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+<book name='Ezekiel' permalink='ezekiel' id='26'>
+  <chapter no='1'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth  month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by  the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of  God.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of  king Jehoiachin's captivity,</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest,  the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and  the hand of the LORD was there upon him.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the  north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was  about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of  the midst of the fire.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four  living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness  of a man.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 burnished brass.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their  four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when  they went; they went every one straight forward.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face  of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had  the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an  eagle.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched  upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two  covered their bodies.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit  was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>As for the likeness of the living creatures, their  appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of  lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was  bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance  of a flash of lightning.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon  the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto  the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their  appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a  wheel.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they  turned not when they went.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>As for their rings, they were so high that they were  dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them:  and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels  were lifted up.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was  their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them:  for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>When those went, these went; and when those stood, these  stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were  lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was  in the wheels.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the  living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched  forth over their heads above.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one  toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and  every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like  the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of  speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their  wings.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their  heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And above the firmament that was over their heads was the  likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon  the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man  above upon it.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire  round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward,  and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were  the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day  of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was  the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw  it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='2'>
+    <verse no='1'>And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I  will speak unto thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children  of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they  and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very  day.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send  thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will  forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there  hath been a prophet among them.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will  hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou  rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I  give thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and,  lo, a roll of a book was therein;</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And he spread it before me; and it was written within and  without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and  woe.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='3'>
+    <verse no='1'>Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest;  eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and  fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and  it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house  of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of  an hard language, but to the house of Israel;</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard  language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent  thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='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  hardhearted.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and  thy forehead strong against their foreheads.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I  shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of  a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his  place.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures  that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against  them, and a noise of a great rushing.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>So 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt  by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there  astonished among them seven days.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word  of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of  Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from  me.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou  givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked  way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity;  but his blood will I require at thine hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his  wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but  thou hast delivered thy soul.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Again, When a righteous man doth turn from 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 sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be  remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the  righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because  he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto  me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet,  and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine  house.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon  thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among  them:</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth,  that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they  are a rebellious house.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='4'>
+    <verse no='1'>Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before  thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and  cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set  battering rams against it round about.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity,  according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so  shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 appointed thee each day for a year.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of  Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy  against it.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty  shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an  hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake  it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel  eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been  polluted: for from my youth up even 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for  man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, 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:</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with  another, and consume away for their iniquity.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='5'>
+    <verse no='1'>And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a  barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy  beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the  city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a  third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou  shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them  in thy skirts.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the  fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth  into all the house of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in  the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than  the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round  about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they  have not walked in them.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied  more than the nations that are round about 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;</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am  against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the  sight of the nations.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and  whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine  abominations.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of  thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute  judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into  all the winds.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because  thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with  all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither  shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.</verse>
+    <verse no='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  part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my  fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know  that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my  fury in them.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the  nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction 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 rebukes.  I the LORD have spoken it.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>When I shall send upon them the evil arrows 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:</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they  shall bereave thee: and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee;  and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='6'>
+    <verse no='1'>And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and  prophesy against them,</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord  GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the  rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon  you, and I will destroy your high places.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be  broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel  before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your  altars.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste,  and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid  waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and  your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall  know that I am the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall  escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through  the countries.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 lothe  themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their  abominations.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not  said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp  with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house  of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the  pestilence.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men  shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high  hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and  under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to  all their idols.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land  desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all  their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='7'>
+    <verse no='1'>Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land  of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger  upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will  recompense upon thee all thine abominations.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity:  but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall  be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is  come.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee;  behold, it is come.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the  land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the  sounding again of the mountains.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and  accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy  ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I  will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that  are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that  smiteth.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone  forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them  shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of their's: neither  shall there be wailing for them.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer  rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude  thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>For the seller shall not return to that which is sold,  although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole  multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen  himself in the iniquity of his life.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but  none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude  thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine  within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that  is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on  the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every  one for his iniquity.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as  water.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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  stumblingblock of their iniquity.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but  they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable  things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a  prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall  pollute it.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the  city is full of violence.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they  shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to  cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there  shall be none.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon  rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall  perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with  desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled:  I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts  will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='8'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month,  in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders  of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon  me.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire:  from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his  loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of  amber.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock  of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the  heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door  of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of  the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there,  according to the vision that I saw in the plain.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the  way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the  north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of  jealousy in the entry.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what  they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel  committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn  thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I  looked, behold a hole in the wall.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and  when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked  abominations that they do here.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping  things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of  Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of  the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son  of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of  incense went up.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the  ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the  chambers of his imagery? for they say, the LORD seeth us not; the LORD  hath forsaken the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt  see greater abominations that they do.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's  house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping  for Tammuz.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man?  turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than  these.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house,  and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch  and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward  the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they  worshipped the sun toward the east.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is  it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the  abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with  violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put  the branch to their nose.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not  spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with  a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='9'>
+    <verse no='1'>He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause  them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with  his destroying weapon in his hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate,  which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his  hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's  inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen  altar.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the  cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called  to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his  side;</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the  city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads  of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done  in the midst thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him  through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye  pity:</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children,  and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin  at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before  the house.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts  with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was  left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt  thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury  upon Jerusalem?</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel  and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the  city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the  earth, and the LORD seeth not.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I  have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the  inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou  hast commanded me.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='10'>
+    <verse no='1'>Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above  the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a  sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go  in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with  coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the  city. And he went in in my sight.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when  the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and  stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with  the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD's  glory.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the  outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man  clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from  between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the  cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and took  thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen:  who took it, and went out.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand  under their wings.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims,  one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the  appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as  if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned  not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they  followed it; they turned not as they went.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and  their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the  wheels that they four had.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O  wheel.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of  a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the  face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living  creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and  when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth,  the same wheels also turned not from beside them.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up,  these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the living creature  was in them.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold  of the house, and stood over the cherubims.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from  the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside  them, and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD's  house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>This is the living creature that I saw under the God of  Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings;  and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I  saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went  every one straight forward.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='11'>
+    <verse no='1'>Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the  east gate of the LORD's house, which looketh eastward: and behold at  the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah  the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the  people.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that  devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is  the caldron, and we be the flesh.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me,  Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I  know the things that come into your mind, every one of them.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have  filled the streets thereof with the slain.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have  laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the  caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you,  saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver  you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border  of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the  flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of  Israel:</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked  in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the  manners of the heathen that are round about you.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the  son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a  loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the  remnant of Israel?</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy  kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the  inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us  is this land given in possession.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast  them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them  among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the  countries where they shall come.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather  you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye  have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all  the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from  thence.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit  within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and  will give them an heart of flesh:</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances,  and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their  detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way  upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels  beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the  city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the  city.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision  by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the  vision that I had seen went up from me.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that  the LORD had shewed me.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='12'>
+    <verse no='1'>The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious  house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and  hear not: for they are a rebellious house.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing,  and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place  to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though  they be a rebellious house.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight,  as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight,  as they that go forth into captivity.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out  thereby.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and  carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou  see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of  Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by  day, as stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through the wall  with mine hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bare it upon  my shoulder in their sight.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me,  saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious  house, said unto thee, What doest thou?</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This burden  concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that  are among them.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be  done unto them: they shall remove and go into captivity.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his  shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through  the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not  the ground with his eyes.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in  my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans;  yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him  to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after  them.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter  them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the  famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their  abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know  that I am the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water  with trembling and with carefulness;</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD  of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall  eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with  astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein,  because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and  the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of  Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make  this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in  Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of  every vision.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering  divination within the house of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall  speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your  days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it,  saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The  vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of  the times that are far off.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There  shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have  spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='13'>
+    <verse no='1'>And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that  prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts,  Hear ye the word of the LORD;</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that  follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge  for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD  saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to  hope that they would confirm the word.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a  lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I have not  spoken?</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken  vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the  Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity,  and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people,  neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel,  neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know  that I am the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying,  Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others  daubed it with untempered morter:</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it  shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great  hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you,  Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with  a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in  mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with  untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that the  foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall  be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them  that have daubed it with untempered morter, and will say unto you, The  wall is no more, neither they that daubed it;</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning  Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no  peace, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the  daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and  prophesy thou against them,</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew  pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every  stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye  save the souls alive that come unto you?</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of  barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die,  and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my  people that hear your lies?</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your  pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will  tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls  that ye hunt to make them fly.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out  of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and  ye shall know that I am the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous  sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the  wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him  life:</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine  divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye  shall know that I am the LORD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='14'>
+    <verse no='1'>Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat  before me.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their  heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face:  should I be enquired of at all by them?</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the  Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in  his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his  face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh  according to the multitude of his idols;</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart,  because they are all estranged from me through their idols.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord  GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your  faces from all your abominations.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger  that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and  setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of  his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him  concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a  sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people;  and ye shall know that I am the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing,  I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand  upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the  punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that  seeketh unto him;</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me,  neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that  they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing  grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break  the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will  cut off man and beast from it:</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it,  they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith  the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they  spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because  of the beasts:</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord  GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be  delivered, but the land shall be desolate.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go  through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord  GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall  be delivered themselves.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my  fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, saith  the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall  but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my  four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the  noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be  brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth  unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be  comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even  concerning all that I have brought upon it.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their  doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I  have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='15'>
+    <verse no='1'>And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, or  than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take  a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire  devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it  meet for any work?</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much  less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it,  and it is burned?</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among  the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so  will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from  one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I  am the LORD, when I set my face against them.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And I will make the land desolate, because they have  committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='16'>
+    <verse no='1'>Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth  and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite,  and thy mother an Hittite.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel  was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou  wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have  compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the  lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine  own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I  said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and  thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent  ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas  thou wast naked and bare.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy  time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered  thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with  thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away  thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with  badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered  thee with silk.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon  thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine  ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment  was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine  flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou  didst prosper into a kingdom.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty:  for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee,  saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the  harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on  every one that passed by; his it was.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high  places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like  things shall not come, neither shall it be so.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my  silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men,  and didst commit whoredom with them,</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and  thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and  honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a  sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom  thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be  devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to  cause them to pass through the fire for them?</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast  not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare,  and wast polluted in thy blood.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto  thee! saith the LORD GOD;)</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and  hast made thee an high place in every street.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and  hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every  one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy  neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to  provoke me to anger.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee,  and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the  will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which  are ashamed of thy lewd way.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because  thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and  yet couldest not be satisfied.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of  Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied therewith.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>How weak is thine heart, saith the LORD GOD, seeing thou  doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of  every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not  been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh  strangers instead of her husband!</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to  all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every  side for thy whoredom.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy  whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that  thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou  art contrary.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured  out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy  lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of  thy children, which thou didst give unto them;</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom  thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all  them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against  thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all  thy nakedness.</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed  blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall  throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places:  they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair  jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.</verse>
+    <verse no='40'>They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they  shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their  swords.</verse>
+    <verse no='41'>And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute  judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee  to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any  more.</verse>
+    <verse no='42'>So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy  shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.</verse>
+    <verse no='43'>Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but  hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will  recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt  not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.</verse>
+    <verse no='44'>Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb  against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.</verse>
+    <verse no='45'>Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and  her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed  their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your  father an Amorite.</verse>
+    <verse no='46'>And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters  that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at  thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.</verse>
+    <verse no='47'>Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after  their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast  corrupted more than they in all thy ways.</verse>
+    <verse no='48'>As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not  done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.</verse>
+    <verse no='49'>Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride,  fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her  daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.</verse>
+    <verse no='50'>And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me:  therefore I took them away as I saw good.</verse>
+    <verse no='51'>Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou  hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified  thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.</verse>
+    <verse no='52'>Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own  shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they:  they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and  bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.</verse>
+    <verse no='53'>When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of  Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her  daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the  midst of them:</verse>
+    <verse no='54'>That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be  confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto  them.</verse>
+    <verse no='55'>When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to  their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to  their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your  former estate.</verse>
+    <verse no='56'>For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the  day of thy pride,</verse>
+    <verse no='57'>Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy  reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her,  the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.</verse>
+    <verse no='58'>Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith  the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='59'>For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as  thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.</verse>
+    <verse no='60'>Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the  days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting  covenant.</verse>
+    <verse no='61'>Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou  shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give  them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.</verse>
+    <verse no='62'>And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt  know that I am the LORD:</verse>
+    <verse no='63'>That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open  thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee  for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='17'>
+    <verse no='1'>And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the  house of Israel;</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great  wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came  unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it  into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a  fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow  tree.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature,  whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him:  so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>There was also another great eagle with great wings and many  feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and  shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the  furrows of her plantation.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might  bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a  goodly vine.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall  he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that  it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even  without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not  utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the  furrows where it grew.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these  things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to  Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof,  and led them with him to Babylon;</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with  him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of  the land:</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift  itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into  Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he  prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the  covenant, and be delivered?</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the  king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose  covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company  make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to  cut off many persons:</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when,  lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not  escape.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine  oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even  it will I recompense upon his own head.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in  my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him  there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the  sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye  shall know that I the LORD have spoken it.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest  branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top  of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high  mountain and eminent:</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and  it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and  under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the  branches thereof shall they dwell.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD  have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried  up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD  have spoken and have done it.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='18'>
+    <verse no='1'>The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land  of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the  children's teeth are set on edge?</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion  any more to use this proverb in Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so  also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted  up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled  his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor  his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the  hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken  any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed  true judgment between man and man,</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to  deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and  that doeth the like to any one of these things,</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten  upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence,  hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols,  hath committed abomination,</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall  he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations;  he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins  which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted  up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his  neighbour's wife,</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge,  neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the  hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not  received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in  my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall  surely live.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his  brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people,  lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the  father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath  kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear  the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity  of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and  the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath  committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and  right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall  not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he  shall live.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith  the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness,  and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations  that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he  hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath  trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Yet ye say, The way of the LORD is not equal. Hear now, O  house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness,  and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he  hath done shall he die.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness  that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he  shall save his soul alive.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his  transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall  not die.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the LORD is not  equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways  unequal?</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one  according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves  from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have  transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will  ye die, O house of Israel?</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith  the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='19'>
+    <verse no='1'>Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of  Israel,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among  lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young  lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit,  and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost,  then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young  lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their  cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the  noise of his roaring.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Then the nations set against him on every side from the  provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the  king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no  more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the  waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare  rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she  appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the  ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were  broken and withered; the fire consumed them.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and  thirsty ground.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath  devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to  rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='20'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month,  the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came  to enquire of the LORD, and sat before me.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto  them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to enquire of me? As I live,  saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them?  cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when  I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of  Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I  lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God;</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring  them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them,  flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the  abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of  Egypt: I am the LORD your God.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me:  they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes,  neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour  out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst  of the land of Egypt.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be  polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I  made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of  Egypt.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of  Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments,  which if a man do, he shall even live in them.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between  me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify  them.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the  wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my  judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my  sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury  upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be  polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness,  that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them,  flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my  statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their  idols.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them,  neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye  not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments,  nor defile yourselves with their idols:</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my  judgments, and do them;</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me  and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they  walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which  if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths:  then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger  against them in the wilderness.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's  sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in  whose sight I brought them forth.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that  I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the  countries;</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised  my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after  their fathers' idols.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and  judgments whereby they should not live;</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused  to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make  them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and  say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have  blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I  lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill,  and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and  there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they  made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye  go? And the name whereof is called Bamah unto this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord  GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye  whoredom after their abominations?</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass  through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto  this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I  live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all,  that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the  countries, to serve wood and stone.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand,  and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule  over you:</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather  you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand,  and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and  there will I plead with you face to face.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the  land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring  you into the bond of the covenant:</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them  that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country  where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel:  and ye shall know that I am the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go  ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not  hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts,  and with your idols.</verse>
+    <verse no='40'>For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of  Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of  them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I  require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all  your holy things.</verse>
+    <verse no='41'>I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you  out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye  have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the  heathen.</verse>
+    <verse no='42'>And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you  into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up  mine hand to give it to your fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='43'>And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings,  wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own  sight for all your evils that ye have committed.</verse>
+    <verse no='44'>And ye shall know that I am the LORD when I have wrought  with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor  according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord  GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='45'>Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='46'>Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word  toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;</verse>
+    <verse no='47'>And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the  LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee,  and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the  flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to  the north shall be burned therein.</verse>
+    <verse no='48'>And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it  shall not be quenched.</verse>
+    <verse no='49'>Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak  parables?</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='21'>
+    <verse no='1'>And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word  toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold,  I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and  will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and  the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against  all flesh from the south to the north:</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my  sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy  loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest  thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and  every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit  shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh,  and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A  sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished  that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod  of my son, as every tree.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be  handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into  the hand of the slayer.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it  shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword  shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even  the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands  together and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the  slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth  into their privy chambers.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>I have set the point of the sword against all their gates,  that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is  made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on  the left, whithersoever thy face is set.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my  fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword  of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one  land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the  city.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the  Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at  the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright,  he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to  appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the  voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to  cast a mount, and to build a fort.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their  sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance  the iniquity, that they may be taken.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your  iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered,  so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye  are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is  come, when iniquity shall have an end,</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the  crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him  that is high.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no  more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord  GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say  thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished,  to consume because of the glittering:</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie  unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the  wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge  thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow  against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of  brutish men, and skilful to destroy.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in  the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the LORD  have spoken it.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='22'>
+    <verse no='1'>Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the  bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth  blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols  against herself to defile herself.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and  hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast  caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years:  therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking  to all countries.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall  mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to  their power to shed blood.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the  midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee  have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my  sabbaths.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee  they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in  thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's  wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another  in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken  usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by  extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest  gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the  midst of thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the  days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and will  do it.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee  in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the  sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all  they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the  furnace; they are even the dross of silver.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become  dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and  tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt  it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave  you there, and melt you.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my  wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst therof.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye  be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have  poured out my fury upon you.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not  cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof,  like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they  have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many  widows in the midst thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine  holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane,  neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean,  and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening  the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter,  seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord  GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised  robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed  the stranger wrongfully.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the  hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not  destroy it: but I found none.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I  have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I  recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='23'>
+    <verse no='1'>The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one  mother:</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed  whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there  they bruised the teats of their virginity.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah  her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus  were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she  doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of  them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them  that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted:  with all their idols she defiled herself.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in  her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her  virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers,  into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her  daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among  women; for they had executed judgment upon her.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt  in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her  sister in her whoredoms.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and  rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of  them desirable young men.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one  way,</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men  pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with  vermilion,</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed  attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the  manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon  them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and  they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them,  and her mind was alienated from them.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her  nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was  alienated from her sister.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance  the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of  Egypt.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the  flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth,  in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord 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;</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and  Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men,  captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon  horses.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and  wheels, and with an assembly of people, 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 to their judgments.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal  furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and  thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy  daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away  thy fair jewels.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee  into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom  thy mind is alienated:</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a  whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their  idols.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I  give her cup into thine hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's  cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision;  it containeth much.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the  cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt  break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have  spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge  Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their  hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also  caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the  fire, to devour them.</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my  sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>For when they had slain their children to their idols, then  they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus  have they done in the midst of mine house.</verse>
+    <verse no='40'>And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far,  unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst  wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments,</verse>
+    <verse no='41'>And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before  it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='43'>Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they  now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.</verse>
+    <verse no='46'>For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon  them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.</verse>
+    <verse no='47'>And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch  them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters,  and burn up their houses with fire.</verse>
+    <verse no='48'>Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that  all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='24'>
+    <verse no='1'>Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth  day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this  same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same  day.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto  them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour  water into it:</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece,  the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under  it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city,  to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it!  bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the  top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with  dust;</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I  have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be  covered.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I  will even make the pile for fire great.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice  it well, and let the bones be burned.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of  it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be  molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went  not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee,  and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness  any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will  do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent;  according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge  thee, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of  thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep,  neither shall thy tears run down.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire  of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover  not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my  wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what  these things are to us, that thou doest so?</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me,  saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD;  Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength,  the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your  sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your  lips, nor eat the bread of men.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon  your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your  iniquities, and mourn one toward another.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he  hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am  the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 whereupon they set their minds, their sons and  their daughters,</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to  cause thee to hear it with thine ears?</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is  escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a  sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='25'>
+    <verse no='1'>The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy  against them;</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD;  Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my  sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when  it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into  captivity;</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east  for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make  their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink  thy milk.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the  Ammonites a couching place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the  LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine  hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy  despite against the land of Israel;</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say,  Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the  cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the  country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim,</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give  them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the  nations.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know  that I am the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt  against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly  offended, and revenged himself upon them;</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out  mine 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 sword.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt  by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to  destroy it for the old hatred;</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch  out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims,  and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious  rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my  vengeance upon them.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='26'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day  of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem,  Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto  me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against  thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as  the sea causeth his waves to come up.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down  her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the  top of a rock.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst  of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall  become a spoil to the nations.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by  the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus  Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with  horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much  people.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and  he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and  lift up the buckler against thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with  his axes he shall break down thy towers.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall  cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of  the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as  men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy  streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong  garrisons shall go down to the ground.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey  of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy  thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and  thy dust in the midst of the water.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the  sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.</verse>
+    <verse no='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, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake  at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is  made in the midst of thee?</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their  thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered  garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit  upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished  at thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to  thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the  renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants,  which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the  isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure.</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though  thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord  GOD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='27'>
+    <verse no='1'>The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of  the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith  the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have  perfected thy beauty.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir:  they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company  of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the  isles of Chittim.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy  wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee  thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee  to occupy thy merchandise.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army,  thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set  forth thy comeliness.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round  about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields  upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they  traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with  horses and horsemen and mules.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the  merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of  ivory and ebony.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the  wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple,  and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they  traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil,  and balm.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of  thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and  white wool.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs:  bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with  thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants:  they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all  precious stones, and gold.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur,  and Chilmad, were thy merchants.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue  clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with  cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and  thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east  wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy  pilots.</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and  shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall  wallow themselves in the ashes:</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and  gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness  of heart and bitter wailing.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for  thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the  destroyed in the midst of the sea?</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst  many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the  multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the  depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst  of thee shall fall.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at  thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in  their countenance.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou  shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='28'>
+    <verse no='1'>The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the  Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a  God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a  man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that  they can hide from thee:</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast  gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased  thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set  thine heart as the heart of God;</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the  terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the  beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die  the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God?  but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth  thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand  of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus,  and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum,  full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious  stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl,  the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle,  and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared  in thee in the day that thou wast created.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set  thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up  and down in the midst of the stones of fire.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast  created, till iniquity was found in thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the  midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will  cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy  thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast  corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to  the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine  iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring  forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will  bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold  thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished  at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against  it,</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee,  O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall  know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her,  and shall be sanctified in her.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her  streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the  sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house  of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them,  that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the  house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and  shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall  they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses,  and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have  executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them;  and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='29'>
+    <verse no='1'>In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of  the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and  prophesy against him, and against all Egypt:</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am  against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the  midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have  made it for myself.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish  of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of  the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick  unto thy scales.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and  all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou  shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat  to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the  LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break,  and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou  brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a  sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they  shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine,  and I have made it.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers,  and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the  tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast  shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of  the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that  are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the  Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the  countries.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will  I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered:</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will  cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their  habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it  exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that  they shall no more rule over the nations.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of  Israel, which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall  look after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the  first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came  unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army  to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and  every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for  Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it:</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the  land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take  her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be  the wages for his army.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith  he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to  bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst  of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='30'>
+    <verse no='1'>The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl  ye, Woe worth the day!</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a  cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be  in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take  away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people,  and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with  them by the sword.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall;  and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene  shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries  that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities  that are wasted.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a  fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to  make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon  them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of  Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations,  shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords  against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the  hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is  therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and  I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no  more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land  of Egypt.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan,  and will execute judgments in No.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and  I will cut off the multitude of No.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and  No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the  sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall  break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall  cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters  shall go into captivity.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know  that I am the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first  month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came  unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt;  and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind  it, to make it strong to hold the sword.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against  Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that  which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will  disperse them through the countries.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and  put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall  groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and  the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the  LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon,  and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and  disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the  LORD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='31'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third  month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came  unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his  multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair  branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his  top was among the thick boughs.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with  her rivers running round about his plants, and sent her little rivers  unto all the trees of the field.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the  field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long  because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and  under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their  young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his  branches: for his root was by great waters.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir  trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like  his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in  his beauty.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so  that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted  up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick  boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty  one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him  out for his wickedness.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him  off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his  branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the  land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow,  and have left him.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and  all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt  themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick  boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink  water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of  the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down  to the pit.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the  grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained  the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused  Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for  him.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I  cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the  trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water,  shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>They also went down into hell with him unto them that be  slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his  shadow in the midst of the heathen.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among  the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of  Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of  the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh  and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='32'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth  month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came  unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt,  and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou  art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and  troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net  over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up  in my net.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth  upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to  remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with  thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the  valleys with thy height.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou  swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and  make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the  moon shall not give her light.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee,  and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall  bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou  hast not known.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings  shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword  before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his  own life, in the day of thy fall.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of  Babylon shall come upon thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to  fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil  the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the  great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor  the hoofs of beasts trouble them.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers  to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the  country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall  smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the  LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the  daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her,  even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth  day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them  down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the  nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid  with the uncircumcised.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the  sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the  midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie  uncircumcised, slain by the sword.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about  him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her  company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the  sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave,  all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down  uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their  terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with  them that go down to the pit.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all  her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them  uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in  the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that  go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves  are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword,  though they caused their terror in the land of the living.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of  the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of  war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their  iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of  the mighty in the land of the living.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised,  and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with  their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall  lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the  Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they  are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that  be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to  the pit.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his  multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the  Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and  he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are  slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the  Lord GOD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='33'>
+    <verse no='1'>Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say  unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the  land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the  trumpet, and warn the people;</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh  not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be  upon his own head.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his  blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his  soul.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the  trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any  person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood  will I require at the watchman's hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the  house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and  warn them from me.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely  die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that  wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at  thine hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn  from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity;  but thou hast delivered thy soul.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of  Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be  upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no  pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his  way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye  die, O house of Israel?</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy  people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the  day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall  not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness;  neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in  the day that he sinneth.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely  live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all  his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that  he hath committed, he shall die for it.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if  he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had  robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he  shall surely live, he shall not die.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned  unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely  live.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is  not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and  committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that  which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of  Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in  the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had  escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore  he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me  in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of  Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but  we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat  with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed  blood: and shall ye possess the land?</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile  every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live,  surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him  that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and  they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her  strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate,  that none shall pass through.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid  the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they  have committed.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are  talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and  speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray  you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit  before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do  them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth  after their covetousness.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one  that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for  they hear thy words, but they do them not.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall  they know that a prophet hath been among them.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='34'>
+    <verse no='1'>And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel,  prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the  shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves!  should not the shepherds feed the flocks?</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill  them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye  healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was  broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away,  neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with  cruelty have ye ruled them.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and  they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were  scattered.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every  high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth,  and none did search or seek after them.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock  became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field,  because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my  flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds;  and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from  feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any  more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not  be meat for them.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both  search my sheep, and seek them out.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is  among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and  will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in  the cloudy and dark day.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them  from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed  them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the  inhabited places of the country.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high  mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good  fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of  Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down,  saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which  was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will  strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the  strong; I will feed them with judgment.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,  I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good  pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your  pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the  residue with your feet?</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden  with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your  feet.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even  I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and  pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them  abroad;</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a  prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed  them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their  shepherd.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a  prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will  cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell  safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And I will make them and the places round about my hill a  blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there  shall be showers of blessing.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the  earth shall 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 served  themselves of them.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am  your God, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='35'>
+    <verse no='1'>Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy  against it,</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount  Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee,  and I will make thee most desolate.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and  thou shalt know that I am the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast 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:</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare  thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated  blood, even blood shall pursue thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from  it him that passeth out and him that returneth.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>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.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall  not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two  countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was  there:</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do  according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast  used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among  them, when I have judged thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And thou shalt know that I am 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have  multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I  will make thee desolate.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of  Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be  desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall  know that I am the LORD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='36'>
+    <verse no='1'>Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of  Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD:</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against  you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because  they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that  ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are  taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord  GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the  rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities  that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of  the heathen that are round about;</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my  jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against  all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the  joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a  prey.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>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.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye  shall be tilled and sown:</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel,  even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall  be builded:</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall  increase 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people  Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their  inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou  land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations:</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy  nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they  had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted  it:</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were  dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according  to their doings I judged them.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel  had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus saith the Lord  GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy  name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be  clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I  cleanse you.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I  put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh,  and I will give you an heart of flesh.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk  in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers;  and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings  that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for  your iniquities and for your abominations.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it  known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of  Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 the wastes shall be builded.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay  desolate in the sight of all that passed by.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know  that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was  desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of  by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with  men like a flock.</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn  feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and  they shall know that I am the LORD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='37'>
+    <verse no='1'>The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the  spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which  was full of bones,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I  answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say  unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will  cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into  them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great  army.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole  house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is  lost: we are cut off for our parts.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord  GOD; Behold, O 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Moreover, thou son of man, take 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:</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall  become one in thine hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee,  saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>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.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand  before their eyes.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will  take 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:</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And I will make them one nation 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their  idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their  transgressions: but I 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all  shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and  observe my statutes, and do them.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>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 children, and their children's children  for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall  be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and  multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for  evermore.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their  God, and they shall be my people.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify  Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='38'>
+    <verse no='1'>And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the  chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee,  O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:</verse>
+    <verse no='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, all  of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with  bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with  shield and helmet:</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north  quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy  company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>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, against the mountains of Israel, which  have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and  they shall dwell safely all of them.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like  a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people  with thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at  the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an  evil thought:</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled  villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of  them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon  the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that  are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods,  that dwell in the midst of the land.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all  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 and goods, to take a great spoil?</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith  the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely,  shalt thou not know it?</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts,  thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a  great company, and a mighty army:</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a  cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will  bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall  be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken  in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in  those days many years that I would bring thee against them?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I  spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land  of Israel;</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>So that 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my  mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his  brother.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood;  and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people  that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and  brimstone.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will  be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the  LORD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='39'>
+    <verse no='1'>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:</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of  thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will  bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will  cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 to be  devoured.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it,  saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people  Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the  heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this  is the day whereof I have spoken.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears,  and they shall burn them with fire seven years:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto  Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on  the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and  there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it  The valley of Hamongog.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of  them, that they may cleanse the land.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it  shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the  Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And they shall sever out men of continual employment,  passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain  upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven  months shall they search.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And the passengers that pass through the land, when any  seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers  have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall  they cleanse the land.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Ye shall eat the flesh 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 fatlings of Bashan.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their  God from that day and forward.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>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 them into the hand of their  enemies: so fell they all by the sword.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>According to their uncleanness and according to their  transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again  the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel,  and will be jealous for my holy name;</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>After that they have borne their shame, and all their  trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt  safely in their land, and none made them afraid.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 of many nations;</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which  caused 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have  poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='40'>
+    <verse no='1'>In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the  beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth  year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of  the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel,  and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a  city on the south.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man,  whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax  in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine  eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I  shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto thee art  thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of  Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about,  and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit  and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one  reed; and the height, one reed.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east,  and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate,  which was one reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which  was one reed broad.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed  broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the  threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and  the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on  this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and  the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten  cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>The space also before the little chambers was one cubit on  this side, and the space was one cubit on that side: and the little  chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>He measured then the gate from the roof of one little  chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty cubits,  door against door.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post  of the court round about the gate.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face  of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to  their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches:  and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm  trees.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there  were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty  chambers were upon the pavement.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the  length of the gates was the lower pavement.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower  gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits  eastward and northward.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the  north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and  three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were  after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty  cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees,  were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and  they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before  them.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate  toward the north, and toward the east; and he measured from gate to  gate an hundred cubits.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate  toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches  thereof according to these measures.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round  about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth  five and twenty cubits.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches  thereof were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and  another on that side, upon the posts thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south:  and he measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and  he measured the south gate according to these measures;</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and  the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows  in it and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long,  and five and twenty cubits broad.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long,  and five cubits broad.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm  trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight  steps.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and  he measured the gate according to these measures.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and  the arches thereof, were according to these measures: and there were  windows therein and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty  cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>And the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and  palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side:  and the going up to it had eight steps.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it  according to these measures;</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the  arches thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length was fifty  cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>And the posts thereof were toward the utter court; and palm  trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and  the going up to it had eight steps.</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts  of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side,  and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the  sin offering and the trespass offering.</verse>
+    <verse no='40'>And at the side without, as one goeth up to the entry of the  north gate, were two tables; and on the other side, which was at the  porch of the gate, were two tables.</verse>
+    <verse no='41'>Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side,  by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew their  sacrifices.</verse>
+    <verse no='42'>And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt  offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad,  and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith  they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice.</verse>
+    <verse no='43'>And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about:  and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.</verse>
+    <verse no='44'>And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers  in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their  prospect was toward the south: one at the side of the east gate having  the prospect toward the north.</verse>
+    <verse no='45'>And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward  the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.</verse>
+    <verse no='46'>And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for  the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons  of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD to  minister unto him.</verse>
+    <verse no='47'>So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an  hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the  house.</verse>
+    <verse no='48'>And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured  each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on  that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side,  and three cubits on that side.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 posts, one on this side, and another  on that side.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='41'>
+    <verse no='1'>Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the  posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the  other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of  the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other  side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the  breadth, twenty cubits.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two  cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven  cubits.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the  breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is  the most holy place.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the  breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on  every side.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And the side chambers were three, one over another, and  thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house  for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they  had not hold in the wall of the house.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward  to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still  upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was  still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest  by the midst.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>I saw also the height of the house round about: the  foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber  without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the  side chambers that were within.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits  round about the house on every side.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place  that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the  south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round  about.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Now the building that was before the separate place at the  end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the  building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof  ninety cubits.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the  separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred  cubits long;</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the  separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And he measured the length of the building over against the  separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the  one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner  temple, and the porches of the court;</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries  round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with  wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the  windows were covered;</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and  without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by  measure.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a  palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two  faces;</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the  one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the  other side: it was made through all the house round about.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm  trees made, and on the wall of the temple.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the  sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length  thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof,  and the walls thereof, were of wood: and he said unto me, This is the  table that is before the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two  leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple,  cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there  were thick planks upon the face of the porch without.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side  and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side  chambers of the house, and thick planks.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='42'>
+    <verse no='1'>Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way  toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over  against the separate place, and which was before the building toward  the north.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door,  and the breadth was fifty cubits.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner  court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was  gallery against gallery in three stories.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And before the chambers was a walk to ten cubits breadth  inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were  higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the  building.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the  pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than  the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And the wall that was without over against the chambers,  toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length  thereof was fifty cubits.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court  was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And from under these chambers was the entry on the east  side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court  toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the  building.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And the way before them was like the appearance of the  chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as  they: and all their goings out were both according to their fashions,  and according to their doors.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward  the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly  before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south  chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers,  where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy  things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat  offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the  place is holy.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out  of the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their  garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on  other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the  people.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he  brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and  measured it round about.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five  hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the  measuring reed round about.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the  measuring reed.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred  reeds with the measuring reed.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about,  five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation  between the sanctuary and the profane place.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='43'>
+    <verse no='1'>Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that  looketh toward the east:</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the  way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the  earth shined with his glory.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I  saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the  city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river  Chebar; and I fell upon my face.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of  the gate whose prospect is toward the east.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner  court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the  man stood by me.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and  the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of  the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of  Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their  whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and  their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have  even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have  committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of  their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for  ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that  they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the  pattern.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them  the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out  thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all  the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws  thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form  thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain  the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is  the law of the house.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits:  The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a  cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge  thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place  of the altar.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle  shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser  settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth  one cubit.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and  upward shall be four horns.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad,  square in the four squares thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen  broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be  half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his  stairs shall look toward the east.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD;  These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make  it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of  the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith  the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the  four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the  border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he  shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the  sanctuary.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats  without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar,  as they did cleanse it with the bullock.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer  a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without  blemish.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests  shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt  offering unto the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin  offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the  flock, without blemish.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and  they shall consecrate themselves.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the  eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings  upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith  the Lord GOD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='44'>
+    <verse no='1'>Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward  sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it  shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD,  the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat  bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that  gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the  house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the  house of the LORD: and I fell upon my face.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold  with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee  concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the  laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every  going forth of the sanctuary.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of  Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice  you of all your abominations,</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers,  uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my  sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the  fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your  abominations.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye  have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in  heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of  any stranger that is among the children of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel  went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they  shall even bear their iniquity.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge  at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall  slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they  shall stand before them to minister unto them.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and  caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I  lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall  bear their iniquity.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a  priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most  holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations  which they have committed.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for  all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept  the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from  me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall  stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord  GOD:</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near  to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the  gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments;  and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of  the inner court, and within.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall  have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves  with any thing that causeth sweat.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the  utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein  they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put  on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their  garments.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks  to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into  the inner court.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her  that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house  of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And they shall teach my people the difference between the  holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the  clean.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they  shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws  and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my  sabbaths.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves:  but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for  brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile  themselves.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven  days.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the  inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin  offering, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their  inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their  possession.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and  the trespass offering: and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be  theirs.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and  every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the  priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough,  that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of  itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='45'>
+    <verse no='1'>Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for  inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy portion  of the land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand  reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all  the borders thereof round about.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in  length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty  cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five  and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall  be the sanctuary and the most holy place.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the  ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the  LORD: and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for  the sanctuary.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten  thousand of breadth shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house,  have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five  thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the  oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of  Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on  the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the  possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and  before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and  from the east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one  of the portions, from the west border unto the east border.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my  princes shall no more oppress my people; and the rest of the land shall  they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of  Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice,  take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just  bath.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the  bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth  part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five  and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of  an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an  ephah of an homer of barley:</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall  offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten  baths; for ten baths are an homer:</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of  the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt  offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them,  saith the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the  prince in Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings,  and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new  moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel:  he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt  offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house  of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first  day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and  cleanse the sanctuary:</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering,  and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of  the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner  court.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every  one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the  house.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye  shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall  be eaten.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and  for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt  offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish  daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a  bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month,  shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the  sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the  meat offering, and according to the oil.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='46'>
+    <verse no='1'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that  looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the  sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be  opened.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that  gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests  shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall  worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the  gate shall not be shut until the evening.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of  this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the  LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram  without blemish.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the  meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of  oil to an ephah.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock  without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without  blemish.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a  bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his  hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way  of the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD  in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate  to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that  entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the  north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came  in, but shall go forth over against it.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall  go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering  shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs  as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering  or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one shall then open him  the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt  offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day: then he  shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the LORD of a  lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every  morning.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning,  the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to  temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual  ordinance unto the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and  the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any  of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it shall be  their possession by inheritance.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his  servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall  return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's  inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but  he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my  people be not scattered every man from his possession.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side  of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward  the north: and, behold, there was a place on the two sides westward.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests  shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall  bake the meat offering; that they bear them not out into the utter  court, to sanctify the people.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me  to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner  of the court there was a court.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of  forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one  measure.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And there was a row of building round about in them, round  about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows  round about.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Then said he unto me, These are the places of them that  boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the  people.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='47'>
+    <verse no='1'>Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house;  and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house  eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the  waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the  south side of the altar.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and  led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that  looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth  eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the  waters; the waters were to the ankles.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the  waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and  brought me through; the waters were to the loins.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I  could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a  river that could not be passed over.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then  he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river  were very many trees on the one side and on the other.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east  country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being  brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth,  which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and  there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters  shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall  live whither the river cometh.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon  it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread  forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish  of the great sea, exceeding many.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall  not be healed; they shall be given to salt.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on  that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade,  neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new  fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of  the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf  thereof for medicine.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby  ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel:  Joseph shall have two portions.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning  the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this  land shall fall unto you for inheritance.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And this shall be the border of the land toward the north  side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of  Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by the coast  of Hauran.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border  of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And  this is the north side.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from  Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from  the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters  of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south  side southward.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>The west side also shall be the great sea from the border,  till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the  tribes of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot  for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among  you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you  as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have  inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger  sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord  GOD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='48'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to  the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan, the  border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his  sides east and west; a portion for Dan.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west  side, a portion for Asher.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the  west side, a portion for Naphtali.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the  west side, a portion for Manasseh.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the  west side, a portion for Ephraim.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto  the west side, a portion for Reuben.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the  west side, a portion for Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west  side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty  thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts,  from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in  the midst of it.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of  five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And for them, even for the priests, shall be this holy  oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and  toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten  thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in  length: and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the midst thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons  of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the  children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto  them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall  have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth:  all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten  thousand.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor  alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over  against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the  city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst  thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four  thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five  hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the  west side four thousand and five hundred.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two  hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and  toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hundred  and fifty.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And the residue in length over against the oblation of the  holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward:  and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the  increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the  tribes of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five  and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with  the possession of the city.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and  on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city,  over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the  east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand  toward the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and  it shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be  in the midst thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the  possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the  prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall  be for the prince.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the  west side, Benjamin shall have a portion.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the  west side, Simeon shall have a portion.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the  west side, Issachar a portion.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the  west side, Zebulun a portion.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the  west side, Gad a portion.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the  border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh,  and to the river toward the great sea.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the  tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith  the Lord GOD.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And these are the goings out of the city on the north side,  four thousand and five hundred measures.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the  tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate  of Judah, one gate of Levi.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and  three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of  Dan.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>And at the south side four thousand and five hundred  measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar,  one gate of Zebulun.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their  three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name  of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+</book>