Gad's vengeance on the Ammonites. Chap. xxvi. Tjrtu threatens A opened to him which is escaped, and thou Utah speak, and be no more dumb: and rhou malt be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the Lor D. CHAP. XXV. i God's vengeance/or their insolence again/I the Jeivs, on the Ammonites, % Moab anJSeir, n Edom,\ $anJ the Philistines. THE word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, i Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, aud prophesy againstthem; 3 And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord Goo j Thus faith the LordGoD;Becausethousaidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the bouse of Judah, when they went into captivity; 4 Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, 2nd they (hall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they ill all eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk. 5 And I will make Kabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couching place for flock* and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 6 For thus faith the Lord God; Because thou haft clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel; 7 Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I wisl cot thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lor D. 8 »J Thus faith the Lord Gon; Because that Moab and Seir do fay, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen; 9 Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities ivhtrh are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth-jelhimoth, BaV-meon, and Kiriathaim, To Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not berf-emembered among the nations. Ii And I will execute judgements upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the Lord. I* f Thus faith the Lord Go D ; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon, them; 13 Therefore thus faith the Lord God ; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from T»man; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword. 14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury 5 and they shall know my vengeance, faith the Lord God. 15 «J Thus faith the Lord God; Be. cause the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred; 16 Therefore thus faith the Lord GoD J Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coasts. 17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they (liall know that I am the Lor D, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them. CHAP. XXVI. 1 Tyrusfor insulting against Jerusalem is threatened. 7 Nebuchadrezzar's po^ver against her. 15 The mourning for her. AND it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lor D came unto me, saying, 1 Son orman, because that Tyms-hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, notv she is laid waste: % Therefore thus faith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. 4 And they (hall destroy the walls of Tvrus, and break down her towers; I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. 5 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, faith the Lord Go D : and it shall become a spoil to the nations. 6 And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they sliall know that I am tlie Lo R n. 7 «J For thus faith the Lord Go D ; Behold, I will bringupon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much gcqple. Y y j % He The mourning for Tyrus. 8 He (hall stay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he (hall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee. 9 And ye (hall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he (hall break down thy towers. '10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust (hall cover thee: thy walls (hall (hake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he stiall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach. 11 With the hoofs of his horses stiall he tread down all thy streets: he sliall flay thy people by the (word, and thy strong garrisons mall go down to the ground'. '>x And they (hall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they (hall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they sliall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water. 13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the found of thy harps (hall be no more heard. ■ 14 And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou (halt be a place to spread nets tfpon; thou slialt be built no more: for I the Lo R u have spoken it, (kith the Lord God. : 15 ^ Thus faith the Lord God to Tyrus; Shall not the isles (hake at the found of thy fall, when the wounded try, when the slaughter is made in the* midst of thee? i6Then all the princes of the sea sliall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they (hall clothe themselves with trembling; they (hall sit upon the ground, and sliall tremble at every moment, and be astoniftied at thee. j 17 And they (hall take up a lamentation for thee, and fay to thee, How art . thou destroyed, that toast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, (he and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it • jX Now stiall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea stiall bf troubled atthydeparture. I9Forthus faith the LordGoc; When ■ I (hall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I (h:iH bring Up the deep upon thee, and great waters sliall cover tUte; . i \ . .. t ... EZEKIEL - The rich supply us tyrus. 20 When I sliall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with die people of old time, and stiall let thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I (hall set glory in the land of the living; it I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet slialt thou never be found again, faith the Lord God. CHAP. XXVII. i The rich supply es Tyrus. i6 The great an A irrecoverable fall thereof. TH E word of the Lord came again 3 And lay unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which ert x merchant of the people for many isle*. Thus faith the Lord God; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty. 4Tliybordersaiyintheniidstofthese», thy builders have perfected thy beaut)'. 5 They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have tato cedars from Lebanon to make mafc for thee. 6 Os the oaks of Bastian have they made thine oars; the company of the Asliurites have made thy bencheM/"'"ry, brought out of the isles of Chittim. 7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadelt forth to be thy fail; blue and purple from the isles of Elilhah was that which covered thee. 8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wife m; O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thjr pilots. 9 The ancients of Gebal and the wile men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the (hips of the sea with their marin«n were in thee to occupy thy merchandises Io They of Peisia and of Lud and oi Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they (et forth thy comelin'ls ii The men of Arvad with thii.,'smy tvere upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: tiiey hanged their ihields upon'"? walls round about; they haremadc W beauty perfect. n Tarsliisli ivas tliy merchant by reason os the multitude of all **» 4 riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead they traded in thy fairs. tS Javan, Tubal, and Mestiech, theT were thy merchants: they traded tl* per ion s of men and vessels of brass in thy market. 14 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules. 15 The men of Dedan were thy merchants ; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand 1 they brought thee for a present horns of ivory, and ebony. 16 Syria ivas thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate. 17 Judali and the land of Israel, they •were thy merchants: thev traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm. 18 Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool. 19 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, c.irfia, and calamus, were in thy market. 20 Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots. 21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these iverc they thy merchants. 11 The merchants of Sheba and Raamnil, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and wish all precious stonen, and gold. 23 Harm, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Aslhur, and Chilmad, tuere thy merchants. *4 These tuere thy merchants in all forts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise. »5 The sliips of Tarfhisti did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished and made very glorious in the midst of the seas. z6 % Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas. *7 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy caikers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men os war, that ant in thee, and in all thy company whtth it in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin. »8 The suburbs mail make at the found of the cry of thy pilots. 74 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, tviii. Against the prince of Tyrus. shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land; 30 And sliall cause their voice to be I jeard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads., they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: 31 And they 111 all make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing. 32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament oyerthee,faying, What city is likeTyrus, like the destroyed >n the midst of the sea? 33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou hlledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise. 34. In the time <whcn thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall. 3 5 All the inhabitants of the isles mall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance. 36 The merchants among the people sliall hiss at thee; thou (halt be a terror, and never (halt be any more, CHAP. XXVIII. 1 God's judgement upon the prince ofTyrus. 10 The judgement of Zidon. TH E word of the Lo a u came again unto me, saying, » Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus faith the Lord Go r>; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast skid, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: 3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: 4. With thy wisdom and with thine, understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: 5 By thy great wisdom and by thy trafFck halt thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches: 6 Therefore thus faith the Lord Go 0; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God|; 7 Behold, therefore, I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they sliall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they sliall defile thy brightness. 8 They shall bring thee down to the V y 4 pit, Zidon threatened. EZEKIEL The judgement of Pharaoh. pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. 9 Wilt thou yet fay. before him that slayeth thee, I am God; but thou Jhalhe a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee. I o Thou (bait die the deaths of the uncircumciscd by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken /'/, faith the Lord Go D . II «J Moreover the word of the Lo a D came unto me, saying, ii Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and fay unto him, Thus faith the Lord God ; Thou stalest up the sum full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden ofGod; every prcciousstoneotiajthycovering, the iardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx.and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle,and gold: the workmanship of thy tablets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. 14 Tl ou art the anointed cherub that Covereth; and I have set theeyi: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God: thou hast walked up and down in the didst of the stones of fire. 15 Thou <wa/l perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. 16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thec as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the Hones os'fire, 17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou halt corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. 18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traftick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the fight of all them that behold thee. 19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never ySa/r tlidu be any more. 10 f Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 11 Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it, ii And say, Thus faith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the Lo R D , when I shall have executed judgement! in her, and shall be sanctified in her. 13 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood i nto her streets;a nd the wounded shall be judged in the midst of btr by the sword upon her on every fide: and they shall know that I am the Loan. 24 And there shall he no more 1 pricking brier unto the house of Uriel, nor any grieving thorn of all that an round about them, that despised then, and they shall know that I am theLoid God. »5Thus faith the Lord God; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they an scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then (h..' they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob. 16 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgements upon all those that despise there round about them; and they shall know that I am the Lord their God. CHAP. XXIX. 1 The judgement of Pharaoh, t The Jessielion of Egypt, zi Israel shall he reJioriJ. IN the tenth year, in the tenth mtnth,a the twelfth day of the month, the word os the Lor D came unto me, saying, i Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt: 3 Speak, and say, Thus faith the Lord Gon; Behold, 1 am against thec, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that Heth in the midst of his riven, which hath said, My liver it mine own, and I have made it for myself. 4 But I will put hooks in thy jaw, and I will cause tie filh of thy riven to stick unto thy scales, and I will (win* thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales. 5 And I will leave thee thrtm.fi into the wilderness, thee and all the sift ot thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the opts fields; thou (halt not be brought toge ther, nor gathered: I have given fh« for meat to the toasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven. 6 And all the inhabitants of Eg)?r (hall know that I am the Lor P, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. . 1 7 When they took hold of Kite by wy hand, thou didst break, and' rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madelt all their loins to be at a stand. t ff Therefore thus faith theLordGoD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee. 9 And the land of Kgypt stiall be desolate and waste; and they (hall know that I am. the Lord: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it. i o Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I wilt make the land of Egypt utterly waste an,/ desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia. Ii No foot of man I hall pass through it, nor foot of beast (hall pals through it, neither (hall it be inhabited forty years. ii And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that art desolate, and her cities among the cities that ar* laid waste (hall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. 13 Yet thus faith the Lord God ; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered: 14 And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation, and they (hall be there a base kingdom. 15 It (hall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither (hall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they (hall no more rule over the nations. 16 And it (hall be no more the confidenceof the house of Israel, which bringeth their iniquity to rememhrance, when they (hall look after them ; but they (hall know that I am the Lord Gon. 17 •* And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, faying, tt Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head •was made bald, and every shoulder nuns peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it: 19 Therefore thus faith the Lord Go D; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he (hall take her multirude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it (hall be the wages for his army. to I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, (aith the Lord Odd. Ii f In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Ilrael to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they (hall know that I am the Lord. CHAP. XXX. 1 The desolation of Egypt, and her helpers. 10 The arm of RabyhnJhall be strengthened to break the arm of Egypt. TH E word of the Lo R D came again unto me, saying, * Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus faith the Lord Gon; Howl ye, Woe worth the day! 3 For the day is near, even the day of the Lord is near, a cloudy day; it (hall be the time of the heathen. 4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt,and great pain (hall beinEthiopia, when the (sain (hall fall in Egypt, and they (hall take away her multitude, and her foundations (hall be broken down. 5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, (hall fall with them by the sword. 6 Thus faith the Lord; They also that uphold Egypt (hall fall, and the pride of her power (hall come down: from the tower of Syene (hall they fall in it by the (Word, faith the Lord God. 7 And they (hall be desolate in the midst of the countries that art desolate, and her cities lhall be in the midit of the cities that are wasted. 8 And they (hall know that I am the Lord, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and -when all her helpers (hall be destroyed. 9 In that day (hall messengers go forth from me in (hips to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain (hall comeuponthem, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh. 10 Thus faith the Lord God; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease bv the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon. 11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, (hall be brought to destroy the land: and they (hall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the stain. it And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the Lou D have spoken it. o 1 j Thus |