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panem in póndere et in sollicitúdine, et aquam in mensúra et in angústia bibent, ut deficiéntibus pane et aqua, córruat unusquísque ad fratrem suum, et contabéscant in iniquitátibus suis. V. Et tu, fili hóminis, sume tibi gládium acútum, radéntem pilos, et assúmes eum et duces per caput tuum et per barbam tuam, et assúmes tibi statéram pónderis et dívides eos. Tértiam partem igni combúres in médio civitátis, juxta completiónem diérum obsidiónis, et assúmes tértiam partem, et concídes gládio in circúitu ejus: tértiam vero áliam dispérges in ventum, et gládium nudábo post eos. Et sumes inde parvum númerum, et ligábis eos in summitáte pállii tui: et ex eis rursum tolles, et projícies eos in médio ignis, et combúres eos igni, et ex eo egrediétur ignis in omnem domum Israël. Hæc dicit Dóminus Deus: Ista est Jerúsalem: in médio géntium pósui eam, et in circúitu ejus terras. Et contémpsit judícia mea, ut plus esset ímpia quam gentes, et præcépta mea ultra quam terræ quæ in circúitu ejus sunt: judícia enim mea projecérunt, et in præcéptis meis non ambulavérunt. Idcírco hæc dicit Dóminus Deus: Quia superástis gentes quæ in circúitu vestro sunt, et in præcéptis meis non ambulástis, et judícia mea non fecístis, et juxta judícia géntium quæ in circúitu vestro sunt non estis operáti, ídeo hæc dicit Dóminus Deus: Ecce ego ad te, et ipse ego fáciam in médio tui judícia in óculis géntium: et fáciam in te quod non feci, et quibus simília ultra non fáciam, propter omnes abominatiónes tuas. Ídeo patres cómedent fílios in médio tui, et fílii cómedent patres suos: et fáciam in te judícia, et ventilábo univérsas relíquias tuas in omnem ventum. Idcírco vivo ego, dicit Dóminus Deus, nisi pro eo quod sanctum meum violásti in ómnibus offensiónibus tuis et in cunctis abominatiónibus tuis, ego quoque confríngam: et non parcet óculus meus, et non miserébor. Tértia pars tui peste moriétur, et fame consumétur in médio tui, et tértia pars tui in gládio cadet in circúitu tuo: tértiam vero partem tuam in omnem ventum dispérgam, et gládium evaginábo post eos. Et complébo furórem meum, et requiéscere fáciam indignatiónem meam in eis, et consolábor: et scient quia ego Dóminus locútus sum in zelo meo, cum implévero indignatiónem meam in eis. Et dabo te in desértum, et in oppróbrium géntibus quæ in circúitu tuo sunt, in conspéctu omnis prætereúntis: et eris oppróbrium et blasphémia, exémplum et stupor in géntibus quæ in circúitu tuo sunt, cum fécero in te judícia in furóre, et in indignatióne, et in increpatiónibus iræ. Ego Dóminus locútus sum: quando mísero sagíttas famis péssimas in eos, quæ erunt mortíferæ, et quas mittam ut dispérdam vos: et famem congregábo super vos, et cónteram in vobis báculum panis: et immíttam in vos famem et béstias péssimas, usque ad interneciónem: et pestiléntia et sanguis transíbunt per te, et gládium indúcam super te. Ego Dóminus locútus sum. VI. Et factus est sermo Dómini ad me, dicens: Fili hóminis, pone fáciem tuam ad montes Israël, et prophetábis ad eos, et dices: Montes Israël, audíte verbum Dómini Dei. Hæc dicit Dóminus Deus móntibus et cóllibus, rúpibus et vállibus: Ecce ego indúcam super vos gládium, et dispérdam excélsa vestra, et demóliar aras vestras, et confringéntur simulácra vestra, et dejíciam interféctos vestros ante idóla vestra: et dabo cadávera filiórum Israël ante fáciem simulacrórum vestrórum, et dispérgam ossa vestra circum aras vestras: in ómni-

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-bus habitatiónibus vestris urbes desértæ erunt, et excélsa demoliéntur et dissipabúntur: et interíbunt aræ vestræ, et confringéntur, et cessábunt idóla vestra, et conteréntur délubra vestra, et delebúntur ópera vestra: et cadet interféctus in médio vestri, et sciétis quia ego sum Dóminus. Et relínquam in vobis eos qui fúgerint gládium in géntibus, cum dispérsero vos in terris: et recordabúntur mei liberáti vestri in géntibus ad quas captívi ducti sunt: quia contrívi cor eórum fórnicans et recédens a me, et óculos eórum fornicántes post idóla sua: et displicébunt síbimet super malis quæ fecérunt in univérsis abominatiónibus suis. Et scient quia ego Dóminus non frustra locútus sum, ut fácerem eis malum hoc. Hæc dicit Dóminus Deus: Pércute manum tuam et allíde pedem tuum, et dic: Heu! ad omnes abominatiónes malórum domus Israël: quia gládio, fame et peste ruitúri sunt. Qui longe est, peste moriétur: qui autem prope, gládio córruet: et qui relíctus fúerit et obséssus, fame moriétur: et complébo indignatiónem meam in eis. Et sciétis quia ego Dóminus, cum fúerint interfécti vestri in médio idolórum vestrórum, in circúitu arárum vestrárum, in omni colle excélso, et in cunctis summitátibus móntium, et subtus omne lignum nemorósum, et subtus univérsam quercum frondósam, locum ubi accendérunt thura redoléntia univérsis idólis suis. Et exténdam manum meam super eos: et fáciam terram desolátam et destitútam, a desérto Deblátha, in ómnibus habitatiónibus eórum: et scient quia ego Dóminus. VII. Et factus est sermo Dómini ad me, dicens: Et tu, fili hóminis, hæc dicit Dóminus Deus terræ Israël. Finis venit: venit finis super quátuor plagas terræ. Nunc finis super te, et immíttam furórem meum in te: et judicábo te juxta vias tuas, et ponam contra te omnes abominatiónes tuas. Et non parcet óculus meus super te, et non miserébor: sed vias tuas ponam super te, et abominatiónes tuæ in médio tui erunt, et sciétis quia ego Dóminus. Hæc dicit Dóminus Deus: Afflíctio una, afflíctio ecce venit. Finis venit, venit finis: evigilávit advérsum te, ecce venit. Venit contrítio super te, qui hábitas in terra: venit tempus, prope est dies occisiónis, et non glóriæ móntium. Nunc de propínquo effúndam iram meam super te, et complébo furórem meum in te: et judicábo te juxta vias tuas, et impónam tibi ómnia scélera tua, et non parcet óculus meus, nec miserébor: sed vias tuas impónam tibi, et abominatiónes tuæ in médio tui erunt, et sciétis quia ego sum Dóminus percútiens. Ecce dies, ecce venit: egréssa est contrítio, flóruit virga, germinávit supérbia, iníquitas surréxit in virga impietátis: non ex eis, et non ex pópulo, neque ex sónitu eórum: et non erit équies in eis. Venit tempus, appropinquávit dies: qui emit, non lætétur, et qui vendit, non lúgeat: quia ira super omnem pópulum ejus. Quia qui vendit, ad id quod véndidit non revertétur: et adhuc in vivéntibus vita eórum: vísio enim ad omnem multitúdinem ejus non regrediétur, et vir in iniquitáte vitæ suæ non confortábitur. Cánite tuba, præparéntur omnes: et non est qui vadat ad praelium: ira enim mea super univérsum pópulum ejus. Gládium foris, et pestis et fames intrínsecus: qui in agro est, gládio moriétur, et qui in civitáte, pestiléntia et fame devorabúntur. Et salvabúntur qui fúgerint ex eis: et erunt in móntibus quasi colúmbæ convállium omnes trépidi, unusquísque in iniquitáte sua. Omnes manus dissolvéntur, et ómnia génua fluent aquis. Et accíngent se cilíciis, et opériet eos formído

[Ezekiel 4:16-7:18]

...bread by weight, and with care: and they shall drink water by measure, and in distress. 17 So that when bread and water fail, every man may fall against his brother, and they may pine away in their iniquities.

1 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife that shaveth the hair: and cause it to pass over thy head, and over thy beard: and take thee a balance to weigh in, and divide the hair. 2 A third part thou shalt burn with fire in the midst of the city, according to the fulfilling of the days of the siege: and thou shalt take a third part, and cut it in pieces with the knife all round about: and the other third part thou shalt scatter in the wind, and I will draw out the sword after them. 3 And thou shalt take thereof a small number: and shalt bind them in the skirt of thy cloak. 4 And thou shalt take of them again, and shalt cast them in the midst of the fire, and shalt burn them with fire: and out of it shall come forth a fire into all the house of Israel. 5 Thus saith the Lord God: This is Jerusalem, I have set her in the midst of the nations, and the countries round about her. 6 And she hath despised my judgments, so as to be more wicked than the Gentiles; and my commandments, more than the countries that are round about her: for they have cast off my judgments, and have not walked in my commandments. 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have surpassed the Gentiles that are round about you, and have not walked in my commandments, and have not kept my judgments, and have not done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you: 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee, and I myself will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the Gentiles. 9 And I will do in thee that which I have not done: and the like to which I will do no more, because of all thy abominations. 10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers: and I will execute judgments in thee, and I will scatter thy whole remnant into every wind. 11 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God: Because thou hast violated my sanctuary with all thy offences, and with ail thy abominations: I will also break thee in pieces, and my eye shall not spare, and I will not have any pity. 12 A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and shall be consumed with famine in the midst of thee: and a third part of thee shall fall by the sword round about thee: and a third part of thee will I scatter into every wind, and I will draw out a sword after them. 13 And I will accomplish my fury, and will cause my indignation to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the Lord have spoken it in my zeal, when I shall have accomplished my indignation in them. 14 And I will make thee desolate, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of every one that passeth by. 15 And thou shalt be a reproach, and a scoff, an example, and an astonishment amongst the nations that are round about thee, when I shall have executed judgments in thee in anger, and in indignation, and in wrathful rebukes. 16 I the Lord have spoken it: When I shall send upon them the grievous arrows of famine, which shall bring death, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will gather together famine against you: and I will break among you the staff of bread. 17 And I will send in upon you famine, and evil beasts unto utter destruction: and pestilence, and blood shall pass through thee, and I will bring in the sword upon thee. I the Lord have spoken it.

1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 2 Son of man, set thy face towards the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them. 3 And say: Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the rocks, and the valleys: Behold, I will bring upon you the sword, and I will destroy your high places. 4 And I will throw down your altars, and your idols shall be broken in pieces: and I will cast down your slain before your idols. 5 And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before your idols: and I will scatter your bones round about your altars, 6 In all your dwelling places. The cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be thrown down, and destroyed, and your altars shall be abolished, and shall be broken in pieces: and your idols shall be no more, and your temples shall be destroyed, and your works shall be defaced. 7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am the Lord. 8 And I will leave in you some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when I shall have scattered you, through the countries. 9 And they that are saved of you shall remember me amongst the nations to which they are carried captives: because I have broken their heart that was faithless, and revolted from me: and their eyes that went a fornicating after their idols: and they shall be displeased with themselves because of the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. 10 And they shall know that I the Lord have not spoken in vain that I would do this evil to them. 11 Thus saith the Lord God: Strike with thy hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say: Alas, for all the abominations of the evils 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: and I will accomplish my indignation upon them. 13 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when your slain shall be amongst your idols, round about your altars, in every high hill, and on all the tops of mountains, and under every woody tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they burnt sweet smelling frankincense to all their idols. 14 And I will stretch forth my hand upon them: and I will make the land desolate, and abandoned from the desert of Deblatha in all their dwelling places: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 2 And thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God to the land of Israel: The end is come, the end is come upon the four quarters of the land. 3 Now is an end come upon thee, and I will send my wrath upon thee, and I will judge thee according to thy ways: and I will set all thy abominations against thee. 4 And my eye shall not spare thee, and I will shew thee no pity: but I will lay thy ways upon thee, and thy abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and you shall know that I am the Lord. 5 Thus saith the Lord God: One affliction, behold an affliction is come. 6 An end is come, the end is come, it hath awaked against thee: behold it is come. 7 Destruction is come upon thee that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of slaughter is near, and not of the joy of mountains. 8 Now very shortly I will pour out my wrath upon thee, and I will accomplish my anger in thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and I will lay upon thee all thy crimes. 9 And my eye shall not spare, neither will I shew mercy: but I will lay thy ways upon thee, and thy abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and you shall know that I am the Lord that strike. 10 Behold the day, behold it is come: destruction is gone forth, the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded. 11 Iniquity is risen up into a rod of impiety: nothing of them shall remain, nor of their people, nor of the noise of them: and there shall be no rest among them. 12 The time is come, the day is at hand: let not the buyer rejoice: nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the people thereof. 13 For the seller shall not return to that which he hath sold, although their life be yet among the living. For the vision which regardeth all the multitude thereof, shall not go back: neither shall man be strengthened in the iniquity of his life. 14 Blow the trumpet, let all be made ready, yet there is none to go to the battle: for my wrath shall be upon all the people thereof. 15 The sword without: and the pestilence, and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die by the sword: and they that are in the city, shall be devoured by the pestilence, and the famine. 16 And such of them as shall flee shall escape: and they shall be in the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them trembling, every one for his iniquity. 17 All hands shall be made feeble, and all knees shall run with water. 18 And they shall gird themselves with haircloth...

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et in omni fácie confúsio, et in univérsis capítibus eórum calvítium. Argéntum eórum foras projiciétur, et aurum eórum in sterquilínium erit: argéntum eórum et aurum eórum non valébit liberáre eos in die furóris Dómini: ánimam suam non saturábunt, et ventres eórum non implebúntur, quia scándalum iniquitátis eórum factum est. Et ornaméntum monílium suórum in supérbiam posuérunt, et imágines abominatiónum suárum et simulacrórum fecérunt ex eo: propter hoc dedi eis illud in immundítiam. Et dabo illud in manus alienórum ad diripiéndum, et ímpiis terræ in prædam, et contaminábunt illud. Et avértam fáciem meam ab eis, et violábunt arcánum meum: et introíbunt in illud emissárii, et contaminábunt illud. Fac conclusiónem, quóniam terra plena est judício sánguinum, et cívitas plena iniquitáte. Et addúcam péssimos de géntibus, et possidébunt domos eórum: et quiéscere fáciam supérbiam poténtium, et possidébunt sanctuária eórum. Angústia superveniénte, requírent pacem, et non erit. Conturbátio super conturbatiónem véniet, et audítus super audítum: et quærent visiónem de prophéta, et lex períbit a sacerdóte, et consílium a senióribus. Rex lugébit, et princeps induétur mœróre, et manus pópuli terræ conturbabúntur: secúndum viam eórum fáciam eis, et secúndum judícia eórum judicábo eos, et scient quia ego Dóminus. VIII. Et factum est in anno sexto, in sexto mense, in quinta mensis, ego sedébam in domo mea, et senes Juda sedébant coram me, et cécidit ibi super me manus Dómini Dei. Et vidi: et ecce similitúdo quasi aspéctus ignis: ab aspéctu lumbórum ejus et deórsum, ignis: et a lumbis ejus et sursum, quasi aspéctus splendóris, ut vísio eléctri. Et emíssa similitúdo manus apprehéndit me in cincínno cápitis mei, et elevávit me spíritus inter terram et cælum: et addúxit me in Jerúsalem, in visióne Dei, juxta óstium intérius quod respiciébat ad aquilónem, ubi erat statútum idólum zeli ad provocándam æmulatiónem. Et ecce ibi glória Dei Israël, secúndum visiónem quam víderam in campo. Et dixit ad me: Fili hóminis, leva óculos tuos ad viam aquilónis. Et levávi óculos meos ad viam aquilónis, et ecce ab aquilóne portæ altáris idólum zeli in ipso intróitu. Et dixit ad me: Fili hóminis, putásne vides tu quid isti fáciunt, abominatiónes magnas quas domus Israël facit hic, ut procul recédam a sanctuário meo? et adhuc convérsus vidébis abominatiónes majóres. Et introdúxit me ad óstium átrii, et vidi, et ecce forámen unum in paríete. Et dixit ad me: Fili hóminis, fode paríetem. Et cum fodíssem paríetem, appáruit óstium unum. Et dixit ad me: Ingrédere, et vide abominatiónes péssimas quas isti fáciunt hic. Et ingréssus vidi, et ecce omnis similitúdo reptílium et animálium, abominátio, et univérsa idóla domus Israël, depícta erant in paríete in circúitu per totum: et septuagínta viri de senióribus domus Israël: et Jezónias fílius Saphan stabat in médio eórum stántium ante pictúras: et unusquísque habébat thuríbulum in manu sua, et vapor nébulæ de thure consurgébat. Et dixit ad me: Certe vides, fili hóminis, quæ senióres domus Israël fáciunt in ténebris, unusquísque in abscóndito cubículi sui: dicunt enim: Non videt Dóminus nos; derelíquit Dóminus terram. Et dixit ad me: Adhuc convérsus vidébis abominatiónes majóres, quas isti fá-

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-ciunt. Et introdúxit me per óstium portæ domus Dómini quod respiciébat ad aquilónem, et ecce ibi mulíeres sedébant plangéntes Adónidem. Et dixit ad me: Certe vidísti, fili hóminis: adhuc convérsus vidébis abominatiónes majóres his. Et introdúxit me in átrium domus Dómini intérius, et ecce in óstio templi Dómini, inter vestíbulum et altáre, quasi vigínti quinque viri dorsa habéntes contra templum Dómini, et fácies ad oriéntem: et adorábant ad ortum solis. Et dixit ad me: Certe vidísti, fili hóminis: numquid leve est hoc dómui Juda, ut fácerent abominatiónes istas quas fecérunt hic, quia repléntes terram iniquitáte, convérsi sunt ad irritándum me? et ecce ápplicant ramum ad nares suas. Ergo et ego fáciam in furóre: non parcet óculus meus, nec miserébor: et cum clamáverint ad aures meas voce magna, non exáudiam eos. IX. Et clamávit in áuribus meis voce magna, dicens: Appropinquavérunt visitatiónes urbis, et unusquísque vas interfectiónis habet in manu sua. Et ecce sex viri veniébant de via portæ superióris, quæ réspicit ad aquilónem, et uniuscujúsque vas intéritus in manu ejus: vir quoque unus in médio eórum vestítus erat líneis, et atramentárium scriptóris ad renes ejus: et ingréssi sunt, et stetérunt juxta altáre aereum. Et glória Dómini Israël assúmpta est de cherub, quæ erat super eum ad limen domus: et vocávit virum qui indútus erat líneis, et atramentárium scriptóris habébat in lumbis suis: et dixit Dóminus ad eum: Transi per médiam civitátem, in médio Jerúsalem, et signa thau super frontes virórum geméntium et doléntium super cunctis abominatiónibus quæ fiunt in médio ejus. Et illis dixit, audiénte me: Transíte per civitátem sequéntes eum, et percútite: non parcat óculus vester, neque misereámini: senem, adolescéntulum et vírginem, párvulum et mulíeres interfícite usque ad interneciónem: omnem autem super quem vidéritis thau, ne occidátis: et a sanctuário meo incípite. Cœpérunt ergo a viris senióribus, qui erant ante fáciem domus. Et dixit ad eos: Contamináte domum, et impléte átria interféctis; egredímini. Et egréssi sunt, et percutiébant eos qui erant in civitáte. Et cæde compléta, remánsi ego, ruíque super fáciem meam, et clamans aío: Heu! heu! heu! Dómine Deus: ergóne dispérdes omnes relíquias Israël, effúndens furórem tuum super Jerúsalem? Et dixit ad me: Iníquitas domus Israël et Juda magna est nimis valde, et repléta est terra sanguínibus, et cívitas repléta est aversióne: dixérunt enim: Derelíquit Dóminus terram, et Dóminus non videt. Ígitur et meus non parcet óculus, neque miserébor: viam eórum super caput eórum reddam. Et ecce vir qui erat indútus líneis, qui habébat atramentárium in dorso suo, respóndit verbum, dicens: Feci sicut præcepísti mihi. X. Et vidi: et ecce in firmaménto quod erat super caput chérubim, quasi lapis sapphírus, quasi spécies similitúdinis sólii, appáruit super ea. Et dixit ad virum qui indútus erat líneis, et ait: Ingrédere in médio rotárum quæ sunt subtus chérubim, et imple ma-

[Ezekiel 7:18-10:2]

...and fear shall cover them, and shame shall be upon every face, and baldness upon all their heads. 19 Their silver shall be cast forth, and their gold shall become a dunghill. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They shall not satisfy their soul, and their bellies shall not be filled: because it hath been the stumblingblock of their iniquity. 20 And they have turned the ornament of their jewels into pride, and have made of it the images of their abominations, and idols: therefore I have made it an uncleanness to them. 21 And I will give it into the hands of strangers for spoil, and to the wicked of the earth for a prey, and they shall defile it. 22 And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall violate my secret place: and robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. 23 Make a shutting up: for the land is full of the judgment of blood, and the city is full of iniquity. 24 And I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: and I will make the pride of the mighty to cease, and they shall possess their sanctuary. 25 When distress cometh upon them, they will seek for peace and there shall be none. 26 Trouble shall come upon trouble, and rumour upon rumour, and they shall seek a vision of the prophet, and the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. 27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with sorrow, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled. I will do to them according to their way, and will judge them according to their judgments: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the ancients of Juda sat before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me. 2 And I saw, and behold a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins, and downward, fire: and from his loins, and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the appearance of amber. 3 And the likeness of a hand was put forth and took me by a lock of my head: and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the vision of God into Jerusalem, near the inner gate, that looked toward the north, where was set the idol of jealousy to provoke to jealousy. 4 And behold the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision which I had seen in the plain. 5 And he said to me: Son of man, lift up thy eyes towards the way of the north. And I lifted up my eyes towards the way of the north: and behold on the north side of the gate of the altar the idol of jealousy in the very entry. 6 And he said to me: Son of man, dost thou see, thinkest thou, what these are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should depart far off from my sanctuary? and turn thee yet again and thou shalt see greater abominations. 7 And he brought me in to the door of the court: and I saw, and behold a hole in the wall. 8 And he said to me: Son of man, dig in the wall. And when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. 9 And he said to me: Go in, and see the wicked abominations which they commit here. 10 And I went in and saw, and behold every form of creeping things, and of living creatures, the abomination, and all the idols of the house of Israel, were painted on the wall all round about. 11 And seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and Jezonias the son of Saaphan stood in the midst of them, that stood before the pictures: and every one had a censer in his hand: and a cloud of smoke went up from the incense. 12 And he said to me: Surely thou seest. O son of man, what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every one in private in his chamber: for they say: The Lord seeth us not, the Lord hath forsaken the earth. 13 And he said to me: If thou turn thee again, thou shalt see greater abominations which these commit. 14 And he brought me in by the door of the gate of the Lord's house, which looked to the north: and behold women sat there mourning for Adonis. 15 And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen, O son of man: but turn thee again: and thou shalt see greater abominations than these. 16 And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord: and behold at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men having their backs towards the temple of the Lord, and their faces to the east: and they adored towards the rising of the sun. 17 And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen, O son of man: is this a light thing to the house of Juda, that they should commit these abominations which they have committed here: because they have filled the land with iniquity, and have turned to provoke me to anger? and behold they put a branch to their nose. 18 Therefore I also will deal with them in my wrath: my eye shall not spare them, neither will I shew mercy: and when they shall cry to my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.

1 And he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying: The visitations of the city are at hand, and every one hath a destroying weapon in his hand. 2 And behold six men came from the way of the upper gate, which looketh to the north: and each one had his weapon of destruction in his hand: and there was one man in the midst of them clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn at his reins: and they went in, and stood by the brazen altar. 3 And the glory of the Lord of Israel went up from the cherub, upon which he was, to the threshold of the house: and he called to the man that was clothed with linen, and had a writer's inkhorn at his loins. 4 And the Lord said to him: Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem: and mark Thau upon the foreheads of the men that sigh, and mourn for all the abominations that are committed in the midst thereof. 5 And to the others he said in my hearing: Go ye after him through the city, and strike: let not your eyes spare, nor be ye moved with pity. 6 Utterly destroy old and young, maidens, children and women: but upon whomsoever you shall see Thau, kill him not, and begin ye at my sanctuary. So they began at the ancient men who were before the house. 7 And he said to them: Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew them that were in the city. 8 And the slaughter being ended I was left: and I fell upon my face, and crying, I said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, wilt thou then destroy all the remnant of Israel, by pouring out thy fury upon Jerusalem? 9 And he said to me: The iniquity of the house of Israel, and of Juda, is exceeding great, and the land is filled with blood, and the city is filled with perverseness: for they have said: The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not. 10 Therefore neither shall my eye spare, nor will I have pity: I will requite their way upon their head. 11 And behold the man that was clothed with linen, that had the inkhorn at his back, returned the word, saying: I have done as thou hast commanded me.

1 And I saw and behold in the firmament that was over the heads of the cherubims, there appeared over them as it were the sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. 2 And he spoke to the man, that was clothed with linen, and said: Go in between the wheels that are under the cherubims and fill thy hand...