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watchman to Israel. of Israel: therefore hear the word Before at my mouth, and give them CHRIST warning from me.

EZEKIEL. Before 5 For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;

CHRIST 595.

† Heb. deep of lip, and heavy of tongue;

and so ver.6. † Heb. deep

of lip, and heary of language. 1 Or, If L had sent thee, &c. would they not have hearkened unto thee?

d Matt. 11.21,

23.

e Jolin 15. 20. fch. 2. 4.

† Heb. stiff

6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, dhad I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.

7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; e for they will not hearken unto me: f for all the house of Israel are timpudent and hardhearted.

8 Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and of forehead, thy forehead strong against their foreheads.

and hard of heart.

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Jer. 1. 18. &
15. 20.
M.c. 3. 8.
h Jer. 1. 8, 17.
ch. 2. 6.

ver. 27.

9 g As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: h fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine

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18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall ch. 33. 6. die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

John 8. 21,

24.

18. 49. 4. 5.

Acts 20. 26. 1

33. 12, 13.

eousnesses.

19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. 20 Again, When a righteousch. 18.24. & man doth turn from his tright↑ Heb. right. cousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

21 Nevertheless, if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.

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11 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto ich. 2. 5, 7. them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will | hear, or whether they will for-was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.

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23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: zand I fell on my face.

24 Then athe spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.

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Or, chief leaders, ch. 21.22.

CHAPTER IV.

1 Under the type of a siege is shewed the
time from the defection of Jeroboam to the
captivity. 9 By the provision of the siege,
is shewed the hardness of the famine.

THO

HOU also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:

2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about. 3 Moreover take thou unto thee lan iron pan, and set it for a wall a flat plate, of iron between thee and the city and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. aThis shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

I Or,

or, slice.

a ch. 12. 6, 11. & 24. 24, 27.

about 975. Beginning from 1 Kings Ending about 585.

12.23.

4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.

5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: bso b Num. 14. 34. shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Ju-1 dah forty days: I have appointed † Heb. a day thee teach day for a year.

for a year,

a day for a year.

c ch. 3. 25.

† Heb. from thy side to thy side.

Or, spelt.

and of the prophet's hair.

twenty shekels a day: from time
to time shalt thou eat it.

11 Thou shalt drink also water
by measure, the sixth part of a
hin: from time to time shalt
thou drink.

12 And thou shalt eat it as bar

ley cakes, and thou shalt bake it
with dung that cometh out of
man, in their sight.

Before CHRIST 595.

13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel a Hos. 9.3. eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.

14 Then said I, e Ah Lord GOD! Acts 10. 14. behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of fthat which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there sabominable flesh into my mouth.

15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.

fEx. 22. 31.

Lev. 11. 40. & 17. 15.

Deut. 14, 3.

Is. 65. 4.

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Under the type of hair, 5 is shewed the
judgment of Jerusalem for their rebellion,
12 by famine, sword, and dispersion.

7 Therefore thou shalt set thy AND thou, son of man, take
face toward the siege of Jerusa-
lem, and thine arm shall be un-
covered, and thou shalt prophesy
against it.

8c And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee t from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.

9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and I fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side; three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight,

ch. 24. 23.

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God's judgments upon Jerusalem.

Before

594.

EZEKIEL.

for thereof shall a fire come forth CHRIST into all the house of Israel. 5 Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.

6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither Jer. 2. 10.11. have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;

ch. 16, 47.

h Lam. 4. 6. Dan. 9. 12. Amos 3.2.

i Lev. 26. 29. Deut. 28. 53.

8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight

of the nations.

9 h And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.

10 Therefore the fathers ishall

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Jer. 19. Lam.2. 20. & 4. 10.

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and the sons shall eat their fa

thers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter Deut. 28. 64. into all the winds.

k ver. 12.

Lev. 26, 33.

ch. 12. 14. Zech. 2. 6.

ch. 7. 20. & 8. 5, &c. & 23. 38.

11 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord Gon; Surely, because 12 Chr. 36. 14. thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish ch. 7.4,9. & thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.

m ch. 11. 21.

8. 18. & 9. 10.

O See ver. 2.

21. 9.

cl. 6. 12.

12A third part of thee shall Jer. 15. 2. & die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and PI will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.

P Jer. 9, 16. ver. 2, 10. ch. 6. 8.

9 Lev. 26. 33. ver. 2. ch. 12. 14. r Lam. 4. 11. ch 6. 12. & 7.8. sch. 21. 17.

13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will s cause Dent. 32. 36. my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: "and they shall know that I the LORD have

Is 1. 24. uch. 36. 6. & 38. 19.

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4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be I broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. 5 And I will t lay the dead car-†Heb. give. casses of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

6 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be

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594.

ever 13.
ch. 7. 4, 9. &
11. 10, 12. &
12. 15.
f Jer. 44. 28.
ch. 5. 2, 12. &
12. 16. & 14.
22.

Ps. 78. 40.

1.7 13.43.

24. & 63. 10.

Num. 15. 39.

cl. 20. 7, 24.

7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and eye shall know that I am the LORD.

8Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.

9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and, they shall loathe themselves for ch. 20. 43. & the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. 10 And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.

i Lev. 26, 39. Job 42. 6.

36. 31.

kel. 21. 14.

1 ch. 5. 12.

mch. 5. 13.

n ver. 7.

Jer 2.20. P Hos. 4. 13. 9 Is. 57. 5.

* Is. 5. 25.

from the

The final desolation of Israel.

2 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GoD unto the, land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.

3 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger! upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will trecompense upon thee all thine abominations.

Before CHRIST 594.

ver. 3, 6. Amos 8. 2. Matt. 24. 6, 13, 14.

bver. 8. 9.

Heb. give.

©ver 9.

ch. 5. 11. & 8. I 18. & 9. 10.

4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: dand ye shall know that d ver. 27. I am the LORD.

5 Thus saith the Lord Gop; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.

6 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.

cl. 6. 7. & 12.

20.

Heb.

awaketh against thee.

ever. 10.

7 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: fthe time is come, the day fver, 12. of trouble is near, and not the Zeph. 1. 14, Isounding again of the mount-Or, echo. ains.

15.

8 Now will I shortly pour out 5 ch. 20. 8, 21. my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: hand I will judge thee accord- hver. 3. ing to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.

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11 Thus saith the Lord Gon;
Smite with thine hand, and
stamp with thy foot, and say,
Alas for all the evil abominations
of the house of Israel! for they
shall fall by the sword, by the
famine, and by the pestilence.
12 He that is far off shall die of
the pestilence; and he that is
near shall fall by the sword; and
he that remaineth and is besieged
shall die by the famine: mthus
will I accomplish my fury upon 9 And imine eye shall not i ver. 4.
them.
spare, neither will I have pity:
13 Then shall ye know that II will recompense thee accord-Heb.
am the LORD, when their slain ing to thy ways and thine abom-
men shall be among their idols inations that are in the midst of
round about their altars, upon thee; k and ye shall know that ver. 4.
every high hill, Pin all the tops I am the LORD that smiteth.
of the mountains, and under
every green tree, and under every
thick oak, the place where they
did offer sweet savour to all their
idols.

14 So will I rstretch out my hand upon them, and make the Or, desolate land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Num. 33. 46, Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

wilderness.

Jer. 48. 22.

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CHAPTER VII.
1 The final desolation of Israel. 16 The
mournful repentance of them that escape.,
20 The enemies defile the sanctuary be-
cause of the Israelites abominations. 23
Under the type of a chain is shewed their
miserable captivity.

OREOVER the word of the

upon thee.

10 Behold the day, behold, it
is come: the morning is gone Iver. 7.
forth; the rod hath blossomed,
pride hath budded.

11 m Violence is risen up into a
rod of wickedness: none of them
shall remain, nor of their mul-
titude, nor of any of theirs:
neither shall there be wailing
for them.

12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, tal-t though they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole

MOREOVER the Word, of the multitude tich shall

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Mourning of them that escape.

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Before not return; neither shall any 26 a Mischief shall come upon. CHRIST strengthen himself in the in- mischief, and rumour shall be iquity of his life. upon rumour; then shall they 14 They have blown the trump-seek a vision of the prophet; but et, even to make all ready; but the law shall perish from the none goeth to the battle: for my priest, and counsel from the anwrath is upon all the multitude cients. thereof.

Or, whose life is in his iniquity. † Heb. his iniquity.

P Dent. 32. 25. Lam. 1. 20. ch. 5. 12.

4 ch. 6. 8.

r Is. 13. 7. Jer. 6. 24. ch. 21. 7. † Heb. go into water.

s Is. 3. 24. & 15. 2, 3. Jer. 48, 37. Amos 8. 10. t Ps. 55. 5.

† Heb. for a

or, uncleanness.

15 P The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him. 16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity. 17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and ror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

CHAPTER VIII.

1 Ezekiel, in a vision of God at Jerusalem, 5 is shewed the image of jealousy, 7 the chambers of imagery, 13 the mourners for Tammuz, 15 the worshippers towards the sun. 18 God's wrath for their idolatry.

AND it came to pass in the

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sixth year, in the sixth thor-month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and a the elders of Judah sat beach. 14. 1. & fore me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.

19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their "silver separation, and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because their iniqui it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

" Prov. 11. 4. Zeph. 1. 18.

1 Or, because

ty is their
stumbling.
block.

ch. 14. 3, 4. & 44. 12.

y Jer. 7. 30.

20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: y but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: thereOr, made it fore have I set it far from them. 21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

unto them an unclean thing.

1 Or. burglars.

z 2 Kings 21. 16. cl. 9. 9. & 11. 6.

22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. 23 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy inherit their places shall be defiled. 25 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

1 Or.
they shall

holy places. † Heb.

Cutting off.

C

2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, das the colour of amber.

20. 1. & 33.
31.

bel. 1. 3. & 3.

22.

ch. 1. 26, 27.

d ch. 1. 4. Dan. 5. 5. fch. 3. 14.

ch. 11. 1, 24.

& 40.2.

3 And he put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and g brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; hwhere was the seat of hJer, 7. 30. & the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.

32. 34. ch. 5. 11. i Deut. 32. 16,

21.

4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in k ch. 1. 28. & the plain.

5 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.

6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn

3. 22, 23.

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