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¹I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.

²He has led me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.

³Surely He has turned His hand against me Time and time again throughout the day.

⁴He has aged my flesh and my skin, And broken my bones.

⁵He has besieged me And surrounded me with bitterness and woe.

⁶He has set me in dark places Like the dead of long ago.

⁷He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy.

⁸Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.

⁹He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

¹⁰He has been to me a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in ambush.

¹¹He has turned aside my ways and torn me in pieces; He has made me desolate.

¹²He has bent His bow And set me up as a target for the arrow.

¹³He has caused the arrows of His quiver To pierce my loins.

¹⁴I have become the ridicule of all my people— Their taunting song all the day.

¹⁵He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drink wormwood.

¹⁶He has also broken my teeth with gravel, And covered me with ashes.

¹⁷You have moved my soul far from peace; I have forgotten prosperity.

¹⁸And I said, “My strength and my hope Have perished from the LORD.”

¹⁹Remember my affliction and roaming, The wormwood and the gall.

²⁰My soul still remembers And sinks within me.

²¹This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope.

²²Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not.

²³They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.

²⁴“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I hope in Him!”

²⁵The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, To the soul who seeks Him.

²⁶It is good that one should hope and wait quietly For the salvation of the LORD.

²⁷It is good for a man to bear The yoke in his youth.

²⁸Let him sit alone and keep silent, Because God has laid it on him;

²⁹Let him put his mouth in the dust— There may yet be hope.

³⁰Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him, And be full of reproach.

³¹For the Lord will not cast off forever.

³²Though He causes grief, Yet He will show compassion According to the multitude of His mercies.

³³For He does not afflict willingly, Nor grieve the children of men.

³⁴To crush under one’s feet All the prisoners of the earth,

³⁵To turn aside the justice due a man Before the face of the Most High,

³⁶Or subvert a man in his cause— The Lord does not approve.

³⁷Who is he who speaks and it comes to pass, When the Lord has not commanded it?

³⁸Is it not from the mouth of the Most High That woe and well-being proceed?

³⁹Why should a living man complain, A man for the punishment of his sins?

⁴⁰Let us search out and examine our ways, And turn back to the LORD;

⁴¹Let us lift our hearts and hands To God in heaven.

⁴²We have transgressed and rebelled; You have not pardoned.

⁴³You have covered Yourself with anger And pursued us; You have slain and not pitied.

⁴⁴You have covered Yourself with a cloud, That prayer should not pass through.

⁴⁵You have made us an offscouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples.

⁴⁶All our enemies Have opened their mouths against us.

⁴⁷Fear and a snare have come upon us, Desolation and destruction.

⁴⁸My eyes overflow with rivers of water For the destruction of the daughter of my people.

⁴⁹My eyes flow and do not cease, Without interruption,

⁵⁰Till the LORD from heaven Looks down and sees.

⁵¹My eyes bring suffering to my soul Because of all the daughters of my city.

⁵²My enemies without cause Hunted me down like a bird.

⁵³They silenced my life in the pit And threw stones at me.

⁵⁴The waters flowed over my head; I said, “I am cut off!”

⁵⁵I called on Your name, O LORD, From the lowest pit.

⁵⁶You have heard my voice: “Do not hide Your ear From my sighing, from my cry for help.”

⁵⁷You drew near on the day I called on You, And said, “Do not fear!”

⁵⁸O Lord, You have pleaded the case for my soul; You have redeemed my life.

⁵⁹O LORD, You have seen how I am wronged; Judge my case.

⁶⁰You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me.

⁶¹You have heard their reproach, O LORD, All their schemes against me,

⁶²The lips of my enemies And their whispering against me all the day.

⁶³Look at their sitting down and their rising up; I am their taunting song.

⁶⁴Repay them, O LORD, According to the work of their hands.

⁶⁵Give them a veiled heart; Your curse be upon them!

⁶⁶In Your anger, Pursue and destroy them From under the heavens of the LORD.

¹How the gold has become dim! How changed the fine gold! The stones of the sanctuary are scattered At the head of every street.

²The precious sons of Zion, Valuable as fine gold, How they are regarded as clay pots, The work of the hands of the potter!

³Even the jackals present their breasts To nurse their young; But the daughter of my people is cruel, Like ostriches in the wilderness.

⁴The tongue of the infant clings To the roof of its mouth for thirst; The young children ask for bread, But no one breaks it for them.

⁵Those who ate delicacies Are desolate in the streets; Those who were brought up in scarlet Embrace ash heaps.

⁶The punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people Is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, Which was overthrown in a moment, With no hand to help her!

⁷Her Nazirites were brighter than snow And whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, Like sapphire in their appearance.

⁸Now their appearance is blacker than soot; They go unrecognized in the streets; Their skin clings to their bones, It has become as dry as wood.

⁹Those slain by the sword are better off Than those who die of hunger; For these pine away, Stricken for lack of the fruits of the field.

¹⁰The hands of the compassionate women Have cooked their own children; They became food for them In the destruction of the daughter of my people.

¹¹The LORD has fulfilled His fury, He has poured out His fierce anger. He kindled a fire in Zion, And it has devoured its foundations.

¹²The kings of the earth, And all inhabitants of the world, Would not have believed That the adversary and the enemy Could enter the gates of Jerusalem—

¹³Because of the sins of her prophets And the iniquities of her priests, Who shed in her midst The blood of the just.

¹⁴They wandered blind in the streets; They have defiled themselves with blood, So that no one would touch their garments.

¹⁵They cried out to them, “Go away, unclean! Go away, go away, Do not touch us!” When they fled and wandered, Those among the nations said, “They shall no longer dwell here.”

¹⁶The face of the LORD scattered them; He no longer regards them. The people do not respect the priests Nor show favor to the elders.

¹⁷Still our eyes failed us, Watching vainly for our help; In our watching we watched For a nation that could not save us.

¹⁸They tracked our steps So that we could not walk in our streets. Our end was near; Our days were over, For our end had come.

¹⁹Our pursuers were swifter Than the eagles of the heavens. They pursued us on the mountains And lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

²⁰The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, Was caught in their pits, Of whom we said, “Under his shadow We shall live among the nations.”

²¹Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, You who dwell in the land of Uz! The cup shall also pass over to you And you shall become drunk and make yourself naked.

²²The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; He will no longer send you into captivity. He will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom; He will uncover your sins!

¹Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us; Look, and behold our reproach!

²Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens, And our houses to foreigners.

³We have become orphans and waifs, Our mothers are like widows.

⁴We pay for the water we drink, And our wood comes at a price.

⁵They pursue at our heels; We labor and have no rest.

⁶We have given our hand to the Egyptians And the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

⁷Our fathers sinned and are no more, But we bear their iniquities.

⁸Servants rule over us; There is none to deliver us from their hand.

⁹We get our bread at the risk of our lives, Because of the sword in the wilderness.

¹⁰Our skin is hot as an oven, Because of the fever of famine.

¹¹They ravished the women in Zion, The maidens in the cities of Judah.

¹²Princes were hung up by their hands, And elders were not respected.

¹³Young men ground at the millstones; Boys staggered under loads of wood.

¹⁴The elders have ceased gathering at the gate, And the young men from their music.

¹⁵The joy of our heart has ceased; Our dance has turned into mourning.

¹⁶The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

¹⁷Because of this our heart is faint; Because of these things our eyes grow dim;

¹⁸Because of Mount Zion which is desolate, With foxes walking about on it.

¹⁹You, O LORD, remain forever; Your throne from generation to generation.

²⁰Why do You forget us forever, And forsake us for so long a time?

²¹Turn us back to You, O LORD, and we will be restored; Renew our days as of old,

²²Unless You have utterly rejected us, And are very angry with us!

¹Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the River Chebar, that the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.

²On the fifth day of the month, which was in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity,

³the word of the LORD came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the River Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was upon him there.

⁴Then I looked, and behold, a whirlwind was coming out of the north, a great cloud with raging fire engulfing itself; and brightness was all around it and radiating out of its midst like the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

⁵Also from within it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.

⁶Each one had four faces, and each one had four wings.

⁷Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the soles of calves’ feet. They sparkled like the color of burnished bronze.

⁸The hands of a man were under their wings on their four sides; and each of the four had faces and wings.

⁹Their wings touched one another. The creatures did not turn when they went, but each one went straight forward.

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

¹¹Thus were their faces. Their wings stretched upward; two wings of each one touched one another, and two covered their bodies.

¹²And each one went straight forward; they went wherever the spirit wanted to go, and they did not turn when they went.

¹³As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches going back and forth among the living creatures. The fire was bright, and out of the fire went lightning.

¹⁴And the living creatures ran back and forth, in appearance like a flash of lightning.

¹⁵Now as I looked at the living creatures, behold, a wheel was on the earth beside each living creature with its four faces.

¹⁶The appearance of the wheels and their workings was like the color of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. The appearance of their workings was, as it were, a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

¹⁷When they moved, they went toward any one of four directions; they did not turn aside when they went.

¹⁸As for their rims, they were so high they were awesome; and their rims were full of eyes, all around the four of them.

¹⁹When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

²⁰Wherever the spirit wanted to go, they went, because there the spirit went; and the wheels were lifted together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

²¹When those went, these went; when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

²²The likeness of the firmament above the heads of the living creatures was like the color of an awesome crystal, stretched out over their heads.

²³And under the firmament their wings spread out straight, one toward another. Each one had two which covered one side, and each one had two which covered the other side of the body.

²⁴When they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of many waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a tumult like the noise of an army; and when they stood still, they let down their wings.

²⁵A voice came from above the firmament that was over their heads; whenever they stood, they let down their wings.

²⁶And above the firmament over their heads was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like a sapphire stone; on the likeness of the throne was a likeness with the appearance of a man high above it.

²⁷Also from the appearance of His waist and upward I saw, as it were, the color of amber with the appearance of fire all around within it; and from the appearance of His waist and downward I saw, as it were, the appearance of fire with brightness all around.

²⁸Like the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around it. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. So when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of One speaking.

¹And He said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak to you.”

²Then the Spirit entered me when He spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and I heard Him who spoke to me.

³And He said to me: “Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me to this very day.

⁴For they are impudent and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD.’

⁵As for them, whether they hear or whether they refuse—for they are a rebellious house—yet they will know that a prophet has been among them.

⁶“And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you dwell among scorpions; do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

⁷You shall speak My words to them, whether they hear or whether they refuse, for they are rebellious.

⁸But you, son of man, hear what I say to you. Do not be rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you.”

⁹Now when I looked, there was a hand stretched out to me; and behold, a scroll of a book was in it.

¹⁰Then He spread it before me; and there was writing on the inside and on the outside, and written on it were lamentations and mourning and woe.

¹Moreover He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.”

²So I opened my mouth, and He caused me to eat that scroll.

³And He said to me, “Son of man, feed your belly, and fill your stomach with this scroll that I give you.” So I ate, and it was in my mouth like honey in sweetness.

⁴Then He said to me: “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with My words to them.

⁵For you are not sent to a people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language, but to the house of Israel,

⁶not to many people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, had I sent you to them, they would have listened to you.

⁷But the house of Israel will not listen to you, because they will not listen to Me; for all the house of Israel are impudent and hard-hearted.

⁸Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads.

⁹Like adamant stone, harder than flint, I have made your forehead; do not be afraid of them, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.”

¹⁰Moreover He said to me: “Son of man, receive into your heart all My words that I speak to you, and hear with your ears.

¹¹And go, get to the captives, to the children of your people, and speak to them and tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,’ whether they hear, or whether they refuse.”

¹²Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a great thunderous voice: “Blessed is the glory of the LORD from His place!”

¹³I also heard the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, and a great thunderous noise.

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

¹⁵Then I came to the captives at Tel Abib, who dwelt by the River Chebar; and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.

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

¹⁷“Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore hear a word from My mouth, and give them warning from Me:

¹⁸When I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.

¹⁹Yet, if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.

²⁰“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die; because you did not give him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.

²¹Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man that the righteous should not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning; also you will have delivered your soul.”

²²Then the hand of the LORD was upon me there, and He said to me, “Arise, go out into the plain, and there I shall talk with you.”

²³So I arose and went out into the plain, and behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, like the glory which I saw by the River Chebar; and I fell on my face.

²⁴Then the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet, and spoke with me and said to me: “Go, shut yourself inside your house.

²⁵And you, O son of man, surely they will put ropes on you and bind you with them, so that you cannot go out among them.

²⁶I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be mute and not be one to rebuke them, for they are a rebellious house.

²⁷But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD.’ He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.

¹“You also, son of man, take a clay tablet and lay it before you, and portray on it a city, Jerusalem.

²Lay siege against it, build a siege wall against it, and heap up a mound against it; set camps against it also, and place battering rams against it all around.

³Moreover take for yourself an iron plate, and set it as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.

⁴“Lie also on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. According to the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.

⁵For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

⁶And when you have completed them, lie again on your right side; then you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days. I have laid on you a day for each year.

⁷“Therefore you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem; your arm shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it.

⁸And surely I will restrain you so that you cannot turn from one side to another till you have ended the days of your siege.

⁹“Also take for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them into one vessel, and make bread of them for yourself. During the number of days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat it.

¹⁰And your food which you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time to time you shall eat it.

¹¹You shall also drink water by measure, one-sixth of a hin; from time to time you shall drink.

¹²And you shall eat it as barley cakes; and bake it using fuel of human waste in their sight.”

¹³Then the LORD said, “So shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them.”

¹⁴So I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Indeed I have never defiled myself from my youth till now; I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has abominable flesh ever come into my mouth.”

¹⁵Then He said to me, “See, I am giving you cow dung instead of human waste, and you shall prepare your bread over it.”

¹⁶Moreover He said to me, “Son of man, surely I will cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and shall drink water by measure and with dread,

¹⁷that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another, and waste away because of their iniquity.

¹“And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, take it as a barber’s razor, and pass it over your head and your beard; then take scales to weigh and divide the hair.

²You shall burn with fire one-third in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are finished; then you shall take one-third and strike around it with the sword, and one-third you shall scatter in the wind: I will draw out a sword after them.

³You shall also take a small number of them and bind them in the edge of your garment.

⁴Then take some of them again and throw them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will go out into all the house of Israel.

⁵“Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations and the countries all around her.

⁶She has rebelled against My judgments by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against My statutes more than the countries that are all around her; for they have refused My judgments, and they have not walked in My statutes.’

⁷Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Because you have multiplied disobedience more than the nations that are all around you, have not walked in My statutes nor kept My judgments, nor even done according to the judgments of the nations that are all around you’—

⁸therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Indeed I, even I, am against you and will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.

⁹And I will do among you what I have never done, and the like of which I will never do again, because of all your abominations.

¹⁰Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments among you, and all of you who remain I will scatter to all the winds.

¹¹‘Therefore, as I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you; My eye will not spare, nor will I have any pity.

¹²One-third of you shall die of the pestilence, and be consumed with famine in your midst; and one-third shall fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter another third to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.

¹³‘Thus shall My anger be spent, and I will cause My fury to rest upon them, and I will be avenged; and they shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken it in My zeal, when I have spent My fury upon them.

¹⁴Moreover I will make you a waste and a reproach among the nations that are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

¹⁵‘So it shall be a reproach, a taunt, a lesson, and an astonishment to the nations that are all around you, when I execute judgments among you in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken.

¹⁶When I send against them the terrible arrows of famine which shall be for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, I will increase the famine upon you and cut off your supply of bread.

¹⁷So I will send against you famine and wild beasts, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.’ ”

¹Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

²“Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,

³and say, ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, to the hills, to the ravines, and to the valleys: “Indeed I, even I, will bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.

⁴Then your altars shall be desolate, your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

⁵And I will lay the corpses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones all around your altars.

⁶In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate, so that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, your idols may be broken and made to cease, your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

⁷The slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the LORD.

⁸“Yet I will leave a remnant, so that you may have some who escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the countries.

⁹Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations where they are carried captive, because I was crushed by their adulterous heart which has departed from Me, and by their eyes which play the harlot after their idols; they will loathe themselves for the evils which they committed in all their abominations.

¹⁰And they shall know that I am the LORD; I have not said in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them.”

¹¹‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Pound your fists and stamp your feet, and say, ‘Alas, for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! For they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.

¹²He who is far off shall die by the pestilence, he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he who remains and is besieged shall die by the famine. Thus will I spend My fury upon them.

¹³Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain are among their idols all around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every thick oak, wherever they offered sweet incense to all their idols.

¹⁴So I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land desolate, yes, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblah, in all their dwelling places. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.’ ” ’ ”

¹Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

²“And you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel: ‘An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

³Now the end has come upon you, And I will send My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations.

⁴My eye will not spare you, Nor will I have pity; But I will repay your ways, And your abominations will be in your midst; Then you shall know that I am the LORD!’

⁵“Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘A disaster, a singular disaster; Behold, it has come!

⁶An end has come, The end has come; It has dawned for you; Behold, it has come!

⁷Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land; The time has come, A day of trouble is near, And not of rejoicing in the mountains.

⁸Now upon you I will soon pour out My fury, And spend My anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations.

⁹‘My eye will not spare, Nor will I have pity; I will repay you according to your ways, And your abominations will be in your midst. Then you shall know that I am the LORD who strikes.

¹⁰‘Behold, the day! Behold, it has come! Doom has gone out; The rod has blossomed, Pride has budded.

¹¹Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness; None of them shall remain, None of their multitude, None of them; Nor shall there be wailing for them.

¹²The time has come, The day draws near. ‘Let not the buyer rejoice, Nor the seller mourn, For wrath is on their whole multitude.

¹³For the seller shall not return to what has been sold, Though he may still be alive; For the vision concerns the whole multitude, And it shall not turn back; No one will strengthen himself Who lives in iniquity.

¹⁴‘They have blown the trumpet and made everyone ready, But no one goes to battle; For My wrath is on all their multitude.

¹⁵The sword is outside, And the pestilence and famine within. Whoever is in the field Will die by the sword; And whoever is in the city, Famine and pestilence will devour him.

¹⁶‘Those who survive will escape and be on the mountains Like doves of the valleys, All of them mourning, Each for his iniquity.

¹⁷Every hand will be feeble, And every knee will be as weak as water.

¹⁸They will also be girded with sackcloth; Horror will cover them; Shame will be on every face, Baldness on all their heads.

¹⁹‘They will throw their silver into the streets, And their gold will be like refuse; Their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them In the day of the wrath of the LORD; They will not satisfy their souls, Nor fill their stomachs, Because it became their stumbling block of iniquity.

²⁰‘As for the beauty of his ornaments, He set it in majesty; But they made from it The images of their abominations— Their detestable things; Therefore I have made it Like refuse to them.

²¹I will give it as plunder Into the hands of strangers, And to the wicked of the earth as spoil; And they shall defile it.

²²I will turn My face from them, And they will defile My secret place; For robbers shall enter it and defile it.

²³‘Make a chain, For the land is filled with crimes of blood, And the city is full of violence.

²⁴Therefore I will bring the worst of the Gentiles, And they will possess their houses; I will cause the pomp of the strong to cease, And their holy places shall be defiled.

²⁵Destruction comes; They will seek peace, but there shall be none.

²⁶Disaster will come upon disaster, And rumor will be upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet; But the law will perish from the priest, And counsel from the elders.

²⁷‘The king will mourn, The prince will be clothed with desolation, And the hands of the common people will tremble. I will do to them according to their way, And according to what they deserve I will judge them; Then they shall know that I am the LORD!’ ”

¹And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house with the elders of Judah sitting before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell upon me there.

²Then I looked, and there was a likeness, like the appearance of fire—from the appearance of His waist and downward, fire; and from His waist and upward, like the appearance of brightness, like the color of amber.

³He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my hair; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the north gate of the inner court, where the seat of the image of jealousy was, which provokes to jealousy.

⁴And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, like the vision that I saw in the plain.

⁵Then He said to me, “Son of man, lift your eyes now toward the north.” So I lifted my eyes toward the north, and there, north of the altar gate, was this image of jealousy in the entrance.

⁶Furthermore He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel commits here, to make Me go far away from My sanctuary? Now turn again, you will see greater abominations.”

⁷So He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, there was a hole in the wall.

⁸Then He said to me, “Son of man, dig into the wall”; and when I dug into the wall, there was a door.

⁹And He said to me, “Go in, and see the wicked abominations which they are doing there.”

¹⁰So I went in and saw, and there—every sort of creeping thing, abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed all around on the walls.

¹¹And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in their midst stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan. Each man had a censer in his hand, and a thick cloud of incense went up.

¹²Then He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the room of his idols? For they say, ‘The LORD does not see us, the LORD has forsaken the land.’ ”

¹³And He said to me, “Turn again, and you will see greater abominations that they are doing.”

¹⁴So He brought me to the door of the north gate of the LORD’s house; and to my dismay, women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz.

¹⁵Then He said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Turn again, you will see greater abominations than these.”

¹⁶So He brought me into the inner court of the LORD’s house; and there, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east, and they were worshiping the sun toward the east.

¹⁷And He said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence; then they have returned to provoke Me to anger. Indeed they put the branch to their nose.

¹⁸Therefore I also will act in fury. 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.”

¹Then He called out in my hearing with a loud voice, saying, “Let those who have charge over the city draw near, each with a deadly weapon in his hand.”

²And suddenly six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his battle-ax in his hand. One man among them was clothed with linen and had a writer’s inkhorn at his side. They went in and stood beside the bronze altar.

³Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub, where it had been, to the threshold of the temple. And He called to the man clothed with linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn at his side;

⁴and the LORD said to him, “Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”

⁵To the others He said in my hearing, “Go after him through the city and kill; do not let your eye spare, nor have any pity.

⁶Utterly slay old and young men, maidens and little children and women; but do not come near anyone on whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the temple.

⁷Then He said to them, “Defile the temple, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!” And they went out and killed in the city.

⁸So it was, that while they were killing them, I was left alone; and I fell on my face and cried out, and said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Will You destroy all the remnant of Israel in pouring out Your fury on Jerusalem?”

⁹Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of bloodshed, and the city full of perversity; for they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD does not see!’

¹⁰And as for Me also, My eye will neither spare, nor will I have pity, but I will recompense their deeds on their own head.”

¹¹Just then, the man clothed with linen, who had the inkhorn at his side, reported back and said, “I have done as You commanded me.”

¹And I looked, and there in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubim, there appeared something like a sapphire stone, having the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

²Then He spoke to the man clothed with linen, and said, “Go in among the wheels, under the cherub, fill your hands with coals of fire from among the cherubim, and scatter them over the city.” And he went in as I watched.

³Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple when the man went in, and the cloud filled the inner court.

⁴Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and paused over the threshold of the temple; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD’s glory.

⁵And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even in the outer court, like the voice of Almighty God when He speaks.

⁶Then it happened, when He commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from among the wheels, from among the cherubim,” that he went in and stood beside the wheels.

⁷And the cherub stretched out his hand from among the cherubim to the fire that was among the cherubim, and took some of it and put it into the hands of the man clothed with linen, who took it and went out.

⁸The cherubim appeared to have the form of a man’s hand under their wings.

⁹And when I looked, there were four wheels by the cherubim, one wheel by one cherub and another wheel by each other cherub; the wheels appeared to have the color of a beryl stone.

¹⁰As for their appearance, all four looked alike—as it were, a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

¹¹When they went, they went toward any of their four directions; they did not turn aside when they went, but followed in the direction the head was facing. They did not turn aside when they went.

¹²And their whole body, with their back, their hands, their wings, and the wheels that the four had, were full of eyes all around.

¹³As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, “Wheel.”

¹⁴Each one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, the second face the face of a man, the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

¹⁵And the cherubim were lifted up. This was the living creature I saw by the River Chebar.

¹⁶When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also did not turn from beside them.

¹⁷When the cherubim stood still, the wheels stood still, and when one was lifted up, the other lifted itself up, for the spirit of the living creature was in them.

¹⁸Then the glory of the LORD departed from the threshold of the temple and stood over the cherubim.

¹⁹And the cherubim lifted their wings and mounted up from the earth in my sight. When they went out, the wheels were 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 above them.

²⁰This is the living creature I saw under the God of Israel by the River Chebar, and I knew they were cherubim.

²¹Each one had four faces and each one four wings, and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.

²²And the likeness of their faces was the same as the faces which I had seen by the River Chebar, their appearance and their persons. They each went straight forward.