Ezekiel - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 565

20——-—zx EZEKIEL. 19--10 Your mother. like you, was a vigorous vine plant, Her fruit, and har branches were thick from the streams, And strong stocks came from her, as sceptres for princes, Her height touched the clouds, and showed, thick leaves above. But they plucked from the ground and Hung out in a fury, And her fruit is dried up by a wind from the East! Her strong shoots are withered, and hre consumed them; She now sits in a desert, `a. dry thirsty ground, And fire from her stock eats the single bunch left her, Nor comes a strong shoot for e sceptre for rule. Ohl weep for ·her·the¤, and let this be her Dirge! §nmz ®lhzr¤ enquire nf tbz Eorh, mba xzizcis 11;::::. 20 It happened in the seventh year, XO on the fifth of the tenth month, some of the old men of Israel came to en- quire of the Evnn-Lxvmc, and sat before me. Then the message of the EvER~L1v1NG came to me to say: ‘ Sou of Adam ! Speak to these old

men of Israel and say to them, ‘ Thus asks the Mrs:-rtw Loan: Have you come to enquire of Me? ' By My life the judge them, judge them, Son of Adam. Teach them the depravities of their fathers, and tell them;-—'I`hus says the Mrcmrv Loan. At the time I chose Israel, and lifted up My hand to the race of the House of jacob, and dis- closed Myself to them in the country of the Mitzeraim, and lifted up My hand to them, and said, I am your EvER¢L1vxNG GOD ; at that time when I raised My hand to them to bring them from the land of the Mitzeraim to the country I intendedfor them, llowing with milk and, honey,——it‘ is the most splendid of all countries; I said to each of them, ‘ Flingaway the pollutions from your eyes, and do not corrupt yourselves with the idols of`theMitzeraim. Iam your EVER- mvme Gon! ' But they rebelled Thus I brought them out of the country of the Mitzeraim, and con- ducted them to the desert, and gave them the Institutions and Decrees that I taught; which the man who practises will live by them. I also gave them. My Sabbaths, to be a memorial between them and Me, that I am the EvEk>L1v1NG, their Sanctuary. But the House of Israel rebelled against Me in the Desert. They didnot follow My Institutions, and rejected the Decrees that I had made for them; and violated My Sabbaths greatly,~·-—therefore I threat- ened to pour out My wrath upon them, to destroy them in the Desert. However I worked for My NAME,

so that it might not be degraded in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I had broughtgthem out. Yet I lifted up My hand to them in the Desert, declaring I would not bring them to the country I had given them, flowing with milk and honey,-—ethe most splendid of all lands,-because they rejected My Decrees, and did not walk in My Institutions.--—and profaned My Sabbaths—-·for they went after the idols- of their hearts l How- ever, My eye refrained from destroy· ing, and I did not make an end of them in the Desert. But I said to their children in the Desert, ‘ Do not walk after the ideas of your fathers,

against Me, and were not desirous to ` norfollow their decisions, nor corrupt listento Me. Every one of them ·A yourselves with their Idols; am not fling away the pollutionsof his eyes, nor did they abandon the idols ofthe Mitzeraim ;#—-thereforel threat- ened to pour out My»ix1digna.tio_n upon them., to assuage My anger at themin the land ofthe Mitzeraim. However, I acted, because of lMy name, so as not to degrade it in the sight of the heathen amongst whom they were;-·—in whose sight I dis- covered Myself to them.--and brought them out from the land of Mitzer. your Evxmmxvmc Gon! Walk ac- cording to My Institutions, and pre- serve M y Decrees, and practisa them ; and sanctify My Sabbaths, amd let them be a memorial between Me and y0u,.t0 teach you that I am your EvER—Lxvmc GOD. ‘ But the children also rebélled I0 XI X2 I! I2 16 :8 2I against Mel They did uct walk by My Institutions, and did not preserve My Decrees, and practise them, which if a man practises he will live $65