ECB(i)
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THE ABHORRENCES OF YISRA EL
And so be it, in the seventh year, in the fifth, in the tenth of the month, men of the elders of Yisra El come to enquire of Yah Veh, and sit at my face. 2 And so be the word of Yah Veh to me, saying, 3 Son of humanity, word to the elders of Yisra El, and say to them, Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: Come you to enquire of me? I live! - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh. I am not enquired of by you. 4 Judge you them, son of humanity? Judge you them? Have them know the abhorrences of their fathers: 5 and say to them, Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: In the day I chose Yisra El, and lifted my hand to the seed of the house of Yaaqov, and made myself known to them in the land of Misrayim, when I lifted my hand to them, saying, I - Yah Veh your Elohim: 6 the day I lifted my hand to them, to bring them from the land of Misrayim to a land I explored for them - flowing with milk and honey - the splendor of all lands: 7 and I say to them, You, every man cast away the abominations of his eyes and foul not yourselves with the idols of Misrayim: I - Yah Veh your Elohim. 8 And they rebel against me and will to not hearken to me: they - every man neither cast away the abominations of their eyes, nor forsake the idols of Misrayim. And I say, I pour my fury on them to finish off my wrath against them midst the land of Misrayim. 9 And for sake of my name, I work to not profane it in the eyes of the goyim, among whom they are in whose eyes I make myself known to them in bringing them from the land of Misrayim: 10 and I bring them from the land of Misrayim and bring them into the wilderness: 11 and I give them my statutes so that they know my judgments - which, if a human works, he lives in them: 12 and also, I give them my shabbaths, to become a sign between me and between them so that they know that I Yah Veh hallow them. 13 And the house of Yisra El rebels against me in the wilderness: they walk not in my statutes and they spurn my judgments - which, if a human works, he lives in them; and they mightily profane my shabbaths: and I say, I pour my fury on them in the wilderness to consume them. 14 And for sake of my name, I worked to not profane in the eyes of the goyim, in whose eyes I brought them out. 15 And also, I lifted my hand to them in the wilderness, to not bring them into the land I gave them - flowing with milk and honey - the glory of all lands; 16 because they spurned my judgments and walked not in my statutes; and profaned my shabbaths: for their heart went after their idols: 17 and my eye spared them from ruin: and I worked not their final finish in the wilderness. 18 But I say to their sons in the wilderness, Neither walk in the statutes of your fathers nor guard their judgments nor foul yourselves with their idols: 19 I - Yah Veh your Elohim! Walk in my statutes and guard my judgments and work them; 20 and hallow my shabbaths; to become a sign between me and between you, so that you know I - Yah Veh your Elohim. 21 And the sons rebel against me: and they neither walk in my statutes nor guard my judgments to work them - which, if a human works, he lives in them: they profane my shabbaths. And I say, I pour my fury on them to accomplish my wrath against them in the wilderness. 22 I turn my hand, and work for sake of my name, not to profane in the eyes of the goyim, in whose eyes I brought them forth. 23 I also - I lift my hand to them in the wilderness to scatter them among the goyim and winnow them through the lands 24 because they work not my judgments; and despise my statutes and profane my shabbaths: and their eyes are after the idols of their fathers. 25 And I also - I give them statutes - not good and judgments whereby they live not; 26 and I foul them in their own offerings in that they pass through all who burst the womb so that I desolate them so that they know, I - Yah Veh. 27 So, son of humanity, word to the house of Yisra El, and say to them, Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: Yet in this your fathers blasphemed me, in treasoning a treason against me. 28 And I bring them into the land for which I lifted my hand to give it to them, and they see every high hill and all the thick trees; and there they sacrifice their sacrifices, and there they give the vexation of their qorban: there they also set their scent of rest and there they libate their libations. 29 And I say to them, What is the bamah to which you go? - and the name is called Bamah to this day. 30
THE IDOLATRY OF THE HOUSE OF YISRA EL
So say to the house of Yisra El, Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: Why foul you after the way of your fathers? And whore after their abominations? 31 And when you bear your offerings - when you pass your sons through the fire you foul yourselves with all your idols to this day: and am I inquired of by you, O house of Yisra El? - I live - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh I am not inquired of by you. 32 And that which ascends into your spirit, saying, We become as the goyim - as the families of the lands to minister timber and stone surely becomes not. 33
THE JUDGMENT AND RESTORATION OF YISRA EL
I live - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh surely with a strong hand and with a spread arm and with fury poured out I reign over you: 34 and I bring you from the people and gather you from the lands wherein you scatter with a strong hand and with a spread arm and pour with fury: 35 and I bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there I plead with you face to face: 36 as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Misrayim, thus I plead with you - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh 37 and I pass you under the scion and I bring you into the bond of the covenant: 38 and I purge the rebels from among you, and they who rebel against me: I bring them from the land where they sojourn and they enter not into the soil of Yisra El: and you know I - Yah Veh. 39 As for you, O house of Yisra El, thus says Adonay Yah Veh: You, go every man; serve his idols: and afterward, if you neither hearken to me, nor profane my holy name any more with your offerings and with your idols - 40 for in my holy mountain - in the mountain of the height of Yisra El - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh there all the house of Yisra El - all of them in the land, serve me: there I am pleased with them, and there I require your exaltments, and the firstlings of your loads/burdens, with all your holies. 41 I am pleased with your scent of rest when I bring you out from the people; and gather you from the lands wherein you scattered; and I am hallowed in you in the eyes of the goyim: 42 and you know I - Yah Veh, when I bring you into the soil of Yisra El, into the land for which I lifted my hand to give it to your fathers: 43 and there you remember your ways and all your exploits wherein you fouled; and you loathe yourselves in your own face for all the evils you worked: 44 and you know I - Yah Veh, when I work with you for sake of my name - neither according to your evil ways nor according to your corrupt exploits O you house of Yisra El - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh. 45
THE WORD OF YAH VEH CONCERNING THE SOUTH
And so be the word of Yah Veh to me, saying, 46 Son of humanity, set your face in the southerly way and drop southward and prophesy against the forest of the south field; 47 and say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of Yah Veh; Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: Behold, I kindle a fire in you; and it consumes every fresh tree in you and every dry tree: the flaming flame quenches not; and all faces from the south to the north inflame: 48 and all flesh sees that I Yah Veh burn it: it quenches not. 49 Then I say, Aha, Adonay Yah Veh! they say of me, Proverbializes he not proverbs?
THE ABHORRENCES OF YISRA EL
And so be it, in the seventh year, in the fifth, in the tenth of the month, men of the elders of Yisra El come to enquire of Yah Veh, and sit at my face. 2 And so be the word of Yah Veh to me, saying, 3 Son of humanity, word to the elders of Yisra El, and say to them, Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: Come you to enquire of me? I live! - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh. I am not enquired of by you. 4 Judge you them, son of humanity? Judge you them? Have them know the abhorrences of their fathers: 5 and say to them, Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: In the day I chose Yisra El, and lifted my hand to the seed of the house of Yaaqov, and made myself known to them in the land of Misrayim, when I lifted my hand to them, saying, I - Yah Veh your Elohim: 6 the day I lifted my hand to them, to bring them from the land of Misrayim to a land I explored for them - flowing with milk and honey - the splendor of all lands: 7 and I say to them, You, every man cast away the abominations of his eyes and foul not yourselves with the idols of Misrayim: I - Yah Veh your Elohim. 8 And they rebel against me and will to not hearken to me: they - every man neither cast away the abominations of their eyes, nor forsake the idols of Misrayim. And I say, I pour my fury on them to finish off my wrath against them midst the land of Misrayim. 9 And for sake of my name, I work to not profane it in the eyes of the goyim, among whom they are in whose eyes I make myself known to them in bringing them from the land of Misrayim: 10 and I bring them from the land of Misrayim and bring them into the wilderness: 11 and I give them my statutes so that they know my judgments - which, if a human works, he lives in them: 12 and also, I give them my shabbaths, to become a sign between me and between them so that they know that I Yah Veh hallow them. 13 And the house of Yisra El rebels against me in the wilderness: they walk not in my statutes and they spurn my judgments - which, if a human works, he lives in them; and they mightily profane my shabbaths: and I say, I pour my fury on them in the wilderness to consume them. 14 And for sake of my name, I worked to not profane in the eyes of the goyim, in whose eyes I brought them out. 15 And also, I lifted my hand to them in the wilderness, to not bring them into the land I gave them - flowing with milk and honey - the glory of all lands; 16 because they spurned my judgments and walked not in my statutes; and profaned my shabbaths: for their heart went after their idols: 17 and my eye spared them from ruin: and I worked not their final finish in the wilderness. 18 But I say to their sons in the wilderness, Neither walk in the statutes of your fathers nor guard their judgments nor foul yourselves with their idols: 19 I - Yah Veh your Elohim! Walk in my statutes and guard my judgments and work them; 20 and hallow my shabbaths; to become a sign between me and between you, so that you know I - Yah Veh your Elohim. 21 And the sons rebel against me: and they neither walk in my statutes nor guard my judgments to work them - which, if a human works, he lives in them: they profane my shabbaths. And I say, I pour my fury on them to accomplish my wrath against them in the wilderness. 22 I turn my hand, and work for sake of my name, not to profane in the eyes of the goyim, in whose eyes I brought them forth. 23 I also - I lift my hand to them in the wilderness to scatter them among the goyim and winnow them through the lands 24 because they work not my judgments; and despise my statutes and profane my shabbaths: and their eyes are after the idols of their fathers. 25 And I also - I give them statutes - not good and judgments whereby they live not; 26 and I foul them in their own offerings in that they pass through all who burst the womb so that I desolate them so that they know, I - Yah Veh. 27 So, son of humanity, word to the house of Yisra El, and say to them, Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: Yet in this your fathers blasphemed me, in treasoning a treason against me. 28 And I bring them into the land for which I lifted my hand to give it to them, and they see every high hill and all the thick trees; and there they sacrifice their sacrifices, and there they give the vexation of their qorban: there they also set their scent of rest and there they libate their libations. 29 And I say to them, What is the bamah to which you go? - and the name is called Bamah to this day. 30
THE IDOLATRY OF THE HOUSE OF YISRA EL
So say to the house of Yisra El, Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: Why foul you after the way of your fathers? And whore after their abominations? 31 And when you bear your offerings - when you pass your sons through the fire you foul yourselves with all your idols to this day: and am I inquired of by you, O house of Yisra El? - I live - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh I am not inquired of by you. 32 And that which ascends into your spirit, saying, We become as the goyim - as the families of the lands to minister timber and stone surely becomes not. 33
THE JUDGMENT AND RESTORATION OF YISRA EL
I live - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh surely with a strong hand and with a spread arm and with fury poured out I reign over you: 34 and I bring you from the people and gather you from the lands wherein you scatter with a strong hand and with a spread arm and pour with fury: 35 and I bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there I plead with you face to face: 36 as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Misrayim, thus I plead with you - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh 37 and I pass you under the scion and I bring you into the bond of the covenant: 38 and I purge the rebels from among you, and they who rebel against me: I bring them from the land where they sojourn and they enter not into the soil of Yisra El: and you know I - Yah Veh. 39 As for you, O house of Yisra El, thus says Adonay Yah Veh: You, go every man; serve his idols: and afterward, if you neither hearken to me, nor profane my holy name any more with your offerings and with your idols - 40 for in my holy mountain - in the mountain of the height of Yisra El - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh there all the house of Yisra El - all of them in the land, serve me: there I am pleased with them, and there I require your exaltments, and the firstlings of your loads/burdens, with all your holies. 41 I am pleased with your scent of rest when I bring you out from the people; and gather you from the lands wherein you scattered; and I am hallowed in you in the eyes of the goyim: 42 and you know I - Yah Veh, when I bring you into the soil of Yisra El, into the land for which I lifted my hand to give it to your fathers: 43 and there you remember your ways and all your exploits wherein you fouled; and you loathe yourselves in your own face for all the evils you worked: 44 and you know I - Yah Veh, when I work with you for sake of my name - neither according to your evil ways nor according to your corrupt exploits O you house of Yisra El - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh. 45
THE WORD OF YAH VEH CONCERNING THE SOUTH
And so be the word of Yah Veh to me, saying, 46 Son of humanity, set your face in the southerly way and drop southward and prophesy against the forest of the south field; 47 and say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of Yah Veh; Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: Behold, I kindle a fire in you; and it consumes every fresh tree in you and every dry tree: the flaming flame quenches not; and all faces from the south to the north inflame: 48 and all flesh sees that I Yah Veh burn it: it quenches not. 49 Then I say, Aha, Adonay Yah Veh! they say of me, Proverbializes he not proverbs?