The kingdom of Christ. the h places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season: there shall be showers of blessing. EZEKIEL, XXXV. 13 Andr I will bring them out from B. C. 587. the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them r Is.65.9.10. to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country. Je.23.3,4. s Ps. 23. 1,2. Is.40.11. 27 And the tree of the field shall t Je.33.12. yield her fruit, and the earth shall Je.3. 15. yield her increase, and they shall be Jno.21.15. safe in their land, and shall know v Mi.4.6. that I am the LORD, when I have Mat. 18.11-broken the bands of their yoke, and 14. delivered them out of the hand of Mar.2.17. those that served themselves of Lu.5.32. them. 14 Is will feed them in a good pas-u ture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there t shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel. 15 I will feed u my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD. w Am.4.1,2. x Je. 10.24. 28 And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; 16 I will seek v that which was lost, and bring again that which 3 small cattle but they shall dwell safely, and was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick : but I will destroy w the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judg ment.c 17 And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between 3 cattle and cattle, between y the rams and the 4 hegoats. 18 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down z with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet? 19 And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with | your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet. of lambs and kids. goats. z Lu.11.52. b Je.23.4.5. c Ex.29.45. d Lu. 1.32,33. Is.11.1,&c. h Ps. 133.3. away. none shall make them afraid. 29 Andi I will raise up for them a plant 5 of renown, and they shall be no more 6 consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more. 30 Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord GOD. 31 And ye my flock, the flock k of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD. CHAPTER XXXV. The judgment of mount Seir for their hatred of Israel. M LORD came unto me, saying, OREOVER the word of the 2 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir,a and prophesyb against it, 3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee 1 most desolate. 20 Therefore thus saith the 6 taken 5 or, for. Lord GOD unto them; Behold I, even I, will judge between the fat k Lu. 12.32. cattle and between the lean cattle. 4 I will lay thy cities waste, and 21 Because ye have thrust with (CHAP. 35.) thou shalt be desolate; and thou side and with shoulder, and pushed a De.2.5. shalt know that I am the LORD. all the a diseased with your horns, bch.25.12,&c. 5 Because thou hast had a 2 pertill ye have scattered them abroad; Je.49.7, c.petual hatred, and hast 3 shed the 22 Therefore will I save my flock, Am.1.11,12. blood of the children of Israel by Ob. 10,&c. and they shall no more be a prey; the 4 force of the sword in the time and I will judge between cattle desolation of their calamity, in the time that and cattle. their iniquity had an c end: 23 And I will set up one b shep-2 herd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. 21 And Ic the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince d among them; I the LORD have spoken it. 25 And I will make with them covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts e to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely f in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. 26 And I will make themg and 3 and deso- or, hatred of old, poured out 6 Therefore, d as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sithe thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee. 7 Thus will I make mount Seir c ch.21.25.29.5 most desolate, and cut off from d Ps. 137.7. it him f that passeth out and him e Ps. 109.17. that returneth. 5 desolation tion, 8 And I will fill his mountains g and desola- with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword. ver.3. g ch.32.5. f Ju.5.6.7. h Mal. 1.3,4. 91 will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy citiesh shall not Israel is EZEKIEL, XXXVI. return; and ye shall know that I B. C. 587. am the LORD. 10 Because thou hast said, These 6 or, though. two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will ich.48.35. possess it; 6 whereas the LORDi was there: Ps. 48.1-3. 132.13. 11 Therefore, as I live, saith the k Ja.2.13. Lord GOD, I will even do according k to thine anger, and according Ps.94.0, 10. to thine envy which thou hast used m ch.36.2. out of thy hatred against them; Ps.83. 12,13. and I will make myself known 7 devour. among them, when I have judged thee. 12 And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard? all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given usm to 7 consume. 13 Thus with your mouth ye have 8 boasted against me, and have multiplied n your words against me: I have heard them. 14 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the o whole earth rejoiceth, I will, make thee desolate. 15 As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, 8 magnified. n 1Sa.2.3. Ps.73.8,9. o Is.65.13,14. (CHAP. 36.) a De.32.13. 2 ch.35.10. Because for because. or, made to come upon the lip of the tongue. c Ps. 79.10. 3 or, Lottoms or, dales. comforted. residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, g which have appointed h my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey. 6 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the i shame of the heathen: 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted k up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame. 8 But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come. 9 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto m you, and ye shall be tilled and sown: 10 And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the n wastes shall be builded: 11 And o I will multiply upon you man and beast, and they shall increase and bring fruit; and I will even all of it and they shall know d Je.25.9-13. settle you after your old estates, that I am the LORD. CHAPTER XXXVI. 29.10. e Ps.79.4. f Zep.3.8. 1 The land of Israel is comforted, etc. 25 The blessings of Christ's kingdom. A LSO, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, & Is.34.5,6. hear the word of the LORD: La.4.21. 2 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Be-h ch.35.10,11, cause the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high a places are our's in b possession: Ps. 123.3,4. k ch.20.5. m Ps.99.8. n Is.61.4. and will do betterp unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know q that I am the LORD. 12 Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; andr they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men. 13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest ups men, and hast be 14 Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither 4 bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lori GOD. 3 Therefore propliesy and say, 1 Am.9.13,14. reaved thy nations; 33.12. r Ob. 17,&c. Nu. 13.32. 4 or, cause to 4 Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to fa'l. the 3 rivers, and to the valleys, to t Ps.89.50,51. the desolate wastes, and to the Zep.2.8. cities that are forsaken, which beuLe.18.25,28. came a prey d and derision e to the Je.2.7. residue of the heathen that are round about; 5 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire f of my jealousy have I spoken against the v Le.15.19,&c. wch, 16.36,38, 23.37. 15 Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproacht of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord God. 16 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled u it by their own way, and by their doings; their way was before me as the uncleanness v of a removed woman. 18 Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood w that Blessings of EZEKIEL, XXXVII. they had shed upon the land, and B. C. 587. for their idols wherewith they had polluted it: x Ro.2.24. b Ps.46.10. 19 And I scattered them among y Ps.74.18. the heathen, and they were dis-z Ps. 115, 1. persed through the countries: ac- a Ps. 105.8. cording to their way, and according to their doings, I judged them. 20 And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land. 21 T But I had pity for mine holy y name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went. 5 c ch.20.41. 28.22. 1 Pe.2.9. or, your. d ch.34.13. 37.21,&c. Ps. 107.2,3. e Is.52.15. He.10.22. Zec. 13.1. 22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your z sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine a holy h ch.11.19. name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen whither ye went. 23 And Ib will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you c before 5 their eyes. Ps.51.10. Je.32.39. i Zec.7.12. k De.30.6. 2Co.3.3. 1 Ro.S.9,15. m 1C0.3.16. Ep. 1.13.14. 1Jno.3.24. Ga.5. 16. Col.2.6. 1Jno. 1.6,7. 2Jno.6. 21 For Id will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring in Ho. 1.10. you into your own land. o Mat. 1.21. Ro.6.14. 11.26. 25 Then e will I sprinkle clean water f upon you, and ye shall be clean from all your filthiness, gp and from all your idols, will 1 cleanse you. Ho.2.21.22. 9 ch.16.61,63. r Ro.6.21. 26 A new heart h also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away & De.9.5. the stony i heart out of your flesh, t Zec.8.7,8. and I will give you an heart of u Joel 2.3. flesh.k v Ho. 14.4-9. 27 And I will put my Spirit 7 within you, and cause you to walk m in iny statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. 28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, n and I will be your God. 6 p 29 I will also save o you from all your uncleannesses; and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you. 30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen. w Zec. 10.6,9. 13.9. x ch.20.31. flock of holy paign. Jno.5.21. 11.25,26. Ro.4. 17. 31 Then shall ye remember q your own evil ways, and your doings c ver.9,10. that were not good, and shall d Joel 2.27. loather yourselves in your own Christ's kingdom. sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. 32 Not s for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you be ashamed and confounded for your own house of Israel. ways, O 33 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities, I will also cause you to dwell t in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded. 34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. 35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; u and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited. 36 Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do v it. 37 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be inquired of w by the house of Israel, z to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock. 38 As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD. CHAPTER XXXVII. 1 The resurrection of dry bones. 21 The promises of Christ's kingdom. THE hand of the LORD was upon T me, and carried me out in the Spirit a of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, 2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open 1 valley; and, lo, they were very dry. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered. O Lord GOD, thou b knowest. 4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. 5 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath c to enter into you, and ye shall live. 6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall d know that I am the LORD. 7 So I prophesied as 1 was com Resurrection of dry bones. EZEKIEL, XXXVIII. manded: and as I prophesied there | B. C. 587. was ae noise, and behold a shak ing, and the bones came together, e Ac.2.2,&c. bone to his bone. 8 And when I beheld, lo, the 2 or, breath. sinews and the flesh came up upon f Ca.4. 16. them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in g Ps. 104.30. them. 9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the 2 wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come ƒ from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath cameg into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. Re. 11.11. h 2Co.5.14. Is. 49. 14. k Job 35.14, 1 Is.26.19. 18. Of Christ's kingdom. | 20 T And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes. 21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: 22 And Io will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all: 23 Neither p shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their trans 2Ch.30.11-gressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling-places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanser them: so shalls they be my people, and I will be their God. 11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these boues are the whole hm house of Israel: behold they say, i Our bones are dried, and our hopen Zec. 10.6. is lost: we are cut off for our parts, o Is. 11. 12, 13. 9 Le.20.7,8. 12 Therefore prophesy k and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. 13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,r 14 And shall put my Spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD. 15 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Mi.7.19. Ep.5.26,27. s Re.21.3,4. w 1Co. 11.2. 16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel m his companions: then take x Is.60.21. another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, Am.9.15. 21 And David t my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one u shepherd: they shall also walk v in my judgments, and observe w my statutes, and do them. 25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: x and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.y 26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace z with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant a with them and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary b in the midst of them for evermore. 27 My tabernacle c also shall be with them; yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. and for all the house of Israel his y Lu. 1.32,33. 28 And the heathen shall know 2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, a the land of Magog, 1 the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him. GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O 3 And say, Thus b saith the Lord Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal : 4 And I will turn thee back, and God's judgment EZEKIEL, XXXIX. put hooks c into thy jaws, and I B. C. 587. will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed d with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: 5 Persia, Ethiopia, and 2 Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: c ch.29.4. d ch.23.12. 2 or, Phut, e Ge. 10.2. 6 Gomer, e and all his bands; the house of Togarmah f of the north quarters, and all his bands: and 8 Am.4.12. many people with thee. 1Pe.2.9. 1 ch.28.26. h Is.29.6. 7 Be thou prepared,g and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy com-i ch.36.1,4,8. pany that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them. 8 After many days thou shalt be visited: h in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains i of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth k out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. 9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, m and many people, with thee. 10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt 3 think an evil thought: m Is.8.9,10. vous pur pose. n Je.49.31. 4 or, confi- 6 navel, Ju.9.37. 0 ch.19.3,5. p Je.23.6. 11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them n that are at rest, that dwell 4 safely, all of them q ch.37.28. dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, 12 To 5 take a spoil, and to take a prey, to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods," that dwell in the 6 midst of the land. r Ex. 14.4. 7 by the t Joel 3.16. 8 or, lowers, against Gog. company, and a mighty army: 16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to Cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that r the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. 17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time 7 by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them? 18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face. 19 For in my jealousy s and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day t there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; 20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shail shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. 21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GoD: every man's sword shall be against his brother. 22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hail-stones, u fire, and brimstone. 23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanchfy myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD. CHAPTER XXXIX. 1 God's judgments upon Gog. 8 Israel's victory. 17 The feast of the 39.)HEREFORE, thou son of man, fowls and beasts. T a ch.38.2,&c. 13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions o thereof, shall say " Re. 16.21. unto thee, Art thou come to take a (CHAP. spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? 14 Therefore, son of man, propliesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, p shalt thou not know q it? 1 thee with six plagues; north. 15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, 2 sides of the and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great prophesy against Gog, a and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: 2 And I will turn thee back, and 1 leave but the sixth part of thee, and I will cause thee to come up from the 2 north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: 3 And I will smite thy bow out of |