7K-Ezekiel

Ezekiel Chapter 1

Ezekiel 1:1 (NIV)

¹ In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth day, while I was among the exiles by the Kebar River, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.

Ezekiel 1:2 (NIV)

² On the fifth of the month–it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin–

Ezekiel 1:3 (NIV)

³ the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, by the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians. There the hand of the Lord was upon him.

Ezekiel 1:4 (NIV)

⁴ I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north–an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal,

Ezekiel 1:5 (NIV)

⁵ and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was that of a man,

Ezekiel 1:6 (NIV)

⁶ but each of them had four faces and four wings.

Ezekiel 1:7 (NIV)

⁷ Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze.

Ezekiel 1:8 (NIV)

⁸ Under their wings on their four sides they had the hands of a man. All four of them had faces and wings,

Ezekiel 1:9 (CJB)

⁹ they touched one another with their wings; they did not turn when they moved, but each one moved straight forward;

Ezekiel 1:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a man, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle.

Ezekiel 1:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out upward; each had two wings, one touching the wing of another creature on either side, and two wings covering its body.

Ezekiel 1:12 (NIV)

¹² Each one went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they went.

Ezekiel 1:13 (NIV)

¹³ The appearance of the living creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches. Fire moved back and forth among the creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it.

Ezekiel 1:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ The creatures sped back and forth like flashes of lightning.

Ezekiel 1:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.

Ezekiel 1:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like chrysolite, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel.

Ezekiel 1:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not turn about as the creatures went.

Ezekiel 1:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.

Ezekiel 1:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the living creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose.

Ezekiel 1:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

Ezekiel 1:21 (NIV)

²¹ When the creatures moved, they also moved; when the creatures stood still, they also stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

Ezekiel 1:22 (NIV)

²² Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was what looked like an expanse, sparkling like ice, and awesome.

Ezekiel 1:23 (NIV)

²³ Under the expanse their wings were stretched out one toward the other, and each had two wings covering its body.

Ezekiel 1:24 (NIV)

²⁴ When the creatures moved, I heard the sound of their wings, like the roar of rushing waters, like the voice of the Almighty, like the tumult of an army. When they stood still, they lowered their wings.

Ezekiel 1:25 (NIV)

²⁵ Then there came a voice from above the expanse over their heads as they stood with lowered wings.

Ezekiel 1:26 (NIV)

²⁶ Above the expanse over their heads was what looked like a throne of sapphire, and high above on the throne was a figure like that of a man.

Ezekiel 1:27 (NIV)

²⁷ I saw that from what appeared to be his waist up he looked like glowing metal, as if full of fire, and that from there down he looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded him.

Ezekiel 1:28 (NIV)

²⁸ Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. When I saw it, I fell facedown, and I heard the voice of one speaking.

Ezekiel Chapter 2

Ezekiel 2:1 (AMP)

¹ AND HE said to me [Ezekiel], Son of man, stand upon your feet and I will speak to you.

Ezekiel 2:2 (CJB)

² As he spoke to me, a spirit entered me and put me on my feet, and I heard him who was speaking to me.

Ezekiel 2:3 (NASB)

³ Then He said to me, “Son of man, I am sending you to the sons of Israel, to a rebellious people who have rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me to this very day.

Ezekiel 2:4 (NIV)

⁴ The people to whom I am sending you are obstinate and stubborn. Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says.’

Ezekiel 2:5 (NIV)

⁵ And whether they listen or fail to listen–for they are a rebellious house–they will know that a prophet has been among them.

Ezekiel 2:6 (NIV)

⁶ And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns are all around you and you live among scorpions. Do not be afraid of what they say or terrified by them, though they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 2:7 (NIV)

⁷ You must speak my words to them, whether they listen or fail to listen, for they are rebellious.

Ezekiel 2:8 (NIV)

⁸ But you, son of man, listen to what I say to you. Do not rebel like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you.”

Ezekiel 2:9 (NIV)

⁹ Then I looked, and I saw a hand stretched out to me. In it was a scroll,

Ezekiel 2:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ which he unrolled before me. On both sides of it were written words of lament and mourning and woe.

Ezekiel Chapter 3

Ezekiel 3:1 (NIV)

¹ And he said to me, “Son of man, eat what is before you, eat this scroll; then go and speak to the house of Israel.”

Ezekiel 3:2 (NIV)

² So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.

Ezekiel 3:3 (NIV)

³ Then he said to me, “Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it.” So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.

Ezekiel 3:4 (NIV)

⁴ He then said to me: “Son of man, go now to the house of Israel and speak my words to them.

Ezekiel 3:5 (NIV)

⁵ You are not being sent to a people of obscure speech and difficult language, but to the house of Israel–

Ezekiel 3:6 (NIV)

⁶ not to many peoples of obscure speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.

Ezekiel 3:7 (NIV)

⁷ But the house of Israel is not willing to listen to you because they are not willing to listen to me, for the whole house of Israel is hardened and obstinate.

Ezekiel 3:8 (NIV)

⁸ But I will make you as unyielding and hardened as they are.

Ezekiel 3:9 (NIV)

⁹ I will make your forehead like the hardest stone, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or terrified by them, though they are a rebellious house.”

Ezekiel 3:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, take into your heart all My words which I will speak to you and listen closely.

Ezekiel 3:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Go now to your countrymen in exile and speak to them. Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says,’ whether they listen or fail to listen.”

Ezekiel 3:12 (AMP)

¹² Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing [saying], Blessed be the glory of the Lord from His place [above the firmament].

Ezekiel 3:13 (NASB)

¹³ And I heard the sound of the wings of the living beings touching one another and the sound of the wheels beside them, even a great rumbling sound.

Ezekiel 3:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away; and I went embittered in the rage of my spirit, and the hand of the Lord was strong on me.

Ezekiel 3:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ I came to the exiles who lived at Tel Abib near the Kebar River. And there, where they were living, I sat among them for seven days–overwhelmed.

Ezekiel 3:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ At the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 3:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me.

Ezekiel 3:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ When I say to a wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ and you do not warn him or speak out to dissuade him from his evil ways in order to save his life, that wicked man will die for his sin, and I will hold you accountable for his blood.

Ezekiel 3:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ But if you do warn the wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his evil ways, he will die for his sin; but you will have saved yourself.

Ezekiel 3:20 (NIV)

²⁰ “Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and does evil, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. Since you did not warn him, he will die for his sin. The righteous things he did will not be remembered, and I will hold you accountable for his blood.

Ezekiel 3:21 (NIV)

²¹ But if you do warn the righteous man not to sin and he does not sin, he will surely live because he took warning, and you will have saved yourself.”

Ezekiel 3:22 (NIV)

²² The hand of the Lord was upon me there, and he said to me, “Get up and go out to the plain, and there I will speak to you.”

Ezekiel 3:23 (NIV)

²³ So I got up and went out to the plain. And the glory of the Lord was standing there, like the glory I had seen by the Kebar River, and I fell facedown.

Ezekiel 3:24 (CJB)

²⁴ A spirit entered me and put me on my feet. Then he spoke with me and said to me, “Go, shut yourself inside your house.

Ezekiel 3:25 (AMP)

²⁵ But you, O son of man, behold, ropes will be put upon you and you will be bound with them, and you cannot go out among people.

Ezekiel 3:26 (NIV)

²⁶ I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, though they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 3:27 (NIV)

²⁷ But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth and you shall say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says.’ Whoever will listen let him listen, and whoever will refuse let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel Chapter 4

Ezekiel 4:1 (NIV)

¹ “Now, son of man, take a clay tablet, put it in front of you and draw the city of Jerusalem on it.

Ezekiel 4:2 (NIV)

² Then lay siege to it: Erect siege works against it, build a ramp up to it, set up camps against it and put battering rams around it.

Ezekiel 4:3 (NIV)

³ Then take an iron pan, place it as an iron wall between you and the city and turn your face toward it. It will be under siege, and you shall besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 4:4 (NIV)

⁴ “Then lie on your left side and put the sin of the house of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their sin for the number of days you lie on your side.

Ezekiel 4:5 (NIV)

⁵ I have assigned you the same number of days as the years of their sin. So for 390 days you will bear the sin of the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 4:6 (NIV)

⁶ “After you have finished this, lie down again, this time on your right side, and bear the sin of the house of Judah. I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year.

Ezekiel 4:7 (NIV)

⁷ Turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem and with bared arm prophesy against her.

Ezekiel 4:8 (NIV)

⁸ I will tie you up with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have finished the days of your siege.

Ezekiel 4:9 (NIV)

⁹ “Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side.

Ezekiel 4:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day and eat it at set times.

Ezekiel 4:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Also measure out a sixth of a hin of water and drink it at set times.

Ezekiel 4:12 (NIV)

¹² Eat the food as you would a barley cake; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel.”

Ezekiel 4:13 (NIV)

¹³ The Lord said, “In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them.”

Ezekiel 4:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Then I said, “Not so, Sovereign Lord! I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead or torn by wild animals. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”

Ezekiel 4:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ “Very well,” he said, “I will let you bake your bread over cow manure instead of human excrement.”

Ezekiel 4:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ He then said to me: “Son of man, I will cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. The people will eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in despair,

Ezekiel 4:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ for food and water will be scarce. They will be appalled at the sight of each other and will waste away because of their sin.

Ezekiel Chapter 5

Ezekiel 5:1 (NIV)

¹ “Now, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor to shave your head and your beard. Then take a set of scales and divide up the hair.

Ezekiel 5:2 (NIV)

² When the days of your siege come to an end, burn a third of the hair with fire inside the city. Take a third and strike it with the sword all around the city. And scatter a third to the wind. For I will pursue them with drawn sword.

Ezekiel 5:3 (NIV)

³ But take a few strands of hair and tuck them away in the folds of your garment.

Ezekiel 5:4 (NIV)

⁴ Again, take a few of these and throw them into the fire and burn them up. A fire will spread from there to the whole house of Israel.

Ezekiel 5:5 (NIV)

⁵ “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.

Ezekiel 5:6 (NIV)

⁶ Yet in her wickedness she has rebelled against my laws and decrees more than the nations and countries around her. She has rejected my laws and has not followed my decrees.

Ezekiel 5:7 (NIV)

⁷ “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: You have been more unruly than the nations around you and have not followed my decrees or kept my laws. You have not even conformed to the standards of the nations around you.

Ezekiel 5:8 (NIV)

⁸ “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will inflict punishment on you in the sight of the nations.

Ezekiel 5:9 (NIV)

⁹ Because of all your detestable idols, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again.

Ezekiel 5:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Therefore in your midst fathers will eat their children, and children will eat their fathers. I will inflict punishment on you and will scatter all your survivors to the winds.

Ezekiel 5:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your vile images and detestable practices, I myself will withdraw my favor; I will not look on you with pity or spare you.

Ezekiel 5:12 (NIV)

¹² A third of your people will die of the plague or perish by famine inside you; a third will fall by the sword outside your walls; and a third I will scatter to the winds and pursue with drawn sword.

Ezekiel 5:13 (NIV)

¹³ “Then my anger will cease and my wrath against them will subside, and I will be avenged. And when I have spent my wrath upon them, they will know that I the Lord have spoken in my zeal.

Ezekiel 5:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ “I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

Ezekiel 5:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ You will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and an object of horror to the nations around you when I inflict punishment on you in anger and in wrath and with stinging rebuke. I the Lord have spoken.

Ezekiel 5:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ When I shoot at you with my deadly and destructive arrows of famine, I will shoot to destroy you. I will bring more and more famine upon you and cut off your supply of food.

Ezekiel 5:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I the Lord have spoken.”

Ezekiel Chapter 6

Ezekiel 6:1 (NASB)

¹ And the word of the Lord came to me saying,

Ezekiel 6:2 (NASB)

² “Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them

Ezekiel 6:3 (NIV)

³ and say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign Lord. This is what the Sovereign Lord says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.

Ezekiel 6:4 (NIV)

⁴ Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will slay your people in front of your idols.

Ezekiel 6:5 (NIV)

⁵ I will lay the dead bodies of the Israelites in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

Ezekiel 6:6 (NIV)

⁶ Wherever you live, the towns will be laid waste and the high places demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and devastated, your idols smashed and ruined, your incense altars broken down, and what you have made wiped out.

Ezekiel 6:7 (NIV)

⁷ Your people will fall slain among you, and you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 6:8 (NIV)

⁸ “‘But I will spare some, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the lands and nations.

Ezekiel 6:9 (NIV)

⁹ Then in the nations where they have been carried captive, those who escape will remember me–how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts, which have turned away from me, and by their eyes, which have lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their detestable practices.

Ezekiel 6:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ And they will know that I am the Lord; I did not threaten in vain to bring this calamity on them.

Ezekiel 6:11 (NIV)

¹¹ “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Strike your hands together and stamp your feet and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked and detestable practices of the house of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, famine and plague.

Ezekiel 6:12 (NIV)

¹² He that is far away will die of the plague, and he that is near will fall by the sword, and he that survives and is spared will die of famine. So will I spend my wrath upon them.

Ezekiel 6:13 (NIV)

¹³ And they will know that I am the Lord, when their people lie slain among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and on all the mountaintops, under every spreading tree and every leafy oak–places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.

Ezekiel 6:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ And I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land a desolate waste from the desert to Diblah–wherever they live. Then they will know that I am the Lord.'”

Ezekiel Chapter 7

Ezekiel 7:1 (NASB)

¹ Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me saying,

Ezekiel 7:2 (NIV)

² “Son of man, this is what the Sovereign Lord says to the land of Israel: The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

Ezekiel 7:3 (NIV)

³ The end is now upon you and I will unleash my anger against you. I will judge you according to your conduct and repay you for all your detestable practices.

Ezekiel 7:4 (NIV)

⁴ I will not look on you with pity or spare you; I will surely repay you for your conduct and the detestable practices among you. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 7:5 (NIV)

⁵ “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Disaster! An unheard-of disaster is coming.

Ezekiel 7:6 (AMP)

⁶ An end has come! The end has come! [The end—after sleeping so long] awakes against you. See, it has come!

Ezekiel 7:7 (NIV)

⁷ Doom has come upon you–you who dwell in the land. The time has come, the day is near; there is panic, not joy, upon the mountains.

Ezekiel 7:8 (NIV)

⁸ I am about to pour out my wrath on you and spend my anger against you; I will judge you according to your conduct and repay you for all your detestable practices.

Ezekiel 7:9 (NIV)

⁹ I will not look on you with pity or spare you; I will repay you in accordance with your conduct and the detestable practices among you. Then you will know that it is I the Lord who strikes the blow.

Ezekiel 7:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ “The day is here! It has come! Doom has burst forth, the rod has budded, arrogance has blossomed!

Ezekiel 7:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Violence has grown into a rod to punish wickedness; none of the people will be left, none of that crowd–no wealth, nothing of value.

Ezekiel 7:12 (AMP)

¹² The time has come, the day draws near. Let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude.

Ezekiel 7:13 (NIV)

¹³ The seller will not recover the land he has sold as long as both of them live, for the vision concerning the whole crowd will not be reversed. Because of their sins, not one of them will preserve his life.

Ezekiel 7:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ They have blown the trumpet and have made all ready, but none goes to the battle, for My wrath is upon all their multitude.

Ezekiel 7:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ “Outside is the sword, inside are plague and famine; those in the country will die by the sword, and those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.

Ezekiel 7:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ All who survive and escape will be in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valleys, each because of his sins.

Ezekiel 7:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Every hand will go limp, and every knee will become as weak as water.

Ezekiel 7:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ They will put on sackcloth and be clothed with terror. Their faces will be covered with shame and their heads will be shaved.

Ezekiel 7:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will be an unclean thing. Their silver and gold will not be able to save them in the day of the Lord’s wrath. They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it, for it has made them stumble into sin.

Ezekiel 7:20 (NIV)

²⁰ They were proud of their beautiful jewelry and used it to make their detestable idols and vile images. Therefore I will turn these into an unclean thing for them.

Ezekiel 7:21 (NIV)

²¹ I will hand it all over as plunder to foreigners and as loot to the wicked of the earth, and they will defile it.

Ezekiel 7:22 (NIV)

²² I will turn my face away from them, and they will desecrate my treasured place; robbers will enter it and desecrate it.

Ezekiel 7:23 (NIV)

²³ “Prepare chains, because the land is full of bloodshed and the city is full of violence.

Ezekiel 7:24 (NIV)

²⁴ I will bring the most wicked of the nations to take possession of their houses; I will put an end to the pride of the mighty, and their sanctuaries will be desecrated.

Ezekiel 7:25 (NIV)

²⁵ When terror comes, they will seek peace, but there will be none.

Ezekiel 7:26 (NIV)

²⁶ Calamity upon calamity will come, and rumor upon rumor. They will try to get a vision from the prophet; the teaching of the law by the priest will be lost, as will the counsel of the elders.

Ezekiel 7:27 (NIV)

²⁷ The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and by their own standards I will judge them. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel Chapter 8

Ezekiel 8:1 (NIV)

¹ In the sixth year, in the sixth month on the fifth day, while I was sitting in my house and the elders of Judah were sitting before me, the hand of the Sovereign Lord came upon me there.

Ezekiel 8:2 (NIV)

² I looked, and I saw a figure like that of a man. From what appeared to be his waist down he was like fire, and from there up his appearance was as bright as glowing metal.

Ezekiel 8:3 (NIV)

³ He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. The Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and in visions of God he took me to Jerusalem, to the entrance to the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes to jealousy stood.

Ezekiel 8:4 (NIV)

⁴ And there before me was the glory of the God of Israel, as in the vision I had seen in the plain.

Ezekiel 8:5 (NIV)

⁵ Then he said to me, “Son of man, look toward the north.” So I looked, and in the entrance north of the gate of the altar I saw this idol of jealousy.

Ezekiel 8:6 (NIV)

⁶ And he said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing–the utterly detestable things the house of Israel is doing here, things that will drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see things that are even more detestable.”

Ezekiel 8:7 (NIV)

⁷ Then he brought me to the entrance to the court. I looked, and I saw a hole in the wall.

Ezekiel 8:8 (NIV)

⁸ He said to me, “Son of man, now dig into the wall.” So I dug into the wall and saw a doorway there.

Ezekiel 8:9 (NIV)

⁹ And he said to me, “Go in and see the wicked and detestable things they are doing here.”

Ezekiel 8:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ So I went in and looked, and I saw portrayed all over the walls all kinds of crawling things and detestable animals and all the idols of the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 8:11 (NIV)

¹¹ In front of them stood seventy elders of the house of Israel, and Jaazaniah son of Shaphan was standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising.

Ezekiel 8:12 (NIV)

¹² He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? They say, ‘The Lord does not see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.'”

Ezekiel 8:13 (NIV)

¹³ Again, he said, “You will see them doing things that are even more detestable.”

Ezekiel 8:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Then he brought me to the entrance to the north gate of the house of the Lord, and I saw women sitting there, mourning for Tammuz.

Ezekiel 8:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? You will see things that are even more detestable than this.”

Ezekiel 8:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ He then brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord, and there at the entrance to the temple, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men. With their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, they were bowing down to the sun in the east.

Ezekiel 8:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ He said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a trivial matter for the house of Judah to do the detestable things they are doing here? Must they also fill the land with violence and continually provoke me to anger? Look at them putting the branch to their nose!

Ezekiel 8:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Therefore I will deal with them in anger; I will not look on them with pity or spare them. Although they shout in my ears, I will not listen to them.”

Ezekiel Chapter 9

Ezekiel 9:1 (AMP)

¹ The Spirit cried in my ears [in the vision] with a loud voice, saying, Cause those to draw near who have charge over the city [as executioners], every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.

Ezekiel 9:2 (NIV)

² And I saw six men coming from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with a deadly weapon in his hand. With them was a man clothed in linen who had a writing kit at his side. They came in and stood beside the bronze altar.

Ezekiel 9:3 (NIV)

³ Now the glory of the God of Israel went up from above the cherubim, where it had been, and moved to the threshold of the temple. Then the Lord called to the man clothed in linen who had the writing kit at his side

Ezekiel 9:4 (NIV)

⁴ and said to him, “Go throughout the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of those who grieve and lament over all the detestable things that are done in it.”

Ezekiel 9:5 (NIV)

⁵ As I listened, he said to the others, “Follow him through the city and kill, without showing pity or compassion.

Ezekiel 9:6 (NIV)

⁶ Slaughter old men, young men and maidens, women and children, but do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were in front of the temple.

Ezekiel 9:7 (NIV)

⁷ Then he said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go!” So they went out and began killing throughout the city.

Ezekiel 9:8 (NIV)

⁸ While they were killing and I was left alone, I fell facedown, crying out, “Ah, Sovereign Lord! Are you going to destroy the entire remnant of Israel in this outpouring of your wrath on Jerusalem?”

Ezekiel 9:9 (NIV)

⁹ He answered me, “The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of bloodshed and the city is full of injustice. They say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land; the Lord does not see.’

Ezekiel 9:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ So I will not look on them with pity or spare them, but I will bring down on their own heads what they have done.”

Ezekiel 9:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Then the man in linen with the writing kit at his side brought back word, saying, “I have done as you commanded.”

Ezekiel Chapter 10

Ezekiel 10:1 (NIV)

¹ I looked, and I saw the likeness of a throne of sapphire above the expanse that was over the heads of the cherubim.

Ezekiel 10:2 (NIV)

² The Lord said to the man clothed in linen, “Go in among the wheels beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And as I watched, he went in.

Ezekiel 10:3 (NIV)

³ Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.

Ezekiel 10:4 (NIV)

⁴ Then the glory of the Lord rose from above the cherubim and moved to the threshold of the temple. The cloud filled the temple, and the court was full of the radiance of the glory of the Lord.

Ezekiel 10:5 (NIV)

⁵ The sound of the wings of the cherubim could be heard as far away as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.

Ezekiel 10:6 (NIV)

⁶ When the Lord commanded the man in linen, “Take fire from among the wheels, from among the cherubim,” the man went in and stood beside a wheel.

Ezekiel 10:7 (NIV)

⁷ Then one of the cherubim reached out his hand to the fire that was among them. He took up some of it and put it into the hands of the man in linen, who took it and went out.

Ezekiel 10:8 (NIV)

⁸ (Under the wings of the cherubim could be seen what looked like the hands of a man.)

Ezekiel 10:9 (NIV)

⁹ I looked, and I saw beside the cherubim four wheels, one beside each of the cherubim; the wheels sparkled like chrysolite.

Ezekiel 10:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ As for their appearance, the four of them looked alike; each was like a wheel intersecting a wheel.

Ezekiel 10:11 (NIV)

¹¹ As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the cherubim faced; the wheels did not turn about as the cherubim went. The cherubim went in whatever direction the head faced, without turning as they went.

Ezekiel 10:12 (NIV)

¹² Their entire bodies, including their backs, their hands and their wings, were completely full of eyes, as were their four wheels.

Ezekiel 10:13 (NIV)

¹³ I heard the wheels being called “the whirling wheels.”

Ezekiel 10:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Each of the cherubim had four faces: One face was that of a cherub, the second the face of a man, the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

Ezekiel 10:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Then the cherubim rose upward. These were the living creatures I had seen by the Kebar River.

Ezekiel 10:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ When the cherubim moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the cherubim spread their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not leave their side.

Ezekiel 10:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ When the cherubim stood still, they also stood still; and when the cherubim rose, they rose with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in them.

Ezekiel 10:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Then the glory of the Lord departed from over the threshold of the temple and stopped above the cherubim.

Ezekiel 10:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ While I watched, the cherubim spread their wings and rose from the ground, and as they went, the wheels went with them. They stopped at the entrance to the east gate of the Lord’s house, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.

Ezekiel 10:20 (NIV)

²⁰ These were the living creatures I had seen beneath the God of Israel by the Kebar River, and I realized that they were cherubim.

Ezekiel 10:21 (NIV)

²¹ Each had four faces and four wings, and under their wings was what looked like the hands of a man.

Ezekiel 10:22 (NIV)

²² Their faces had the same appearance as those I had seen by the Kebar River. Each one went straight ahead.

Ezekiel Chapter 11

Ezekiel 11:1 (NIV)

¹ Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the Lord that faces east. There at the entrance to the gate were twenty-five men, and I saw among them Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, leaders of the people.

Ezekiel 11:2 (NIV)

² The Lord said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who are plotting evil and giving wicked advice in this city.

Ezekiel 11:3 (CJB)

³ They say, ‘The time hasn’t come to build houses. This city is the cooking pot, and we’re the meat!’

Ezekiel 11:4 (NIV)

⁴ Therefore prophesy against them; prophesy, son of man.”

Ezekiel 11:5 (NIV)

⁵ Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon me, and he told me to say: “This is what the Lord says: That is what you are saying, O house of Israel, but I know what is going through your mind.

Ezekiel 11:6 (NIV)

⁶ You have killed many people in this city and filled its streets with the dead.

Ezekiel 11:7 (NIV)

⁷ “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: The bodies you have thrown there are the meat and this city is the pot, but I will drive you out of it.

Ezekiel 11:8 (NIV)

⁸ You fear the sword, and the sword is what I will bring against you, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 11:9 (NIV)

⁹ I will drive you out of the city and hand you over to foreigners and inflict punishment on you.

Ezekiel 11:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ You will fall by the sword, and I will execute judgment on you at the borders of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 11:11 (NIV)

¹¹ This city will not be a pot for you, nor will you be the meat in it; I will execute judgment on you at the borders of Israel.

Ezekiel 11:12 (NIV)

¹² And you will know that I am the Lord, for you have not followed my decrees or kept my laws but have conformed to the standards of the nations around you.”

Ezekiel 11:13 (NIV)

¹³ Now as I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell facedown and cried out in a loud voice, “Ah, Sovereign Lord! Will you completely destroy the remnant of Israel?”

Ezekiel 11:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 11:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ “Son of man, your brothers–your brothers who are your blood relatives and the whole house of Israel–are those of whom the people of Jerusalem have said, ‘They are far away from the Lord; this land was given to us as our possession.’

Ezekiel 11:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ “Therefore say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries where they have gone.’

Ezekiel 11:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ “Therefore say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will gather you from the nations and bring you back from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you back the land of Israel again.’

Ezekiel 11:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ “They will return to it and remove all its vile images and detestable idols.

Ezekiel 11:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh.

Ezekiel 11:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 11:21 (NIV)

²¹ But as for those whose hearts are devoted to their vile images and detestable idols, I will bring down on their own heads what they have done, declares the Sovereign Lord.”

Ezekiel 11:22 (NIV)

²² Then the cherubim, with the wheels beside them, spread their wings, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.

Ezekiel 11:23 (NIV)

²³ The glory of the Lord went up from within the city and stopped above the mountain east of it.

Ezekiel 11:24 (NIV)

²⁴ The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the exiles in Babylonia in the vision given by the Spirit of God. Then the vision I had seen went up from me,

Ezekiel 11:25 (NIV)

²⁵ and I told the exiles everything the Lord had shown me.

Ezekiel Chapter 12

Ezekiel 12:1 (NIV)

¹ The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 12:2 (NIV)

² “Son of man, you are living among a rebellious people. They have eyes to see but do not see and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious people.

Ezekiel 12:3 (NIV)

³ “Therefore, son of man, pack your belongings for exile and in the daytime, as they watch, set out and go from where you are to another place. Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 12:4 (NIV)

⁴ During the daytime, while they watch, bring out your belongings packed for exile. Then in the evening, while they are watching, go out like those who go into exile.

Ezekiel 12:5 (NIV)

⁵ While they watch, dig through the wall and take your belongings out through it.

Ezekiel 12:6 (NIV)

⁶ Put them on your shoulder as they are watching and carry them out at dusk. Cover your face so that you cannot see the land, for I have made you a sign to the house of Israel.”

Ezekiel 12:7 (NIV)

⁷ So I did as I was commanded. During the day I brought out my things packed for exile. Then in the evening I dug through the wall with my hands. I took my belongings out at dusk, carrying them on my shoulders while they watched.

Ezekiel 12:8 (NIV)

⁸ In the morning the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 12:9 (NIV)

⁹ “Son of man, did not that rebellious house of Israel ask you, ‘What are you doing?’

Ezekiel 12:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ “Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: This oracle concerns the prince in Jerusalem and the whole house of Israel who are there.’

Ezekiel 12:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Say to them, ‘I am a sign to you.’ “As I have done, so it will be done to them. They will go into exile as captives.

Ezekiel 12:12 (NIV)

¹² “The prince among them will put his things on his shoulder at dusk and leave, and a hole will be dug in the wall for him to go through. He will cover his face so that he cannot see the land.

Ezekiel 12:13 (NIV)

¹³ I will spread my net for him, and he will be caught in my snare; I will bring him to Babylonia, the land of the Chaldeans, but he will not see it, and there he will die.

Ezekiel 12:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ I will scatter to the winds all those around him–his staff and all his troops–and I will pursue them with drawn sword.

Ezekiel 12:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ “They will know that I am the Lord, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries.

Ezekiel 12:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ But I will spare a few of them from the sword, famine and plague, so that in the nations where they go they may acknowledge all their detestable practices. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 12:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 12:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ “Son of man, tremble as you eat your food, and shudder in fear as you drink your water.

Ezekiel 12:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Say to the people of the land: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says about those living in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel: They will eat their food in anxiety and drink their water in despair, for their land will be stripped of everything in it because of the violence of all who live there.

Ezekiel 12:20 (NIV)

²⁰ The inhabited towns will be laid waste and the land will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord.'”

Ezekiel 12:21 (NIV)

²¹ The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 12:22 (NIV)

²² “Son of man, what is this proverb you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by and every vision comes to nothing’?

Ezekiel 12:23 (NIV)

²³ Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am going to put an end to this proverb, and they will no longer quote it in Israel.’ Say to them, ‘The days are near when every vision will be fulfilled.

Ezekiel 12:24 (NIV)

²⁴ For there will be no more false visions or flattering divinations among the people of Israel.

Ezekiel 12:25 (NIV)

²⁵ But I the Lord will speak what I will, and it shall be fulfilled without delay. For in your days, you rebellious house, I will fulfill whatever I say, declares the Sovereign Lord.'”

Ezekiel 12:26 (NIV)

²⁶ The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 12:27 (NIV)

²⁷ “Son of man, the house of Israel is saying, ‘The vision he sees is for many years from now, and he prophesies about the distant future.’

Ezekiel 12:28 (NIV)

²⁸ “Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: None of my words will be delayed any longer; whatever I say will be fulfilled, declares the Sovereign Lord.'”

Ezekiel Chapter 13

Ezekiel 13:1 (NIV)

¹ The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 13:2 (NIV)

² “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are now prophesying. Say to those who prophesy out of their own imagination: ‘Hear the word of the Lord!

Ezekiel 13:3 (NIV)

³ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!

Ezekiel 13:4 (NIV)

⁴ Your prophets, O Israel, are like jackals among ruins.

Ezekiel 13:5 (NIV)

⁵ You have not gone up to the breaks in the wall to repair it for the house of Israel so that it will stand firm in the battle on the day of the Lord.

Ezekiel 13:6 (NIV)

⁶ Their visions are false and their divinations a lie. They say, “The Lord declares,” when the Lord has not sent them; yet they expect their words to be fulfilled.

Ezekiel 13:7 (NIV)

⁷ Have you not seen false visions and uttered lying divinations when you say, “The Lord declares,” though I have not spoken?

Ezekiel 13:8 (NIV)

⁸ “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because of your false words and lying visions, I am against you, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 13:9 (NIV)

⁹ My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will not belong to the council of my people or be listed in the records of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 13:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ “‘Because they lead my people astray, saying, “Peace,” when there is no peace, and because, when a flimsy wall is built, they cover it with whitewash,

Ezekiel 13:11 (NIV)

¹¹ therefore tell those who cover it with whitewash that it is going to fall. Rain will come in torrents, and I will send hailstones hurtling down, and violent winds will burst forth.

Ezekiel 13:12 (NIV)

¹² When the wall collapses, will people not ask you, “Where is the whitewash you covered it with?”

Ezekiel 13:13 (NIV)

¹³ “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: In my wrath I will unleash a violent wind, and in my anger hailstones and torrents of rain will fall with destructive fury.

Ezekiel 13:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ I will tear down the wall you have covered with whitewash and will level it to the ground so that its foundation will be laid bare. When it falls, you will be destroyed in it; and you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 13:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ So I will spend my wrath against the wall and against those who covered it with whitewash. I will say to you, “The wall is gone and so are those who whitewashed it,

Ezekiel 13:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ those prophets of Israel who prophesied to Jerusalem and saw visions of peace for her when there was no peace, declares the Sovereign Lord.”‘

Ezekiel 13:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ “Now, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who prophesy out of their own imagination. Prophesy against them

Ezekiel 13:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Woe to the women who sew magic charms on all their wrists and make veils of various lengths for their heads in order to ensnare people. Will you ensnare the lives of my people but preserve your own?

Ezekiel 13:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ You have profaned me among my people for a few handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to my people, who listen to lies, you have killed those who should not have died and have spared those who should not live.

Ezekiel 13:20 (NIV)

²⁰ “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against your magic charms with which you ensnare people like birds and I will tear them from your arms; I will set free the people that you ensnare like birds.

Ezekiel 13:21 (NIV)

²¹ I will tear off your veils and save my people from your hands, and they will no longer fall prey to your power. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 13:22 (NIV)

²² Because you disheartened the righteous with your lies, when I had brought them no grief, and because you encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways and so save their lives,

Ezekiel 13:23 (NIV)

²³ therefore you will no longer see false visions or practice divination. I will save my people from your hands. And then you will know that I am the Lord.'”

Ezekiel Chapter 14

Ezekiel 14:1 (NIV)

¹ Some of the elders of Israel came to me and sat down in front of me.

Ezekiel 14:2 (NIV)

² Then the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 14:3 (NASB)

³ “Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts and have put right before their faces the stumbling block of their iniquity. Should I be consulted by them at all?

Ezekiel 14:4 (NIV)

⁴ Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When any Israelite sets up idols in his heart and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face and then goes to a prophet, I the Lord will answer him myself in keeping with his great idolatry.

Ezekiel 14:5 (NIV)

⁵ I will do this to recapture the hearts of the people of Israel, who have all deserted me for their idols.’

Ezekiel 14:6 (NIV)

⁶ “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Repent! Turn from your idols and renounce all your detestable practices!

Ezekiel 14:7 (NIV)

⁷ “‘When any Israelite or any alien living in Israel separates himself from me and sets up idols in his heart and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face and then goes to a prophet to inquire of me, I the Lord will answer him myself.

Ezekiel 14:8 (NIV)

⁸ I will set my face against that man and make him an example and a byword. I will cut him off from my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 14:9 (NIV)

⁹ “‘And if the prophet is enticed to utter a prophecy, I the Lord have enticed that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from among my people Israel.

Ezekiel 14:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ They will bear their guilt–the prophet will be as guilty as the one who consults him.

Ezekiel 14:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Then the people of Israel will no longer stray from me, nor will they defile themselves anymore with all their sins. They will be my people, and I will be their God, declares the Sovereign Lord.'”

Ezekiel 14:12 (NIV)

¹² The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 14:13 (NIV)

¹³ “Son of man, if a country sins against me by being unfaithful and I stretch out my hand against it to cut off its food supply and send famine upon it and kill its men and their animals,

Ezekiel 14:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ even if these three men–Noah, Daniel and Job–were in it, they could save only themselves by their righteousness, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 14:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ “Or if I send wild beasts through that country and they leave it childless and it becomes desolate so that no one can pass through it because of the beasts,

Ezekiel 14:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, even if these three men were in it, they could not save their own sons or daughters. They alone would be saved, but the land would be desolate.

Ezekiel 14:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ “Or if I bring a sword against that country and say, ‘Let the sword pass throughout the land,’ and I kill its men and their animals,

Ezekiel 14:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, even if these three men were in it, they could not save their own sons or daughters. They alone would be saved.

Ezekiel 14:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ “Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out my wrath upon it through bloodshed, killing its men and their animals,

Ezekiel 14:20 (NIV)

²⁰ as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, even if Noah, Daniel and Job were in it, they could save neither son nor daughter. They would save only themselves by their righteousness.

Ezekiel 14:21 (NIV)

²¹ “For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem my four dreadful judgments–sword and famine and wild beasts and plague–to kill its men and their animals!

Ezekiel 14:22 (NIV)

²² Yet there will be some survivors–sons and daughters who will be brought out of it. They will come to you, and when you see their conduct and their actions, you will be consoled regarding the disaster I have brought upon Jerusalem–every disaster I have brought upon it.

Ezekiel 14:23 (NIV)

²³ You will be consoled when you see their conduct and their actions, for you will know that I have done nothing in it without cause, declares the Sovereign Lord.”

Ezekiel Chapter 15

Ezekiel 15:1 (NIV)

¹ The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 15:2 (NIV)

² “Son of man, how is the wood of a vine better than that of a branch on any of the trees in the forest?

Ezekiel 15:3 (NIV)

³ Is wood ever taken from it to make anything useful? Do they make pegs from it to hang things on?

Ezekiel 15:4 (NIV)

⁴ And after it is thrown on the fire as fuel and the fire burns both ends and chars the middle, is it then useful for anything?

Ezekiel 15:5 (NIV)

⁵ If it was not useful for anything when it was whole, how much less can it be made into something useful when the fire has burned it and it is charred?

Ezekiel 15:6 (NIV)

⁶ “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: As I have given the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest as fuel for the fire, so will I treat the people living in Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 15:7 (NIV)

⁷ I will set my face against them. Although they have come out of the fire, the fire will yet consume them. And when I set my face against them, you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 15:8 (NIV)

⁸ I will make the land desolate because they have been unfaithful, declares the Sovereign Lord.”

Ezekiel Chapter 16

Ezekiel 16:1 (NIV)

¹ The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 16:2 (NASB)

² “Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations

Ezekiel 16:3 (NIV)

³ and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Jerusalem: Your ancestry and birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

Ezekiel 16:4 (NIV)

⁴ On the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.

Ezekiel 16:5 (NIV)

⁵ No one looked on you with pity or had compassion enough to do any of these things for you. Rather, you were thrown out into the open field, for on the day you were born you were despised.

Ezekiel 16:6 (NIV)

⁶ “‘Then I passed by and saw you kicking about in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, “Live!”

Ezekiel 16:7 (NIV)

⁷ I made you grow like a plant of the field. You grew up and developed and became the most beautiful of jewels. Your breasts were formed and your hair grew, you who were naked and bare.

Ezekiel 16:8 (NIV)

⁸ “‘Later I passed by, and when I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for love, I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness. I gave you my solemn oath and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Sovereign Lord, and you became mine.

Ezekiel 16:9 (NIV)

⁹ “‘I bathed you with water and washed the blood from you and put ointments on you.

Ezekiel 16:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ I clothed you with an embroidered dress and put leather sandals on you. I dressed you in fine linen and covered you with costly garments.

Ezekiel 16:11 (NIV)

¹¹ I adorned you with jewelry: I put bracelets on your arms and a necklace around your neck,

Ezekiel 16:12 (NIV)

¹² and I put a ring on your nose, earrings on your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.

Ezekiel 16:13 (NIV)

¹³ So you were adorned with gold and silver; your clothes were of fine linen and costly fabric and embroidered cloth. Your food was fine flour, honey and olive oil. You became very beautiful and rose to be a queen.

Ezekiel 16:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ And your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, because the splendor I had given you made your beauty perfect, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 16:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ “‘But you trusted in your beauty and used your fame to become a prostitute. You lavished your favors on anyone who passed by and your beauty became his.

Ezekiel 16:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ You took some of your garments to make gaudy high places, where you carried on your prostitution. Such things should not happen, nor should they ever occur.

Ezekiel 16:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ You also took the fine jewelry I gave you, the jewelry made of my gold and silver, and you made for yourself male idols and engaged in prostitution with them.

Ezekiel 16:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ And you took your embroidered clothes to put on them, and you offered my oil and incense before them.

Ezekiel 16:19 (AMP)

¹⁹ My bread also which I gave you—fine flour and oil and honey with which I fed you—you have even set it before the idols for a sweet odor. Thus it was, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 16:20 (NIV)

²⁰ “‘And you took your sons and daughters whom you bore to me and sacrificed them as food to the idols. Was your prostitution not enough?

Ezekiel 16:21 (NIV)

²¹ You slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.

Ezekiel 16:22 (NIV)

²² In all your detestable practices and your prostitution you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, kicking about in your blood.

Ezekiel 16:23 (NIV)

²³ “‘Woe! Woe to you, declares the Sovereign Lord. In addition to all your other wickedness,

Ezekiel 16:24 (NIV)

²⁴ you built a mound for yourself and made a lofty shrine in every public square.

Ezekiel 16:25 (NIV)

²⁵ At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty, offering your body with increasing promiscuity to anyone who passed by.

Ezekiel 16:26 (NIV)

²⁶ You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, and provoked me to anger with your increasing promiscuity.

Ezekiel 16:27 (NIV)

²⁷ So I stretched out my hand against you and reduced your territory; I gave you over to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were shocked by your lewd conduct.

Ezekiel 16:28 (NIV)

²⁸ You engaged in prostitution with the Assyrians too, because you were insatiable; and even after that, you still were not satisfied.

Ezekiel 16:29 (NIV)

²⁹ Then you increased your promiscuity to include Babylonia, a land of merchants, but even with this you were not satisfied.

Ezekiel 16:30 (NIV)

³⁰ “‘How weak-willed you are, declares the Sovereign Lord, when you do all these things, acting like a brazen prostitute!

Ezekiel 16:31 (NIV)

³¹ When you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were unlike a prostitute, because you scorned payment.

Ezekiel 16:32 (NIV)

³² “‘You adulterous wife! You prefer strangers to your own husband!

Ezekiel 16:33 (NASB)

³³ “Men give gifts to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers to bribe them to come to you from every direction for your harlotries.

Ezekiel 16:34 (NIV)

³⁴ So in your prostitution you are the opposite of others; no one runs after you for your favors. You are the very opposite, for you give payment and none is given to you.

Ezekiel 16:35 (AMP)

³⁵ Therefore, O harlot [Israel], hear the word of the Lord!

Ezekiel 16:36 (NASB)

³⁶ Thus says the Lord GOD, “Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your harlotries with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your sons which you gave to idols,

Ezekiel 16:37 (NIV)

³⁷ therefore I am going to gather all your lovers, with whom you found pleasure, those you loved as well as those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and will strip you in front of them, and they will see all your nakedness.

Ezekiel 16:38 (NIV)

³⁸ I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and who shed blood; I will bring upon you the blood vengeance of my wrath and jealous anger.

Ezekiel 16:39 (NIV)

³⁹ Then I will hand you over to your lovers, and they will tear down your mounds and destroy your lofty shrines. They will strip you of your clothes and take your fine jewelry and leave you naked and bare.

Ezekiel 16:40 (NIV)

⁴⁰ They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and hack you to pieces with their swords.

Ezekiel 16:41 (NIV)

⁴¹ They will burn down your houses and inflict punishment on you in the sight of many women. I will put a stop to your prostitution, and you will no longer pay your lovers.

Ezekiel 16:42 (NIV)

⁴² Then my wrath against you will subside and my jealous anger will turn away from you; I will be calm and no longer angry.

Ezekiel 16:43 (NIV)

⁴³ “‘Because you did not remember the days of your youth but enraged me with all these things, I will surely bring down on your head what you have done, declares the Sovereign Lord. Did you not add lewdness to all your other detestable practices?

Ezekiel 16:44 (NIV)

⁴⁴ “‘Everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you: “Like mother, like daughter.”

Ezekiel 16:45 (NIV)

⁴⁵ You are a true daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and her children; and you are a true sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

Ezekiel 16:46 (NIV)

⁴⁶ Your older sister was Samaria, who lived to the north of you with her daughters; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you with her daughters, was Sodom.

Ezekiel 16:47 (NIV)

⁴⁷ You not only walked in their ways and copied their detestable practices, but in all your ways you soon became more depraved than they.

Ezekiel 16:48 (NIV)

⁴⁸ As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done.

Ezekiel 16:49 (NIV)

⁴⁹ “‘Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.

Ezekiel 16:50 (NIV)

⁵⁰ They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.

Ezekiel 16:51 (NIV)

⁵¹ Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You have done more detestable things than they, and have made your sisters seem righteous by all these things you have done.

Ezekiel 16:52 (NIV)

⁵² Bear your disgrace, for you have furnished some justification for your sisters. Because your sins were more vile than theirs, they appear more righteous than you. So then, be ashamed and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.

Ezekiel 16:53 (NIV)

⁵³ “‘However, I will restore the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters and of Samaria and her daughters, and your fortunes along with them,

Ezekiel 16:54 (NIV)

⁵⁴ so that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you have done in giving them comfort.

Ezekiel 16:55 (NIV)

⁵⁵ And your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will return to what they were before; and you and your daughters will return to what you were before.

Ezekiel 16:56 (NIV)

⁵⁶ You would not even mention your sister Sodom in the day of your pride,

Ezekiel 16:57 (NIV)

⁵⁷ before your wickedness was uncovered. Even so, you are now scorned by the daughters of Edom and all her neighbors and the daughters of the Philistines–all those around you who despise you.

Ezekiel 16:58 (NIV)

⁵⁸ You will bear the consequences of your lewdness and your detestable practices, declares the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:59 (NIV)

⁵⁹ “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will deal with you as you deserve, because you have despised my oath by breaking the covenant.

Ezekiel 16:60 (NASB)

⁶⁰ “Nevertheless, I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

Ezekiel 16:61 (CJB)

⁶¹ Then you will remember your behavior and be ashamed of it as you receive your older and younger sisters and make them your daughters, even though the covenant with you does not cover that;

Ezekiel 16:62 (NASB)

⁶² “Thus I will establish My covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the Lord,

Ezekiel 16:63 (NASB)

⁶³ so that you may remember and be ashamed and never open your mouth anymore because of your humiliation, when I have forgiven you for all that you have done,” the Lord GOD declares.

Ezekiel Chapter 17

Ezekiel 17:1 (NIV)

¹ The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 17:2 (NIV)

² “Son of man, set forth an allegory and tell the house of Israel a parable.

Ezekiel 17:3 (NIV)

³ Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: A great eagle with powerful wings, long feathers and full plumage of varied colors came to Lebanon. Taking hold of the top of a cedar,

Ezekiel 17:4 (AMP)

⁴ He broke off the topmost of its young twigs [the youthful King Jehoiachin] and carried it into a land of trade [Babylon]; he set it in a city of merchants.

Ezekiel 17:5 (AMP)

⁵ He took also of the seedlings of the land [Zedekiah, one of the native royal family] and planted it in fertile soil and a fruitful field; he placed it beside abundant waters and set it as a willow tree [to succeed Zedekiah’s nephew Jehoiachin in Judah as vassal king].

Ezekiel 17:6 (AMP)

⁶ And it grew and became a spreading vine of low [not Davidic] stature, whose branches turned [in submission] toward him, and its roots remained under and subject to him [the king of Babylon]; so it became a vine and brought forth branches and shot forth leafy twigs.

Ezekiel 17:7 (AMP)

⁷ There was also another great eagle [the Egyptian king] with great wings and many feathers; and behold, this vine [Zedekiah] bent its roots toward him and shot forth its branches toward him, away from the beds of its planting, for him to water.

Ezekiel 17:8 (AMP)

⁸ Though it was planted in good soil where water was plentiful for it to produce leaves and to bear fruit, it was transplanted, that it might become a splendid vine.

Ezekiel 17:9 (AMP)

⁹ Thus says the Lord God: Ask, Will it thrive? Will he [the insulted Nebuchadnezzar] not pluck up its roots and strip off its fruit so that all its fresh sprouting leaves will wither? It will not take a strong arm or many people to pluck it up by its roots [totally ending Israel’s national existence].

Ezekiel 17:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ Yes, behold, though transplanted, will it prosper? Will it not utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It will wither in the furrows and beds where it sprouted and grew.

Ezekiel 17:11 (AMP)

¹¹ Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 17:12 (AMP)

¹² Say now to the rebellious house, Do you not know and realize what these things mean? Tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and took its king [Jehoiachin] and its princes and brought them with him to Babylon.

Ezekiel 17:13 (AMP)

¹³ And he took one of the royal family [the king’s uncle, Zedekiah] and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. He also took the mighty and chief men of the land,

Ezekiel 17:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ That the kingdom might become low and base and be unable to lift itself up, but that by keeping his [Nebuchadnezzar’s] covenant it might stand.

Ezekiel 17:15 (AMP)

¹⁵ But he [Zedekiah] rebelled against him [Nebuchadnezzar] in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Will he prosper? Will he escape who does such things? Can he break the covenant with [Babylon] and yet escape?

Ezekiel 17:16 (AMP)

¹⁶ As I live, says the Lord God, surely in the place where the king [Nebuchadnezzar] dwells who made [Zedekiah as vassal] king, whose oath [Zedekiah] despised and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the midst of Babylon shall [Zedekiah] die.

Ezekiel 17:17 (AMP)

¹⁷ Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help him in the war when the [Babylonians] cast up mounds and build forts to destroy many lives.

Ezekiel 17:18 (AMP)

¹⁸ For [Zedekiah] despised the oath and broke the covenant and behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things; he shall not escape.

Ezekiel 17:19 (AMP)

¹⁹ Therefore thus says the Lord God: As I live, surely My oath [made for Me by Nebuchadnezzar] that [Zedekiah] has despised and My covenant with him that he has broken, I will even bring down on his own head.

Ezekiel 17:20 (AMP)

²⁰ And I will spread My net over him, and he shall be taken in My snare; and I will bring him to Babylon and will enter into judgment and punishment with him there for his trespass and treason that he has committed against Me.

Ezekiel 17:21 (AMP)

²¹ And all his fugitives [from Judah] in all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward every wind. And you shall know (understand and realize) that I the Lord have spoken it.

Ezekiel 17:22 (AMP)

²² Thus says the Lord God: I Myself will take a twig from the lofty top of the cedar and will set it out; I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one and will plant it upon a mountain high and exalted.

Ezekiel 17:23 (AMP)

²³ On the mountain height of Israel will I plant it, that it may bring forth boughs and bear fruit and be a noble cedar, and under it shall dwell all birds of every feather; in the shade of its branches they shall nestle and find rest.

Ezekiel 17:24 (AMP)

²⁴ And all the trees of the field shall know (understand and realize) that I the Lord have brought low the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree flourish. I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.

Ezekiel Chapter 18

Ezekiel 18:1 (NIV)

¹ The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 18:2 (NIV)

² “What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: “‘The fathers eat sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?

Ezekiel 18:3 (AMP)

³ As I live, says the Lord God, you shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.

Ezekiel 18:4 (AMP)

⁴ Behold, all souls are Mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is Mine; the soul that sins, it shall die.

Ezekiel 18:5 (NASB)

⁵ “But if a man is righteous and practices justice and righteousness,

Ezekiel 18:6 (NASB)

⁶ and does not eat at the mountain shrines or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, or defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her menstrual period—

Ezekiel 18:7 (NIV)

⁷ He does not oppress anyone, but returns what he took in pledge for a loan. He does not commit robbery but gives his food to the hungry and provides clothing for the naked.

Ezekiel 18:8 (NIV)

⁸ He does not lend at usury or take excessive interest. He withholds his hand from doing wrong and judges fairly between man and man.

Ezekiel 18:9 (NIV)

⁹ He follows my decrees and faithfully keeps my laws. That man is righteous; he will surely live, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 18:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ “Suppose he has a violent son, who sheds blood or does any of these other things

Ezekiel 18:11 (NIV)

¹¹ (though the father has done none of them): “He eats at the mountain shrines. He defiles his neighbor’s wife.

Ezekiel 18:12 (NIV)

¹² He oppresses the poor and needy. He commits robbery. He does not return what he took in pledge. He looks to the idols. He does detestable things.”

Ezekiel 18:13 (NIV)

¹³ He lends at usury and takes excessive interest. Will such a man live? He will not! Because he has done all these detestable things, he will surely be put to death and his blood will be on his own head.

Ezekiel 18:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ “But suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father commits, and though he sees them, he does not do such things:

Ezekiel 18:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ “He does not eat at the mountain shrines or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.

Ezekiel 18:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ He does not oppress anyone or require a pledge for a loan. He does not commit robbery but gives his food to the hungry and provides clothing for the naked.

Ezekiel 18:17 (CJB)

¹⁷ he refrains from oppressing the poor; and he neither demands nor accepts interest. He obeys my rulings and lives according to my laws. So he will not die for his father’s sins but will certainly live.

Ezekiel 18:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ But his father will die for his own sin, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother and did what was wrong among his people.

Ezekiel 18:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ “Yet you ask, ‘Why does the son not share the guilt of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right and has been careful to keep all my decrees, he will surely live.

Ezekiel 18:20 (NIV)

²⁰ The soul who sins is the one who will die. The son will not share the guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous man will be credited to him, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against him.

Ezekiel 18:21 (CJB)

²¹ “However, if the wicked person repents of all the sins he committed, keeps my laws and does what is lawful and right; then he will certainly live, he will not die.

Ezekiel 18:22 (CJB)

²² None of the transgressions he has committed will be remembered against him; for the righteousness that he has done, he will live.

Ezekiel 18:23 (NIV)

²³ Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign Lord. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?

Ezekiel 18:24 (CJB)

²⁴ “On the other hand, when the righteous person turns away from his righteousness and commits wickedness by acting in accordance with all the disgusting practices that the wicked person does, will he live? None of the righteous deeds he has done will be remembered; for the trespasses and sins he has committed, he will die.

Ezekiel 18:25 (AMP)

²⁵ Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not fair and just. Hear now, O house of Israel: Is not My way fair and just? Are not your ways unfair and unjust?

Ezekiel 18:26 (CJB)

²⁶ When the righteous person turns away from his righteousness and commits wickedness, he will die for it — for the wickedness he commits he will die.

Ezekiel 18:27 (CJB)

²⁷ And when the wicked person turns away from all the wickedness he has committed and does what is lawful and right, he will save his life.

Ezekiel 18:28 (NIV)

²⁸ Because he considers all the offenses he has committed and turns away from them, he will surely live; he will not die.

Ezekiel 18:29 (NIV)

²⁹ Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Are my ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?

Ezekiel 18:30 (NIV)

³⁰ “Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each one according to his ways, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall.

Ezekiel 18:31 (NIV)

³¹ Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 18:32 (NASB)

³² “For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies,” declares the Lord GOD. “Therefore, repent and live.”

Ezekiel Chapter 19

Ezekiel 19:1 (NIV)

¹ “Take up a lament concerning the princes of Israel

Ezekiel 19:2 (AMP)

² And say, What a lioness was your mother [Jerusalem-Judah]! She couched among lions; in the midst of young lions she nourished her cubs.

Ezekiel 19:3 (AMP)

³ And she [the royal mother-city] brought up one of her cubs [Jehoahaz]; he became a young lion and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

Ezekiel 19:4 (AMP)

⁴ The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 19:5 (AMP)

⁵ Now when she had waited, she saw her hope was lost. Then she took another of her cubs [Jehoiachin] and made him a young lion.

Ezekiel 19:6 (AMP)

⁶ And he [Jehoiachin] went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion and learned to catch prey, and he devoured men.

Ezekiel 19:7 (AMP)

⁷ And he knew and ravaged their strongholds and he laid waste their cities, and the land was appalled and all who were in it by the noise of his roaring.

Ezekiel 19:8 (AMP)

⁸ Then the nations set against [the king] on every side from the provinces, and they spread their net over him [Jehoiachin]; he was taken in their pit.

Ezekiel 19:9 (AMP)

⁹ With hooks they put him in a cage and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into custody and put him in strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

Ezekiel 19:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ Your mother [the mother-city Jerusalem] was like a vine [like you, Zedekiah, and in your blood] planted by the waters; it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of abundant water.

Ezekiel 19:11 (AMP)

¹¹ And it had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule and its height was exalted among the thick branches and into the clouds, and it was seen in its height among the multitude of its branches and was conspicuous.

Ezekiel 19:12 (AMP)

¹² But the vine was plucked up in God’s wrath [by His agent the Babylonian king] and it was cast down to the ground; the east wind dried up its fruit; its strong rods were broken off and withered; the fire [of God’s judgment] consumed them.

Ezekiel 19:13 (AMP)

¹³ And now it is transplanted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land [Babylon].

Ezekiel 19:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ And fire went out of a rod [Zedekiah] of its branches which has consumed the vine’s fruit, so that it has in it no [longer a] strong rod to be a scepter for ruling. This is a lamentation and shall be for a lamentation and a dirge.

Ezekiel Chapter 20

Ezekiel 20:1 (NASB)

¹ Now in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the Lord, and sat before me.

Ezekiel 20:2 (NASB)

² And the word of the Lord came to me saying,

Ezekiel 20:3 (NIV)

³ “Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Have you come to inquire of me? As surely as I live, I will not let you inquire of me, declares the Sovereign Lord.’

Ezekiel 20:4 (NIV)

⁴ “Will you judge them? Will you judge them, son of man? Then confront them with the detestable practices of their fathers

Ezekiel 20:5 (NASB)

⁵ and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “On the day when I chose Israel and swore to the descendants of the house of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, I am the Lord your God,

Ezekiel 20:6 (NASB)

⁶ on that day I swore to them, to bring them out from the land of Egypt into a land that I had selected for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.

Ezekiel 20:7 (NASB)

⁷ “I said to them, ‘Cast away, each of you, the detestable things of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.’

Ezekiel 20:8 (NIV)

⁸ “‘But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me; they did not get rid of the vile images they had set their eyes on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger against them in Egypt.

Ezekiel 20:9 (NASB)

⁹ “But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made Myself known to them by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 20:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Therefore I led them out of Egypt and brought them into the desert.

Ezekiel 20:11 (CJB)

¹¹ I gave them my laws and showed them my rulings; if a person obeys them, he will have life through them.

Ezekiel 20:12 (NASB)

¹² “Also I gave them My Sabbaths to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

Ezekiel 20:13 (NASB)

¹³ “But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My statutes and they rejected My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live; and My Sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath on them in the wilderness, to annihilate them.

Ezekiel 20:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ “But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, before whose sight I had brought them out.

Ezekiel 20:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Also with uplifted hand I swore to them in the desert that I would not bring them into the land I had given them–a land flowing with milk and honey, most beautiful of all lands–

Ezekiel 20:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ because they rejected my laws and did not follow my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths. For their hearts were devoted to their idols.

Ezekiel 20:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or put an end to them in the desert.

Ezekiel 20:18 (AMP)

¹⁸ But I said to their sons in the wilderness, You shall not walk in the statutes of your fathers nor observe their ordinances nor defile yourselves with their idols.

Ezekiel 20:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ I am the Lord your God; follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.

Ezekiel 20:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Keep my Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.”

Ezekiel 20:21 (NASB)

²¹ “But the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes, nor were they careful to observe My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live; they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath on them, to accomplish My anger against them in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 20:22 (AMP)

²² Yet I withheld My hand and acted for My name’s sake, that it should not be debased and profaned in the sight of the [heathen] nations, in whose sight I had brought them forth [from bondage].

Ezekiel 20:23 (NIV)

²³ Also with uplifted hand I swore to them in the desert that I would disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries,

Ezekiel 20:24 (NIV)

²⁴ because they had not obeyed my laws but had rejected my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes [lusted] after their fathers’ idols.

Ezekiel 20:25 (CJB)

²⁵ I also gave them laws which did them no good and rulings by which they did not live;

Ezekiel 20:26 (AMP)

²⁶ And I [let them] pollute and make themselves unclean in their own offerings [to their idols], in that they caused to pass through the fire all the firstborn, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know, understand, and realize that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:27 (AMP)

²⁷ Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Again in this your fathers blasphemed Me, in that they dealt faithlessly and treacherously with Me and committed a treasonous trespass against Me.

Ezekiel 20:28 (AMP)

²⁸ For when I had brought them into the land which I lifted up My hand and swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every dark and leafy tree [as a place for idol worship], and they offered there their sacrifices and there they presented their offering that provoked My anger and sadness; there also they made their sweet-smelling savor and poured out there their drink offerings.

Ezekiel 20:29 (AMP)

²⁹ Then I said to them, What is the high place to which you go? And the name of it is called Bamah [high place] to this day.

Ezekiel 20:30 (NASB)

³⁰ “Therefore, say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Will you defile yourselves after the manner of your fathers and play the harlot after their detestable things?

Ezekiel 20:31 (NASB)

³¹ “When you offer your gifts, when you cause your sons to pass through the fire, you are defiling yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live,” declares the Lord GOD, “I will not be inquired of by you.

Ezekiel 20:32 (NIV)

³² “‘You say, “We want to be like the nations, like the peoples of the world, who serve wood and stone.” But what you have in mind will never happen.

Ezekiel 20:33 (NIV)

³³ As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will rule over you with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with outpoured wrath.

Ezekiel 20:34 (NIV)

³⁴ I will bring you from the nations and gather you from the countries where you have been scattered–with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with outpoured wrath.

Ezekiel 20:35 (NIV)

³⁵ I will bring you into the desert of the nations and there, face to face, I will execute judgment upon you.

Ezekiel 20:36 (NIV)

³⁶ As I judged your fathers in the desert of the land of Egypt, so I will judge you, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 20:37 (NIV)

³⁷ I will take note of you as you pass under my rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

Ezekiel 20:38 (NIV)

³⁸ I will purge you of those who revolt and rebel against me. Although I will bring them out of the land where they are living, yet they will not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:39 (AMP)

³⁹ As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord God: Go, serve every one of you his idols, now and hereafter, if you will not listen to Me! But you shall not profane My holy name any more with your sacrificial gifts and your idols!

Ezekiel 20:40 (AMP)

⁴⁰ For on My holy mountain, on the mountain height of Israel, says the Lord God, there all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, shall serve Me. There will I [graciously] accept them, and there will I require your offerings and the firstfruits and the choicest of your contributions, with all your sacred things.

Ezekiel 20:41 (AMP)

⁴¹ I will accept you [graciously] as a pleasant odor when I lead you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered, and I will manifest My holiness among you in the sight of the nations [who will seek Me because of My power displayed in you].

Ezekiel 20:42 (AMP)

⁴² And you shall know, understand, and realize that I am the Lord, when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the country which I lifted up My hand and swore to give to your fathers.

Ezekiel 20:43 (NIV)

⁴³ There you will remember your conduct and all the actions by which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evil you have done.

Ezekiel 20:44 (NIV)

⁴⁴ You will know that I am the Lord, when I deal with you for my name’s sake and not according to your evil ways and your corrupt practices, O house of Israel, declares the Sovereign Lord.'”

Ezekiel 20:45 (AMP)

⁴⁵ Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 20:46 (CJB)

⁴⁶ “Human being, turn your face southward, preach to the south and prophesy to the scrublands of the Negev;

Ezekiel 20:47 (NIV)

⁴⁷ Say to the southern forest: ‘Hear the word of the Lord. This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am about to set fire to you, and it will consume all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and every face from south to north will be scorched by it.

Ezekiel 20:48 (NIV)

⁴⁸ Everyone will see that I the Lord have kindled it; it will not be quenched.'”

Ezekiel 20:49 (AMP)

⁴⁹ Then said I, Ah, Lord God! They are saying of me, Does he not speak in parables and make allegories?

Ezekiel Chapter 21

Ezekiel 21:1 (NIV)

¹ The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 21:2 (NIV)

² “Son of man, set your face against Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuary. Prophesy against the land of Israel

Ezekiel 21:3 (NIV)

³ and say to her: ‘This is what the Lord says: I am against you. I will draw my sword from its scabbard and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.

Ezekiel 21:4 (NIV)

⁴ Because I am going to cut off the righteous and the wicked, my sword will be unsheathed against everyone from south to north.

Ezekiel 21:5 (NIV)

⁵ Then all people will know that I the Lord have drawn my sword from its scabbard; it will not return again.’

Ezekiel 21:6 (NIV)

⁶ “Therefore groan, son of man! Groan before them with broken heart and bitter grief.

Ezekiel 21:7 (NIV2011)

⁷ And when they ask you, ‘Why are you groaning?’ you shall say, ‘Because of the news that is coming. Every heart will melt with fear and every hand go limp; every spirit will become faint and every leg will be wet with urine.’ It is coming! It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign LORD.”

Ezekiel 21:8 (NIV)

⁸ The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 21:9 (NIV)

⁹ “Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Lord says: “‘A sword, a sword, sharpened and polished–

Ezekiel 21:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ It [the sword of Babylon] is sharpened that it may make a slaughter, polished that it may flash and glitter like lightning! Shall we then rejoice and make mirth [when such a calamity is impending]? But the rod or scepter of My son [Judah] rejects and views with contempt every tree [that is, since God’s promise long ago to Judah is certain, he believes Judah’s scepter must remain no matter what power arises against it]!

Ezekiel 21:11 (AMP)

¹¹ And the sword [of Babylon] is given to be polished that it may be put to use; the sword is sharpened and polished to be given into the hand of the slayer.

Ezekiel 21:12 (AMP)

¹² Cry and wail, son of man, for it is against My people; it is against all the princes of Israel; they are thrown to the sword along with My people, and terrors by reason of the sword are upon My people. Therefore smite your thigh [in dismay].

Ezekiel 21:13 (AMP)

¹³ For this sword has been tested and proved [on others], and what if the rejecting and despising rod or scepter of Judah shall be no more but completely swept away? says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 21:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ Therefore, son of man, prophesy and smite your hands together and let the sword be doubled, yes, trebled in intensity—the sword for those to be overthrown and pierced through; it is the sword of great slaughter which encompasses them [so that none can escape, even by entering into their inner chambers].

Ezekiel 21:15 (AMP)

¹⁵ I have set the threatening and glittering sword against all their gates, that their hearts may melt and their stumblings be multiplied. Ah! It is made [to flash] like lightning; it is pointed and sharpened for slaughter.

Ezekiel 21:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ O sword, slash to the right, then to the left, wherever your blade is turned.

Ezekiel 21:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ I too will strike my hands together, and my wrath will subside. I the Lord have spoken.”

Ezekiel 21:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 21:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ “Son of man, mark out two roads for the sword of the king of Babylon to take, both starting from the same country. Make a signpost where the road branches off to the city.

Ezekiel 21:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Mark out one road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites and another against Judah and fortified Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 21:21 (NIV)

²¹ For the king of Babylon will stop at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He will cast lots with arrows, he will consult his idols, he will examine the liver.

Ezekiel 21:22 (NIV)

²² Into his right hand will come the lot for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to give the command to slaughter, to sound the battle cry, to set battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp and to erect siege works.

Ezekiel 21:23 (AMP)

²³ And it shall seem like a lying divination to them who have sworn oaths [of allegiance to Nebuchadnezzar]. [Will he now fight against their homeland?] But he will remind them of their guilt and iniquity [in violating those oaths], that they may be caught.

Ezekiel 21:24 (AMP)

²⁴ Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have made your guilt and iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear—because, I say, you have come to remembrance, you shall be taken with the [enemy’s] hand.

Ezekiel 21:25 (AMP)

²⁵ And you, O dishonored and wicked one [Zedekiah], the prince of Israel, whose day will come at the time of your final reckoning and punishment,

Ezekiel 21:26 (AMP)

²⁶ Thus says the Lord God: Remove the [high priest’s] miter or headband and take off the [king’s] crown; things shall not remain as they have been; the low is to be exalted and the high is to be brought low.

Ezekiel 21:27 (NIV2011)

²⁷ A ruin! A ruin! I will make it a ruin! The crown will not be restored until he to whom it rightfully belongs shall come; to him I will give it.’

Ezekiel 21:28 (NIV)

²⁸ “And you, son of man, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says about the Ammonites and their insults: “‘A sword, a sword, drawn for the slaughter, polished to consume and to flash like lightning!

Ezekiel 21:29 (AMP)

²⁹ While they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for you to lay you [of Ammon] upon the headless trunks of those who are slain, of the wicked whose day is coming at the time of the final reckoning and punishment.

Ezekiel 21:30 (NIV)

³⁰ Return the sword to its scabbard. In the place where you were created, in the land of your ancestry, I will judge you.

Ezekiel 21:31 (NIV)

³¹ I will pour out my wrath upon you and breathe out my fiery anger against you; I will hand you over to brutal men, men skilled in destruction.

Ezekiel 21:32 (NIV)

³² You will be fuel for the fire, your blood will be shed in your land, you will be remembered no more; for I the Lord have spoken.'”

Ezekiel Chapter 22

Ezekiel 22:1 (AMP)

¹ Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 22:2 (AMP)

² And you son of man [Ezekiel], will you judge, will you judge the bloodshedding city? Then cause her to know all her abominations,

Ezekiel 22:3 (NIV)

³ and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: O city that brings on herself doom by shedding blood in her midst and defiles herself by making idols,

Ezekiel 22:4 (AMP)

⁴ In your blood which you have shed you have become guilty, and you are defiled by the idols which you have made, and you have caused your time [of judgment and punishment] to draw near and have arrived at the full measure of your years. Therefore have I made you a reproach to the [heathen] nations and a mocking to all countries.

Ezekiel 22:5 (NIV)

⁵ Those who are near and those who are far away will mock you, O infamous city, full of turmoil.

Ezekiel 22:6 (CJB)-M

⁶ “‘The leaders of Israel in you all use their power in order to shed blood.

Ezekiel 22:7 (NIV)

⁷ In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have oppressed the alien and mistreated the fatherless and the widow.

Ezekiel 22:8 (NIV)

⁸ You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths.

Ezekiel 22:9 (AMP)

⁹ In you are slanderous men who arouse suspicions to shed blood, and in you are they who have eaten [food offered to idols] upon the mountains; in the midst of you they have committed lewdness.

Ezekiel 22:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ In you men have uncovered their fathers’ nakedness [the nakedness of mother or stepmother]; in you they have humbled women who are [ceremonially] unclean [during their periods or because of childbirth].

Ezekiel 22:11 (AMP)

¹¹ And one has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife, another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law, and another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.

Ezekiel 22:12 (NIV)

¹² In you men accept bribes to shed blood; you take usury and excessive interest and make unjust gain from your neighbors by extortion. And you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 22:13 (AMP)

¹³ Behold therefore, I have struck My hands together at your dishonest gain which you have made and at the blood which has been in the midst of you.

Ezekiel 22:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ Can your heart and courage endure or can your hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with you? I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it.

Ezekiel 22:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you through the countries; and I will put an end to your uncleanness.

Ezekiel 22:16 (AMP)

¹⁶ And you shall be dishonored and profane yourself in the sight of the nations, and you shall know (understand and realize) that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 22:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Then the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 22:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ “Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead left inside a furnace. They are but the dross of silver.

Ezekiel 22:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘Because you have all become dross, I will gather you into Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 22:20 (NIV)

²⁰ As men gather silver, copper, iron, lead and tin into a furnace to melt it with a fiery blast, so will I gather you in my anger and my wrath and put you inside the city and melt you.

Ezekiel 22:21 (NIV)

²¹ I will gather you and I will blow on you with my fiery wrath, and you will be melted inside her.

Ezekiel 22:22 (NIV)

²² As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted inside her, and you will know that I the Lord have poured out my wrath upon you.'”

Ezekiel 22:23 (NIV)

²³ Again the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 22:24 (NIV)

²⁴ “Son of man, say to the land, ‘You are a land that has had no rain or showers in the day of wrath.’

Ezekiel 22:25 (NIV)

²⁵ There is a conspiracy of her princes within her like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they devour people, take treasures and precious things and make many widows within her.

Ezekiel 22:26 (NIV)

²⁶ Her priests do violence to my law and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common; they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean; and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.

Ezekiel 22:27 (NIV)

²⁷ Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people to make unjust gain.

Ezekiel 22:28 (NIV)

²⁸ Her prophets whitewash these deeds for them by false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says’–when the Lord has not spoken.

Ezekiel 22:29 (NIV)

²⁹ The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the alien, denying them justice.

Ezekiel 22:30 (NASB)

³⁰ “I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before Me for the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.

Ezekiel 22:31 (NIV)

³¹ So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger, bringing down on their own heads all they have done, declares the Sovereign Lord.”

Ezekiel Chapter 23

Ezekiel 23:1 (NIV)

¹ The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 23:2 (NIV)

² “Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother.

Ezekiel 23:3 (NIV)

³ They became prostitutes in Egypt, engaging in prostitution from their youth. In that land their breasts were fondled and their virgin bosoms caressed.

Ezekiel 23:4 (NIV)

⁴ The older was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. They were mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 23:5 (NIV)

⁵ “Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was still mine; and she lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians–warriors

Ezekiel 23:6 (NIV)

⁶ clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all of them handsome young men, and mounted horsemen.

Ezekiel 23:7 (NIV)

⁷ She gave herself as a prostitute to all the elite of the Assyrians and defiled herself with all the idols of everyone she lusted after.

Ezekiel 23:8 (NIV)

⁸ She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when during her youth men slept with her, caressed her virgin bosom and poured out their lust upon her.

Ezekiel 23:9 (NIV)

⁹ “Therefore I handed her over to her lovers, the Assyrians, for whom she lusted.

Ezekiel 23:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ They stripped her naked, took away her sons and daughters and killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women, and punishment was inflicted on her.

Ezekiel 23:11 (NIV)

¹¹ “Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.

Ezekiel 23:12 (NIV)

¹² She too lusted after the Assyrians–governors and commanders, warriors in full dress, mounted horsemen, all handsome young men.

Ezekiel 23:13 (NIV)

¹³ I saw that she too defiled herself; both of them went the same way.

Ezekiel 23:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ “But she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall, figures of Chaldeans portrayed in red,

Ezekiel 23:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ with belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers, natives of Chaldea.

Ezekiel 23:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

Ezekiel 23:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.

Ezekiel 23:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ When she carried on her prostitution openly and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.

Ezekiel 23:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.

Ezekiel 23:20 (NIV)

²⁰ There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

Ezekiel 23:21 (NIV)

²¹ So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.

Ezekiel 23:22 (NIV)

²² “Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will stir up your lovers against you, those you turned away from in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side–

Ezekiel 23:23 (NIV)

²³ the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, the men of Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, handsome young men, all of them governors and commanders, chariot officers and men of high rank, all mounted on horses.

Ezekiel 23:24 (NIV)

²⁴ They will come against you with weapons, chariots and wagons and with a throng of people; they will take up positions against you on every side with large and small shields and with helmets. I will turn you over to them for punishment, and they will punish you according to their standards.

Ezekiel 23:25 (NIV)

²⁵ I will direct my jealous anger against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will cut off your noses and your ears, and those of you who are left will fall by the sword. They will take away your sons and daughters, and those of you who are left will be consumed by fire.

Ezekiel 23:26 (NIV)

²⁶ They will also strip you of your clothes and take your fine jewelry.

Ezekiel 23:27 (NIV)

²⁷ So I will put a stop to the lewdness and prostitution you began in Egypt. You will not look on these things with longing or remember Egypt anymore.

Ezekiel 23:28 (NIV)

²⁸ “For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am about to hand you over to those you hate, to those you turned away from in disgust.

Ezekiel 23:29 (NIV)

²⁹ They will deal with you in hatred and take away everything you have worked for. They will leave you naked and bare, and the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your lewdness and promiscuity

Ezekiel 23:30 (NIV)

³⁰ have brought this upon you, because you lusted after the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.

Ezekiel 23:31 (NIV)

³¹ You have gone the way of your sister; so I will put her cup into your hand.

Ezekiel 23:32 (NIV)

³² “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “You will drink your sister’s cup, a cup large and deep; it will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.

Ezekiel 23:33 (NIV)

³³ You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, the cup of ruin and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.

Ezekiel 23:34 (NIV)

³⁴ You will drink it and drain it dry; you will dash it to pieces and tear your breasts. I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 23:35 (NIV)

³⁵ “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Since you have forgotten me and thrust me behind your back, you must bear the consequences of your lewdness and prostitution.”

Ezekiel 23:36 (NIV)

³⁶ The Lord said to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then confront them with their detestable practices,

Ezekiel 23:37 (NIV)

³⁷ for they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; they even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, as food for them.

Ezekiel 23:38 (NIV)

³⁸ They have also done this to me: At that same time they defiled my sanctuary and desecrated my Sabbaths.

Ezekiel 23:39 (NIV)

³⁹ On the very day they sacrificed their children to their idols, they entered my sanctuary and desecrated it. That is what they did in my house.

Ezekiel 23:40 (NIV)

⁴⁰ “They even sent messengers for men who came from far away, and when they arrived you bathed yourself for them, painted your eyes and put on your jewelry.

Ezekiel 23:41 (NIV)

⁴¹ You sat on an elegant couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed the incense and oil that belonged to me.

Ezekiel 23:42 (NIV)

⁴² “The noise of a carefree crowd was around her; Sabeans were brought from the desert along with men from the rabble, and they put bracelets on the arms of the woman and her sister and beautiful crowns on their heads.

Ezekiel 23:43 (NKJV)

⁴³ Then I said concerning her who had grown old in adulteries, ‘Will they commit harlotry with her now, and she with them?’

Ezekiel 23:44 (AMP)

⁴⁴ Yet they went in to her as they go in to a woman who plays the harlot; so they went in to Aholah and to Aholibah [Israel and Judah], the lewd women.

Ezekiel 23:45 (NIV)

⁴⁵ But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of women who commit adultery and shed blood, because they are adulterous and blood is on their hands.

Ezekiel 23:46 (NIV)

⁴⁶ “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Bring a mob against them and give them over to terror and plunder.

Ezekiel 23:47 (NIV)

⁴⁷ The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.

Ezekiel 23:48 (NIV)

⁴⁸ “So I will put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not imitate you.

Ezekiel 23:49 (NIV)

⁴⁹ You will suffer the penalty for your lewdness and bear the consequences of your sins of idolatry. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.”

Ezekiel Chapter 24

Ezekiel 24:1 (NIV)

¹ In the ninth year, in the tenth month on the tenth day, the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 24:2 (NIV)

² “Son of man, record this date, this very date, because the king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.

Ezekiel 24:3 (NIV)

³ Tell this rebellious house a parable and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “‘Put on the cooking pot; put it on and pour water into it.

Ezekiel 24:4 (NIV)

⁴ Put into it the pieces of meat, all the choice pieces–the leg and the shoulder. Fill it with the best of these bones;

Ezekiel 24:5 (NIV)

⁵ take the pick of the flock. Pile wood beneath it for the bones; bring it to a boil and cook the bones in it.

Ezekiel 24:6 (NIV)

⁶ “‘For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “‘Woe to the city of bloodshed, to the pot now encrusted, whose deposit will not go away! Empty it piece by piece without casting lots for them.

Ezekiel 24:7 (NIV)

⁷ “‘For the blood she shed is in her midst: She poured it on the bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground, where the dust would cover it.

Ezekiel 24:8 (NIV)

⁸ To stir up wrath and take revenge I put her blood on the bare rock, so that it would not be covered.

Ezekiel 24:9 (NIV)

⁹ “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “‘Woe to the city of bloodshed! I, too, will pile the wood high.

Ezekiel 24:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ So heap on the wood and kindle the fire. Cook the meat well, mixing in the spices; and let the bones be charred.

Ezekiel 24:11 (NASB)

¹¹ “Then set it empty on its coals So that it may be hot And its bronze may glow And its filthiness may be melted in it, Its rust consumed.

Ezekiel 24:12 (NIV)

¹² It has frustrated all efforts; its heavy deposit has not been removed, not even by fire.

Ezekiel 24:13 (NIV)

¹³ “‘Now your impurity is lewdness. Because I tried to cleanse you but you would not be cleansed from your impurity, you will not be clean again until my wrath against you has subsided.

Ezekiel 24:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ “‘I the Lord have spoken. The time has come for me to act. I will not hold back; I will not have pity, nor will I relent. You will be judged according to your conduct and your actions, declares the Sovereign Lord.'”

Ezekiel 24:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 24:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ “Son of man, with one blow I am about to take away from you the delight of your eyes. Yet do not lament or weep or shed any tears.

Ezekiel 24:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Groan quietly; do not mourn for the dead. Keep your turban fastened and your sandals on your feet; do not cover the lower part of your face or eat the customary food [of mourners].”

Ezekiel 24:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. The next morning I did as I had been commanded.

Ezekiel 24:19 (AMP)

¹⁹ And the people said to me, Will you not tell us what these things are supposed to mean to us, that you are acting as you do?

Ezekiel 24:20 (NIV)

²⁰ So I said to them, “The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 24:21 (NIV)

²¹ Say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am about to desecrate my sanctuary–the stronghold in which you take pride, the delight of your eyes, the object of your affection. The sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 24:22 (NIV)

²² And you will do as I have done. You will not cover the lower part of your face or eat the customary food [of mourners].

Ezekiel 24:23 (NIV)

²³ You will keep your turbans on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep but will waste away because of your sins and groan among yourselves.

Ezekiel 24:24 (AMP)

²⁴ Thus Ezekiel is to you a sign; according to all that he has done you shall do. And when this [destruction of the temple] comes, you shall know, understand, and realize that I am the Lord God [the Sovereign Ruler, Who calls forth loyalty and obedient service].

Ezekiel 24:25 (AMP)

²⁵ And you, son of man, on the day when I take from them [My temple] their strength and their stronghold, their joy and their glory, the delight of their eyes and their hearts’ chief desire, and also [take] their sons and their daughters—

Ezekiel 24:26 (AMP)

²⁶ On that day an escaped fugitive shall come to you to cause you to hear of it [the destruction of Jerusalem] with your own ears.

Ezekiel 24:27 (NIV)

²⁷ At that time your mouth will be opened; you will speak with him and will no longer be silent. So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel Chapter 25

Ezekiel 25:1 (NIV)

¹ The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 25:2 (NIV)

² “Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites and prophesy against them.

Ezekiel 25:3 (NIV)

³ Say to them, ‘Hear the word of the Sovereign Lord. This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you said “Aha!” over my sanctuary when it was desecrated and over the land of Israel when it was laid waste and over the people of Judah when they went into exile,

Ezekiel 25:4 (NIV)

⁴ therefore I am going to give you to the people of the East as a possession. They will set up their camps and pitch their tents among you; they will eat your fruit and drink your milk.

Ezekiel 25:5 (AMP)

⁵ And I will make Rabbah [your chief city] a stable for camels and [the cities of] the Ammonites a fold for flocks. And you shall know (understand and realize) that I am the Lord [the Sovereign Ruler, Who calls forth loyalty and obedient service].

Ezekiel 25:6 (AMP)

⁶ For thus says the Lord God: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped with the feet and rejoiced [in heart] with all the contempt, malice, and spite that is in you against the land of Israel,

Ezekiel 25:7 (AMP)

⁷ Therefore behold, I have stretched out My hand against you and will hand you over for a prey and a spoil to the nations, and I will cut you off from the peoples and will cause you to perish and be lost out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then will you know (understand and realize) that I am the Lord [the Sovereign Ruler, Who calls forth loyalty and obedient service].

Ezekiel 25:8 (AMP)

⁸ Thus says the Lord God: Because Moab says, as does Seir [Edom], Behold, the house of Judah is like all the [heathen] nations,

Ezekiel 25:9 (NIV)

⁹ therefore I will expose the flank of Moab, beginning at its frontier towns–Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon and Kiriathaim–the glory of that land.

Ezekiel 25:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ I will give Moab along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, so that the Ammonites will not be remembered among the nations;

Ezekiel 25:11 (NIV)

¹¹ and I will inflict punishment on Moab. Then they will know that I am the Lord.'”

Ezekiel 25:12 (NASB)

¹² ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Because Edom has acted against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has incurred grievous guilt, and avenged themselves upon them,”

Ezekiel 25:13 (AMP)

¹³ Therefore thus says the Lord God: I will also stretch out My hand against Edom and will cut off and root out man and beast from it, and I will make it desolate; from Teman even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 25:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ I will take vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they will deal with Edom in accordance with my anger and my wrath; they will know my vengeance, declares the Sovereign Lord.'”

Ezekiel 25:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘Because the Philistines acted in vengeance and took revenge with malice in their hearts, and with ancient hostility sought to destroy Judah,

Ezekiel 25:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am about to stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Kerethites and destroy those remaining along the coast.

Ezekiel 25:17 (AMP)

¹⁷ And I will execute great vengeance upon them with wrathful rebukes and chastisements, and they shall know (understand and realize) that I am the Lord, when I lay My vengeance upon them.

Ezekiel Chapter 26

Ezekiel 26:1 (NIV)

¹ In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 26:2 (NIV)

² “Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken, and its doors have swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will prosper,’

Ezekiel 26:3 (NIV)

³ therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, O Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the sea casting up its waves.

Ezekiel 26:4 (NIV)

⁴ They will destroy the walls of Tyre and pull down her towers; I will scrape away her rubble and make her a bare rock.

Ezekiel 26:5 (NIV)

⁵ Out in the sea she will become a place to spread fishnets, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord. She will become plunder for the nations,

Ezekiel 26:6 (NIV)

⁶ and her settlements on the mainland will be ravaged by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 26:7 (NIV)

⁷ “For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: From the north I am going to bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with horsemen and a great army.

Ezekiel 26:8 (NIV)

⁸ He will ravage your settlements on the mainland with the sword; he will set up siege works against you, build a ramp up to your walls and raise his shields against you.

Ezekiel 26:9 (NIV)

⁹ He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and demolish your towers with his weapons.

Ezekiel 26:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ His horses will be so many that they will cover you with dust. Your walls will tremble at the noise of the war horses, wagons and chariots when he enters your gates as men enter a city whose walls have been broken through.

Ezekiel 26:11 (NIV)

¹¹ The hoofs of his horses will trample all your streets; he will kill your people with the sword, and your strong pillars will fall to the ground.

Ezekiel 26:12 (NIV)

¹² They will plunder your wealth and loot your merchandise; they will break down your walls and demolish your fine houses and throw your stones, timber and rubble into the sea.

Ezekiel 26:13 (NIV)

¹³ I will put an end to your noisy songs, and the music of your harps will be heard no more.

Ezekiel 26:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread fishnets. You will never be rebuilt, for I the Lord have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 26:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ “This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Tyre: Will not the coastlands tremble at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan and the slaughter takes place in you?

Ezekiel 26:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Then all the princes of the coast will step down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and take off their embroidered garments. Clothed with terror, they will sit on the ground, trembling every moment, appalled at you.

Ezekiel 26:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Then they will take up a lament concerning you and say to you: “‘How you are destroyed, O city of renown, peopled by men of the sea! You were a power on the seas, you and your citizens; you put your terror on all who lived there.

Ezekiel 26:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall; the islands in the sea are terrified at your collapse.’

Ezekiel 26:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When I make you a desolate city, like cities no longer inhabited, and when I bring the ocean depths over you and its vast waters cover you,

Ezekiel 26:20 (NIV)

²⁰ then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of long ago. I will make you dwell in the earth below, as in ancient ruins, with those who go down to the pit, and you will not return or take your place in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 26:21 (NIV)

²¹ I will bring you to a horrible end and you will be no more. You will be sought, but you will never again be found, declares the Sovereign Lord.”

Ezekiel Chapter 27

Ezekiel 27:1 (NIV)

¹ The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 27:2 (NIV)

² “Son of man, take up a lament concerning Tyre.

Ezekiel 27:3 (NIV)

³ Say to Tyre, situated at the gateway to the sea, merchant of peoples on many coasts, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “‘You say, O Tyre, “I am perfect in beauty.”

Ezekiel 27:4 (NIV)

⁴ Your domain was on the high seas; your builders brought your beauty to perfection.

Ezekiel 27:5 (NIV)

⁵ They made all your timbers of pine trees from Senir; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

Ezekiel 27:6 (NIV)

⁶ Of oaks from Bashan they made your oars; of cypress wood from the coasts of Cyprus they made your deck, inlaid with ivory.

Ezekiel 27:7 (NIV)

⁷ Fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail and served as your banner; your awnings were of blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah.

Ezekiel 27:8 (NIV)

⁸ Men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen; your skilled men, O Tyre, were aboard as your seamen.

Ezekiel 27:9 (NIV)

⁹ Veteran craftsmen of Gebal were on board as shipwrights to caulk your seams. All the ships of the sea and their sailors came alongside to trade for your wares.

Ezekiel 27:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ “‘Men of Persia, Lydia and Put served as soldiers in your army. They hung their shields and helmets on your walls, bringing you splendor.

Ezekiel 27:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Men of Arvad and Helech manned your walls on every side; men of Gammad were in your towers. They hung their shields around your walls; they brought your beauty to perfection.

Ezekiel 27:12 (NIV)

¹² “‘Tarshish did business with you because of your great wealth of goods; they exchanged silver, iron, tin and lead for your merchandise.

Ezekiel 27:13 (NIV)

¹³ “‘Greece, Tubal and Meshech traded with you; they exchanged slaves and articles of bronze for your wares.

Ezekiel 27:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ “‘Men of Beth Togarmah exchanged work horses, war horses and mules for your merchandise.

Ezekiel 27:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ “‘The men of Rhodes traded with you, and many coastlands were your customers; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony.

Ezekiel 27:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ “‘Aram did business with you because of your many products; they exchanged turquoise, purple fabric, embroidered work, fine linen, coral and rubies for your merchandise.

Ezekiel 27:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ “‘Judah and Israel traded with you; they exchanged wheat from Minnith and confections, honey, oil and balm for your wares.

Ezekiel 27:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ “‘Damascus, because of your many products and great wealth of goods, did business with you in wine from Helbon and wool from Zahar.

Ezekiel 27:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ “‘Danites and Greeks from Uzal bought your merchandise; they exchanged wrought iron, cassia and calamus for your wares.

Ezekiel 27:20 (NIV)

²⁰ “‘Dedan traded in saddle blankets with you.

Ezekiel 27:21 (NIV)

²¹ “‘Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your customers; they did business with you in lambs, rams and goats.

Ezekiel 27:22 (NIV)

²² “‘The merchants of Sheba and Raamah traded with you; for your merchandise they exchanged the finest of all kinds of spices and precious stones, and gold.

Ezekiel 27:23 (NIV)

²³ “‘Haran, Canneh and Eden and merchants of Sheba, Asshur and Kilmad traded with you.

Ezekiel 27:24 (NIV)

²⁴ In your marketplace they traded with you beautiful garments, blue fabric, embroidered work and multicolored rugs with cords twisted and tightly knotted.

Ezekiel 27:25 (NIV)

²⁵ “‘The ships of Tarshish serve as carriers for your wares. You are filled with heavy cargo in the heart of the sea.

Ezekiel 27:26 (NIV)

²⁶ Your oarsmen take you out to the high seas. But the east wind will break you to pieces in the heart of the sea.

Ezekiel 27:27 (NIV)

²⁷ Your wealth, merchandise and wares, your mariners, seamen and shipwrights, your merchants and all your soldiers, and everyone else on board will sink into the heart of the sea on the day of your shipwreck.

Ezekiel 27:28 (NIV)

²⁸ The shorelands will quake when your seamen cry out.

Ezekiel 27:29 (NIV)

²⁹ All who handle the oars will abandon their ships; the mariners and all the seamen will stand on the shore.

Ezekiel 27:30 (NIV)

³⁰ They will raise their voice and cry bitterly over you; they will sprinkle dust on their heads and roll in ashes.

Ezekiel 27:31 (NIV)

³¹ They will shave their heads because of you and will put on sackcloth. They will weep over you with anguish of soul and with bitter mourning.

Ezekiel 27:32 (NIV)

³² As they wail and mourn over you, they will take up a lament concerning you: “Who was ever silenced like Tyre, surrounded by the sea?”

Ezekiel 27:33 (NIV)

³³ When your merchandise went out on the seas, you satisfied many nations; with your great wealth and your wares you enriched the kings of the earth.

Ezekiel 27:34 (NIV)

³⁴ Now you are shattered by the sea in the depths of the waters; your wares and all your company have gone down with you.

Ezekiel 27:35 (NIV)

³⁵ All who live in the coastlands are appalled at you; their kings shudder with horror and their faces are distorted with fear.

Ezekiel 27:36 (NIV)

³⁶ The merchants among the nations hiss at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.'”

Ezekiel Chapter 28

Ezekiel 28:1 (NIV)

¹ The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 28:2 (NIV)

² “Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “‘In the pride of your heart you say, “I am a god; I sit on the throne of a god in the heart of the seas.” But you are a man and not a god, though you think you are as wise as a god.

Ezekiel 28:3 (NIV)

³ Are you wiser than Daniel? Is no secret hidden from you?

Ezekiel 28:4 (NIV)

⁴ By your wisdom and understanding you have gained wealth for yourself and amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.

Ezekiel 28:5 (NIV)

⁵ By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, and because of your wealth your heart has grown proud.

Ezekiel 28:6 (NIV)

⁶ “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “‘Because you think you are wise, as wise as a god,

Ezekiel 28:7 (NIV)

⁷ I am going to bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations; they will draw their swords against your beauty and wisdom and pierce your shining splendor.

Ezekiel 28:8 (NIV)

⁸ They will bring you down to the pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas.

Ezekiel 28:9 (NIV)

⁹ Will you then say, “I am a god,” in the presence of those who kill you? You will be but a man, not a god, in the hands of those who slay you.

Ezekiel 28:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ You will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hands of foreigners. I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.'”

Ezekiel 28:11 (NIV)

¹¹ The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 28:12 (NIV)-M

¹² “Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king of Tyre [referring to Lucifer or Satan-who influenced this pagan king] and say to him: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “‘You were the model of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

Ezekiel 28:13 (7KB)

¹³ You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering: The sardius, topaz, and diamond, Beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold. The workmanship of your [musical instruments] timbrels and pipes was prepared [within] you on the day you were created.

Ezekiel 28:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ “You were the anointed cherub who covers, And I placed you there. You were on the holy mountain of God; You walked in the midst of the stones of fire.

Ezekiel 28:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ “You were blameless in your ways From the day you were created Until unrighteousness was found in you.

Ezekiel 28:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ “By the abundance of your trade You were internally filled with violence, And you sinned; Therefore I have cast you as profane From the mountain of God. And I have destroyed you, O covering cherub, From the midst of the stones of fire.

Ezekiel 28:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. So I threw you to the earth; I made a spectacle of you before kings.

Ezekiel 28:18 (NASB)

¹⁸ “By the multitude of your iniquities, In the unrighteousness of your trade You profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought fire from the midst of you; It has consumed you, And I have turned you to ashes on the earth In the eyes of all who see you.

Ezekiel 28:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ All the nations who knew you are appalled at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.'”

Ezekiel 28:20 (NIV)

²⁰ The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 28:21 (NIV)

²¹ “Son of man, set your face against Sidon; prophesy against her

Ezekiel 28:22 (NIV)

²² and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “‘I am against you, O Sidon, and I will gain glory within you. They will know that I am the Lord, when I inflict punishment on her and show myself holy within her.

Ezekiel 28:23 (NIV)

²³ I will send a plague upon her and make blood flow in her streets. The slain will fall within her, with the sword against her on every side. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 28:24 (NIV)

²⁴ “‘No longer will the people of Israel have malicious neighbors who are painful briers and sharp thorns. Then they will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 28:25 (NIV)

²⁵ “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When I gather the people of Israel from the nations where they have been scattered, I will show myself holy among them in the sight of the nations. Then they will live in their own land, which I gave to my servant Jacob.

Ezekiel 28:26 (NIV)

²⁶ They will live there in safety and will build houses and plant vineyards; they will live in safety when I inflict punishment on all their neighbors who maligned them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.'”

Ezekiel Chapter 29

Ezekiel 29:1 (NIV)

¹ In the tenth year, in the tenth month on the twelfth day, the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 29:2 (NIV)

² “Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.

Ezekiel 29:3 (NIV)

³ Speak to him and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “‘I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, you great monster lying among your streams. You say, “The Nile is mine; I made it for myself.”

Ezekiel 29:4 (NIV)

⁴ But I will put hooks in your jaws and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales. I will pull you out from among your streams, with all the fish sticking to your scales.

Ezekiel 29:5 (NIV)

⁵ I will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field and not be gathered or picked up. I will give you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the air.

Ezekiel 29:6 (NIV)

⁶ Then all who live in Egypt will know that I am the Lord. “‘You have been a staff of reed for the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 29:7 (NIV)

⁷ When they grasped you with their hands, you splintered and you tore open their shoulders; when they leaned on you, you broke and their backs were wrenched.

Ezekiel 29:8 (NIV)

⁸ “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will bring a sword against you and kill your men and their animals.

Ezekiel 29:9 (NIV)

⁹ Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the Lord. “‘Because you said, “The Nile is mine; I made it,”

Ezekiel 29:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ therefore I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt a ruin and a desolate waste from Migdol to Aswan, as far as the border of Cush.

Ezekiel 29:11 (NIV)

¹¹ No foot of man or animal will pass through it; no one will live there for forty years.

Ezekiel 29:12 (NIV)

¹² I will make the land of Egypt desolate among devastated lands, and her cities will lie desolate forty years among ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the countries.

Ezekiel 29:13 (NIV)

¹³ “‘Yet this is what the Sovereign Lord says: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations where they were scattered.

Ezekiel 29:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ I will bring them back from captivity and return them to Upper Egypt, the land of their ancestry. There they will be a lowly kingdom.

Ezekiel 29:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ It will be the lowliest of kingdoms and will never again exalt itself above the other nations. I will make it so weak that it will never again rule over the nations.

Ezekiel 29:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Egypt will no longer be a source of confidence for the people of Israel but will be a reminder of their sin in turning to her for help. Then they will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.'”

Ezekiel 29:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month on the first day, the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 29:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon drove his army in a hard campaign against Tyre; every head was rubbed bare and every shoulder made raw. Yet he and his army got no reward from the campaign he led against Tyre.

Ezekiel 29:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am going to give Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will carry off its wealth. He will loot and plunder the land as pay for his army.

Ezekiel 29:20 (NIV)

²⁰ I have given him Egypt as a reward for his efforts because he and his army did it for me, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 29:21 (NIV)

²¹ “On that day I will make a horn grow for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth among them. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel Chapter 30

Ezekiel 30:1 (NIV)

¹ The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 30:2 (NIV)

² “Son of man, prophesy and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “‘Wail and say, “Alas for that day!”

Ezekiel 30:3 (NIV)

³ For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near– a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.

Ezekiel 30:4 (NIV)

⁴ A sword will come against Egypt, and anguish will come upon Cush. When the slain fall in Egypt, her wealth will be carried away and her foundations torn down.

Ezekiel 30:5 (NIV)

⁵ Cush and Put, Lydia and all Arabia, Libya and the people of the covenant land will fall by the sword along with Egypt.

Ezekiel 30:6 (NIV)

⁶ “‘This is what the Lord says: “‘The allies of Egypt will fall and her proud strength will fail. From Migdol to Aswan they will fall by the sword within her, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 30:7 (NIV)

⁷ “‘They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will lie among ruined cities.

Ezekiel 30:8 (NIV)

⁸ Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I set fire to Egypt and all her helpers are crushed.

Ezekiel 30:9 (NIV)

⁹ “‘On that day messengers will go out from me in ships to frighten Cush out of her complacency. Anguish will take hold of them on the day of Egypt’s doom, for it is sure to come.

Ezekiel 30:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “‘I will put an end to the hordes of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

Ezekiel 30:11 (NIV)

¹¹ He and his army–the most ruthless of nations– will be brought in to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.

Ezekiel 30:12 (NIV)

¹² I will dry up the streams of the Nile and sell the land to evil men; by the hand of foreigners I will lay waste the land and everything in it. I the Lord have spoken.

Ezekiel 30:13 (NIV)

¹³ “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “‘I will destroy the idols and put an end to the images in Memphis. No longer will there be a prince in Egypt, and I will spread fear throughout the land.

Ezekiel 30:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ I will lay waste Upper Egypt, set fire to Zoan and inflict punishment on Thebes.

Ezekiel 30:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ I will pour out my wrath on Pelusium, the stronghold of Egypt, and cut off the hordes of Thebes.

Ezekiel 30:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ I will set fire to Egypt; Pelusium will writhe in agony. Thebes will be taken by storm; Memphis will be in constant distress.

Ezekiel 30:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ The young men of Heliopolis and Bubastis will fall by the sword, and the cities themselves will go into captivity.

Ezekiel 30:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Dark will be the day at Tahpanhes when I break the yoke of Egypt; there her proud strength will come to an end. She will be covered with clouds, and her villages will go into captivity.

Ezekiel 30:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ So I will inflict punishment on Egypt, and they will know that I am the Lord.'”

Ezekiel 30:20 (NIV)

²⁰ In the eleventh year, in the first month on the seventh day, the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 30:21 (NIV)

²¹ “Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. It has not been bound up for healing or put in a splint so as to become strong enough to hold a sword.

Ezekiel 30:22 (NIV)

²² Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt. I will break both his arms, the good arm as well as the broken one, and make the sword fall from his hand.

Ezekiel 30:23 (NIV)

²³ I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the countries.

Ezekiel 30:24 (NIV)

²⁴ I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before him like a mortally wounded man.

Ezekiel 30:25 (NIV)

²⁵ I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall limp. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he brandishes it against Egypt.

Ezekiel 30:26 (NIV)

²⁶ I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the countries. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel Chapter 31

Ezekiel 31:1 (NIV)

¹ In the eleventh year, in the third month on the first day, the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 31:2 (NIV)

² “Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes: “‘Who can be compared with you in majesty?

Ezekiel 31:3 (NIV)

³ Consider Assyria, once a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches overshadowing the forest; it towered on high, its top above the thick foliage.

Ezekiel 31:4 (NIV)

⁴ The waters nourished it, deep springs made it grow tall; their streams flowed all around its base and sent their channels to all the trees of the field.

Ezekiel 31:5 (NIV)

⁵ So it towered higher than all the trees of the field; its boughs increased and its branches grew long, spreading because of abundant waters.

Ezekiel 31:6 (AMP)

⁶ All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs, and under its branches all the wild beasts of the field brought forth their young and under its shadow dwelt all of the great nations.

Ezekiel 31:7 (NIV)

⁷ It was majestic in beauty, with its spreading boughs, for its roots went down to abundant waters.

Ezekiel 31:8 (NIV)

⁸ The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor could the pine trees equal its boughs, nor could the plane trees compare with its branches– no tree in the garden of God could match its beauty.

Ezekiel 31:9 (AMP)

⁹ I made it beautiful with the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden that were in the garden of God envied it [Assyria].

Ezekiel 31:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because it towered on high, lifting its top above the thick foliage, and because it was proud of its height,

Ezekiel 31:11 (AMP)

¹¹ I will even deliver it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with it. I have driven it out for its wickedness and lawlessness.

Ezekiel 31:12 (NIV)

¹² and the most ruthless of foreign nations cut it down and left it. Its boughs fell on the mountains and in all the valleys; its branches lay broken in all the ravines of the land. All the nations of the earth came out from under its shade and left it.

Ezekiel 31:13 (AMP)

¹³ Upon its ruins all the birds of the heavens will dwell, and all the wild beasts of the field will be upon [Assyria’s fallen] branches.

Ezekiel 31:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Therefore no other trees by the waters are ever to tower proudly on high, lifting their tops above the thick foliage. No other trees so well-watered are ever to reach such a height; they are all destined for death, for the earth below, among mortal men, with those who go down to the pit.

Ezekiel 31:15 (AMP)

¹⁵ Thus says the Lord God: When [Assyria] goes down to Sheol (the place of the dead), I will cause a mourning; I will cover the deep for it and I will restrain its floods, and the many waters [that contributed to its prosperity] will be stayed; and I will cause Lebanon to be in black gloom and to mourn for it, and all the trees of the field, dismayed, will faint because of it.

Ezekiel 31:16 (AMP)

¹⁶ I will make the nations quake at the sound of its fall when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit, and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all [the trees] that drink water, will be comforted in the netherworld [at Assyria’s downfall].

Ezekiel 31:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Those who lived in its shade, its allies among the nations, had also gone down to the grave with it, joining those killed by the sword.

Ezekiel 31:18 (AMP)

¹⁸ To whom [O Egypt] among the trees of Eden are you thus like in glory and in greatness? Yet you [also] shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the netherworld. You shall lie among the uncircumcised heathen with those who are slain by the sword. This is how it shall be with Pharaoh and all the multitude of his strength, his tumult, and his store [of wealth and glory], says the Lord God.

Ezekiel Chapter 32

Ezekiel 32:1 (AMP)

¹ IN THE twelfth year [after King Jehoiachin of Judah was taken into exile by the king of Babylon], in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 32:2 (NIV)

² “Son of man, take up a lament concerning Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: “‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas thrashing about in your streams, churning the water with your feet and muddying the streams.

Ezekiel 32:3 (NIV)

³ “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “‘With a great throng of people I will cast my net over you, and they will haul you up in my net.

Ezekiel 32:4 (NIV)

⁴ I will throw you on the land and hurl you on the open field. I will let all the birds of the air settle on you and all the beasts of the earth gorge themselves on you.

Ezekiel 32:5 (NIV)

⁵ I will spread your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your remains.

Ezekiel 32:6 (NIV)

⁶ I will drench the land with your flowing blood all the way to the mountains, and the ravines will be filled with your flesh.

Ezekiel 32:7 (NIV)

⁷ When I snuff you out, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.

Ezekiel 32:8 (NIV)

⁸ All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you; I will bring darkness over your land, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 32:9 (NIV)

⁹ I will trouble the hearts of many peoples when I bring about your destruction among the nations, among lands you have not known.

Ezekiel 32:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ I will cause many peoples to be appalled at you, and their kings will shudder with horror because of you when I brandish my sword before them. On the day of your downfall each of them will tremble every moment for his life.

Ezekiel 32:11 (NIV)

¹¹ “‘For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “‘The sword of the king of Babylon will come against you.

Ezekiel 32:12 (NIV)

¹² I will cause your hordes to fall by the swords of mighty men– the most ruthless of all nations. They will shatter the pride of Egypt, and all her hordes will be overthrown.

Ezekiel 32:13 (NIV)

¹³ I will destroy all her cattle from beside abundant waters no longer to be stirred by the foot of man or muddied by the hoofs of cattle.

Ezekiel 32:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Then I will let her waters settle and make her streams flow like oil, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 32:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ When I make Egypt desolate and strip the land of everything in it, when I strike down all who live there, then they will know that I am the Lord.’

Ezekiel 32:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ “This is the lament they will chant for her. The daughters of the nations will chant it; for Egypt and all her hordes they will chant it, declares the Sovereign Lord.”

Ezekiel 32:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 32:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ “Son of man, wail for the hordes of Egypt and consign to the earth below both her and the daughters of mighty nations, with those who go down to the pit.

Ezekiel 32:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Say to them, ‘Are you more favored than others? Go down and be laid among the uncircumcised.’

Ezekiel 32:20 (NIV)

²⁰ They will fall among those killed by the sword. The sword is drawn; let her be dragged off with all her hordes.

Ezekiel 32:21 (NIV)

²¹ From within the grave the mighty leaders will say of Egypt and her allies, ‘They have come down and they lie with the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword.’

Ezekiel 32:22 (NIV)

²² “Assyria is there with her whole army; she is surrounded by the graves of all her slain, all who have fallen by the sword.

Ezekiel 32:23 (NIV)

²³ Their graves are in the depths of the pit and her army lies around her grave. All who had spread terror in the land of the living are slain, fallen by the sword.

Ezekiel 32:24 (NIV)

²⁴ “Elam is there, with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword. All who had spread terror in the land of the living went down uncircumcised to the earth below. They bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.

Ezekiel 32:25 (NIV)

²⁵ A bed is made for her among the slain, with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword. Because their terror had spread in the land of the living, they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit; they are laid among the slain.

Ezekiel 32:26 (NIV)

²⁶ “Meshech and Tubal are there, with all their hordes around their graves. All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword because they spread their terror in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 32:27 (NIV)

²⁷ Do they not lie with the other uncircumcised warriors who have fallen, who went down to the grave with their weapons of war, whose swords were placed under their heads? The punishment for their sins rested on their bones, though the terror of these warriors had stalked through the land of the living.

Ezekiel 32:28 (NIV)

²⁸ “You too, O Pharaoh, will be broken and will lie among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword.

Ezekiel 32:29 (NIV)

²⁹ “Edom is there, her kings and all her princes; despite their power, they are laid with those killed by the sword. They lie with the uncircumcised, with those who go down to the pit.

Ezekiel 32:30 (NIV)

³⁰ “All the princes of the north and all the Sidonians are there; they went down with the slain in disgrace despite the terror caused by their power. They lie uncircumcised with those killed by the sword and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.

Ezekiel 32:31 (NIV)

³¹ “Pharaoh–he and all his army–will see them and he will be consoled for all his hordes that were killed by the sword, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 32:32 (NIV)

³² Although I had him spread terror in the land of the living, Pharaoh and all his hordes will be laid among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword, declares the Sovereign Lord.”

Ezekiel Chapter 33

Ezekiel 33:1 (NIV)

¹ The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 33:2 (NIV)

² “Son of man, speak to your countrymen and say to them: ‘When I bring the sword against a land, and the people of the land choose one of their men and make him their watchman,

Ezekiel 33:3 (NIV)

³ and he sees the sword coming against the land and blows the trumpet to warn the people,

Ezekiel 33:4 (NIV)

⁴ then if anyone hears the trumpet but does not take warning and the sword comes and takes his life, his blood will be on his own head.

Ezekiel 33:5 (NIV)

⁵ Since he heard the sound of the trumpet but did not take warning, his blood will be on his own head. If he had taken warning, he would have saved himself.

Ezekiel 33:6 (NIV)

⁶ But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes and takes the life of one of them, that man will be taken away because of his sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for his blood.’

Ezekiel 33:7 (NIV)

⁷ “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me.

Ezekiel 33:8 (NIV)

⁸ When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ and you do not speak out to dissuade him from his ways, that wicked man will die for his sin, and I will hold you accountable for his blood.

Ezekiel 33:9 (NIV)

⁹ But if you do warn the wicked man to turn from his ways and he does not do so, he will die for his sin, but you will have saved yourself.

Ezekiel 33:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ “Son of man, say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what you are saying: “Our offenses and sins weigh us down, and we are wasting away because of them. How then can we live?”‘

Ezekiel 33:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, O house of Israel?’

Ezekiel 33:12 (NIV)

¹² “Therefore, son of man, say to your countrymen, ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not save him when he disobeys, and the wickedness of the wicked man will not cause him to fall when he turns from it. The righteous man, if he sins, will not be allowed to live because of his former righteousness.’

Ezekiel 33:13 (NIV)

¹³ If I tell the righteous man that he will surely live, but then he trusts in his righteousness and does evil, none of the righteous things he has done will be remembered; he will die for the evil he has done.

Ezekiel 33:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ And if I say to the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ but he then turns away from his sin and does what is just and right–

Ezekiel 33:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ if he gives back what he took in pledge for a loan, returns what he has stolen, follows the decrees that give life, and does no evil, he will surely live; he will not die.

Ezekiel 33:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ None of the sins he has committed will be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he will surely live.

Ezekiel 33:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ “Yet your countrymen say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just.

Ezekiel 33:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and does evil, he will die for it.

Ezekiel 33:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ And if a wicked man turns away from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live by doing so.

Ezekiel 33:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Yet, O house of Israel, you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But I will judge each of you according to his own ways.”

Ezekiel 33:21 (NIV)

²¹ In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month on the fifth day, a man who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has fallen!”

Ezekiel 33:22 (NIV)

²² Now the evening before the man arrived, the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he opened my mouth before the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer silent.

Ezekiel 33:23 (NIV)

²³ Then the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 33:24 (NIV)

²⁴ “Son of man, the people living in those ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as our possession.’

Ezekiel 33:25 (NIV)

²⁵ Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Since you eat meat with the blood still in it and look to your idols and shed blood, should you then possess the land?

Ezekiel 33:26 (NIV)

²⁶ You rely on your sword, you do detestable things, and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. Should you then possess the land?’

Ezekiel 33:27 (NIV)

²⁷ “Say this to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, those who are left in the ruins will fall by the sword, those out in the country I will give to the wild animals to be devoured, and those in strongholds and caves will die of a plague.

Ezekiel 33:28 (NIV)

²⁸ I will make the land a desolate waste, and her proud strength will come to an end, and the mountains of Israel will become desolate so that no one will cross them.

Ezekiel 33:29 (NIV)

²⁹ Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have made the land a desolate waste because of all the detestable things they have done.’

Ezekiel 33:30 (NIV)

³⁰ “As for you, son of man, your countrymen are talking together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, saying to each other, ‘Come and hear the message that has come from the Lord.’

Ezekiel 33:31 (NIV)

³¹ My people come to you, as they usually do, and sit before you to listen to your words, but they do not put them into practice. With their mouths they express devotion, but their hearts are greedy for unjust gain.

Ezekiel 33:32 (NIV)

³² Indeed, to them you are nothing more than one who sings love songs with a beautiful voice and plays an instrument well, for they hear your words but do not put them into practice.

Ezekiel 33:33 (NIV)

³³ “When all this comes true–and it surely will–then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”

Ezekiel Chapter 34

Ezekiel 34:1 (NIV)

¹ The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 34:2 (NIV)

² “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who only take care of themselves! Should not shepherds take care of the flock?

Ezekiel 34:3 (NIV)

³ You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock.

Ezekiel 34:4 (NIV)

⁴ You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally.

Ezekiel 34:5 (NIV)

⁵ So they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild animals.

Ezekiel 34:6 (NIV)

⁶ My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. They were scattered over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them.

Ezekiel 34:7 (NIV)

⁷ “‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:

Ezekiel 34:8 (NIV)

⁸ As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, because my flock lacks a shepherd and so has been plundered and has become food for all the wild animals, and because my shepherds did not search for my flock but cared for themselves rather than for my flock,

Ezekiel 34:9 (NIV)

⁹ therefore, O shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:

Ezekiel 34:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock. I will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves. I will rescue my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.

Ezekiel 34:11 (NIV)

¹¹ “‘For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself will search for my sheep and look after them.

Ezekiel 34:12 (NIV)

¹² As a shepherd looks after his scattered flock when he is with them, so will I look after my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.

Ezekiel 34:13 (NIV)

¹³ I will bring them out from the nations and gather them from the countries, and I will bring them into their own land. I will pasture them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines and in all the settlements in the land.

Ezekiel 34:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ I will tend them in a good pasture, and the mountain heights of Israel will be their grazing land. There they will lie down in good grazing land, and there they will feed in a rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.

Ezekiel 34:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ I myself will tend my sheep and have them lie down, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 34:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd the flock with justice.

Ezekiel 34:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ “‘As for you, my flock, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will judge between one sheep and another, and between rams and goats.

Ezekiel 34:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of your pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?

Ezekiel 34:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Must my flock feed on what you have trampled and drink what you have muddied with your feet?

Ezekiel 34:20 (NIV)

²⁰ “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says to them: See, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

Ezekiel 34:21 (NIV)

²¹ Because you shove with flank and shoulder, butting all the weak sheep with your horns until you have driven them away,

Ezekiel 34:22 (NIV)

²² I will save my flock, and they will no longer be plundered. I will judge between one sheep and another.

Ezekiel 34:23 (NIV)

²³ I will place over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he will tend them; he will tend them and be their shepherd.

Ezekiel 34:24 (NIV)

²⁴ I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David will be prince among them. I the Lord have spoken.

Ezekiel 34:25 (NIV)

²⁵ “‘I will make a covenant of peace with them and rid the land of wild beasts so that they may live in the desert and sleep in the forests in safety.

Ezekiel 34:26 (NIV)

²⁶ I will bless them and the places surrounding my hill. I will send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessing.

Ezekiel 34:27 (NIV)

²⁷ The trees of the field will yield their fruit and the ground will yield its crops; the people will be secure in their land. They will know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hands of those who enslaved them.

Ezekiel 34:28 (NIV)

²⁸ They will no longer be plundered by the nations, nor will wild animals devour them. They will live in safety, and no one will make them afraid.

Ezekiel 34:29 (NIV)

²⁹ I will provide for them a land renowned for its crops, and they will no longer be victims of famine in the land or bear the scorn of the nations.

Ezekiel 34:30 (NIV)

³⁰ Then they will know that I, the Lord their God, am with them and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 34:31 (NIV)

³¹ You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are people, and I am your God, declares the Sovereign Lord.'”

Ezekiel Chapter 35

Ezekiel 35:1 (NIV)

¹ The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 35:2 (NIV)

² “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir; prophesy against it

Ezekiel 35:3 (NIV)

³ and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you and make you a desolate waste.

Ezekiel 35:4 (NIV)

⁴ I will turn your towns into ruins and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 35:5 (NIV)

⁵ “‘Because you harbored an ancient hostility and delivered the Israelites over to the sword at the time of their calamity, the time their punishment reached its climax,

Ezekiel 35:6 (NIV)

⁶ therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.

Ezekiel 35:7 (NIV)

⁷ I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and cut off from it all who come and go.

Ezekiel 35:8 (NIV)

⁸ I will fill your mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines.

Ezekiel 35:9 (NIV)

⁹ I will make you desolate forever; your towns will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 35:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ “‘Because you have said, “These two nations and countries will be ours and we will take possession of them,” even though I the Lord was there,

Ezekiel 35:11 (NIV)

¹¹ therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will treat you in accordance with the anger and jealousy you showed in your hatred of them and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.

Ezekiel 35:12 (NIV)

¹² Then you will know that I the Lord have heard all the contemptible things you have said against the mountains of Israel. You said, “They have been laid waste and have been given over to us to devour.”

Ezekiel 35:13 (NIV)

¹³ You boasted against me and spoke against me without restraint, and I heard it.

Ezekiel 35:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

Ezekiel 35:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Because you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, that is how I will treat you. You will be desolate, O Mount Seir, you and all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the Lord.'”

Ezekiel Chapter 36

Ezekiel 36:1 (NIV)

¹ “Son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say, ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord.

Ezekiel 36:2 (NIV)

² This is what the Sovereign Lord says: The enemy said of you, “Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession.”‘

Ezekiel 36:3 (NIV)

³ Therefore prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because they ravaged and hounded you from every side so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations and the object of people’s malicious talk and slander,

Ezekiel 36:4 (NIV)

⁴ therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign Lord: This is what the Sovereign Lord says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and the deserted towns that have been plundered and ridiculed by the rest of the nations around you–

Ezekiel 36:5 (NIV)

⁵ this is what the Sovereign Lord says: In my burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, for with glee and with malice in their hearts they made my land their own possession so that they might plunder its pastureland.’

Ezekiel 36:6 (NIV)

⁶ Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I speak in my jealous wrath because you have suffered the scorn of the nations.

Ezekiel 36:7 (NIV)

⁷ Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I swear with uplifted hand that the nations around you will also suffer scorn.

Ezekiel 36:8 (CJB)-M

⁸ But you, mountains of Israel, you will sprout your branches and bear your fruit for my people Israel, who will soon return.

Ezekiel 36:9 (NIV)

⁹ I am concerned for you and will look on you with favor; you will be plowed and sown,

Ezekiel 36:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ and I will multiply the number of people upon you, even the whole house of Israel. The towns will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.

Ezekiel 36:11 (NIV)

¹¹ I will increase the number of men and animals upon you, and they will be fruitful and become numerous. I will settle people on you as in the past and will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 36:12 (NIV)

¹² I will cause people, my people Israel, to walk upon you. They will possess you, and you will be their inheritance; you will never again deprive them of their children.

Ezekiel 36:13 (CJB)-M

¹³ the Sovereign Lord says, “Because they say to you, ‘Land, you devour people and make your nations childless,’

Ezekiel 36:14 (CJB)-M

¹⁴ therefore you will no longer devour people, and you will not make your nations childless any more,” says the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 36:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ “I will not let you hear insults from the nations anymore, nor will you bear disgrace from the peoples any longer, nor will you cause your nation to stumble any longer,” declares the Lord GOD.'”

Ezekiel 36:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ Then the word of the Lord came to me saying,

Ezekiel 36:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ “Son of man, when the people of Israel were living in their own land, they defiled it by their conduct and their actions. Their conduct was like a woman’s monthly uncleanness in my sight.

Ezekiel 36:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ So I poured out my wrath on them because they had shed blood in the land and because they had defiled it with their idols.

Ezekiel 36:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered through the countries; I judged them according to their conduct and their actions.

Ezekiel 36:20 (NIV)

²⁰ And wherever they went among the nations they profaned my holy name, for it was said of them, ‘These are the Lord’s people, and yet they had to leave his land.’

Ezekiel 36:21 (NIV)

²¹ I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel profaned among the nations where they had gone.

Ezekiel 36:22 (NIV)

²² “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have gone.

Ezekiel 36:23 (NIV)

²³ I will show the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Sovereign Lord, when I show myself holy through you before their eyes.

Ezekiel 36:24 (NIV)

²⁴ “‘For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land.

Ezekiel 36:25 (NIV)

²⁵ I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols.

Ezekiel 36:26 (NIV)

²⁶ I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

Ezekiel 36:27 (NIV)

²⁷ And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.

Ezekiel 36:28 (NIV)

²⁸ You will live in the land I gave your forefathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God.

Ezekiel 36:29 (NIV)

²⁹ I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and make it plentiful and will not bring famine upon you.

Ezekiel 36:30 (NIV)

³⁰ I will increase the fruit of the trees and the crops of the field, so that you will no longer suffer disgrace among the nations because of famine.

Ezekiel 36:31 (NIV)

³¹ Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your sins and detestable practices.

Ezekiel 36:32 (NIV)

³² I want you to know that I am not doing this for your sake, declares the Sovereign Lord. Be ashamed and disgraced for your conduct, O house of Israel!

Ezekiel 36:33 (NIV)

³³ “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will resettle your towns, and the ruins will be rebuilt.

Ezekiel 36:34 (NIV)

³⁴ The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through it.

Ezekiel 36:35 (NIV)

³⁵ They will say, “This land that was laid waste has become like the garden of Eden; the cities that were lying in ruins, desolate and destroyed, are now fortified and inhabited.”

Ezekiel 36:36 (NIV)

³⁶ Then the nations around you that remain will know that I the Lord have rebuilt what was destroyed and have replanted what was desolate. I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.’

Ezekiel 36:37 (NASB)

³⁷ ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “This also I will let the house of Israel ask Me to do for them: I will increase their men like a flock.

Ezekiel 36:38 (NIV)

³⁸ as numerous as the flocks for offerings at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts. So will the ruined cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel Chapter 37

Ezekiel 37:1 (NIV)

¹ The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones.

Ezekiel 37:2 (NIV)

² He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry.

Ezekiel 37:3 (NIV)

³ He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I said, “O Sovereign Lord, you alone know.”

Ezekiel 37:4 (NIV)

⁴ Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!

Ezekiel 37:5 (NIV)

⁵ This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life.

Ezekiel 37:6 (NIV)

⁶ I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.'”

Ezekiel 37:7 (NIV)

⁷ So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone.

Ezekiel 37:8 (NIV)

⁸ I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.

Ezekiel 37:9 (NIV)

⁹ Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, that they may live.'”

Ezekiel 37:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet–a vast army.

Ezekiel 37:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’

Ezekiel 37:12 (NIV)

¹² Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: O my people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel.

Ezekiel 37:13 (NIV)

¹³ Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.

Ezekiel 37:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord.'”

Ezekiel 37:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 37:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ “Son of man, take a stick of wood and write on it, ‘Belonging to Judah and the Israelites associated with him.’ Then take another stick of wood, and write on it, ‘Ephraim’s stick, belonging to Joseph and all the house of Israel associated with him.’

Ezekiel 37:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Join them together into one stick so that they will become one in your hand.

Ezekiel 37:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ “When your countrymen ask you, ‘Won’t you tell us what you mean by this?’

Ezekiel 37:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am going to take the stick of Joseph–which is in Ephraim’s hand–and of the Israelite tribes associated with him, and join it to Judah’s stick, making them a single stick of wood, and they will become one in my hand.’

Ezekiel 37:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Hold before their eyes the sticks you have written on

Ezekiel 37:21 (NIV)

²¹ and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land.

Ezekiel 37:22 (NIV)

²² I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms.

Ezekiel 37:23 (NIV)

²³ They will no longer defile themselves with their idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, for I will save them from all their sinful backsliding, and I will cleanse them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 37:24 (NIV)

²⁴ “‘My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd. They will follow my laws and be careful to keep my decrees.

Ezekiel 37:25 (NIV)

²⁵ They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children’s children will live there forever, and David my servant will be their prince forever.

Ezekiel 37:26 (NIV)

²⁶ I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and increase their numbers, and I will put my sanctuary among them forever.

Ezekiel 37:27 (NIV)

²⁷ My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Ezekiel 37:28 (NIV)

²⁸ Then the nations will know that I the Lord make Israel holy, when my sanctuary is among them forever.'”

Ezekiel Chapter 38

Ezekiel 38:1 (NIV)

¹ The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 38:2 (NIV)

² “Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal; prophesy against him

Ezekiel 38:3 (NIV)

³ and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.

Ezekiel 38:4 (NIV)

⁴ I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army–your horses, your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords.

Ezekiel 38:5 (NIV)

⁵ Persia, Cush and Put will be with them, all with shields and helmets,

Ezekiel 38:6 (NIV)

⁶ also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah from the far north with all its troops–the many nations with you.

Ezekiel 38:7 (NIV)

⁷ “‘Get ready; be prepared, you and all the hordes gathered about you, and take command of them.

Ezekiel 38:8 (NIV)

⁸ After many days you will be called to arms. In future years you will invade a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and now all of them live in safety.

Ezekiel 38:9 (NIV)

⁹ You and all your troops and the many nations with you will go up, advancing like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the land.

Ezekiel 38:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil scheme.

Ezekiel 38:11 (NIV)

¹¹ You will say, “I will invade a land of unwalled villages; I will attack a peaceful and unsuspecting people–all of them living without walls and without gates and bars.

Ezekiel 38:12 (NIV)

¹² I will plunder and loot and turn my hand against the resettled ruins and the people gathered from the nations, rich in livestock and goods, living at the center of the land.”

Ezekiel 38:13 (NIV)

¹³ Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all her villages will say to you, “Have you come to plunder? Have you gathered your hordes to loot, to carry off silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods and to seize much plunder?”‘

Ezekiel 38:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ “Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: In that day, when my people Israel are living in safety, will you not take notice of it?

Ezekiel 38:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ You will come from your place in the far north, you and many nations with you, all of them riding on horses, a great horde, a mighty army.

Ezekiel 38:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ You will advance against my people Israel like a cloud that covers the land. In days to come, O Gog, I will bring you against my land, so that the nations may know me when I show myself holy through you before their eyes.

Ezekiel 38:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Are you not the one I spoke of in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel? At that time they prophesied for years that I would bring you against them.

Ezekiel 38:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ This is what will happen in that day: When Gog attacks the land of Israel, my hot anger will be aroused, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 38:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ In my zeal and fiery wrath I declare that at that time there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.

Ezekiel 38:20 (NIV)

²⁰ The fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, every creature that moves along the ground, and all the people on the face of the earth will tremble at my presence. The mountains will be overturned, the cliffs will crumble and every wall will fall to the ground.

Ezekiel 38:21 (NIV)

²¹ I will summon a sword against Gog on all my mountains, declares the Sovereign Lord. Every man’s sword will be against his brother.

Ezekiel 38:22 (NIV)

²² I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed; I will pour down torrents of rain, hailstones and burning sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.

Ezekiel 38:23 (NIV)

²³ And so I will show my greatness and my holiness, and I will make myself known in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’

Ezekiel Chapter 39

Ezekiel 39:1 (NIV)

¹ “Son of man, prophesy against Gog and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.

Ezekiel 39:2 (NIV)

² I will turn you around and drag you along. I will bring you from the far north and send you against the mountains of Israel.

Ezekiel 39:3 (NIV)

³ Then I will strike your bow from your left hand and make your arrows drop from your right hand.

Ezekiel 39:4 (NIV)

⁴ On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to all kinds of carrion birds and to the wild animals.

Ezekiel 39:5 (NIV)

⁵ You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 39:6 (NIV)

⁶ I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in safety in the coastlands, and they will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 39:7 (NIV)

⁷ “‘I will make known my holy name among my people Israel. I will no longer let my holy name be profaned, and the nations will know that I the Lord am the Holy One in Israel.

Ezekiel 39:8 (NIV)

⁸ It is coming! It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign Lord. This is the day I have spoken of.

Ezekiel 39:9 (NIV)

⁹ “‘Then those who live in the towns of Israel will go out and use the weapons for fuel and burn them up–the small and large shields, the bows and arrows, the war clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel.

Ezekiel 39:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ They will not need to gather wood from the fields or cut it from the forests, because they will use the weapons for fuel. And they will plunder those who plundered them and loot those who looted them, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 39:11 (NIV)

¹¹ “‘On that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, in the valley of those who travel east toward the Sea. It will block the way of travelers, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Hamon Gog.

Ezekiel 39:12 (NIV)

¹² “‘For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.

Ezekiel 39:13 (NIV)

¹³ All the people of the land will bury them, and the day I am glorified will be a memorable day for them, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 39:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ “‘Men will be regularly employed to cleanse the land. Some will go throughout the land and, in addition to them, others will bury those that remain on the ground. At the end of the seven months they will begin their search.

Ezekiel 39:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ As they go through the land and one of them sees a human bone, he will set up a marker beside it until the gravediggers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog.

Ezekiel 39:16 (AMP)

¹⁶ And Hamonah [multitude] shall also be the name of the city [of the dead]. Thus shall they cleanse the land.

Ezekiel 39:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ “Son of man, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Call out to every kind of bird and all the wild animals: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrifice I am preparing for you, the great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.

Ezekiel 39:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as if they were rams and lambs, goats and bulls–all of them fattened animals from Bashan.

Ezekiel 39:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ At the sacrifice I am preparing for you, you will eat fat till you are glutted and drink blood till you are drunk.

Ezekiel 39:20 (NIV)

²⁰ At my table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, mighty men and soldiers of every kind,’ declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 39:21 (NIV)

²¹ “I will display my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the punishment I inflict and the hand I lay upon them.

Ezekiel 39:22 (NIV)

²² From that day forward the house of Israel will know that I am the Lord their God.

Ezekiel 39:23 (NIV)

²³ And the nations will know that the people of Israel went into exile for their sin, because they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.

Ezekiel 39:24 (NIV)

²⁴ I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their offenses, and I hid my face from them.

Ezekiel 39:25 (NIV)

²⁵ “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will now bring Jacob back from captivity and will have compassion on all the people of Israel, and I will be zealous for my holy name.

Ezekiel 39:26 (NIV)

²⁶ They will forget their shame and all the unfaithfulness they showed toward me when they lived in safety in their land with no one to make them afraid.

Ezekiel 39:27 (NIV)

²⁷ When I have brought them back from the nations and have gathered them from the countries of their enemies, I will show myself holy through them in the sight of many nations.

Ezekiel 39:28 (NIV)

²⁸ Then they will know that I am the Lord their God, for though I sent them into exile among the nations, I will gather them to their own land, not leaving any behind.

Ezekiel 39:29 (NIV)

²⁹ I will no longer hide my face from them, for I will pour out my Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Sovereign Lord.”

Ezekiel Chapter 40

Ezekiel 40:1 (NASB)

¹ In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was taken, on that same day the hand of the Lord was upon me and He brought me there.

Ezekiel 40:2 (NIV)

² In visions of God he took me to the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, on whose south side were some buildings that looked like a city.

Ezekiel 40:3 (NIV)

³ He took me there, and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze; he was standing in the gateway with a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand.

Ezekiel 40:4 (NIV)

⁴ The man said to me, “Son of man, look with your eyes and hear with your ears and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for that is why you have been brought here. Tell the house of Israel everything you see.”

Ezekiel 40:5 (CJB)

⁵ There was a wall surrounding the house. The man had in his hand a measuring rod six cubits long [ten-and-a-half feet], each cubit [twenty-one inches] being a normal cubit [eighteen inches] plus a handbreadth [three inches]. He measured the wall’s width at ten-and-a-half feet and its height ten-and-a-half feet.

Ezekiel 40:6 (CJB)

⁶ He went to the east gate, climbed its steps and measured one of the gate’s doorposts at ten-and-a-half feet wide and the other one the same.

Ezekiel 40:7 (CJB)

⁷ There were guardrooms, each ten-and-a-half feet square; the distance between the guardrooms was eight-and-three-quarters feet. The threshold of the gate adjoining the gate’s entranceway facing the house measured ten-and-a-half feet.

Ezekiel 40:8 (CJB)

⁸ He measured the gate’s entranceway facing the house at ten-and-a-half feet.

Ezekiel 40:9 (CJB)

⁹ Then he measured the gate’s entranceway itself, fourteen feet, and its supports, three-and-a-half feet; the gate’s entranceway was on the side facing the house.

Ezekiel 40:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ There were three guardrooms on each side of the east gate, all the same size; and on each side the supports [between the guardrooms] were also all the same size.

Ezekiel 40:11 (CJB)

¹¹ He measured the width of the opening to the gateway at seventeen-and-a-half feet and the width of the passage through the gateway at twenty-two-and-three-quarters feet.

Ezekiel 40:12 (CJB)

¹² There was a partition in front of the guardrooms [on one side] twenty-one inches [wide] and a partition on the other side twenty-one inches [wide], with the guardrooms themselves being ten-and-a-half feet square.

Ezekiel 40:13 (CJB)

¹³ He measured [inside] the gate from the back wall of one guardroom to the back wall of the other a distance of forty-three-and-three-quarters feet, the openings [to the guardrooms] being opposite each other.

Ezekiel 40:14 (NIV)-M

¹⁴ He measured along the faces of the projecting walls all around the inside of the gateway–sixty cubits [105 feet]. The measurement was up to the portico facing the courtyard.

Ezekiel 40:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ The distance along the passage from the outer opening of the gateway to the far side of the entranceway at the inner end of the gateway was eighty-seven and-a-half feet.

Ezekiel 40:16 (CJB)

¹⁶ There were narrow windows to the guardrooms and to their supports facing inward all along the gate; also the vestibules had windows all around facing inward. On each side support were [carvings of] palm trees.

Ezekiel 40:17 (CJB)

¹⁷ Then he brought me into the outer courtyard. There I saw rooms and paved mosaic flooring made for the courtyard all around its perimeter, and thirty rooms facing the flooring.

Ezekiel 40:18 (CJB)

¹⁸ The flooring was alongside the gates and corresponded to the length of the gates [from outside to inside], this lower flooring.

Ezekiel 40:19 (CJB)

¹⁹ He measured at 175 feet the distance from inside this lower gate that faced east to the outside of the inner courtyard, and he did the same for the gate that faced north.

Ezekiel 40:20 (CJB)

²⁰ Next he measured the length and width of the outer courtyard gate that faced north.

Ezekiel 40:21 (CJB)

²¹ It had three guardrooms on each side, and its supports and vestibule were the same size as those at the first gate; its length was eighty-seven-and-a-half feet and its width forty-three-and-three-quarters feet.

Ezekiel 40:22 (CJB)

²² Its windows, vestibule and palm trees were the same size as those at the east gate. Seven steps led up to it [from the outside], while its vestibule was toward the inside.

Ezekiel 40:23 (CJB)

²³ There were gates to the inner courtyard across from the gates to the north and east; he measured 175 feet from each outer gate to its corresponding inner gate.

Ezekiel 40:24 (CJB)

²⁴ He led me toward the south, and there I saw a gate that faced south. He measured its supports and vestibule; they were the same size as the others.

Ezekiel 40:25 (CJB)

²⁵ There were windows in it and all around its vestibule like the other windows; the length was eighty-seven-and-a-half feet and the width forty-three-and-three-quarters feet.

Ezekiel 40:26 (CJB)

²⁶ Seven steps led up to it [from the outside], while its vestibule was toward the inside. It had palm trees, one on each side, on its supports.

Ezekiel 40:27 (CJB)

²⁷ The inner courtyard had a gate on the south; he measured from gate to gate toward the south 175 feet.

Ezekiel 40:28 (CJB)

²⁸ He brought me to the inner courtyard through its south gate. He measured this south gate as being the same size;

Ezekiel 40:29 (CJB)

²⁹ its guardrooms, supports and vestibule were the same size; it had windows and a vestibule surrounding it; it was eighty-seven-and-a half feet long and forty-three-and-three-quarters feet wide.

Ezekiel 40:30 (CJB)

³⁰ There was a vestibule around it forty-three-and-three-quarters feet long and eight-and-three-quarters feet wide;

Ezekiel 40:31 (CJB)

³¹ this vestibule faced the outer courtyard, palm trees were on its supports, and it had eight steps leading up to it.

Ezekiel 40:32 (CJB)

³² He brought me into the inner courtyard, went toward the east and measured that gate as being the same size;

Ezekiel 40:33 (CJB)

³³ its guardrooms, supports and vestibule were the same size; it had windows and a vestibule surrounding it; it was eighty-seven-and-a half feet long and forty-three-and-three-quarters feet wide.

Ezekiel 40:34 (NIV)

³⁴ Its portico faced the outer court; palm trees decorated the jambs on either side, and eight steps led up to it.

Ezekiel 40:35 (CJB)

³⁵ He brought me over to the north gate and measured it as being the same size;

Ezekiel 40:36 (CJB)

³⁶ it had guardrooms, supports and a vestibule with windows all around; the length was eighty-seven-and-a-half feet and the width forty-three-and-three-quarters feet.

Ezekiel 40:37 (CJB)

³⁷ Its supports faced the outer courtyard; palm trees were on its supports, both on the one side and on the other; and it had eight steps leading up to it.

Ezekiel 40:38 (CJB)

³⁸ There was a room with its entry by the supports at the gates where the burnt offerings were washed.

Ezekiel 40:39 (CJB)

³⁹ In the entranceway to the gate were two tables on the one side and two on the other, on which to slaughter the burnt offerings, sin offerings and guilt offerings.

Ezekiel 40:40 (CJB)

⁴⁰ On the outside, as one goes up to the entry of the north gate, were two tables; and on the other side of the entranceway to the gate were two tables.

Ezekiel 40:41 (CJB)

⁴¹ So there were four tables on the one side and four on the other side, by the gate — eight tables on which to slaughter sacrifices.

Ezekiel 40:42 (CJB)

⁴² There were four tables of cut stone for the burnt offering, thirty-one-and-a-half inches square and twenty-one inches high, on which to lay the instruments for slaughtering the burnt offerings and other sacrifices.

Ezekiel 40:43 (CJB)

⁴³ Hooks a handbreadth long were fastened all around the inside of the room; the flesh of the offerings was to be placed on the tables.

Ezekiel 40:44 (CJB)

⁴⁴ Outside the inner gate, in the inner courtyard, were rooms for the singers, one facing south alongside the north gate, and one facing north alongside the east gate.

Ezekiel 40:45 (NIV)

⁴⁵ He said to me, “The room facing south is for the priests who have charge of the temple,

Ezekiel 40:46 (NIV)

⁴⁶ and the room facing north is for the priests who have charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who are the only Levites who may draw near to the Lord to minister before him.”

Ezekiel 40:47 (CJB)

⁴⁷ Then he measured the courtyard at 175 feet long and 175 feet wide — it was square. The altar was in front of the house.

Ezekiel 40:48 (CJB)

⁴⁸ He brought me to the vestibule of the house and measured at eight-and-three-quarters feet the thickness of the walls on either side of its entrance. On each side, these walls extended five-and-a-quarter feet from the side-walls of the vestibule.

Ezekiel 40:49 (NIV)

⁴⁹ The portico was twenty cubits wide, and twelve cubits from front to back. It was reached by a flight of stairs, and there were pillars on each side of the jambs.

Ezekiel Chapter 41

Ezekiel 41:1 (NIV)

¹ Then the man brought me to the outer sanctuary and measured the jambs; the width of the jambs was six cubits on each side.

Ezekiel 41:2 (CJB)

² The width of the entrance was seventeen-and-a-half feet. The sides of the entrance were eight-and-three-quarters feet on the one side and the same on the other. He measured its length at seventy feet and its width at thirty-five feet.

Ezekiel 41:3 (CJB)

³ Next, he went farther in [to the entranceway leading to the Especially Holy Place] and measured at three-and-a-half feet [the thickness of] each entrance support. He measured at ten-and-a-half feet the total thickness of the walls on either side of the entrance; and he measured at twelve-and-a-quarter feet the width of the entrance.

Ezekiel 41:4 (CJB)

⁴ [Continuing into the inner room,] he said to me, “This is the Especially Holy Place.” He measured its length at thirty-five feet and its width at thirty-five feet along the wall nearest the sanctuary.

Ezekiel 41:5 (CJB)

⁵ [On his way out,] he measured the thickness of the wall of the house at ten-and-a-half feet [at ground level], and the width of all the side-rooms surrounding the house, seven feet [at ground level].

Ezekiel 41:6 (NIV)

⁶ The side rooms were on three levels, one above another, thirty on each level. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports were not inserted into the wall of the temple.

Ezekiel 41:7 (NIV)

⁷ The side rooms all around the temple were wider at each successive level. The structure surrounding the temple was built in ascending stages, so that the rooms widened as one went upward. A stairway went up from the lowest floor to the top floor through the middle floor.

Ezekiel 41:8 (CJB)

⁸ I saw that the house had a raised pavement all around it which extended outward a full rod of ten-and-a-half feet from where the foundations of the side-rooms joined it.

Ezekiel 41:9 (NIV)

⁹ The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick. The open area between the side rooms of the temple

Ezekiel 41:10 (CJB)-M

¹⁰ On all sides around the house itself was a space thirty-five feet wide between it and the [block of] rooms [for the priests].

Ezekiel 41:11 (CJB)

¹¹ The doors of the side-rooms opened toward an empty space, one door facing north and the other facing south; the empty space was eight-and-three-quarters feet [wide] all around.

Ezekiel 41:12 (CJB)

¹² The building on the west facing the separated yard had a[n interior] width of 1221/2 feet, a[n interior] length of 1571/2 feet and exterior walls eight-and-three-quarters feet thick all the way around.

Ezekiel 41:13 (CJB)

¹³ He measured the length of the house at 175 feet; then a distance that included [the width of] the separated yard, [the interior width of] the building and [the thickness of] its [front and back exterior] walls, at 175 feet.

Ezekiel 41:14 (CJB)

¹⁴ The distance along the facade of the house on the east through the separated yard[s to the north and south] was 175 feet.

Ezekiel 41:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ He measured the length of the building facing the separated yard behind [the house], together with its galleries on both sides, at 175 feet. The sanctuary, the inner place and the vestibules [leading from the house] to the courtyard,

Ezekiel 41:16 (CJB)

¹⁶ as well as the thresholds, narrow windows and galleries around these three, had wood paneling around them as far as the thresholds and from the ground up to the windows; and the windows were covered.

Ezekiel 41:17 (CJB)

¹⁷ From the area above the entrance to the interior of the house, as well as outside, and on the entire wall all the way around, both inside and outside, was a pattern

Ezekiel 41:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ were carved cherubim and palm trees. Palm trees alternated with cherubim. Each cherub had two faces:

Ezekiel 41:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ the face of a man toward the palm tree on one side and the face of a lion toward the palm tree on the other. They were carved all around the whole temple.

Ezekiel 41:20 (NIV)

²⁰ From the floor to the area above the entrance, cherubim and palm trees were carved on the wall of the outer sanctuary.

Ezekiel 41:21 (NIV)

²¹ The outer sanctuary had a rectangular doorframe, and the one at the front of the Most Holy Place was similar.

Ezekiel 41:22 (NIV)

²² There was a wooden altar three cubits high and two cubits square; its corners, its base and its sides were of wood. The man said to me, “This is the table that is before the Lord.”

Ezekiel 41:23 (NIV)

²³ Both the outer sanctuary and the Most Holy Place had double doors.

Ezekiel 41:24 (NIV)

²⁴ Each door had two leaves–two hinged leaves for each door.

Ezekiel 41:25 (NIV)

²⁵ And on the doors of the outer sanctuary were carved cherubim and palm trees like those carved on the walls, and there was a wooden overhang on the front of the portico.

Ezekiel 41:26 (NIV)

²⁶ On the sidewalls of the portico were narrow windows with palm trees carved on each side. The side rooms of the temple also had overhangs.

Ezekiel Chapter 42

Ezekiel 42:1 (NIV)

¹ Then the man led me northward into the outer court and brought me to the rooms opposite the temple courtyard and opposite the outer wall on the north side.

Ezekiel 42:2 (NIV)

² The building whose door faced north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.

Ezekiel 42:3 (CJB)

³ It was located between the inner courtyard, which was thirty-five feet wide, and the flooring of the outer courtyard. It had galleries, one above the other, on three floors.

Ezekiel 42:4 (CJB)

⁴ In front of the [block of] rooms was a walkway seventeen-and-a-half feet wide and a path twenty-one inches [wide]; their doors faced north.

Ezekiel 42:5 (NIV)

⁵ Now the upper rooms were narrower, for the galleries took more space from them than from the rooms on the lower and middle floors of the building.

Ezekiel 42:6 (NIV)

⁶ The rooms on the third floor had no pillars, as the courts had; so they were smaller in floor space than those on the lower and middle floors.

Ezekiel 42:7 (CJB)

⁷ The length of the wall outside, next to the rooms, toward the outer courtyard in front of the rooms, was eighty-seven-and-a-half feet.

Ezekiel 42:8 (CJB)

⁸ For the length of the rooms toward the outer courtyard was eighty-seven-and-ahalf feet, whereas [the length of] the side facing the sanctuary was 175 feet.

Ezekiel 42:9 (CJB)

⁹ Under these rooms was the entrance to the east side, leading in from the outer courtyard.

Ezekiel 42:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ In the width of the courtyard wall on the east, facing the separated yard and facing the building, there were rooms,

Ezekiel 42:11 (CJB)

¹¹ with a passageway in front of them, similar to the rooms on the north. They were the same length and width and had similarly made exits and entrances.

Ezekiel 42:12 (CJB)

¹² By the entrances of the rooms on the south there was an entrance at the end of the passage, the passageway right in front of the wall, toward the eastern entrances.

Ezekiel 42:13 (NIV)

¹³ Then he said to me, “The north and south rooms facing the temple courtyard are the priests’ rooms, where the priests who approach the Lord will eat the most holy offerings. There they will put the most holy offerings–the grain offerings, the sin offerings and the guilt offerings–for the place is holy.

Ezekiel 42:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Once the priests enter the holy precincts, they are not to go into the outer court until they leave behind the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes before they go near the places that are for the people.”

Ezekiel 42:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ When he had finished measuring what was inside the temple area, he led me out by the east gate and measured the area all around:

Ezekiel 42:16 (CJB)

¹⁶ He measured the east side with the measuring rod; it was 875 feet by the measuring rod.

Ezekiel 42:17 (CJB)

¹⁷ He measured the north side; it was 875 feet by the measuring rod.

Ezekiel 42:18 (CJB)

¹⁸ He measured the south side; it was 875 feet by the measuring rod.

Ezekiel 42:19 (CJB)

¹⁹ He turned to the west side and measured 875 feet with the measuring rod.

Ezekiel 42:20 (CJB)

²⁰ He measured its four sides; it had a wall around it; and it was 875 [feet] long and 875 [feet] wide. Thus a division was made between what was holy and what was common.

Ezekiel Chapter 43

Ezekiel 43:1 (NASB)

¹ Then he led me to the gate, the gate facing toward the east;

Ezekiel 43:2 (CJB)-M

² There I saw the glory of the God of Israel approaching from the east. His voice was like the sound of rushing water, and the earth shone with his glory.

Ezekiel 43:3 (NIV)

³ The vision I saw was like the vision I had seen when he came to destroy the city and like the visions I had seen by the Kebar River, and I fell facedown.

Ezekiel 43:4 (NIV)

⁴ The glory of the Lord entered the temple through the gate facing east.

Ezekiel 43:5 (NIV)

⁵ Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court, and the glory of the Lord filled the temple.

Ezekiel 43:6 (NIV)

⁶ While the man was standing beside me, I heard someone speaking to me from inside the temple.

Ezekiel 43:7 (NIV)

⁷ He said: “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet. This is where I will live among the Israelites forever. The house of Israel will never again defile my holy name–neither they nor their kings–by their prostitution and the lifeless idols of their kings at their high places.

Ezekiel 43:8 (NIV)

⁸ When they placed their threshold next to my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with only a wall between me and them, they defiled my holy name by their detestable practices. So I destroyed them in my anger.

Ezekiel 43:9 (NIV)

⁹ Now let them put away from me their prostitution and the lifeless idols of their kings, and I will live among them forever.

Ezekiel 43:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ “Son of man, describe the temple to the people of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their sins. Let them consider the plan,

Ezekiel 43:11 (NIV)

¹¹ and if they are ashamed of all they have done, make known to them the design of the temple–its arrangement, its exits and entrances–its whole design and all its regulations and laws. Write these down before them so that they may be faithful to its design and follow all its regulations.

Ezekiel 43:12 (NIV)

¹² “This is the law of the temple: All the surrounding area on top of the mountain will be most holy. Such is the law of the temple.

Ezekiel 43:13 (CJB)

¹³ These are the measurements of the altar in cubits (a cubit here is defined as a normal cubit [eighteen inches] plus a handbreadth [three inches]): the base, one cubit [twenty-one inches] deep and one cubit wide; with the molding surrounding it at its rim about a hand-span [nine inches] in width. The height of the altar is thus:

Ezekiel 43:14 (CJB)

¹⁴ from the base on the ground to the lower ledge, three-and-a-half feet, with the width twenty-one inches; from the lower ledge to the upper ledge, seven feet, with the width again twenty-one inches.

Ezekiel 43:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ The hearth measures seven feet [high], with four horns on top of the hearth.

Ezekiel 43:16 (CJB)

¹⁶ The hearth is a square twenty-one feet on each of its four sides.

Ezekiel 43:17 (CJB)

¹⁷ The ledge measures a square twenty-four-and-a-half feet on each of its four sides; the molding around it ten-and-a-half inches [across]; and its base twenty-one inches [larger than the rest, all the way] around. Its steps face east.

Ezekiel 43:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Then he said to me, “Son of man, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: These will be the regulations for sacrificing burnt offerings and sprinkling blood upon the altar when it is built:

Ezekiel 43:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ You are to give a young bull as a sin offering to the priests, who are Levites, of the family of Zadok, who come near to minister before me, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 43:20 (NIV)

²⁰ You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar and on the four corners of the upper ledge and all around the rim, and so purify the altar and make atonement for it.

Ezekiel 43:21 (NIV)

²¹ You are to take the bull for the sin offering and burn it in the designated part of the temple area outside the sanctuary.

Ezekiel 43:22 (NIV)

²² “On the second day you are to offer a male goat without defect for a sin offering, and the altar is to be purified as it was purified with the bull.

Ezekiel 43:23 (NIV)

²³ When you have finished purifying it, you are to offer a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without defect.

Ezekiel 43:24 (NIV)

²⁴ You are to offer them before the Lord, and the priests are to sprinkle salt on them and sacrifice them as a burnt offering to the Lord.

Ezekiel 43:25 (NIV)

²⁵ “For seven days you are to provide a male goat daily for a sin offering; you are also to provide a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without defect.

Ezekiel 43:26 (NIV)

²⁶ For seven days they are to make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; thus they will dedicate it.

Ezekiel 43:27 (NIV)

²⁷ At the end of these days, from the eighth day on, the priests are to present your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar. Then I will accept you, declares the Sovereign Lord.”

Ezekiel Chapter 44

Ezekiel 44:1 (NIV)

¹ Then the man brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary, the one facing east, and it was shut.

Ezekiel 44:2 (NIV)

² The Lord said to me, “This gate is to remain shut. It must not be opened; no one may enter through it. It is to remain shut because the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered through it.

Ezekiel 44:3 (NIV)

³ The prince himself is the only one who may sit inside the gateway to eat in the presence of the Lord. He is to enter by way of the portico of the gateway and go out the same way.”

Ezekiel 44:4 (NIV)

⁴ Then the man brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple. I looked and saw the glory of the Lord filling the temple of the Lord, and I fell facedown.

Ezekiel 44:5 (NIV)

⁵ The Lord said to me, “Son of man, look carefully, listen closely and give attention to everything I tell you concerning all the regulations regarding the temple of the Lord. Give attention to the entrance of the temple and all the exits of the sanctuary.

Ezekiel 44:6 (NIV)

⁶ Say to the rebellious house of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Enough of your detestable practices, O house of Israel!

Ezekiel 44:7 (NIV)

⁷ In addition to all your other detestable practices, you brought foreigners uncircumcised in heart and flesh into my sanctuary, desecrating my temple while you offered me food, fat and blood, and you broke my covenant.

Ezekiel 44:8 (NIV)

⁸ Instead of carrying out your duty in regard to my holy things, you put others in charge of my sanctuary.

Ezekiel 44:9 (NIV)

⁹ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh is to enter my sanctuary, not even the foreigners who live among the Israelites.

Ezekiel 44:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ “‘The Levites who went far from me when Israel went astray and who wandered from me after their idols must bear the consequences of their sin.

Ezekiel 44:11 (NIV)

¹¹ They may serve in my sanctuary, having charge of the gates of the temple and serving in it; they may slaughter the burnt offerings and sacrifices for the people and stand before the people and serve them.

Ezekiel 44:12 (NIV)

¹² But because they served them in the presence of their idols and made the house of Israel fall into sin, therefore I have sworn with uplifted hand that they must bear the consequences of their sin, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 44:13 (NIV)

¹³ They are not to come near to serve me as priests or come near any of my holy things or my most holy offerings; they must bear the shame of their detestable practices.

Ezekiel 44:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Yet I will put them in charge of the duties of the temple and all the work that is to be done in it.

Ezekiel 44:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ “‘But the priests, who are Levites and descendants of Zadok and who faithfully carried out the duties of my sanctuary when the Israelites went astray from me, are to come near to minister before me; they are to stand before me to offer sacrifices of fat and blood, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 44:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ They alone are to enter my sanctuary; they alone are to come near my table to minister before me and perform my service.

Ezekiel 44:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ “‘When they enter the gates of the inner court, they are to wear linen clothes; they must not wear any woolen garment while ministering at the gates of the inner court or inside the temple.

Ezekiel 44:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ They are to wear linen turbans on their heads and linen undergarments around their waists. They must not wear anything that makes them perspire.

Ezekiel 44:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ When they go out into the outer court where the people are, they are to take off the clothes they have been ministering in and are to leave them in the sacred rooms, and put on other clothes, so that they do not consecrate the people by means of their garments.

Ezekiel 44:20 (NIV)

²⁰ “‘They must not shave their heads or let their hair grow long, but they are to keep the hair of their heads trimmed.

Ezekiel 44:21 (NIV)

²¹ No priest is to drink wine when he enters the inner court.

Ezekiel 44:22 (NIV)

²² They must not marry widows or divorced women; they may marry only virgins of Israelite descent or widows of priests.

Ezekiel 44:23 (NIV)

²³ They are to teach my people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.

Ezekiel 44:24 (NIV)

²⁴ “‘In any dispute, the priests are to serve as judges and decide it according to my ordinances. They are to keep my laws and my decrees for all my appointed feasts, and they are to keep my Sabbaths holy.

Ezekiel 44:25 (NIV)

²⁵ “‘A priest must not defile himself by going near a dead person; however, if the dead person was his father or mother, son or daughter, brother or unmarried sister, then he may defile himself.

Ezekiel 44:26 (NIV)

²⁶ After he is cleansed, he must wait seven days.

Ezekiel 44:27 (NIV)

²⁷ On the day he goes into the inner court of the sanctuary to minister in the sanctuary, he is to offer a sin offering for himself, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 44:28 (NIV)

²⁸ “‘I am to be the only inheritance the priests have. You are to give them no possession in Israel; I will be their possession.

Ezekiel 44:29 (NIV)

²⁹ They will eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings and the guilt offerings; and everything in Israel devoted to the Lord will belong to them.

Ezekiel 44:30 (NIV)

³⁰ The best of all the firstfruits and of all your special gifts will belong to the priests. You are to give them the first portion of your ground meal so that a blessing may rest on your household.

Ezekiel 44:31 (NIV)

³¹ The priests must not eat anything, bird or animal, found dead or torn by wild animals.

Ezekiel Chapter 45

Ezekiel 45:1 (CJB)-M

¹ “‘When you divide the land by lot for inheritance, you are to set aside an offering for the Lord, a holy portion of the land. Its length is to be 25,000 [cubits, that is, eight miles] and its width 10,000 [three miles]; this entire region is to be holy.

Ezekiel 45:2 (NIV)

² Of this, a section 500 cubits square is to be for the sanctuary, with 50 cubits around it for open land.

Ezekiel 45:3 (CJB)

³ Alongside this region you are to measure a length of eight [miles] and a width of three [miles]; in it is to be the sanctuary, which will be especially holy.

Ezekiel 45:4 (NIV)

⁴ It will be the sacred portion of the land for the priests, who minister in the sanctuary and who draw near to minister before the Lord. It will be a place for their houses as well as a holy place for the sanctuary.

Ezekiel 45:5 (CJB)-M

⁵ A portion eight by three [miles] will be owned by the Levites who serve in the house; it will also have twenty [gatekeepers’] rooms.

Ezekiel 45:6 (CJB)-M

⁶ You are to give the city possession of an area, alongside the offering of the holy portion, one-and-a-half by eight [miles]; it will be for the whole house of Israel.

Ezekiel 45:7 (CJB)

⁷ “‘The prince is to have the territory on both sides of the holy offering and the city’s holding; it will extend westward to the western border of the land and eastward to its eastern border; and the length [from the far side of one] of its two parts [to the far side of the other] will be the same as the length of one of the [tribal] portions.

Ezekiel 45:8 (NASB)

⁸ “This shall be his land for a possession in Israel; so My princes shall no longer oppress My people, but they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.”

Ezekiel 45:9 (NIV)

⁹ “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You have gone far enough, O princes of Israel! Give up your violence and oppression and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing my people, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 45:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ “‘You are to have honest balance-scales, an honest eifah [a one-bushel dry-measure] and an honest bat [a five-gallon liquid-measure].

Ezekiel 45:11 (CJB)

¹¹ The eifah and the bat are to contain the same volume — the bat is to contain one-tenth of a homer, and the eifah is to contain one-tenth of a homer; the homer is to set the standard for measurement.

Ezekiel 45:12 (CJB)

¹² Also the shekel is to be twenty gerahs; your maneh will be the sum of a twenty-shekel piece, a twenty-five-shekel piece and a fifteen-shekel piece.

Ezekiel 45:13 (CJB)

¹³ “‘This is the offering you are to make: one-sixth of a bushel from every ten bushels of wheat, and you are to give one-sixth of a bushel from every ten bushels of barley.

Ezekiel 45:14 (CJB)

¹⁴ The law for olive oil is to be half a gallon from every fifty gallons, which is the same as ten bats or one homer, since ten bats equal a homer.

Ezekiel 45:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Also one sheep is to be taken from every flock of two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These will be used for the grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to make atonement for the people, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 45:16 (CJB)

¹⁶ ‘All the people in the land are to present this offering to the prince in Isra’el.

Ezekiel 45:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ It will be the duty of the prince to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings and drink offerings at the festivals, the New Moons and the Sabbaths–at all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 45:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: In the first month on the first day you are to take a young bull without defect and purify the sanctuary.

Ezekiel 45:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ The priest is to take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the upper ledge of the altar and on the gateposts of the inner court.

Ezekiel 45:20 (NIV)

²⁰ You are to do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who sins unintentionally or through ignorance; so you are to make atonement for the temple.

Ezekiel 45:21 (NIV)

²¹ “‘In the first month on the fourteenth day you are to observe the Passover, a feast lasting seven days, during which you shall eat bread made without yeast.

Ezekiel 45:22 (NIV)

²² On that day the prince is to provide a bull as a sin offering for himself and for all the people of the land.

Ezekiel 45:23 (NIV)

²³ Every day during the seven days of the Feast he is to provide seven bulls and seven rams without defect as a burnt offering to the Lord, and a male goat for a sin offering.

Ezekiel 45:24 (NIV)

²⁴ He is to provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull and an ephah for each ram, along with a hin of oil for each ephah.

Ezekiel 45:25 (NIV)

²⁵ “‘During the seven days of the Feast, which begins in the seventh month on the fifteenth day, he is to make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings and oil.

Ezekiel Chapter 46

Ezekiel 46:1 (NIV)

¹ “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: The gate of the inner court facing east is to be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day and on the day of the New Moon it is to be opened.

Ezekiel 46:2 (NIV)

² The prince is to enter from the outside through the portico of the gateway and stand by the gatepost. The priests are to sacrifice his burnt offering and his fellowship offerings. He is to worship at the threshold of the gateway and then go out, but the gate will not be shut until evening.

Ezekiel 46:3 (NIV)

³ On the Sabbaths and New Moons the people of the land are to worship in the presence of the Lord at the entrance to that gateway.

Ezekiel 46:4 (NIV)

⁴ The burnt offering the prince brings to the Lord on the Sabbath day is to be six male lambs and a ram, all without defect.

Ezekiel 46:5 (NIV)

⁵ The grain offering given with the ram is to be an ephah, and the grain offering with the lambs is to be as much as he pleases, along with a hin of oil for each ephah.

Ezekiel 46:6 (NIV)

⁶ On the day of the New Moon he is to offer a young bull, six lambs and a ram, all without defect.

Ezekiel 46:7 (NIV)

⁷ He is to provide as a grain offering one ephah with the bull, one ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he wants to give, along with a hin of oil with each ephah.

Ezekiel 46:8 (NIV)

⁸ When the prince enters, he is to go in through the portico of the gateway, and he is to come out the same way.

Ezekiel 46:9 (NIV)

⁹ “‘When the people of the land come before the Lord at the appointed feasts, whoever enters by the north gate to worship is to go out the south gate; and whoever enters by the south gate is to go out the north gate. No one is to return through the gate by which he entered, but each is to go out the opposite gate.

Ezekiel 46:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ The prince is to be among them, going in when they go in and going out when they go out.

Ezekiel 46:11 (CJB)

¹¹ “‘At the festivals and at designated times, the grain offering is to be a bushel for a young bull and a bushel for a ram, while for the lambs it can be as much as he wants to give, with a gallon of olive oil per bushel.

Ezekiel 46:12 (NIV)

¹² When the prince provides a freewill offering to the Lord–whether a burnt offering or fellowship offerings–the gate facing east is to be opened for him. He shall offer his burnt offering or his fellowship offerings as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out, the gate will be shut.

Ezekiel 46:13 (NIV)

¹³ “‘Every day you are to provide a year-old lamb without defect for a burnt offering to the Lord; morning by morning you shall provide it.

Ezekiel 46:14 (CJB)

¹⁴ Also each morning, provide with it a grain offering, one-sixth of a bushel, and one-third of a gallon of olive oil to moisten the fine flour; this is the ongoing grain offering for Adonai, by a permanent regulation.

Ezekiel 46:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ Thus they will offer a lamb, a grain offering and oil each morning as the ongoing burnt offering.’

Ezekiel 46:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: If the prince makes a gift from his inheritance to one of his sons, it will also belong to his descendants; it is to be their property by inheritance.

Ezekiel 46:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ If, however, he makes a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, the servant may keep it until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs to his sons only; it is theirs.

Ezekiel 46:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people, driving them off their property. He is to give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that none of my people will be separated from his property.'”

Ezekiel 46:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Then the man brought me through the entrance at the side of the gate to the sacred rooms facing north, which belonged to the priests, and showed me a place at the western end.

Ezekiel 46:20 (NIV)

²⁰ He said to me, “This is the place where the priests will cook the guilt offering and the sin offering and bake the grain offering, to avoid bringing them into the outer court and consecrating the people.”

Ezekiel 46:21 (NIV)

²¹ He then brought me to the outer court and led me around to its four corners, and I saw in each corner another court.

Ezekiel 46:22 (CJB)

²² in the four corners of the courtyard were enclosed courtyards seventy feet long and fifty-two-and-a-half feet; the four courtyards in the corners were the same size.

Ezekiel 46:23 (CJB)

²³ There was a wall around each of the four, with open stoves all around the bases of the walls.

Ezekiel 46:24 (CJB)

²⁴ He said to me, “These are the stoves where those serving in the house will boil the people’s sacrifices.”

Ezekiel Chapter 47

Ezekiel 47:1 (NIV)

¹ The man brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water coming out from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar.

Ezekiel 47:2 (NIV)

² He then brought me out through the north gate and led me around the outside to the outer gate facing east, and the water was flowing from the south side.

Ezekiel 47:3 (CJB)

³ With a line in his hand the man went out toward the east and measured a thousand cubits [one-third of a mile] and had me wade across the stream; the water came up to my ankles.

Ezekiel 47:4 (CJB)

⁴ He measured another thousand and had me wade through the water, which reached my knees. He measured another thousand and had me wade through water up to my waist.

Ezekiel 47:5 (CJB)

⁵ Finally he measured a thousand, and it was a river I couldn’t cross on foot, because the water was so deep one would have to swim across; it was a river that could not be waded through.

Ezekiel 47:6 (NIV)

⁶ He asked me, “Son of man, do you see this?” Then he led me back to the bank of the river.

Ezekiel 47:7 (NIV)

⁷ When I arrived there, I saw a great number of trees on each side of the river.

Ezekiel 47:8 (CJB)-M

⁸ He said to me, “This water flows toward the eastern region and continues down to the Arabah. When it enters the sea, the sea of stagnant water, [the Dead Sea,] its water will become fresh.

Ezekiel 47:9 (CJB)

⁹ When this happens, swarms of all kinds of living creatures will be able to live in it wherever the streams flow; so that there will be a vast number of fish; for this water is flowing there, so that, wherever the river goes, everything will be restored and able to live.

Ezekiel 47:10 (CJB)-M

¹⁰ Then fishermen will stand on its shores spreading their nets all the way from En Gedi to En Eglaim. There will be as many kinds of fish there as in the Great Sea, [the Mediterranean,] a great variety.

Ezekiel 47:11 (CJB)

¹¹ However, its mud flats and marshes will not become fresh but will remain salty.

Ezekiel 47:12 (CJB)

¹² On both riverbanks will grow all kinds of trees for food; their leaves will not dry up, nor will their fruit fail. There will be a different kind of fruit each month, because the water flows from the sanctuary, so that this fruit will be edible, and the leaves will have healing properties.”

Ezekiel 47:13 (NIV)

¹³ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “These are the boundaries by which you are to divide the land for an inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel, with two portions for Joseph.

Ezekiel 47:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ You are to divide it equally among them. Because I swore with uplifted hand to give it to your forefathers, this land will become your inheritance.

Ezekiel 47:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ “This is to be the boundary of the land: “On the north side it will run from the Great Sea by the Hethlon road past Lebo Hamath to Zedad,

Ezekiel 47:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Berothah and Sibraim (which lies on the border between Damascus and Hamath), as far as Hazer Hatticon, which is on the border of Hauran.

Ezekiel 47:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ The boundary will extend from the sea to Hazar Enan, along the northern border of Damascus, with the border of Hamath to the north. This will be the north boundary.

Ezekiel 47:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ “On the east side the boundary will run between Hauran and Damascus, along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel, to the eastern sea and as far as Tamar. This will be the east boundary.

Ezekiel 47:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ “On the south side it will run from Tamar as far as the waters of Meribah Kadesh, then along the Wadi [of Egypt] to the Great Sea. This will be the south boundary.

Ezekiel 47:20 (NIV)

²⁰ “On the west side, the Great Sea will be the boundary to a point opposite Lebo Hamath. This will be the west boundary.

Ezekiel 47:21 (NIV)

²¹ “You are to distribute this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel.

Ezekiel 47:22 (NIV)

²² You are to allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the aliens who have settled among you and who have children. You are to consider them as native-born Israelites; along with you they are to be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.

Ezekiel 47:23 (NIV)

²³ In whatever tribe the alien settles, there you are to give him his inheritance,” declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel Chapter 48

Ezekiel 48:1 (NIV)

¹ “These are the tribes, listed by name: At the northern frontier, Dan will have one portion; it will follow the Hethlon road to Lebo Hamath; Hazar Enan and the northern border of Damascus next to Hamath will be part of its border from the east side to the west side.

Ezekiel 48:2 (NIV)

² “Asher will have one portion; it will border the territory of Dan from east to west.

Ezekiel 48:3 (NIV)

³ “Naphtali will have one portion; it will border the territory of Asher from east to west.

Ezekiel 48:4 (NIV)

⁴ “Manasseh will have one portion; it will border the territory of Naphtali from east to west.

Ezekiel 48:5 (NIV)

⁵ “Ephraim will have one portion; it will border the territory of Manasseh from east to west.

Ezekiel 48:6 (NIV)

⁶ “Reuben will have one portion; it will border the territory of Ephraim from east to west.

Ezekiel 48:7 (NIV)

⁷ “Judah will have one portion; it will border the territory of Reuben from east to west.

Ezekiel 48:8 (CJB)-M

⁸ “‘Alongside the territory of Judah, from east to west, will be the offering you are to set aside, 25,000 [cubits] wide [eight miles], and in length equal to distance between the east and west boundaries of one of the portions, with the sanctuary inside it.

Ezekiel 48:9 (CJB)-M

⁹ The offering you are to set aside for the Lord is to be eight [miles] long and three wide.

Ezekiel 48:10 (CJB)-M

¹⁰ This holy offering will be for the Priests; it will be eight [miles] in length along its north and south sides and three in width along its west and east sides; Adonai’s sanctuary will be inside it.

Ezekiel 48:11 (NIV)

¹¹ This will be for the consecrated priests, the Zadokites, who were faithful in serving me and did not go astray as the Levites did when the Israelites went astray.

Ezekiel 48:12 (NIV)

¹² It will be a special gift to them from the sacred portion of the land, a most holy portion, bordering the territory of the Levites.

Ezekiel 48:13 (CJB)-M

¹³ “‘Alongside the territory for the Priests, the Levites are to have a portion eight [miles] long and three wide — its total length will be eight and its width three.

Ezekiel 48:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ They must not sell or exchange any of it. This is the best of the land and must not pass into other hands, because it is holy to the Lord.

Ezekiel 48:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ “‘The 5,000 [cubits, that is, the one-and-a-half miles] that are left of the width is to be for the common use of the city, for housing and for open fields. The city will be inside it.

Ezekiel 48:16 (CJB)

¹⁶ and will measure 4,500 cubits [just under one-and-a-half miles] along each of its sides — north, south, east and west.

Ezekiel 48:17 (CJB)

¹⁷ The city is to have outside it a border of land 440 feet wide on each side — north, south, east and west.

Ezekiel 48:18 (CJB)

¹⁸ A strip next to the holy offering extending three [miles] to the east and three to the west is to be left. This area by the holy offering is to be used to grow food for those serving the city.

Ezekiel 48:19 (CJB)-M

¹⁹ The people from all the tribes of Israel who serve in the city will farm it.

Ezekiel 48:20 (CJB)

²⁰ The entire offering will be eight [miles] square, including the section for the city.

Ezekiel 48:21 (CJB)

²¹ “‘What remains will be for the prince — the land on the two sides of the holy offering and section for the city, that is, the portion eastward from the eight [miles] of the offering’s eastern border to the land’s eastern border and the portion westward from the eight [miles] of the offering’s western border to the land’s western border — this land adjacent to the [tribal] portions will be for the prince, with the holy offering and the sanctuary of the house inside it.

Ezekiel 48:22 (NIV)

²² So the property of the Levites and the property of the city will lie in the center of the area that belongs to the prince. The area belonging to the prince will lie between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin.

Ezekiel 48:23 (NIV)

²³ “As for the rest of the tribes: Benjamin will have one portion; it will extend from the east side to the west side.

Ezekiel 48:24 (NIV)

²⁴ “Simeon will have one portion; it will border the territory of Benjamin from east to west.

Ezekiel 48:25 (NIV)

²⁵ “Issachar will have one portion; it will border the territory of Simeon from east to west.

Ezekiel 48:26 (NIV)

²⁶ “Zebulun will have one portion; it will border the territory of Issachar from east to west.

Ezekiel 48:27 (NIV)

²⁷ “Gad will have one portion; it will border the territory of Zebulun from east to west.

Ezekiel 48:28 (NIV)

²⁸ “The southern boundary of Gad will run south from Tamar to the waters of Meribah Kadesh, then along the Wadi [of Egypt] to the Great Sea.

Ezekiel 48:29 (NIV)

²⁹ “This is the land you are to allot as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel, and these will be their portions,” declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 48:30 (NIV)-M

³⁰ “These will be the exits of the city: Beginning on the north side, which is 4,500 cubits long [1.5 miles],

Ezekiel 48:31 (NIV)

³¹ the gates of the city will be named after the tribes of Israel. The three gates on the north side will be the gate of Reuben, the gate of Judah and the gate of Levi.

Ezekiel 48:32 (NIV)-M

³² “On the east side, which is 4,500 cubits long, [1.5 miles] will be three gates: the gate of Joseph, the gate of Benjamin and the gate of Dan.

Ezekiel 48:33 (NIV)-M

³³ “On the south side, which measures 4,500 cubits, [1.5 miles] will be three gates: the gate of Simeon, the gate of Issachar and the gate of Zebulun.

Ezekiel 48:34 (NIV)-M

³⁴ “On the west side, which is 4,500 cubits long, [1.5 miles] will be three gates: the gate of Gad, the gate of Asher and the gate of Naphtali.

Ezekiel 48:35 (CJB)-M

³⁵ “‘The perimeter of [the city] will be just under six [miles] long. And from that day on the name of the city will be Adonai Shamah [The Lord is there].’”

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