Ezekiel 37-42

Ezekiel 37

¹The hand of the Lord had been on me, and he took me out in the spirit of the Lord and put me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones;

²And he made me go past them round about: and I saw that there was a very great number of them on the face of the wide valley, and they were very dry.

³And he said to me, Son of man, is it possible for these bones to come to life? And I made answer, and said, It is for you to say, O Lord.

⁴And again he said to me, Be a prophet to these bones, and say to them, O you dry bones, give ear to the word of the Lord.

⁵This is what the Lord has said to these bones: See, I will make breath come into you so that you may come to life;

⁶And I will put muscles on you and make flesh come on you, and put skin over you, and breath into you, so that you may have life; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

⁷So I gave the word as I was ordered: and at my words there was a shaking of the earth, and the bones came together, bone to bone.

⁸And looking I saw that there were muscles on them and flesh came up, and they were covered with skin: but there was no breath in them.

⁹And he said to me, Be a prophet to the wind, be a prophet, son of man, and say to the wind, The Lord has said: Come from the four winds, O wind, breathing on these dead so that they may come to life.

¹⁰And I gave the word at his orders, and breath came into them, and they came to life and got up on their feet, a very great army.

¹¹Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the children of Israel: and see, they are saying, Our bones have become dry our hope is gone, we are cut off completely.

¹²For this cause be a prophet to them, and say, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am opening the resting-places of your dead, and I will make you come up out of your resting-places, O my people; and I will take you into the land of Israel.

¹³And you will be certain that I am the Lord by my opening the resting-places of your dead and making you come up out of your resting-places, O my people.

¹⁴And I will put my spirit in you, so that you may come to life, and I will give you a rest in your land: and you will be certain that I the Lord have said it and have done it, says the Lord.

¹⁵And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

¹⁶And you, son of man, take one stick, writing on it, For Judah and for the children of Israel who are in his company: then take another stick, writing on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and all the children of Israel who are in his company:

¹⁷Then, joining them one to another, make them one stick, so that they may be one in your hand.

¹⁸And when the children of your people say to you, Will you not make clear to us what these things have to do with us?

¹⁹Then say to them, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am taking the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel who are in his company; and I will put it on the stick of Judah and make them one stick, and they will be one in my hand.

²⁰And the sticks with your writing on them will be in your hand before their eyes.

²¹And say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am taking the children of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and will get them together on every side, and take them into their land:

²²And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king over them all: and they will no longer be two nations, and will no longer be parted into two kingdoms:

²³And they will no longer make themselves unclean with their images or with their hated things or with any of their sins: but I will give them salvation from all their turning away in which they have done evil, and will make them clean; and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.

²⁴And my servant David will be king over them; and they will all have one keeper: and they will be guided by my orders and will keep my rules and do them.

²⁵And they will be living in the land which I gave to Jacob, my servant, in which your fathers were living; and they will go on living there, they and their children and their children's children, for ever: and David, my servant, will be their ruler for ever.

²⁶And I will make an agreement of peace with them: it will be an eternal agreement with them: and I will have mercy on them and make their numbers great, and will put my holy place among them for ever.

²⁷And my House will be over them; and I will be to them a God, and they will be to me a people.

²⁸And the nations will be certain that I who make Israel holy am the Lord, when my holy place is among them for ever.

Ezekiel 38

¹And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

²Son of man, let your face be turned against Gog, of the land of Magog, the ruler of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and be a prophet against him,

³And say, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am against you, O Gog, ruler of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:

⁴And turning you round, I will put hooks in your mouth and make you come out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them in full war-dress, a great force with breastplate and body-cover, all of them armed with swords:

⁵Persia, Cush, and Put with them; all of them with body-cover and metal head-dress:

⁶Gomer and all her forces; the people of Togarmah in the inmost parts of the north, with all his forces: a great number of peoples with you.

⁷Be ready, make yourself ready, you and all the forces who are with you, and be ready for my orders.

⁸After a long time you will get your orders: in the last years you will come into the land which has been given back from the sword, which has been got together out of a great number of peoples, on the mountains of Israel which have ever been a waste: but it has been taken out from the peoples and they will be living, all of them, without fear of danger.

⁹And you will go up, you will come like a storm, you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your forces, and a great number of peoples with you.

¹⁰This is what the Lord has said: In that day it will come about that things will come into your mind, and you will have thoughts of an evil design:

¹¹And you will say, I will go up to the land of small unwalled towns; I will go to those who are quiet, living, all of them, without fear of danger, without walls or locks or doors:

¹²To take their property by force and go off with their goods; turning your hand against the waste places which now are peopled, and against the people who have been got together out of the nations, who have got cattle and goods for themselves, who are living in the middle of the earth.

¹³Sheba, and Dedan and her traders, Tarshish with all her traders, will say to you, Have you come to take our goods? have you got your armies together to take away our property by force? to take away silver and gold, cattle and goods, to go off with great wealth?

¹⁴For this cause, son of man, be a prophet and say to Gog, These are the words of the Lord: In that day, when my people Israel are living without fear of danger, will you not be moved against them?

¹⁵And you will come from your place in the inmost parts of the north, you and a great number of peoples with you, all of them on horseback, a great force and a strong army:

¹⁶And you will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land; and it will come about, in the last days, that I will make you come against my land, so that the nations may have knowledge of me when I make myself holy in you, O Gog, before their eyes.

¹⁷This is what the Lord has said: You are he of whom I gave them word in earlier times by my servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those days went on saying, year after year, that I would make you come up against them.

¹⁸And it will come about in that day, when Gog comes up against the land of Israel, says the Lord, that my wrath will come up, and my passion and my bitter feeling.

¹⁹For in the fire of my wrath I have said, Truly, in that day there will be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

²⁰So that the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven and the beasts of the field and everything moving on the earth, and all the men who are on the face of the earth, will be shaking before me, and the mountains will be overturned and the high places will come down, and every wall will come falling down to the earth.

²¹And I will send to all my mountains for a sword against him, says the Lord: every man's sword will be against his brother.

²²And I will take up my cause against him with disease and with blood; and I will send down on him and on his forces and on the peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower and great ice-drops, fire, and burning.

²³And I will make my name great and make myself holy, and I will make myself clear to a number of nations; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 39

¹And you, son of man, be a prophet against Gog, and say, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, O Gog, ruler of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:

²And turning you round, I will be your guide, and make you come up from the inmost parts of the north; I will make you come on to the mountains of Israel:

³And with a blow I will send your bow out of your left hand and your arrows falling from your right hand.

⁴On the mountains of Israel you will come down, you and all your forces and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to cruel birds of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be their food.

⁵You will come down in the open field: for I have said it, says the Lord.

⁶And I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who are living in the sea-lands without fear: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

⁷And I will make clear my holy name among my people Israel; I will no longer let my holy name be made unclean: and the nations will be certain that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.

⁸See, it is coming and it will be done, says the Lord; this is the day of which I have given word.

⁹And those who are living in the towns of Israel will go out and make fires of the instruments of war, burning the body-covers and the breastplates, the bows and the arrows and the sticks and the spears, and for seven years they will make fires of them:

¹⁰And they will take no wood out of the field or have any cut down in the woods; for they will make their fires of the instruments of war: and they will take by force the property of those who took their property, and go off with the goods of those who took their goods, says the Lord.

¹¹And it will come about in those days, that I will give to Gog a last resting-place there in Israel, in the valley of Abarim on the east of the sea: and those who go through will be stopped: and there Gog and all his people will be put to rest, and the place will be named, The valley of Hamon-gog.

¹²And the children of Israel will be seven months putting them in the earth, so as to make the land clean.

¹³And all the people of the land will put them in the earth; and it will be to their honour in the day when I let my glory be seen, says the Lord.

¹⁴And they will put on one side men to do no other work but to go through the land and put in the earth the rest of those who are still on the face of the land, to make it clean: after seven months are ended they are to make a search.

¹⁵And while they go through the land, if anyone sees a man's bone, he is to put up a sign by the place till those who are doing the work have put it in the earth in the valley of Hamon-gog.

¹⁶And there they will put all the army of Gog in the earth. So they will make the land clean.

¹⁷And you, son of man, this is what the Lord has said: Say to the birds of every sort and to all the beasts of the field, Get together and come; come together on every side to the offering which I am putting to death for you, a great offering on the mountains of Israel, so that you may have flesh for your food and blood for your drink.

¹⁸The flesh of the men of war will be your food, and your drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of sheep and lambs, of he-goats, of oxen, all of them fat beasts of Bashan.

¹⁹You will go on feasting on the fat till you are full, and drinking the blood till you are overcome with it, of my offering which I have put to death for you.

²⁰At my table you will have food in full measure, horses and war-carriages, great men and all the men of war, says the Lord.

²¹And I will put my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see my punishments which I have put into effect, and my hand which I have put on them.

²²So the children of Israel will be certain that I am the Lord their God, from that day and for the future.

²³And it will be clear to the nations that the children of Israel were taken away prisoners for their evil-doing; because they did wrong against me, and my face was covered from them: so I gave them up into the hands of their attackers, and they all came to their end by the sword.

²⁴In the measure of their unclean ways and their sins, so I did to them; and I kept my face covered from them.

²⁵For this cause the Lord has said, Now I will let the fate of Jacob be changed, and I will have mercy on all the children of Israel, and will take care of the honour of my holy name.

²⁶And they will be conscious of their shame and of all the wrong which they have done against me, when they are living in their land with no sense of danger and with no one to be a cause of fear to them;

²⁷When I have taken them back from among the peoples and got them together out of the lands of their haters, and have made myself holy in them before the eyes of a great number of nations.

²⁸And they will be certain that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them away as prisoners among the nations, and have taken them together back to their land; and I have not let one of them be there any longer.

²⁹And my face will no longer be covered from them: for I have sent the out-flowing of my spirit on the children of Israel, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 40

¹In the twenty-fifth year after we had been taken away prisoners, in the first month of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the town was taken, on the very same day, the hand of the Lord was on me, and he took me there.

²In the visions of God he took me into the land of Israel, and put me down on a very high mountain, on which there was, as it seemed, a building like a town opposite me.

³He took me there, and I saw a man, looking like brass, with a linen cord in his hand and a measuring rod: and he was stationed in the doorway.

⁴And the man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes and give hearing with your ears, and take to heart everything I am going to let you see; for in order that I might let you see them, you have come here: and give an account of all you see to the children of Israel.

⁵And there was a wall on the outside of the house all round, and in the man's hand there was a measuring rod six cubits long by a cubit and a hand's measure: so he took the measure of the building from side to side, one rod; and from base to top, one rod.

⁶Then he came to the doorway looking to the east, and went up by its steps; and he took the measure of the doorstep, one rod wide.

⁷And the watchmen's rooms were one rod long and one rod wide; and the space between the rooms was five cubits; the doorstep of the doorway, by the covered way of the doorway inside, was one rod.

⁸And he took the measure of the covered way of the doorway inside,

⁹Eight cubits; and its uprights, two cubits; the covered way of the doorway was inside.

¹⁰And the rooms of the doorway on the east were three on this side and three on that; all three were of the same size; and the uprights on this side and on that were of the same size.

¹¹And he took the measure of the opening of the doorway, ten cubits wide; and the way down the doorway was thirteen cubits;

¹²And the space in front of the rooms, a cubit on this side and a cubit on that side; and the rooms six cubits on this side and six cubits on that.

¹³And he took the measure of the doorway from the back of one room to the back of the other, twenty-five cubits across, from door to door.

¹⁴And he took the measure of the covered way, twenty cubits; and opening from the covered way of the doorway was the open square round about.

¹⁵And from before the opening of the doorway to before the inner covered way of the doorway was fifty cubits.

¹⁶And the rooms and their uprights had sloping windows inside the doorway all round, and in the same way the covered way had windows all round on the inside: and on every upright there were palm-trees.

¹⁷Then he took me into the outer square, and there were rooms and a stone floor made for the open square all round: there were thirty rooms on the stone floor.

¹⁸And the stone floor was by the side of the doorways, and was as wide as the doorways were long, even the lower floor.

¹⁹Then he took the measure of the square across, from before the lower doorway inside to before the inner doorway outside, one hundred cubits. And he took me in the direction of the north,

²⁰And there was a doorway to the outer square, looking to the north; and he took the measure of it to see how wide and how long it was.

²¹And it had three rooms on this side of it and three on that; its uprights and its covered ways were the same size as those of the first doorway: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

²²And its windows, and the windows of its covered ways, and its palm-trees, were the same as those of the doorway looking to the east; and there were seven steps up to it; and the covered way went inside.

²³And there was a doorway to the inner square opposite the doorway on the north, like the doorway on the east; and he took the measure from doorway to doorway, a hundred cubits.

²⁴And he took me to the south, and I saw a doorway looking to the south: and he took the measure of its rooms and its uprights and its covered ways by these measures.

²⁵And there were windows in it and in the covered way all round, like the other windows: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

²⁶And there were seven steps up to it, and its covered way went inside: and it had palm-trees, one on this side and one on that, on its uprights.

²⁷And there was a doorway to the inner square looking to the south: he took the measure from doorway to doorway to the south, a hundred cubits.

²⁸Then he took me to the inner square by the south doorway: and he took the measure of the south doorway by these measures;

²⁹And the rooms in it and the uprights and the covered ways, by these measures:

³⁰And there were windows in it and in the covered way all round: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

³¹The covered way was on the side nearest the outer square; and there were palm-trees on the uprights: and there were eight steps going up to it.

³²And he took me into the inner square facing the east: and he took the measure of the doorway by these measures;

³³And of the rooms in it and its uprights and its covered ways, by these measures: and there were windows in it and in the covered way round about: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

³⁴And the covered way was on the side nearest the outer square; there were palm-trees on the uprights, on this side and on that: and there were eight steps going up to it.

³⁵And he took me to the north doorway: and he took the measure of it by these measures;

³⁶Its rooms, its uprights, and its covered way had the same measures, and its covered way had windows all round: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

³⁷Its uprights were on the side nearest to the outer square; there were palm-trees on the uprights, on this side and on that: and there were eight steps going up to it.

³⁸And there was a room with a door in the covered way of the doorway, where the burned offering was washed.

³⁹And in the covered way of the doorway there were two tables on this side and two tables on that side, on which the burned offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error were put to death:

⁴⁰On the outer side, to the north, as one goes up to the opening of the doorway, were two tables.

⁴¹There were four tables on one side and four tables on the other, by the side of the doorway; eight tables, on which they put to death the beasts for the offerings.

⁴²And there were four tables for the burned offering, made of cut stone, one and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide and a cubit high, where the instruments were placed which were used for putting to death the burned offering and the beasts for the offerings.

⁴³And they had edges all round as wide as a man's hand: and on the tables was the flesh of the offerings.

⁴⁴And he took me into the inner square, and there were two rooms in the inner square, one at the side of the north doorway, facing south; and one at the side of the south doorway, facing north.

⁴⁵And he said to me, This room, facing south, is for the priests who have the care of the house.

⁴⁶And the room facing north is for the priests who have the care of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who, from among the sons of Levi, come near to the Lord to do the work of his house.

⁴⁷And he took the measure of the open square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide, being square; and the altar was in front of the house.

⁴⁸Then he took me to the covered way before the house, and took the measure of its uprights, five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and the doorway was fourteen cubits wide; and the side-walls of the doorway were three cubits on one side and three cubits on the other.

⁴⁹The covered way was twenty cubits long and twelve cubits wide, and they went up to it by ten steps; and there were pillars by the uprights, one on one side and one on the other.

Ezekiel 41

¹And he took me to the Temple, and took the measure of the uprights, six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other.

²And the door-opening was ten cubits wide; and the side walls of the door-opening were five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

³And he went inside and took the measure of the uprights of the door-opening, two cubits: and the door-opening, six cubits; and the side-walls of the door-opening were seven cubits on one side and seven cubits on the other.

⁴And by his measure it was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide in front of the Temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place.

⁵Then he took the measure of the wall of the house, which was six cubits; and of the side-rooms round the house, which were four cubits wide.

⁶And the side-rooms, room over room, were three times thirty; there were inlets in the wall of the house for the side-rooms round about, for supports in the wall of the house.

⁷The side-rooms became wider as they went higher up the house, by the amount of the space let into the wall up round about the house, because of the inlets in the house; and one went up from the lowest floor by steps to the middle, and from the middle to the upper floor.

⁸And I saw that the house had a stone floor all round; the bases of the side-rooms were a full rod of six great cubits high.

⁹The wall supporting the side-rooms on the outside was five cubits thick: and there was a free space of five cubits between the side-rooms of the house.

¹⁰And between the rooms was a space twenty cubits wide all round the house.

¹¹And the free space had doors opening from the side-rooms, one door on the north and one door on the south: and the free space was five cubits wide all round.

¹²And the building which was in front of the separate place at the side to the west was seventy cubits wide; the wall of the building was five cubits thick all round and ninety cubits long.

¹³And he took the measure of the house; it was a hundred cubits long; and the separate place and the building with its walls was a hundred cubits long;

¹⁴And the east front of the house and of the separate place was a hundred cubits wide.

¹⁵And he took the measure of the building in front of the separate place which was at the back of it, and the pillared walks on one side and on the other side; they were a hundred cubits long; and the Temple and the inner part and its outer covered way were covered in;

¹⁶And the sloping windows and the covered ways round all three of them were of shakiph-wood all round from the level of the earth up to the windows;

¹⁷And there was a roof over the doorway and as far as the inner house, and to the outside and on the wall all round, inside and outside.

¹⁸And it had pictured forms of winged beings and palm-trees; a palm-tree between two winged ones, and every winged one had two faces;

¹⁹So that there was the face of a man turned to the palm-tree on one side, and the face of a young lion on the other side: so it was made all round the house.

²⁰From earth level up to the windows there were winged ones and palm-trees pictured on the wall.

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²²The altar was made of wood, and was three cubits high and two cubits long; it had angles, and its base and sides were of wood; and he said to me, This is the table which is before the Lord.

²³The Temple had two doors.

²⁴And the holy place had two doors, and the doors had two turning leaves, two for one and two for the other.

²⁵And on them were pictured winged ones and palm-trees, as on the walls; and a ... of wood was on the front of the covered way outside.

²⁶And there were sloping windows and palm-trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the covered way: and the side-rooms of the house and the ...

Ezekiel 42

¹And he took me out into the inner square in the direction of the north: and he took me into the rooms which were opposite the separate place and opposite the building to the north.

²On the north side it was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide,

³Opposite the space of twenty cubits which was part of the inner square, and opposite the stone floor of the outer square. There were covered ways facing one another on the third floor.

⁴And in front of the rooms was a walk, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long; and their doors were facing north.

⁵And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways took up more space from these than from the lower and middle rooms.

⁶For they were on three floors, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer square; so the highest was narrower than the lowest and middle floors from the earth level.

⁷And the wall which went outside by the side of the rooms, in the direction of the outer square in front of the rooms, was fifty cubits long.

⁸For the rooms in the outer square were fifty cubits long: and in front of the Temple was a space of a hundred cubits.

⁹And under these rooms was the way in from the east side, as one goes into them from the outer square at the head of the outer wall.

¹⁰(And he took me) to the south, and in front of the separate place and in front of the building there were rooms.

¹¹And there was a walk in front of them like that by the rooms on the north; they were equally long and wide; and the ways out of them were the same in design and had the same sort of doors.

¹²And under the rooms on the south was a door at the head of the outer wall in the direction of the east as one goes in.

¹³And he said to me, The north rooms and the south rooms in front of the separate place are the holy rooms, where the priests who come near the Lord take the most holy things for their food: there the most holy things are placed, with the meal offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error; for the place is holy.

¹⁴When the priests go in, they may not go out of the holy place into the outer square, and there they are to put the robes in which they do the work of the Lord's house, for they are holy: and they have to put on other clothing before they come near that which has to do with the people.

¹⁵And when he had come to the end of measuring the inner house, he took me out to the doorway looking to the east, and took its measure all round.

¹⁶He went round and took the measure of it on the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

¹⁷And he went round and took the measure of it on the north side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

¹⁸And he went round and took the measure of it on the south side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

¹⁹And he went round and took the measure of it on the west side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

²⁰He took its measure on the four sides: and it had a wall all round, five hundred long and five hundred wide, separating what was holy from what was common.