The refurrection of Chap. xxxvij. dry bones. 32 Not for your fakes, do I this, faith to the wind, Thus ith the Lord God, the Lord Gon, be it known unto you: Come from the four winds, O breath, and De afhamed and confounded for your own breathe upon these flain, that they may ways, O houfe of Ifrael. live. 33 Thus faith the Lord GoD, In the day that I fhall have cleanfed you from all your iniquities, I will alfo caufe you to dwell in the cities, and the waftes fhall be builded. 34 And the defolate land fhall be tilled, whereas it lay defolate in the fight of all hat paffed by. 35 And they fhall fay, This land that was defolate is become like the garden of Eden, and the wafte, and defolate, and ruined cities are become fenced, and are nhabited. 36 Then the heathen that are left round bout you, fhall know that I the LORD uild the ruined places, and plant that hat was defolate: I the LORD have fpoken it, and I will do it. 37 Thus faith the Lord GOD, I will yet For this be enquired of by the houfe of If ael, to do it for them, I will increafe hem with men like a flock. =38 As the holy flock, as the flock of Je rufalem in her folemn feafts, fo fhall the vafte cities be filled with flocks of men, nd they fhall know that I am the LORD. CHAP. XXXVII. He hand of the LORD was upon me, he LORD, and fet me down in the midft f the valley, which was full of bones, 22 And cauled me to pafs by them round bout, and behold, there were very many n the open valley, and lo, they were vey dry. 3 And he faid unto me, Son of man, on thefe bones live? and I answered, O ord GoD, thou knoweft. 4 Again he faid unto me, Prophefie upn these bones, and fay unto them, O ye ry bones, hear the word of the LORD. Thus faith the Lord GOD unto these ones, Behold, I will caufe breath to ener into you, and ye fhall live. 6 And I will lay finews upon you, and vill bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye fhall live, and ye shall know that am the LORD. 7 So I prophefied as I was commanded: nd as I prophefied there was a noife, and ehold a fhaking, and the bones came to gether bone to his bone. 8 And when I beheld, lo the finews and he flesh came up upon them, and the skin overed them above, but there was no breath in them. 9 Then faid he unto me, Prophefie unto he wind, prophefie, fon of man, and fay 10 So I prophefied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived and food up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. II Then he faid unto me,Son of man, thefe bones are the whole houfe of Ifrael: behold, they fay, Our bones are dried, and our hope is loft, we are cut off for our parts. 12 Therefore prophefie and fay unto them, Thus faith the Lord God, Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and caufe you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Ifrael. 13 And ye fhall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, 14 And thall put my fpirit in you, and ye fhall live, and I fhall place you in your own land: then fhall ye know that I the LORD have fpoken it, and performed it, faith the LORD. Is The word of the LORD came again unto me, faying, 16 Moreover, thou fon of man, take thee one ftick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Ifrael his com write upon it, For Jofeph the ftick of Ephraim, and for all the houfe of Ifrael his companions. 17 And joyn them one to another into one ftick, and they fall become one in thine hand. 18 And when the children of thy people fhall (peak unto thee, faying, Wilt thou not fhew us what thou meanest by thefe ? 19 Say unto them, Thus faith the Lord Goo, Behold, I will take the ftick of Joseph which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Ifrael his fellows, and will pur them with him, even with the tick of Judah, and make them one flick, and they all be one in mine hand. And the flicks whereon thou riteft, fhall be in thine hand before their The army and malice of Gog: Ezekiel. Gods judgments against him. tions, neither shall they be divided into people against the mountains of Ifrael, two kingdoms any more at all: which have been always wafte: but it is t 23 Neither fhall they defile themfelves brought forth out of the nations, and they fa any more with their idols, nor with their fhall dwell fafely all of them. deteftable things, nor with any of their Thou fhalt afcend and come like a h tranfgreffions: but I will fave them out ftorm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover t of all their dwelling places, wherein they the land, thou and all thy bands, and ma have finned, and will cleanfe them: fo ny people with thee, hall they be my people, and I will be their God. 24 And David my fervant fball be king over them:and they all fhall have one thep. herd:they shall alfo walk in my judgments, and obferve my ftatutes, and do them. 10 Thus faith the Lord GOD, It hall alfo come to pafs, that at the fame time fhall things come into thy mind, and thou fhalt think an evil thought. II And thou shalt fay, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages, I will go to 25 And they hall dwell in the land them that are at reft, that dwell fafel, that I have given unto Jacob my fervant, all of them dwelling without walls, and wherein your fathers have dwelt, and they having neither bars nor gates, thall dwell therein, even they and their 12 To take a fpoil, and to take a prey, a children, and their childrens children for to turn thine hand upon the defolate pla ever, and my fervant David shall be their ces that are now inhabited, and upon the prince for ever. people that are gathered out of the nati ons, which have gotten cattel and goods, that dwell in the midft of the land. 26 Moreover, I will make a covenant of peace with them, it fhall be an everlafting covenant with them, and I will place them. and multiply them, and will fet my fanctuary in the midft of them for evermore. 27 My tabernacle allo fhall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they hall be my people. 28 And the heathen fhall know that I the LORD do fanctifje Ifrael, when my fanctuary fhall be in the midft of them for evermore. A CHAP. XXXVIII. Nd the word of the LORD came un- 2 Son of man, fet thy face againft Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Methech and Tubal and prophe fie against him, 3 And fay, Thus faith the Lord Gop, Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Methech and Tubal. 4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy chaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horfes and horfemen, all of them cloathed with all forts of armour even a great company with bucklers, and fields all of them handling fwords. s Perfia Ethiopia,and Libya with them, all of them with fhield and helmet: 13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the m chants of Tarthith, with all the young ons thereof, fhall fay unto thee, Art th come to take a spoil? haft thou gathed thy company to take a prey? to cany way filver and gold, to take away cal and goods, to take a great fpoil? 14 Therefore, fon of many prophie and fay unto Gog, Thus faith the Lod GOD, in that day when my people of Ital dwelleth fafely, fhalt thou not know 15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north-parts, thou and many po ple with thee, all of them riding gran horfes, a great company, and a mighty army. 16 And thou shalt come up again ay people of Ifrael,as a cloud to cover the las it fhall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the ha then may know me, when I shall be ful fied in thee, O Gog, before their eye 17 Thus faith the Lord God, Artu he of whom I have spoken in old timely my fervants the prophets of Ifrael, with prophefied in those days many years, the I would bring thee against them? 18 And it fhall come to pafs at the fant time, when Gog fhall come against the land of Ifrael, faith the Lord God, tha my fury thall come up in my face, 6 Gomer, and all his bands, the houfe of Torgarmah of the north-quarters, and all his bands, and many people with thee. 19 For in my jealoufie, and in the te 7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for of my wrath have I fpoken: furely in t thy felf, thou and all thy company that day there fhall be a great haking inse are affembled unto thee, and be thou a land of Ifrael: guard unto them. 8 After many days thou shalt be vifited in the latter years thou shalt come to the land that is brought back from fword, and is gathered out of many 20 So that the fishes of the fea, and ne fowls of the heaven, and the beafts of the field, and all creeping things that creep up on the earth, and all the men that are up the face of the earth, hall thake ar PR Chap. xxxix. Ifraels victory. The feaft of the fowls. efence, and the mountains fhall be there of graves in Ifrael, the valley of the rown down, and the fteep places fhall paffengers on the caft of the fea, and it ll,and every wall fhall fall to the ground. fhall ftop the nefes of the paffengers: and 21 And I will call for a fword against there fhall they bury Gog, and all his mulm throughout all my mountains, faith titude, and they shall call it, The valley e Lord GOD: every mans fword fhall be of Hamon gog. gainft his brother. 22 And I will plead against him with filence and with blood, and I will rain on him, and upon his bands, and upon e many people that are with him, an er-flowing rain, and great hailstones, e and brimftone. 23 Thus will I magnifie my felf, and tifie my felf, and I will be known in e eyes of many nations, and they fhall Low that I am the LORD. CHAP. XXXIX. Herefore thou fon of man, prophefie against Gog, and fay, Thus faith Lord GOD, Behold, I am against thee, Gog, the chief prince of Methech, and bal. 2 And I will turn thee back, and leave t-the fixth part of thee, and will caufe e to come up from the north parts, and bring thee upon the mountains of If And I will fmite thy bow out of thy hand, and will caufe thine arrows to out of thy right hand. Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of ael, thou and all thy bands, and the peothat is with thee: I will give thee unthe ravenous birds of every fort, and to beafts of the field to be devoured. Thou shalt fall upon the open field, for ve fpoken it, faith the Lord GOD. And I will fend a fireon Magog, and ang them that dwell carelefly in the ifles, I they fhall know that I am the LORD. So will I make my holy name known he midft of my people Ifrael, and I will let them pollute my holy name any rey and the heathen fall know that I the LORD, the holy One in Ifrael. Behold, it is come, and it is done, h the Lord Gob, this is the day creof I have fpoken. And they that dwell in the cities of el hall go forth, and fhall fet on fire burn the weapons, both the fhields and bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and hard-ftaver, and the fpears, and they burn them with fire feven years: to So that they fhall take no wood out the field, neither cut down any out of forefts: for they fhall burn the weawith fire, and they shall fpoil thofe tfpoiled them, and rob thofe that robd them, faith the Lord God. 11 And it fhall come to pafs in that , that I will give unto Gog a place 12 And feven months fhall the house of Ifrael be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land. 13 Yea, all the people of the land shaft bury them, and it shall be to them a renown, the day that I shall be glorified, faith the Lord GOD. 14 And they fhall fever out men of continual imployment, paffing through the land to bury with the paffengers thofe that remain upon the face of the earth to cleanfe it: after the end of feven months fhall they fearch. 15 And the paffengers that pass through the land, when any feeth a mans bone, then fhall he fet up a fign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog. 16 And alfo the name of the city shall be Hamonah: thus fhall they cleanfe the land. 17 And thou fon of man, Thus faith the Lord Gon, Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beaft of the field, Affemble your felves, and come, gather your felves on every fide to my facrifice that I do facrifice for you, even a great facrifice upon the mountains of Krael, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. 18 Ye fhall eat the flea of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fa:Ings of Bahan. 19 And ye fhall eat fat till ye be full and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my lacrifice which I have facrificed for you. 20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table, with horfes and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, faith the Lord Gon. 21 And I will fet my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen fhall fee my and that I have laid upon them judgment that I have executed, and my 22 So the house of Ifrael fhall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward. 23 And the heathen fhall know that the houfe of Ifrael went into captivity for their iniquity: becaufe they trefpaffed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies, fo fell they all by the fword. 24 According to their uncleanness, and according to their tranfgreffions have done unto them, and hid my face f them, Ff2 25 The manner of the vifion. Ezekiel. 25 Therefore thus faith the Lord God, Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole houfe of Ifrael, and will be jealous for my holy name: 26 After that they have born their fhame, and all their trefpaffes whereby they have trefpaffed againft me, when they dwelt fafely in their land, and none made them.afisid. 27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies lands, and am fanctified in them in the fight of many nations; 28 Then fhall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caufed them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there. 29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my (pirit upon the house of Ifrael, faith the Lord GOD. N CHA P. XL. our captivity,in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was fmitten, in the felf-fame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither. 2 In the vifions of God brought he me into the land of Ifrael, and fet me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the fouth. 3 And he brought me thither, and behold there was a man whofe appearance was like the appearance of brafs, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed, and he ftood in the gate. 4 And the man faid unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and fet thine heart upon all that I fhall fhew thee, for to the intent that I might Thew them unto thee, art thou brought hither: declare all that thou feeft to the house of Ifrael. s And behold, a wall on the out fide of the houfe round about, and in the mans hand a mealuring reed of fix cubits long, by the cubit, and an hand-breadth: fo he meafured the breadth of the building, one reed, and the height one reed. 6 Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the eaft, and went up the ftairs thereof, and meafured the threshold of the gate which was one reed broad, and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad. The four gates defcribed. 8 He meafured alfo the porch of the gate within, one reed. 9 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits, and the pofts thereof two cubits, and the porch of the gate wa inward. 10 And the little chambers of the gate eaft-ward, were three on this fide, and three on that fide, they three were of one meafure, and the pofts had one meature on this fide and on that fide, II And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate ten cubits, and the length of the gate thirteen cubits. 12 The space alfo before the little cham bers was one cubit on this fide, and the fpace was one cubit on that fide, and the little chambers were fix cubits on this fide, and fix cubits on that fide. 13 He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was five and twen ty cubits, door againft door. 14 He made alfo pofts of threefcore a bits, even unto the poft of the court round about the gate. 15 And from the face of the gate of the entrance, unto the face of the porch of th inner gate, were fifty cubits 16 And there were narrow windows the little chambers,and to their pofts with in the gate round about, and likewise the arches and windows were round bout inward: and upon each poft win palm-trees. 17 Then brought be me into the out ward court, and lo, there were chamber, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement. 18 And the pavement by the fide of th gates over againft the length of the gad was the lower pavement. 19 Then he measured the breadth fro the forefront of the lower gate, unto th forefront of the inner court witho an hundred cubits eaft-ward and nort ward... 20 And the gate of the outward co that looked toward the north, he mea red the length thereof and the breadth thereof. 44 21 And the little chambers thereof wint three on this fide, and three on that de and the pofts thereof, and the arch thereof were after the meature of th firft gate: the length thereof was bi cubits, and the breadth five and twen cubits. And every little chamber was one reed, 22 And their windows, and their and one reed broad, and between ches, and their palm-trees, were after the e chambers were five cubits, and meature of the gate that looketh to hold of the gate, by the porch of wards the east, and they went up unt within was one reed, temple gares measured. Chap. xl. The eight tables, &c. it by feven fteps, and the arches thereof 37 And the pofts thereof were toward were before them. the utter court, and palm trees were upon 23 And the gate of the inner court was the pofts thereof on this fide, and on over against the gate toward the north, that fide, and the going up to it had eight and toward the eaft, and he meafured from steps. gate to gate an hundred cubits. 24 After that he brought me toward the fouth, and behold a gate toward the fouth, and he meafured the pofts thereof, and the arches thereof according to thefe measures. 25 And there were windows in it,and in the arches thereof round about, like thofe windows; the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits, 26 And there were feven fteps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them, and it had palm-trees, one on this fide, and another on that fide upon the pofts thereof. 527 And there was a gate in the inner court toward the fouth, and he measured from gate to gate toward the fouth an hundred cubits. 38 And the chambers, and the entries thereof were by the pofts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering. 39 And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this fide, and two tables on that fide, to flay thereon the burnt offering, and the fin-offering, and the trefpafsoffering.915180 40 And at the fide without, as one goeth up to the entry of the north gate, were two tables, and on the other fide, which was at the porch of the gate were two tables. 41 Four tables were on this fide,and four tables on that fide, by the fide of the gate, eight tables whereupon they flew their facrifices. crifice. 42 And the four tables were of hewen ftone for the burnt-offering, of a cubic and an half long, and a cubit and an half 28 And he brought me to the inner court broad, and one cubit high: whereupon by the fouth gate, and he meafured the alío they laid the inftruments wherewith fouth-gate according to thefe meafures: they flew the burnt offering and the fa29 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, 43 And within were hooks an hand according to thefe measures,and there were broad, faftned round about, and upon windows in it, and in the arches there of the tables was the flesh of the offering. round about: it was fifty cubits long, and 44 And without the inner gate, were five and twenty cubits broad. 582 11 the chambers of the fingers in the inner And the arches round about were five court, which was at the fide of the northand twenty cubits long, and five cubits gate: and their prospect was toward the broad. 399-fouth, one at the fide of the eaft gate, haAnd the arches thereof were toward wing the profpect toward the north. the utter court, and palm trees were upon - 45 And he faid unto me, This chamber the pots thereof, and the going up to it whofe profpect is toward the fouth, is for bad eight fteps.-05. the priefts the keepers of the charge of the houfe 32 And he brought me into the inner court, toward the eaft, and he meafured the gate according to thefe meatures 33 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof were according to these meatures, and there were windows therein, and in the arches thereof round about, it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broads wat 34 And the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and palm trees were upon the pofts thereof on this fide, and on that fide, and the going up to it had eight fteps. 591di kas 500 on a 3919 And he brought me to the north gate, and meafured ir according to these meafurestperado digael da :: 96 The little chambers thereof,the pofts thereof, and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits, 46 And the chamber whole prospect is toward the north, is for the priests the keepers of the charge of the altar: thefe are the fons of Zadok among the fons of Levi, which come near to the LORD, to minister unto him. 47 So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, fourfquare, and the altar that was before the house. 48 And he brought me to the porch of the houfe, and measured each poft of the porch, five cubits on this fide, and five cubits on that fide: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this fide, and three cubits on that fide. os 49 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits, and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to it: and there were pillars by the pofts, one on this fide, and another on that fide. ་ |