26:033:030 Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the LORD.
26:033:031 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
26:033:032 And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
26:033:033 And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.
26:034:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
26:034:002 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
26:034:003 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
26:034:004 The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
26:034:005 And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: andthey became meat to all the beasts of the field, when theywere scattered.
26:034:006 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon everyhigh hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face ofthe earth, and none did search or seek after them.
26:034:007 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
26:034:008 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
26:034:009 Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
26:034:010 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
26:034:011 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
26:034:012 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he isamong his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out mysheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they havebeen scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
26:034:013 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather themfrom the countries, and will bring them to their own land, andfeed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and inall the inhabited places of the country.
26:034:014 I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the highmountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they liein a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon themountains of Israel.
26:034:015 I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD.
26:034:016 I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
26:034:017 And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.
26:034:018 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
26:034:019 And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden withyour feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with yourfeet.
26:034:020 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, evenI, will judge between the fat cattle and between the leancattle.
26:034:021 Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushedall the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered themabroad;
26:034:022 Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
26:034:023 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
26:034:024 And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.
26:034:025 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will causethe evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwellsafely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
26:034:026 And I will make them and the places round about my hill ablessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in hisseason; there shall be showers of blessing.
26:034:027 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.
26:034:028 And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shallthe beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwellsafely, and none shall make them afraid.
26:034:029 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shallbe no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear theshame of the heathen any more.
26:034:030 Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them,and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saiththe Lord GOD.
26:034:031 And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.
26:035:001 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
26:035:002 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
26:035:003 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
26:035:004 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
26:035:005 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
26:035:006 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
26:035:007 Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.
26:035:008 And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
26:035:009 I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
26:035:010 Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:
26:035:011 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even doaccording to thine anger, and according to thine envy whichthou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will makemyself known among them, when I have judged thee.
26:035:012 And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heardall thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against themountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they aregiven us to consume.
26:035:013 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and havemultiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
26:035:014 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, Iwill make thee desolate.
26:035:015 As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
26:036:001 Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel,and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD:
26:036:002 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said againstyou, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:
26:036:003 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
26:036:004 Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;
26:036:005 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of myjealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, andagainst all Idumea, which have appointed my land into theirpossession with the joy of all their heart, with despitefulminds, to cast it out for a prey.
26:036:006 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say untothe mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to thevalleys, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in myjealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame ofthe heathen:
26:036:007 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand,Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear theirshame.
26:036:008 But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth yourbranches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; forthey are at hand to come.
26:036:009 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:
26:036:010 And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded:
26:036:011 And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shallincrease and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your oldestates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings:and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
26:036:012 Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel;and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be theirinheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them ofmen.
26:036:013 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou landdevourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations:
26:036:014 Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thynations any more, saith the Lord GOD.
26:036:015 Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord GOD.
26:036:016 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
26:036:017 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land,they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: theirway was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.
26:036:018 Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that theyhad shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they hadpolluted it:
26:036:019 And I scattered them among the heathen, and they weredispersed through the countries: according to their way andaccording to their doings I judged them.
26:036:020 And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went,they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These arethe people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.
26:036:021 But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.
26:036:022 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus saith the LordGOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but formine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among theheathen, whither ye went.
26:036:023 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned amongthe heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; andthe heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD,when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
26:036:024 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
26:036:025 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall beclean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, willI cleanse you.
26:036:026 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I putwithin you: and I will take away the stony heart out of yourflesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
26:036:027 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk inmy statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
26:036:028 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers;and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
26:036:029 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I willcall for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famineupon you.
26:036:030 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase ofthe field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famineamong the heathen.
26:036:031 Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doingsthat were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your ownsight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
26:036:032 Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it knownunto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O houseof Israel.
26:036:033 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansedyou from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell inthe cities, and the wastes shall be builded.
26:036:034 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
26:036:035 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become likethe garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruinedcities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
26:036:036 Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know thatI the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that wasdesolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.
26:036:037 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of bythe house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase themwith men like a flock.
26:036:038 As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemnfeasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks ofmen: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
26:037:001 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in thespirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valleywhich was full of bones,
26:037:002 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, therewere very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were verydry.
26:037:003 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And Ianswered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
26:037:004 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say untothem, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
26:037:005 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will causebreath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
26:037:006 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh uponyou, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and yeshall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
26:037:007 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, therewas a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones cametogether, bone to his bone.
26:037:008 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up uponthem, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breathin them.
26:037:009 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
26:037:010 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came intothem, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, anexceeding great army.
26:037:011 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the wholehouse of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, andour hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
26:037:012 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
26:037:013 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
26:037:014 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
26:037:015 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
26:037:016 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions:
26:037:017 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shallbecome one in thine hand.
26:037:018 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee,saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
26:037:019 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
26:037:020 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
26:037:021 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I willtake the children of Israel from among the heathen, whitherthey be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bringthem into their own land:
26:037:022 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountainsof Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and theyshall be no more two nations, neither shall they be dividedinto two kingdoms any more at all.
26:037:023 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
26:037:024 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
26:037:025 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
26:037:026 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
26:037:027 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be theirGod, and they shall be my people.
26:037:028 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel,when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
26:038:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
26:038:002 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, thechief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
26:038:003 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, OGog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
26:038:004 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
26:038:005 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shieldand helmet:
26:038:006 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the northquarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
26:038:007 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
26:038:008 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
26:038:009 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like acloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and manypeople with thee.
26:038:010 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that atthe same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shaltthink an evil thought:
26:038:011 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalledvillages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwellsafely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neitherbars nor gates,
26:038:012 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand uponthe desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon thepeople that are gathered out of the nations, which have gottencattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
26:038:013 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
26:038:014 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saiththe Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwellethsafely, shalt thou not know it?
26:038:015 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts,thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding uponhorses, a great company, and a mighty army:
26:038:016 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloudto cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I willbring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, whenI shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
26:038:017 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken inold time by my servants the prophets of Israel, whichprophesied in those days many years that I would bring theeagainst them?
26:038:018 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall comeagainst the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my furyshall come up in my face.
26:038:019 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken,Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the landof Israel;
26:038:020 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
26:038:021 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his brother.
26:038:022 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
26:038:023 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will beknown in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that Iam the LORD.
26:039:001 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say,Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, thechief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
26:039:002 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part ofthee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, andwill bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
26:039:003 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
26:039:004 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
26:039:005 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
26:039:006 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
26:039:007 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
26:039:008 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
26:039:009 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:
26:039:010 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
26:039:011 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.
26:039:012 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
26:039:013 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
26:039:014 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
26:039:015 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
26:039:016 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
26:039:017 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
26:039:018 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
26:039:019 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till yebe drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
26:039:020 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots,with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
26:039:021 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
26:039:022 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
26:039:023 And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
26:039:024 According to their uncleanness and according to theirtransgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face fromthem.
26:039:025 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again thecaptivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house ofIsrael, and will be jealous for my holy name;
26:039:026 After that they have borne their shame, and all theirtrespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when theydwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.
26:039:027 When I have brought them again from the people, and gatheredthem out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them inthe sight of many nations;
26:039:028 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
26:039:029 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
26:040:001 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.
26:040:002 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.
26:040:003 And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
26:040:004 And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto thee art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.
26:040:005 And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, andin the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by thecubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of thebuilding, one reed; and the height, one reed.
26:040:006 Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, andwent up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of thegate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshold of thegate, which was one reed broad.
26:040:007 And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reedbroad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; andthe threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within wasone reed.
26:040:008 He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.
26:040:009 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.
26:040:010 And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.
26:040:011 And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.
26:040:012 The space also before the little chambers was one cubit on this side, and the space was one cubit on that side: and the little chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.
26:040:013 He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty cubits, door against door.
26:040:014 He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post ofthe court round about the gate.
26:040:015 And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face ofthe porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.
26:040:016 And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.
26:040:017 Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement.
26:040:018 And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement.
26:040:019 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lowergate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundredcubits eastward and northward.
26:040:020 And the gate of the outward court that looked toward thenorth, he measured the length thereof, and the breadththereof.
26:040:021 And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
26:040:022 And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them.
26:040:023 And the gate of the inner court was over against the gatetoward the north, and toward the east; and he measured fromgate to gate an hundred cubits.
26:040:024 After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gatetoward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and thearches thereof according to these measures.
26:040:025 And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof roundabout, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, andthe breadth five and twenty cubits.
26:040:026 And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the archesthereof were before them: and it had palm trees, one on thisside, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof.
26:040:027 And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south: andhe measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundredcubits.
26:040:028 And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;
26:040:029 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
26:040:030 And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad.
26:040:031 And the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight steps.
26:040:032 And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures.
26:040:033 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, were according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
26:040:034 And the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.
26:040:035 And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these measures;
26:040:036 The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the archesthereof, and the windows to it round about: the length wasfifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
26:040:037 And the posts thereof were toward the utter court; and palmtrees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on thatside: and the going up to it had eight steps.
26:040:038 And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.
26:040:039 And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, andtwo tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offeringand the sin offering and the trespass offering.
26:040:040 And at the side without, as one goeth up to the entry of thenorth gate, were two tables; and on the other side, which wasat the porch of the gate, were two tables.
26:040:041 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side,by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slewtheir sacrifices.
26:040:042 And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
26:040:043 And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.
26:040:044 And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south: one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north.
26:040:045 And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.
26:040:046 And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD to minister unto him.
26:040:047 So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house.
26:040:048 And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured eachpost of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubitson that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits onthis side, and three cubits on that side.
26:040:049 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadtheleven cubits, and he brought me by the steps whereby theywent up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one onthis side, and another on that side.
26:041:001 Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle.
26:041:002 And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.
26:041:003 Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, twocubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door,seven cubits.
26:041:004 So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and thebreadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said untome, This is the most holy place.
26:041:005 After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and thebreadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about thehouse on every side.
26:041:006 And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.
26:041:007 And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.
26:041:008 I saw also the height of the house round about: thefoundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six greatcubits.
26:041:009 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamberwithout, was five cubits: and that which was left was theplace of the side chambers that were within.
26:041:010 And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.
26:041:011 And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place thatwas left, one door toward the north, and another door towardthe south: and the breadth of the place that was left was fivecubits round about.
26:041:012 Now the building that was before the separate place at the endtoward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of thebuilding was five cubits thick round about, and the lengththereof ninety cubits.
26:041:013 So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;
26:041:014 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.
26:041:015 And he measured the length of the building over against theseparate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereofon the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, withthe inner temple, and the porches of the court;
26:041:016 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleriesround about on their three stories, over against the door,cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to thewindows, and the windows were covered;
26:041:017 To that above the door, even unto the inner house, andwithout, and by all the wall round about within and without,by measure.
26:041:018 And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palmtree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub hadtwo faces;
26:041:019 So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the oneside, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on theother side: it was made through all the house round about.
26:041:020 From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple.
26:041:021 The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other.
26:041:022 The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood: and he said unto me, This is the table that is before the LORD.
26:041:023 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
26:041:024 And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.
26:041:025 And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without.
26:041:026 And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.
26:042:001 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.
26:042:002 Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
26:042:003 Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.
26:042:004 And before the chambers was a walk to ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
26:042:005 Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries werehigher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost ofthe building.
26:042:006 For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as thepillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitenedmore than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
26:042:007 And the wall that was without over against the chambers,toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, thelength thereof was fifty cubits.
26:042:008 For the length of the chambers that were in the utter courtwas fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundredcubits.
26:042:009 And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.
26:042:010 The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.
26:042:011 And the way before them was like the appearance of thechambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and asbroad as they: and all their goings out were both according totheir fashions, and according to their doors.
26:042:012 And according to the doors of the chambers that were towardthe south was a door in the head of the way, even the waydirectly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth intothem.
26:042:013 Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.
26:042:014 When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the people.
26:042:015 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about.
26:042:016 He measured the east side with the measuring reed, fivehundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
26:042:017 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with themeasuring reed round about.
26:042:018 He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with themeasuring reed.
26:042:019 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundredreeds with the measuring reed.
26:042:020 He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.
26:043:001 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east:
26:043:002 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.
26:043:003 And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
26:043:004 And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way ofthe gate whose prospect is toward the east.
26:043:005 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court;and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.
26:043:006 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the manstood by me.
26:043:007 And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.
26:043:008 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
26:043:009 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases oftheir kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst ofthem for ever.
26:043:010 Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, thatthey may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measurethe pattern.
26:043:011 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
26:043:012 This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
26:043:013 And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.
26:043:014 And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.
26:043:015 So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar andupward shall be four horns.