Miseries of Jerusalem.

strong holds of the daughters of Judah: he hath 2 brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

3

52.13.

d Ps.74.11. or, make the soul to come again. c PS.89.46. f Job 40.4. g Is.63.10.

4 or, It is by the way. the desirable of.

11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for b Ps.9.39. meat to 3 relieve the soul: see, O LORD, C De.23.3. and consider; for I am become ƒ vile. 12 Is 4 it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?5 behold, and see if there be any h sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. 13 From above hath he sent fire into Je.30.14. my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net i for my feet; hes hath turned me back; he hath made me desolate and faint all the day. 14 The yokej of my transgressions is h Da.9.12. bound by his hand; they are wreathed, i Eze.17.20. and come up upon my neck; he hath Hos.7.12. made my strength to fall; the LORDj De.28.48. hath delivered me into their hands, from k Is.5.5. whom m I am not able to rise up. or, hedge, 15 The LORD hath trodden under foot Job 1.10. all my mighty men in the midst of me; c.1.4. he hath called an assembly against me m Hos.5.14. to crush my young men: the LORD o hath n Le.26.31,44 trodden 9 the virgin, the daughter of o Is.63.3. Judah, as in a wine-press. 8 shut up. or, the winepress of the virgin. p Ps.74.4,&c. Je.13.17. 14.17.

16 For q these things I weep: mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far r from me; my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

7

9

18 The LORD is righteous; x for I have re-t ver.2,9. belled against his 3 cominandment: hear, u Je.51.30. I pray you, all people, and behold my v De.28.36. sorrow: my virgins and my young men 2Ki.24.15. are gone into captivity.

25.7.

19 I called for my lovers, but z they w Hos.8.8. deceived me; my priests and mine elders x Ne.9.33. gave up the ghost in the city, while Da.9.7,14. they sought their meat to relieve their 3 mouth. souls. y Is.3.26.

20 Behold, O LORD, for I am in distress; z Je.2.28. my bowels are troubled: mine heart is 30.14. turned within me; for a I have grievously 4 or, faint. rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, ba Ps.51.3,4. at home there is as death. b De.32.25. 21 They have heard that I sigh; there Eze.7.15. is none to comfort me: all mine enemies c Is. 13.6,&c. have heard of my trouble; they are glad Je.46.10. that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day c that thou hast 5 called, and they 5 shall be like unto me. 22 Let d all their wickedness come before d Ps. 137.7-9. thee; and do unto them as e thou hast done Je.51.35. unto me for all my transgressions: for my e Lu.23.31. sighs are many, and my heart is g faint. f Je.27.14,15. CHAP. II. g c.5.17.

50.15,31. or, proclaimed.

HOW hath the LORD covered the daugh- Is.58.1.

ter of Zion with a cloud i in his Je.23.22. anger, and cast down from heaven unto i Joel 2.2. the earth the beauty k of Israel, and re- 6 by the way. membered not his footstool in the day k 25a.1.19. of his anger! 11Ch.28.2.

The LORD hath swallowed up all the Ps.132.7. itations of Jacob,and hath not mpitied; Im Je.13.14.

3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his d right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming e fire, which devoureth round about. 4 He hath bent his bow like an genemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all 6 that were plea sant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

5 The LORD was as an enemy; he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces; he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

6 And he hath violently taken away k his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemnl feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised, in the indignation of his anger, the king and the priest.

7 The LORD hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given 8 up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise p in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.

8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from 2 destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her u bars: her king v and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.

10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sity upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

11 Mine eyes do fail with tears,mybowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth,for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings 4 swoon in the streets of the city. 12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.

13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, C virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea; who can heal thee?

14 Thy prophets fhave seen vain and foolish things for thee; and they have not discovered A thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens, and causes of banishment. 15 All that pass 6 by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The Perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

16 All thine enemies have opened their

The Prophet's personal Affliction.

mouth a against thee: they hiss and gnash] B. C. 588. the teeth: theysay, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it. 17 The LORD hath done that which he had devised; e ne hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied and ƒ he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee; he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

18 Their heart cried unto the LORD, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let k tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eyes cease.

19 Arise, cry out in the night; in the beginning of the watches pour out m thine heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger o in the top of every street. 7 Mat.11.29. 20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to m Ps.62.8. whom thau hast done this. Shall then Je.15.17. women eat their fruit, r and children 3 of o Eze.5.10,16. a span long? shall the priest & the prophet p Is.50.6. be slain in the sanctuary of the LORD? 9 Ps.94.14. 21 The t young and the old lie on the r De.28.53. ground in the streets: my virgins and my Je.19.9. young men are fallen by the sword; thou or, swadhast slain them in the day of thy anger; dled with thou hast killed, and not pitied. their hands. 22 Thou hast called, as in a solemn day, s Ps.30.5. my terrors round about; v so that in the t 2Ch.36.17. day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor 4 from his remained those that I have swaddled and heart. brought up w hath mine enemy consumed. u Je.31.20. CHAP. III. Eze.33.11.

IA
AM the man that hath seen affliction
by the rod of his wrath.

2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, z but not into light.

3

He.12.10.

v Je.6.25.

5 a superior. 6 or, seeth, Hab.1.13.

3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. wHos.9.12,13 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made x Is.45.7. old: he hath broken c my bones. y Mi 7.9. 5 He hath builded against me, and com- for,murmur. passed me with gall and travail. z Am.5.20. 6 He hath set me in dark e places, as they that be dead of old.

a Hag.1.5,7. bJob 16.8,&c. 7 He hath hedged g me about, that I can-c Ps.51.8. not get out: he hath made my chain heavy. Je.50.17. 8 Also when I cry hand shout, he shut-d Da.9.5. teth out my prayer. e Ps. 143.3. 9 He bath inclosed my ways with hewn ƒ 2Ch.36.17. stone he hath made my paths crooked. g Hos.2.6. 10 He was unto me as a bear i lying in h Job 30.20. wait, and as a lion in secret places. i Hos.5.14. 11 He hath turned aside my ways, and 13.7,8. pulled m me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark n for the arrow.

13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

& Is.24.17. 1 Is.51.19. m Hos.6.1.

n Job 7.20. 8 sons.

o Is.63.15.

14 I was a derision to all my people, p Ps.69.12. and their song p all the day.

9 my soul. 15 He hath filled me with i bitterness, he 1 bitternesses. bath made me drunken with wormwood. 2 more than. 16 He hath also broken my teeth with Fr.20.17. gravel-stones, q he hath 3 covered me with 3 rolled me ashes.

in the.

17 And thou hast removed my soul farr Da.16.17. off from peace: I forgat 4 prosperity. s Jon.2.3,4,7. 18 And I said, t My strength and my good. Job 7.7 hope is perished from the LORD: t Ps.31.22. 19 Remembering mine affliction and my u Ps. 130.1. misery, the worm wood v and the gall. 5 remember. 20 My soul hath them still in remem-v Je.9.15.

43*

21 This I 2 recall to my mind, therefore b have I hope.

22 It is c of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because d his compassions fail not.

23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

24 The LORD is my ption, g saith my soul; therefore will I hope h in him.

25 The LORD is good unto them that wait i forhim,to the soul that seeketh him. 26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke I in his youth.

28He sitteth alone n andkeepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. 29 He putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

30 Hep giveth his cheek tohim that smit. eth him: he is filed full with reproach. 31 For q the LORD will not cast off for ever:

32 But though s he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

33 For he doth not afflict 4 willingly, u nor grieve the children of men.

34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

36 To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD 6 approveth not.

37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass,when the LORD commandethit not? 38 Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil x and good?

39 Wherefore y doth a living man 7 com plain,a man forthe punishment of his sins. 40 Let us search a and try our ways and turn again to the LORD.

41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. 42 We have transgressed d and have re. belled: thou hast not pardoned.

43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, f thou hast not pitied.

44Thouhast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. 45 Thou hast made us as the off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the people. 46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

47 Fear k and a snare is come upon us, desolation I and destruction.

48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceas eth not, without any intermission,

50 Till the LORD look down, o and be hold from heaven.

51 Mine eye affecteth 9 mine heart, because 2 of all the daughters of my city. 52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone r upon me. 54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.

55 I called u upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

56 Thou hast heard my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. 57 Thou drewest near in the day that I

509

Complicated Sorrows.

B. C. 588.

called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear a not. 580 LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes b of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. a Is.43.1,2 59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong; b Je.51.36. Judge c thou my cause. 1 or, face. 60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance, c Ps.35.1.23. and all their imaginations d against me.jd Je.11.19,20. 61 Thou hast heard their reproach, Oe Is.30.6,7. LORD, and all their imaginations against 31.1,3. Je.37.7,8. 62 The lips of those that rose up against f Eze.7.2,3,6. me, & their device against me all the day. g De.28.49. 63 Behold their sitting down, and their Je.4.13. rising up; I am their music.

me;

2 obstinacy, 64 Render unto them a recompence, O Is.6.10. LORD,according to the work oftheirhands. h Je.52.9. 65 Give them 2 sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

i 2Ki.25.9,10. k Ec.11.9. 1 Ob.10,15. m 2Ti.2.20. 3 or, Thine iniquity. n Is.40.2. 4 or, seacalves. o Ps. 137.7. 5 or, carry thee cap. tive for. pJob 39.13-16 q Ps.$9.50,51. r De.32.24. 8 Ps.79.1,&c. Job 24.8. 6or, iniquity, Ro.7.13. "cometh for 5 They that did feed delicately are de- price. solate in the streets; they that were 8 or, On our brought up in scarlet embrace t dunghills. necks are we

66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. CHAP. IV.

HOW is the gold become dim; how is the most finegold changed! the i stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.

2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, m how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

3 Even the 4 sea-monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches p in the wilderness. 4 The tongue of the sucking child cleav-t eth to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask bread, and r no man breaketh it unto them.

6 For the 6 punishment of tne iniquity persecuted. of the daughter of my people is greater u Ge.19.25. than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, v Ne.9.36,37. that was overthrown as in a u moment, 9 darker than and no hands stayed on her. blackness.

7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, w c.5.10. they were whiter than milk, they were x Ne.5.15. more ruddy in body than rubies, their y Ps. 102.5. polishing was of sapphire:

ior, terrors,

8 Their visage is 9 blacker w than a or, storms. coal; they are not known in the streets: 2 flow out. their skin y cleaveth to their bones; it is z Zec.14.2. withered, it is become like a stick. a Is.49.15. 9 They that be slain with the sword are De.28.56,57. better than they that be slain with hun- 2Ki.6.28,29. ger for these 2 pine away, stricken c Je.7.20. through for want of the fruits of the field. d Je.21.14. 10 The hands of the pitiful a women 3 of our head have sodden their own children, they is fallen. were their meat b in the destruction of the e Mi.6.13. aughter of my people.

f Je.5.31. 11 The LORDhath accomplished his fury; Eze.22.26,28. he hath poured out c his fierce anger, and Zep.3.4. hath kindled da fire in Zion, and it hath gMat23.31,37 devoured the foundations thereof. h Hab.1.12. 12 The kings of the earth, and all the i Je.2.34. inhabitants of the world, would not have for length believed that the adversary and the ene- of days. my should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.

4

5 or, in that they could not but. Nu.19.16. Ps.80.3, &c. m Hab.3.2.

An Appeal to God. when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.

16 The anger of the LORD hath divid ed them; he will no more regard them they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders. 17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain e help: in our watching we have watched for a nationthat could not save us. 18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end f is come. 19 Our persecutors are swifter g than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken h in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.

21 Rejoice k and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz: the cup also 7 shall pass through unto thee; thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.

22 The 3 punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, n O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; o he will discover thy sins. CHAP. V.

proach.

REMEMBER, 90 LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our re2 Our inheritance s is turned to stran. gers, our houses to aliens.

3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

4 We have drunken our water for mo. Ley; our wood 7 is sold unto us.

5 Our 8 necks are under persecution: we v labour, and have no rest.

6 We have given the hand to the Egyp tians, and to the Assyrians, to be satis fied with bread.

7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of theirhand. 9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives, because ofthe swordofthewilderness. 10 Our skin was black like an oven, because of the 1 terrible famine.

11 They ravished 2 the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. 12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. 13 They took the young men to grind and the children fell under the wood. 14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music. 15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

16 The crown is 3 fallen from our head: woe unto us that we have sinned! 17 For this our heart is faint; e for these things our eyes are dim,

CHAP. I.

NOW it came to pass in the thirtieth

B. C. 595.

year, in the fourth month, in the fifth a Is.55.9. day of the month, as I was among the 1 or, strakes. 2 captives by the river of Chebar, c that b Fr.15.3. the heavens were opened, d and I saw vi- c.10.12. sions e of God.

2 captivity. 2 In the fifth day of the month, (which c c.3.15,23. was the fifth year of king ƒ Jehoiachin's d Re.19.11. captivity,)

e c.8.3.

3 The word of the LORD came expressly f 2K.24.12,15. unto 3 Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi,g ver. 12. in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river 1Co.14.32. Chebar; and the hand h of the LORD was 3 Jehezkel. here upon him. h 1Ki.18.46.

or, life.

4 And I looked, and behold, a whirl-4 wind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a bright-5 catching.. ness was about it, and out of the midst thereof, as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

5 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four i living creatures. And this h was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.

6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.

Re.4.6, &c.

k c.10.8, &c. 1 Job 37.22.

7 And their feet were 6 straight feet; 6 a straight and the sole of their feet was like the sole foot. of a calf's foot; and they sparkled m like m Da.10.6. the colour of burnished brass.

8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings. 9 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.

10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.

11 Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered t their bodies.

Re. 1.15. n c.43.2.

Da. 10.6. Re. 1.15. o Job 37.2-5. Ps.29.3.4. 68.33. p 2Ki.7.6. q Ps.45.6. Da.7.9. Mat.25.31. He.8.1.

12.2. r Ex.24.10. or, divided above.

s Re.3.21.

12 And they went every one straight| 4.2,3. forward: whither the spirit was to go, t Is.6.2. they went; and they turned not when u Ge.9.13. they went. Re.4.3.

when they went.

18 As for their rings, they were so high a that they were dreadful; and their rings 1 were full of eyes b round about them four.

19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them; and when the living creatures were lift up from the earth, the wheels were lif up.

20 Whithersoever g the spirit was to go. they went, thither was their spirit to go and the wheels were lifted up over agai them for the spirit of 4 the living crea tures was in the wheels.

21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of 4 the living creature was in the wheels.

22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.

23 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.

24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like n the noise of great waters, as the voice o of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: p when they stood, they let down their wings.

25 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings. 26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, q asr the appearance of a sapphire-stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon s it.

27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it; from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.

14 And the living creatures ran y and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

Ac.9.4. Re.1.17,18. y Ps.147.15. Zec.4.10.

z Da. 10.11.

15 Now, as I beheld the living creatures, behold, one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces. 16 The appearance of the wheels and a c.3.24. their work was like unto the colour of a beryl; and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

17 When they went, they went upon their four sides; and they returned not

nations.

b De.9.27. Je.3.25. c.20.18-30. Ac.7.51.

CHAP. II.

3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious 8 nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers b have

The Prophet's Roll. trangsressed against me, even unto this very day.

4 For they are 2 impudent children, and stiff-hearted: I do send a thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.

them.

5 And they, whether c they will hear, 3 bitter. or whether they will forbear: (for they c c.3.11,27. are a rebellious house,) yet e shall know 4 hot anger. that there hath been a prophet among d 2K1.3.15. e c.33.33. 6 And thou, son of man, be g not afraid f Ps. 137.1. of them, neither be afraid of their words, g Je.1.8,17. though briers and thorns h be with thee, Lu. 12.4. and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be Ac.4.29,31. not afraid i of their words, nor be dismay-5 or, rebels. ed at their looks, though they be a rebel- h 2Sa.23.6,7. lious house. Is.9.18. 7 And thou shalt speak my words unto Mi.7.4. them, whether they will hear, or whether i 1Pe.3.14. they will forbear; for they are most 6 re-k Is.52.8. bellious.

56.10. Je.6.17. He.13.17.

6 rebellion.

1 c.33.6.

8 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou m rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat n that I give thee. 9 And when I looked, behold, an hand pm Is.50.5. was sent unto me; and, lo, a q roll of an Re. 10.9,10. book was therein; o Jno.8.21,24. 10 And he spread it before me; and it p c.8.3. was written within and without; and q c.3.1. there was written therein lamentations,r Is.49.4,5. and mourning, and woe. Ac.20.26. & c.18.24. 33.12,13. righteous

CHAP. III.

MOREOVER, he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest: eat this u roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.

2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.

nesses.

t 1Pe.2.6-8. u ver.2,8,9.

3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did v Je.15.16. I eat it; and v it was in my mouth as honey x for sweetness.

4 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.

8

5 For thou art not sent to a people of 8 a strange speech, and of an hard lan-9 guage, but to the house of Israel: 6 Not to many people 8 of a strange speech, and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand: surely, nad y I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.

Ps. 19.11. x Ps. 19.10.

119.103. deep of lip, and heavy of tongue. or, if I had sent thee to them, would they not. y Mat.11.23. 12.41.

z Jno.15.20.

Charge given to the Prophet.

13 I heard also the noise of the wingso the living creatures that 1 touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rush ing.

14 So b the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went 3 in bitterness, ia the 4 heat of my spirit: but the hand d of the LORD was strong upon me.

15 Then I came to them of the capti vity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat f where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.

16 And it came to pass, at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman k unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in hiso iniquity: but his blood will I require at thine hand.

19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his ini quity: but thour hast delivered thy soul. 20 Again, when s a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and com mit iniquity, and I lay ta stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in bis sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

21 Nevertheless, if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned: w also thou hast delivered thy soul.

22 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.

23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain; and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face. 24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within

heart.

8 Behold, I have made thy face strong a Lu.1.20,22. against their faces, and thy forehead bls.50.7. strong against their foreheads. Mi.3.8.

9 As an adamant, harder than flint, c Am.8.11,12. nave I inade thy forehead: fear them not, 2 mun reneither be dismayed at their e looks, proving. though they be a rebellious house.

d Ps.38.13,14.

10 Moreover, he said unto me, Son of e 2Ti.2.3. man, all my words that I shall speak unto ƒ 2Ti.2.6. thee receive f in thine heart, and hearg Lu.19.43,44 with thine ears. h IKI.18.12. 11 And go, get thee to them of the capti- 2Ki.2.16. vity, unto thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord Gon, whether they will hear, or whether 3 or, chief they will forbear. leaders,

c.8.3.

Ac.8.39.

12 Then the spirit h took me up, and c.21.22. I heard behind me a voice of a great 4 or, a flat rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of plate, or, the LORD from his place. I slice.

25 But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shali bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:

26 And I will make thy tongue a cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not c be to them a reprover; d for they are a rebellious house. 27 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD God, He that heareth, let him hear; and he that for beareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.

CHAP. IV.

THOU also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:

2 And lay siege g against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering-rams 3 against it round about. 3 Moreover, take thou unto thee an