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Ezekiel, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head
of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a
[1>]sapphire[<1] stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
{10:2} He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between
the whirling wheels, even under the cherub, and fill both your hands
with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over
the city. He went in as I watched. {10:3} Now the cherubim stood on
the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud
filled the inner court. {10:4} The glory of the LORD mounted up from
the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house
was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of
the LORD's glory. {10:5} The sound of the wings of the cherubim was
heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he
speaks. {10:6} It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in
linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from
between the cherubim, that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.
{10:7} The cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim
to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took of it, and put it
into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went
out. {10:8} There appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand
under their wings. {10:9} I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the
cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside
another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like a beryl
stone. {10:10} As for their appearance, the four of them had one
likeness, like a wheel within a wheel. {10:11} When they went, they
went in their four directions: they didn't turn as they went, but to
the place where the head looked they followed it; they didn't turn as
they went. {10:12} Their whole body, and their backs, and their hands,
and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes all around, even
the wheels that the four of them had. {10:13} As for the wheels, they
were called in my hearing, the whirling wheels. {10:14} Every one had
four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second
face was the face of a man, and the third face the face of a lion, and
the fourth the face of an eagle. {10:15} The cherubim mounted up: this
is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar. {10:16} When
the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim
lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also
didn't turn from beside them. {10:17} When they stood, these stood;
and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them: for the spirit
of the living creature was in them. {10:18} The glory of the LORD went
forth from over the threshold of the house, and stood over the
cherubim. {10:19} The cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up
from the earth in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels beside
them: and they 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. {10:20} This
is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river
Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim. {10:21} Every one had four
faces, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a
man was under their wings. {10:22} As for the likeness of their faces,
they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances
and themselves; they went every one straight forward.
{11:1} Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east
gate of the LORD's house, which looks eastward: and see, at the door
of the gate twenty-five men; and I saw in their midst Jaazaniah the
son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
{11:2} He said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise
iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city; {11:3} who say,
The time is not near to build houses: this is the caldron, and we are
the meat. {11:4} Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of
man. {11:5} The Spirit of the LORD fell on me, and he said to me,
Speak, Thus says the LORD: Thus you have said, house of Israel; for I
know the things that come into your mind. {11:6} You have multiplied
your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the
slain. {11:7} Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Your slain whom you
have laid in its midst, they are the meat, and this is the caldron;
but you shall be brought out of its midst. {11:8} You have feared the
sword; and I will bring the sword on you, says the Lord GOD. {11:9} I
will bring you forth out of its midst, and deliver you into the hands
of strangers, and will execute judgments among you. {11:10} You shall
fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and you
shall know that I am the LORD. {11:11} This shall not be your caldron,
neither shall you be the meat in its midst; I will judge you in the
border of Israel; {11:12} and you shall know that I am the LORD: for
you have not walked in my statutes, neither have you executed my
ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are
around you. {11:13} It happened, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the
son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down on my face, and cried with a
loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! will you make a full end of the
remnant of Israel? {11:14} The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
{11:15} Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your
relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, to whom the
inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Go far away from the LORD. This
land has been given to us for a possession. {11:16} Therefore say,
Thus says the Lord GOD: Whereas I have removed them far off among the
nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet
will I be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries
where they have come. {11:17} Therefore say, Thus says the Lord GOD: I
will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the
countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you
Eretz-Israel. {11:18} They shall come there, and they shall take away
all the detestable things of it and all its abominations from there.
{11:19} 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 will give
them a heart of flesh; {11:20} that they may walk in my statutes, and
keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I
will be their God. {11:21} But as for them whose heart walks after the
heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring
their way on their own heads, says the Lord GOD. {11:22} Then the
cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels were beside them; and
the glory of the God of Israel was over them above. {11:23} The glory
of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood on the
mountain which is on the east side of the city. {11:24} The Spirit
lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into
Kasdimah, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went
up from me. {11:25} Then I spoke to them of the captivity all the
things that the LORD had shown me.
{12:1} The word of the LORD also came to me, saying, {12:2} Son of
man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to
see, and don't see, who have ears to hear, and don't hear; for they
are a rebellious house. {12:3} Therefore, you son of man, prepare your
stuff for moving, and move by day in their sight; and you shall move
from your place to another place in their sight: it may be they will
consider, though they are a rebellious house. {12:4} You shall bring
forth your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for moving; and you
shall go forth yourself at even in their sight, as when men go forth
into exile. {12:5} Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your
stuff out that way. {12:6} In their sight you shall bear it on your
shoulder, and carry it forth in the dark; you shall cover your face,
so that you don't see the land: for I have set you for a sign to the
house of Israel. {12:7} I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth
my stuff by day, as stuff for removing, and in the even I dug through
the wall with my hand; I brought it forth in the dark, and bore it on
my shoulder in their sight. {12:8} In the morning came the word of the
LORD to me, saying, {12:9} Son of man, has not the house of Israel,
the rebellious house, said to you, What are you doing? {12:10} Say to
them, Thus says the Lord GOD: This burden concerns the prince in
Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel among whom they are. {12:11}
Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done to them;
they shall go into exile, into captivity. {12:12} The prince who is
among them shall bear on his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth:
they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover
his face, because he shall not see the land with his eyes. {12:13} My
net also will I spread on him, and he shall be taken in my snare; and
I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Kasdim; yet shall he
not see it, though he shall die there. {12:14} I will scatter toward
every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his bands; and
I will draw out the sword after them. {12:15} They shall know that I
am the LORD, when I shall disperse them among the nations, and scatter
them through the countries. {12:16} 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 nations where they come;
and they shall know that I am the LORD. {12:17} Moreover the word of
the LORD came to me, saying, {12:18} Son of man, eat your bread with
quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness;
{12:19} and tell the people of the land, Thus says the Lord GOD
concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and Eretz-Israel: They shall
eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay,
that her land may be desolate, and all that is therein, because of the
violence of all those who dwell therein. {12:20} The cities that are
inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and
you shall know that I am the LORD. {12:21} The word of the LORD came
to me, saying, {12:22} Son of man, what is this proverb that you have
in Eretz-Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision
fails? {12:23} Tell them therefore, Thus says the Lord GOD: I will
make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb
in Israel; but tell them, The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of
every vision. {12:24} For there shall be no more any false vision nor
flattering divination within the house of Israel. {12:25} For I am the
LORD; I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be
performed; it shall be no more deferred: for in your days, rebellious
house, will I speak the word, and will perform it, says the Lord GOD.
{12:26} Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, {12:27} Son of
man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he sees
is for many day to come, and he prophesies of times that are far off.
{12:28} Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord GOD: None of my words
shall be deferred any more, but the word which I shall speak shall be
performed, says the Lord GOD.
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Footnotes:
[1] {10:1} or, lapis lazuli
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