The judgment of mount Seir. Before 587. EZEKIEL CHRIST yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have "broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that Pserved themselves of them. Lev. 28. 13, Jer. 2. 20. p Jer. 25. 14. 587. ach. 6. 2. b Deut. 2. 5. Before 667. The land of Israel comforted. yield her fruit, and the earth shall | thine envy, which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and CHRIST I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee. 12 And thou shalt know that I am P. D. 16. ch. G. 7. the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume. 13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: 1 have heard them. 28 And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid. 29 And I will raise up for them a 'plant of renown, and they shall be no more + consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more. 30 Thus shall they know that "I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord GOD. 31 And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD. CHAPTER XXXV. The judgment of mount Seir for their ha M LORD came unto me, saying, OREOVER the word of the 2 Son of man, set thy face against 14 Thus saith the Lord GOD: When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate. + Heb. to do VORY. 1 Sam. 2. 3. Rev. 13. 6. ↑ Heb. magniped. 1, 65, 13, 14. 15 As thou didst rejoice at the in- Obad. 12, 15. heritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: "thou shalt be desolate, u ver. 3, 4. O mount Seir, and all Idumea, eren all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD. CHAPTER XXXVI. 1 The land of Israel is comforted, both by Jer, 40.7.& mount Scir, and prophesy against ALSO, thou son of man, prophesy eh. 25. 12. Amos 1. 11. Obad. 10, &c. dch. 6. 14. olation So ver. 7. e ver. 9. it. 3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I ↑ Heb. desola- am against thee, and d I will stretch tion and des out mine hand against thee, and I I will make thee most desolate. 4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD. 5Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast t shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end: feh. 25. 12. CA. + Heb. poured out the chil dren. Heb. hands. P. 137. 7. h Ps. 109. 17. k eh. 31. 12. & 1 Jer. 49.17,18. ch 35, 5. the Loap was there. 6 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: hsince thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee. 7 Thus will I make mount Seir f most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth. 8k And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword. 91I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus 4 Therefore, ye mountains of Is- 1 Kings 9. 7. Lam 2. 15. Dan. 9. 16. Jor, ye are made to come upon the lip of the tongue. Or, bottoms, or, dales. feh. 34. 28. Ps. 79. 4. eh. 38. 19. 5 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; h Surely in the fire of my h Dent. 4. 24. jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, i which have appointed i eh. 35. 10.12 my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey. 6 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains and to the hills, to the rivers and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord GoD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my Israel was rejected for sin. k Pa. 123.3, 4. EZEKIEL. Before fury, because ye have borne the CHRIST shame of the heathen: 587. 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame. 8 T But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come. ch. 31. 29. ver 15. 1ch, 20, 5. m Is. 58. 12. & 61. 4. ver. 33. Amos 9, 14. n Jer. 31. 27. & 23. 12. och. 35. 9. & 37. 6, 13. p Obad, 17, &c. q See Jer. 15. Sea r Num. 13. 32. Or, cause to fall. ■ ch. 24. 29. + Lev. 18, 25, 27, 28. Jer. 2. 7. a Lev. 15. 19, *&c. & 23, 37. 9 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown: 10 And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabit ed, and the wastes shall be builded: 11 And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall in crease and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 12 Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; Pand they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men. r 13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations; 14 Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD. 15 Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord GOD. 16 T Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as "the uncleanness of a removed woman. 18 Wherefore I poured my fury ch. 16.36,38. upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it: y ch. 22. 15. sch. 7.3. & 24. 19 And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: ac1. 30. & 39. cording to their way and according to their doings I judged them. 20 And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land. a Is. 52. 5. Rom. 2. 24. bcb. 20. 9, 14. 21 T But I had pity b for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went. The blessings of Christ's kingdom. 22 Therefore say unto the house Before of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; CHRIST I do not this for your sakes, O 687. house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went. 23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. 24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. 27 And I will put my i Spirit within 1 eh. 11. 19. & you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judg ments, and do them. 28 kAnd ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; land ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. 29 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and "lay no famine upon you. 30 PAnd I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen. 31 Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. 32 Not for your sakes do I this, Deut. 2. & saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel. 33 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and ver. 10 the wastes shall be builded. 34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. 35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited. 36 Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I u la. 51. 3. eb. 28. 13. Joel 2. 3. The resurrection of dry bones. EZEKIEL 2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open | valley; and, lo, they were very dry. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answere Deut. 32.39. ed, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. 1 Sam. 2. f. John 5. 21. Rom. 4. 17. 2 Cor. 1. 9. d Ps. 104. 30. ver. 9. ch. 6. 7. & 35. 12. Joel 2. 27. & 3. 17. | Or, breath, fPs. 104. 3. ver. 5. 4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O'ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. 5 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: 6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. 8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above but there was no breath in them. 9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. 10 So I prophesied as he commandg Rev. 11. 11. ed me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great b Pa. 141. 7. Is. 49. 14. army. 11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, h Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. 12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Promises of Christ's kingdom. Behold, iO my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. 13 And ye shall 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 shall put my Spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD. 15 T The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Before CHRIST about 587. ils. 28. 19. Hos. 13. 14 keh. 26. 24. ver. 25. 1ch, 36. 27. 17. 2. 2 Chr.11.12, 13. 16. & 15. 9.&39.11,18. 16 Moreover, thou son of man, "take Bee Num. thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions: 24. 17 And join them one to another ver, 22, into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand. 18 T And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these? 194 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand. peb. 12. 9. & 24. 19. Zech. 10. 6. r ver. 16, 17. 20 T And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before sch. 12. 3. their eyes. 21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take teh. 36. 24. the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: 22 And "I will make them one na-u Is. 11. 13. tion in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all: Jer. 3. 18, & 50. 4. Hos. 1. 11. x ch.34.23,24. John 10. 16. 23 Neither shall they defile them- y ch. 36. 25. selves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I seh.36. 28, 29. will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. 24 And David my servant shall be Is. 40. 11. king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. 25 d And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their chil Jer. 23. &.& byer. 22. John 10. 16. ech. 36, 27. dch. 36. 28. The army and malice of Gog. Before about 587. .Ia. 60. 21. EZEKIEL. dren, and their children's children CHRIST for ever: and fmy servant David shall be their prince for ever. 26 Moreover I will make a nant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and bmultiply them, and will set my i sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. 27 k My tabernacle also shall be with h ch.36.10, 37. them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. John 12. 34. Jer. 32, 40. 12 Cor. 6. 16. k Lev. 20. 11, 12. eh. 43. 7. John 1 14. leh. 11. 20. & 14.11.&36.28. m ch. 36, 23, n ch. 20. 12, ach. 39, 1. 2 Kin.19.28. ch, 29. & 39, 2, feb. 23 12 Or, Phut, ch. 27. 10. & 30. 5. Gen. 10, 2 ch, 27. 14 I Like Ia 8. 9. k Gen. 49. 1. Deut. 4. 30, ver. 16. JI, 29, 6. m ver. 12. ch. 31, 13. God's judgment against him. Before about 587. To spoil the spoil, and to prey the prey. ch. 29. 19. 12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the CHRIST desolate places that are now inhabcove-ited, "and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the f midst of the land. 13 Sheba, and Y Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all ch.36, 34, 35. the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle y ch.27.15.20. and goods, to take a great spoil? zeh. 27. 12. 14 Therefore, son of man, proph- aSee ch. 19.3, esy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; bIn that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it? 28 m And the heathen shall know CHAPTER XXXVIII. 14 AND the word of the LORD came 3 And say, Thus saith the Lord 4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, fall of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: 5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: 65 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of b Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee. 7 i Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them, 8 T After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, ach. 36. 1, 4, against "the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, Jer. 23.8. and they shall dwell safely all of ch. 23. 26. & them. 15 d And thou shalt come from thy 17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art 18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face. uver. 8. I. 4. 1. ever. 8. d ch. 39. 2. ever. 6. fver. 9. ever. & Ex. 14. 4 eh. 36. 23, & 39. 21. + Heb, by the Aands. 19 For in my jealousy k and in the ich. 36. 5. B fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; 20 So that in the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. & 39. 25. k Pa 89.4% 1 Hag. 262 Rev. 16. 15 in Hos. 4.3 Jer. 4.21. Nah. 1. 5.& Or, towers, er, stairs. o Ps 105. 15 21 And I will call for Pa sword 22 And I will plead against him 11 And thou shalt say, I will go up Judg. 7.12 1 Sam. 14 20 9 Chr. 20, 23, 11s. 66, 16 Jer. 25. 31. sch. 5. 17. tx. 11. 6. 1996 30. uch 13 11. Rev. 16. 21 ch. 38. 21 ach, 33. 2, 3. 1Or, strike CHAPTER XXXIX. 1 God's judgment upon Gog. 8 Tornel's victory. 11 Gog's burial in Hamon-gog. 11 The feast of the fowls. 23 Israel, having been plagued for their sins, shall be gathered again with eternal favour. TH THEREFORE, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: 2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up play from t the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: 3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand. 4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field, t to be devoured. thee with sin draw thee back with a Aook of sia teeth, as eh. 38. 4. bch. 39. 15. + Heb. the vides of the north. e ch. 38. 21. ver. 17. deh. 33, 27. + Heb. wing. + Heb. to deYour. ↑ Heb. the face of the field. ch. 38, 22 Amos 1.4 jor. confidently. fPs. 72. 10. gver. 22. h Lev. 18. 21. el. 20. 39. i ch. 28. 16.23. k Rev. 16. 17. & 21. 6. 1 ch. 38, 17. 5 Thou shalt fall upon f the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. 6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD. 9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the 1Or, javelins, bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall I burn them with fire seven years: 10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD. [Or, make a fire of them. m Is, 14. 2. The gathering of Israel. Before about 667. 14 And they shall sever out † men of continual employment, passing CHRIST through the land, to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, P to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search. 15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he f set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog. + Heb. men of continuan:4. ver. 12. + Hob, build. 16 And also the name of the city shall be | Hamonah. Thus shall they That is. The cleanse the land. multitude. ver. 12. Rev. 19, 17. 17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. 18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rums, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan. 19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. 20 Y Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD. 21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.. 22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward. 1 Heb to the foul of every wing. I. 18.6.& 34. 6. Jer. 12. 9. Zeph. L. 7. daughter. ver. 4. Rev. 12. 18. + Heb. great goals. Deut. 32.14 P. 22. 12. P. 76. 6. th. 38. 4. Rev. 19. 18 ach. 38.16,23. Ex. 7.4. ever. 7, 28, deh 36.18,19, 20, 23. 23 Td And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave Deut. 31.17. them into the hand of their enemies; so fell they all by the sword. 24 According to their uncleanness geh. 26. 19. and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them. Ja, 59. 2. fLev. 20, 25, eh. 34. 13. & 36. 24. i ch. 20. 40. Hos. 1. 11. 25 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: h Now will I bring again the Jer. 30.3.18. captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the i whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name: 26k After that they have borne their Dan. 9. 16, shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid. 27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and "am sanctified in them in the sight & 38. 16. of many nations: 28" Then shall they know that I am |