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They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men can’t touch their garments.

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Depart! they cried to them, Unclean! depart, depart, don’t touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more live [here].

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The anger of Yahweh has scattered them; he will no more regard them: They didn’t respect the persons of the priests, they didn’t favor the elders.

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Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

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They hunt our steps, so that we can’t go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

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Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

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The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.

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Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of Uz: The cup shall pass through to you also; you shall be drunken, and shall make yourself naked.

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The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion; he will no more carry you away into captivity: He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom; he will uncover your sins.

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Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.

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Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.

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We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

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We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.

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Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

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We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

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Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.

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Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

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We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

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Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

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They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

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Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

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The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.

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The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.

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The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.

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The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.

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For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;

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For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it.

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You, Yahweh, remain forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.

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Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time?

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Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we shall be turned. Renew our days as of old.

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But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.

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Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

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In the fifth [day] of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,

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the word of Yahweh came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of Yahweh was there on him.

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I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness around it, and out of its midst as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire.

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Out of its midst came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.

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Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings.

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Their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like burnished brass.

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They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and the four of them had their faces and their wings [thus]:

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their wings were joined one to another; they didn’t turn when they went; each one went straight forward.

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As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and the four of them had the face of a lion on the right side; and the four of them had the face of an ox on the left side; the four of them also had the face of an eagle.

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Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above. Two wings of each one touched another, and two covered their bodies.

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Each one went straight forward: where the spirit was to go, they went; they didn’t turn when they went.

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As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches: [the fire] went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.

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The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

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Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, one wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces of it.

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The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl: and the four of them had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.

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When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn’t turn when they went.

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As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full of eyes all around.

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When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

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Wherever the spirit was to go, they went; there was the spirit to go: and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

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When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

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Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of an expanse, like the awesome crystal to look on, stretched forth over their heads above.

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Under the expanse were their wings straight, the one toward the other: each one had two which covered on this side, and every one had two which covered on that side, their bodies.

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When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of an army: when they stood, they let down their wings.

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There was a voice above the expanse that was over their heads: when they stood, they let down their wings.

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Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone; and on the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.

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I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it all around, from the appearance of his waist and upward; and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.

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As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahweh. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.

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He said to me, Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.

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The Spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and I heard him who spoke to me.

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He said to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day.

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The children are impudent and stiff-hearted: I am sending you to them; and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh.

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They, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house), yet shall know that there has been a prophet among them.

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You, son of man, don’t be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you do dwell among scorpions: don’t be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

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You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.

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But you, son of man, hear what I tell you; don’t be rebellious like that rebellious house: open your mouth, and eat that which I give you.

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When I looked, behold, a hand was put forth to me; and, behold, a scroll of a book was therein;

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He spread it before me: and it was written within and without; and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

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He said to me, Son of man, eat that which you find. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.

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So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.

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He said to me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you. Then I ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.

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He said to me, Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.

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For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;

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not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.

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But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.

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Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.

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As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: don’t be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

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Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.

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Go to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

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Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, [saying], Blessed be the glory of Yahweh from his place.

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[I heard] the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, even the noise of a great rushing.

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So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Yahweh was strong on me.

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Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.

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It happened at the end of seven days, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

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Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me.

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When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.

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Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn’t turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.

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Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.

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Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.

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The hand of Yahweh was there on me; and he said to me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with you.

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Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and behold, the glory of Yahweh stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.

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Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet; and he spoke with me, and said to me, Go, shut yourself inside your house.

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But you, son of man, behold, they shall lay bands on you, and shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them:

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and I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, that you shall be mute, and shall not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house.

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But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: He who hears, let him hear; and he who forbears, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.

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You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem:

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and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around.

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Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

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Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.