Ezekiel - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 551
The Books of the Prophets
the command of tha Evzx~L1vmc Son of Adam! I have placed you as a watchman for the House of Israel, therefore listen to a message from My mouth, and instruct them from Me. When I say to the wicked, ‘ You shall die! ’ and you do not inform him or do not speak to the wicked to warn him from his evil way, to revive him--·the wicked will die in his wickedness, but I will seek his blood on your hand! But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, -·~·· and from his evil way,-···the wicked shall die in his sin, but you will have redeemed your soul. ‘And when a good man abandons
right, and does wrong, when I re- prove him openly he shall die. He will die, if you have not warned him of his sin, for the right that he did will not be remembered; but I will seek his blood on your hand. But if you warn the good not to sin, and he ceases from sin, he will live, if he took warning ;——and you will have redeemed your soul. my: message from ily: ilallzg in 22 26 Qzrusexlzm. The hand of the Evsamxvmo
came upon me again, and He said, ‘Arise, go out to the valley, and I will speakto you there. So. I arose and went out to the
valley, and saw the DIVINE SPLEN- Dorm standing there, like the splen~ dourithat I saw by the Great River, and I fell upon my face. Then breath came to me, and I
raised myself upon my feet, and He spoke to me and said: ‘ Go! Shut yourself in your house!
But, son of Adam, they will put ropes and chains upon you, so that you may not go out amongst them. I also will fix your tongue to your palate, and make you dumb, so-that you cannot be a reprover of them,··—for they are a rebellious family! But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth, when you must say to them, ‘ Thus says the Miorrry Lon1>.’ Listen, and faint! for they are a rebellious family. Ely: Quant nf 3¢rusu1zm. *So now, son of.Adam, take a tile I 4 and place it before you, and draw upon it the city of jerusalem. And pourtray upon it a siege, and build a rampart against it; heap up an embankment against it, and repre- sent camps against it, and place battering rams around it. Then take an iron plate, and make of it a wall of iron between you and the city, and iix your face towards it, and let it be a siege, and besiege it. That shall be a sign to the House of Israel. ' You must also lie on your left side,
and place the frailties of the House of Israel upon it; for the number of days that you lie upon it, you shall carry the frailties of the House of Israel; for I have laid upon you the years of their frailty, by the number of the days,-—·three hundred and ninety days, during which you shall carry the frailty of Israel. But when you have accomplished these, then your shall lie upon your right side again, and bear the frailty of the House of judah for forty days,-·—a day for a year,—a day for a year, I have laid upon you. ‘Then set before you the_ siege of
jerusalem, and strip your arm, and preach against it. So look! I will put bonds on you, and you shall not turn from side to side, until the time of the siege is completed. Also take wheat, and barley, and beans,.and lentils, and spilt, and millet, and put then; into the same dish, and make bread of them for yourself. For the prescribed period that you are to be on your side; you shall eat it for three hundred and ninety days. You must eat it by weight of ten shekels a day;. eat it from time to time. Also drink your water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. Drink it from time to time. Eat it like barley cakes, and bake them with human dung in. their sight! And the Loan added ; *‘The
children of Israel shall eat their bread denied like that, by the heathen, to whom I drive them. Ohl MIGHTY IO II I2
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or tablets of clay were the usual means of writing upon in that time. Large quantities of them can be seen in the Assyrian Court of the British Museum. 55*
