A catalogue of sins in Jerusalem. Before CHRIST 593. z Jer. 27, 3, 9. a Jer. 27, 7. b Gen. 15, 14. c ch. 7, 8. & 14, 19. a EZEKIEL. b General corruption of the people.. Before CHRIST 593. b Ps. 119, 29 While they see vanity unto thee, while they? 17. And the word of the LORD came unto me, divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of saying, them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is { 18 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become, when their iniquity shali have an end." come dross all they are brass, and tin, and iron, 19. 30 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? Iand lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even Isa. 1, 22 will judge thee in the place where thou wast cre- the dross of silver, ated, in the land of thy nativity. e 31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee; I will blow against thee in the fire of my d ch 20,47. wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men,{ and skilful to destroy. e 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore, I will d ch. 11, 7. gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. 20. As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow 32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in Mal. 4, 1. shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be nomine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, more 'remembered; for I the LORD have spoken it. and melt you. CHAPTER XXII. 4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thymidst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: they have "devoured souls; they have taken the d Deut. 28, therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the treasure and precious things; they have made her m Micah 3, Jer. 18, 15. heathen, and a mocking to all countries. many widows in the midst thereof. Jer. 20, 2 11. Mat. 23, 14 Mat. 15,6. 26 Her priests have violated my law, and have 2 Pet. 21,2 profaned my holy things: they have put no differ- n Mal. 27. ence between the holy and profane, neither have o Hag. 2,11, they shewed difference between the unclean and the is. clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. 7 In thee have they set light by father and h Deut. 27, mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by op- 27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like p 2 Kings pression with the stranger; in thee have they vexedwolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to de- 21,16 the fatherless and the widow. stroy souls, to get dishonest gain. 2 Son of man, there were two women, the 1216 daughters of one mother; 3 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the 16 And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thy-teats of their virginity. Ps. 9, 16. self in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD. Hosea 3, 3. b Lev. 17,7 chap. 20, 3. Jer. 22 Hosca 2, 2 d ch. 16, 36 8, 4 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister; and they were mine, and ech., 12 5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her iovers, on the Assyr12 Kings ians her neighbours, 15, 19. Hosea &, 9, 19 6 Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. 7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, L. 5, 9.5 with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself. 10 These discovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the 12 Kings sword; and she became 'famous among women; fo they had executed judgment upon her. 17, 5. » 2 Kings 16, 7, 8. m waggons, and wheels, and with an assembly of { ple, which shall set against thee buckler, and shield, and helmet, round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according 17. to their judgments. e 593. b Rev. 27, c 2 Sam. 24, 21. 25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and 14. they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take d Deut. 52. away thy nose and thine cars; and thy remnant Prov. 6, 84. shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and ech. 5, 16 thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire. 26 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, (ch. 15, 15. and take away thy fair jewels. 27 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from geb. 22, 15. thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more. 28 For thus saith the Lord Gop, behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them" whom thou hatest, in- beh, 16, 57 to the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated: 29 And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and Deut. 28, shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare; and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. k k Deut. 28, Ps. 128, 2. 30 I will do 'these things unto thee, because thou 1 Isa. 5, 5. hast gone a whoring "after the heathen, and because m ch. 6, 9. thou art polluted with their idols. Hosea i, n Job 21, 20. Ps. 11, 6. & 11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was m Jer. 3,8, more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in shap. 16,47. her whoredoms more than her sister in herwhoredoms. 12 She "doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, 16, 28. captainsand rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men. 31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; 13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they therefore will I give her cup into thy hand. Gen. 6, 12 took both one way; 32 Thus saith the Lord Gop, Thou shalt drink of 14 And that she increased her whoredoms: forthy sister's cup deep and large thou shalt be Jer. 25,7, p ch. 8, 10. When she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, much. 15 Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding 33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princessorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of with the cup of thy sister Samaria. Chaldea, the land of their nativity: 75, 8." 2 Isa. 22. Lam. 4, A 3, Luke 12, 47 ch. 22, 4, 34 Thou shalt even drink it, and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off 4 ch. 8, 17 thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God. 35 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Because thou hast forgotten me, and "cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. 361 The LORD said moreover unto me, Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations; 19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in call-is ing to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein Jer she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. 2 Tim. 3, 13. 20 For she doted upon their † paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like ubines, the issue of horses. y ch. 20, 7. ¡Heb. st 16, 26 eb. 16, 37. 38 Moreover, this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and 2 Kings 21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewd-have profaned my sabbaths. ness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth. 22 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord Iss. 10, 5. GOD, Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side; Jerusalem's destruction. EZEKIEL. 42 And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads. The Jews calumity. Before CHRIST cir. 590. s Ps. 81, 11, not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee. 14 I the LORD have spoken it; it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will 12 I spare, neither will I repent: according to thy Rev. 22, 11. 43 Then said I unto her that was 'old in adulte-ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judget Titus 1, 2 ries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, thee, saith the Lord GoD. and she with them? 44 Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot; so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women. 45 And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are h Deut. 22, adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. 21. ch. 16, 38. John 8, 5, 7. 46 For thus saith the Lord GOD, I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be re ich, 16, 40 moved and spoiled. k ch. 16, 47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and despatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. 1 48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the | Deut. 13, land, that all women may be taught not to do after Judg. 8, 16. Your lewdness. 11. 2 Pet. 2, 6. m Lev. 26, 36. verse 35. 590. a 2 Kings 24, 12. m 49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD. CHAPTER XXIV a By a boiling pot, is shewed Jerusalem's destruction. chap. 1, 1. LORD came unto me, saying, b2 Kings 25, 1. Jer. 39, 1. 22 And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not k Jer. 16, 4, area cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men. 23 And your tires shall be upon your heads, and 2 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor even of this same day; the king of Babylon set him-weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, 1 Isa. 53, 6. self against Jerusalem this same day. and mourn one toward another. b 8 That it might cause fury to come up to take 9 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Wo to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great. 10 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the Rev. 19, flesh, and spice "it well, and let the bones be burned. 11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that 。 Ezra 9,11. the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed. 25 Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them " their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereup- Jer. 5, 10. on they set their minds, their sons and their daughters, Mat. 24, 1. 26 That he that escapeth in that day shall come o Jer. 52, 8. unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears? 27 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him P ch. 3, 28. which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto them ; q ch. 4, 1. and they shall know that I am the LORD. God's judgments upon Moab, &c. Before CHRIST 590. 4 15. CHAPTER XXVI....XXVII. CHRIST 588. h Dan. 2 The fall of Tyrus threatened. 6 For thus saith the Lord GOD, Because thous 7 For thus saith the Lord Gop, Behold, I will bring Before hast clapped thy hands, and stamped with the feet, upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against { of kings, from the north, with horses,and with chariots, Lam. 2, the land of Israel; and with horsemen, and companies, and much people. 57, 58. 8 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in: the field; and he shall make a fort against thee, and 12, cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee. I Pr. 24, 17. Zeph. 2, 8. k Zeph. 1, 7 Behold, therefore, I will stretch out my hand chap. 56, 5. upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD. 8 Thus saith the Lord God, Because that' Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the "house of Judah is m Gen. 36, like unto all the heathen; 1 Gen. 19, 87. 20. 15. 9 He shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers. 10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the 9 Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Mo-noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the ab from the cities, from his cities which are on his chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, tas men Heb. Jer. 48, 26. frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, enter into a city wherein is made a breach. Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim, 11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down trance of a all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, "P and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground. n 2 Kings 18, 35. 10 Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonp ch. 21, 32. ites may not be remembered among the nations. 11 And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD. 12 Thus saith the Lord GOD, Because that 12 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and Pr. 11,14 make a prey of thy merchandise; and they shall 1 Tim. 6. break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houEdomses: and they shall lay thy stones, and thy timber, 11,13. Rev. 18, and thy dust, in the midst of the water. 13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to Isa. 23, m cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard. 14 And I will make thee like the top of a rock thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, Isa. 23, saith the Lord God. Amos 1, 11. 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, I will also stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the Isa. 34, 6. Mal. 1, 3. $5. Deut. 32, sword. Rom. 12,19. u 14. 14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by Isa. :1, "the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger, and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord GOD. Jer. 49, 2 16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come gch 27, 36 15 Thus saith the Lord GOD, Because the Phil-down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, istines have dealt by revenge, and have taken ven- and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe 6,30 geance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the Jonah 3, 6. Yold hatred; ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be Dan. 5,6. astonished at thee. 16 Therefore, thus saith the Lord GoD, Behold, 1 Kings 14, I will stretch out my hand upon the Philistines, and{ I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea-coasts. 17 And they shall take up a 'lamentation for thee, Rev. 18, a and say to thee, How art thou destroyed that wast inhabited of sea-faring men, the renowned city u Isa 23, & which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terior to be on all that haunt it! 18 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troub- x Rev 18, led at thy departure. a 19 For thus saith the Lord GOD, When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee; 20 When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living; 16. y Rev. 17, 15. & 18, 21. 14,5 Zech. 2, 8. 21 I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no a Ps. 37, 38, mort: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou Rev. 19, 20. never be found again, saith the Lord GOD. CHAPTER XXVII. 1 The rich supply of Tyrus....26 The irrecoverable fall thereof. A of the LORD came again unto me, ch. 27, 38. g2 Kings 19, 11. GOD; and it shall become a spoil to the nations. Rev. 11 18. 2 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamenta- R I{tion for Tyrus; 3 And say unto Tyrus, Othou that art situate at the The rich supply of Tyrus : EZEKIEL. Her great and irrecoverable fall. Before entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the peo- 25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy Before ple for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GoD, O'Ty-market; and thou wast replenished, and made very rus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty. glorious in the midst of the seas. CHRIST 583. b 1 Kings 5,1 c Isa. 23, 3, 7 Rev. 12, 7. d1 Kings 5, 6. Isa. 43, 13. e 13. Deut. 3, 4 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty 5 They have made all thy ship-boards of fir-trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee. 6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine * Deut. 3,9. pars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim. 7 Fine linen, with broidered work from Egypt, Was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail: blue and purple from the isles of "Elishah was that which covered thee. Isa. 3, 13. Gen. 10, Num. 24, 24. t 1 Kings 9, 28. 8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in Kings 5 thee were thy pilots. 6. & 9, 27. 2 Chr. 2, 14. k m 27 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, Rev. 18, a thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company, which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin. 28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. 29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land; 9 The ancients of Gebal, and the wise men 1 Kings thereof, were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee to occupy thy . merchandise. 31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald e 10 They of Persia, and of Lud, and of " Phut, § for thee, and gird them with sackcloth; and they were in thine army thy men of war: they hanged the shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitshield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.ter wailing. 11 The men of Arvan, with thine army, were upon thy walls round about, and the || Gainmadims were in Go, 16. thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls m-strong round about; they have made thy beauty perfect. 12 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches: with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs. 6. 14 They of the house of "Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses, and horsemen, and mules. 15 The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thy hand: they brought thee for a present, horns of ivory and ebony. 16 † Syria was thy merchant by reason of the mulGen. 10, 22. titude of the wares of thy.making: they occupied in 2 Sam. 8, 5. thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate. 17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Min-THE word of the LORD came again unto me, Judg. 11, nith and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm. s Rev. 18, 21. 2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD, Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of b Obadiah, God, in the midst of the sea; yet thou art a man, Acts 12,22 and not God, though thou set thy heart as the heart of God: d verses 3, 4 c 2 Thess 2, 4. 3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel there is d Isa. 51, & 'no secret that they can hide from thee: 8 e Zech. 8, 2. 4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold 21 Co. & and silver into thy treasures: 5 By thy great wisdom, and by thy traffic, hast thou increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches: g Deut. 11, Prov. 10, 4 b 2 Chr. 25, 19. i Isa. 2, 11. verse 2 Acts 5, 35 22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief ofallspices,andwithall precious stones,and gold. 23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the mer- 6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GoD, 'Because chants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God; g merchants. 7 Behold, therefore, I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw ch. 29, 20 their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. 24 These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, Job 1, 15. in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of ren. 10, rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise. Isa. 5. 10. k k 8 They shall bring thee down to the 'pit, and thou 1 Fr. 22, 19 |