Chapter 33
1; And the Word of YAHWEH was to me, saying,
2; Son of man, speak to the sons of your people and say to them: When I bring the sword on it, on a land, and take one man from the people of the land, their borders, and set him for a watchman to them,
3; and when he sees the sword coming on the land, and he blows the ram's horn and warns the people,
4; and the hearer hearing the sound of the ram's horn, and does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him; his blood shall be on his own head.
5; He heard the sound of the ram's horn and took no warning; his blood shall be on himself. But he who took warning, he shall deliver his soul.
6; But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the ram's horn, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes a soul from them, he is taken in his iniquity. But I will require his blood from the watchman's hand.
7; And you, son of man, I gave you as a watchman to the house of Israel. And you shall hear the Word from My mouth and warn them from Me.
8; When I say to the wicked, O wicked one, surely, you shall die! And you do not speak to warn the wicked one from his way, that wicked one shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood from your hand.
9; But you, if you warn the wicked from his way, to turn from it, and he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
10; And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, This you have spoken, saying, Surely our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we are rotting in them, even then shall we live?
11; Say to them, As I live, declares Adonai YAHWEH, I do not have delight in the death of the wicked, except in the wicked turning from his way, and so to live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, O house of Israel?
12; And you, son of man, say to the sons of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his trespass. And the evil of the evil, in the day he turns from his wickedness, he shall not fall by it. And the righteous shall not be able to live by it in the day he sins.
13; Though I say to the righteous, Surely, he shall live, yet he trusts in his own righteousness and commits iniquity, all his righteousness shall not be remembered; but he shall die for his iniquity which he has done.
14; And though I say to the wicked, Surely, you shall die; if he turns from his sin and does justice and righteousness,
15; if the wicked returns the pledge, he repays the thing stolen, he walks in the statutes of life, not doing iniquity, surely, he shall live; he shall not die.
16; All his sins which he has sinned shall not be remembered to him; he has done justice and righteousness, living he shall live.
17; Yet the sons of your people say, The way of YAHWEH, is not fair. But they, even their way is not fair.
18; When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does iniquity, he shall even die by them.
19; But if the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does justice and righteousness, he shall live by them.
20; Yet you say, The way of Adonai is not fair. I shall judge you, each man by his ways, O house of Israel.
21; And it happened in the twelfth year, in the tenth month, on the fifth of the month of our exile, a fugitive out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city has been stricken.
22; And the hand of YAHWEH was on me in the evening before the fugitive came. And He opened my mouth until that one came in the morning. And my mouth was opened, and I was no longer dumb.
23; And the Word of YAHWEH was to me, saying,
24; Son of man, the residents of the ruins are speaking, these in the land of Israel, saying, Abraham was one, and he possessed the land; but we are many, the land is given to us for a possession.
25; So say to them, So says Adonai YAHWEH: You eat on the blood, and you lift your eyes up to your idols, and you shed blood. And shall you possess the land?
26; You stand on your sword, and you each do abominations, defiling his neighbor's wife. And shall you possess the land?
27; Say this to them, So says Adonai YAHWEH: As I live, surely, those in the ruins shall fall by the sword? And I will give the one who is on the face of
the field to the beasts to be eaten, and those in the forts and in the caves shall die by the plague.
28; For I shall make the land desolate and a waste, and the pride of her strength shall cease. And the heights of Israel shall be a waste that none will go through.
29; And they shall know that I am YAHWEH, when I have made the land desolate and a waste because of all their abominations which they have done.
30; And you, son of man, the sons of your people are speaking about you beside the walls, and in the doors of the houses. And one speaks to another, each man with his brother, saying, Come now and hear what the Word coming from YAHWEH is.
31; And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as My people. And they hear your words, but they do not do them. For they produce much love with their mouth, but their heart goes after their unjust gain.
32; And, behold, you are to them as a singer of love songs with a beautiful voice, and playing well on an instrument. For they hear your words, but they are not doing them.
33; So when it comes, then they will know that a prophet has been in their midst.
Chapter 34
1; And the Word of YAHWEH was to me, saying,
2; Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to them, to the shepherds, So says Adonai YAHWEH: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who are feeding themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock?
3; You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool, you sacrifice the fat ones, and you do not feed the flock.
4; You have not strengthened the weak; and you have not healed the sick, and you have not bound up the broken. And the banished have not been brought back, and you have not sought the lost, but you rule them with force and with harshness.
5; And they were scattered for lack of a shepherd. And they became food to all the beasts of the field when they were scattered.
6; My sheep strayed through all the mountains and on every high hill. And My sheep were scattered on all the face of the earth, and none searched, and none sought for them.
7; For this reason, shepherds, hear the Word of YAHWEH:
8; As I live, declares Adonai YAHWEH, surely because My sheep became a prey, and My sheep became food for all the beasts of the field, from not having a shepherd, and because My shepherds did not search for My sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed the flock,
9; so, O shepherds, hear the Word of YAHWEH:
10; So says Adonai YAHWEH: Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require My sheep from their hand and cause them to cease from pasturing the flock. And the shepherds shall no longer feed themselves, for I will deliver My sheep from their mouth, and they will not be food to devour.
11; For so says Adonai YAHWEH: Behold, I Myself will search for My sheep, and seek them out.
12; As a shepherd seeks his flock in the day that he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out My sheep and will deliver them from all the places where they were scattered in a day of cloud, and thick cloud.
13; And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the lands, and I will bring them to their land and feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the ravines, and in all the dwelling places of the land.
14; I, even I, will feed them in a good pasture, and on the high mountains of Israel their fold shall be. They shall lie there in a good fold, and they shall feed in a fat pasture, all the mountains of Israel.
15; I will feed My sheep, and I will make them lie down, declares Adonai YAHWEH.
16; I will seek the lost, and I will return the banished. And I will bind up the broken, and I will make the weak strong. But I will destroy the fat and the strong, I will feed them with judgment.
17; And you, My flock, so says Adonai YAHWEH: Behold, I judge between lamb and lamb, between rams and he- goats.
18; Is it a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must trample the rest of your pastures with your feet? And have you drunk of the clear waters, but the rest you must foul with your feet?
19; And My sheep, what your feet have trampled, they must feed on, and they drink what your feet have fouled.
20; So Adonai YAHWEH says this to them: Behold, I, even I, will even judge between the fat lamb and the lean lamb.
21; Because you have thrust with side and with shoulder, and have pushed all the weak with your horns until you have scattered them to the outside.
22; I also will save My flock, and they shall no longer be for a prey. And I will judge between lamb and lamb.
23; And I will raise up over them one Shepherd. And He shall feed them. My servant David, He shall feed them, and He shall be their Shepherd.
24; And I, YAHWEH, will be their Elohim, and My servant David shall be a ruler among them. I, YAHWEH, have spoken.
25; And I will cut a covenant of peace with them and make evil beasts cease out of the land. And they shall live in the wilderness securely and sleep in the forests.
26; And I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. And I will bring down the shower in its season, there shall be showers of blessing.
27; And the tree of the field shall give its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase. And they shall be securely on their land. And they shall know that I am YAHWEH when I have broken the staffs of their yoke, and have rescued them from the hand of those who enslaved them.
28; And they shall not any more be a prey to the nations, and the beast of the land shall not eat them. But they shall live securely, and no one shall terrify them.
29; And I will raise up for them a planting place of name, and they shall not any more be of those gathered by famine in the land. And they shall not any more bear the shame of the nations.
30; And they shall know that I, YAHWEH their Elohim, am with them, and they are My people, the house of Israel, declares Adonai YAHWEH.
31; And you, My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, you are men. I am your Elohim, declares Adonai YAHWEH.
Chapter 35
1; And the Word of YAHWEH was to me, saying,
2; Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it.
3; And say to it, So says Adonai YAHWEH: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch My hand against you, and I will make you a ruin and a waste.
4; I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be a ruin. And they shall know that I am YAHWEH.
5; Because there was to you never- ending hatred, and you poured out the sons of Israel to the hands of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end.
6; Therefore, As I live, declares Adonai YAHWEH, surely for blood I appoint you, and blood shall pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, so blood shall pursue you.
7; And I will make Mount Seir a ruin and a waste, and cut off from it the one passing through, and the one returning.
8; And I will fill his mountains with his slain. In your hills and in your valleys, and in all your torrents, the slain by the sword shall fall in them.
9; I will make you ruins forever, and your cities shall not be inhabited. And you shall know that I am YAHWEH.
10; Because you have said, These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we shall possess it,
11; Therefore, As I live, declares Adonai YAHWEH, I will act by your anger, and by envy which you have done out of your hatred against them, and I will be known among them when I have judged you.
12; And you shall know that I am YAHWEH. I have heard all your revilings which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, Desolation! They are given to us for food!
13; And you magnified with your mouth against Me and have multiplied your words against Me; I have heard.
14; So says Adonai YAHWEH: As all the earth rejoices, I will make you a ruin.
15; As you rejoiced at the inheritance of the house of Israel because they were a ruin, so I will do to you. You shall be a ruin, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it! And they shall know that I am YAHWEH.
Chapter 36
1; And you, son of man, prophesy to Israel's mountains and say, O mountains of Israel, hear the Word of YAHWEH.
2; So says Adonai YAHWEH: Because the enemy has spoken against you, saying, Aha! Everlasting heights have become a possession to us.
3; So prophesy and say, So says Adonai YAHWEH: Because, yea, because of the wasting and crushing of you from all around, that you might be a possession to the rest of the nations, and you ascended on the tip of the tongue, and the whispering of the people.
4; Therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the Word of Adonai YAHWEH: So says Adonai YAHWEH to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, to the wastes of desolation, and to the forsaken cities which became a prey and a mocking to the rest of the nations all around.
5; So Adonai YAHWEH says this: Surely I have spoken in the fire of My jealousy against the rest of the nations, and against Edom, all those of her who have given My land to themselves for a possession with all joy of heart, with scorning of soul, in order to make it open land for a prey.
6; So prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, So says Adonai YAHWEH: Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and in My fury, because you have borne the shame of the nations.
7; So Adonai YAHWEH says this: I have lifted up My hand, surely the nations that surround you, they shall bear their shame.
8; But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall put out your branches and your fruit, you shall bear for My people Israel. For they are drawing near to come.
9; For behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.
10; And I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, all of it. And the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be built.
11; And I will multiply men on you, and beast, and they will increase and be fruitful. And I will make you dwell as you formerly were, and I will do better than at your beginnings. And you shall know that I am YAHWEH.
12; Yea, I will cause men to walk on you, My people Israel; and they shall possess you, and you will be an inheritance to them and will not any more increase their bereavement.
13; So says Adonai YAHWEH: Because they said to you, You are a devourer of men, and you have bereaved your nations;
14; so you shall no longer devour men, and you shall not make your nations fall any more, declares Adonai YAHWEH.
15; And I will not let you bear the shame of the nations any longer, and you shall not bear the disgrace of the peoples any more, and you shall not cause your nations to fall any more, declares Adonai YAHWEH.
16; And the Word of YAHWEH was to me, saying,
17; Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt on their land, they even defiled it by their ways and by their doings. As the defilement of woman's impurity, their way was before Me.
18; So I poured out My fury on them, because of the blood that they had poured out on the land, and for their idols by which they defiled it.
19; And I scattered them among the nations, and they were sown among all the earth; I judged them by their way and by their doings.
20; And when they entered into the nations, there where they went, they even profaned My set-apart name, by saying to them, These are the people of YAHWEH, and they are gone out of His land.
21; But I had pity for My set-apart name which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, there where they went.
22; Therefore, say to the house of Israel, So says Adonai YAHWEH: I do not do this for your sake, O house of Israel, but only for My set-apart name which you profaned among the nations, there where you went.
23; And I will sanctify My great name which was profaned among the nations, which you profaned among them. And the nations shall know that I am YAHWEH, declares Adonai YAHWEH, when I am sanctified in you, in their eyes.
24; For I will take you from the nations and gather you out of all the lands and bring you into your land.
25; Then I will sprinkle pure waters on you, and you shall be purified. I will cleanse you from all your defilement and from all your idols.
26; And I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will take away the stony
heart out of your flesh, and I will give to you a heart of flesh.
27; And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall keep My judgments and do them.
28; And you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. And you shall be a people to Me, and I will be Elohim to you.
29; I will also save you from all your defilements, and I will call for grain and increase it, and I will not put a famine on you.
30; And I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field, in order that you will not any more receive the disgrace of famine among the nations.
31; And you will remember your evil ways and your doings that were not good, and you will despise yourselves in your own eyes for your iniquities and for your abominations.
32; Let it be known to you that I am not doing this for your sake, states Adonai YAHWEH. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.
33; So says Adonai YAHWEH: In the day I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the wastes shall be built.
34; And the desolated land shall be cultivated, rather than being a ruin in the eyes of all passing by.
35; And they shall say, This land that was desolated has become like the garden of Eden. And the wasted and desolated and razed cities are fortified and inhabited.
36; And the nations left all around you shall know that I, YAHWEH, built the razed places and planted that which was desolated. I, YAHWEH have spoken it and will do it.
37; So says Adonai YAHWEH: Yet for this I will be sought by the house of Israel, to act for them. I will increase them with men like a flock.
38; Like a set-apart flock, like the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so the wasted cities shall be filled with flocks of men. And they shall know that I am YAHWEH.
Chapter 37
1; The hand of YAHWEH was on me. And He brought me by the Spirit of YAHWEH and made me rest in the midst of a valley, and it was full of bones.
2; And He made me pass among them all around. And, behold, very many were on the face of the valley. And, behold! They were very dry.
3; And He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I said, O Adonai YAHWEH, You know.
4; And He said to me, Prophesy to these bones and say to them, O dry bones, hear the Word of YAHWEH:
5; So says Adonai YAHWEH to these bones, Behold, I will make breath to enter into you, and you shall live,
6; and I will put on you sinews and will bring flesh on you and spread skin over you and put breath in you, and you shall live. And you shall know that I am YAHWEH.
7; So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a noise. And, behold, a shaking! And the bones drew near, a bone to its bone.
8; And I saw. And, behold! The sinews and the flesh came up on them, and the skin spread over them from above. But there was no breath in them.
9; Then He said to me, Prophesy to the Spirit. Prophesy, son of man, and say to the Spirit, So says Adonai YAHWEH: Come from the four winds, O Spirit, and breathe on these slain ones, that they may live.
10; So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the Spirit came into them. And they lived and stood on their feet, a very great army.
11; Then He said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is perished; we are cut off to ourselves.
12; So prophesy and say to them, So says Adonai YAHWEH: Behold, I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves, O My people, and I will bring you to the land of Israel.
13; And you shall know that I am YAHWEH when I have opened your graves and have brought you up out of your graves, O My people.
14; And I shall put My Spirit within you, and you shall live; and I will put you on your own land. And you shall know that I, YAHWEH, have spoken and have done it, says YAHWEH.
15; And the Word of YAHWEH was to me,
16; saying, And you, son of man, take one stick to yourself and write on it, For Judah, and for his companions, the sons of Israel. And take another stick and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.
17; And draw them one to one for yourself, into one stick. And they shall become one in your hand.
18; And when the sons of your people shall speak to you, saying, Will you not declare to us what these mean to you?
19; Say to them, So says Adonai YAHWEH: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions. And I will put them with him, with the stick of Judah, and I will make them one stick, and they shall be one in My hand.
20; And the sticks shall be in your hand, the ones on which you write before their eyes.
21; And say to them, So says Adonai YAHWEH: Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations, there where they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and will bring them into their own land.
22; And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and one King shall be for a king to all of them. And they shall not be two nations anymore. And they will not be split into two kingdoms any more.
23; And they will not still be defiled with their idols, even with their filthy idols, nor with all of their transgressions. But I will save them out of all their dwelling places where they have sinned in them, and I will cleanse them. So they shall be for a people to Me and I will be for Elohim to them.
24; And My servant, David, shall be King over them. And there shall be one Shepherd to all of them. And they shall walk in My judgments and keep My statutes, and do them.
25; And they shall dwell on the land that I have given to My servant, to Jacob, there where your fathers dwelt in it. And they shall dwell on it, they and their sons, and the sons of their sons, forever. And My servant David shall be a ruler to them forever.
26; And I will cut a covenant of peace with them, an everlasting covenant it shall be with them, And I will place them and multiply them, and I will put My sanctuary in their midst forever.
27; And My tabernacle shall be with them, and I will be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.
28; And when My sanctuary shall be in their midst forever, the nations shall know that I, YAHWEH, sanctify Israel.
Chapter 38
1; And the Word of YAHWEH was to me, saying,
2; Son of man, set your face against Gog, the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him.
3; And say, So says Adonai YAHWEH: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.
4; And I will turn you back and put hooks into your jaws. And I will bring you and all your army out: horses and horsemen, all of them clothed most perfectly; a great assembly with buckler and shield, all of them swordsmen.
5; Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya are with them, all of them with shield and helmet;
6; Gomer and all its bands; the house of Togarmah from the recesses of the north, and all its bands; many peoples are with you.
7; Be prepared; yea, prepared for yourself, you and all your assembly that are assembled to you, and be a guard to them.
8; After many days you shall be visited. In the after years you shall come into the land turned back from the sword, gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel which have been for a continual waste. But he has been brought out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely, all of them.
9; And you shall go up, you shall come like a storm; you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you and all your bands, and many peoples with you.
10; So says Adonai YAHWEH: And it shall be in that day, words shall come up into your heart, and you shall devise an evil plan.
11; And you shall say, I will go up to the land of open spaces. I will go to those at ease, who live securely, all of them living with no walls, and there are no bars and gates to them,
12; in order to spoil a spoil, and to steal a prize, to turn your hand on the inhabited waste places, and on the people gathered out of the nations, producing livestock and goods, who dwell in the center of the earth.
13; Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish, and all its young lions, shall say to you, Have you come to plunder a plunder? Have you gathered your assembly to steal a prize, to lift up silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to spoil a great spoil?
14; So prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, So says Adonai YAHWEH: Shall you not know in that day when My people Israel dwells securely?
15; And you shall come from your place out of the recesses of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great assembly, a mighty army.
16; And you shall come up on My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. It shall be in the after days, and I will bring you against My land so that the nations may know Me, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes, Gog.
17; So says Adonai YAHWEH: Are you he of whom I have spoken in former days by the hand of My servants, the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days and years, to bring you against them?
18; And it shall be on that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel, declares Adonai YAHWEH, My fury shall come up in My face.
19; And in My jealousy, in the fire of My wrath, I have spoken. Surely, in that day there shall be a great quaking in the land of Israel.
20; And the fish of the sea, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep on the earth, and all men on the face of the earth, shall quake at My face. And the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
21; And I shall call a sword against him on all My mountains, declares Adonai YAHWEH. Each man's sword shall be against his brother.
22; And I will judge him with a plague and with blood, and an overflowing shower, and hailstones. I will rain fire and brimstone on him, and on his bands, and on the many peoples who are with him.
23; And I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself. And I will be known in the eyes of the many nations, and they shall know that I am YAHWEH.