Ezekiel 25-30

Ezekiel 25

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

²Son of man, let your face be turned to the children of Ammon, and be a prophet against them:

³And say to the children of Ammon, Give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said: Because you said, Aha! against my holy place when it was made unclean, and against the land of Israel when it was made waste, and against the people of Judah when they were taken away as prisoners;

⁴For this cause I will give you up to the children of the east for their heritage, and they will put their tent-circles in you and make their houses in you; they will take your fruit for their food and your milk for their drink.

⁵And I will make Rabbah a place for housing camels, and the children of Ammon a resting-place for flocks: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

⁶For the Lord has said, Because you have made sounds of joy with your hands, stamping your feet, and have been glad, putting shame with all your soul on the land of Israel;

⁷For this cause my hand has been stretched out against you, and I will give up your goods to be taken by the nations; I will have you cut off from the peoples and will put an end to you among the countries: I will give you up to destruction; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

⁸This is what the Lord has said: Because Moab and Seir are saying, See, the people of Judah are like all the nations;

⁹For this cause, I will let the side of Moab be uncovered, and his towns on every side, the glory of the land, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon and as far as Kiriathaim.

¹⁰To the children of the east I have given her for a heritage, as well as the children of Ammon, so that there may be no memory of her among the nations:

¹¹And I will be the judge of Moab; and they will see that I am the Lord.

¹²This is what the Lord has said: Because Edom has taken his payment from the people of Judah, and has done great wrong in taking payment from them;

¹³The Lord has said, My hand will be stretched out against Edom, cutting off from it man and beast: and I will make it waste, from Teman even as far as Dedan they will be put to the sword.

¹⁴I will take payment from Edom because of my people Israel; and I will take Edom in hand in my wrath and in my passion: and they will have experience of my reward, says the Lord.

¹⁵This is what the Lord has said: Because the Philistines have taken payment, with the purpose of causing shame and destruction with unending hate;

¹⁶The Lord has said, See, my hand will be stretched out against the Philistines, cutting off the Cherethites and sending destruction on the rest of the sea-land.

¹⁷And I will take great payment from them with acts of wrath; and they will be certain that I am the Lord when I send my punishment on them.

Ezekiel 26

¹Now in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

²Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she who was the doorway of the peoples is broken; she is turned over to them; she who was full is made waste;

³For this cause the Lord has said, See, I am against you, O Tyre, and will send up a number of nations against you as the sea sends up its waves.

⁴And they will give the walls of Tyre to destruction and have its towers broken: and I will take even her dust away from her, and make her an uncovered rock

⁵She will be a place for the stretching out of nets in the middle of the sea; for I have said it, says the Lord: and her goods will be given over to the nations.

⁶And her daughters in the open country will be put to the sword: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

⁷For this is what the Lord has said: See, I will send up from the north Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, king of kings, against Tyre, with horses and war-carriages and with an army and great numbers of people.

⁸He will put to the sword your daughters in the open country: he will make strong walls against you and put up an earthwork against you, arming himself for war against you.

⁹He will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes.

¹⁰Because of the number of his horses you will be covered with their dust: your walls will be shaking at the noise of the horsemen and of the wheels and of the war-carriages, when he comes through your doorways, as into a town which has been broken open.

¹¹Your streets will be stamped down by the feet of his horses: he will put your people to the sword, and will send down the pillars of your strength to the earth.

¹²They will take by force all your wealth and go off with the goods with which you do trade: they will have your walls broken down and all the houses of your desire given up to destruction: they will put your stones and your wood and your dust deep in the water.

¹³I will put an end to the noise of your songs, and the sound of your instruments of music will be gone for ever.

¹⁴I will make you an uncovered rock: you will be a place for the stretching out of nets; there will be no building you up again: for I the Lord have said it, says the Lord.

¹⁵This is what the Lord has said to Tyre: Will not the sea-lands be shaking at the sound of your fall, when the wounded give cries of pain, when men are put to the sword in you?

¹⁶Then all the rulers of the sea will come down from their high seats, and put away their robes and take off their clothing of needlework: they will put on the clothing of grief, they will take their seats on the earth, shaking with fear every minute and overcome with wonder at you.

¹⁷And they will send up a song of grief for you, and say to you, What destruction has come on you, how are you cut off from the sea, the noted town, which was strong in the sea, she and her people, causing the fear of them to come on all the dry land!

¹⁸Now the sea-lands will be shaking in the day of your fall; and all the ships on the sea will be overcome with fear at your going.

¹⁹For this is what the Lord has said: I will make you a waste town, like the towns which are unpeopled; when I make the deep come upon you, covering you with great waters.

²⁰Then I will make you go down with those who go down into the underworld, to the people of the past, causing your living-place to be in the deepest parts of the earth, in places long unpeopled, with those who go down into the deep, so that there will be no one living in you; and you will have no glory in the land of the living.

²¹I will make you a thing of fear, and you will come to an end: even if you are looked for, you will not be seen again for ever, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 27

¹The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

²And you, son of man, make a song of grief for Tyre;

³And say to Tyre, O you who are seated at the doorway of the sea, trading for the peoples with the great sea-lands, these are the words of the Lord: You, O Tyre, have said, I am a ship completely beautiful.

⁴Your builders have made your outlines in the heart of the seas, they have made you completely beautiful.

⁵They have made all your boards of fir-trees from Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make the supports for your sails.

⁶Of oak-trees from Bashan they have made your driving blades; they have made your floors of ivory and boxwood from the sea-lands of Kittim.

⁷The best linen with needlework from Egypt was your sail, stretched out to be a flag for you; blue and purple from the sea-lands of Elishah gave you shade.

⁸The people of Zidon and Arvad were your boatmen; the wise men of Zemer were in you; they were guiding your ships;

⁹The responsible men of Gebal and its wise men were in you, making your boards watertight: all the ships of the sea with their seamen were in you trading in your goods.

¹⁰Cush and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war, hanging up their body-covers and head-dresses of war in you: they gave you your glory.

¹¹The men of Arvad in your army were on your walls, and were watchmen in your towers, hanging up their arms on your walls round about; they made you completely beautiful.

¹²Tarshish did business with you because of the great amount of your wealth; they gave silver, iron, tin, and lead for your goods.

¹³Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders; they gave living men and brass vessels for your goods.

¹⁴The people of Togarmah gave horses and war-horses and transport beasts for your goods.

¹⁵The men of Rodan were your traders: a great number of sea-lands did business with you: they gave you horns of ivory and ebony as an offering.

¹⁶Edom did business with you because of the great number of things which you made; they gave emeralds, purple, and needlework, and the best linen and coral and rubies for your goods.

¹⁷Judah and the land of Israel were your traders; they gave grain of Minnith and sweet cakes and honey and oil and perfume for your goods.

¹⁸Damascus did business with you because of the great amount of your wealth, with wine of Helbon and white wool.

¹⁹... for your goods: they gave polished iron and spices for your goods.

²⁰Dedan did trade with you in cloths for the backs of horses.

²¹Arabia and all the rulers of Kedar did business with you; in lambs and sheep and goats, in these they did business with you.

²²The traders of Sheba and Raamah did trade with you; they gave the best of all sorts of spices and all sorts of stones of great price and gold for your goods.

²³Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traders of Asshur and all the Medes:

²⁴These were your traders in beautiful robes, in rolls of blue and needlework, and in chests of coloured cloth, corded with cords and made of cedar-wood, in them they did trade with you.

²⁵Tarshish ships did business for you in your goods: and you were made full, and great was your glory in the heart of the seas.

²⁶Your boatmen have taken you into great waters: you have been broken by the east wind in the heart of the seas.

²⁷Your wealth and your goods, the things in which you do trade, your seamen and those guiding your ships, those who make your boards watertight, and those who do business with your goods, and all your men of war who are in you, with all who have come together in you, will go down into the heart of the seas in the day of your downfall.

²⁸At the sound of the cry of your ships' guides, the boards of the ship will be shaking.

²⁹And all the boatmen, the seamen and those who are expert at guiding a ship through the sea, will come down from their ships and take their places on the land;

³⁰And their voices will be sounding over you, and crying bitterly they will put dust on their heads, rolling themselves in the dust:

³¹And they will have the hair of their heads cut off because of you, and will put haircloth on their bodies, weeping for you with bitter grief in their souls, even with bitter sorrow.

³²And in their weeping they will make a song of grief for you, sorrowing over you and saying, Who is like Tyre, who has come to an end in the deep sea?

³³When your goods went out over the seas, you made numbers of peoples full; the wealth of the kings of the earth was increased with your great wealth and all your goods.

³⁴Now that you are broken by the seas in the deep waters, your goods and all your people will go down with you.

³⁵All the people of the sea-lands are overcome with wonder at you, and their kings are full of fear, their faces are troubled.

³⁶Those who do business among the peoples make sounds of surprise at you; you have become a thing of fear, you have come to an end for ever.

Ezekiel 28

¹The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

²Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, This is what the Lord has said: Because your heart has been lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I am seated on the seat of God in the heart of the seas; but you are man and not God, though you have made your heart as the heart of God:

³See, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret which is deeper than your knowledge:

⁴By your wisdom and deep knowledge you have got power for yourself, and put silver and gold in your store-houses:

⁵By your great wisdom and by your trade your power is increased, and your heart is lifted up because of your power:

⁶For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have made your heart as the heart of God,

⁷See, I am sending against you strange men, feared among the nations: they will let loose their swords against your bright wisdom, they will make your glory a common thing.

⁸They will send you down to the underworld, and your death will be the death of those who are put to the sword in the heart of the seas.

⁹Will you say, in the face of those who are taking your life, I am God? but you are man and not God in the hands of those who are wounding you.

¹⁰Your death will be the death of those who are without circumcision, by the hands of men from strange lands: for I have said it, says the Lord.

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

¹²Son of man, make a song of grief for the king of Tyre, and say to him, This is what the Lord has said: You are all-wise and completely beautiful;

¹³You were in Eden, the garden of God; every stone of great price was your clothing, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the emerald and the carbuncle: your store-houses were full of gold, and things of great price were in you; in the day when you were made they were got ready.

¹⁴I gave you your place with the winged one; I put you on the mountain of God; you went up and down among the stones of fire.

¹⁵There has been no evil in your ways from the day when you were made, till sin was seen in you.

¹⁶Through all your trading you have become full of violent ways, and have done evil: so I sent you out shamed from the mountain of God; the winged one put an end to you from among the stones of fire.

¹⁷Your heart was lifted up because you were beautiful, you made your wisdom evil through your sin: I have sent you down, even to the earth; I have made you low before kings, so that they may see you.

¹⁸By all your sin, even by your evil trading, you have made your holy places unclean; so I will make a fire come out from you, it will make a meal of you, and I will make you as dust on the earth before the eyes of all who see you.

¹⁹All who have knowledge of you among the peoples will be overcome with wonder at you: you have become a thing of fear, and you will never be seen again.

²⁰And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

²¹Son of man, let your face be turned to Zidon, and be a prophet against it, and say,

²²These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, O Zidon; and I will get glory for myself in you: and they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I send my punishments on her, and I will be seen to be holy in her.

²³And I will send on her disease and blood in her streets; and the wounded will be falling in the middle of her, and the sword will be against her on every side; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

²⁴And there will no longer be a plant with sharp points wounding the children of Israel, or a thorn troubling them among any who are round about them, who put shame on them; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

²⁵This is what the Lord has said: When I have got together the children of Israel from the peoples among whom they are wandering, and have been made holy among them before the eyes of the nations, then they will have rest in the land which is theirs, which I gave to my servant Jacob

²⁶And they will be safe there, building houses and planting vine-gardens and living without fear; when I have sent my punishments on all those who put shame on them round about them; and they will be certain that I am the Lord their God.

Ezekiel 29

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

²Son of man, let your face be turned against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and be a prophet against him and against all Egypt:

³Say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great river-beast stretched out among his Nile streams, who has said, The Nile is mine, and I have made it for myself.

⁴And I will put hooks in your mouth, and the fish of your streams will be hanging from your skin; and I will make you come up out of your streams, with all the fish of your streams hanging from your skin.

⁵And I will let you be in the waste land, you and all the fish of your streams: you will go down on the face of the land; you will not be taken up or put to rest in the earth; I have given you for food to the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven.

⁶And it will be clear to all the people of Egypt that I am the Lord, because you have been a false support to the children of Israel.

⁷When they took a grip of you in their hands, you were crushed so that their arms were broken: and when they put their weight on you for support, you were broken and all their muscles gave way.

⁸For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am sending a sword on you, cutting off from you man and beast.

⁹And the land of Egypt will be an unpeopled waste; and they will be certain that I am the Lord: because he has said, The Nile is mine, and I made it.

¹⁰See, then, I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an unpeopled waste, from Migdol to Syene, even as far as the edge of Ethiopia.

¹¹No foot of man will go through it and no foot of beast, and it will be unpeopled for forty years.

¹²I will make the land of Egypt a waste among the countries which are made waste, and her towns will be unpeopled among the towns which have been made waste, for forty years: and I will send the Egyptians in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries.

¹³For this is what the Lord has said: At the end of forty years I will get the Egyptians together from the peoples where they have gone in flight:

¹⁴I will let the fate of Egypt be changed, and will make them come back into the land of Pathros, into the land from which they came; and there they will be an unimportant kingdom.

¹⁵It will be the lowest of the kingdoms, and never again will it be lifted up over the nations: I will make them small, so that they may not have rule over the nations.

¹⁶And Egypt will no longer be the hope of the children of Israel, causing sin to come to mind when their eyes are turned to them: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

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

¹⁸Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, made his army do hard work against Tyre, and the hair came off every head and every arm was rubbed smooth: but he and his army got no payment out of Tyre for the hard work which he had done against it.

¹⁹For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am giving the land of Egypt to Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon: he will take away her wealth, and take her goods by force and everything which is there; and this will be the payment for his army.

²⁰I have given him the land of Egypt as the reward for his hard work, because they were working for me, says the Lord.

²¹In that day I will make a horn put out buds for the children of Israel, and I will let your words come freely among them, and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 30

¹The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

²Son of man, be a prophet, and say, These are the words of the Lord: Give a cry, Aha, for the day!

³For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near, a day of cloud; it will be the time of the nations.

⁴And a sword will come on Egypt, and cruel pain will be in Ethiopia, when they are falling by the sword in Egypt; and they will take away her wealth and her bases will be broken down.

⁵Ethiopia and Put and Lud and all the mixed people and Libya and the children of the land of the Cherethites will all be put to death with them by the sword.

⁶This is what the Lord has said: The supporters of Egypt will have a fall, and the pride of her power will come down: from Migdol to Syene they will be put to the sword in it, says the Lord.

⁷And she will be made waste among the countries which have been made waste, and her towns will be among the towns which are unpeopled.

⁸And they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have put a fire in Egypt and all her helpers are broken.

⁹In that day men will go out quickly to take the news, causing fear in untroubled Ethiopia; and bitter pain will come on them as in the day of Egypt; for see, it is coming.

¹⁰This is what the Lord has said: I will put an end to great numbers of the people of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.

¹¹He and the people with him, causing fear among the nations, will be sent for the destruction of the land; their swords will be let loose against Egypt and the land will be full of dead.

¹²And I will make the Nile streams dry, and will give the land into the hands of evil men, causing the land and everything in it to be wasted by the hands of men from a strange country: I the Lord have said it.

¹³This is what the Lord has said: In addition to this, I will give up the images to destruction and put an end to the false gods in Noph; never again will there be a ruler in the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.

¹⁴And I will make Pathros a waste, and put a fire in Zoan, and send my punishments on No.

¹⁵I will let loose my wrath on Sin, the strong place of Egypt, cutting off the mass of the people of No.

¹⁶And I will put a fire in Egypt; Syene will be twisting in pain, and No will be broken into, as by the onrush of waters.

¹⁷The young men of On and Pi-beseth will be put to the sword: and these towns will be taken away prisoners.

¹⁸And at Tehaphnehes the day will become dark, when the yoke of Egypt is broken there, and the pride of her power comes to an end: as for her, she will be covered with a cloud, and her daughters will be taken away prisoners.

¹⁹And I will send my punishments on Egypt: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

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

²¹Son of man, the arm of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, has been broken by me, and no band has been put round it to make it well, no band has been twisted round it to make it strong for gripping the sword.

²²For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and by me his strong arm will be broken; and I will make the sword go out of his hand.

²³And I will send the Egyptians in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries.

²⁴And I will make the arms of the king of Babylon strong, and will put my sword in his hand: but Pharaoh's arms will be broken, and he will give cries of pain before him like the cries of a man wounded to death.

²⁵And I will make the arms of the king of Babylon strong, and the arms of Pharaoh will be hanging down; and they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and it is stretched out against the land of Egypt.

²⁶And I will send the Egyptians in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.