
Ezek. 2:3 And he said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the sons of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have revolted against me to this very day.
Ezek. 2:4 Now the descendants are impudent and stubborn. I
I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord LORD.’ [Adonay Yahweh]
Ezek. 2:5 As for them, whether they listen or not—for they are a rebellious house—they will know that a prophet has been among them.
Ezek. 2:6 And as for you, son of man, you are not to fear them nor fear their words, though thistles and thorns are with you and you sit on scorpions; you are not to fear their words nor be dismayed at their faces, since they are a rebellious house.
Ezek. 2:7 But you shall speak my words to them whether they listen or not, for they are rebellious.
Ezek. 2:8 As for you, son of man, listen to what I say to you.
do not be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.”
Ezek. 2:9 And when I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me, and behold, a scroll of a book was in it.
Ezek. 2:10 He unrolled it before me, and it had writing on the front and back; written on it were laments, mourning, and woe.
Chapter 3
Ezek. 3:1 Then he said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.”
Ezek. 3:2 So I opened my mouth, and he gave me this scroll to eat.
Ezek. 3:3 And he said to me, “Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your belly with this scroll which I am giving you.” Then I ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.
Ezek. 3:4 And he said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with my words to them.
Ezek. 3:5 For you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and a difficult language, but to the house of Israel—
Ezek. 3:6 not to many peoples of foreign speech and a difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would listen to you!
Ezek. 3:7 But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel are hard a forehead and hard hearted.
Ezek. 3:8 Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.
Ezek. 3:9 Like emery harder than flint have I made your forehead. Fear them not, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.”
Ezek. 3:10 And he said to me, “Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.
Ezek. 3:11 And go to the exiles, to the sons of your people, and speak to them and tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord LORD.’ [Adonay Yahweh] whether they listen or not.”
Ezek. 3:12 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me as the glory of the LORD rose from its place,
Ezek. 3:13 and the sound of the wings of the living creatures as they brushed one another, and the sound of the wheels alongside them, a great rumbling sound.
Ezek. 3:14 The Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of the LORD was strong on me.
Ezek. 3:15 And I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who were dwelling by the Chebar river, and I sat where they were dwelling. And I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.
Ezek. 3:16 And at the end of seven days, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Ezek. 3:17 “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.
Ezek. 3:18 If I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way so that he may live, that wicked person shall die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.
Ezek. 3:19 But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul [nephesh].
Ezek. 3:20 And, when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and commits injustice and I set a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require from your hand.
Ezek. 3:21 However, if you have warned the righteous person that the righteous is not to sin, and he does not sin, he shall certainly live because he took warning; and you have saved yourself.”
Ezek. 3:22 Now the hand of the LORD was on me there, and He said to me, “Get up, go out to the plain, and there I will speak to you.”
Ezek. 3:23 So I got up and went out to the plain; and behold, the glory of the LORD was standing there, like the glory that I saw by the river Chebar, and I fell on my face.
Ezek. 3:24 But the Spirit entered me and set me up on my feet; and he spoke with me and said to me, “Go, shut yourself inside your house.
Ezek. 3:25 And as for you, son of man, they will put ropes on you and bind you with them so that you do not go out among them.
Ezek. 3:26 And, I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be unable to speak and will not be a man who reproves them, since they are a rebellious house.
Ezek. 3:27 But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth and you will say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD [Adonay Yahweh]:’ He who hears will hear, he who refuses to listen will refuse to listen, for they are a rebellious house.
Chapter 4
Ezek. 4:1 “Now you, son of man, get yourself a brick, place it before you, and inscribe a city on it—Jerusalem.
Ezek. 4:2 And put siege works against it, and build a siege wall against it, and pile up a mound against it. Set camps also against it, and place battering rams against it all around.
Ezek 4:3 And you, take an iron griddle, and place it as an iron wall between you and the city; and direct your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.
Ezek. 4:4 “Then you lie on your left side, and place the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. For the number of days you lie on your side you will bear their iniquity.
Ezek. 4:5 I have determined that the number of the years of their iniquity are to be the number of days for you—390 days. So bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
Ezek. 4:6 When you have completed these days, then lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days —I have assigned one day for each year.
Ezek. 4:7 And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm bared, and you shall prophesy against it.
Ezek. 4:8 I will tie you up with ropes, so you cannot turn from one side to the other until you complete the days of your siege.
Ezek. 4:9 “But as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and emmer, and put them in one vessel and make them into bread for yourself; During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it.
Ezek. 4:10 Your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time.
Ezek. 4:11 The water you drink shall be a sixth of a hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time.
Ezek. 4:12 And you must eat the food as you would a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human dung.”
Ezek. 4:13 And the LORD said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat their unclean bread among the nations where I will drive them.”
Ezek. 4:14 Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD [Adonay Yahweh]! Behold, I have never defiled myself. For from my youth until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by animals, nor has any tainted meat ever entered my mouth!”
Ezek. 4:15 Then he said to me, “See, I will give to you cow’s dung instead of human dung over which you may prepare your bread.”
Ezek. 4:16 Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, behold, I am going to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water by measure in horror,
Ezek. 4:17 because they will lack bread and water. Each one with the other will be terrified and they will rot for their iniquity.
Chapter 5
Ezek. 5:1 “And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword. Use it as a barber’s razor and pass it over your head and your beard. Then take scales for weighing and divide the hair.
Ezek. 5:2 A third you shall burn in the fire at the center of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. Then you shall take a third and strike it with the sword all around the city, and a third you shall scatter to the wind; for I will unsheathe a sword behind them.
Ezek. 5:3 And you shall take from these a small number of hairs and bind them in the skirts of your robe.
Ezek. 5:4 And of these again you shall take some and cast them into the midst of the fire and burn them in the fire; from it a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.
Ezek. 5:5 “Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.
Ezek. 5:6 but she has rebelled against my regulations by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected my regulations, and they do not follow my statutes.
Ezek. 5:7 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you are more riotous than the nations that are all around you, and you have not followed my statutes and have not carried out my regulations, nor have you acted out the regulations of the nations around you,
Ezek. 5:8 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.
Ezek. 5:9 And I will do with you what I have never done, and the like of which I will never do again because of all your abominations.
Ezek. 5:10 Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter all your survivors to all the winds.
Ezek. 5:11 Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord Yahweh, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will cut you off. My eye will not pity, nor will I spare you.
Ezek. 5:12 A third of you will die by plague or perish by famine among you, a third will fall by the sword around you, a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.
Ezek. 5:13 “Then my anger will be spent and I will satisfy my wrath on them, and I will be appeased; then they will know that I, the LORD, have spoken in my zeal, when I have spent my wrath upon.
Ezek. 5:14 Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by.
Ezek. 5:15 You shall be an object of reproach and taunting, a warning and a horror, to the nations all around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious rebukes. I am the LORD; I have spoken.
Ezek. 5:16 I send against them the deadly arrows of famine which were for the destruction of those whom I will send to destroy you, then I will prolong a famine on you and will break the bread supply.
Ezek. 5:17 I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will bereave you of children; plague and bloodshed also will pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I Yahweh; I have spoken.”
Chapter 6
Ezek. 6:1 Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Ezek. 6:2 “Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
Ezek. 6:3 and say, Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh! Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
Ezek. 6:4 Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain before your idols.
Ezek. 6:5 And I will lay the dead bodies of the people of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
Ezek. 6:6 In all your dwellings, the cities will be laid waste and the high places be desolated so that your altars will be waste and ruined, your idols will be broken and brought to an end, your incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out.
Ezek. 6:7 And the slain shall fall among you, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Ezek. 6:8 “However, I will leave a remnant, in that you will have those who escaped the sword among the nations when you are scattered among the countries.
Ezek. 6:9 Then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations to which they will be taken captive, how I have been broken by their adulterous hearts which turned away from me and by their eyes that lusted after their idols; and they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed, for all their abominations.
Ezek. 6:10 And they shall know that I am Yahweh. I have not said in vain that I would do this disaster to them.”
Ezek. 6:11 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Clap your hands and stamp your foot and say, “Ah, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”
Ezek. 6:12 He who is far off shall die of pestilence, and he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he who is left and is spared shall die of famine. Thus I will spend my fury upon them.
Ezek. 6:13 And you shall know that I am Yahweh, when their slain are among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing aroma to all their idols.
Ezek. 6:14 And I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness to Riblah in all their dwelling places. Then they will know that I am the Yahweh.
Chapter 7
Ezek. 7:1 Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Ezek. 7:2 “And you, O son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.
Ezek. 7:3 Now the end is upon you, and I will send my anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.
Ezek. 7:4 And my eye will have no pity on you, nor will I spare you, but I will bring your ways upon you, and your abominations will be among you; then you will know that I am Yahweh!
Ezek. 7:5 “Thus says the Lord GOD: Disaster after disaster! Behold, it comes.
Ezek. 7:6 An end has come; the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it comes.
Ezek. 7:7 The doom is coming upon you who live in the land! The time is coming, the day is near. Tumult and not shouts of joy, on the mountains.
Ezek. 7:8 Now I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and spend my anger against you, and judge you according to your ways, and I will bring on you all your abominations.
Ezek. 7:9 My eye will have no pity nor will I spare you. I will bring your ways upon you and your abominations in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD, who strikes you.
Ezek. 7:10 “Behold, the day! Behold, it is coming! Doom has gone out; the rod has blossomed; pride has budded.
Ezek. 7:11 Violence has grown up into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, nor their abundance, nor their wealth; neither shall there be preeminence among them.
Ezek. 7:12 The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude.
Ezek. 7:13 The seller will not return to the sale, while both are alive. For the vision concerns all their multitude; it shall not turn back; and because of his iniquity, none can maintain his life.
Ezek. 7:14 “They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but none goes to battle, for my wrath is upon all their multitude.
Ezek. 7:15 The sword is outside the city and the plague and the famine are within. Who is in the field dies by the sword, and him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour.
Ezek. 7:16 And their survivors will escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity.
Ezek. 7:17 All hands are feeble, and all their knees will run with urine.
Ezek. 7:18 They put on sackcloth, and horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.
Ezek. 7:19 They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetite, nor can they fill their stomachs, because it was the stumbling block of their iniquity.
Ezek. 7:20 His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things with it. Therefore I will make it an abhorrent thing to them.
Ezek. 7:21 And I will hand it over to the foreigners as plunder, and to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and they shall profane it.
Ezek. 7:22 I will turn my face from them, and they shall profane my treasured place. Robbers shall enter and profane it.
Ezek. 7:23 Make the chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
Ezek. 7:24 Therefore, I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will take possession of their houses. I will also put an end to the pride of the strong ones, and their holy places will be profaned.
Ezek. 7:25 Terror is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.
Ezek. 7:26 Disaster comes upon disaster; rumor follows rumor. They will seek a vision from a prophet; while the law from the priests disappears, and counsel from the elders.
Ezek. 7:27 The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed in horror, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they shall know that I am the LORD.”
Chapter 8
Ezek. 8:1 Now it came about in the sixth year, on the fifth day of the sixth month, as I sat in my house, with the elders of Judah sitting before me, the hand of the Lord Yahweh fell upon me there.
Ezek. 8:2 Then I looked, and behold, something like the appearance of a man; from his waist and downward there was the appearance of fire, and from his waist and upward like the appearance of a glow, like gleaming metal.
Ezek. 8:3 He stretched out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of hair on my head, and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the gateway of the inner court that faces north, where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
Ezek. 8:4 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, like the vision that I saw in the plain.
Ezek. 8:5 Then he said to me, “Son of man, lift up your eyes now toward the north.” So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold, north of the altar gate, in the entrance, was this image of jealousy.
Ezek. 8:6 And he said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see still greater abominations.”
Ezek. 8:7 And he brought me to the entrance of the court, and when I looked, behold, there was a hole in the wall.
Ezek. 8:8 Then he said to me, “Son of man, dig in the wall.” So I dug in the wall, and behold, there was an entrance.
Ezek. 8:9 And he said to me, “Go in, and see the vile abominations that they are committing here.”
Ezek. 8:10 So I went in and looked and behold, every form of creeping things and beasts and detestable images, and all the idols of the house of Israel were carved on the wall all around.
Ezek. 8:11 And before them stood seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had his censer in his hand, and the smoke of the cloud of incense went up.
Ezek. 8:12 Then he said to me, “Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each man in his room of his carved images? For they say, ‘The LORD does not see us, the LORD has forsaken the land.’”
Ezek. 8:13 He said also to me, “You will see still greater abominations that they commit.”
Ezek. 8:14 Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
Ezek. 8:15 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? You will see still greater abominations than these.”
Ezek. 8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the LORD. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the east.
Ezek. 8:17 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it too trivial a thing for the house of Judah to committhe abominations that they commit here, that they should fill the land with violence and provoke me still further to anger?
Yet behold, they are putting the branch to their nose!
Ezek. 8:18 Therefore I will act in wrath. My eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”
Chapter 9
Ezek. 9:1 Then he shouted in my ears with a loud voice, saying, “Bring near the executioners of the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand.”
Ezek. 9:2 And behold, six men came from the direction of the upper gate which faces north, each with his shattering weapon in his hand. Among them was a man dressed in linen with a writing case at his waist. And they went in and stood beside the bronze altar.
Ezek. 9:3 Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub on which it rested to the threshold of the temple. And he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writing case at his waist.
Ezek. 9:4 And the LORD said to him, “Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who moan and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.”
Ezek. 9:5 And to the others he said in my hearing, “Pass through the city after him, and strike. Your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity.
Ezek. 9:6 Old men, young men, young women, little children, and women—wipe them out! But do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary!” So they began with the elders who were at the front of the temple.
Ezek. 9:7 He also said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courtyards with the dead. Go out!” So they went out and struck and killed the people in the city.
Ezek. 9:8 And as they were striking the people and I alone was left, I fell on my face and cried out, saying, “Oh, Lord Yahweh! Are you going to destroy the entire remnant of Israel by pouring out your wrath on Jerusalem?”
Ezek. 9:9 Then he said to me, “The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great. The land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD does not see.’
Ezek. 9:10 As for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; I will bring their deeds upon their heads.”
Ezek. 9:11 And behold, the man clothed in linen, with the writing case at his waist, brought back word, saying, “I have done as you commanded me.”
Chapter 10
Ezek. 10:1 Then I looked, and behold, on the expanse that was over the heads of the cherubim there appeared above them something like a sapphire, in appearance like a throne.
Ezek. 10:2 And he said to the man clothed in linen, “Go in among the wheels underneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city.” And he went in before my eyes.
Ezek. 10:3 The cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.
Ezek. 10:4 Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub to the threshold of the temple, and the temple was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the LORD.
Ezek. 10:5 And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.
Ezek. 10:6 And it came about when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim,” he entered and stood beside a wheel.
Ezek. 10:7 Then the cherub reached out with his hand from between the cherubim to the fire which was between the cherubim, took some coals and put them into the hands of the one clothed in linen; and he took them and went out.
Ezek. 10:8 The cherubim appeared to have the form of a human hand under their wings.
Ezek. 10:9 Then I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like the gleam of a Tarshish stone.
Ezek. 10:10 And as for their appearance, all four of them had the same likeness, as if one wheel were within another wheel.
Ezek. 10:11 When they moved, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went; but they followed in the direction which they faced, without turning as they went.
Ezek. 10:12 And their whole body, their backs, their hands, their wings and the wheels were covered with eyes all around, the wheels belonging to all four of them.
Ezek. 10:13 The wheels were called, as I heard, the whirling wheels.
Ezek. 10:14 And each one of the cherubim had four faces. The first face was the face of the cherub, the second face was the face of a human, the third, the face of a lion, and the fourth, the face of an eagle.
Ezek. 10:15 Then the cherubim rose up. These are the living creatures that I saw by the river Chebar.
Ezek. 10:16 Now when the cherubim moved, the wheels would move beside them; also when the cherubim lifted up their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels themselves would not turn from beside them.
Ezek. 10:17 When they, the cherubim stood still, the wheels would stand still; and when they rose up, the wheels would rise with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in them.
Ezek. 10:18 Then the glory of the LORD moved away from the threshold of the temple and stood over the cherubim.
Ezek. 10:19 When the cherubim departed, they lifted their wings and rose up from the ground in my sight with the wheels beside them; They stopped at the entrance to the east gate of the LORD’s temple as the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them.
Ezek. 10:20 These are the living creatures that I saw underneath the God of Israel by the river Chebar; so I knew that they were cherubim.
Ezek. 10:21 Each had four faces, and each four wings, and underneath their wings the likeness of human hands.
Ezek. 10:22 As for the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the river Chebar. Each one went straight ahead.
Chapter 11
Ezek. 11:1 Now the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the LORD’s house which faced eastward. And behold, there were twenty-five men at the entrance of the gate, and among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, leaders of the people.
Ezek. 11:2 Then he said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise wrongdoing and give evil advice in this city,
Ezek. 11:3 who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses.
This city is the cooking pot and we are the meat.’
Ezek. 11:4 Therefore, prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man!”
Ezek. 11:5 Then the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and he said to me, “Say, This is what the LORD says: This is how you think, house of Israel, for I know your thoughts.
Ezek. 11:6 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and filled its streets with the slain.
Ezek. 11:7 Therefore, this is what the LORD Yahweh says: Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of the city are the meat and this city is the pot; but I will bring you out of the midst.
Ezek. 11:8 You have feared a sword; so I will bring a sword upon you, the LORD Yahweh declares.
Ezek. 11:9 And I will bring you out of the midst of it, and
give you into the hand of foreigners, and execute judgments upon you.
Ezek. 11:10 You will fall by the sword. I will judge you to the border of Israel; so you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Ezek. 11:11 This city will not be a pot for you, nor will you be meat in the midst of it; I will judge you to the border of Israel.
Ezek. 11:12 Then you will know that I am Yahweh, whose statutes you have not followed and whose regulations you have not obeyed but you have acted in accordance with the rules of the nations around you.”
Ezek. 11:13 Now it came about, as I prophesied, that Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell on my face and cried out with a loud voice, and said, “Oh, Lord GOD! Will You bring the remnant of Israel to a complete destruction?”
Ezek. 11:14 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Ezek. 11:15 “Son of man, your brothers, your relatives, men of your redemption, your fellow exiles, and the entire house of Israel, all of them, are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘They are far from the LORD; this land has been given to us as a possession.’
Ezek. 11:16 Therefore say, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says: “Though I had removed them far away among the nations, and though I had scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary for them for a little while in the countries where they had gone.”’
Ezek. 11:17 Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.”
Ezek. 11:18 When they come there, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations from it.
Ezek. 11:19 And I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them. And I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,
Ezek. 11:20 so that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my regulations and do them. Then they will be my people, and I shall be their God.
Ezek. 11:21 But as for those whose hearts go after their detestable things and abominations, I willbring their deeds upon their own heads, declares the Lord Yahweh.”
Ezek. 11:22 Then the cherubim lifted up their wings with their wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel hovered over them.
Ezek. 11:23 The glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city and stood over the mountain which is east of the city.
Ezek. 11:24 And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God to Chaldea, to the exiles. Then the vision that I had seen went up from me.
Ezek. 11:25 And I told the exiles all the things that the LORD had shown me.
Chapter 12
Ezek. 12:1 The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Ezek. 12:2 “Son of man, you are living in the midst of a rebellious house who have eyes to see but do not see, ears to hear but do not hear; for they are a rebellious house.
Ezek. 12:3 So as for you, son of man, prepare for yourself baggage for exile and go into exile by day in their sight; that is, go into exile from your place to another place in their sight. Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house.
Ezek. 12:4 You shall bring out your baggage by day in their sight as baggage for exile. Then you shall go out at evening in their sight, as those who are going into exile.
Ezek. 12:5 In their sight dig through the wall, and bring your baggage out through it.
Ezek. 12:6 Load the baggage on your shoulder in their sight and carry it out in the dark. You shall cover your face so that you cannot see the ground, for I have made you a sign for the house of Israel.”
Ezek. 12:7 Thus I did so, just as I had been commanded. I brought out my baggage by day, as baggage for exile. Then in the evening I dug myself through the wall with my hands; I went out in the dark and carried the baggage on my shoulder in their sight.
Ezek. 12:8 And in the morning the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Ezek. 12:9 “Son of man, has not the house of Israel, that rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’
Ezek. 12:10 Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says: This burden concerns to the prince in Jerusalem and all the house of Israel who are in it.’
Ezek. 12:11 Say, I am a sign for you: as I have done, so shall it be done to them. They shall go into exile, into captivity.’
Ezek. 12:12 And the prince who is among them shall lift his baggage upon his shoulder in the dark, and shall go out. They will dig a hole through the wall to bringit out through it. He shall cover his face, that he may not see the land with his eyes.
Ezek. 12:13 And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my net. And I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, yet he shall not see it, and he shall die there.
Ezek. 12:14 And I will scatter toward every wind all who are around him, his helpers and all his troops, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.
Ezek. 12:15 So they will know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries.
Ezek. 12:16 But I will spare a few of them from the sword, the famine, and plague so that they may tell of all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am Yahweh.
Ezek. 12:17 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Ezek. 12:18 Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.
Ezek. 12:19 And say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink water in horror, for their land will be stripped bare of all it contains because of the violence of all who live in it.
Ezek. 12:20 And the inhabited cities shall be laid waste, and the land shall become a desolation; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.”
12:21 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
12:22 “Son of man, what is this proverb you people have about the land of Israel, saying, The days grow long, and every vision comes to nothing’?
12:23 Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says: I will put an end to this proverb, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel.’ But say to them, The days are near, and the fulfillment of every vision.
12:24 For there shall no longer be any false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel.
12:25 For I the LORD will speak whatever word I speak, and it will be performed. It will no longer be delayed, for in your days, you rebellious house, I will speak the word and perform it,” declares the Lord Yahweh.”
Ezek. 12:26 Furthermore, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Ezek. 12:27 “Son of man, behold, the house of Israel is saying, ‘The vision that he sees is for many years from now, and he prophesies of times far off.’
Ezek. 12:28 Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: None of my words will be delayed any longer. Whatever word I speak will be performed,” declares the Lord Yahweh.
Chapter 13
Ezek. 13:1 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Ezek. 13:2 “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel, who are prophesying, and say to those who prophesy from their own hearts: ‘Hear the word of Yahweh!’
Ezek. 13:3 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
Ezek. 13:4 Your prophets have been like jackals among ruins, O Israel.
Ezek. 13:5 You have not gone up into the breaches, nor repaired the wall for the house of Israel, that it might stand in battle in the day of the LORD.
Ezek. 13:6 They have seen false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘Yahweh declares,’ when the LORD has not sent them, yet they wait for the fulfillment of their word!
Ezek.13:7 Have you not seen a false vision and uttered a lying divination, whenever you have said, ‘Yahweh declares,’ yet I have not spoken?”
Ezek. 13:8 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Because you have spoken false words and have seen a lie, therefore behold, I am against you, declares the Lord Yahweh.
Ezek. 13:9 My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who give lying divinations. They shall not be in the council of my people, nor be enrolled in the register of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
Ezek. 13:10 It is definitely because they have misled my people by saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, And when anyone builds a wall, behold, they smear it over with whitewash;
Ezek. 13:11 so tell those who plaster it over with whitewash, that it will fall. There will be a deluge of rain, and you, O great hailstones, will fall, and a violent wind break out.
Ezek. 13:12 Behold, when the wall has fallen, will you not be asked, ‘Where is the plaster with which you plastered it?’
Ezek. 13:13 Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh: “I will make a violent wind break out in my wrath. There will also be in my anger a flooding rain and hailstones to consume it in wrath.
Ezek. 13:14 So I will tear down the wall which you plastered over with whitewash and hurl it down to the ground, so that its foundation is exposed; and when it falls, you will perish in its midst. And you will know that I am Yahweh.
Ezek. 13:15 So I will expend my wrath on the wall and on those who have plastered it over with whitewash; and I will say to you, ‘The wall is gone and those who plastered it,
Ezek. 13:16 the prophets of Israel who prophesy to Jerusalem, and who see a vision of peace for her when there is no peace,’ declares the Lord Yahweh.
Ezek. 13:17 “And you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own hearts. Prophesy against them
Ezek. 13:18 and say, ‘Thus say the Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the women who sew magic bands on all wrists and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature to capture
people’s lives! Will you capture the lives of my people, but preserveyour own lives?
Ezek. 13:19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. You have put to death people who should not die, and kept alive those who should not live by your lies to my people, who listen to lies!
Ezek. 13:20 “Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against your magic bands with which you capture lives there like birds, and I will tear them from your arms, and I will release those lives, whom you capture like birds.
Ezek. 13:21 And I will also tear off your veils and save my people from your hands, and they will no longer be in your hands as prey; and you will know that I am Yahweh.
Ezek. 13:22 Because you disheartened the righteous with falsehood when I did not grieve him, but you have encouraged the hands of the wicked not to turn from his wicked way to keep him alive.
Ezek. 13:23 Therefore you will no longer see deceitful visions or practice divination, and I will deliver my people from your hands. So you will know that I am Yahweh.”