Ezekiel - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 554

EZEKIEL.

vision from the Preachengbut guidance tiery, and upwards from its waist like the appearance of gold,—-with a will depart from the priest,‘ and counsel from the nobles. Their king shall mourn, and the princes be clothed with desolation! and the hand of the People of the land be weak! I will act towards them from their own standpoint,——and by their own decisions I will convict them, then they will learn that I am the ginhlzz. Ely: Wait in Spirit in 32rusa12m. It occurred in the sixth year, on the

fifth ofthe sixth month, I was sitting judah sat before me, when the hand of the Mxomrv Loan fell upon me there. So I looked, and saw a form with the appearance of fire;-appear· ing so from its waist downwards,

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16 x8 20 2r 22 26 And the fugitives fly; and shall be upon the hills like flocks of doves, each moaning in his frailty! Every hand is feeble,—and every knee weak as water! And they gird themselves in sacks, and clothe in trembling, and depression is on every face, and baldness on every head ! They will fling their silver into the streets, and gold will be Hung away ;·-·silver and gold will be unable to deliver them in the day of the indignation of the EVER-L1v1Nc·. They cannot satisfy their bodies, nor iill their stomachs; they were the trap for their sin.

They turned its beautiful glitter to pride, and made it into images of their filthy depravities! Therefore I will disgust them with it! and give it to the hands of foreigners as plunder, and to the wicked of the earth for loot, and defile it. I will also turn My face from them, and they shall violate My treasury, and burglars shall enter and rob it. ‘Make a chain,—~—for the land is

full of convicted nnurderers;-and the city is full of oppression, and I will bring the worst heathen, who will seize their houses, when I shall destroy the pride of the powerful, and they shall share up their treasures. Distress will come, when they will seek rest ;-—but none bel Calamity shall come on calamity,-—-and report comeupon report. They will seek a

mbz lllisinu in the gprzzzxxrz nf tbz in my house, and some nobles of glitter of polished brass. Then it stretched out the form of a hand and seized me by the locks of my head, and lifted me in spirit between the earth and the sky, and brought me to jerusalem, to visions of Gon, to the open gate that faces towards the north,-—where the Statue of jealousy is stationed, that punishes jealousy. And I saw there the MAJESTIC GOD of Israel,-~··similar to the appearance I saw in the valley. Then He said to Son of Adam, raise your eyes towards the North. gtlagnn @zlmurl;eri2¤ in the Ezmpir. So I raised my eyes towards the

north, and saw from the north at the entry of the gate, the altar of this Image of jealousy. Son of Adam l

see what they are doing !···»the great depravities that the House of Israel practise openly within My Sanctuary! Turn again, and you will see greater depravitiesl ' I-Ie then took me to the open

square, and I looked, and saw a Son of man, break the wall! So I broke the wall, and made an opening. Come, and

look on the foul depravities that they practise here l I consequently went and looked,

and saw images of every reptile, and spawning beast, and all the Idols of the House of Israel painted upon the wall all round, and seventy men of the nobles of the House of Israel, and jazaniah-ben—Shefan standing in the middle of the assembly before them and each with censers in his hand, and clouds of incense arising. Do you see,

son of man, what the nobles of Israel do in secret,-——each inhis chamber of paintings? for they say ‘ The Loan cannot see us! The LQRD cares nothing about the earth I ’ Turn

again, and look at the greater de- and he brought me opposite to the gate of the House of the Evan-Livmc on the north side, and I saw there women sitting to weep for Thamuz, ‘ Son of man, do you see how they sit? Turn again and you shall see greater depravities than these l ‘ xo

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