CHAPTER IV....V. 53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and { cast a stone upon me. 54' Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am cut off. m 55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. 56 Thou hast heard my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. 57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee thou saidst, Fear not. 58 O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my Ps. 35, 4 Soul; thou hast redeemed my life. Jer. 51, S6 q Ps. 2, 4. & 43, 1. 59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause. 60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance, and all Rev. 13, their imaginations against me. 7. 17. ■ Isa. 37, 4. Ps. 57, 7. u Isaiah 57, 28. x Ps. 23, 4. 61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me; 62 The 'lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. 63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music. 64 Render unto them a recompense, O LORD, Jer. 5, 29. according to the work of their hands. 2 Tim. 4, 14. 65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.{ 66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from y Deut. 25, under the heavens of the LORD. 19. She confesseth her sins. 13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniqui- Before ties of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, CHRIST cir. 588. प Jer. &, St 24. 14 They have wandered as blind men in the &14,4 streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, r Rev. 13, so that men could not touch their garments. 15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, "they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there. Tsaink 5 Jer. 2, 34. Laiah 52, s Isaiah 10. 11. u Deut. 2o, 25, 18. 16 The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the Micah 5, persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders. x2 Kings 17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain 2 Chr. 56, help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us. 18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. 18. 21 1'Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, (Ps. 60, 8. that dwellest in the land of Uz: the cup also shall g pass through unto thee; thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked. h 25. 22 The punishment of thine iniquity is accom- Isn. 10, 2 plished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry i Ezek. 57, thee away into captivity; he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins. CHAPTER V. A pitiful complaint of Zion, in prayer unto God. Bek. 18, 2 people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the way REMEMBER, O LORD, what is come upon us: 53, 54. Rom. 1, 31. derness. wil 6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her. 7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire: hi Ps. 102, 4. 8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are? not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. 9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these 'pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field. 10 The hands of the 'pitiful women have "sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. 11 The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire? in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof. 12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants? of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the? gates of Jerusalem. 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. k Isaiah 10, 12. a Psa.. 82, 50. P's. 79, 1 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are ellos. 11, 3 as widows. 4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 5° Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. d Isa. 55, 1 c Jer. 28, 13. f Mat. 11, 28. b Jer. 1, 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and g Isa. 57, 9 to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7h Our fathers have sinned, 'and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. i Zech. 1. 8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that, doth deliver us out of their hand. 9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. 10 Our skin was black like an oven, because of the terrible famine. 11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. 12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. 13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. 14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music. 6. 12 Kings 6, 17. m Isai. 6, 2. Dan. 9, 21. n Heb. 12, 13. v2 Cor. 10, 16. $ 5 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness? of four living creatures. And this was their appear-§ ance; they had the likeness of a man. 6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings. m 7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled like the colour of P burnished brass. 8 And they had the hands of a man under their{ wings, on their four sides; and they four had their p Rev. 1, 15 faces and their wings. r.Judges 13, Psal./115, 1. 62. u Phil. 3, 13. 10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had $ Ps. 122, 3. Cor. 1, 10. the face of a man, and the face of a lion on the 1 Luke 9, right side; and they four had the face of an "ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle. 11 Thus were their faces: and their wings were x Luke 15, stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies. 12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went. 10. y 2 Cor. 1, 16. z Psal. 103, 20. a Ps. 18, 10. 24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice t Ps. 46,♪ of " the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of Rev. 1, 15. a host: when they stood, they let down their wings. Micah 6, 9. 25 And there was a voice from the firmament that x 2 Pet. 1, was over their heads, when they stood, and had let 17 down their wings. 28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the & 57, 13. cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of f Daniel e, 13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their the brightness round about. This was the appear- Rev. 1, 17. b Zech. 4, 6. appearance was like burning coals of fire, and likeance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And the appearance of lamps: it went up and down when I saw it, 'I fell upon my face, and I heard a Mat. 29, among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, voice of one that spake. and out of the fire went forth lightning 15 Now, as I beheld the living creatures, behold. AND he said unto me, * Son of man, stand upon Mat. 18, 10. one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, thy feet, and I will speak unto thee. e c 2 And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee Go to the children of Israel, to a rebellious † nation that Rev. 2. hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have chap. 2, transgressed against me, even unto this very day. 4 For they are impudent children, and stiff-hearted: 18. Ezekiel eateth the roll. CHRIST C Before CHRIST CHAPTER III....IV. The rule of prophecy Before I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto 15 I Then I came to them of the captivity at Telcir. 595. them, Thus saith the Lord GOD. abib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat cir. 535. where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days. i ch. 3, 11. 5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) k 2 Cor. 2, yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. 16. I Heb. 11, 27. m Acts 13, 45. k 6 And thou, son of man, 'be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though " briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. 7 And thou shalt speak" my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; Jer. 44, 18. for they are most rebellious. n Mat. 28, 20. 8 But thou son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open p Rev. 10,8. thy mouth, and eat that I give thee. P q Acts 8, 30. 9 And when I looked, behold, a hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein; 10 And he spread it before me and it was writ2 Cor. 2, 14. ten within and without; and there was written r Isa. 3, 11. therein lamentations, and mourning, and wo. 18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest 2 Cor. 12, to warn the wicked from his wicked way, " to save i Is. 21, 11. his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his " blood will I require at thy hand. 19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall m2 Cor. 5, die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. n 1 Cor. 1, 20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from 18. his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay 'a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his Acts 20, sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at 20. " thy hand. 21 Nevertheless, if thou warn the righteous man, s ch. 33, 13. that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned: also thou i hast delivered thy soul. u 1 Cor. 9, 16. 22 I And the hand of the LORD was there upon thyme; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the Johns, plain, and I will there talk with thee. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I Tim. 4, give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness. f Col. 3, 16. John 6,45. Heb. 4,2 4 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words b Ps. 19, 10. unto them. Rev. 10, 9. 5 For thou art not sent to a people of a strange i Is. 33, 19. speech, and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel: 21. a 23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain; and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face. 6, 9. y Pr. 23, 13. 24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, c James 4, Go, shut thyself within thy house. 1. Acts 9, 16. 25 But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put deh. 2, 2 6 Not to many people of a strange speech, and of bands upon thee, and shall 'bind thee with them, and evoree 15. a hard language, whose words thou canst not under-thou shalt not go out among them: Mat. 11, stand: surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee. k 7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken 'unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hard-hearted. 8 Behold, I have made thy "face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads. 9 As an adamant, harder than flint, have I made thy forehead fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. 10 Moreover, he said unto me, Son of man, Pall my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thy heart, and hear with thine ears. 11 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. 12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed ■ Isa. 6, 5. be the "glory of the LORD from his place. i 26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof (Mark 3,21 of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not g ch. 11, 23 be to them" a reprover; for they are a rebellious house. Isa. 20, 21 27 But when I speak with thee, I will 'open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD, He that heareth, let him hear; and he that 'forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house. 3 Moreover, take thou unto thee an iron pan, and ℗ Lev. 17, set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city; and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be 'a sign to the house of Israel. 4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity. By the type of hair, Before CHRIST 595. From ReAuboum to the destruc tion of Jerusalem were 390 years, EZEKIEL. Before CHRIST a famine is foreshewn. 5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their ini-edness more than the nations, and my statutes more quity, according to the number of the days, || three than the countries that are round about her; for they hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the ini- have refused my judgments and my statutes, they quity of the house of Israel. have not walked in them. i 6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have ap1 Rom. 9,5 pointed thee each day for a year. 2 Peter 3, 8. 7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, 'ard thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it. 8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till? thou hast ended the days of thy siege. 9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side; three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. 594 k ch. 16, 46. Jer. 2, 10 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord Gon, Because ye 'multiplied more than the nations that are round about 1 ch. 16, 25. you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you; & Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold "I, Jer. 25, 9 even I, am against thec, and will execute judgments Amos 3, 6. in the midst of thee, in the sight of the nations. Rom. 1, S2 n Isa. 10, 5. 10 Therefore the fathers shall P eat the sons in the p Deut. 28, midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and Lam. 2. 30. I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds. 11 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sure10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be byly, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all n 2 Kings Weight, "twenty shekels a-day: from time to time thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, shalt thou eat it. therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity. 12 A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with "famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee; and a third part shall fall by the *sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third x Deut. 32 13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the chil-part into all the winds; and I will draw out a sword Jer. 12, 12. dren of Israel eat their defiled bread among the after them. Lev. 19, Gentiles, whither I will drive them. Deut. 23, 12. t Dan. 1, 8. r 14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted; for from my youth up, even Acts 10, 14 till now, have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth. 15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee Pr. 27, 7. cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith. Lam. 4, 10. 26. 16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, Lev. 28, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment: y Lam. 1,11 Amos 4, 8. 1 Lev. 26, h. 23, 24. 30. 594. a Isa. 7, 30. Isa. 26, 7. Dan. 5, 25. Rev. 19, 11. € 2 Kings 25.4. Isa. 24, 18. d Lev. 26, 33. Amos 2, 13. & 3, 1, 3. 42. 13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and y Isa. 10,25 I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD z Isa. 1, 24. have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished a ch.6,7,10 my fury in them. & 16, 42. 14 Moreover, I will make thee waste, and a re- b Neh. 2,17 proach among the nations that are round about thee, Lev. 28, in the sight of all that pass by. 11. 15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an in- d 1 Cor. 10, struction and an astonishment; unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee, in anger and in fury, and in furious e Deut. 52, rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it. 23. 24. 16 When I shall send upon them the evil farrows Deut. 32, of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread : 8 g 2 Kings 6, 25. Isaiah 3, 1. h2 Kings Lev. 26, 17 So will I send upon you famine, and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence 17,24 A a barber's razor, cause to 22 upon thy head, and upon thy beard; then take thee 2 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are ful- 3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, Is. 1, 2 and bind them in thy skirts. the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it. The faithful are exhorted to lament their calamities. ch. 13, 7. & 20, 4. 17. AND the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 5 And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your 2 Kings 6 And she hath 'changed my judgments into wick-bones round about your altars. 23, 16. The faithful exhorted. Before CHAPTER VII. Before CHRIST 594. Israel's miserable captivity. 6 In all your dwelling-places the cities shall be pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways, CHRIST laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; and thine abominations that are in the midst of that your altars may be laid waste and made deso-thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that late, and your idols may be broken and cease, and smiteth. "your images may be cut down, and your works may 10 Behold the day, behold, it is come; the mornPS. 106, 29. be abolished. ing is gone forth; the 'rod hath blossomed; " pride i Isa. 10, 5 hath budded. g Hos. 16, 5. h2 Kings 22, 17. i Jer. 9, 12. 7 And the slain shall 'fall in the midst of you; and k Jer. 5, 13. ye shall know that I am the LORD. ch. 11, 10. Hab. 3, 2. Amos 2, 8 Yet will I leave 'a remnant, that ye may have Hom. 3, 15 some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries. 9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations, whither they shall be carried captives, because I am "broken with their "whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. 13. n Jer. 2, 2 02 Pet. 2, 14. p Jer. 31,19. Hos. 14,8 14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make t Ps-127, 1. all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my 11 Thus saith the Lord GOD, Smite with thywrath is upon all the multitude thereof. hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas, for 15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and Aos 16. all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for the famine within: he that is in the field shall die they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine pestilence. and pestilence shall devour him. 5, 12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them. 13 Then shall ye know that i am the LORD, when Isa. 37, their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops Kings of the mountains, and under every green tree, and 2 Kings 16, under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols. 18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads. 19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it is the stum-ech. 21, 13 bling-block of their iniquity. Micah 1, 16. Rev. 18, 17. 20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in f Ps. 42,2 majesty; but they made the images of their abominations, and of their detestable things therein there- g Zepli. 3,7 fore have I set it far from them. 21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for h Ps. 17,1 k a spoil; and they shall pollute it. 22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the 'robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. 24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, 2 Kings and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease, and their holy o Jer. 7, places shall be defiled. 25 Destruction cometh; and they shail seek peace, and there shall be none. 25 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and ru- geut. 32 mour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet: but the law shall perish from 15 the priest, and counsel from the ancients. |