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| 1 The calling of Ezekiel (1:1-3:15) 2:7(But speak my words to them, whether they heed or resist, for they are rebellious.) | The words which prophet must tell | 13 God's judgment justified (14:1-15:8) 14:9As for the prophet, if he is beguiled into speaking a word, I, the LORD, shall have beguiled that prophet; I will stretch out my hand against him and root him out of my people Israel. |
| 2 Ezekiel at the river Chebar (3:16-27) 3:18If I say to the wicked man, You shall surely die; and you do not warn him or speak out to dissuade him from his wicked conduct so that he may live: that wicked man shall die for his sin, but I will hold you responsible for his death. | Sin of prophet | 12 False prophets condemned (13:1-23) 13:9But I will stretch out my hand against the prophets who have false visions and who foretell lies. They shall not belong to the community of my people, nor be recorded in the register of the house of Israel, nor enter the land of Israel; |
| 3 Defiled bread (4:1-15) 4:3 This shall be a sign for the house of Israel. (4:3) | A sign for the house of Israel | 11 Judah's captivity portrayed (12:1-28) 12:6 I have made you a sign for the house of Israel. (12:6) |
| 4 Hair and beard (4:16-5:17) 5:12 and a third I will scatter in every direction, and I will pursue them with the sword. (5:12) | Prophecy of exile / return | 10 God will restore Israel (11:1-25) 11:17I will gather you from the nations and assemble you from the countries over which you have been scattered, and I will restore to you the land of Israel. |
| 5 Judgment on idolatrous Israel (6:1-14) 6:6In all your dwelling places cities shall be made desolate and high places laid waste, so that your altars will be made desolate and laid waste, your idols broken and removed, and your incense stands smashed to bits. | Desolated altar / glory of temple | 9 God's glory leaves Jerusalem (10:1-22) 10:4I saw there the glory of the God of Israel, like the vision I had seen in the plain. The cherubim were stationed to the right of the temple; |
| 6 Impending disaster (7:1-27) 7:4 I will not look upon you with pity nor have mercy; | No pity, no mercy | 8 The slaughter of the idolaters (9:1-11) 9:10I, however, will not look upon them with pity, nor show any mercy. |
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| 1 The calling of Ezekiel (1:1-3:15) 1:3the word of the LORD came to the priest Ezekiel, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar.--There the hand of the LORD came upon me. | The hand of the Lord coming on, vision | 7 Abominations in the temple (8:1-18) 8:1the hand of the Lord GOD fell upon me there. |
| 2 Ezekiel at the river Chebar (3:16-27) 3:17When you hear a word from my mouth, you shall warn them for me. | Telling the word of judgment | 6 Impending disaster (7:1-27) 7:2Son of man, now say: Thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land! |
| 3 Defiled bread (4:1-15) 4:7 Fixing your gaze on the siege of Jerusalem, with bared arm you shall prophesy against it.(4:7) | Prophesy | 5 Judgment on idolatrous Israel (6:1-14) 6:2 Son of man, turn toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them: (6:2) |
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| 7 Abominations in the temple (8:1-18) 8:1On the fifth day of the sixth month, in the sixth year, as I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, | Elders of Israel | 13 God's judgment justified (14:1-15:8) 14:1When certain elders of Israel came and sat down before me, |
| 7 Abominations in the temple (8:1-18) 8:6Son of man, he asked me, do you see what they are doing? Do you see the great abominations that the house of Israel is practicing here, so that I must depart from my sanctuary? But you shall see still greater abominations! | Rebuking to idolatry | 13 God's judgment justified (14:1-15:8) 14:3Son of man, these men have the memory of their idols fresh in their hearts, and they keep the occasion of their sin before them. Why should I allow myself to be consulted by them? |
| 8 The slaughter of the idolaters (9:1-11) 9:8Alas, Lord GOD! Will you destroy all that is left of Israel when you pour out your fury on Jerusalem?" | Wrath of God | 12 False prophets condemned (13:1-23) 13:15When I have spent my fury on the wall and its whitewashers, I tell you there shall be no wall, nor shall there be whitewashers-- |
| 9 God's glory leaves Jerusalem (10:1-22) 10:1I looked and saw in the firmament above the cherubim what appeared to be sapphire stone; something like a throne could be seen upon it. | Vision | 11 Judah's captivity portrayed (12:1-28) 12:23say to them: The days are at hand, and also the fulfillment of every vision. |
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| 13 God's judgment justified (14:1-15:8) 14:14and even if these three men were in it, Noah, Daniel, and Job, they could save only themselves by their virtue, says the Lord GOD. | Righteous person can only save himself | 25 Ezekiel's bereavement (24:15-27) 24:18That evening my wife died, and the next morning I did as I had been commanded. |
| 14 God's faithless bride (16:1-63) 16:15But you were captivated by your own beauty, you used your renown to make yourself a harlot, and you lavished your harlotry on every passer-by, whose own you became. | Harlotry of Israel | 24 The boiling pot (24:1-14) 24:13Because you have sullied yourself with lewdness when I would have purified you, and you refused to be purified of your uncleanness, therefore you shall not be purified until I wreak my fury on you. |
| 15 The two eagles and the vine (17:1-24) 17:16As I live, says the Lord GOD, in the home of the king who set him up to rule, whose oath he spurned, whose covenant with him he broke, there in Babylon I swear he shall die! 17:17 When ramps are cast up and siege towers are built for the destruction of many lives, he shall not be saved in the conflict by Pharaoh with a great army and numerous troops. | Alliance with Babylon and Egypt | 23 Oholah and Oholibah (23:1-49) 23:7Thus she gave herself as a harlot to them, to all the elite of the Assyrians, and she defiled herself with all those for whom she lusted (with all their idols). 23:8 She did not give up the harlotry which she had begun in Egypt, when they had lain with her as a young girl, fondling her virginal breasts and pouring out their impurities on her. |
| 16 Individual retribution (18:1-32) 18:5If a man is virtuous--if he does what is right and just, 18:6if he does not eat on the mountains, nor raise his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel; if he does not defile his neighbor's wife, nor have relations with a woman in her menstrual period; 18:7 if he oppresses no one, gives back the pledge received for a debt, commits no robbery; if he gives food to the hungry and clothes the naked; 18:8 if he does not lend at interest nor exact usury; if he holds off from evildoing, judges fairly between a man and his opponent; 18:9 if he lives by my statutes and is careful to observe my ordinances, that man is virtuous--he shall surely live, says the Lord GOD. | Justice / injustice | 22 The blood city (22:1-31) 22:6See! the princes of Israel, family by family, are in you only for bloodshed. 22:7 Within you, father and mother are despised; in your midst, they extort from the resident alien; within you, they oppress orphans and widows. 22:8 What is holy to me you have spurned, and my sabbaths you have desecrated. 22:9 There are those in you who slander to cause bloodshed; within you are those who feast on the mountains; in your midst are those who do lewd things. 22:10 In you are those who uncover the nakedness of their fathers, and in you those who coerce women in their menstrual period. 22:11 There are those in you who do abominable things with the wives of their neighbors, men who defile their daughters-in-law by incest, men who coerce their sisters, the daughters of their own fathers. 22:12 There are those in you who take bribes to shed blood. You exact interest and usury; you despoil your neighbors violently; |
| 17 Israel degraded (19:1-14) 19:9They put him in a cage and took him away to the king of Babylon, So that his voice would not be heard on the mountains of Israel. | Captivity | 21 Road of the sword (21:23-37) 21:29Because you have drawn attention to your guilt, with your crimes laid bare and your sinfulness in all your wicked deeds revealed (because attention has been drawn to you), you shall be taken in hand. |
| 18 Israel's continuing rebellion (20:1-44) 20:37 I will count you with the staff and bring back but a small number. | Rod | 20 The sword is doubled and tripled (21:13-22) 21:15 You have spurned the rod and every judgment! |
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| 13 God's judgment justified (14:1-15:8) 15:6Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD: Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have destined as fuel for the fire, do I make the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15:7 I will set my face against them; they have escaped from the fire, but the fire shall devour them. | Burned up by fire | 19 The drawn sword of God (21:1-12) 21:3See! I am kindling a fire in you that shall devour all trees, the green as well as the dry. The blazing flame shall not be quenched, but from south to north every face shall be scorched by it. 21:4 Everyone shall see that I, the LORD, have kindled it, and it shall not be quenched. |
| 14 God's faithless bride (16:1-63) 16:20The sons and daughters you had borne me you took and offered as sacrifices to be devoured by them! Was it not enough that you had become a harlot? | Idolatry | 18 Israel's continuing rebellion (20:1-44) 20:8But they rebelled against me and refused to listen to me; none of them threw away the detestable things that had held their eyes, they did not abandon the idols of Egypt. |
| 15 The two eagles and the vine (17:1-24) 17:12The king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and took away its king and princes with him to Babylon. | Babylonian captivity | 17 Israel degraded (19:1-14) 19:9They put him in a cage and took him away to the king of Babylon, |
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| 19 The drawn sword of God (21:1-12) 21:9 Thus my sword shall leave its sheath against everyone from south to north, | Ruined by a sword | 25 Ezekiel's bereavement (24:15-27) 24:21The sons and daughters you left behind shall fall by the sword. |
| 20 The sword is doubled and tripled (21:13-22) 21:17Cry out and wail, son of man, for it is destined for my people; It is for all the princes of Israel, victims of the sword with my people. | Start of ruin | 24 The boiling pot (24:1-14) 24:2Son of man, write down this date today, for this very day the king of Babylon has invested Jerusalem. |
| 21 Road of the sword (21:23-37) 21:35In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you. | Judgment | 23 Oholah and Oholibah (23:1-49) 23:45But just men shall punish them with the sentence meted out to adulteresses and murderesses, for they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. |
| 21 Road of the sword (21:23-37) 21:36I will pour out my indignation upon you, breathing my fiery wrath upon you, I will hand you over to ravaging men, artisans of destruction. 21:37 You shall be fuel for the fire, your blood shall flow throughout the land. You shall not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken. | Ruin of evil by fire | 23 Oholah and Oholibah (23:1-49) 23:47The assembly shall stone them and hack them to pieces with their swords. They shall slay their sons and daughters, and burn their houses with fire. 23:48 Thus I will put an end to lewdness in the land, and all the women will be warned not to imitate your lewdness. |
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| 25 Ezekiel's bereavement (24:15-27) 24:25 As for you, son of man, truly, on the day I take away from them their bulwark, their glorious joy, the delight of their eyes, the desire of their soul, and the pride of their hearts, their sons and daughters, | The day when people are scattered | 37 God, the true shepherd (34:11-31) 34:12 As a shepherd tends his flock when he finds himself among his scattered sheep, so will I tend my sheep. I will rescue them from every place where they were scattered when it was cloudy and dark. |
| 26 Proclamation against Ammon, Moab, Edom and Philistia (25:1-17) 25:3 Because you cried out your joy over the desecration of my sanctuary, the devastation of the land of Israel, and the exile of the house of Judah, | Devastation and exile of Israel | 36 Israel's false shepherds (34:1-10) 34:5 So they were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and became food for all the wild beasts. My sheep were scattered |
| 26 Proclamation against Ammon, Moab, Edom and Philistia (25:1-17) 25:4 Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk. | Drinking milk | 36 Israel's false shepherds (34:1-10) 34:3 You have fed off their milk, worn their wool, and slaughtered the fatlings, but the sheep you have not pastured. |
| 27 Proclamation against Tyre and Sidon (26:1-28:26) 26:20 then I will thrust you down with those who descend into the pit, those of the bygone age; and I will make you dwell in the nether lands, in the everlasting ruins, with those who go down to the pit, so that you may never return to take your place in the land of the living. | Ruin | 35 The fall of Jerusalem (33:21-33) 33:27 As I live, those who are in the ruins I swear shall fall by the sword; those who are in the open field I have given to the wild beasts for food; and those who are in fastnesses and in caves shall die by the plague. |
| 28 Proclamation against Egypt (29:1-16) 29:8 See! I will bring the sword against you, and cut off from you both man and beast. | Bringing the sword | 34 Ezekiel Israel's sentry (33:1-20) 33:2 Son of man, speak thus to your countrymen: When I bring the sword against a country, and the people of this country select one of their number to be their watchman, |
| 29 Babylonia will plunder Egypt (29:17-30:19) 30:4 Then a sword shall come upon Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain fall in Egypt, when her riches are seized and her foundations are overthrown. 30:5 Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all Arabia, Libya, and people of the allied territory shall fall by the sword with them. | Devastation of alliance of Egypt | 33 Dirge over Egypt (32:17-32) 32:21 Come down, you and your allies, lie with the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword. |
| 30 Proclamation against Pharaoh (30:20-26) 30:21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and see, it has not been bound up with bandages and healing remedies that it may be strong enough to hold the sword. | Pharaoh's decline | 32 Lamentation over Pharaoh and Egypt (32:1-16) 32:2 Son of man, utter a lament over Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, saying to him |
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| 25 Ezekiel's bereavement (24:15-27) 24:17 Groan in silence, make no lament for the dead, bind on your turban, put your sandals on your feet, do not cover your beard, and do not eat the customary bread. | Death and lamentation | 31 The lofty cedar (31:1-18) 31:15 Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day he went down to the nether world I made the abyss close up over him; I stopped its streams so that the deep waters were held back. I cast gloom over Lebanon because of him, so that all the trees in the land drooped on his account. |
| 26 Proclamation against Ammon, Moab, Edom and Philistia (25:1-17) 25:7 therefore I will stretch out my hand against you. I will make you plunder for the nations, I will cut you off from the peoples, and remove you from the lands. I will destroy you, and thus you shall know that I am the LORD. | Foreigners are scattered among nations | 30 Proclamation against Pharaoh (30:20-26) 30:23 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and strew them over foreign lands. |
| 27 Proclamation against Tyre and Sidon (26:1-28:26) 26:3 See! I am coming at you, Tyre; I will churn up against you many nations, even as the sea churns up its waves; | Ruin of Tyre | 29 Babylonia will plunder Egypt (29:17-30:19) 29:20 as payment for his toil I have given him the land of Egypt, says the Lord GOD. |
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| 31 The lofty cedar (31:1-18) 31:16 At the crash of his fall I made the nations rock, when I cast him down to the nether world with those who go down into the pit. In the land below, all Eden's trees were consoled, Lebanon's choice and best, all that were fed by water. | Promise of salvation | 37 God, the true shepherd (34:11-31) 34:12 As a shepherd tends his flock when he finds himself among his scattered sheep, so will I tend my sheep. I will rescue them from every place where they were scattered when it was cloudy and dark. |
| 32 Lamentation over Pharaoh and Egypt (32:1-16) 32:13 I will have all of her animals perish beside her abundant waters; The foot of man shall stir them no longer, nor shall the hoof of beast disturb them. | Scattered animals | 36 Israel's false shepherds (34:1-10) 34:5 So they were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and became food for all the wild beasts. My sheep were scattered |
| 33 Dirge over Egypt (32:17-32) 32:20 In the midst of those slain by the sword shall they fall, and place shall be made with them for all their hordes. Then from the midst of the nether world, the mighty warriors shall speak to Egypt: | Slain by sword | 35 The fall of Jerusalem (33:21-33) 33:27 As I live, those who are in the ruins I swear shall fall by the sword; those who are in the open field I have given to the wild beasts for food; and those who are in fastnesses and in caves shall die by the plague. |
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| 37 God, the true shepherd (34:11-31) 34:13 I will lead them out from among the peoples and gather them from the foreign lands; I will bring them back to their own country and pasture them upon the mountains of Israel (in the land's ravines and all its inhabited places). | The land of Israel | 49 The new boundaries of the land (47:13-48:34) 47:13 These are the boundaries within which you shall apportion the land among the twelve tribes of Israel |
| 38 Judgment on Mount Seir (35:1-36:15) 36:10 and I will settle crowds of men upon you, the whole house of Israel; cities shall be repeopled, and ruins rebuilt. 36:11 I will settle crowds of men and beasts upon you, to multiply and be fruitful. | Revival of the land | 48 Water flowing from the temple (46:19-47:12) 47:9 Wherever the river flows, every sort of living creature that can multiply shall live, and there shall be abundant fish, for wherever this water comes the sea shall be made fresh. |
| 39 The renewal of Israel (36:16-38) 36:25 I will sprinkle clean water upon you to cleanse you from all your impurities, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. | Cleansing | 47 Festivals and offerings (45:10-46:18) 45:18 Thus says the Lord GOD: On the first day of the first month you shall use an unblemished young bull as a sacrifice to purify the sanctuary. |
| 40 The valley of dry bones (37:1-14) 37:14 I will put my spirit in you that you may live, and I will settle you upon your land; | Being made to live in land | 46 The holy district (45:1-9) 45:1 When you apportion the land into inheritances, you shall set apart a sacred tract of land for the LORD |
| 41 The two sticks (37:15-28) 37:23 No longer shall they defile themselves with their idols, their abominations, and all their transgressions. I will deliver them from all their sins of apostasy, and cleanse them so that they may be my people and I may be their God. | The clean and the unclean | 45 The Levitical priests (44:4-31) 44:23 They shall teach my people to distinguish between the sacred and the profane, and make known to them the difference between the clean and the unclean. |
| 42 Invasion by Gog (38:1-39:29) 39:7 I will make my holy name known among my people Israel; I will no longer allow my holy name to be profaned. | Holy name is not profaned | 44 The divine glory returns to the temple (43:1-44:3) 43:7 Never again shall they and their kings profane my holy name with their harlotries and with the corpses of their kings (their high places). |
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| 37 God, the true shepherd (34:11-31) 34:13 I will lead them out from among the peoples and gather them from the foreign lands; I will bring them back to their own country and pasture them upon the mountains of Israel (in the land's ravines and all its inhabited places). | Future Israel | 43 The vision of the new temple (40:1-42:20) 40:2 in divine visions to the land of Israel, where he set me down on a very high mountain. On it there seemed to be a city being built before me. |
| 38 Judgment on Mount Seir (35:1-36:15) 35:3 I am coming at you, Mount Seir. I will stretch out my hand against you and make you a desolate waste. | Ruin of foreign country | 42 Invasion by Gog (38:1-39:29) 38:3 See! I am coming at you, Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. |
| 39 The renewal of Israel (36:16-38) 36:24 For I will take you away from among the nations, gather you from all the foreign lands, and bring you back to your own land. | Return | 41 The two sticks (37:15-28) 37:21 I will take the Israelites from among the nations to which they have come, and gather them from all sides to bring them back to their land. |
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| 43 The vision of the new temple (40:1-42:20) 40:2 in divine visions to the land of Israel, where he set me down on a very high mountain. On it there seemed to be a city being built before me. | Future Israel | 49 The new boundaries of the land (47:13-48:34) 47:13 These are the boundaries within which you shall apportion the land among the twelve tribes of Israel |
| 44 The divine glory returns to the temple (43:1-44:3) 43:4 as the glory of the LORD entered the temple by way of the gate which faces the east, | The gate of the temple which faces the east | 48 Water flowing from the temple (46:19-47:12) 47:2 He led me outside by the north gate, and around to the outer gate facing the east, where I saw water trickling from the southern side. |
| 45 The Levitical priests (44:4-31) 44:5 Son of man, pay strict attention, look carefully, and listen intently to all that I will tell you about the statutes and laws of the LORD'S temple | The laws of rituals | 47 Festivals and offerings (45:10-46:18) 45:15 One sheep from the flock for every two hundred from the pasturage of Israel, for sacrifice-- holocausts and peace offerings and atonement sacrifices, says the Lord GOD. |