Ezekiel. CHAP. XIII. 1 The reproof of lying prophets, 10 and their untempered morter. 17 Of propheteffes and their pillows. Nd the word of the LORD came unto me, faying, A 2 Son of man, prophefie against the prophets of Ifrael that prophefie, and fay thou unto Verf. 17. them that prophefie out of their own hearts, them that Hear ye the word of the LORD. + Heb. are prophets ont of their a 3 Thus faith the Lord GOD, Wo unto the en hearts. foolish prophets, that follow their own fpirit, Jer. 14. and have feen nothing. 14. & 23. 16. + Heb. walk after. #Or, 4 O Ifrael, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deferts. 5 Yed have not gone up into the gaps, neiand things thermade up the hedge for the house of Ifrael, to ftand in the battle in the day of the LORD. which they have not Seen. < Cant. 2. 15. e 6 They have seen vanity, and lying divination, faying, The LORD faith; and the LORD Pfal.106. hath not fent them: and they have made others Chap. 22. to hope that they would confirm the word. 23.30. 30. Hor, branches. + Heb. hedged the hedge. 7 Have ye not seen a vain vifion, and have ye not fpoken a lying divination, whereas ye fay, The LORD faith it, albeit I have not spoken? 8 Therefore thus faith the Lord GOD, BeVerf.23. caufe ye have spoken vanity, and feen lies, therefore behold, I am against you, faith the Lord Chap. 12. 24. thereof Of prophetesses and their pillows. and ye fhall know that I am the Before Chrift LORD. 15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon, 594the wall, and upon them that have daubed it 21, 23. with untempered morter, and will fay unto you, Ch Chap. 14. The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it; 16 To wit, the prophets of Ifrael which prophefie concerning Jerufalem, and which fee viions of peace for her, and there is no peace, faith the Lord GOD. 20 Wherefore thus faith the Lord GOD, Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the fouls, to make them fly, and Or, inse I will tear them from your arms, and will let the gardens fouls go, even the fouls that ye hunt to make them fly. 21 Your kerchiefs alfo will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted, and ye fhall. verf, know that I am the LORD. Before idols in their heart, and put the stumbling-block Chrift of their iniquity before their face: bfhould I be 594. enquired of at all by them? b2 King. 3.13. Or, others. • Lev. 17. 10. Chap. 15. 7. d Deut. 28.37. Chap. 5. 15. e Chap. 6.7. 4 Therefore fpeak unto them, and fay unto them, Thus faith the Lord GoD, Every man of the house of Ifrael that fetteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the ftumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet, I the LORD will anfwer him that cometh, according to the multitude of his idols, 5 That I may take the houfe of Ifrael in their own heart, becaufe, they are all eftranged from me through their idols. 6 Therefore fay unto the house of Ifrael, Thus faith the Lord GoD, Repent, and turn your felves from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations. 7 For every one of the houfe of Ifrael, or of the stranger that fojourneth in Ifrael, which separateth himself from me, and fetteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will anfwer him by my felf. 8 And I will fet my face against that man, and will make him a 4 fign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people, e and ye fhall know that I am the LORD. 9 And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will ftretch out my hand fi King upon him, and will deftroy him from the midft Job 12.16. of my people Ifrael. I 22 23. Jer. 4. 10. 2 Theff. 2.11. 10 And they fhall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet fhall be even as the punishment of him that feeketh unto him: 11 That the houfe of Ifrael may go no more aftray from me, neither be polluted any more Chap. with all their tranfgreffions: but that they may 37.27 be my people, and I may be their God, faith the Lord God. 12 The word of the LORD came again tó me, faying, 13 Son of man, when the land finneth against me by trefpaffing grievously, then will I ftretch Lev. 26. out mine hand upon it, and will break the h staff 26. of the bread thereof, and will fend famine upon Chap. 4. it, and will cut off man and beaft from it. 16.& 5. Ifai. 3.1, 16. i 14 Though these three men, Noah, DaJer. 15.1.niel, and Job were in it, they fhould deliver but See Jer. 7 their own fouls by their righteoufnefs, faith the 14.& 14. Lord GOD. 16.& 11. 11. 15 If I caufe noifom beafts to pafs through Or, the land, and they fpoil it, fo that it be defolate that no man might pafs through because of the beasts: bercave. The rejection of Jerufalem. 16 Though thefe three men were † in it, as I Before live, faith the Lord GOD, they fhall deliver Chrift neither fons nor daughrers, they only fhall be 594delivered, but the land fhall be defolate. In + Heb. in the mid 17 Or if I bring a fword upon that land, of it. and fay, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beaft from it: 18 Though these three men were in it, as I live, faith the Lord GOD, they fhall deliver neither fons nor daughters, but they only fhall be delivered themselves. 19 Or if I fend a peftilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast: 20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, faith the Lord GOD, they fhall deliver neither fon nor daughter; they fhall but deliver their own fouls by their righteoufness. 21 For thus faith the Lord GOD, How much or, || more when I fend my four fore judgments upon fo when, Aifo Jerufalem, the fword, and the famine, and the noifom beast, and the peftilence, to cut off from it man and beaft? 22 Yet behold, therein fhall be left a remnant that fhall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they fhall come forth unto you, and ye fhall fee their way, and their doings and ye fhall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerufalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it. 23 And they fhall comfort you when when ye fee their ways and their doings: and ye fhall know that I have not done without cause, all that I have done in it, faith the Lord GOD. CHAP. XV. 3 By the unfitness of the vine-branch for any work, 6 is fhewed the rejection of Ferufalem. Jerufalems natural state: Ezekiel. Before fhall go out from one fire, and another fire fhall Chrift devour them: and ye fhall know that I am the 594 LORD, when I fet my face against them. Chap. 7.&7.4. 8 And I will make the land defolate, because & 20. 38, they have † committed a trespass, faith the Lord God. 42.44. + Heb. Tifpaffed a $refpass. 3 And fay, Thus faith the Lord GOD unto Heb. Jerufalem, Thy + birth, and thy nativity is cutting out of the land of Canaan, thy father was an Amotion. rite, and thy mother an Hittite. or, habita 21.3. • Chap. 4 And as for thy nativity in the day thou Verf. 45. walt born, thy navel was not cut, neither waft Hof. 2. 3. thou washed in water to fupple thee: thou waft when I not falted at all, nor fwadled at all. Looked upon Or, thee. #OT, aroden 5 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compaffion upon thee; but thou waft caft out in the open field, to the loathing of thy person, in the day that thou waft born. 6 And when I paffed by thee, and faw thee polluted in thine own blood, I faid unto ander foot. thee when thou waft in thy blood, Live: yea, I faid unto thee when thou waft in thy blood, Live. 7 I have caufed thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou haft increased and made thee waxen great, and thou art come to † excellent ornaments: thy breafts are fashioned, and thine ornament of hair is grown, whereas thou waft naked and Ornaments. bare. Exod. 3.7. + Heb. million. + Heb Her monftrous whoredom, Chrift 12 And I put a jewel on thy + forehead, and Before ear-rings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown 594. upon thine head. + Heb. 21. 13 Thus waft thou decked with gold and filver, and thy raiment was of fine linen, and See Ifai. 3. filk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oyl: and thou waft exceeding beautiful, and thou didst profper into a kingdom. 14 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty for it was perfect through my comelinefs which I had put upon thee, faith the Lord GOD. 15 But thou didst truft in thine own beauty, 8 and playedft the harlot because of thy re-g Ifai.. nown, and pouredft out thy fornications on 21. & 57• every one that paffed by; his it was. 8. Jer. 2.-20. 20. 16h And of thy garments thou didst take, & 3.2,6, and deckedft thy high places with divers colours, Chap. 23. and playedft the harlot thereupon: the like things 3.12. fhall not come, neither fhall it be fo. 2 King. 23.7. 20. 17 Thou haft alfo taken thy fair jewels of my Chap. 7. gold and of my filver, which I had given thee, Hof. 28. and madeft to thy felf images † of men, and + Heb. didft commit whoredom with them, 18 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou haft fet mine oyl and mine incenfe before them. of a male. 19 My meat alfo which I gave thee, fine flour, and oyl, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou haft even set it before them for at Heb. fweet favour: and thus it was, faith the Lord favor of GOD. i reft. 16.3. 20 Moreover, thou haft taken thy fons and 2 King. thy daughters, whom thou haft born unto me, Pfal. ro6. and these haft thou facrificed unto them † to be 37: devoured is this of thy whoredoms a small matter, Ifai. 57. 5. Chap. 20. 26.8 27. 37. 21 That thou haft flain my children, and Heb. delivered them to cause them to pass through the to devour fire for them? 22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou haft not remembred the days of thy youth, when thou waft naked and bare, Hol. 17and waft polluted in thy blood. k 23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness (wo, wo unto thee, faith the Lord GOD). k 1.. 24 That thou haft alfo built unto thee an/ Verf. 315 eminent place, and m haft made thee an high | Or, place in every street. brothel house. 517. 25 Thou haft built thy high place at every m lai. 57 head of the way, and haft made thy beauty to fer.2.20.. be abhorred, and haft opened thy feet to every one that paffed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms. 26. Thou haft alfo committed fornication Chap. 8. with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of 1014-c 23.19, 200 Aesh, and grievous judgment: Chap. xvj. Before flesh, and haft increased thy whoredoms, to Chrift provoke me to anger. 594. 27 Behold therefore, I have ftretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will 2 Chron. of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are afhamed of thy lewd way. 28 P Thou haft played the whore alfo with 92 King. the Affyrians, becaufe thou waft unfatiable: yea, thou haft played the harlot with them, and yet couldft not be satisfied. • Verf. 57. cities. 16.7, 10. 2 Chron. 28.23. Jer. 2. 18, 36. Chap. 23. 12, &c. | Or, daughters 9 Verf.24, Ifai. 30. 29 Thou haft moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea, and yet thou waft not fatisfied herewith. 30 How weak is thine heart, faith the Lord GOD, feeing thou doft all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman? 31 In that 9 thou buildeft thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street, and haft not been as an harlot (in that thou scorneft hire) 32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers in ftead of her husband. 33 They give gifts to all whores, but thou Hof. 8.9. givelt thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them that they may come unto thee on every fide for thy whoredom. 6. + Heb. bribeft. Jer. 13. 22, 26. 34 And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee; therefore thou art contrary. 35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD. 36 Thus faith the Lord GOD, Because thy filthinefs was poured out, and thy nakednels difcovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didft give unto them ; 37 Behold therefore, I will gather all thy Lam. 1.8. lovers, with whom thou haft taken pleasure, and Chap. 23. all them that thou haft loved, with all them that thou haft hated: I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakednels unto them, that they may see all thy nakednefs. 22, 29. Hof. 2.10. & 8. 10. + Heb. ments of. 10. Deut. 22. 22. 594. 5.7. 25.9. 41 And they fhall 7 burn thine houfes with * John 8 fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the 2 King. fight of many women: and I will caufe thee to jer. 39.8 ceafe from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt & 52. 83. give no hire any more. 42 So will I make my fury towards thee to reft, and my jealousie shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry. 43 Because thou haft not remembred the days of thy youth, but haft fretted me in all these things; behold therefore, I also will recom- Chap. ge pence thy way upon thine head, faith the Lord GoD, and thou fhalt not commit this lewdness, 31. above all thine abominations. 44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs, fhall use this proverb against thee, faying, As is the mother, fo is her daughter. 10. & 11. 25.8220 45 Thou art thy mothers daughter, that 46 And thine elder fifter is Samaria, she and 51 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy fins; but thou haft multiplied thine abominations more than they, and 8 haft juftified thy g Jer. 3. fifters in all thine abominations which thou haft done. Marth. I 41,42.. 38. And I will judge thee, as women that with judg break wedlock, and fhed blood, are judged, * Lev. 20. and I will give thee blood in fury and jealoufie. 52. Thou alfo which haft judged thy fifters, 39 And I will alfo give thee into their hand, bear thine own fhame for thy fins that thou haft and they fhall throw down thine eminent committed more abominable than they they Verf. 24, place, and fhall break down thy high places are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou they shall strip thee alfo of thy clothes, and fhall confounded alfo, and bear thy fhame,, in that + Heb. take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and thou haft juftified thy fifters. inftruments 53 When I fhall bring again their captivity, Verf. 60, 40 They shall alfo bring up a company at the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and V v 5 Ezekiel. The two eagles and vine. + planted it in a fruitful field, he placed it by Before great waters, and fet it as a willow-tree. for the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in 594 the midst of them: Jor a report, of, bearing + Heb. prides, or, 54 That thou mayeft bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou haft done, in that thou art a comfort unto them. 55 When thy fifters, Sodom and her daughters, fhall return to their former eftate, and Samaria and her daughters fhall return to their former eftate, then thou and thy daughters fhall return to your former estate. 56 For thy fifter Sodom was not + mentioned + Heb. by thy mouth in the day of thy + pride: 57 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy k reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the 2 King daughters of the Philistines which | despise thee 2 Chron. round about. exceliencies. 16.5. 28.18. 581 Thou haft + born thy lewdness, and &14.28. thine abominations, faith the LORD. Ifai. 7. I. + Heb. Aram. || Or, Spoil. 7. Chap. 23.49. + Heb. born them. 17.13, 16. n Chap. 20.43. 59 For thus faith the Lord GOD, I will even deal with thee as thou haft done, m which haft defpifed the oath in breaking the covenant. 609 Nevertheless, I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and m Chap. I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant. 61 Then thou fhalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou fhalt receive thy fifters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will 1. & 60.4. give them unto thee for daughters, P but not Gal. 4.24 by thy covenant. &c. P Jer. 31. 62 And I will establish my covenant with 31, &c. thee, and thou fhalt know that I am the LORD: 63 That thou mayeft remember and be conRom. 3. founded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy fhame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou haft done, faith the Lord God. 19. CHAP. XVII. 1 Under the parable of two eagles and a vine, 11 is fbewed Gods judgment upon Jerufalem for revolting from Babylon to Egypt. 22 God promijeth to plant the cedar of the gospel. Nd the word of the LORD came unto me, faying, 2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and fpeak a parable unto the house of Ifrael; 3 And fay, Thus faith the Lord GOD, A great eagle with great wings, long-winged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the heigheft branch 2 King. of the cedar : + Heb. embroi dering. Chrift + Heb. put it in a field of feed. 6 And it grew, and became a spreading vine 594of low ftature, whofe branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: fo it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and fhot forth fprigs. 7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers; and behold, this vine did bend her roots towards him, and fhot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation. 8 It was planted in a good foil by great + Heb. waters, that it might bring forth branches, and field, that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine. 9 Say thou, Thus faith the Lord GOD, Shall it profper? fhall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it fhall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power, or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof. io Yea, behold, being planted, fhall it profper? bfhall it not utterly wither, when the east-6 Chap. wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew. 11 Moreover, the word of the LORD came unto me, faying, |