them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders. [1]
17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us .
18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through to thee: thou shalt be drunk, and shalt make thyself naked.
22 The punishment of thy iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thy iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will disclose thy sins. [2] [3]
CHAP. 5.
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4 We drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us. [4]
5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. [5]
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9 We got our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. [6]
11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes are hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
15 The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, that we have sinned! [7]
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
20 Why dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? [8]
21 Turn thou us to thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very angry with us. [9]
Ezekiel.
Before
CHRIST,
595.
CHAP. 1.
Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. [10]
2 In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,
3 The word of the LORD came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him. [11]
4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and from the midst of it as the colour of amber, from the midst of the fire. [12]
5 Also from the midst of it came the likeness of four living beings. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass. [13]
8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.
- ↑ anger: or, face
- ↑ The...: or, Thine iniquity
- ↑ discover...: or, carry thee captive for thy sins
- ↑ is...: Heb. cometh for price
- ↑ Our...: Heb. On our necks are we persecuted
- ↑ terrible: or, terrors, or, storms
- ↑ The...: Heb. The crown of our head is fallen
- ↑ so...: Heb. for length of days?
- ↑ But...: or, For wilt thou utterly reject us?
- ↑ captives: Heb. captivity
- ↑ Ezekiel: Heb. Jehezkel
- ↑ infolding...: Heb. catching itself
- ↑ straight...: Heb. a straight foot
