jub - Ezekiel:16-20

jub@Ezekiel:16:1 @ Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

jub@Ezekiel:16:2 @ Son of man, notify Jerusalem of her abominations

jub@Ezekiel:16:3 @ and say, Thus hath the Lord GOD said concerning Jerusalem: Thy habitation and thy race was of the land of Canaan; thy father [was] an Amorite and thy mother a Hittite.

jub@Ezekiel:16:4 @ And [as for] thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple [thee]; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

jub@Ezekiel:16:5 @ No eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have mercy upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field with little value given to thy life, in the day that thou wast born.

jub@Ezekiel:16:6 @ I passed by thee and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, and I said unto thee, In thy blood thou shalt live; [yea], I said unto thee, In thy blood thou shalt live.

jub@Ezekiel:16:7 @ In ten thousands, as the grass of the field, have I placed thee, and thou wast increased and made great, and thou art come to be adorned with excellent ornaments; [thy] breasts were fashioned, and thy hair is grown; but thou [wast] naked and bare.

jub@Ezekiel:16:8 @ And I passed by thee and looked upon thee; behold, thy time [was] the time of love; and I spread my mantle over thee and covered thy shame; and I gave thee an oath and entered into a covenant with thee, said the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine;

jub@Ezekiel:16:9 @ and I washed thee with water and washed away thy blood from upon thee, and I anointed thee with oil.

jub@Ezekiel:16:10 @ I clothed thee also with broidered work and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I clothed thee with silk.

jub@Ezekiel:16:11 @ I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy arms and a chain on thy neck.

jub@Ezekiel:16:12 @ And I put nose rings upon thy nostrils and earrings in thine ears and a diadem of beauty upon thine head.

jub@Ezekiel:16:13 @ Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment [was of] fine linen and silk and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour of wheat and honey and oil: and thou wast made exceeding beautiful, and thou hast prospered even until thou hast reigned.

jub@Ezekiel:16:14 @ And thy renown went forth among the Gentiles for thy beauty; for it [was] perfect because of my beauty which [I]placed upon thee, said the Lord GOD.

jub@Ezekiel:16:15 @ But thou didst trust in thine own beauty and didst play the harlot because of thy renown and didst pour out thy fornications on every one that passed by; thou wert his.

jub@Ezekiel:16:16 @ And of thy garments thou didst take and make altars of divers colours and play the harlot thereupon; [the like] shall not come [again], neither shall it be [so].

jub@Ezekiel:16:17 @ Thou hast taken likewise the vessels of thy beauty of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee and made to thyself images of men and didst commit whoredom with them

jub@Ezekiel:16:18 @ And thou didst take thy garments of many colours and cover them; and thou hast set my oil and my incense before them.

jub@Ezekiel:16:19 @ My bread also which I had given thee; the fine flour and the oil and the honey [with which] I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour; and [thus] it was, said the Lord GOD.

jub@Ezekiel:16:20 @ Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these thou hast sacrificed unto them to be devoured. [Is this] of thy whoredoms a small matter,

jub@Ezekiel:16:21 @ that thou hast sacrificed my children and given them over to them that they might cause them to pass through [the fire] unto them?

jub@Ezekiel:16:22 @ And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms hast thou not remembered the days of thy youth when thou wast naked and bare? Thou wast polluted in thy blood.

jub@Ezekiel:16:23 @ And it came to pass after all thy wickedness (woe, woe unto thee! said the Lord GOD)

jub@Ezekiel:16:24 @ [that] thou hast also built unto thee a high place and hast made thee an altar in every street.

jub@Ezekiel:16:25 @ Thou hast built thy altar at every head of every way and hast made thy beauty abominable and hast opened thy thighs to every one that passed by and multiplied thy whoredoms.

jub@Ezekiel:16:26 @ Thou hast also committed fornication with the sons of Egypt, thy neighbours, great of flesh, and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.

jub@Ezekiel:16:27 @ Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee and have diminished thy liberty and delivered thee unto the will of those that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of thy lewd way.

jub@Ezekiel:16:28 @ Thou hast played the whore also with the sons of Assyria because thou wast insatiable; thou hast played the harlot with them and yet could not be satisfied.

jub@Ezekiel:16:29 @ Thou hast likewise multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan and of the Chaldeans, and yet thou wast not satisfied with this.

jub@Ezekiel:16:30 @ How inconsistent is thy heart, said the Lord GOD, having done all these [things], the work of a powerful harlot:

jub@Ezekiel:16:31 @ building thine altars at the head of every way and making thine altars in every street! And thou hast not been as a harlot in that thou scornest hire,

jub@Ezekiel:16:32 @ [but as] a wife that commits adultery, [who] takes strangers instead of her husband!

jub@Ezekiel:16:33 @ They give gifts to all whores, but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers and givest them offerings that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.

jub@Ezekiel:16:34 @ And in thee it is to the contrary from [other] women in thy whoredoms; and after thee, there shall never be [whoredom like unto thine] because in giving thy gifts when gifts are not given unto thee, it has been backwards.

jub@Ezekiel:16:35 @ Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:

jub@Ezekiel:16:36 @ Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because thy nakedness has been uncovered, and thy confusion has been manifested to thy lovers in thy whoredoms and to the idols of thy abominations and in the blood of thy children which thou didst give unto them;

jub@Ezekiel:16:37 @ therefore, behold that I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure and all [those] that thou hast loved, with all [those] that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee and will uncover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

jub@Ezekiel:16:38 @ And [I]will judge thee by the laws regarding women who commit adultery and those that shed blood; and I will give thee [away] in blood of fury and of jealousy.

jub@Ezekiel:16:39 @ And I will deliver thee into their hand, and they shall destroy thy high [place] and shall break down thy altars; they shall strip thee also of thy clothes and shall take the vessels of thy glory and shall leave thee naked and bare.

jub@Ezekiel:16:40 @ They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones and thrust thee through with their swords.

jub@Ezekiel:16:41 @ And they shall burn thine houses with fire and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women; and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.

jub@Ezekiel:16:42 @ So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet and will no longer be angry.

jub@Ezekiel:16:43 @ Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth but hast provoked me to anger in all this; therefore, behold I also have recompensed thy way upon [thine] head, said the Lord GOD; for thou hast not even thought regarding all thine abominations.

jub@Ezekiel:16:44 @ Behold, every one that makes proverbs shall make [this] proverb regarding thee, saying: As [is] the mother [so is] her daughter.

jub@Ezekiel:16:45 @ Thou [art] thy mother's daughter that discarded her husband and her children; and thou [art] the sister of thy sisters who discarded their husbands and their children: your mother [was] a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

jub@Ezekiel:16:46 @ And thine elder sister [is] Samaria with her daughters that dwell at thy left hand; and thy younger sister that dwells at thy right hand [is] Sodom with her daughters.

jub@Ezekiel:16:47 @ Yet thou hast not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.

jub@Ezekiel:16:48 @ [As] I live, said the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister has never done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.

jub@Ezekiel:16:49 @ Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the afflicted and needy.

jub@Ezekiel:16:50 @ And they filled themselves with arrogance and committed abomination before me, and when I saw it, I took them away.

jub@Ezekiel:16:51 @ Neither has Samaria committed half of thy sins, but thou hast multiplied thy abominations more than they and hast justified thy sisters with all thy abominations which thou hast done.

jub@Ezekiel:16:52 @ Thou also, who hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they; they are more righteous than thou; be thou confounded also and bear thy shame in that thou hast justified thy sisters.

jub@Ezekiel:16:53 @ When I shall turn their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then [I will release] the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:

jub@Ezekiel:16:54 @ that thou may bear thine own shame and may be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.

jub@Ezekiel:16:55 @ When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their first state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their first state, thou and thy daughters shall return to your first state.

jub@Ezekiel:16:56 @ Sodom, thy sister was not mentioned by thy mouth in the time of thy pride,

jub@Ezekiel:16:57 @ before thy wickedness discovered itself, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria and of all the daughters of the Philistines round about, who despise thee in everything.

jub@Ezekiel:16:58 @ Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, said the LORD.

jub@Ezekiel:16:59 @ For thus hath the Lord GOD said: Will I deal with thee even as thou hast done, despising the oath to invalidate the covenant?

jub@Ezekiel:16:60 @ Nevertheless I will remember my covenant that I made with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will confirm unto thee an everlasting covenant.

jub@Ezekiel:16:61 @ Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.

jub@Ezekiel:16:62 @ And I will confirm my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD:

jub@Ezekiel:16:63 @ that thou may remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, said the Lord GOD.:

jub@Ezekiel:17:1 @ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

jub@Ezekiel:17:2 @ Son of man, propose a figure and compose an enigma unto the house of Israel

jub@Ezekiel:17:3 @ and say: Thus hath the Lord GOD said, A great eagle with great wings and long members, full of feathers of diverse colours, came unto Lebanon and took the highest branch of the cedar:

jub@Ezekiel:17:4 @ he cropped off the principal shoot and carried it into a land of markets; he set it in the city of the merchants.

jub@Ezekiel:17:5 @ He also took of the seed of the land and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed [it] by great waters [and] set it [as] a willow tree.

jub@Ezekiel:17:6 @ And it grew and became a vine of many branches, low of stature, whose branches looked at him, and its roots were under him: so it became a vine and brought forth branches and shot forth sprigs.

jub@Ezekiel:17:7 @ There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers; and, behold, this vine joined her roots toward him and extended her branches toward him that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.

jub@Ezekiel:17:8 @ It was planted in a good soil by many waters that it might bring forth branches and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

jub@Ezekiel:17:9 @ Say thou: Thus hath the Lord GOD said, Shall it be prospered? Shall he not pull [it] up its roots and destroy its fruit and let it wither? All of the leaves of her spring shall wither, even without great power or many people plucking it up by its roots.

jub@Ezekiel:17:10 @ [Yea], behold, [being] planted, shall it be prospered? Shall it not utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It shall wither in the furrows where it grew.

jub@Ezekiel:17:11 @ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

jub@Ezekiel:17:12 @ Say now to the rebellious house: Do ye not know what these [things mean]? Tell [them], Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem and has taken its king and its princes and led them with him to Babylon;

jub@Ezekiel:17:13 @ and has taken of the seed of the kingdom and made a covenant with him and has brought him to an oath: he has also taken the mighty of the land:

jub@Ezekiel:17:14 @ that the kingdom might be cast down, that it might not lift itself up, [but] that it might keep his covenant and stay in her.

jub@Ezekiel:17:15 @ But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors unto Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he be prospered, shall he that does such [things] escape? And shall he who broke the covenant be able to flee?

jub@Ezekiel:17:16 @ As I live, said the Lord GOD, surely in the place [where] the king [dwells] that made him king, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke, [even] with him in the midst of Babylon, he shall die.

jub@Ezekiel:17:17 @ And not with a mighty army, nor with a great company shall Pharaoh do anything for him in the battle when they cast up mounts, and build forts to cut off many lives:

jub@Ezekiel:17:18 @ seeing he despised the oath to invalidate the covenant when, behold, he had given his hand and has done all these [things], he shall not escape.

jub@Ezekiel:17:19 @ Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: As I live, surely my oath that he has despised and my covenant that he has broken, even it will I turn upon his own head.

jub@Ezekiel:17:20 @ And I will spread my net upon him and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass with which he has rebelled against me.

jub@Ezekiel:17:21 @ And all his fugitives with all his armies shall fall by the sword, and those that remain shall be scattered toward all winds; and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken [it].

jub@Ezekiel:17:22 @ Thus hath the Lord GOD said: I will also take of the highest branch of that high cedar and will set [it up]; I will crop off from the principal branch a shoot and will plant it upon the high and sublime mountain:

jub@Ezekiel:17:23 @ in the high mountain of Israel I will plant it, and it shall bring forth boughs and bear fruit and become a magnificent cedar; and under it shall dwell every fowl; everything that flies shall dwell in the shadow of its branches.

jub@Ezekiel:17:24 @ And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish; I the LORD have spoken and have done [it].:

jub@Ezekiel:18:1 @ The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,

jub@Ezekiel:18:2 @ What mean ye, that ye use this saying concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge?

jub@Ezekiel:18:3 @ [As] I live, said the Lord GOD, ye shall never again have [reason] to use this saying in Israel.

jub@Ezekiel:18:4 @ Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine; the soul that sins, it shall die.

jub@Ezekiel:18:5 @ But if a man is just and does judgment and righteousness,

jub@Ezekiel:18:6 @ that he does not eat upon the mountains, neither lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither defile his neighbour's wife, neither come near to the menstruous woman,

jub@Ezekiel:18:7 @ neither oppress any, [but] restores to the debtor his pledge, does not commit robbery, gives his bread to the hungry, and covers the naked with a garment,

jub@Ezekiel:18:8 @ neither lends at interest, neither takes any increase, withdraws his hand from iniquity, executes true judgment between man and man,

jub@Ezekiel:18:9 @ walks in my statutes, and keeps my rights, to do according to the truth: he [is] just; he shall surely live, said the Lord GOD.

jub@Ezekiel:18:10 @ If he begets a son [that is] a robber, a shedder of blood, and [that] does the like of [any] one of these [things],

jub@Ezekiel:18:11 @ and that does not do any of those [duties], but, on the other hand, he does eat upon the mountains, or defiles his neighbour's wife,

jub@Ezekiel:18:12 @ oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, or lifts up his eyes to the idols, or makes an abomination,

jub@Ezekiel:18:13 @ gives forth upon usury and takes increase, shall he then live? He shall not live; he has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

jub@Ezekiel:18:14 @ But if he begets a son that sees all his father's sins which he has done and seeing them, does not do according to them,

jub@Ezekiel:18:15 @ [that] he does not eat upon the mountains, neither lifts up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, nor defiles his neighbour's wife,

jub@Ezekiel:18:16 @ neither oppresses any, nor withholds the pledge, neither commits robbery, [but] gives his bread to the hungry, and covers the naked with a garment,

jub@Ezekiel:18:17 @ takes off his hand from [oppressing] the poor, does not receive usury nor increase, acts [according to] my rights, and walks in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father; he shall surely live.

jub@Ezekiel:18:18 @ [As for] his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did [that] which [is] not good among his people, behold, even he shall die for his iniquity.

jub@Ezekiel:18:19 @ Yet if ye say, Why does not the son bear the iniquity of the father? Because the son has lived according to judgment and righteousness [and] has kept all my statutes and has done them, he shall surely live.

jub@Ezekiel:18:20 @ The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him [who is righteous], and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him [who is wicked].

jub@Ezekiel:18:21 @ But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he has committed and keep all my statutes and live according to judgment and righteousness, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

jub@Ezekiel:18:22 @ All his rebellions that he has committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him; by his righteousness that he has done he shall live.

jub@Ezekiel:18:23 @ Do I desire perchance the death of the wicked? said the Lord GOD, Shall he not live if he should leave his ways?

jub@Ezekiel:18:24 @ But if the righteous should leave his righteousness and commit iniquity, [and] do according to all the abominations that the wicked [man] does, shall he live? All his righteousness that he has done shall not be mentioned; by his rebellion in which he has trespassed and by his sin which he has committed, because of them he shall die.

jub@Ezekiel:18:25 @ And if ye say, The way of the Lord is not straight. Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way not straight? Are not your ways crooked?

jub@Ezekiel:18:26 @ When a righteous [man] leaves his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall die in it; for his iniquity that he has done he shall die.

jub@Ezekiel:18:27 @ Again, when the wicked [man] leaves his wickedness that he has committed and lives according to judgment and righteousness, he shall cause his soul to live.

jub@Ezekiel:18:28 @ Because he saw and left all his rebellions that he has committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

jub@Ezekiel:18:29 @ If even [now] the house of Israel should say, The way of the Lord is not straight. O house of Israel, are not my ways straight? Certainly your ways are not straight.

jub@Ezekiel:18:30 @ Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each one according to his ways, said the Lord GOD. Repent and turn [yourselves] from all your iniquities, so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

jub@Ezekiel:18:31 @ Cast away from you all your iniquities by which ye have rebelled, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

jub@Ezekiel:18:32 @ For I do not desire the death of him that dies, said the Lord GOD; therefore turn [yourselves], and ye shall live.:

jub@Ezekiel:19:1 @ And take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

jub@Ezekiel:19:2 @ and thou shalt say, How hast thy mother, the lioness, lain down among the lions? She raised her whelps among the young lions.

jub@Ezekiel:19:3 @ And she brought up one of her whelps; it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey and to devour men.

jub@Ezekiel:19:4 @ The Gentiles also heard of him; he was taken in their trap, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.

jub@Ezekiel:19:5 @ Now when [she saw] that she had waited a long time [and] her hope was being lost, then she took another of her whelps [and] made him a young lion.

jub@Ezekiel:19:6 @ And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion and learned to catch the prey [and] devoured men.

jub@Ezekiel:19:7 @ And he knew their widows, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fullness thereof, by the voice of his roaring.

jub@Ezekiel:19:8 @ Then the Gentiles set against him on every side from the provinces and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.

jub@Ezekiel:19:9 @ And they put him in prison in chains and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into fortresses that his voice should no longer be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

jub@Ezekiel:19:10 @ Thy mother [was] like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters, bearing fruit and spreading forth branches by reason of the many waters.

jub@Ezekiel:19:11 @ And she had strong rods for the sceptres of those that bore rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height and with the multitude of her branches.

jub@Ezekiel:19:12 @ But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit; [her branches] were broken, and she withered; fire consumed the rod of her strength.

jub@Ezekiel:19:13 @ And now she [is] planted in the wilderness in a dry and thirsty ground.

jub@Ezekiel:19:14 @ And fire is gone out of the rod from her branches, [which] has devoured her fruit, so that no strong rod [to be] a sceptre to rule has remained in her. This [is] a lamentation and shall be for a lamentation.:

jub@Ezekiel:20:1 @ And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth [month], the tenth [day] of the month, [that] certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the LORD and sat before me.

jub@Ezekiel:20:2 @ Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,

jub@Ezekiel:20:3 @ Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel and say unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Are ye come to enquire of me? [As] I live, said the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.

jub@Ezekiel:20:4 @ Dost thou desire to judge them? Dost thou desire to judge them, son of man? Notify them of the abominations of their fathers:

jub@Ezekiel:20:5 @ And say unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said; In the day when I chose Israel and lifted up my hand for the seed of the house of Jacob and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt when I lifted up my hand unto them, saying, I [am] the LORD your God;

jub@Ezekiel:20:6 @ in the day [that] I lifted up my hand unto [them with an oath] that I would bring them forth from the land of Egypt into a land that I had prepared for them, flowing with milk and honey, which [is] the most beautiful of all lands,

jub@Ezekiel:20:7 @ then said I unto them, Cast away each one of you [all] worship of god fabricated by carnal appearance and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God.

jub@Ezekiel:20:8 @ But they rebelled against me and did not desire to hearken unto me; each one did not cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt; then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

jub@Ezekiel:20:9 @ With all this, I intervened for my name's sake that it should not be polluted before the Gentiles, among whom they [were], in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.

jub@Ezekiel:20:10 @ Therefore I took them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness;

jub@Ezekiel:20:11 @ and I gave them my statutes and declared unto them my rights, [by] which the man that does them shall live by them.

jub@Ezekiel:20:12 @ And I also gave them my sabbaths to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I [am] the LORD that sanctifies them.

jub@Ezekiel:20:13 @ But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they did not walk in my statutes, and they despised my rights, [by] which the man that does them shall live by them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted; therefore I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness to consume them.

jub@Ezekiel:20:14 @ But I intervened for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the Gentiles, in whose sight I brought them out.

jub@Ezekiel:20:15 @ Yet I also lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, [with an oath] that I would not bring them into the land which I had given [them], flowing with milk and honey, which [is] the most beautiful of all lands,

jub@Ezekiel:20:16 @ because they despised my rights and did not walk in my statutes but polluted my Sabbaths, for their heart went after their idols.

jub@Ezekiel:20:17 @ With all this, my eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

jub@Ezekiel:20:18 @ But I said unto their sons in the wilderness: Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither keep their laws, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

jub@Ezekiel:20:19 @ I [am] the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my rights, and do them;

jub@Ezekiel:20:20 @ and hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I [am] the LORD your God.

jub@Ezekiel:20:21 @ Notwithstanding, the sons rebelled against me: they did not walk in my statutes, nor keep my rights to do them, [by] which the man that does them shall live by them; they polluted my Sabbaths; then I said: I would pour out my fury upon them to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

jub@Ezekiel:20:22 @ Nevertheless, I withdrew my hand and intervened for my name's sake that it should not be polluted in the sight of the Gentiles in whose sight I brought them forth.

jub@Ezekiel:20:23 @ I lifted up my hand unto them also in the wilderness [with an oath] that I would scatter them among the Gentiles and disperse them through the countries

jub@Ezekiel:20:24 @ because they had not executed my rights and had despised my statutes and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.

jub@Ezekiel:20:25 @ For this reason I also gave them statutes [that were] not good and rights by which they could not live,

jub@Ezekiel:20:26 @ and I polluted them in their offerings when they caused to pass through [the fire] all that opens the womb that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I [am] the LORD.

jub@Ezekiel:20:27 @ Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel and say unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Even in this your fathers have blasphemed me when they committed rebellion against me.

jub@Ezekiel:20:28 @ [For] when I had brought them into the land, [for] which I lifted up my hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offerings; there [also] they made their sweet savour and poured out there their drink offerings.

jub@Ezekiel:20:29 @ Then I said unto them, What [is] the high place unto which ye go? And its name is called Bamah unto this day.

jub@Ezekiel:20:30 @ Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Perchance are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and do ye commit whoredom after their abominations?

jub@Ezekiel:20:31 @ For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day; and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? [As] I live, said the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.

jub@Ezekiel:20:32 @ And that which ye think shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the Gentiles, as the families of the nations to serve wood and stone.

jub@Ezekiel:20:33 @ [As] I live, said the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand and with a stretched out arm and with fury poured out, I must rule over you:

jub@Ezekiel:20:34 @ and I will bring you out from among the peoples and will gather you out of the countries in which ye are scattered with a mighty hand and with a stretched out arm and with fury poured out.

jub@Ezekiel:20:35 @ And I will bring you into the wilderness of peoples, and there I will litigate with you face to face.

jub@Ezekiel:20:36 @ Like as I litigated with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will litigate with you, said the Lord GOD.

jub@Ezekiel:20:37 @ And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:

jub@Ezekiel:20:38 @ and I will purge out from among you the rebels and those that rebelled against me; I will take them out of the country where they have gone, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.

jub@Ezekiel:20:39 @ As for you, O house of Israel, thus hath the Lord GOD said: Go, serve ye each one his idols, and hereafter [also], if ye will not hearken unto me, but do not pollute my holy name any longer with your gifts and with your idols.

jub@Ezekiel:20:40 @ For in the mountain of my holiness, in the high mountain of Israel, said the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel serve me, all of them in the land; there will I be pleased with them, and there will I require your offerings and the firstfruits of your gifts with all your sacred things.

jub@Ezekiel:20:41 @ I will accept you with your sweet savour when I have brought you out from among the peoples and gathered you out of the countries in which ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the eyes of the Gentiles.

jub@Ezekiel:20:42 @ And ye shall know that I [am] the LORD when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the land [for] which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers.

jub@Ezekiel:20:43 @ And there ye shall remember your ways and all your doings, in which ye have been defiled; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.

jub@Ezekiel:20:44 @ And ye shall know that I [am] the LORD when I have intervened with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, said the Lord GOD.

jub@Ezekiel:20:45 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

jub@Ezekiel:20:46 @ Son of man, set thy face toward the south and drop [thy word] toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;

jub@Ezekiel:20:47 @ and thou shalt say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD. Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I kindle a fire in thee, which shall devour every green tree in thee and every dry tree; the flame of the fire shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

jub@Ezekiel:20:48 @ And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.

jub@Ezekiel:20:49 @ Then I said, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Does he not speak parables?:

jub@Ezekiel:21:1 @ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: