+

thing, perhaps,

built against me, and compassed my [him 26+ is good, and shall wait for, and + Lit.laboured. head, and 'brought travail quietly expect salvation of Lit. a good 6 He has set me in dark the Lord. 27 TETH. It is shall find goodupon me. places, as them that have long been good for a man when he bears a yoke dead. He has builded against me, in his youth. 28 He will sit alone, and and I cannot come forth: he has made be silent, because he has borne it upon + Gr. brass. my brazen chain heavy. him. 30 JOD. He will give his cheek 8 GIMEL. Yea, though I cry and shout, to him that smites him: he will be he shuts out my prayer. DALETH. filled full with reproaches. 31 For the He has built up my ways, he has Lord will not reject for ever. 32 CHAPH. hedged my paths; 10he has troubled For he that has brought down will me, as a she-bear lying in wait: he is pity, and that according to the abundto me as a lion in secret places. He ance of his mercy. 33 He has not ¡See Hebrew. pursued me after I depart- answered in anger from his heart, ed, and brought me to a stand: he has though he has brought low the childutterly ruined me. 12 HE. He has ren of a man. 34 LAMED. To bring bent his bow, and set me as a mark down under his feet all the prisoners for the arrow. 13 He has caused the of the earth, 35 to turn aside the judgarrows of his quiver to enter into my ment of a man before the face of the reins. 14 I became a laughing-stock Most High, 36 to condemn a man unto all my people; and their song all justly in his judgment, the Lord has the day. 15UAU. He has filled me not given commandment. 37 Who has with bitterness, he has 'drenched me thus spoken, and it has come to pass ? with gall. 16 And he has the Lord has not commanded it. 38Out dashed out my teeth with of the mouth of the Most High there + Lit. a pebble. *gravel, he has fed me with shall not come forth evil and good. + Gr. repulsed. ashes. 17 He has also re- 39 MEM. Why should a living man moved my soul from peace: I forgot complain, a man concern- +Or, murmur. prosperity. 18 Therefore my success ing his sin? 40 NUN. Our way has has perished, and my hope from the been searched out and examined, and Lord. 19 ZAIN. I remembered by rea- we will turn to the Lord. 41 Let us son of my poverty, and because of per- lift up our heart with + Gr. on. secution my bitterness and gall shall our hands to the lofty One in heaven. be remembered; 20 and my soul shall 42 We have sinned, we have trans+ Possibly meditate with me. 21+ This gressed; and thou hast not 'pardoned. WIRDiar agrees will I 'lay up in my heart, 43 SAMECH. Thou hast visit-or, been but the LXX. therefore will I endure. ed us in wrath, and driven propitious. frequently 22 give a literal HETH. It is the mercies us away: thou hast slain, thou hast rendering of a of the Lord, that he has not pitied. "Thou has vailed thyself with a cloud because of

† Lit. made me drunk.

with ταύτην

Heb. feminine,

feminine noun

See Job 6. 17.

+ Gr. commit to.

+

prayer,

that

καμμύω in Isa.

whether a Gr. not failed me, because his occurs or not. compassions are not exhaust-I might be blind, and be see use of 45 ed. Pity us, O Lord, early cast off. AIN. Thou hast 29. 10. every month: for we are set us alone in the midst of the nations. not brought to an end, because his 46 All our enemies have opened their compassions are not exhausted. 23 They mouth against us. 47 Fear and wrath are new every morning: great is are come upon us, suspense lifting up. See thy faithfulness. 24 The Lord is my and destruction. 48 Mine Luke 29. 12. portion, says my soul; therefore will eye shall pour down torrents of water, I wait for him. 25 TETH. The for the destruction of the daughter of Lord is good to them that wait my people. 49 PHE. Mine eye is for him the soul which shall seek drowned with tears, and I will not be

+

+ See Heb. Gr.

or, glean.

all.

4

+ Complut.

hills.

silent, so that there shall be no rest, | suck to their young, the daughters 50 until the Lord look down, and be- of my people are incurahold from heaven. 51 Mine eye shall bly cruel, as an ostrich σκύμνους. Gr. gather, prey upon my soul, be- in a desert. DALETH. The Alex. Ovyacause of all the daughters tongue of the sucking child Tépes. of the city. 52TSADE. The fowlers cleaves to the roof of its mouth + Heb. & Alex. chased me as a sparrow, 'all for thirst: the little children ask for mine enemies destroyed my bread, and there is none to break it to life in a pit without cause, 53 and laid a them. 5 HE. They that fed on dainstone upon me. 54 Water flowed over ties are desolate in the streets: they my head: I said, I am cut off. 55 KOPH. that used to be nursed in scarlet have I called upon thy name, O Lord, out clothed themselves with 'dung. "Uau. of the lowest dungeon. 66 Thou heard- And the iniquity of the+Gr. dungest my voice: close not thine ears to daughter of my people has my supplication. 57 Thou drewest nigh been increased beyond the iniquities to my help: in the day wherein I of Sodoma, the city that was overcalled upon thee thou saidst to me, thrown very suddenly, and none Fear not. 58 RECHS. O Lord, thou laboured against her with their hands. hast pleaded the causes of my soul; ZAIN. Her Nazarites were made purer thou hast redeemed my life. 59 Thou than snow, they were whiter than hast seen, O Lord, my troubles: thou milk, they were purified as with fire, hast judged my cause. 60 Thou hast their polishing was superior to sapphire seen all their vengeance, thou hast stone. 8 HETH. Their countenance is looked on all their devices against me. become blacker than smoke; they are 61 CHSEN. Thou hast heard their re-not known in the streets: their skin proach and all their devices against has cleaved to their bones; they are me; 62 the lips of them that rose up withered, they are become as a stick. against me, and their plots against TETH. The slain with the sword me all the day; 63 their sitting down were better than they that were slain and their rising up: look thou upon with hunger they have departed, their eyes. 64 Thou wilt render pierced through from want of the fruits them a recompense, O Lord, ac- of the field. 10 JOD. The hands of cording to the works of their hands. tender-hearted women have sodden 65 THAU. Thou wilt give them as a their own children: they became meat +See Heb. q.d. Covering, the grief of my for them in the destruction of the callousness. heart. 66 Thou wilt per-daughter of my people. "CHAPH. secute them in anger, and wilt con- The Lord has accomplished his wrath; sume them from under the heaven, he has poured out his fierce anger, and O Lord. has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has devoured her foundations. 12 LAMED. The kings of the earth, even all that dwell in the world, believed not that an enemy and oppressor would enter through the gates of Jerusalem. streets. 2 BETH. The pre-13 MEM. For the sins of her prophets, cious sons of Zion, who were equalled and iniquities of her priests, who shed + Gr. exalted in value with gold, how are righteous blood in the midst of her, with gold. they counted as earthen 14 NUN. her watchmen staggered in vessels, the works of the hands of the the streets, they were defiled with potter! 3GIMEL. Nay, serpents have blood in their weakness, they touched drawn out the breasts, they give their raiment with it. 15 SAMECH.

+

4. ALEPH. How will the gold be tarnished, and the fine silver changed! the sacred stones have been poured + Gr. of all forth at the top of all the

outlets.

in, or, weighed

+

9

+ See Heb.

not.

+

4 We have drunk our water

5

6

neck by way of

Depart ye from the unclean ones: call widows. ye them: depart, depart, touch them for money; our wood is Lit. has not: for they are on fire, yea, they sold to us for a burden on come upon our stagger: say ye among the nations, our neck: we have been exchange. They shall no more sojourn there. persecuted, we have laboured, we have 16 AIN. The presence of had no rest. Egypt gave the hand to us, Assur to their own + See Heb. satisfaction. Our fathers sinned, and are not: we have borne their iniquities. Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom us out of their hand. We shall bring in our bread with danger of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. 10 Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of "They humbled the women the virgins in the cities of 12 Princes were hanged up by

elders.

19

Juda.

the Lord was their portion; but he will not again look upon them: they re+Lit.accepted garded not the person of Heb. & Alex. the priests, they pitied not the prophets. 17 PHE. While we yet lived our eyes failed, while we looked in vain for our help. TSADE. We looked to a nation that could not save. 18 We have hunted for our little ones, that they should not walk in our streets. KOPH. Our famine. time has drawn nigh, our days are ful- in Sion, filled, our time is come. 15 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of their hands: the elders were not the sky, they flew on the mountains, honoured. 13 The chosen men lifted in the wilderness they laid wait for us. up the voice in weeping, and the youths 20 RECHS. The breath of our nostrils, fainted under the wood. 14 And the our anointed Lord, was taken in their elders ceased from the gate, the chosen destructive snares, of whom we said, men ceased from their music. 15 The In his shadow we shall live among the joy of our heart has ceased; Or, psalms, Gentiles. 21 CHSEN. Rejoice and be our dance is turned into or, songs. glad, O daughter of Idumea, that mourning. 16 The crown has fallen dwellest in the land: yet the cup of from our head: yea, woe to us! for the Lord shall pass through to thee: we have sinned. 17 For this has grief thou shalt be drunken, and pour forth. come; our heart is sorrowful: for this 22 THAU. O daughter of Sion, thine our eyes are darkened. 18 Over the iniquity has come to an end; he mountain of Sion, because it is made shall no more carry thee captive: desolate, foxes have walked therein. he has visited thine iniquities, O19 But thou, O Lord, shalt & se. Sion. daughter of Edom; he has discovered dwell for ever; thy throne 6. 17. thy sins. shall endure to generation and generation. 20 Wherefore wilt thou 'utterly forget us, and abandon us + See Heb. a long time? 21 Turn us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before. 22 For thou hast indeed rejected us; thou hast been very wroth against us.

5. Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach. 2 Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers, we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as

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800

+

fem. see Job

Gr. for victory.

JEZEKIEL.

2

CHAPTER I. VERSES 1-21.

And

+

+ Lit. over

15 And Alex. & Heb. supply v. 14. creatures ran

'And the living

and returned

at the appear

ance of Bezec.'

1. NOW it came to pass in the thir- face of an eagle to the four. 11 And tieth year, in the fourth month, on the the four had their wings spread out fifth day of the month, that I was in above; each one had two joined to one the midst of the captivity by the river another, and two covered their bodies. of Chobar; and the heavens were 12 And each one went straight opened, and I saw visions of God. forward: wherever the spirit their body. On the fifth day of the month; this was going they went, and turned not was the fifth year of the captivity of back. 13 And in the midst of the living king Joakim. 3 And the word of the creatures there was an appearance as Lord came to Jezekiel the priest, the of burning coals of fire, as an appearson of Buzi, in the land of the Chal-ance of lamps turning i. e. revolvdeans, by the river of Chobar; and the among the living creatures; ing. hand of the Lord was upon me. and the brightness of fire, and out of + Heb. & Alex. I looked, and, behold, a the fire came forth lightning. + there. sweeping wind came from I looked, and, behold, the the north, and great cloud on it, and four had each one wheel on there was brightness round about it, the ground near the living and gleaming fire, and in the midst of creatures. 16 And the apit as it were the appearance of amber pearance of the wheels was in the midst of the fire, and brightness as the appearance of beryl: and the in it. And in the midst as it were four had one likeness: and their work the likeness of four living creatures. was as it were a wheel in a wheel. And this was their appearance; the They went on their four sides: likeness of a man was upon them. they turned not as they + Or, parts. 6 And each one had four faces, and went; 18 neither did their backs turn: each one had four wings. And their and they were high and I beheld legs were straight; and their feet were them, and the backs of them four were winged, and there were sparks, like full of eyes round about. 19 And gleaming brass, and their wings were when the living creatures went, the light. And the hand of a man was wheels went by them: and when the under their wings on their four sides. living creatures lifted themselves off 9+ And the faces of them four the earth, the wheels were lifted off. Alex. + and turned not when they went; 20 Wherever the cloud happened to be, the wings of they went every one straight there was the spirit 'ready forward. 10 And the like- to go: the wheels went and power. one to another.' ness of their faces was the were lifted up with them; creatures face of a man, and the face of a lion on because the spirit of life was probably. the right to the four; and the face of in the wheels. 21 When those went, a calf on the left to the four; and the the wheels went; and when those stood,

+ Gr. parts.

their faces and

them four

were joined

+

17

+

+ Or, with

+ sc. the living

noise. Alex. +

the sound of

they went

sound of

+

5

+ Heb. & Alex.

for they are dren and stiffsend thee to

impudent chil

hearted, I do

the wheels stood; and when those lifted | this day. 4+ And thou shalt say to themselves off the earth, they were them, Thus says the Lord. lifted off with them: for the spirit of Whether then indeed they life was in the wheels. 22 And the shall hear or fear, (for it is a likeness over the heads of the living provoking house), yet they creatures was as a firmament, as the shall know that thou art a them.' appearance of crystal, spread out over prophet in the midst of them. And their wings above. 23 And their wings thou, son of man, fear them not, nor were spread out under the firmament, be dismayed at their face; (for they + Or, clapping reaching one to the other; will madden and will rise + See 2 Cor. or making a two wings to each, cover-up against thee round about, 11. 28. Ovveevueva, ing their bodies. 24 And I and thou dwellest in the midst of joined with. heard the sound of their scorpions): be not afraid of their wings when they went, as the sound words, nor be dismayed at their counAlex.as of much water: and when tenance, for it is a provoking house. the Mighty they stood, their wings And thou shalt speak my words to One, when 1 were let down. 25 And them, whether they will hear or fear: there was the lo! a voice from above the for it is a provoking house. And speech as the firmament 26 that was over thou, son of man, hear him that speaks their head, there was as the to thee; be not thou provoking, as according to appearance of a sapphire the provoking house: open thy mouth, +Alex. +‘when stone, and the likeness of a and eat what I give thee. 9 And I throne upon it: and upon looked, and behold, a hand stretched were let down.' the likeness of the throne out to me, and in it a volume of a + Gr. ceased. was the likeness as an ap-book. 10 And he unrolled it before me: pearance of a man above. 27 And I and in it the front and the back were saw as it were the resemblance of written upon: and there was written amber from the appearance in it Lamentation, and mournful song, of the loins and upwards, and woe. And he said to me, Son and from the appearance of of man, eat this volume, and go and the loins and under I saw speak to the children of Israel. 2 So an appearance of fire, and the bright- he opened my mouth, and caused me + Gr. σráσis ness thereof round about. to eat the volume. standing, or, 28 As the appearance of the Ald. ὅρασις. bow when it is in the cloud in days of rain, so was the form of the brightness round about.

sound of an

army,' nearly

the Heb.

they stood their wings

+ Heb. & Alex. as the appearance of fire within it round about.'

condition.

+

2

2. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And I saw and fell upon my face, and heard the voice of one speaking: and he said to me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak to thee. And the Spirit came upon me, and took me up, and raised me, and set me on my feet: and I heard him speaking to me. And he said to me, Son of man, I send thee forth to the house of Israel, them that provoke me; who have provoked me, they and their fathers, to

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3. And he said to me, Son of man, thy mouth shall eat, and thy belly shall be filled with this volume that is given to thee. So I ate it; and it was in my mouth as sweet honey. And he said to me, Son of man, go thy way, and go in to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them. 5 For thou art not sent to a people of hard speech, but to the house of Gr. of deep Israel; neither to many nations of other speech and other tongues, nor of harsh language, whose words thou wouldest not understand: although if I had sent thee to such, they would have hearkened to thee. But the house of Israel will not be

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tongue.