Desolation of Egypt, EZEKIEL, XXX. wrought for me, saith the Lord B. C. 588. GOD. 21 In that day will I cause the horn v of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that 1 am the LORD. CHAPTER XXX. The desolation of Egypt and her helpers. v Ps. 132.17. (CHAP. 30.) a Joel 2.1. 1 or, fear. 2 Phut, ch.27.10. and her helpers. 13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; 1 will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince m of the land of Egypt and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt. 14 And I will make Pathrosn desolate, and will set fire in 8 Zoan,0 and will execute judgments in No. 15 And I will pour my fury upon HE word of the LORD came b Je.25.20,24.9 Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I THE again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, prophesy and say. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Wo worth the day! 3 For a the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a clondy day; it shall be the time of the heathen. 3 children. c Job 9.13. or, Migdol to Siene. d ch.29.10,12. e Ps.58.11. 5 broken. 4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great 1 pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall f Is. 18. 1,2. in Egypt, and they shall take away g Is.32.9-11. her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down. 5 Ethiopia, and 2 Libya, and Ly-i dia, and all the mingled b people, and Chub, and the 3 men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword. h ver.24,25. Re. 16.12. 6 drought. the fulness thereof. 6 Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold c Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from 4 the tower of Syened shall they fall in it by the Is. 19. 1,&c. sword, saith the Lord GOD. 7 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted. 8 And they shall know e that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be 5 destroved. Je. 43. 12. 46.25. Zec. 13.2. m Zec. 10.11. n ch.29.14. 8 or, Tanis. o Ps.78. 12,43. 9 or, Pelu sium. p Na.3.8-10. 10 or, Heliopolis. 11 or, Pubas 9 In that day shall messengers f go forth from me in ships, to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh. 10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Iq Je.2. 16. will also make the multitude of 12 or, reEgypt to cease by the hand h of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon. tum. strained. r Je.48.25. 11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall & Is. 1.6. be brought to destroy the land: Je.46.11. and they shall draw their swords t Ps.37.17. against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain. u ch.34.16. 12 And k I will make the rivers v Je.27.6-8. 6 dry, and sell the land into the w Is. 10. 15. hand of the wicked and I will make the land waste, and 7 all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken y Da. 11.42. it. x ver.23. ch.29.12. will cut off the multitude of No.p 16 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily. 17 The young men of 10 Aven and of 11 Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity. 18 At Telaphnehes q also the day shall be 12 darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity. 19 Thus will l'execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the LORD. 20 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 21 Son of man, I have broken r the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound ups to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword. 22 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break t his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his haud. 23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. 24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly-wounded man. 25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, v and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my w sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt. 26 And I will scattery the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; AND it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD canie unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whoma art thou like in thy greatness? 3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedarb in Lebanon 1 with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. B. C. 588. z ver.8. (CHAP. 31.) a ver. 18. b Da.4.20-22. fair of tranches. 2 or, nou rished him. 3 or, brought. c Je.51.36. 4 or, conduits. 5 or, it sent them forth. d ch.17.23. e Ge.2.8. 13.10. Is.51.3. 4 The waters 2 made him great, the deep 3 set him up on high with her rivers c running round about his plants, and sent out her 4 little rivers unto all the trees of the field. If ch. 16.14. 5 Therefore his height was ex-g Mat.23. 12. alted above all the trees of the h Da.5.20. field, and his boughs were multi-6 in doing he plied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when 5 he shot forth. 6 All the fowls d of heaven made their nest in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations. shall do unto. i La. 1.21,22. Na.3.18,19. k ch.28.7. 1 ch.32.4,5. 35.5. 7 Thus was he fair in his great-m Is. 18.6. ness, in the length of his branches: n Da.4.32. for his root was by great waters. 8 The cedars in the garden e of God could not hide him: the fir: trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty. 9 I have made him fairf by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him. 10 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted np thyselfg in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his h heart is lifted up in his height; 11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.i 1 ог, ироп themselves for. o Ps. 82.7. ch.32.18. Р 9 Re. 18.11. 8 be black, Mal.3. 14. r ch.26.15. s Is. 14. 15. t ch.32.31. La.4.20. u ver.2. ch.32.19. v 2Sa. 1.20. Je.9.25.26. (CHAP. 32.) a ver. 16. ch.27.2. b ch. 19.3,6. 38.13. ch.29.3. c ch.34.18. Destruction of Egypt. earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him. 13 Upon m his ruin shall all the the beasts of the field shall be upon fowls of the heaven remain, and all his branches: 14 To the end n that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand 7up in their height, all that drink water: for o they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit. 15 Thus saith the Lord God; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning. q I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to 8 mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. 16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him r down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted s in the nether parts of the earth. 17 They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt t under his shadow in the midst of the heathen. 18 T To whom u art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised v with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharoah, and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD. CHAPTER XXXII. A lamentation for the fearful fall of Egypt. twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, take up a a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion b of the nations, and thou art as a 1 whale in the seas: rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst c their rivers. 12 And strangers, the terrible k of 1 or, dragon, and thou camest forth with thy the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs d ch.12.13. are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the Ec.9.12. 3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread d out my net over thee with a company of many peo in my net. 4 Then e will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and f will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee. 5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height. 6 I will also water with thy blood g the land 2 wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee. 7 And when I shall 3 put thee out, Ih will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. 8 All the 4 bright lights of heaven will I make 5 dark over thee, and set darkness & upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD. 9 I will also 6 vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known. 10 Yea, I will make many people k amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword i before them; and they shall trem-! ble at every moment, every man for nis own life, in the day of thy fall. 11 For m thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee. e Joel 3.19. fch.31. 13. g Ex.7.17. Re. 16.6. the king of Babylon. 18 Son of man, wailt for the multitude of Egypt, and cast u them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit. 19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? swimming.gov down, and be thou laid with 3 or, extinthe uncircumcised. guish thee. h Is, 13.10. Joel 3.15. Mat.24.29. 4 lights of the light in. them dark. i Ex. 10.21-23. n ch.28.7. 30.4. o Is.25.2,3. desolate from the r ver.2. S 251.1.17. 12 By the swords n of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, t ver.2. the terrible of the nations, all of u ch.31.14. them and o they shall spoil the v ver.21,21. pomp of Egypt, and all the multi-8 or,the sword tude thereof shall be destroyed. is laid. 13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; p neither shall the foot of man! trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them. 14 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD. 15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be 7 destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know q that I am the LORD. 16 This r is the lamentation st the daughters of the nations shall w Is. 1.31. Is. 14.9,10. z Is.51. 12, 13. a Je.49.31, b Je.3.21,25. 20 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: 8 she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes. 21 The strong w among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst they are gone down, they lie ucir of hella with them that help him: cunicised, slain by the sword. 22 Asshur is there and all her company his graves are about hum: all of them slain, fallen by the sword: 23 Whose graves are set in the y sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword. which z caused 9 terror in the land of the living. 21 There is Elam a and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame b with them that go down to the pit. 25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised. slain by the sword: though their terrorc was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain. 26 There is Meshech, d Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves ase round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sw.ed though they caused their terror in the land of the living. 27 Ande they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with 10 their weapons of war: and they have laid fer swords under their heads, but ther iniquities fshall be upon their bou weapons of 25 Yea, thou shalt be broken m 1.14.18,19. though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the livingz. c Lu. 12.4,5. 10 their war. f Ps.92.7,9. gch.25.12,&c. Ob.2,&c. 11 given, or, put. the midst of the uncircame.sed, and all her princes, which w Duty of a watchman. 9 EZEKIEL, XXXIII. were slain by the sword: they shall B. C. 587. lie with the uncircumcised, and, with them that go down to the h ch.38.6,15. pit. 39.2. Je. 1. 14. 4.6. 30 There be the princes of the h north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down ich.23.21. with the slain; with their terror k ch.31.16. they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slam by the sword, and bear their shaine with them that go down to the pit. 31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted k over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD. 32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD. Ge.35.5. (CHAP. 33.) 1 A land when I bring a sword upon her. a ch. 14. 17. 28.18.24. 2Ki.9.17. 2 he that CHAPTER XXXIII. God showeth the justice of his ways d ch.18. 13, toward the pentient. AGAIN the word of the LORD &c. e ch.3.17,&c. 2Ch.19.10. Col.1.28. h Je.8.13. Ga.2.17. came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, speak to the child-fch.2.7. ren of thy people, and say unto them, 1 When I bring a the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman : 6 3 If when he seeth the sword! come upon the land, he blow the k Pr. 15.10. trumpet, and warn the people; 4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. Nu.27.3. Jno.8.24. Ac.20.26. m ch.21.23. n ch.37.11. Ps. 130.7. o 25a. 14. 14. La.3.33. Ho. 11.8. 2 Pe.3.9. 5 He hearde the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood d shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver p ch.3.20. his soul. 18.24,&c. 92Ch.7.14. 6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and Take any person froin among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; out his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. 7 So thou, O son of man, I have set thee e a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore f thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warng them from me. 8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou h shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Ro.3.25. 1Jno.2.1. & Ro. 10.3. Phi.3.9. t Pr.25.13. Ac.3.19. 3 judgment and justice. u ch. 18.7,&c. v Ex.22.1,4. w Le.6.2-5. Lu. 19.8. Le. 18.5. Ps. 119.93. Mi.7. 18,19. Ro.5.16,21, y He.10.33. z Pr. 19.3. a 2Co.5.10. Re. 20.13. Justice of God's ways. Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die km his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. 10 Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine m away in them, how n should we then live? 11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Io have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel! 12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness p of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he q shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness r in the day that he sinneth. 13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shail surely live; if he trust to his own s righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it. 14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if t he turn from his sin, and do 3 that which is lawful and right; 15 If the u wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes w of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. 16 None a of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live. 17 Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the LORD is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal. 18 When the righteous turneth y from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby. 19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby. 20 Yet z ye say, the way of the LORD is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one a after his ways. 21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the B. C. 587. month, that b one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, b ch.24.26,27. saying, The city is smitten. 22 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore c Is.51.2. Jno.8.39. Reproof of bad shepherds. know that a prophet hath been among them. CHAPTER XXXIV. 11 God's providence for his flock. 20 The kingdom of Christ. unto me, saying, he that was escaped came; and d Je.7 9,10.AND the word of the LORD came had opened my mouth, until he 4 devour him. 2 Son of man, prophesy against the came to me in the morning; and s desolation shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and my mouth was opened, and I was and desola- say unto them, Thus saith the Lord no more dumb. GOD unto the shepherds, Woa be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks? 23 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 24 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham c was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance, 25 Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood and shall ye d possess the land? 26 Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile! every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land? tion. e Je.44.2,&c. f ch.6.2,6. 6 or, of. g ch. 14. 1. 20.1. according to the 27 Say thou thus unto them. Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes i 1Sa.3.19. shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give 3 Yeb eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill c them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock. 4 The d diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought e that which was lost; but with force ƒ and with cruelty have ye ruled them. 5 And g they were scattered, 1 because h there is no shepherd: and they became meat i to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered. 6 My sheep wandered k through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scat to the beasts to be devoured, and (CHAP. 34.) tered / upon all the face of the a Je 23.1. Zec.11.16. d Je.8.22. they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence. 28 For I will lay the land 5 most desolate, e and the pomp of herb Is.56.11. strength shall cease; and the e Mi.3. 1,3. mountains f of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through. 29 Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed. 30 Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking 6 against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the LORD. 31 And they come g unto thee 7 as the people cometh, and 8 they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for hwith their mouth they 9 show much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness. 32 And lo, thou art unto them as a 10 very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not. 33 And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then i shall they e He. 12.12. Lu. 15.4. ƒ Pe.5.2,3. g Mat.9.36. or,without a shepherd. h Zec. 10.2,3. Je.12.9-12. Jno. 10. 12. k 1 Pe.2.25. I Jno. 10.16. m Ac.20.33. 1Cn.9.15. n ch.3.18,20. He. 13.17. o ISA.2.29-36. p Ps. 119. 176. Lu. 19.10. 2 According to the sceking. q Is.50.10. Joel 2.1-3. earth, and none did search or seek after them. 7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD; 8 As I live, saith the Lord God, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed m themselves, and fed not my flock; 9 Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD; 10 Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require n my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease o from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them. 11 T For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seekp them out. 12 2 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark g day. |