dby - Ezekiel:4:1-5:17

dby@Ezekiel:4:1 @ And thou, son of man, take thee a brick, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it a city, -- Jerusalem:

dby@Ezekiel:4:2 @ and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast a mound against it, and set camps against it, and place battering-rams against it round about.

dby@Ezekiel:4:3 @ And take thou unto thee an iron plate, and put it [for] a wall of iron between thee and the city; and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it: this shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

dby@Ezekiel:4:4 @ And thou, lie upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: the number of the days that thou liest upon it, thou shalt bear their iniquity.

dby@Ezekiel:4:5 @ And I have appointed thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

dby@Ezekiel:4:6 @ And when thou hast accomplished them, thou shalt lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.

dby@Ezekiel:4:7 @ And thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.

dby@Ezekiel:4:8 @ And behold, I lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thyself from one side to the other, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.

dby@Ezekiel:4:9 @ And thou, take unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, [according to] the number of the days that thou liest upon thy side: three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

dby@Ezekiel:4:10 @ And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.

dby@Ezekiel:4:11 @ And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.

dby@Ezekiel:4:12 @ And thou shalt eat it [as] barley-cake, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.

dby@Ezekiel:4:13 @ And Jehovah said, So shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations whither I will drive them.

dby@Ezekiel:4:14 @ Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, my soul hath not been defiled, and from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or of that which is torn; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

dby@Ezekiel:4:15 @ And he said unto me, See, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.

dby@Ezekiel:4:16 @ And he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I break the staff of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread by weight, and with anxiety; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:

dby@Ezekiel:4:17 @ because bread and water shall fail them, and they shall be astonied one with another, and waste away in their iniquity.

dby@Ezekiel:5:1 @ And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife; a barber's razor shalt thou take; and cause it to pass upon thy head and upon thy beard: and thou shalt take balances to weigh, and divide the [hair].

dby@Ezekiel:5:2 @ A third part shalt thou burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and thou shalt take a third part, [and] smite about it with a knife; and a third part thou shalt scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.

dby@Ezekiel:5:3 @ And thou shalt take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts;

dby@Ezekiel:5:4 @ and thou shalt take of these again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire: from it shall a fire come forth against all the house of Israel.

dby@Ezekiel:5:5 @ Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: This is Jerusalem: I have set her in the midst of the nations, and the countries are round about her.

dby@Ezekiel:5:6 @ And she hath rebelled against my judgments in wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for mine ordinances have they refused; and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

dby@Ezekiel:5:7 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye have been turbulent more than the nations that are round about you, [and] have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept mine ordinances, nor [even] have done according to the ordinances of the nations that are round about you;

dby@Ezekiel:5:8 @ therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations;

dby@Ezekiel:5:9 @ and I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.

dby@Ezekiel:5:10 @ Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter to all the winds.

dby@Ezekiel:5:11 @ Wherefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, verily because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also withdraw mine eye, and it shall not spare, nor will I have any pity.

dby@Ezekiel:5:12 @ A third part of thee shall die by the pestilence, and shall be consumed by the famine in the midst of thee; and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.

dby@Ezekiel:5:13 @ And mine anger shall be accomplished, and I will satisfy my fury upon them, and I will comfort myself; and they shall know that I Jehovah have spoken in my jealousy, when I have accomplished my fury upon them.

dby@Ezekiel:5:14 @ And I will make thee a waste and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.

dby@Ezekiel:5:15 @ And it shall be a reproach, and a taunt, an instruction, and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments upon thee in anger, and in fury, and in furious rebukes: I, Jehovah, have spoken.

dby@Ezekiel:5:16 @ When I send upon them the evil arrows of famine, that are for [their] destruction, which I send to destroy you, then will I increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread.

dby@Ezekiel:5:17 @ And I will send upon you famine and evil beasts, which shall bereave thee of children; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee: I, Jehovah, have spoken.