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Parable of the Boiling Pot

24 And the word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, saying, ² “Son of man, write the name of the day, this very day. The king of Babylon ^[a]has ^(A)laid siege to Jerusalem this very day. ³ Speak a ^(B)parable to the ^(C)rebellious house and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord ^[b]God,

⁶ ‘Therefore, thus says the Lord God,

⁹ ‘Therefore, thus says the Lord God,

¹⁴ I, the Lord, have spoken; it is ^(P)coming and I will act. I will not relent, and I will not ^(Q)pity and I will not be sorry; ^(R)according to your ways and according to your deeds ^[j]I will judge you,” declares the Lord God.’”

Death of Ezekiel’s Wife Is a Sign

¹⁵ And the word of the Lord came to me saying, ¹⁶ “Son of man, behold, I am about to take from you the ^(S)desire of your eyes with a ^(T)blow; but you shall not ^(U)mourn and you shall not weep, and your ^(V)tears shall not come. ¹⁷ Groan silently; make ^(W)no mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban and put your shoes on your feet, and do not cover your mustache and ^(X)do not eat the bread of men.” ¹⁸ So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And in the morning I did as I was commanded. ¹⁹ The people said to me, “Will you not tell us what these things that you are doing mean for us?” ²⁰ Then I said to them, “The word of the Lord came to me saying, ²¹ ‘Speak to the house of Israel, “Thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I am about to profane My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the ^(Y)desire of your eyes and the delight of your soul; and your ^(Z)sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword. ²² You will do as I have done; you will not cover your mustache and you will not eat the bread of men. ²³ Your turbans will be on your heads and your shoes on your feet. You ^(AA)will not mourn and you will not weep, but ^(AB)you will rot away in your iniquities and you will groan ^[k]to one another. ²⁴ Thus Ezekiel will be a ^(AC)sign to you; according to all that he has done you will do; when it comes, then you will know that I am the Lord God.’”

²⁵ ‘As for you, son of man, will it not be on the day when I take from them their ^(AD)stronghold, the joy of their ^[l]pride, the desire of their eyes and ^[m]their heart’s delight, their sons and their daughters, ²⁶ that on that day he who ^(AE)escapes will come to you with information for your ears? ²⁷ On that day your ^(AF)mouth will be opened to him who escaped, and you will speak and be mute no longer. Thus you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the Lord.’”

Judgment on Gentile Nations—Ammon

25 And the word of the Lord came to me saying, ² “Son of man, set your face toward the ^(AG)sons of Ammon and prophesy against them, ³ and say to the sons of Ammon, ‘Hear the word of the Lord ^[n]God! Thus says the Lord God, “Because you said, ‘^(AH)Aha!’ against My sanctuary when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and against the house of Judah when they went into exile, ⁴ therefore, behold, I am going to give you to the ^(AI)sons of the east for a possession, and they will set their encampments among you and make their dwellings among you; they will ^(AJ)eat your fruit and drink your milk. ⁵ I will make ^(AK)Rabbah a pasture for camels and the sons of Ammon a resting place for flocks. Thus you will know that I am the Lord.” ⁶ For thus says the Lord God, “Because you have ^(AL)clapped your hands and stamped your feet and ^(AM)rejoiced with all the scorn of your soul against the land of Israel, ⁷ therefore, behold, I have ^(AN)stretched out My hand against you and I will give you for ^(AO)spoil to the nations. And I will ^(AP)cut you off from the peoples and ^(AQ)make you perish from the lands; I will destroy you. Thus you will ^(AR)know that I am the Lord.”

Moab

⁸ ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Because ^(AS)Moab and Seir say, ‘Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations,’ ⁹ therefore, behold, I am going to ^[o]deprive the flank of Moab of its cities, of its cities which are on its ^[p]frontiers, the glory of the land, ^(AT)Beth-jeshimoth, ^(AU)Baal-meon and ^(AV)Kiriathaim, ¹⁰ and I will give it for a possession along with the sons of Ammon to the ^(AW)sons of the east, so that the sons of Ammon will not be remembered among the nations. ¹¹ Thus I will execute judgments on Moab, and they will know that I am the Lord.”

Edom

¹² ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Because ^(AX)Edom has acted against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has incurred grievous guilt, and avenged themselves upon them,” ¹³ therefore thus says the Lord God, “I will also ^(AY)stretch out My hand against Edom and ^(AZ)cut off man and beast from it. And I will lay it waste; from ^(BA)Teman even to ^(BB)Dedan they will fall by the sword. ^14 (BC)I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel. Therefore, they will act in Edom ^(BD)according to My anger and according to My wrath; thus they will know My vengeance,” declares the Lord God.

Philistia

¹⁵ ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Because the Philistines have acted in ^(BE)revenge and have taken vengeance with scorn of soul to destroy with everlasting enmity,” ¹⁶ therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I will ^(BF)stretch out My hand against the Philistines, even cut off the ^(BG)Cherethites and destroy the remnant of the seacoast. ¹⁷ I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they will ^(BH)know that I am the Lord when I lay My vengeance on them.”’”

Judgment on Tyre

26 Now in the eleventh year, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me saying, ² “Son of man, because ^(BI)Tyre has said concerning Jerusalem, ‘Aha, the ^(BJ)gateway of the peoples is broken; it has ^[q](BK)opened to me. I shall be filled, now that she is laid waste,’ ³ therefore thus says the Lord ^[r]God, ‘Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and I will bring up ^(BL)many nations against you, as the ^(BM)sea brings up its waves. ⁴ They will ^(BN)destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers; and I will scrape her debris from her and make her a bare rock. ⁵ She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken,’ declares the Lord God, ‘and she will become ^(BO)spoil for the nations. ⁶ Also her ^(BP)daughters who are ^[s]on the mainland will be slain by the sword, and they will know that I am the Lord.’”

⁷ For thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I will bring upon Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ^(BQ)king of kings, with horses, ^(BR)chariots, cavalry and ^[t]a great army. ⁸ He will slay your daughters ^[u]on the mainland with the sword; and he will make ^(BS)siege walls against you, cast up a ^(BT)ramp against you and raise up a large shield against you. ⁹ The blow of his battering rams he will direct against your walls, and with his ^[v]axes he will break down your towers. ¹⁰ Because of the multitude of his ^(BU)horses, the dust raised by them will cover you; your walls will ^(BV)shake at the noise of cavalry and ^[w]wagons and chariots when he ^(BW)enters your gates as men enter a city that is breached. ¹¹ With the hoofs of his ^(BX)horses he will trample all your streets. He will slay your people with the sword; and your strong pillars will ^(BY)come down to the ground. ¹² Also they will make a spoil of your riches and a prey of your ^(BZ)merchandise, ^(CA)break down your walls and destroy your ^(CB)pleasant houses, and ^[x]throw your stones and your timbers and your debris ^(CC)into the water. ¹³ So I will ^[y]silence the sound of your ^(CD)songs, and the sound of your ^(CE)harps will be heard no more. ¹⁴ I will make you a bare rock; you will be a place for the spreading of nets. You will be ^(CF)built no more, for I the ^(CG)Lord have spoken,” declares the Lord God.

¹⁵ Thus says the Lord God to Tyre, “Shall not the ^(CH)coastlands ^(CI)shake at the sound of your fall when the wounded groan, when the slaughter occurs in your midst? ¹⁶ Then all the princes of the sea will ^(CJ)go down from their thrones, remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will ^(CK)clothe themselves with ^[z]trembling; they will sit on the ground, ^(CL)tremble every moment and be appalled at you. ¹⁷ They will take up a ^(CM)lamentation over you and say to you,

¹⁹ For thus says the Lord God, “When I make you a desolate city, like the cities which are not inhabited, when I ^(CR)bring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you, ²⁰ then I will bring you down with those who ^(CS)go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the ^(CT)lower parts of the earth, like the ancient waste places, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not ^[ac]be inhabited; but I will set ^(CU)glory in the land of the living. ²¹ I will ^[ad]bring ^(CV)terrors on you and you will be no more; though you will be sought, ^(CW)you will never be found again,” declares the Lord God.

The Triumphs of Faith

11 Now faith is the ^[a](A)assurance of things ^[b](B)hoped for, the ^[c]conviction of ^(C)things not seen. ² For by it the ^(D)men of old ^[d](E)gained approval.

³ By faith we understand that the ^[e](F)worlds were prepared ^(G)by the word of God, so that what is seen ^(H)was not made out of things which are visible. ⁴ By faith ^(I)Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he ^(J)obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God testifying ^[f]about his ^(K)gifts, and through ^[g]faith, though ^(L)he is dead, he still speaks. ⁵ By faith ^(M)Enoch was taken up so that he would not ^(N)see death; and he was not found because God took him up; for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God. ⁶ And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who ^(O)comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. ⁷ By faith ^(P)Noah, being ^(Q)warned by God about ^(R)things not yet seen, ^[h](S)in reverence ^(T)prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of ^(U)the righteousness which is according to faith.

⁸ By faith ^(V)Abraham, when he was called, obeyed ^[i]by going out to a place which he was to ^(W)receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going. ⁹ By faith he lived as an alien in ^(X)the land of promise, as in a foreign land, ^(Y)dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, ^(Z)fellow heirs of the same promise; ¹⁰ for he was looking for ^(AA)the city which has ^(AB)foundations, ^(AC)whose architect and builder is God. ¹¹ By faith even ^(AD)Sarah herself received ^[j]ability to conceive, even beyond the proper time of life, since she considered Him ^(AE)faithful who had promised. ¹² Therefore there was born even of one man, and ^(AF)him as good as dead ^[k]at that, as many descendants ^(AG)as the stars of heaven in number, and innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.

^13 (AH)All these died in faith, ^(AI)without receiving the promises, but ^(AJ)having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and ^(AK)having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. ¹⁴ For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. ¹⁵ And indeed if they had been ^[l]thinking of that country from which they went out, ^(AL)they would have had opportunity to return. ¹⁶ But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a ^(AM)heavenly one. Therefore ^(AN)God is not ^[m]ashamed to be ^(AO)called their God; for ^(AP)He has prepared a city for them.

The Lord Gives Dominion to the King.

A Psalm of David.