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1086 Prophecy of Ezechiel

victim which I shall slay for you. Chapter 40
20 And you shall be filled at my table with
horses, and mighty horsemen, and all the men of In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in
war, saith the Lord God. the beginning of the year, the tenth day of the
21 And I will set my glory among the nations: month, the fourteenth year after the city was
and all nations shall see my judgment that I have destroyed: in the selfsame day the hand of the
executed, and my hand that I have laid upon Lord was upon me, and he brought me thither.
them. 2 In the visions of God he brought me into
22 And the house of Israel shall know that I the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high
am the Lord their God from that day and for- mountain: upon which there was as the building
ward. of a city, bending towards the south.
23 And the nations shall know that the house 3 And he brought me in thither, and behold a
of Israel were made captives for their iniquity, man, whose appearance was like the appearance
because they forsook me, and I hid my face from of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a
them: and I delivered them into the hands of measuring reed in his hand, and he stood in the
their enemies, and they fell all by the sword. gate.
24 I have dealt with them according to their 4 And this man said to me: Son of man, see
uncleanness, and wickedness, and hid my face with thy eyes, and hear with thy ears, and set
from them. thy heart upon all that I shall shew thee: for
25 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Now thou art brought hither that they may be shewn
will I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and will to thee: declare all that thou seest, to the house
have mercy on all the house of Israel and I will of Israel.
be jealous for my holy name. 5 And behold there was a wall on the out-
26 And they shall bear their confusion, and side of the house round about, and in the man’s
all the transgressions wherewith they have trans- hand a measuring reed of six cubits and a hand-
gressed against me, when they shall dwell in their breadth: and he measured the breadth of the
land securely fearing no man: building one reed, and the height one reed.
27 And I shall have brought them back from 6 And he came to the gate that looked toward
among the nations, and shall have gathered them the east, and he went up the steps thereof: and
together out of the lands of their enemies, and he measured the breadth of the threshold of the
shall be sanctified in them, in the sight of many gate one reed, that is, one threshold was one reed
nations. broad;
28 And they shall know that I am the Lord 7 And every little chamber was one reed long,
their God, because I caused them to be carried and one reed broad: and between the little cham-
away among the nations; and I have gathered bers were five cubits:
them together unto their own land, and have not 8 And the threshold of the gate by the porch
left any of them there. of the gate within, was one reed.
29 And I will hide my face no more from them, 9 And he measured the porch of the gate eight
for I have poured out my spirit upon all the house cubits, and the front thereof two cubits: and the
of Israel, saith the Lord God. porch of the gate was inward.