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16 And at the end of seven days, the Word of the LORD came again to me, saying:
17 “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the House of Israel. Therefore, hear the Word in My Mouth, and give them warning from Me.
18 “When I shall say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you do not give him warning or speak to admonish the wicked of his wicked way, so that he may live, that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.
19 “Yet, if you warn the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
20 “Likewise, if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, I will lay a stumbling block before him and he shall die. And because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered. But his blood will I require at your hand.
21 “However, if you admonish the righteous man that the righteous does not sin (so that he does not sin), he shall live because he is admonished; and you have also delivered your soul.”
22 And the Hand of the LORD was there upon me. And He said to me: “Arise. Go into the field, and I will talk with you there.”
23 So when I had risen up and gone forth into the field, behold, the Glory of the LORD stood there, as the Glory which I saw by the river Chebar. And I fell down upon my face.
24 Then the Spirit entered into me and set me up upon my feet and spoke to me and said to me: “Come. Shut yourself inside your house.
25 “And you, O son of man, behold, they shall put ropes upon you and shall bind you with them. And you shall not go out among them.
26 “And I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be dumb, and shall not be to them as a man who rebukes. For they are a rebellious House.
27 “But when I have spoken to you, I will open your mouth. And you shall say to them: ‘Thus says the LORD God.’ He who hears, let him hear. And he who refuses, let him refuse. For they are a rebellious House.”
4 “You, also, son of man, take a brick and lay it before you and engrave the city of Jerusalem on it.
2 “And lay siege against it, and build a siege wall against it, and pour a mound against it. Also, set the camp against it and lay engines of war against it, all around.
3 “Moreover, take an iron plate and set it as a wall of iron between yourself and the city, and direct your face toward it, and it shall be besieged. And you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the House of Israel.
4 “Also, sleep on your left side and lay the iniquity of the House of Israel upon it. According to the number of days that you shall sleep on it shall you bear their iniquity.
5 “For I have laid the years of their iniquity upon you, according to the number of days: three hundred ninety days. So shall you bear the iniquity of the House of Israel.
6 “And when you have completed them, sleep again on your right side. And you shall bear the iniquity of the House of Judah for forty days —a day for a year. I have appointed to you a day for a year.
7 “Therefore, you shall direct your face toward the siege of Jerusalem. And your arm shall be uncovered. And you shall prophesy against it.
8 “And behold, I will lay ropes upon you. And you shall not turn from one side to another until you have ended the days of your siege.
9 “You shall also take wheat for yourself, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make yourself bread from it. According to the number of the days that you shall sleep on your side —three hundred ninety days —you shall eat it.
10 “And the food which you shall eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight. From time to time, you shall eat it.
11 “You shall also drink water, the sixth part of a hin by measure. From time to time, you shall drink.
12 “And you shall eat it like barley cakes. And you shall bake it in the dung that comes out of man, in their sight.”
13 And the LORD said: “So shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, wherever I cast them.”
14 Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, my soul has not been polluted. For from my youth, even until this hour, I have not eaten of a thing dead or torn in pieces, nor came there any unclean flesh in my mouth.”
15 Then He said to me, “Lo, I have given you bull’s dung instead of man’s dung. And you shall prepare your bread with it.”
16 Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. And they shall eat bread by weight, and with care. And they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment,
17 “because bread and water shall fail. They shall be appalled with one another and shall waste away because of their iniquity.”
5 “And you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor, and cause it to pass over your head and over your beard. Then take a scale to weigh and divide the hair.
2 “You shall burn a third of it with fire, in the center of the city, after the days of the siege are completed. And you shall take a third and strike around it with the sword. And you shall scatter a third to the wind. And I will draw a sword afterward.
3 “You shall also take a few of them in number and bind them in your clothes.
4 “Then take them again and cast them into the midst of the fire and burn them in the fire. From there a fire shall come forth into all the House of Israel.
5 “Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘This is Jerusalem. I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries all around her.
6 ‘And she has changed My Judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my Statutes more than the countries that are all around her. For they have refused My Judgments, and My Statutes. They have not walked in them.’
7 “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Because your multitude is greater than the nations that are all around you, and you have not walked in My Statutes, nor have you kept My Judgments —you have not even done according to the judgments of the nations that are all around you —
8 “therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Behold, I, even I come against you, and will execute judgment in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.
9 ‘And I will do in you that which I have never done before, and the like of which I will never do again, because of all your abominations.
10 ‘For in the midst of you the fathers shall eat their sons, and the sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgment in you. And I will scatter the whole remnant of you into all the winds.
11 ‘Therefore, as I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘surely, because you have defiled My Sanctuary with all your filthiness, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also destroy you. Nor shall My Eye spare. Nor will I have any pity.
12 ‘A third of you shall die from pestilence and shall be consumed with famine in the midst of you. A third shall fall by the sword all around you. And I will scatter a third of you into all winds. And I will draw a sword afterward.
13 ‘Thus shall My anger be ended. And I will cause My wrath to cease in them. And I will be comforted. And they shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken it in My zeal, when I have ended My wrath upon them.
14 ‘Moreover, I will make you desolate and abhorred among the nations that are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
15 ‘So you shall be a reproach and shame, a chastisement and an astonishment to the nations that are all around you, when I shall execute judgments in you, in anger and in wrath and in sharp rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken it.
16 ‘When I shall send upon them the miserable arrows of famine, which shall be for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, I will increase the famine upon you and will break your staff of bread.
17 ‘So I will send upon you famine and calamitous beasts. And they shall plunder you. And pestilence and blood shall pass through you. And I will bring the sword upon you.’ I, the LORD, have spoken it.”
6 Again, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying:
2 “Son of man, set your face towards the mountains of Israel. And prophesy against them,
3 “and say, ‘You mountains of Israel, hear the Word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and to the hills, to the rivers and to the valleys: “Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you. And I will destroy your high places.
4 “And your altars shall be desolate, and your images of the Sun shall be broken. And I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
5 “And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones all around your altars.
6 “In all your dwelling places, the cities shall be desolate and the high places shall be laid waste, so that your altars shall be made waste, and desolate, and your idols shall be broken, and cease, and your images of the Sun shall be cut in pieces and your works shall be abolished.
7 “And the slain shall fall in the midst of you. And you shall know that I am the LORD.
8 “Yet, I will leave a remnant, so that you may have some who shall escape the sword among the nations when you shall be scattered through the countries.
9 “And those of you who escape shall remember Me among the nations where they shall be in captivity, because I am grieved for their whorish hearts which have departed from Me, and for their eyes which have gone a whoring after their idols. And they shall be displeased in themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
10 “And they shall know that I am the LORD, that I have not said in vain that I would bring this misery upon them.”
11 ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Strike with your hand, and stretch forth with your foot, and say, ‘Alas,’ for all the wicked abominations of the House of Israel! For they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.
12 “He who is far away shall die of pestilence. And he who is near shall fall by the sword. And he who remains and is besieged shall die by famine. Thus will I accomplish My wrath upon them.
13 “Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols, all around altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak (the place where they offered sweet savor to all their idols).
14 “So will I stretch My Hand upon them and make the land waste and desolate, from the wilderness to Diblath, in all their habitations. And they shall know that I am the LORD.”’”
4 Therefore, let us fear, lest at any time any of you should seem to have come short of the promise of entering into His rest.
2 For the Gospel was preached to us as well as them. But the word that they heard did not profit them, because it was not mixed with faith in those who heard it.
3 For we who have believed have entered into rest, as He said, “As I have sworn in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter into My rest,’” However, the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For He spoke in a certain place of the seventh day in this way, “And God rested the seventh day from all His works.”
5 And in this place again, “If they shall enter into My rest.”
6 Therefore, seeing it remains that some must enter into it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter therein for unbelief’s sake,
7 again (after so long a time) He appointed through David a certain day - “Today” - by saying, “This day, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.”
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, then would He not later have spoken of another day?
9 There remains, therefore, a rest to the people of God.
10 For the one who has entered into His rest has also ceased from his own works (as God did from His).
11 Therefore, let us study to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
12 For the Word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, passing through even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and able to discern the thoughts and the intentions of the heart.
13 Nor is there any creature unseen by Him. But all things are naked and laid bare before the eyes of Him to Whom we must give account.
14 Seeing, then, that we have a great High Priest Who has entered into Heaven (Jesus, the Son of God), let us hold firmly to our confession.
15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all things tempted in the same way, yet without sin.
16 Therefore, let us go boldly to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
24 O LORD, how manifold are Your works! In wisdom, You have made them all. The Earth is full of Your riches!
25 So great and wide is the sea; in which are innumerable creeping things, both small beasts and great.
26 Thereupon go the ships, and therein plays that Leviathan, whom You have made.
27 All these wait upon You, so that You may give them food in due season.
28 You give it to them, and they gather it. You open Your hand, and they are filled with good things.
29 If You hide Your face, they are troubled. If You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
30 You send forth Your spirit, and they are created; You renew the face of the Earth.
31 Glory be to the LORD forever. Let the LORD rejoice in His works!
32 He looks on the Earth and it trembles. He touches the mountains and they smoke.
33 I will sing to the LORD all my life. I will praise my God while I live.
34 Let my words be acceptable to Him. I will rejoice in the LORD.
35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the Earth, and the wicked, until there are no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul! Praise the LORD!
27 He who digs a pit shall fall therein. And he who rolls a stone shall have it roll back on him.
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