Ezekiel - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 571

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Woe to the City of Murderers! for I will pile on the {ire! Heap on wood! Make the fire flame! Stew the flesh, and season it! But let the bones be burnt! and let it stand empty on the hot coals, so that it may be hot, and burn the brass, until the foul scum in it is completely destroyed ! She has boiled her scum well, but it has not come out of her! Her scum in- creases! The tire increases it, from your foul vices! Although I cleansed you,-·—·you would not be clean from your filth. You will never be clean until I have satiated my indignation upon youl What I, the Evmz-mvmo, have threatened will come,—~and I will accomplish it. I shall neither shrink, spare, nor pity. I shall punish you says the MIGHTY LORD. 16 Wye §r¤pl;zt’¤ @ifz Qin. The command of the EvER·L1V1NG came again to me to say : ‘ Son of Adam! I intend to take

the desire of your eyes from you suddenly ;—-——and you must neither grieve nor weep! nor allow your tears to flow. Groan in silence! Make no moaning for the dead I Arrange your turban on you and put your shoes on your feet; and cover not yopr lips, and eat no bread for your 18 So I conversed with people in the morning,——-and my wife died in the evening !-·—but I did the next morn- ingas the EvER·L1v1NG commanded me. xg Then the people asked me,·-—°‘ Will you inform us, what this, that you are doing, means for us ? ’ The command of the EvER—L1v1NG came

21 to me saying, ‘ Proclaim to the House 22 of Israel! Thus says the MIGHTY LORD! I will defile my Sanctuary! the pride, strength and desire of your eyes, and the darling of your life! and your sons and daughters left to you will falliby, the sword! But they will make you do as I have done; you will not be allowed to cover your lips, nor to eat the bread of men! but be forced to dress your heads, and shoe your feet,—-·nor may you mourn or weep;-—-but waste away in your suKerings, and moan·each to his companion! And Ezekiel has 24 become a sign to you that all that he has done you will have to do ;-·—then you will learn that I am the MIGHTY Loan I ’ *So now, Son of Adam! In the day I take from them their confidence, their j0y,~—-their delight;-the desire of their eyes,—·-and the objectof their life,——their sons and daughters,-·-in that day will not the fugitives come to you to report it to your ears? At that time open, your mouth to the refugees;-·-for you can then speak to them and be no more dumb as while you are a sign to them ;———when they will learn that I am the EVER- 26

Again the command of the LORD 25 came to me to say: Gilyz §¤um uf the Qzniqlmuu. ‘Son of Adam! set your face 2 against the Beni—Amon, and pro- claim about them, and say to the 3 Beni—Amon, ‘ Listen to the message of the

MIGHTY LORD! Thus says the MIGHTY LORD: Because you shouted Hurrah! against My Sanctuary when it was violated, and against the soil of Israel when it was desolated,~—and against the House pf judah when it went to captivity; I will in conse- quence give you to the sons of the East for a possession, and they shall settle on your downs and encamp on them, and eat your fruits, and drink your milk. I will also make Rabah a fold for camels, and the Beni~Amon a couch for sheep,·—·—when you will learn that I am the Evan-LIv1Nc. thus the MIGHTY Loma 6 because you clapped your hands and jigged on your feet, and rejoiced with all the spite of your soul against the soil of Israel, I have 7 in-consequence extended My hand against you, and have given you to be plundered by the nations, and cut off from the Peoples, and to perish from the countries ;——I will destroy you :—·-when you will learn that I am the EvER~LIvING. Wie guum uf muah mth §nir. Thus says the Mionrv LoizD:—— 8 ‘ Because, because Moab and Sair say :-·-‘ See! the House of judah is *`~i’7I