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         <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Babylon as God&#8217;s Sword of Judgment</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 21:1-32 is numbered 21:6-37.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, set your face against Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuary. Prophesy against the land of Israel </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and say to her: &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: I am against you. I will draw my sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Because I am going to cut off the righteous and the wicked, my sword will be unsheathed against everyone from south to north. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then all people will know that I the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> have drawn my sword from its sheath; it will not return again.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.21.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore groan, son of man! Groan before them with broken heart and bitter grief. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And when they ask you, &#8216;Why are you groaning?&#8217; you shall say, &#8216;Because of the news that is coming. Every heart will melt with fear and every hand go limp; every spirit will become faint and every leg will be wet with urine.&#8217; It is coming! It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.21.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, prophesy and say, &#8216;This is what the Lord says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.21.9"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;A sword, a sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.21.9"><span class="content">sharpened and polished&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.21.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">sharpened for the slaughter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.21.10"><span class="content">polished to flash like lightning!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.21.10"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Shall we rejoice in the scepter of my royal son? The sword despises every such stick.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.21.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The sword is appointed to be polished,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.21.11"><span class="content">to be grasped with the hand;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.21.11"><span class="content">it is sharpened and polished,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.21.11"><span class="content">made ready for the hand of the slayer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.21.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Cry out and wail, son of man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.21.12"><span class="content">for it is against my people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.21.12"><span class="content">it is against all the princes of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.21.12"><span class="content">They are thrown to the sword</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.21.12"><span class="content">along with my people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.21.12"><span class="content">Therefore beat your breast.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.21.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Testing will surely come. And what if even the scepter, which the sword despises, does not continue? declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.21.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;So then, son of man, prophesy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.21.14"><span class="content">and strike your hands together.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.21.14"><span class="content">Let the sword strike twice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.21.14"><span class="content">even three times.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.21.14"><span class="content">It is a sword for slaughter&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.21.14"><span class="content">a sword for great slaughter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.21.14"><span class="content">closing in on them from every side.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.21.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So that hearts may melt with fear</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.21.15"><span class="content">and the fallen be many,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.21.15"><span class="content">I have stationed the sword for slaughter</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:15 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.21.15"><span class="content">at all their gates.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.21.15"><span class="content">Look! It is forged to strike like lightning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.21.15"><span class="content">it is grasped for slaughter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.21.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Slash to the right, you sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.21.16"><span class="content">then to the left,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.21.16"><span class="content">wherever your blade is turned.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.21.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I too will strike my hands together,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.21.17"><span class="content">and my wrath will subside.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.21.17"><span class="content">I the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> have spoken.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.21.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.21.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.21.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, mark out two roads for the sword of the king of Babylon to take, both starting from the same country. Make a signpost where the road branches off to the city. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.21.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Mark out one road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites and another against Judah and fortified Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.21.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For the king of Babylon will stop at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He will cast lots with arrows, he will consult his idols, he will examine the liver. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.21.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Into his right hand will come the lot for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to give the command to slaughter, to sound the battle cry, to set battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp and to erect siege works. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZK.21.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">It will seem like a false omen to those who have sworn allegiance to him, but he will remind them of their guilt and take them captive.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZK.21.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.21.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;Because you people have brought to mind your guilt by your open rebellion, revealing your sins in all that you do&#8212;because you have done this, you will be taken captive.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.21.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.21.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;You profane and wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come, whose time of punishment has reached its climax, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.21.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Take off the turban, remove the crown. It will not be as it was: The lowly will be exalted and the exalted will be brought low. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.21.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">A ruin! A ruin! I will make it a ruin! The crown will not be restored until he to whom it rightfully belongs shall come; to him I will give it.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.21.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.21.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;And you, son of man, prophesy and say, &#8216;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says about the Ammonites and their insults:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.21.28"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;A sword, a sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.21.28"><span class="content">drawn for the slaughter,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.21.28"><span class="content">polished to consume</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.21.28"><span class="content">and to flash like lightning!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.21.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.21.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Despite false visions concerning you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.21.29"><span class="content">and lying divinations about you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.21.29"><span class="content">it will be laid on the necks</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.21.29"><span class="content">of the wicked who are to be slain,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.21.29"><span class="content">whose day has come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.21.29"><span class="content">whose time of punishment has reached its climax.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.21.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.21.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Let the sword return to its sheath.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.21.30"><span class="content">In the place where you were created,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.21.30"><span class="content">in the land of your ancestry,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.21.30"><span class="content">I will judge you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.21.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.21.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">I will pour out my wrath on you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.21.31"><span class="content">and breathe out my fiery anger against you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.21.31"><span class="content">I will deliver you into the hands of brutal men,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.21.31"><span class="content">men skilled in destruction.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.21.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.21.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">You will be fuel for the fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.21.32"><span class="content">your blood will be shed in your land,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.21.32"><span class="content">you will be remembered no more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.21.32"><span class="content">for I the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> have spoken.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judgment on Jerusalem&#8217;s Sins</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, will you judge her? Will you judge this city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her detestable practices </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and say: &#8216;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: You city that brings on herself doom by shedding blood in her midst and defiles herself by making idols, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">you have become guilty because of the blood you have shed and have become defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close, and the end of your years has come. Therefore I will make you an object of scorn to the nations and a laughingstock to all the countries. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Those who are near and those who are far away will mock you, you infamous city, full of turmoil.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;See how each of the princes of Israel who are in you uses his power to shed blood. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have oppressed the foreigner and mistreated the fatherless and the widow. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">In you are slanderers who are bent on shedding blood; in you are those who eat at the mountain shrines and commit lewd acts. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">In you are those who dishonor their father&#8217;s bed; in you are those who violate women during their period, when they are ceremonially unclean. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor&#8217;s wife, another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law, and another violates his sister, his own father&#8217;s daughter. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">In you are people who accept bribes to shed blood; you take interest and make a profit from the poor. You extort unjust gain from your neighbors. And you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I will surely strike my hands together at the unjust gain you have made and at the blood you have shed in your midst. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> have spoken, and I will do it. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you through the countries; and I will put an end to your uncleanness. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When you have been defiled</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:16 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">When I have allotted you your inheritance</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the eyes of the nations, you will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, the people of Israel have become dross to me; all of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead left inside a furnace. They are but the dross of silver. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;Because you have all become dross, I will gather you into Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">As silver, copper, iron, lead and tin are gathered into a furnace to be melted with a fiery blast, so will I gather you in my anger and my wrath and put you inside the city and melt you. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">I will gather you and I will blow on you with my fiery wrath, and you will be melted inside her. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted inside her, and you will know that I the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> have poured out my wrath on you.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.22.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZK.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Again the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, say to the land, &#8216;You are a land that has not been cleansed or rained on in the day of wrath.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">There is a conspiracy of her princes</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:25 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">prophets</span></span></span><span class="content"> within her like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they devour people, take treasures and precious things and make many widows within her. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Her priests do violence to my law and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common; they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean; and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people to make unjust gain. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Her prophets whitewash these deeds for them by false visions and lying divinations. They say, &#8216;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says&#8217;&#8212;when the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has not spoken. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.22.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">&#8220;I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.22.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger, bringing down on their own heads all they have done, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Two Adulterous Sisters</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They became prostitutes in Egypt, engaging in prostitution from their youth. In that land their breasts were fondled and their virgin bosoms caressed. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The older was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. They were mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was still mine; and she lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians&#8212;warriors </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all of them handsome young men, and mounted horsemen. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">She gave herself as a prostitute to all the elite of the Assyrians and defiled herself with all the idols of everyone she lusted after. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when during her youth men slept with her, caressed her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.23.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians, for whom she lusted. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They stripped her naked, took away her sons and daughters and killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women, and punishment was inflicted on her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.23.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">She too lusted after the Assyrians&#8212;governors and commanders, warriors in full dress, mounted horsemen, all handsome young men. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I saw that she too defiled herself; both of them went the same way.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.23.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;But she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall, figures of Chaldeans</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Babylonians</span></span></span><span class="content"> portrayed in red, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">with belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers, natives of Chaldea.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Babylonia</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 16</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.23.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When she carried on her prostitution openly and exposed her naked body, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.23.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.23.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.23.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:21 </span><span class="ft">Syriac (see also verse 3); Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">caressed because of your young breasts</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.23.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.23.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: I will stir up your lovers against you, those you turned away from in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZK.23.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, the men of Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, handsome young men, all of them governors and commanders, chariot officers and men of high rank, all mounted on horses. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.23.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">They will come against you with weapons,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:24 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> chariots and wagons and with a throng of people; they will take up positions against you on every side with large and small shields and with helmets. I will turn you over to them for punishment, and they will punish you according to their standards. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.23.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">I will direct my jealous anger against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will cut off your noses and your ears, and those of you who are left will fall by the sword. They will take away your sons and daughters, and those of you who are left will be consumed by fire. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.23.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">They will also strip you of your clothes and take your fine jewelry. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.23.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">So I will put a stop to the lewdness and prostitution you began in Egypt. You will not look on these things with longing or remember Egypt anymore.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.23.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.23.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;For this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: I am about to deliver you into the hands of those you hate, to those you turned away from in disgust. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.23.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">They will deal with you in hatred and take away everything you have worked for. They will leave you stark naked, and the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your lewdness and promiscuity </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.23.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">have brought this on you, because you lusted after the nations and defiled yourself with their idols. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.23.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">You have gone the way of your sister; so I will put her cup into your hand.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.23.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.23.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.23.32"><span class="content">&#8220;You will drink your sister&#8217;s cup,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.23.32"><span class="content">a cup large and deep;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.23.32"><span class="content">it will bring scorn and derision,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.23.32"><span class="content">for it holds so much.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.23.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EZK.23.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EZK.23.33"><span class="content">the cup of ruin and desolation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EZK.23.33"><span class="content">the cup of your sister Samaria.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EZK.23.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EZK.23.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">You will drink it and drain it dry</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EZK.23.34"><span class="content">and chew on its pieces&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EZK.23.34"><span class="content">and you will tear your breasts.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EZK.23.34"><span class="content">I have spoken, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EZK.23.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="EZK.23.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Since you have forgotten me and turned your back on me, you must bear the consequences of your lewdness and prostitution.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="EZK.23.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="EZK.23.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me: &#8220;Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then confront them with their detestable practices, </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="EZK.23.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">for they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; they even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, as food for them. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="EZK.23.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">They have also done this to me: At that same time they defiled my sanctuary and desecrated my Sabbaths. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="EZK.23.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">On the very day they sacrificed their children to their idols, they entered my sanctuary and desecrated it. That is what they did in my house.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="EZK.23.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="EZK.23.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">&#8220;They even sent messengers for men who came from far away, and when they arrived you bathed yourself for them, applied eye makeup and put on your jewelry. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="EZK.23.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">You sat on an elegant couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed the incense and olive oil that belonged to me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="EZK.23.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="EZK.23.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">&#8220;The noise of a carefree crowd was around her; drunkards were brought from the desert along with men from the rabble, and they put bracelets on the wrists of the woman and her sister and beautiful crowns on their heads. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="EZK.23.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, &#8216;Now let them use her as a prostitute, for that is all she is.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="EZK.23.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">And they slept with her. As men sleep with a prostitute, so they slept with those lewd women, Oholah and Oholibah. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="EZK.23.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">But righteous judges will sentence them to the punishment of women who commit adultery and shed blood, because they are adulterous and blood is on their hands.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="EZK.23.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="EZK.23.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Bring a mob against them and give them over to terror and plunder. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="EZK.23.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="EZK.23.47"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="EZK.23.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">&#8220;So I will put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not imitate you. </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="EZK.23.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">You will suffer the penalty for your lewdness and bear the consequences of your sins of idolatry. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">24</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jerusalem as a Cooking Pot</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.24.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the ninth year, in the tenth month on the tenth day, the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.24.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, record this date, this very date, because the king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.24.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Tell this rebellious people a parable and say to them: &#8216;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.24.3"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Put on the cooking pot; put it on</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.24.3"><span class="content">and pour water into it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.24.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.24.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Put into it the pieces of meat,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.24.4"><span class="content">all the choice pieces&#8212;the leg and the shoulder.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.24.4"><span class="content">Fill it with the best of these bones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.24.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.24.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">take the pick of the flock.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.24.5"><span class="content">Pile wood beneath it for the bones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.24.5"><span class="content">bring it to a boil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.24.5"><span class="content">and cook the bones in it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.24.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.24.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;For this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.24.6"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Woe to the city of bloodshed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.24.6"><span class="content">to the pot now encrusted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.24.6"><span class="content">whose deposit will not go away!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.24.6"><span class="content">Take the meat out piece by piece</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.24.6"><span class="content">in whatever order it comes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.24.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.24.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;For the blood she shed is in her midst:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.24.7"><span class="content">She poured it on the bare rock;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.24.7"><span class="content">she did not pour it on the ground,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.24.7"><span class="content">where the dust would cover it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.24.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.24.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">To stir up wrath and take revenge</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.24.8"><span class="content">I put her blood on the bare rock,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.24.8"><span class="content">so that it would not be covered.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.24.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.24.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Therefore this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.24.9"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Woe to the city of bloodshed!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.24.9"><span class="content">I, too, will pile the wood high.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.24.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.24.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So heap on the wood</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.24.10"><span class="content">and kindle the fire.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.24.10"><span class="content">Cook the meat well,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.24.10"><span class="content">mixing in the spices;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.24.10"><span class="content">and let the bones be charred.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.24.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.24.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then set the empty pot on the coals</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.24.11"><span class="content">till it becomes hot and its copper glows,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.24.11"><span class="content">so that its impurities may be melted</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.24.11"><span class="content">and its deposit burned away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.24.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.24.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">It has frustrated all efforts;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.24.12"><span class="content">its heavy deposit has not been removed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.24.12"><span class="content">not even by fire.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.24.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.24.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Now your impurity is lewdness. Because I tried to cleanse you but you would not be cleansed from your impurity, you will not be clean again until my wrath against you has subsided.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.24.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.24.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> have spoken. The time has come for me to act. I will not hold back; I will not have pity, nor will I relent. You will be judged according to your conduct and your actions, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ezekiel&#8217;s Wife Dies</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.24.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.24.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.24.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, with one blow I am about to take away from you the delight of your eyes. Yet do not lament or weep or shed any tears. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.24.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Groan quietly; do not mourn for the dead. Keep your turban fastened and your sandals on your feet; do not cover your mustache and beard or eat the customary food of mourners.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.24.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.24.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. The next morning I did as I had been commanded.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.24.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.24.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then the people asked me, &#8220;Won&#8217;t you tell us what these things have to do with us? Why are you acting like this?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.24.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.24.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">So I said to them, &#8220;The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.24.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Say to the people of Israel, &#8216;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: I am about to desecrate my sanctuary&#8212;the stronghold in which you take pride, the delight of your eyes, the object of your affection. The sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.24.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">And you will do as I have done. You will not cover your mustache and beard or eat the customary food of mourners. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZK.24.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">You will keep your turbans on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep but will waste away because of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:23 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">away in</span></span></span><span class="content"> your sins and groan among yourselves. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.24.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Ezekiel will be a sign to you; you will do just as he has done. When this happens, you will know that I am the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.24.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.24.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;And you, son of man, on the day I take away their stronghold, their joy and glory, the delight of their eyes, their heart&#8217;s desire, and their sons and daughters as well&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.24.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">on that day a fugitive will come to tell you the news. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.24.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">At that time your mouth will be opened; you will speak with him and will no longer be silent. So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">25</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Ammon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.25.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.25.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites and prophesy against them. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.25.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Say to them, &#8216;Hear the word of the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Because you said &#8220;Aha!&#8221; over my sanctuary when it was desecrated and over the land of Israel when it was laid waste and over the people of Judah when they went into exile, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.25.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">therefore I am going to give you to the people of the East as a possession. They will set up their camps and pitch their tents among you; they will eat your fruit and drink your milk. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.25.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I will turn Rabbah into a pasture for camels and Ammon into a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.25.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet, rejoicing with all the malice of your heart against the land of Israel, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.25.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">therefore I will stretch out my hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will wipe you out from among the nations and exterminate you from the countries. I will destroy you, and you will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Moab</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.25.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.25.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;Because Moab and Seir said, &#8220;Look, Judah has become like all the other nations,&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.25.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">therefore I will expose the flank of Moab, beginning at its frontier towns&#8212;Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon and Kiriathaim&#8212;the glory of that land. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.25.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I will give Moab along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, so that the Ammonites will not be remembered among the nations; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.25.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and I will inflict punishment on Moab. Then they will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Edom</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.25.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.25.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;Because Edom took revenge on Judah and became very guilty by doing so, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.25.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">therefore this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom and kill both man and beast. I will lay it waste, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.25.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I will take vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they will deal with Edom in accordance with my anger and my wrath; they will know my vengeance, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Philistia</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.25.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.25.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;Because the Philistines acted in vengeance and took revenge with malice in their hearts, and with ancient hostility sought to destroy Judah, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.25.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">therefore this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: I am about to stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will wipe out the Kerethites and destroy those remaining along the coast. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.25.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I will carry out great vengeance on them and punish them in my wrath. Then they will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, when I take vengeance on them.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">26</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Tyre</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.26.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the eleventh month of the twelfth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:1 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text does not have </span><span class="fq">month of the twelfth</span><span class="ft">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> year, on the first day of the month, the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.26.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, &#8216;Aha! The gate to the nations is broken, and its doors have swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will prosper,&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.26.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">therefore this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the sea casting up its waves. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.26.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They will destroy the walls of Tyre and pull down her towers; I will scrape away her rubble and make her a bare rock. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.26.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Out in the sea she will become a place to spread fishnets, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. She will become plunder for the nations, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.26.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">and her settlements on the mainland will be ravaged by the sword. Then they will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.26.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.26.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;For this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: From the north I am going to bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:7 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Nebuchadrezzar, </span><span class="ft">of which </span><span class="fqa">Nebuchadnezzar </span><span class="ft">is a variant; here and often in Ezekiel and Jeremiah</span></span></span><span class="content"> king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with horsemen and a great army. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.26.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He will ravage your settlements on the mainland with the sword; he will set up siege works against you, build a ramp up to your walls and raise his shields against you. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.26.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and demolish your towers with his weapons. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.26.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">His horses will be so many that they will cover you with dust. Your walls will tremble at the noise of the warhorses, wagons and chariots when he enters your gates as men enter a city whose walls have been broken through. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.26.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The hooves of his horses will trample all your streets; he will kill your people with the sword, and your strong pillars will fall to the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.26.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They will plunder your wealth and loot your merchandise; they will break down your walls and demolish your fine houses and throw your stones, timber and rubble into the sea. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.26.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I will put an end to your noisy songs, and the music of your harps will be heard no more. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.26.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread fishnets. You will never be rebuilt, for I the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> have spoken, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.26.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.26.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to Tyre: Will not the coastlands tremble at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan and the slaughter takes place in you? </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.26.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then all the princes of the coast will step down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and take off their embroidered garments. Clothed with terror, they will sit on the ground, trembling every moment, appalled at you. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.26.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then they will take up a lament concerning you and say to you:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.26.17"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;How you are destroyed, city of renown,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.26.17"><span class="content">peopled by men of the sea!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.26.17"><span class="content">You were a power on the seas,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.26.17"><span class="content">you and your citizens;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.26.17"><span class="content">you put your terror</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.26.17"><span class="content">on all who lived there.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.26.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.26.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Now the coastlands tremble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.26.18"><span class="content">on the day of your fall;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.26.18"><span class="content">the islands in the sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.26.18"><span class="content">are terrified at your collapse.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.26.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.26.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: When I make you a desolate city, like cities no longer inhabited, and when I bring the ocean depths over you and its vast waters cover you, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.26.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of long ago. I will make you dwell in the earth below, as in ancient ruins, with those who go down to the pit, and you will not return or take your place</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:20 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">return, and I will give glory</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the land of the living. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.26.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">I will bring you to a horrible end and you will be no more. You will be sought, but you will never again be found, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">27</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Lament Over Tyre</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.27.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.27.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, take up a lament concerning Tyre. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.27.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Say to Tyre, situated at the gateway to the sea, merchant of peoples on many coasts, &#8216;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.27.3"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;You say, Tyre,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.27.3"><span class="content">&#8220;I am perfect in beauty.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.27.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.27.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Your domain was on the high seas;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.27.4"><span class="content">your builders brought your beauty to perfection.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.27.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.27.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They made all your timbers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.27.5"><span class="content">of juniper from Senir</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:5 </span><span class="ft">That is, Mount Hermon</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.27.5"><span class="content">they took a cedar from Lebanon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.27.5"><span class="content">to make a mast for you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.27.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.27.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Of oaks from Bashan</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.27.6"><span class="content">they made your oars;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.27.6"><span class="content">of cypress wood</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:6 </span><span class="ft">Targum; the Masoretic Text has a different division of the consonants.</span></span></span><span class="content"> from the coasts of Cyprus</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.27.6"><span class="content">they made your deck, adorned with ivory.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.27.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.27.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.27.7"><span class="content">and served as your banner;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.27.7"><span class="content">your awnings were of blue and purple</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.27.7"><span class="content">from the coasts of Elishah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.27.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.27.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.27.8"><span class="content">your skilled men, Tyre, were aboard as your sailors.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.27.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.27.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Veteran craftsmen of Byblos were on board</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.27.9"><span class="content">as shipwrights to caulk your seams.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.27.9"><span class="content">All the ships of the sea and their sailors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.27.9"><span class="content">came alongside to trade for your wares.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.27.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.27.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Men of Persia, Lydia and Put</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.27.10"><span class="content">served as soldiers in your army.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.27.10"><span class="content">They hung their shields and helmets on your walls,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.27.10"><span class="content">bringing you splendor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.27.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.27.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Men of Arvad and Helek</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.27.11"><span class="content">guarded your walls on every side;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.27.11"><span class="content">men of Gammad</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.27.11"><span class="content">were in your towers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.27.11"><span class="content">They hung their shields around your walls;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.27.11"><span class="content">they brought your beauty to perfection.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.27.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.27.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Tarshish did business with you because of your great wealth of goods; they exchanged silver, iron, tin and lead for your merchandise.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.27.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.27.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Greece, Tubal and Meshek did business with you; they traded human beings and articles of bronze for your wares.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.27.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.27.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Men of Beth Togarmah exchanged chariot horses, cavalry horses and mules for your merchandise.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.27.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.27.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The men of Rhodes</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:15 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Dedan</span></span></span><span class="content"> traded with you, and many coastlands were your customers; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.27.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.27.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Aram</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:16 </span><span class="ft">Most Hebrew manuscripts; some Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac </span><span class="fqa">Edom</span></span></span><span class="content"> did business with you because of your many products; they exchanged turquoise, purple fabric, embroidered work, fine linen, coral and rubies for your merchandise.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.27.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.27.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Judah and Israel traded with you; they exchanged wheat from Minnith and confections,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:17 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> honey, olive oil and balm for your wares.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.27.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.27.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Damascus did business with you because of your many products and great wealth of goods. They offered wine from Helbon, wool from Zahar </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.27.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">and casks of wine from Izal in exchange for your wares: wrought iron, cassia and calamus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.27.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.27.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Dedan traded in saddle blankets with you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.27.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.27.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your customers; they did business with you in lambs, rams and goats.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.27.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.27.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The merchants of Sheba and Raamah traded with you; for your merchandise they exchanged the finest of all kinds of spices and precious stones, and gold.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.27.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZK.27.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Harran, Kanneh and Eden and merchants of Sheba, Ashur and Kilmad traded with you. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.27.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">In your marketplace they traded with you beautiful garments, blue fabric, embroidered work and multicolored rugs with cords twisted and tightly knotted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.27.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.27.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The ships of Tarshish serve</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.27.25"><span class="content">as carriers for your wares.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.27.25"><span class="content">You are filled with heavy cargo</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.27.25"><span class="content">as you sail the sea.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.27.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.27.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Your oarsmen take you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.27.26"><span class="content">out to the high seas.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.27.26"><span class="content">But the east wind will break you to pieces</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.27.26"><span class="content">far out at sea.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.27.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.27.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Your wealth, merchandise and wares,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.27.27"><span class="content">your mariners, sailors and shipwrights,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.27.27"><span class="content">your merchants and all your soldiers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.27.27"><span class="content">and everyone else on board</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.27.27"><span class="content">will sink into the heart of the sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.27.27"><span class="content">on the day of your shipwreck.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.27.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.27.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">The shorelands will quake</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.27.28"><span class="content">when your sailors cry out.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.27.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.27.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">All who handle the oars</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.27.29"><span class="content">will abandon their ships;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.27.29"><span class="content">the mariners and all the sailors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.27.29"><span class="content">will stand on the shore.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.27.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.27.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">They will raise their voice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.27.30"><span class="content">and cry bitterly over you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.27.30"><span class="content">they will sprinkle dust on their heads</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.27.30"><span class="content">and roll in ashes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.27.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.27.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">They will shave their heads because of you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.27.31"><span class="content">and will put on sackcloth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.27.31"><span class="content">They will weep over you with anguish of soul</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.27.31"><span class="content">and with bitter mourning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.27.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.27.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">As they wail and mourn over you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.27.32"><span class="content">they will take up a lament concerning you:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.27.32"><span class="content">&#8220;Who was ever silenced like Tyre,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.27.32"><span class="content">surrounded by the sea?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.27.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EZK.27.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">When your merchandise went out on the seas,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EZK.27.33"><span class="content">you satisfied many nations;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EZK.27.33"><span class="content">with your great wealth and your wares</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EZK.27.33"><span class="content">you enriched the kings of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EZK.27.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EZK.27.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Now you are shattered by the sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EZK.27.34"><span class="content">in the depths of the waters;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EZK.27.34"><span class="content">your wares and all your company</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EZK.27.34"><span class="content">have gone down with you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EZK.27.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="EZK.27.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">All who live in the coastlands</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="EZK.27.35"><span class="content">are appalled at you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="EZK.27.35"><span class="content">their kings shudder with horror</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="EZK.27.35"><span class="content">and their faces are distorted with fear.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="EZK.27.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="EZK.27.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">The merchants among the nations scoff at you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="EZK.27.36"><span class="content">you have come to a horrible end</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="EZK.27.36"><span class="content">and will be no more.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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