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Egypt is made desolate

CHAP. XXX, XXXI. by the strength of Babylon.

19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; destroy the idols, and I will cause their Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto images to cease out of Noph; and there Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall be no more a prince of the land of shall take her multitude, and take her Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be Egypt.

the wages for his army.

14 And I will make Pathros desolate, 20 I have given him the land of Egypt and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute for his labour wherewith he served against judgments in No.

it, because they wrought for me, saith the 15 And I will pour my fury upon Sin, Lord GOD. the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.

21 In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I 16 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin will give thee the opening of the mouth in shall have great pain, and No shall be rent the midst of them; and they shall know asunder, and Noph shall have distresses that I am the LORD.

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CHAP. XXX.

HE word of the LORD came
unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, prophesy and say,

daily.

17 The young men of Aven and of Phiagain beseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.

Thus

18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall

saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Wo worth be darkened, when I shall break there the day!

3 For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.

the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity,

4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, 19 Thus will I execute judgments in and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when Egypt: and they shall know that I am the the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall LORD. take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.

5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.

6 Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.

7 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

8 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.

20 T And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.

22 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

24 And I will strengthen the arms of the 9 In that day shall messengers go forth king of Babylon, and put my sword in his from me in ships to make the careless hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall and he shall groan before him with the come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: groanings of a deadly-wounded man. for lo, it cometh. 25 But I will strengthen the arms of the

10 Thus saith the Lord God; I will also king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh make the multitude of Egypt to cease by shall fall down; and they shall know that the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Ba-I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword bylon. into the hand of the king of Babylon, and

11 He and his people with him, the he shall stretch it out upon the land of terrible of the nations, shall be brought to Egypt.

destroy the land: and they shall draw their 26 And I will scatter the Egyptians swords against Egypt, and fill the land among the nations, and disperse them with the slain. among the countries; and they shall know 12 And I will make the rivers dry, and that I am the LORD. sell the land into the hand of the wicked:

CHAP. XXXI.

and I will make the land waste, and all AND it came to pass in the eleventh that is therein, by the hand of strangers: year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the

I the LORD have spoken it.

13 Thus saith the Lord GoD; I will also LORD came unto me, saying,

Glory and fall of Assyria.

EZEKIEL.

A lamentation for the

2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king and I restrained the floods thereof, and the of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom great waters were stayed: and I caused . art thou like in thy greatness? Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees

3 ¶ Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar of the field fainted for him. in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a 16 I made the nations to shake at the shadowing shroud, and of a high stature; sound of his fall, when I cast him down to and his top was among the thick boughs. hell with them that descend into the pit: 4 The waters made him great, the deep and all the trees of Eden, the choice and set him up on high with her rivers running best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall round about his plants, and sent out her be comforted in the nether parts of the little rivers unto all the trees of the field. earth.

5 Therefore his height was exalted 17 They also went down into hell with above all the trees of the field, and his him unto them that be slain with the sword; boughs were multiplied, and his branches and they that were his arm, that dwelt un became long because of the multitude of der his shadow in the midst of the heathen. waters, when he shot forth. 18 To whom art thou thus like in

6 All the fowls of heaven made their glory and in greatness among the trees of nests in his boughs, and under his branches Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with did all the beasts of the field bring forth the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of their young, and under his shadow dwelt the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the all great nations. uncircumcised with them that be slain by 7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his the length of his branches: for his root multitude, saith the Lord GOD. was by great waters.

CHAP. XXXII. 8 The cedars in the garden of God AND ite twelfth month, in the first day came to pass in the twelfth year,

could not hide him: the fir-trees were not

like his boughs, and the chesnut-trees were of the month, that the word of the LORD not like his branches; not any tree in the came unto me, saying, garden of God was like unto him in his 2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for beauty. Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, 9 I have made him fair by the multitude Thou art like a young lion of the nations, of his branches: so that all the trees of and thou art as a whale in the seas: and Eden, that were in the garden of God, en- thou camest forth with thy rivers, and vied him. troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

10 ¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

3 Thus saith the Lord GoD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.

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11 I have therefore delivered him into 4 Then will I leave thee upon the land, the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; I will cast thee forth upon the open field, he shall surely deal with him: I have and will cause all the fowls of the heaven driven him out for his wickedness. to remain upon thee, and I will fill the 12 And strangers, the terrible of the na-beasts of the whole earth with thee. tions, have cut him off, and have left him: 5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mounupon the mountains and in all the valleys tains, and fill the valleys with thy height. his branches are fallen, and his boughs are 6 I will also water with thy blood the broken by all the rivers of the land; and land wherein thou swimmest, even to the all the people of the earth are gone down mountains; and the rivers shall be full of from his shadow, and have left him. thee.

13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of 7 And when I shall put thee out, I will the heaven remain, and all the beasts of cover the heaven, and make the stars the field shall be upon his branches: thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a 14 To the end that none of all the trees cloud, and the moon shall not give herlight. by the waters exalt themselves for their 8 All the bright lights of heaven will I height, neither shoot up their top among make dark over thee, and set darkness upthe thick boughs, neither their trees stand on thy land, saith the Lord GOD.

up in their height, all that drink water: 9 I will also vex the hearts of many for they are all delivered unto death, to the people, when I shall bring thy destruction nether parts of the earth, in the midst of among the nations, into the countries which the children of men, with them that go thou hast not known.

down to the pit. 10 Yea, I will make many people 15 Thus saith the Lord GoD; In the day amazed at thee, and their kings shall be when he went down to the grave I caused horribly afraid forthee, when I shall branda mourning: I covered the deep for him, lish my sword before them; and they shall

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fearful fall of Egypt.

CHAP. XXXIII. Ezekiel admonished of his duty. tremble at every moment, every man for their terror was caused in the land of the bis own life, in the day of thy fall. living, yet have they borne their shame 11 For thus saith the Lord God; The with them that go down to the pit: he is sword of the king of Babylon shall come put in the midst of them that be slain. upon thee. 26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all

12 By the swords of the mighty will I her multitude: her graves are round about cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the nations, all of them: and they shall the sword, though they caused their terror spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the mul- in the land of the living.

titude thereof shall be destroyed.

27 And they shall not lie with the 13 I will destroy also all the beasts there- mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, of from beside the great waters; neither which are gone down to hell with their shall the foot of man trouble them any weapons of war: and they have laid their more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them. swords under their heads, but their iniqui14 Then will I make their waters deep, ties shall be upon their bones, though they and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith were the terror of the mighty in the land the Lord God. of the living.

15 When I shall make the land of 28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the Egypt desolate, and the country shall be midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie destitute of that whereof it was full, when with them that are slain with the sword. I shall smite all them that dwell therein, 29 There is Edom, her kings, and all then shall they know that I am the LORD. herprinces, which with their might are laid 16 This is the lamentation wherewith by them that were slain by the sword: they they shall lament her: the daughters of shall lie with the umcircumcised, and with the nations shall lament her: they shall them that go down to the pit. lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all 30 There be the princes of the north, all her multitude, saith the Lord God. of them, and all the Zidonians, which are 17 It came to pass also in the twelfth gone down with the slain; with their ter year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that ror they are ashamed of their might; and the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, they lie uncircumcised with them that be 18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of slain by the sword, and bear their shame Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and with them that go down to the pit. the daughters of the famous nations, unto 31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall the nether parts of the earth, with them be comforted over all his multitude, even that go down into the pit. Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.

19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.

20 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.

21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword. 22 Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:

32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God. CHAP. XXXIII.

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GAIN the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:

23 Whose graves are set in the sides of 3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the pit, and her company is round about the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the the people;

sword, which caused terror in the land of 4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the living. the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if 24 There is Elam and all her multitude the sword come and take him away, his round about her grave, all of them slain, blood shall be upon his own head. fallen by the sword, which are gone down 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, ancircumcised into the nether parts of the and took not warning; his blood shall be earth, which caused their terror in the land upon him. But he that taketh warning of the living; yet have they borne their shall deliver his soul.

shame with them that go down to the pit. 6 But if the watchman see the sword 25 They have set her a bed in the midst come, and blow not the trumpet, and the of the slain with all her multitude: her people be not warned; if the sword come, graves are round about him: all of them and take any person from among them, he uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood

God shows the

EZEKIEL.

justice of his ways.

will I require at the watchman's hand. in the fifth day of the month, that one that 7 So thou, O son of man, I have set had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; me saying, The city is smitten. therefore thou shalt hear the word at my 22 Now the hand of the LORD was upon mouth, and warn them from me. me in the evening, afore he that was es8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked caped came; and had opened my mouth, man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not until he came to me in the morning; and my speak to warn the wicked from his way, mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb. that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; 23 Then the word of the LORD came but his blood will I require at thine hand. unto me, saying, 9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

24 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.

10 T Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye 25 Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith speak, saying, If our transgressions and the Lord GoD; Ye eat with the blood, and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in lift up your eyes toward your idols, and them, how should we then live? shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?

11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

26 Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?

27 Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord Gon; As I live, surely they that 12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, the children of thy people, The righteous- and him that is in the open field will I give ness of the righteous shall not deliver him to the beasts to be devoured, and they that in the day of his transgression: as for the be in the forts and in the caves shall die of wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall the pestilence. thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.

13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.

28 For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be deso late, that none shall pass through.

29 Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.

30 T Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the LORD.

14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; 15 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; 31 And they come unto thee as the peohe shall surely live, he shall not die. ple cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.

16 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.

17¶ Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the LORD is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.

18 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.

19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

20 Yet ye say, The way of the LORD is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.

21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month,

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Asaph's complaint for the church. PSALMS. The negligence of Judges reproved.

13 So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations. PSALM LXXX. To the chief Musician upon

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2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast

Shoshannim- day.

eduth, A Psalm of Asaph. IVE ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou a that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.

2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.

3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

4 For this was a statute for Israel, and
law of the God of Jacob.

5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not..

6 I removed his shoulder from the bur den: his hands were delivered from the pots. 7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify 5 Thou feedest them with the bread of unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken tears; and givest them tears to drink in unto me; great measure.

9 There shall no strange god be in thee;

6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neigh-neither shalt thou worship any strange god. bours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

7 Turnus again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. 8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen and planted it.

9 Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.

11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.

12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

14 Return, we beseech thee, O Godo

hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.

16 It is burnt with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy counte

nance.

17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou inadest strong for thyself.

18 So will we not go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. 19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

PSALM LXXXI.

To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A
Psalm of Asaph.
Godour

10 I am the LORD thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.

16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. PSALM LXXXII. TA Psalm of Asaph.

OD standeth in the congregation of the Gr mighty; he judgeth among the gods. 2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. 3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

5 They know not, neither will they un derstand: they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course

6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the Most High.

7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations. PSALM LXXXIII.

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TA Song or Psalm of Asaph.
EEP not thou silence, O God: hold

SING aloudunto God our strength; make not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

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