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The Spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and I heard him who spoke to me.

Verse ConceptsThe Holy Spirit Described As A VoiceThe Holy Spirit, And ScriptureGod Lifting PeopleGod Speakingfitness

He said to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day.

Verse ConceptsAttitudes Of RebellionMissionaries, Call OfSon Of ManAncestorsFalse Religion To This DayGod Sending ProphetsLeaders SinningDisunityrebellion

But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: He who hears, let him hear; and he who forbears, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.

Verse ConceptsPeople UnwillingSpeaking With The MouthSpeaking The Word God GivesListening To Godrebellion

He who is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he who is near shall fall by the sword; and he who remains and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my wrath on them.

Verse ConceptsFamine Killing

The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within: he who is in the field shall die with the sword: and he who is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.

Verse ConceptsPestilenceInside And OutFamine ComingFamine KillingFamine Will ComeOutside The House

But those of those who escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.

Verse ConceptsdovesEscaping EvilOthers Mourning

Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause those who are in charge of the city to draw near, every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.

Verse ConceptsExecutionersThose Who DestroyGod's VoiceGod Will Kill His People

The glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house: and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer's inkhorn by his side.

Verse ConceptsGod, Glory OfGlory, Revelation OfDivine ManifestationsCherubim, Functions OfGod's Glory In IsraelGod's Shekinah GloryGod Appearing At The DoorwayCherubim

kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.

Verse ConceptsTouchActivity BegunGod Will Kill His PeopleChild AbuseThe Elderly

Behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as you have commanded me.

Verse ConceptsWritingWe Obey

The cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took [of it], and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out.

He said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;

Verse ConceptsEvil PlansEvil DevicesThe Entrance Of Sin

who say, [The time] is not near to build houses: this [city] is the caldron, and we are the flesh.

Verse ConceptsCaldronsUntimelinessNot The TimePots For Cooking And EatingWeedcookingpot

Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Your slain whom you have laid in its midst, they are the flesh, and this [city] is the caldron; but you shall be brought forth out of its midst.

Verse ConceptsCaldronsBringing People Out Of Other PlacesPots For Cooking And EatingKilling Israelites

Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, [are they] to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Go far away from Yahweh. This land has been given to us for a possession.

Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don't see, who have ears to hear, and don't hear; for they are a rebellious house.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual Blindness, In UnbelieversLack Of DiscernmentHearingIndifferenceSensitivityApathyDullnessSpiritual DeafnessNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsUnhearingrebellion

Say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This burden [concerns] the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel among whom they are.

The prince who is among them shall bear on his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, because he shall not see the land with his eyes.

Verse ConceptsThe Act Of OpeningOpening WallsGoing OutsideDarkness Of NightCarrying Other Loads

I will scatter toward every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.

Verse ConceptsGod Scattering IsraelThings StrippedNo HelpGod's Sword

and tell the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, [and despoiled] of all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.

Verse ConceptsWorryViolence In The EarthEating And DrinkingFear Will ComeDespair

Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, Hear the word of Yahweh:

Verse ConceptsSuperstitionFalse Prophets DenouncedProphesy!imagination

Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfSpirit, Nature OfNo VisionsFalse Prophets Denouncedimaginationprophets

They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, Yahweh says; but Yahweh has not sent them: and they have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed.

Verse ConceptsDeception Through False TeachersProphets Who Were Not SentMan's Words Fulfilled

My hand shall be against the prophets who see false visions, and who divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsDeceit Leading to JudgmentGod's HandEntering The KingdomFalse VisionsGod OpposingGod's Hands In Opposition

tell those who plaster it with whitewash, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it.

Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedShowersHailPlasterWhitewashingThings Falling

Thus will I accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on those who have plastered it with whitewash; and I will tell you, The wall is no more, neither those who plastered it;

Verse ConceptsPlasterWhitewashingNowhere To Be Found

[to wit], the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, says the Lord Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsFalse VisionsNo Peace

You, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy against them,

Verse ConceptsdaughtersProphetessThoughts Of The WickedFalse Prophets DenouncedPeople Opposed

and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the women who sew pillows on all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head of [persons of] every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves?

Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofSorcery And MagicTrapVeilsMagiciansDressSewingTemptressesTall PeopleAvoid Sorcerymagic

You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.

Verse ConceptsGrainListeningTemptressesKept Alive By MenProphesying LiesRemaining FoodMisusing God's NameKilling Israelitesmagic

Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against your pillows, with which you there hunt the souls to make [them] fly, and I will tear them from your arms; and I will let the souls go, even the souls whom you hunt to make [them] fly.

Verse ConceptsBirds, Figurative UseGod Stripping PeopleGod OpposingAvoid SorceryGod Freeing CaptivesBirdsflyingmagicvampires

Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive:

Verse ConceptsParticipation, In SinNot Turning AsideKeeping Oneself AlivePeople Encouraging Others

Therefore speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I Yahweh will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols;

Verse ConceptsNature Of The HeartGod Will AnswerIdol WorshipGod Opposes IdolatryIn FrontHindering God's Work

For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Yahweh will answer him by myself:

Verse ConceptsForeignersenquiring of GodOffenceSeparation From GodGod Will AnswerIn FrontHindering God's WorkImmigrants

They shall bear their iniquity: the iniquity of the prophet shall be even as the iniquity of him who seeks [to him];

Verse ConceptsEquality Of PunishmentWicked ProphetsFound GuiltyguidanceGuiltconsequences

But you trusted in your beauty, and played the prostitute because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone who passed by; his it was.

Verse ConceptsPassing ByTrust, Lack OfTrusting Yourselfwhores

Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter,

Verse ConceptsIdol WorshipUnimportant Things

You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution.

Verse ConceptsRoadsSpreadingUsing RoadsAspects Of People Made Known

See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary [food], and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.

Verse ConceptsLewdnessStretching OutEvil DesiresPeople Being HatedShame Of Bad ConductThey Committed ImmoralityGod Will Cause DefeatGreedbehavior

A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!

Verse ConceptsWivesRelations With ForeignersWifespouseloversadultry

therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated; I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.

Verse ConceptsDenunciationsLooking At People For EvilGathering FriendsPeople Being Hatedlovers

I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfSheddingCovered With BloodPeople Involved In JudgementJudgement On MurderersGod Angry With IndividualsSexual Immorality Brings Punishment

Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use [this] proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

Verse ConceptsBeing A MotherLike People In CharacterOld SayingsmomsMothers And SonsMotivationFathers And Daughters

You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual FathersSpiritual MothersRelated NationsHating IndividualsMothersmomsMothers Love For Her ChildrenMothers And SonsFathers And Daughters

Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

Verse ConceptsRelated Nations

before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all who are around her, the daughters of the Philistines, who do despite to you all around.

Verse ConceptsSin Made Knownsyria

For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

Verse ConceptsPunishment, According To DeedsEquality Of PunishmentBreaking The Covenant

But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape who does such things? shall he break the covenant, and yet escape?

Verse ConceptsenvoyLargenessRebellion Against God, Shown InNo EscapeAcquiring HorsesLarge Armies

As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.

Verse ConceptsBabylon, Israel Exiled ToPossibility Of DeathAuthority Delegated To People

All his fugitives in all his bands shall fall by the sword, and those who remain shall be scattered toward every wind: and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesRemnantKilled With The SwordSurvivors Threatened

he who has not given forth on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

Verse ConceptsExcessGreed, Believers' Response ToInterestLending

If he fathers a son who is a robber, a shedder of blood, and who does any one of these things,

Verse ConceptsPursuing Violence

and who does not any of those [duties], but even has eaten on the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife,

Verse ConceptsShrinesAdulteryHow People EatSacrificing On The High Places

Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father's sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;

Verse ConceptsNot Imitating EvilEthicsFathers Responsibilities

who has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor's wife,

Verse ConceptsAdulteryHow People EatNot Worshipping IdolsSacrificing On The High Places

who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

Verse ConceptsSins Of The FathersIf You Keep The Commandments

The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

Verse ConceptsThe DeadFathers, Sin Of TheBeing Born In SinCreditResponsibility, To GodPersonal ResponsibilitySins Of The FathersPeople In RighteousnessSin Clings To The SinnerParents SinPunishmentPunishmentsPunishment of the The WickedDadsResponsibilityParents Being Wrong

For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the Lord Yahweh: therefore turn yourselves, and live.

Verse ConceptsPleasureVengeanceLife Through RepentanceNot Pleasing GodRepentancelosing a loved oneDeath Of A ChildLiveLoss Of A Loved One

It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.

Verse ConceptsHeightSceptreThings On High

Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.

Verse ConceptsSabbaths InstitutedMaking People HolyHalloweenSanctification

and I will purge out from among you the rebels, and those who disobey against me; I will bring them forth out of the land where they live, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsKnowledge, Of GodPurgingEntering The KingdomBeing Cleansed From Sin

You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one who is deadly wounded, which enters into their rooms.

Verse ConceptsClappingDoing Repeatedly

It shall be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken.

Verse ConceptsFalse Ways

while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

Verse ConceptsFalse VisionsFalse WaysProphesying Lies

Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you, you infamous one [and] full of tumult.

In you have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.

Verse ConceptsMenstruationNakednessNakedness UncoveredBleedingShaming PeopleSex And Uncleanness

I sought for a man among them, who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.

Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessWallsGapsFigurative WallsNo One AvailableMasculinitybridges

who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.

Verse ConceptsGovernorsBeauty, In MenColors, PurplePurple Clothes

Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.

Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side:

Verse ConceptsPeople OpposedGod Urging

For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of them from whom your soul is alienated;

Verse ConceptsGod Will Cause Defeat

For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands; and with their idols have they committed adultery; and they have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through [the fire] to them to be devoured.

Verse ConceptsChild sacrificeFood For Other godsFood Offered To IdolsKilling Sons And Daughters

Furthermore you have sent for men who come from far, to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came; for whom you did wash yourself, paint your eyes, and decorate yourself with ornaments,

Verse ConceptsBathing, For RefreshmentOrnamentsCosmeticsEyes Cared ForWearing Jewellerycatsjewelrymakeup

Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, Now will they play the prostitute with her, and she [with them].

Verse ConceptsDebauchery

Righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

Verse ConceptsSheddingCondemnation Of The WickedJudged As Murderers

Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.

Verse ConceptsFortressesKilled With The SwordChildren SufferingPolluting Holy Places

that in that day he who escapes shall come to you, to cause you to hear it with your ears?

Verse ConceptsFugitives

In that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped, and you shall speak, and be no more mute: so you will be a sign to them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsPeople As SignsDumbnessDumb

Her daughters who are in the field shall be slain with the sword: and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsKilled With The Sword

They shall take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, How you are destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who lived there!

Verse ConceptsMarinersFearing Other People

then will I bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living:

Verse ConceptsPitsArchaeologyEmpty CitiesGoing Down To The PitAbasing PeoplePits As A Term For Graves

and tell Tyre, you who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands, thus says the Lord Yahweh: You, Tyre, have said, I am perfect in beauty.

Verse ConceptsExaggerationsEntering CitiesSea DwellersPeople Made Perfect

Your riches, and your wares, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, and the dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, with all your company which is in the midst of you, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.

Verse ConceptsMarinersSoldiersSealing ThingsThings Fallingsailing

All who handled the oar, the mariners, [and] all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they shall stand on the land,

Verse ConceptsMarinersMan Going DownRowingsailing

In their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, [saying], Who is there like Tyre, like her who is brought to silence in the midst of the sea?

Verse ConceptsWailingUnique Nations

They shall bring you down to the pit; and you shall die the death of those who are slain, in the heart of the seas.

Verse ConceptsHumiliationPitsGoing Down To The PitHow Death Is InevitableIn The Heart Of The SeaPits As A Term For Graves

Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am God? but you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.

Verse ConceptsMen As Godsartists

You were the anointed cherub who covers: and I set you, [so that] you were on the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

Verse ConceptsAngelsAnointed By GodCherubimLucifer

By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your traffic, you have profaned your sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of you; it has devoured you, and I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you.

Verse ConceptsAshesMoney, Stewardship OfSanctuaryTradeTrustworthinessFire Of Judgement

All those who know you among the peoples shall be astonished at you: you have become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.

Verse ConceptsKnowing PeopleIndividuals Passing AwayPeople Appalled

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then shall they dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob.

Verse ConceptsGathering Israel

They shall dwell securely therein; yes, they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and shall dwell securely, when I have executed judgments on all those who do them despite all around them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh their God.

Verse ConceptsAssurance, basis ofSafetyVineyardPlanting Vineyards

Thus says Yahweh: They also who uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Seveneh shall they fall in it by the sword, says the Lord Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsAliancesPride, OriginKilled With The SwordGroups HelpingThe Proud Will Be Abased

Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: Whom are you like in your greatness?

Verse ConceptsUnique Nations

to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, [even] all who drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.

Verse ConceptsPitsSon Of ManGoing Down To The PitHow Death Is InevitableThings On HighWhy It Happened

I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.

Verse ConceptsThe DeadGroups TremblingMetaphorical TreesHuman Comfort

They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, [that] lived under his shadow in the midst of the nations.

Verse ConceptsDeath Of CreaturesMetaphorical Trees

To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth: you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsUncircumcisionDeath Of CreaturesThings Like PeopleDying With The UncircumcisedPutting Things Down

When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, a land destitute of that of which it was full, when I shall strike all those who dwell therein, then shall they know that I am Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of Countries