26:023:022 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I willraise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind isalienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;
26:023:023 The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
26:023:024 And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, andwheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall setagainst thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and Iwill set judgment before them, and they shall judge theeaccording to their judgments.
26:023:025 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall dealfuriously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thineears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall takethy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devouredby the fire.
26:023:026 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
26:023:027 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thywhoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shaltnot lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
26:023:028 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee intothe hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them fromwhom thy mind is alienated:
26:023:029 And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
26:023:030 I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
26:023:031 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.
26:023:032 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cupdeep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had inderision; it containeth much.
26:023:033 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cupof astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sisterSamaria.
26:023:034 Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt breakthe sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for Ihave spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
26:023:035 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgottenme, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thylewdness and thy whoredoms.
26:023:036 The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judgeAholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them theirabominations;
26:023:037 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
26:023:038 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
26:023:039 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.
26:023:040 And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments,
26:023:041 And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.
26:023:042 And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
26:023:043 Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?
26:023:044 Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.
26:023:045 And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
26:023:046 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.
26:023:047 And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
26:023:048 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
26:023:049 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
26:024:001 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
26:024:002 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this sameday: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem thissame day.
26:024:003 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say untothem, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, andalso pour water into it:
26:024:004 Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
26:024:005 Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones underit, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of ittherein.
26:024:006 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, tothe pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone outof it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.
26:024:007 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the topof a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it withdust;
26:024:008 That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I haveset her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not becovered.
26:024:009 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! Iwill even make the pile for fire great.
26:024:010 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice itwell, and let the bones be burned.
26:024:011 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.
26:024:012 She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
26:024:013 In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, andthou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thyfilthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest uponthee.
26:024:014 I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I willdo it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither willI repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings,shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.
26:024:015 Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
26:024:016 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thineeyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep,neither shall thy tears run down.
26:024:017 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tireof thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet,and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.
26:024:018 So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wifedied; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
26:024:019 And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what thesethings are to us, that thou doest so?
26:024:020 Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me,saying,
26:024:021 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.
26:024:022 And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
26:024:023 And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes uponyour feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine awayfor your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
26:024:024 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hathdone shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that Iam the Lord GOD.
26:024:025 Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,
26:024:026 That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears?
26:024:027 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
26:025:001 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
26:025:002 Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;
26:025:003 And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;
26:025:004 Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
26:025:005 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonitesa couching place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am theLORD.
26:025:006 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thinehands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart withall thy despite against the land of Israel;
26:025:007 Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
26:025:008 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;
26:025:009 Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from thecities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the gloryof the country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim,
26:025:010 Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will givethem in possession, that the Ammonites may not be rememberedamong the nations.
26:025:011 And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
26:025:012 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;
26:025:013 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch outmine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it;and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedanshall fall by the sword.
26:025:014 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my peopleIsrael: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger andaccording to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saiththe Lord GOD.
26:025:015 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt byrevenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, todestroy it for the old hatred;
26:025:016 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch outmine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off theCherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
26:025:017 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furiousrebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shalllay my vengeance upon them.
26:026:001 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
26:026:002 Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem,Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she isturned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:
26:026:003 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee,O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee,as the sea causeth his waves to come up.
26:026:004 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down hertowers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make herlike the top of a rock.
26:026:005 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst ofthe sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and itshall become a spoil to the nations.
26:026:006 And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
26:026:007 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people.
26:026:008 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.
26:026:009 And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
26:026:010 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.
26:026:011 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground.
26:026:012 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
26:026:013 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
26:026:014 And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be aplace to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for Ithe LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
26:026:015 Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake atthe sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when theslaughter is made in the midst of thee?
26:026:016 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from theirthrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broideredgarments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; theyshall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment,and be astonished at thee.
26:026:017 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say tothee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaringmen, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she andher inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all thathaunt it!
26:026:018 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure.
26:026:019 For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;
26:026:020 When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
26:026:021 I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.
26:027:001 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
26:027:002 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
26:027:003 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.
26:027:004 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders haveperfected thy beauty.
26:027:005 They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: theyhave taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
26:027:006 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the companyof the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought outof the isles of Chittim.
26:027:007 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thouspreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the islesof Elishah was that which covered thee.
26:027:008 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.
26:027:009 The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in theethy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners werein thee to occupy thy merchandise.
26:027:010 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thymen of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; theyset forth thy comeliness.
26:027:011 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.
26:027:012 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
26:027:013 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: theytraded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
26:027:014 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horsesand horsemen and mules.
26:027:015 The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.
26:027:016 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
26:027:017 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: theytraded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey,and oil, and balm.
26:027:018 Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thymaking, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine ofHelbon, and white wool.
26:027:019 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
26:027:020 Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
26:027:021 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with theein lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thymerchants.
26:027:022 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants:they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and withall precious stones, and gold.
26:027:023 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.
26:027:024 These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blueclothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel,bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
26:027:025 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thouwast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of theseas.
26:027:026 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
26:027:027 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
26:027:028 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
26:027:029 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilotsof the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall standupon the land;
26:027:030 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, andshall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads,they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
26:027:031 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and girdthem with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee withbitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
26:027:032 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation forthee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus,like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?
26:027:033 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst manypeople; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with themultitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.
26:027:034 In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in thedepths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company inthe midst of thee shall fall.
26:027:035 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee,and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubledin their countenance.
26:027:036 The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.
26:028:001 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
26:028:002 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
26:028:003 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:
26:028:004 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gottenthee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thytreasures:
26:028:005 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increasedthy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thyriches:
26:028:006 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;
26:028:007 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
26:028:008 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
26:028:009 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
26:028:010 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
26:028:011 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
26:028:012 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
26:028:013 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
26:028:014 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
26:028:015 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
26:028:016 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
26:028:017 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
26:028:018 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
26:028:019 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
26:028:020 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
26:028:021 Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,
26:028:022 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, OZidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and theyshall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executedjudgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
26:028:023 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into herstreets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of herby the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know thatI am the LORD.
26:028:024 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house ofIsrael, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round aboutthem, that despised them; and they shall know that I am theLord GOD.
26:028:025 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the houseof Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, andshall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, thenshall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servantJacob.
26:028:026 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses,and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence,when I have executed judgments upon all those that despisethem round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORDtheir God.
26:029:001 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day ofthe month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
26:029:002 Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, andprophesy against him, and against all Egypt:
26:029:003 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am againstthee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth inthe midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mineown, and I have made it for myself.
26:029:004 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish ofthy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee upout of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy riversshall stick unto thy scales.
26:029:005 And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.
26:029:006 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am theLORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house ofIsrael.
26:029:007 When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, andrend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thoubrakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.
26:029:008 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.
26:029:009 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and theyshall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The riveris mine, and I have made it.
26:029:010 Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers,and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate,from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.
26:029:011 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
26:029:012 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
26:029:013 Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will Igather the Egyptians from the people whither they werescattered:
26:029:014 And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will causethem to return into the land of Pathros, into the land oftheir habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.
26:029:015 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exaltitself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them,that they shall no more rule over the nations.
26:029:016 And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel,which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shalllook after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
26:029:017 And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in thefirst month, in the first day of the month, the word of theLORD came unto me, saying,
26:029:018 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it:
26:029:019 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.
26:029:020 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith heserved against it, because they wrought for me, saith the LordGOD.
26:029:021 In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel tobud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth inthe midst of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
26:030:001 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
26:030:002 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howlye, Woe worth the day!
26:030:003 For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, acloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
26:030:004 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
26:030:005 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people,and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shallfall with them by the sword.
26:030:006 Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall;and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower ofSyene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
26:030:007 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries thatare desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of thecities that are wasted.
26:030:008 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.
26:030:009 In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.
26:030:010 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.
26:030:011 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
26:030:012 And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into thehand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and allthat is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD havespoken it.
26:030:013 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and Iwill cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shallbe no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put afear in the land of Egypt.
26:030:014 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan,and will execute judgments in No.
26:030:015 And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and Iwill cut off the multitude of No.
26:030:016 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily.
26:030:017 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.
26:030:018 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
26:030:019 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
26:030:020 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month,in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORDcame unto me, saying,
26:030:021 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt;and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put aroller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.
26:030:022 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.
26:030:023 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
26:030:024 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.
26:030:025 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.
26:030:026 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, anddisperse them among the countries; and they shall know that Iam the LORD.
26:031:001 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month,in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD cameunto me, saying,
26:031:002 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
26:031:003 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fairbranches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature;and his top was among the thick boughs.
26:031:004 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high withher rivers running round about his plants, and sent her littlerivers unto all the trees of the field.
26:031:005 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of thefield, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches becamelong because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
26:031:006 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, andunder his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forththeir young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
26:031:007 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
26:031:008 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
26:031:009 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so thatall the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, enviedhim.
26:031:010 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted upthyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thickboughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
26:031:011 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty oneof the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have drivenhim out for his wickedness.
26:031:012 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
26:031:013 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
26:031:014 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
26:031:015 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to thegrave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and Irestrained the floods thereof, and the great waters werestayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all thetrees of the field fainted for him.
26:031:016 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when Icast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: andall the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, allthat drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts ofthe earth.
26:031:017 They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
26:031:018 To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
26:032:001 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
26:032:002 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
26:032:003 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
26:032:004 Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.
26:032:005 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.
26:032:006 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thouswimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be fullof thee.
26:032:007 And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, andmake the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with acloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
26:032:008 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
26:032:009 I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.
26:032:010 Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.
26:032:011 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.
26:032:012 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.
26:032:013 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
26:032:014 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.
26:032:015 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the countryshall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shallsmite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that Iam the LORD.
26:032:016 This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: thedaughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lamentfor her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith theLord GOD.
26:032:017 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
26:032:018 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
26:032:019 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.
26:032:020 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by thesword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all hermultitudes.
26:032:021 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of themidst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down,they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
26:032:022 Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:
26:032:023 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.
26:032:024 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
26:032:025 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.
26:032:026 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.
26:032:027 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
26:032:028 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.
26:032:029 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.
26:032:030 There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.
26:032:031 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
26:032:032 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
26:033:001 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
26:033:002 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
26:033:003 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
26:033:004 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and takethnot warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his bloodshall be upon his own head.
26:033:005 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; hisblood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shalldeliver his soul.
26:033:006 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
26:033:007 So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.
26:033:008 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
26:033:009 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn fromit; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in hisiniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
26:033:010 Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel;Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins beupon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?
26:033:011 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
26:033:012 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
26:033:013 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
26:033:014 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
26:033:015 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he hadrobbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committinginiquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
26:033:016 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentionedunto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; heshall surely live.
26:033:017 Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is notequal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
26:033:018 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, andcommitteth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
26:033:019 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that whichis lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
26:033:020 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house ofIsrael, I will judge you every one after his ways.
26:033:021 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, inthe tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one thathad escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city issmitten.
26:033:022 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore hethat was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he cameto me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was nomore dumb.
26:033:023 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
26:033:024 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land ofIsrael speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited theland: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
26:033:025 Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat withthe blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shedblood: and shall ye possess the land?
26:033:026 Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?
26:033:027 Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.
26:033:028 For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of herstrength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall bedesolate, that none shall pass through.
26:033:029 Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid theland most desolate because of all their abominations whichthey have committed.