Ezek. 1 The idolatry of the people: 6 Gods judgments against 34 23. them: 14 His promifes of reconciliation with them. 1 That is, SAY ye unto your brethren, || Ammi, and to your Ay fifters, || Ruhamah. My peo ple. il That is, 2 Plead with your mother, plead: for a fhe is not Having my wife, neither am I her husband: let her thereobtained fore put away herb whoredoms out of her fight, mercy. and her adulteries from between her breasts; a Laiah so 1. 16. 15. 3 Left I ftrip her naked, and fet her as in the day b Ezek. that he was born, and make her as a wilderness, Ezek and fet her like a dry land, and lay her with thirft. 4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. 5 For their mother hath played the harlot: fhe that conceived them hath done fhamefully: for fhe faid, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wooll and my flax, mine Hb. oyl and my † drink. drinks. 6 Therefore behold, I will hedge up thy way + Heb. With thorns, and † make a wall, that the fhall not find her paths. wall a wall, 7 And the fhall follow after her lovers, but the shall not overtake them; and she shall feek them, but shall not find them: then shall she fay, I will go and return to my first husband, for then was it better with me than now. 8 For she did not know that I gave her corn, and † wine, and oyl, and multiplied her filver and new wine. gold, which they prepared for Baal. Il Or, where 9 Therefore will I return, and take away my corn with they in the time thereof, and my wine in the feafon thereof, and will recover my wooll and my flax given to cover her nakedness. made Baal. Or, take away. + Heb folly, or, villany. † Heb. 10 And now will I discover her † lewdness in the fight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand. II I will alfo caufe all her mirth to ceafe, her feaftdays, her new-moons, and her fabbaths, and all her folemn feafts. 12 And I will + deftroy her vines and her fig-trees, make de Whereof she hath faid, Thefe are my rewards that folate. my lovers have given me and I will make them a forest, and the beafts of the field shall eat them. 13 And I will vifit upon her the days of Baalim, she them, and decked wherein with burnt incinge tot her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me,faith the LORD. 14 Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and fpeak It comfortably Or, friendly, unto her. + Heb. το her CUTS. 15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope, and she shall fing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. band. My lord. 18 And in that day will I make a covenant That is, for them with the beafts of the field, and with the d job s. fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of 23. the ground: and I will break the bow and the 1word, and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down fafely. 19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever, yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving kindness, and in mercies, 20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulnefs, and thou fhalt know the LORD. 21 And it fhall come to pafs in that day, I will hear, faith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they fhall hear the earth, 22 And the earth fhall hear the corn and the wine and the oyl, and they fhall hear Jezreel. Fudgments again the Chrift Chrift people, and princes. their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midft Before of them, and they have not known the LORD. 5 And the pride of Ifrael doth teftifie to his face: cir. 780% therefore fhall Ifrael and Ephraim fall in their iniquity: Judah alfo fhall fall with them. CHAP. V, VI.. Before yea, the fishes of the fea alfo fhall be taken away. 4. Yet let no man ftrive, nor reprove another: for cir. 780. thy people are as they that ftrive with the priest. 5Therefore halt thou fall in the day, and the prophet alfo fhalt fall with thee in the night, and I will deftroy thy, mother. 1 Heb. cut off. Heb. ut off. Heb. lift up their foul to their 6 My people are † deftroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou haft rejected knowledge, I will alfo reject thee, that thou shalt be no prieft to me: feeing thou haft forgotten the law of thy God, I will alfo forget thy children. 7 As they were increased, so they finned against me: therefore will I change their glory into fhame. 8 They eat up the fin of my people, and they † fet their heart on their iniquity. 9 And there fhall be b like people, like prieft: and iniquity. I will punish them for their ways, and † reward b Ilaiah them their doings. 24. 2. + Heb. visit mpon. Heb. cause to 10 For they fhall eat, and not have enough; they fhall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD. 11 Whoredom, and wine, and new wine take the heart. return. away, Or, 12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their ftaff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caufed them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God. 13 They facrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incenfe upon the hills under oaks, and poplars, and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters fhall commit whoredom, and your spouses fhall commit adultery. 14 | I will not punish your daughters when they Shall I commit whoredom, nor your fpoufes when they not, &c. commit adultery: for themfelves are feparated with whores, and they facrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand, fhall || fall. Or, be pr wished. 15 Though thou Ifrael play the harlot, yet let not 6 They fhall go with their flocks, and with their herds to feek the LORD: but they thall not find him, he hath withdrawn himself from them. 7 They have dealt treacheroufly against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions. 8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Beth-aven: after thee, O Benjamin. 9 Ephraim fhall be defolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Ifrael have I made known that which fhall furely be. 10 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. 11 Ephraim is oppreffed, and broken in judgment: because he willingly walked after the commandment. 12 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth': and to the house of Judah as rottennefs. 1 Or, 13 When Ephraim faw his fickness, and Judah faw a worm. his wound, then went Ephraim to the Affyrian, and fent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor Or, cure you of your wound. to the king of Jareb: 14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a or, to the young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I will tear king that and go away; I will take away, and none fhall rescue hold him. 12. 29. + Heb. ye 16 For Ifrael flideth back, as a backfliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place. 17 Ephraim is joyned to idols: let him alone. 18 Their drink + is fowre: they have committed is gone. whoredom continually: her † rulers with fhame do hields, love, Give ye. † Heb. 19 The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they fhall be ashamed because of their facrifices. CHAP. V. 1 Gods judgments against the priests, the people, and the princes of Ifrael, for their manifold fins, 15 until they repent. Har Ear ye this, O priefts, and hearken, ye houfe of Ifrael, and give ye ear, O house of the king; Heb. for judgment is toward you, because ye have been corre fnare on Mizpah, and a net fpread upon Tabor. aion. Heb. a 2 And the revolters are profound to make flaughThey will ter, though I have been † a rebuker of them all. not give. 3 I know Ephraim, and Ifrael is not hid from me: Their do- for now, O Ephraim, thou committeft whoredom, ings will and Ifrael is defiled. not suffer Or, them. 4 t They will not frame their doings to turn unto hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath fmitten, and he will bind us up. a1 Cor. merly, or, 2 a After two days will he revive us, in the third 15. 4. day he will raise us up, and we fhall live in his fight. Or, 3 Then fhall we know, if we follow on to know kindness. the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morn. Il Or, ing; and he fhall come unto us as the rain; as the latter and former rain unto the earth. that thy ments A reproof of manifold fins. Before HOSE A. Deftruction is threatned, &c. 10 I have seen an horrible thing in the houfe of I- they have tranfgreffed my covenant, and trefpaffed Before Chrift rael: there is the whoredom of Ephraim. Ifrael is against my law. air. 780.defiled. cir. 780. II Alfo, O Judah, he hath fet an harveft for thee, 1 A reproof of manifold fins. 11 Gods wrath against W Hen I would have healed Iftael, then the iniquity of Ephraim was difcovered, and the + Heb. † wickedneís of Samaria: for they commit falfhood: and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers + Heb. tfpoileth without. Arippeth. † Heb. evils. Chrift 2 Ifrael thall cry unto me,My God, we know thee, cir. 760. 3 Ifrael hath caft off the thing that is good: the enemy thall pursue him. 4 They have fet up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their filver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. 5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath caft thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency? 6 For from Ifrael was it alfo, the workman made 2 And they † confider not in their hearts,that I re-it, therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria fay not to. member all their wickedness: now their own doings fhall be broken in pieces. have befet them about, they are before my face. 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. 4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the Or, baker, who ceafeth ||from raising after he hath kneadshe raifer ed the dough, until it be leavened. willceafe. П. Or, 5 In the day of our king, the princes have made from wa-bim fick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with fcorners. king. Or, with heat wine. 6 For they have made ready their heart like an osbrough ven,whiles they lie in wait: their baker fleepeth all the Or, night, in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. applied. 7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured Fulfilled. their judges; all their kings are fallen; there is none among them that calleth unto me. GL, 773 8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people, Ephraim is a cake not turned. 9 Strangers have devoured his ftrength, and he Heb. knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are † here and there prinkled upon him, yet he knoweth not. a Chap. 5. S. 10 And the pride of Ifrael teftifieth to his face, and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor feek him for all this. 11 Ephraim alfo is like a filly dove without heart: -they call to Egypt, they go to Affyria. 12 When they fhall go, I will fpread my net upon them, I will bring them down as the fowls of the hea ven, I will chaffife them as their congregation hath heard. 15 Though I have bound, and ftrengthned their arms, yet do they imagine mifchiet against me... 16 They return, but not to the moft High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes fhall fall by the Pfal. fword for the rage of their tongue: this ball be their 93. 9. derifion in the land of Egypt. 9 For they are gone up to Affyria, a wild afs alone cir. 771. by himself: Ephraim hath hired + lovers. 10 Yea,though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them,and they fhall | forrow a little ! Or, for the burden of the king of princes. begin. 11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to fin, altars fhall be unto him to fin. 12 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. 13 They facrifice flesh for the facrifices of mine or, offerings, and ear it; but the LORD accepteth them In the fa not: now will he remember their iniquity, and vifit crifices of their fins: they fhall return to Egypt. 3 They fhall not dwell in the LORDS land; but or, Ephraim fhall return to Egypt, and they fhall eat un- wine-fat, clean things in Affyria. 4 They fhall not offer wine-offerings to the LORD, neither fhall they be pleafing unto him; their facrifices hall be unto them as the bread of mourners: all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their foul fhall not come into the house of the LORD. 5 What will ye do in the folemn day, and in the day of the feaft of the LORD? 6 For lo they are gone, because of † deftruction: † Heb, Egypt fhall gather them up, Memphis fhall bury Spoil. them: t the pleafant places for their filver, nettles Or their filI, 12 Deftruction is threatned for their impiety, 5 and hall poffefs them: thorns fhall be in their taber ver shall K. 760. idolatry. CHAP. VIII. ↑ Heb. of thy Seagle against the house of the LORD, becaule compence are come, ligel that know it: the prophet Heb. Heb. man of the fpirit. 1 8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a fnare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God. 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their b Judg. iniquity, he will vifit their fins. || Or, against. O Ifrael,thou haft finned from the days of Gibe- Before ah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against he Chit children of iniquity did not overtake them. cir 740. when I fhall bind their coo 10 It is in my defire that I fhould chastise them : and the people fhall be gathered against them when they fhall bind themselves in their two furrows. II And Ephraim is as an heiter that is taught, and hem for loveth to tread out the corn, but I paffed over upon tranfgref 1o I found Ifrael like grapes in the wilderness: It her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride: Judah for faw your fathers as the firft-ripe in the fig-tree at her thall plow, and Jacob fhall break his clods. • Numb. first time: but they went to c Baal-peor, and fepara- 12 Sow to your felves in righteoufnefs, reap in ris 25. 3. ted themselves unto that fhame; and their abomina-mercy: c break up your fallow ground: for it is t Heb. time to feek the LORD, till he come and rain rightetions were according as they loved. oufness upon you. 19. 18. that cafteth the C 11 As for Ephraim, their glory fhall fly away like a bird; from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. 12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them that there fball not be a man left: yea, wo alfo to them when I depart from them. Bu their 100 habia the beau ty of her neck. C 13 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped Jer. iniquity, ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou 3. didit truft in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men. 14 Therefore fhall a tumult arife among thy peo 13 Ephraim, as I faw Tyrus, is planted in a plea-ple, and all thy fortreffes thall be spoiled, as Shalman fant place: but Ephraim fhall bring forth his children fpoiled d Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother & King was dashed in pieces upon her children.. to the murderer. ? 14 Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give Heb give them a † mifcarrying womb, and dry breasts. 15 All their wickednefs d is in Gilgal: for there I hated them for the wickedness of their doings I will fruit. Chap. drive them out of mine houfe, I will love them no 1. 1. more: all their princes are revolters. 16. Ephraim is fmitten, their root is dried up, the fhall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet Heb. will I flay, event the beloved fruit of their womb. 17 My God will caft them away, because they did firs not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations. thede CHAP. X. 3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms, but they knew not that I healed them. Ifrael is reproved and threatned for their impiety and 4. I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of idolatry. love, and I was to them as they that † take off the Srael is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit un-yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them. to himself: according to the multitude of his fruit, 5 He fhall not return into the land of Egypt, but cin 728”. im he hath increased the altars; according to the good-the Affyrian fhall be his king, because they refused to ness of his land, they have made goodly + images. Before the house of Ifrael with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth cir. 728. A Or, with the moft holy. cis. 725. CHAP. XII. Gods promife to Ifrael. 5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land Before of t great drought. Chrift ↑ Heb. 6 According to their pafture, fo were they filled: cir. 75. 1 A reproof of Ephraim, Judah and Jacob. 3 By for- they were filled, and their heart was exalted: theremer favours be exhorteth to repentance. 7 Epbra-fore have they forgotten me. ims fins provoke God. Eeram feed the on wind, anche lies and defolati Phraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the on, and they do make a covenant with the Affyrians, 2 The LORD hath alfo a controverfy with Judah, vifis ap- and will † punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompenfe him. ON. a Gen. 25.26. was a 3 He took his brother a by the heel in the womb, Heb. and by his ftrength he had power with God: 4 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: princess he wept and made fupplication unto him: he found himself him in Beth-el, and there he spake with us. princely. behaved b Gen. 32. 24, &c. c Gen. 35.9.10. d Exod. d 5 Even the LORD God of hofts, the LORD is his 6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy 79 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are 3.5 in his hand: he loveth to || opprefs. Or, Canaan. || Or, 8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out fubftance: in all my labours they fhall deceive. find none iniquity in me, † that were fin. 13 The forrows of a travailing woman fhall come upon him, he is an unwife fon, for he fhould not ftay † long in the place of the breaking forth of children. f Heb. 14 I will ranfom them from † the power of the grave: I will redeem them from death: Odeath, I the hand. will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy deftructi- c 1 Cor. on; repentance fhall be hid from mine eyes. 15 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, dan caft-wind fhall come, the wind of the LORD d Ezek. fhall come up from the wilderness, and his fpring 10 I have alfo fpoken by the prophets, and I have fhall become dry, and his fountain fhall be dried panish multiplied vifions, and used fimilitudes, + by the mi-he fhall spoil the treasure of all † pleafant veffels. iniquity niftry of the prophets. Or, all my la 9 And I that am the LORD thy God from the land bours fuf of Egypt, will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the folemn feaft. fice me not: he fhall have 13 And by a prophet the LORD brought Ifrael Ifrael, return unto the LORD thy God, for thou cir. 715. f Gen. out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved. Take with you words, and turn to the LORD, unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us | Or, gracioufly: fo will we render the calves of our lips. give ged. 3 Asfhur fhall not fave us, we will ride not upon 13. 15. horses, neither will we fay any more to the work of our hands, Te are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy. 4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them THen Ephraim fpake, trembling, he exalted 5 I will be as the dew unto Ifrael: he shall grow Or, Baal, he died.. 2 And now † they fin more and more, and have made them molten images of their filver, and idols 7 They that dwell under his fhadow fhall return, hall go. according to their own understanding, all of it the they fhall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine : blossom. work of the craftsmen: they fay of them, Let the the fcent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon. men that facrifice, kifs the calves. 3 Therefore they fhall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that paffeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, a Ifaiah, and as the smoke out of the chimney. |
