Prophecy of Ezechiel 1059
transgressors, and the wicked, and will bring
them out of the land where they sojourn, and
they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and
you shall know that I am the Lord.
39 And as for you, O house of Israel: thus
saith the Lord God: Walk ye every one after
your idols, and serve them. But if in this also
you hear me not, but defile my holy name any
more with your gifts, and with your idols;
40 In my holy mountain, in the high mountain
of Israel, saith the Lord God, there shall all the
house of Israel serve me; all of them I say, in the
land in which they shall please me, and there
will I require your firstfruits, and the chief of
your tithes with all your sanctifications.
41 I will accept of you for an odour of sweet-
ness, when I shall have brought you out from the
people, and shall have gathered you out of the
lands into which you are scattered, and I will be
sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.
42 And you shall know that I am the Lord,
when I shall have brought you into the land of
Israel, into the land for which I lifted up my hand
to give it to your fathers.
43 And there you shall remember your ways,
and all your wicked doings with which you have
been defiled; and you shall be displeased with
yourselves in your own sight, for all your wicked
deeds which you committed.
44 And you shall know that I am the Lord,
when I shall have done well by you for my own
name’s sake, and not according to your evil ways,
nor according to your wicked deeds, O house of
Israel, saith the Lord God.
45 And the word of the Lord came to me,
saying:
46 Son of man, set thy face against the way
of the south, and drop towards the south, and
prophesy against the forest of the south field.
47 And say to the south forest: Hear the word
of the Lord: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold
I will kindle a fire in thee, and will burn in thee
every green tree, and every dry tree: the flame
of the fire shall not be quenched: and every face
shall be burned in it, from the south even to the
north.
48 And all flesh shall see, that I the Lord have
kindled it, and it shall not be quenched.
49 And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God: they
say of me: Doth not this man speak by parables?Chapter 21
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem,
and let thy speech flow towards the holy places,
and prophesy against the land of Israel:
3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the
Lord God: Behold I come against thee, and I
will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and
will cut off in thee the just, and the wicked.
4 And forasmuch as I have cut off in thee the
just and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go
forth out of its sheath against all flesh, from the
south even to the north.
5 That all flesh may know that I the Lord
have drawn my sword out of its sheath not to be
turned back.
6 And thou, son of man, mourn with the
breaking of thy loins, and with bitterness sigh
before them.
7 And when they shall say to thee: Why
mournest thou? thou shalt say: For that which
I hear: because it cometh, and every heart shall
melt, and all hands shall be made feeble, and ev-
ery spirit shall faint, and water shall run down
every knee: behold it cometh, and it shall be
done, saith the Lord God.