- 1 Ezekiel 1 1 Ezekiel 1 (28 verses in the MT) opens: Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth , in the fifth of the month, as I among the captives by the river of Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. The middle of the chapter continues: Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces. It closes: As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so the appearance of the brightness round about. This the appearance of the likeness of the glory of YHWH. And when I saw , I fell upon my face, and.
- 2 Ezekiel 2 2 Ezekiel 2 (10 verses in the MT) opens: And he said to me, Son of man, stand upon your feet, and I will speak to you. The middle of the chapter continues: And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns with you, and you dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though. It closes: And he spread it before me; and it written within and without: and written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
- 3 Ezekiel 3 3 Ezekiel 3 (27 verses in the MT) opens: Moreover he said to me, Son of man, eat that you findest; eat this roll, and go speak to the house of Israel. The middle of the chapter continues: So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of YHWH was strong upon me. It closes: But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, Thus says YHWH YHWH; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they a rebellious house.
- 4 Ezekiel 4 4 Ezekiel 4 (17 verses in the MT) opens: You also, son of man, take you a tile, and lay it before you, and pourtray upon it the city, Jerusalem: The middle of the chapter continues: Take you also to you wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make you bread thereof, to the number of the days that you shall lie upon your side, three. It closes: That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
- 5 Ezekiel 5 5 Ezekiel 5 (17 verses in the MT) opens: And you, son of man, take you a sharp knife, take you a barber's razor, and cause to pass upon your head and upon your beard: then take you balances to weigh, and divide the . The middle of the chapter continues: And I will do in you that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all your abominations. It closes: So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring the sword upon you. I YHWH have spoken .
- 6 Ezekiel 6 6 Ezekiel 6 (14 verses in the MT) opens: And the word of YHWH came to me, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: Yet will I leave a remnant, that you may have that shall escape the sword among the nations, when you shall be scattered through the countries. It closes: So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I YHWH.
- 7 Ezekiel 7 7 Ezekiel 7 (27 verses in the MT) opens: Moreover the word of YHWH came to me, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath upon all the multitude thereof. It closes: 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 to them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and.
- 8 Ezekiel 8 8 Ezekiel 8 (18 verses in the MT) opens: And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth , in the fifth of the month, I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of YHWH YHWH fell there upon me. The middle of the chapter continues: So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about. It closes: Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, will I not hear them.
- 9 Ezekiel 9 9 Ezekiel 9 (11 verses in the MT) opens: He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man his destroying weapon in his hand. The middle of the chapter continues: Slay utterly old young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which before the house. It closes: And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as you have commanded me.
- 10 Ezekiel 10 10 Ezekiel 10 (22 verses in the MT) opens: Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. The middle of the chapter continues: And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, full of eyes round about, the wheels that they four had. It closes: And the likeness of their faces the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward.
- 11 Ezekiel 11 11 Ezekiel 11 (25 verses in the MT) opens: Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of YHWH's house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah. The middle of the chapter continues: And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord YHWH! will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel? It closes: Then I spake to them of the captivity all the things that YHWH had shewed me.
- 12 Ezekiel 12 12 Ezekiel 12 (28 verses in the MT) opens: The word of YHWH also came to me, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: And they shall know that I YHWH, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries. It closes: Therefore say to them, Thus says YHWH YHWH; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, says YHWH YHWH.
- 13 Ezekiel 13 13 Ezekiel 13 (23 verses in the MT) opens: And the word of YHWH came to me, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where the daubing wherewith you have daubed ? It closes: Therefore you shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and you shall know that I YHWH.
- 14 Ezekiel 14 14 Ezekiel 14 (23 verses in the MT) opens: Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me, and sat before me. The middle of the chapter continues: The word of YHWH came again to me, saying, It closes: And they shall comfort you, when you see their ways and their doings: and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, says YHWH YHWH.
- 15 Ezekiel 15 15 Ezekiel 15 (8 verses in the MT) opens: And the word of YHWH came to me, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for work, when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned? It closes: And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, says YHWH YHWH.
- 16 Ezekiel 16 16 Ezekiel 16 (63 verses in the MT) opens: Again the word of YHWH came to me, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: a wife that committeth adultery, taketh strangers instead of her husband! It closes: That you mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more because of your shame, when I am pacified toward you for all that you have done, says YHWH YHWH.
- 17 Ezekiel 17 17 Ezekiel 17 (24 verses in the MT) opens: And the word of YHWH came to me, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: And has taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and has taken an oath of him: he has also taken the mighty of the land: It closes: And all the trees of the field shall know that I YHWH have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I YHWH have spoken and have done .
- 18 Ezekiel 18 18 Ezekiel 18 (32 verses in the MT) opens: The word of YHWH came to me again, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: has taken off his hand from the poor, has not received usury nor increase, has executed my judgments, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live. It closes: For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, says YHWH YHWH: wherefore turn , and live you.
- 19 Ezekiel 19 19 Ezekiel 19 (14 verses in the MT) opens: Moreover take you up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, The middle of the chapter continues: Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit. It closes: And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, has devoured her fruit, so that she has no strong rod a sceptre to rule. This a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
- 20 Ezekiel 20 20 Ezekiel 20 (44 verses in the MT) opens: And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth , the tenth of the month, certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of YHWH, and sat before me. The middle of the chapter continues: I lifted up mine hand to them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries; It closes: And you shall know that I YHWH, when I have wrought with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O you house of Israel, says YHWH YHWH.
- 21 Ezekiel 21 21 Ezekiel 21 (37 verses in the MT) opens: Moreover the word of YHWH came to me, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it the sword of the great slain, which entereth into their privy chambers. It closes: You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be no remembered: for I YHWH have spoken .
- 22 Ezekiel 22 22 Ezekiel 22 (31 verses in the MT) opens: Moreover the word of YHWH came to me, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: And you shall take your inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and you shall know that I YHWH. It closes: Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, says YHWH YHWH.
- 23 Ezekiel 23 23 Ezekiel 23 (49 verses in the MT) opens: The word of YHWH came again to me, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: And I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal furiously with you: they shall take away your nose and your ears; and your remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take your sons and your daughters; and. It closes: And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols: and you shall know that I YHWH YHWH.
- 24 Ezekiel 24 24 Ezekiel 24 (27 verses in the MT) opens: Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth of the month, the word of YHWH came to me, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: I YHWH have spoken : it shall come to pass, and I will do ; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to your ways, and according to your doings, shall they judge you, says YHWH YHWH. It closes: In that day shall your mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and you shall speak, and be no more dumb: and you shall be a sign to them; and they shall know that I YHWH.
- 25 Ezekiel 25 25 Ezekiel 25 (17 verses in the MT) opens: The word of YHWH came again to me, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim, It closes: And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I YHWH, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
- 26 Ezekiel 26 26 Ezekiel 26 (21 verses in the MT) opens: And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first of the month, the word of YHWH came to me, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all your streets: he shall slay your people by the sword, and your strong garrisons shall go down to the ground. It closes: I will make you a terror, and you no : though you be sought for, yet shall you never be found again, says YHWH YHWH.
- 27 Ezekiel 27 27 Ezekiel 27 (36 verses in the MT) opens: The word of YHWH came again to me, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in your fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in your market. It closes: The merchants among the people shall hiss at you; you shall be a terror, and never any more.
- 28 Ezekiel 28 28 Ezekiel 28 (26 verses in the MT) opens: The word of YHWH came again to me, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: You the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set you : you wast upon the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. It closes: And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall.
- 29 Ezekiel 29 29 Ezekiel 29 (21 verses in the MT) opens: In the tenth year, in the tenth , in the twelfth of the month, the word of YHWH came to me, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years. It closes: In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give you the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I YHWH.
- 30 Ezekiel 30 30 Ezekiel 30 (26 verses in the MT) opens: The word of YHWH came again to me, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No. It closes: And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I YHWH.
- 31 Ezekiel 31 31 Ezekiel 31 (18 verses in the MT) opens: And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third , in the first of the month, the word of YHWH came to me, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: Therefore thus says YHWH YHWH; Because you have lifted up thyself in height, and he has shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; It closes: To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shall you be brought down with the trees of Eden to the nether parts of the earth: you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with.
- 32 Ezekiel 32 32 Ezekiel 32 (32 verses in the MT) opens: And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first of the month, the word of YHWH came to me, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth of the month, the word of YHWH came to me, saying, It closes: For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with slain with the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude, says YHWH YHWH.
- 33 Ezekiel 33 33 Ezekiel 33 (33 verses in the MT) opens: Again the word of YHWH came to me, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: Yet the children of your people say, The way of YHWH is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal. It closes: And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet has been among them.
- 34 Ezekiel 34 34 Ezekiel 34 (31 verses in the MT) opens: And the word of YHWH came to me, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment. It closes: And you my flock, the flock of my pasture, men, I your God, says YHWH YHWH.
- 35 Ezekiel 35 35 Ezekiel 35 (15 verses in the MT) opens: Moreover the word of YHWH came to me, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: And I will fill his mountains with his slain : in your hills, and in your valleys, and in all your rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword. It closes: As you didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, all of it: and they shall know that I YHWH.
- 36 Ezekiel 36 36 Ezekiel 36 (38 verses in the MT) opens: Also, you son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of YHWH: The middle of the chapter continues: And when they entered to the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These the people of YHWH, and are gone forth out of his land. It closes: As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I YHWH.
- 37 Ezekiel 37 37 Ezekiel 37 (28 verses in the MT) opens: The hand of YHWH was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of YHWH, and set me down in the midst of the valley which full of bones, The middle of the chapter continues: The word of YHWH came again to me, saying, It closes: And the heathen shall know that I YHWH do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
- 38 Ezekiel 38 38 Ezekiel 38 (23 verses in the MT) opens: And the word of YHWH came to me, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn your hand upon the desolate places inhabited, and upon the people gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land. It closes: Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I YHWH.
- 39 Ezekiel 39 39 Ezekiel 39 (29 verses in the MT) opens: Therefore, you son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says YHWH YHWH; Behold, I against you, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: The middle of the chapter continues: And the passengers pass through the land, when seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog. It closes: Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, says YHWH YHWH.
- 40 Ezekiel 40 40 Ezekiel 40 (49 verses in the MT) opens: In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of YHWH was upon me, and. The middle of the chapter continues: And windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the length fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. It closes: The length of the porch twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and by the steps whereby they went up to it: and pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.
- 41 Ezekiel 41 41 Ezekiel 41 (26 verses in the MT) opens: Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, the breadth of the tabernacle. The middle of the chapter continues: Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits. It closes: And narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.
- 42 Ezekiel 42 42 Ezekiel 42 (20 verses in the MT) opens: Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that over against the separate place, and which before the building toward the north. The middle of the chapter continues: And the way before them like the appearance of the chambers which toward the north, as long as they, as broad as they: and all their goings out both according to their fashions, and according to their doors. It closes: He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.
- 43 Ezekiel 43 43 Ezekiel 43 (27 verses in the MT) opens: Afterward he brought me to the gate, the gate that looketh toward the east: The middle of the chapter continues: And from the bottom the ground to the lower settle two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle to the greater settle four cubits, and the breadth cubit. It closes: And when these days are expired, it shall be, upon the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, says YHWH YHWH.
- 44 Ezekiel 44 44 Ezekiel 44 (31 verses in the MT) opens: Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it shut. The middle of the chapter continues: They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge. It closes: The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
- 45 Ezekiel 45 45 Ezekiel 45 (25 verses in the MT) opens: Moreover, when you shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an oblation to YHWH, an holy portion of the land: the length the length of five and twenty thousand , and the breadth ten thousand. This. The middle of the chapter continues: This the oblation that you shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and you shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley: It closes: In the seventh , in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according.
- 46 Ezekiel 46 46 Ezekiel 46 (24 verses in the MT) opens: Thus says YHWH YHWH; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened. The middle of the chapter continues: You shall daily prepare a burnt offering to YHWH a lamb of the first year without blemish: you shall prepare it every morning. It closes: Then said he to me, These the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.
- 47 Ezekiel 47 47 Ezekiel 47 (23 verses in the MT) opens: Afterward he brought me again to the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house the east, and the waters came down from under from. The middle of the chapter continues: And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to. It closes: And it shall come to pass, in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall you give his inheritance, says YHWH YHWH.
- 48 Ezekiel 48 48 Ezekiel 48 (35 verses in the MT) opens: Now these the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east west; a. The middle of the chapter continues: And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy ; and the increase thereof shall be for food to. It closes: round about eighteen thousand : and the name of the city from day , YHWH there.