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for I will cast thee upon the land. I let thee lie upon the field, that all the fowls of the air may sit upon thee; I will give all the beasts of the field enough of thee.

Verse ConceptsThrowing PeopleAnimals Eating PeopleWild Animals Devouring


“And I will scatter your flesh on the mountains
And fill the valleys with your debris [your corpses and their worms].

And watered the land with thy flowing, From thy blood -- unto the mountains, And streams are filled from thee.

Verse ConceptsHuman Blood Shed

And I will cover [you] at extinguishing your heavens, and I will make dark their stars, and I will cover [the] sun with the cloud, and [the] moon will not give its light.

Verse ConceptsMoonEclipsesDarkening Sun Moon And StarsDarkness At The EndAstronomical SignsCosmic DisturbancesLuciferThe Moon


“All the bright lights in the heavens
I will darken over you
And I will place darkness on your land,”
Says the Lord God.

Verse ConceptsDarkening Sun Moon And StarsDarkness At The End

I will also put fear into the hearts of many peoples when I bring your destruction [and captivity] among the nations, into countries which you have not known.

Verse ConceptsNot Knowing PeopleTroubling Groups Of People

And I have made many peoples astonished at thee, And their kings are afraid at thee with trembling, In My brandishing My sword before their faces, And they have trembled every moment, Each for his life -- in the day of thy fall.

Verse ConceptsGroups TremblingFear, Of DeathFear Of DeathPeople AppalledGod's Sword

By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall; the terrible of the nations are they all: and they shall bring to nought the pride of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.

Verse ConceptsKilled With The SwordThe Proud Will Be Abased

I will slaughter all its cattle
that are beside many waters.
No human foot will churn them again,
and no cattle hooves will disturb them.

Verse ConceptsBoth Men And Animals Affected

This is the dirge (funeral poem to be sung) and they shall sing it [for her]. The daughters of the nations shall sing it; for Egypt and for all her hordes they shall sing it,” says the Lord God.

Verse ConceptsSongsChantingSad MusicMourning Due To Catastrophe

It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Verse ConceptsDay 15

Son of man, let your voice be loud in sorrow for the people of Egypt and send them down, even you and the daughters of the nations; I will send them down into the lowest parts of the earth, with those who go down into the underworld.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersdepthGoing Down To The Pit

{You are more lovely than whom}? Go down and be laid in rest with [the] uncircumcised.

Verse ConceptsUncircumcisionDying With The UncircumcisedState Of The DeadBeauty Of Nature

They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.

Verse ConceptsKilled With The Sword

The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

Verse ConceptsDying With The UncircumcisedState Of The Dead

Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:

Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.

Verse ConceptsGoing Down To The PitFearing Other PeopleLife And Death

There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.

Verse ConceptsdepthDying With The UncircumcisedFearing Other PeopleLife And DeathShame Has Come

They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.

Verse ConceptsDying With The UncircumcisedFearing Other PeopleLife And DeathState Of The DeadShame Has Come

There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.

Verse ConceptsDying With The UncircumcisedFearing Other PeopleLife And Death

And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

Verse ConceptsIniquity, Punishment ForHell, Punishment OfWeaponsFearing Other PeopleLife And DeathState Of The Dead

Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.

Verse ConceptsBrokennessDying With The UncircumcisedState Of The Dead

There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.

Verse ConceptsGoing Down To The PitDying With The Uncircumcised

There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.

Verse ConceptsShameGoing Down To The PitDying With The UncircumcisedFearing Other PeopleShame Has Come

"Pharaoh will see them and be consoled over all his hordes who were killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all his army, declares the sovereign Lord.

Verse ConceptsHuman Comfort

For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

Verse ConceptsDying With The UncircumcisedFearing Other PeopleLife And Death

“Son of man, speak to the sons of your people [who are exiled in Babylon] and say to them, ‘If I bring a sword on a land, and the people of the land take one man from among them and make him their watchman,

Verse ConceptsSwordsWatchman

But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, he is taken away because of his corruption and sin; but I will require his blood from the watchman’s hand.’

Verse ConceptsBeing A WitnessResponsibility, For God's WorldAccountabilityTrumpets For SignallingWarning IndividualsResponsible To WarnResponsibility

So you, son of man, I have made you a watchman for the children of Israel; and you are to give ear to the word of my mouth and give them news from me of their danger.

When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will certainly die,’ and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man will die because of his sin; but I will require his blood from your hand.

Verse ConceptsPunishment, Nature OfWarning IndividualsResponsible To WarnThe Wicked Will PerishAccountability

But if you on your part warn the wicked man to turn from his [evil] way and he does not turn from his [evil] way, he will die in his sin; but you have saved your life.

Verse ConceptsRepent Lest You DieSaving Oneself

Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?

Verse ConceptsOffenceSurvival

Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forGod, Will OfPleasing GodPleasureNot Pleasing GodRepent Lest You DieDeathPunishment of the The Wickedpressure

And you, son of man, say to the sons of your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not save him in the day of his transgression; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stagger because of it in the day that he turns from his wickedness, whereas a righteous man will not be able to live because of his [previous acts of] righteousness on the day when he commits sin.’

Verse ConceptsPeople In RighteousnessThings Which Cannot Save

In My saying of the righteous: He surely liveth, And -- he hath trusted on his righteousness, And he hath done perversity, All his righteous acts are not remembered, And for his perversity that he hath done, For it he doth die.

Verse ConceptsdistrustTrust, Lack OfTrusting YourselfGod Forgetting

And when I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly be your fate; if he is turned from his sin and does what is ordered and right;

“Yet your people [who are in exile in Babylon] say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right;’ but as for them, it is their own way that is not right.

Verse ConceptsIs God Unjust?

Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right.’ O house of Israel, I will judge you, every one [of you] in accordance with his own ways!”

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeInfidelity To GodPartialityIs God Unjust?Repaid For DeedsScoffers

And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.

Verse ConceptsAttackingThe Fifth Day Of The WeekMonth 10Destruction Of JerusalemEscaping EvilDay 5

Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.

Verse ConceptsArchaeologyOnly One PersonMany In Israel

Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?

Verse ConceptsSheddingPeople Consuming BloodIdol WorshipJudged As MurderersEating Meat

Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?

Verse ConceptsUnreliabilityThose Who Committed Adultery

Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.

Verse ConceptsAnimals, religious role ofCavesPlaguesPeople In CavesAnimals Eating PeopleKilled With The SwordWild Animals DevouringCaves As Places Of Refuge

And I gave the land a desolation and an amazement, and I caused the pride of her strength to cease; and the mountains of Israel were desolate from none passing through.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of CountriesLand Becoming EmptyThe Mountains Of IsraelThe Proud Will Be AbasedHer Strength

Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the LORD.

Verse ConceptsInfidelity To GodConversation

And lo, thou art to them as a singer of doting loves, A pleasant voice, and playing well on an instrument, And they have heard thy words, and they are not doing them.

Verse ConceptsListeningSongsSpiritual DeafnessProfessingShallownesspracticeimprovement

"Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and you must say to them, to the shepherds, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Woe [to] the shepherds of Israel who were feeding themselves! Must not the shepherds feed the flock?

Verse ConceptsNoblesFeeding AnimalsProphesy!Woe To Israel And JerusalemAbuse

And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.

Verse ConceptsInadequate ShepherdingScattered Like SheepAnimals Eating People

My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.

Verse ConceptsHillsWanderersScattered Like SheepEscaping To MountainsNot Seeking PeopleNo One Available

For this cause, O keepers of the flock, give ear to the word of the Lord:

Verse ConceptsInadequate Shepherding

"As certainly as I'm alive and living, my sheep have truly become victims, food for all of the wild animals because there are no shepherds. My shepherds did not go searching for my flock. Instead, the shepherds fed themselves, and my flock they would not feed!'

Verse ConceptsSelfishnessAnimals Eating PeopleFeeding AnimalsNot Seeking PeopleNo One Available

For this reason, O you keepers of the flock, give ear to the word of the Lord;

Verse ConceptsInadequate Shepherding

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am against the shepherds, And have required My flock from their hand, And caused them to cease from feeding the flock, And no more do the shepherds feed themselves, And I have delivered My flock from their mouth, And they are not to them for food.

Verse ConceptsChrist And His SheepCessationGod Saves The NeedyTaking Other People

As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorShepherds, As Kings And LeadersDarkness During DaytimeGod Saves The Needy

And I will take them out from among the peoples, and get them together from the countries, and will take them into their land; and I will give them food on the mountains of Israel by the water-streams and wherever men are living in the country.

Verse ConceptsGathering IsraelThe Mountains Of Israel

Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?

Verse ConceptsSocial SelfishnessDrinking WaterResidue

And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.

Verse ConceptsRepulsive FoodDrinking Water

Therefore thus says the Lord God to them, “Behold, I Myself will judge between the [well-fed] fat sheep and the lean sheep.

Verse ConceptsFatnessCattleFat AnimalsThin Bodies

Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;

Verse ConceptsHornsShouldersScattered Like SheepHorns Of AnimalsHorns WeakenedPropelling

And I have given safety to My flock, And they are not any more for prey, And I have judged between sheep and sheep.

Verse ConceptsGod Saves The Needy

“I will make a covenant of peace with them and will eliminate the predatory animals from the land so that they may live securely in the wilderness and sleep [safely] in the woods.

Verse ConceptsForestsCovenant, God's with NoahSafetySleep, PhysicalShowersBlessing In The WildernessWild Beasts SubduedSleeping Peacefully

And I have given them, and the suburbs of my hill, a blessing, And caused the shower to come down in its season, Showers of blessing they are.

Verse ConceptsShowersBlessing Through God's PeopleGod Will BlessBlessings From GodBlessings And Prosperitywaterfalls

And they are no more a prey to nations, And the beast of the earth devoureth them not, And they have dwelt confidently, And there is none troubling.

Verse ConceptsAnimals Eating PeopleFreed From FearGod Will Keep Safe

And I have raised for them a plant for renown, And they are no more consumed by hunger in the land, And they bear no more the shame of the nations.

Verse ConceptsBad CounselNo More FamineAgriculture

Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord GOD.

Verse ConceptsGod With You

“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir (Edom), and prophesy against it


“I will destroy your cities
And you will become a wasteland.
Then you shall know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord.

Verse ConceptsArchaeologyDestruction Of Cities

Because you [descendants of Esau] have had an everlasting hatred [for Jacob (Israel)] and you handed over the sons of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their tragedy, at the time of their final punishment [the Babylonian conquest],

Verse ConceptsMalice, Examples OfEternal Evil

I will turn Mount Seir into a desolate ruin; I will cut off from it the one who passes through or returns.

Verse ConceptsLand Becoming Empty

And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.

Verse ConceptsFilling PlacesKilled With The SwordGod KillingGod Will Kill The Peoples

I will make you an everlasting desolation and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord.

Verse ConceptsEternal JudgementEmpty CitiesLand Becoming Empty

Because of thy saying: The two nations and the two lands are mine, and we have possessed it, And Jehovah hath been there;

Verse ConceptsTwo GroupsPeople Possessing Other Things

therefore, as I live,” says the Lord God, “I will deal with you in accordance with the anger and envy you showed because of your hatred for them; and I will make Myself known among them [as Judge] when I judge and punish you.

Verse ConceptsEnvy, Example OfAccording To ThingsThose Who Envied

And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.

Verse ConceptsBlasphemy, At GodIrreverenceAnimals Eating PeopleGod Hearing

Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.

Verse ConceptsFaultsToo Many WordsProud People

This is what the Lord has said: Because you were glad over my land when it was a waste, so will I do to you:

Verse ConceptsRejoicing Over Justice

{Like your rejoicing over the inheritance of the house of Israel} {because} it was desolate, I will do to you; you will be desolation, mountain of Seir and all of Edom, indeed all of it; and they will know that I [am] Yahweh.'" '

Verse ConceptsGod Makes Evil ReboundRejoicing In Evil

And you, son of man, be a prophet about the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord:

Verse ConceptsProphesy!

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:

Verse ConceptsInfidelity To GodEternal WorldTaking Possession

Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:

Verse ConceptsVain TalkPressingFaintnessTaking PossessionUnder One's BreathFungossiping

Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;

Verse ConceptsArchaeologyCities Under AttackAbandoning ThingsThe Mountains Of Israel

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.

Verse ConceptsGod Swearing HarmInsulting Other PeopleSwearing

But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.

Verse ConceptsHomeGroups going homeBearing FruitNear The Time Generally

And I have multiplied on you men, All the house of Israel -- all of it, And the cities have been inhabited, And the wastes are built.

Verse ConceptsWaste Places RestoredInhabitationGod Multipling PeopleRebuilding JerusalemRebirth Of IsraelValley Of Dry Bones

And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, NaturalKnowledge, Of GodInhabitationGod Doing GoodGod Multipling PeoplePeople MultiplyingBoth Men And Animals SavedfruitfulnessReproduction, After Kind

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because they are saying to you: A devourer of men art thou, And a bereaver of thy nations thou hast been,

Verse ConceptsBereavementPeople Destroying Foreign Nations

therefore you will no longer devour people, and no longer bereave your nation of children,’ says the Lord God.

Verse ConceptsBereavementNot Destroyed

I will not let you hear insults from the nations anymore, nor will you bear disgrace from the peoples any longer, nor will you cause your nation to stumble [through idolatry] any longer,” says the Lord God.’”

Verse ConceptsDo Not HinderInsulting Other PeopleFunhomecoming

'Son of man, The house of Israel are dwelling on their land, And they defile it by their way and by their doings, As the uncleanness of a separated one hath their way been before Me.

Verse ConceptsBleedingPolluting The Land

And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.

Verse ConceptsMan's WaysGod Scattering IsraelRepaid For Deeds

And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.

Verse ConceptsReproachHoliness, Purpose OfOther People Of GodMisusing God's Name

Then I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel profaned among the nations where they went.

Verse ConceptsMisusing God's Namepity

Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.

Verse ConceptsNot For The SakeMisusing God's Name

And I have sanctified My great name, That is profaned among nations, That ye have polluted in your midst, And known have the nations that I am Jehovah, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, In My being sanctified in you before your eyes.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfMission, Of IsraelProfaning God's NameHoliness