DEUT. XXXII:26-B. C. 1451 26I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: IS. XVIII:1-7-B. C. 714 to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. 7¶ In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, 2 That sendeth ambassadors by to the place of the name of the the sea, even in vessels of bul- LORD of hosts, the mount Zion. rushes upon the waters, saying, Go, I Wo to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: ye swift messengers, to a nation ZECH. I:18-21—B. C. 519 18 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns. 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. 19 And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem. 20 And the LORD shewed me four carpenters. 21 Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to 4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harv-fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah est. 5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches. 6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to scatter it. ZECH. VII:8-14-B. C. 518 8 And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying, 9 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judg ment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: 10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. 11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts. 13 Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts: 14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the 12 Yea, they made their hearts land was desolate after them, that as an adamant stone, lest they no man passed through nor reshould hear the law, and the words turned: for they laid the pleasant which the LORD of hosts hath sent land desolate. EZEKIEL BEARING THE INIQUITY OF ISRAEL EZEK. IV:1-17-B. C. 595 1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: 7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it. 8 And, behold, I will lay bands 2 And lay siege against it, and upon thee, and thou shalt not turn build a fort against it, and cast a thee from one side to another till mount against it; set the camp thou hast ended the days of thy also against it, and set battering siege. rams against it round about. 3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. 4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity. 5 For I have laid upon thee the 9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. shalt eat shall be by weight, twen10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it. 11 Thou shalt drink also water years of their iniquity, according by measure, the sixth part of an to the number of days, three hun- hin: from time to time shalt thou dred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6 And when thou hast accom plished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year. drink. 12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. 13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them. |