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In the South, food and music go hand in hand. They define much of what we think of as Southern culture, and they say a lot about our past, our present, and our future. Each week, Sid Evans, Editor in Chief of Southern Living, sits down with musicians, chefs, and other Southern icons to hear the stories of how they grew up, what inspires them, and why they feel connected to the region. Through honest conversations, Sid explores childhood memories, the family meals they still think about, and the intersection of food and music in their lives. Always surprising, always engaging, Biscuits & Jam is a celebration of the South—and the people who are moving it forward every day. New episodes every Tuesday.
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Through My Bible Yr 02 – June 11 Psalms 77 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – June 11 Psalms 77 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0611db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Psalm 77 Will the Lord Reject Forever? Heading For the choir director. According to Jeduthun. [1] By Asaph. A psalm. The Question 1 With my voice to God— with my voice I cried out to God, and he listened to me. 2 In the day when I was distressed I sought the Lord. At night my hand was stretched out, and it never grew tired, but my soul refused to be comforted. 3 God, I remembered and I groaned. Interlude I pondered, and my spirit became weak. 4 You propped my eyelids open. I was troubled but did not speak. 5 I thought about the days of long ago, the years long past. 6 During the night I remembered my music. With my heart I pondered, and my spirit asked, 7 “Will the Lord reject forever? Will he never again show favor? 8 Has his mercy vanished to the end? Has what he said failed for all generations? 9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Interlude Has he really shut up his compassion in anger?” The Answer 10 Then I said, “This is what hurts me: the change of the right hand of the Most High.” [2] 11 I will remember the deeds of the Lord . [3] Yes, I will remember your wonderful work from long ago. 12 I will meditate on all your work, and I will ponder all your deeds. 13 O God, your way is carried out in holiness. What god is as great as God? 14 You are the God who performs a wonderful deed. You made known your power among the peoples. 15 With your arm you redeemed your people, the descendants of Jacob and Joseph. Interlude 16 The waters saw you, O God. The waters saw you and swirled. Even the depths were turbulent. 17 The clouds poured down water. The skies echoed with thunder. Indeed, your arrows shot back and forth. 18 The sound of your thunder was heard in the tornado. Lightning lit up the world. The earth trembled and quaked. 19 Your route led through the sea. Your trail went through the mighty waters, but your footprints were not detected. 20 You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. Footnotes Psalm 77:1 This may refer to a tune or musical style associated with Jeduthun , a musician who was a contemporary of David. Psalm 77:10 The meaning of this line is cryptic. The Hebrew seems to say: This is my wounding, the changing (or the years ) of the right hand of the Most High. Psalm 77:11 Yah , the short form of the divine name, is used instead of the full form, Yahweh. The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved. Share this entry Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share by Mail Link to Flickr Link to Instagram Link to Vimeo…
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Through My Bible Yr 02 – June 10 Psalms 75 – 76 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – June 10 Psalms 75 – 76 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0610db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Psalm 75 The God of History Heading For the choir director. “Do Not Destroy.” [1] A psalm by Asaph. A song. Opening Praise 1 We give thanks to you, O God, we give thanks. Your wonderful deeds reveal that your name is near. God’s Declaration 2 Yes, I choose the appointed time. I am the one who judges rightly. 3 The earth and all its inhabitants are shaking. I am the one who holds its pillars firm. Interlude 4 I say to the boasters, “Do not boast,” and to the wicked, “Do not raise a horn. [2] 5 Do not raise your horns to the heights. Do not speak insolently with an outstretched neck.” His People’s Response 6 Indeed, power to promote someone does not come from the east or from the west or from the wilderness. 7 No, it is God who makes the decision. He brings down one. He raises up another. 8 Indeed, a cup is in the hand of the Lord . The wine foams. It is fully mixed. He pours this out. Yes, they drain its dregs. All the wicked of the earth drink. Closing Praise 9 As for me, I will proclaim this forever. I will make music for the God of Jacob. 10 I will cut off all the horns of the wicked. The horns of the righteous will be lifted up. Psalm 76 The God of Victory Heading For the choir director. With stringed instruments. A psalm by Asaph. A song. God’s Fame 1 God is known in Judah. In Israel his name is great. 2 His shelter is in Salem. His dwelling place is in Zion. God’s Victory 3 There he broke the flaming arrows, Interlude the shield and the sword, and the weapons for battle. 4 You shine brightly as the Mighty One from the mountains full of prey. 5 The strong-hearted are plundered. They have fallen into their final sleep. Not one of the strong men can lift his hands. 6 At your rebuke, [3] O God of Jacob, both chariot and horses sleep. 7 You are to be feared, yes, you. Who can stand before you at the time of your wrath? 8 From heaven you announced judgment. The earth feared and was quiet 9 when you rose up to judge, O God, Interlude and to save all the afflicted of the earth. God’s Fame 10 Even the wrath of mankind [4] will bring you praise. You wear what remains of your wrath like a belt. 11 Make vows to the Lord your God and fulfill them. Let all who are around him bring tribute to the one who is fearsome. 12 He restrains the spirit of nobles. He is fearsome against the kings of the earth. Footnotes Psalm 75:1 This may be the name of the melody. Psalm 75:4 The word used here is not the word for a musical horn (shofar) but the horn which is the weapon of an animal (qeren). Psalm 76:6 Or war cry Psalm 76:10 Or your wrath against man The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved. Share this entry Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share by Mail Link to Flickr Link to Instagram Link to Vimeo…
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Through My Bible Yr 02 – June 09 Psalms 74 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – June 09 Psalms 74 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0609db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Psalm 74 The Destruction of the Temple Heading A maski l [1] by Asaph. Introductory Plea 1 Why do you stay angry to the end, O God? Why does your anger smoke against the flock in your pasture? 2 Remember your community that you purchased long ago, the tribe that you redeemed to be your possession. Remember Mount Zion where you dwell. 3 March toward the perpetual ruins. March against all the evil done by the enemy in the sanctuary. The Destruction 4 Your foes roared in the middle of your appointed place. They set up their battle standards as signs. 5 They looked like men swinging axes in a thicket of trees. 6 Yes, they even chopped up all the carved paneling with their hatchets and hammers. 7 They delivered your sanctuary to the fire. They defiled the dwelling place for your Name by throwing it to the ground. 8 They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely!” They burned all the appointed places of God in the land. Deserted? 9 We do not see any signs to guide us. There is no longer a prophet, and none of us knows how long this will go on. 10 How long will the foe scoff, O God? Will the enemy insult your name forever? 11 Why do you hold back your hand, even your right hand? Take it out of your pocket [2] and finish them off! God’s Past Goodness 12 But you, O God, are my king from long ago, the one who works salvation right here on earth. 13 It was you who shattered the sea by your power. You broke the heads of the great sea monsters. 14 It was you who crushed the heads of Leviathan. [3] You gave him as food to the people who live in the desert. 15 It was you who opened up a spring and a seasonal stream. You dried up the rivers that flow year-round. 16 The day belongs to you, and the night is also yours. You set the moon and sun in place. 17 It was you who laid out all the boundaries of the earth. Summer and winter—you shaped them. Plea for Relief 18 Remember this—the enemy scoffs, Lord , and a foolish people has insulted your name. 19 Do not surrender the life of your turtledove to a wild animal. Do not forget the life of your afflicted ones forever. 20 Pay attention to the covenant, because dens of violence fill the dark places in the land. 21 Do not let the oppressed turn back in disgrace. Let the poor and needy praise your name. 22 Rise up, O God, and prosecute your case. Remember how the fools mocked you all day long. 23 Do not forget the sound of your foes, the uproar of those who rise against you, which goes up continually. Footnotes Psalm 74:1 A maskil is perhaps a skillful psalm , a psalm for teaching , or a psalm which gives understanding. Psalm 74:11 Literally the folds of your garment Psalm 74:14 Leviathan is a sea monster with many heads. Here it seems to be a symbol of the power of the sea. The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved. Share this entry Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share by Mail Link to Flickr Link to Instagram Link to Vimeo…
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Through My Bible Yr 02 – June 08 Psalms 73 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – June 08 Psalms 73 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0608db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Book III Psalms 73–89 Psalm 73 Why Do the Wicked Prosper? Heading A psalm by Asaph. [1] The Problem 1 Surely God is good to Israel, to the pure in heart. 2 But as for me, my feet almost slipped out from under me. I almost lost my footing. [2] 3 I even envied the arrogant when I observed the peace of the wicked. The Prosperity of the Wicked 4 For there are no struggles at their death. Their bodies are sturdy. 5 They do not have the trouble common to people. They are not plagued along with the rest of mankind. 6 Therefore pride is their necklace. They wear violence like clothing. 7 Their eyes bulge out of their fat. [3] The schemes of their hearts step over boundaries. 8 They mock. They speak maliciously. From a high perch they threaten oppression. 9 They set their mouths against the heavens. Their tongues strut around on earth. 10 Therefore God’s people turn to them, and they drink it all in. [4] 11 They say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?” 12 See, this is what the wicked are like— secure forever, they increase in strength. The Turning Point 13 Have I really kept my heart pure for nothing? Have I kept my hands clean in vain? 14 I have been plagued all day. My punishment comes every morning. 15 If I had said, “I will speak like this,” I would certainly have betrayed the circle of your children. 16 When I tried to understand this, it was very troubling to me, 17 until I went to the sanctuary of God. Then I understood their end. The Solution 18 Surely you place them on slippery places. You cause them to fall into destruction. 19 How quickly they come to ruin, completely destroyed by terrors! 20 They are like a dream when someone wakes up. So when you arise, O Lord, you will despise them like an illusion. 21 Yes, my heart was bitter, and I was torn up inside. 22 I was unthinking and ignorant. I was a dumb animal before you. 23 Yet I am always with you. You hold me by my right hand. 24 With your guidance you lead me, and afterward, you will take me to glory. 25 Who else is there for me in heaven? And besides you, I desire no one else on earth. 26 My flesh and my heart fail, but God is the rock of my heart and my portion forever. 27 No doubt about it! Those who are far from you will perish. You destroy all who commit adultery against you. 28 As for me, God’s nearness is good for me. I have made the Lord God my refuge, so that I can tell about all your works. Footnotes Psalm 73:1 Asaph was a temple musician associated with David. Psalms 73–83 are a collection by Asaph. Psalm 73:2 Literally the verse reads I, almost my feet were stretched out, my steps were nearly poured out. Psalm 73:7 The translation is a literal rendering of the Hebrew. The Greek reads guilt flows from their fat hearts. Psalm 73:10 The meaning of this verse is not certain. Literally the Hebrew reads therefore his people turn to them, and they guzzle down waters in abundance. The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved. Share this entry Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share by Mail Link to Flickr Link to Instagram Link to Vimeo…
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Through My Bible Yr 02 – June 07 Ezekiel 31 – 32 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – June 07 Ezekiel 31 – 32 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0607db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Like Assyria, Pharaoh Too Will Be Cut Down Ezekiel 31 1 In the eleventh year, [1] in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me. 2 Son of man, say this to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to his horde. To whom can you be compared in your greatness? 3 Consider Assyria. It was a cedar in Lebanon. It had beautiful branches, which gave shade to the woodland. It was very tall, and its top reached to the clouds. [2] 4 The waters made it grow. The deep springs made it tall, sending out rivers which flowed around the spot where it was planted, and they sent smaller ditches out to all the other trees in the countryside. [3] 5 So the cedar was taller than all the other trees in the countryside. It produced many branches, and its boughs grew long, because of the plentiful water when it sent out shoots. [4] 6 All the birds in the sky nested in its boughs. All the wild animals in the countryside gave birth under its branches, and all the mighty nations lived in its shade. 7 It was beautiful in its grandeur and in the length of its branches, because its roots reached down to plentiful water. 8 Even the cedars in the garden of God did not overshadow it. The boughs of the fir trees were not equal to its boughs, and the chestnut tree could not rival its many branches. No tree in the garden of God could equal it in beauty. 9 I made it so beautiful by the abundance of its branches that all the trees of Eden that were in the garden of God envied it. 10 Therefore, this is what the Lord God says. Because you were so tall, because the cedar stretched its top up between the clouds, and its heart became haughty because of its height, 11 I will hand it over to a chief of nations, and he will deal harshly with it. I banished it as its wickedness deserved. 12 Foreigners, the most ruthless of nations, cut it down and discarded it. Its branches fell on the mountains and in all the valleys. Its boughs lay broken in all the streambeds of the land, and all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it. 13 All the birds in the sky lodged on its fallen trunk, and all the wild animals in the countryside came to its branches. 14 All this happened so that all the well-watered trees would never again reach such heights or stretch their tops up between the clouds. Nor will the tallest of them remain standing—even though they drink in water—because they have all been handed over to death, to be below the earth, along with all mankind, with those who have descended to the pit. 15 This is what the Lord God says. When Assyria went down to the grave, [5] I caused mourning everywhere. I covered the deep because of it. I restrained the rivers of the deep, and the plentiful waters were held back. I dressed Lebanon in black because of it, and all the trees in the countryside dried up because of it. 16 I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall, when I brought it down to the grave to be with those who have descended to the pit. Below the earth, all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all those that drink up water, consoled themselves, 17 even those who served as Assyria’s arm, those who lived in its shade among the nations, even those who went down to the grave with it, those run through by the sword. 18 To whom, then, can you be compared in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you shall be brought down below the earth, together with the trees of Eden. You shall lie among the uncircumcised, together with those run through by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his horde, declares the Lord God. Pharaoh Too Will Descend to the Grave Ezekiel 32 1 In the twelfth year, [6] in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me. 2 Son of man, raise a lament over Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and say this to him. You consider yourself a young lion among the nations, but you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash around in your rivers. You churn up the water with your feet and make the rivers muddy. 3 This is what the Lord God says. I will cast my net over you by an array of mighty nations, and they will haul you up in my fishing net. 4 I will haul you up and leave you on dry land and throw you into an open field. I will let all the birds of the air settle on you. I will let all the wild animals of the earth feed on you till they are filled. 5 I will dump your flesh on the mountains and fill the ravines with your carcass. 6 I will drench the land with the overflow of your blood, up to the mountains, and the streambeds will be filled with your remains. [7] 7 When you are snuffed out, I will cover the sky and darken its stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light. 8 I will black out all the bright lights in the sky because of you. I will bring darkness over your land, declares the Lord God. 9 I will disturb the hearts of mighty peoples when I bring word about your downfall [8] to the nations, to countries you do not know. 10 I will make many peoples appalled by you, and their kings’ hair will stand on end because of you, when I brandish my sword in front of them. They will tremble every minute, each for his own life, on the day when you fall. 11 For this is what the Lord God says. The sword of the king of Babylon will come against you. 12 I will cut down your horde by the swords of his warriors, all of them from the most ruthless of nations. They will devastate the pride of Egypt, and its whole horde will be exterminated. 13 I will kill all its livestock beside many waters. No human foot will ever muddy the waters again, nor will the hoofs of cattle ever muddy them. 14 Then I will let their waters settle and become clear and will make their channels flow like oil, declares the Lord God. 15 When I cause the land of Egypt to be deserted, when the land is emptied of everything that filled it, when I have struck down all its inhabitants, then they will know that I am the Lord . 16 This is a lament, which they will wail. The daughters of the nations will wail it. Over Egypt and all its horde they will wail it, declares the Lord God. 17 In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me. 18 Son of man, mourn over the horde of Egypt and send her down below the earth with the daughters of majestic nations, to be with those who have descended to the pit. 19 Are you more favored than others? Go on down and lie down among the uncircumcised. 20 They will fall among those who were run through by the sword. A sword has been appointed. Egypt and all its hordes will be carried off. 21 The elite warriors will speak to him and to his allies from the midst of the grave. The uncircumcised, those run through by the sword, have come down and lie there. 22 Assyria is there with her whole crowd. Their graves are around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword. 23 Her graves are set in the deepest part of the pit, and her crowd is all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, all those who once spread terror in the land of the living. 24 Elam [9] is there, with her whole horde around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, those who went down below the earth uncircumcised, those who once spread terror in the land of the living. They bear their shame along with those who have descended to the pit. 25 A bed is made for Elam among the slain, with its whole horde around its graves, all of them uncircumcised, run through by the sword. Because they once spread terror in the land of the living, they will bear their shame with those who have descended to the pit. They are placed among the slain. 26 Meshek Tubal [10] is there with its whole horde around its graves, all of them uncircumcised, run through by the sword because they had spread terror in the land of the living. 27 Do they not lie with other fallen, uncircumcised warriors, [11] who went down to the grave with their weapons of war, with their swords placed under their heads, with evidence of their guilt on their bones, because of the terror these warriors had once spread in the land of the living? 28 Pharaoh, you too will be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised and will lie with those run through by the sword. 29 Edom is there, with its kings and all its chiefs, who, despite their strength, are placed with those run through by the sword. They lie with the uncircumcised, with those who have descended to the pit. 30 The princes of the north are there, all of them, and every Sidonian, who went down with the slain despite the terror they had caused. Their strength failed them. They lie uncircumcised with those run through by the sword, and they bear their shame along with those who have descended to the pit. 31 Pharaoh will see them all and will console himself concerning his whole horde. Pharaoh is run through by the sword with his whole army, declares the Lord God. 32 For I have set my terror in the land of the living, and he will be forced [12] to lie down among the uncircumcised, with those run through by the sword, that is, Pharaoh and his whole horde, declares the Lord God. Footnotes Ezekiel 31:1 In 587 bc , during the siege of Jerusalem Ezekiel 31:3 Or was a canopy for the forest Ezekiel 31:4 Literally field Ezekiel 31:5 Or water that reached its roots or water in its channel Ezekiel 31:15 Hebrew sheol , here and also in verses 16 and 17 Ezekiel 32:1 Some Hebrew and Greek manuscripts and the Syriac read the eleventh year in 32:1, and some Hebrew manuscripts and the Syriac read the eleventh year in 32:17. Events in the eleventh year would precede the fall of Jerusalem in 586 bc . Ezekiel 32:6 Literally with you Ezekiel 32:9 The Greek text reads captivity. Ezekiel 32:24 From far to the east, in present-day Iran Ezekiel 32:26 From far to the north, in present-day Turkey and Russia Ezekiel 32:27 Or, reading with the Greek, they do not lie with the fallen warriors of ancient times Ezekiel 32:32 The Greek reads though he spreads his terror in the land of the living, he will be forced. 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Through My Bible Yr 02 – June 06 Ezekiel 29 – 30 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – June 06 Ezekiel 29 – 30 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0606db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible An Oracle Against Egypt Ezekiel 29 1 In the tenth year in the tenth month, [1] on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me. 2 Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt. 3 Speak and tell them that this is what the Lord God says. I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great monster who stretches out in the channels [2] of the Nile. You say, “It is my Nile. I made it for myself.” 4 But I, the Lord , will put hooks in your jaws and make the fish of your Nile stick to your scales. I will haul you up from the middle of your Nile with all the fish from the Nile clinging to your scales. 5 I will leave you in the wilderness—you and all the fish of your Nile. You will lie fallen on the surface of the ground. You will not be collected or gathered up. [3] I will give you as food to the wild animals of the earth and to the birds of the air. 6 Then all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am the Lord . For the house of Israel, the Egyptians have been a staff made out of a reed. 7 When Israel grasped you with their hands, you would splinter and tear open all their shoulders. When they leaned on you, you would break and make them lose their balance. [4] 8 Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: I am about to bring a sword against you and cut off man and beast from you. 9 The land of Egypt will become a desolate ruin, and they will know that I am the Lord . Because he said, “It is my Nile. I made it for myself,” 10 therefore, I am against you and against the channels of your Nile. I will turn the land of Egypt into ruins, a parched desolation—from Migdol to Aswan, that is, up to the border with Cush. [5] 11 No one will set foot in it. No animal will set foot in it. It will remain uninhabited for forty years. 12 I will make the land of Egypt more desolate than any other land, and its cities will be the most desolate of ruined cities for forty years. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the countries. 13 Furthermore, this is what the Lord God says. At the end of forty years, I will gather the Egyptians from among the peoples where they were scattered. 14 I will bring about the restoration of Egypt and return them to Upper Egypt, [6] the land of their origin, and there they will be a lowly kingdom. 15 It will be the lowliest of kingdoms, and it will never again exalt itself above other nations. I will make it so weak that it will never again rule over the nations. 16 It will never again be a source of trust for the house of Israel. It will be a reminder of their guilt when they turned to Egypt for help. Then they will know that I am the Lord God. A Reward for Babylon 17 In the twenty-seventh year, [7] in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me. 18 Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder rubbed raw, yet neither he nor his army received any reward for the labor they had expended against Tyre. 19 Therefore, this is what the Lord God says. I am about to give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He will carry off its wealth, plunder it, and pillage it. That will be the reward for his army. 20 As his pay for which he labored, I have given him the land of Egypt, because his army did it for me, declares the Lord God. A Horn for Israel 21 On that day I will make a horn [8] sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth among them. Then they will know that I am the Lord . Egypt Will Fall Ezekiel 30 1 The word of the Lord came to me. 2 Son of man, prophesy and say, “This is what the Lord God says.” All of you, wail! What a miserable day! 3 Yes, that day is near. The Day of the Lord is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time for the nations. 4 A sword will enter Egypt, and there will be anguish in Cush [9] when the slain fall in Egypt. Then they will take away its wealth, and its foundations will be demolished. 5 Cush, Put, [10] Lud, [11] and all the other mercenaries, [12] Libya [13] and the men from the land of the covenant [14] will fall by the sword along with them. 6 This is what the Lord says. Those who prop up Egypt will fall, and its proud power will sink down. From Migdol to Aswan, those in Egypt will fall by the sword, declares the Lord God. 7 It will be the most desolate among the desolate lands, and its cities will be the most ruined among the ruined cities. 8 They will know that I am the Lord when I set fire to Egypt, and all its helpers are crushed. 9 On that day, messengers will go out from me in ships to terrify confident Cush, and there will be panic among them on the day for Egypt, for it is surely coming. 10 This is what the Lord God says. I will put an end to the horde of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. 11 He and his army with him, the most ruthless of nations, will be brought in to destroy the land. They will unsheathe their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the fallen. 12 I will dry up the channels of the Nile and sell the land to evil men. I will devastate the land and everything in it by the hand of foreigners. I, the Lord , have spoken. 13 This is what the Lord God says. I will destroy the filthy idols [15] and eliminate from Memphis the gods that are not gods. There will no longer be a ruler in the land of Egypt, and I will put fear into the land of Egypt. 14 I will desolate Upper Egypt. [16] I will set fire to Zoan and inflict punishments on Thebes. [17] 15 I will pour out my wrath on Pelusium, the stronghold of Egypt, and I will cut off the horde of Thebes. 16 I will set fire to Egypt. Pelusium will writhe in pain. The defenses of Thebes will be broken down, and Memphis will face enemies every day. 17 The young men of Heliopolis and Bubastis will fall by the sword, and the women [18] will go into captivity. 18 At Tahpanhes the day will grow dark when I break the yokes [19] of Egypt there, and there its proud power will cease. A cloud will cover it, and its daughters will go into captivity. 19 I will inflict judgment on Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord . Pharaoh’s Arm Will Be Broken 20 In the eleventh year, [20] in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me. 21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. But it has not been wrapped up so that it can heal. It has not been wrapped tightly with a splint to help it heal, so that it can become strong enough to grasp a sword. 22 Therefore, this is what the Lord God says. I am against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and I will break his arms, both the strong one and the one that was broken, and in this way I will cause the sword to fall from his hand. 23 I will scatter Egypt among the nations and disperse them among the countries. 24 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword into his hand. But I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan in the presence of the king of Babylon with groans like someone who is mortally wounded. 25 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will hang limp. They will know that I am the Lord when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt. 26 I will scatter Egypt among the nations and disperse them among the countries. Then they will know that I am the Lord . Footnotes Ezekiel 29:1 During the winter of 587 bc , before the fall of Jerusalem Ezekiel 29:3 Or branches Ezekiel 29:5 Some Hebrew manuscripts and versions read collected and buried. Ezekiel 29:7 The ancient versions read make all their hips unsteady. The Hebrew reads made their hips stand. Ezekiel 29:10 Cush is the territory south of Egypt, below Aswan. Ezekiel 29:14 That is, southern Egypt. The Hebrew term is Pathros. Ezekiel 29:17 In 571 bc , about 15 years after the fall of Jerusalem Ezekiel 29:21 A horn is a symbol of power. It sometimes refers to a ruler. Ezekiel 30:4 Cush , later called Nubia, is the territory south of Egypt. Today it is called Sudan. Ezekiel 30:5 Perhaps a region in Libya Ezekiel 30:5 Or Lydia Ezekiel 30:5 Or all the Arabs Ezekiel 30:5 The Greek text reads Libyans , perhaps reflecting an underlying Hebrew reading Lub. The Hebrew text reads Kub , a completely unknown name. Ezekiel 30:5 Apparently Israelites living in Egypt Ezekiel 30:13 Or the manure gods. See the note at 6:4. Ezekiel 30:14 Southern Egypt is called Upper Egypt because it is upstream on the Nile. Ezekiel 30:14 Hebrew No. The English names of Egyptian cities are traditionally based on the Greek forms of the names, which are quite different from the Hebrew forms. The translation will not footnote all of these instances. Ezekiel 30:17 Or the cities Ezekiel 30:18 Or scepters Ezekiel 30:20 In 587 bc , during the siege of Jerusalem The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved. Share this entry Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share by Mail Link to Flickr Link to Instagram Link to Vimeo…
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Through My Bible Yr 02 – June 05 Ezekiel 27 – 28 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – June 05 Ezekiel 27 – 28 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0605db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible A Lament Over Tyre Ezekiel 27 1 The word of the Lord came to me. 2 You, son of man, take up a lament over Tyre. 3 Tell Tyre, who dwells at the entrances to the sea as a merchant traveling to many coastlands, this is what the Lord God says. Tyre, you say, “I am a perfect beauty.” 4 Your borders were in the heart of the sea. Your builders perfected your beauty. 5 They built for you a double-decked ship, [1] made of fir [2] from Senir. They took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you. 6 They made your oars of oak from Bashan. Your planks were made of pine, [3] inlaid with ivory, from the coasts of Cyprus. [4] 7 Your sail was brightly decorated linen from Egypt, which also served as your banner. Your awning was blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah. 8 Inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad served as your rowers. Tyre, your own skilled men, who were with you, manned your sails. 9 Skilled veterans from Gebal [5] were on board with you, serving as your repairmen. All the ships of the sea and their sailors were in your harbor to engage in trade with you. 10 Warriors from Persia, Lud, [6] and Put were in your army. They hung up their shields and helmets among you. They enhanced your splendor. 11 Men of Arvad and Cilicia were on your walls all around, and men of Gammad were on your towers. They hung their quivers all around on your walls. They made your beauty perfect. Tyre’s Trade [7] 12 Tarshish traded with you because of your great wealth of every kind. They traded silver, iron, tin, and lead for your exports. 13 Ionia, Tubal, and Meshek also dealt with you. They traded human beings and articles of bronze for your wares. 14 From Beth Togarmah, horses, war horses, and mules were traded to you because of the abundance of your products. 15 The men of Rhodes [8] also dealt with you. Many coastlands were agents of your trade, bringing back ivory tusks and ebony in payment to you. 16 Edom [9] traded with you because of the abundance of your products. They sold turquoise, purple, and finely embroidered cloth, linen, coral, and rubies [10] to you as exports. 17 Judah and the land of Israel also dealt with you. With wheat of Minnith, flour, honey, oil, and balm they bought your wares. 18 Damascus traded with you because of the abundance of your products, because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth. They sold wine of Helbon, wool from Sahar, 19 and wine casks from Izalla [11] as exports. Wrought iron, cassia, and calamus were traded for your goods. 20 Dedan traded to you saddle blankets used for riding. 21 Arabia and all the rulers of Kedar were your agents for trade in lambs, rams, and goats. They were your agents for those. 22 Merchants of Sheba and Ra’amah dealt with you in all kinds of expensive perfumes and in all kinds of precious stones and gold, which they sold you for your merchandise. 23 Haran, Kanneh, and Eden, and dealers from Sheba, Assyria, and Kilmad were your dealers. 24 They were your dealers in elegant clothing, in purple garments and finely embroidered cloth, in carpets with multicolored trim, tightly wound with ropes for your marketplaces. 25 Tarshish ships traveled for you with your merchandise. Tyre’s Collapse So you were full and very heavily loaded in the midst of the seas. 26 Your rowers brought you out into deep water. An east wind broke you up in the heart of the sea. 27 Your wealth, your exports and your imports, your sailors and your pilots, your repairmen, and those who bring you imports, all your warriors on board—in fact, all your company who were on board—will sink into the heart of the sea on the day of your collapse. 28 At the sound of the cry of distress from your pilots, the fields on the mainland will quake. 29 All who handle the oars will abandon their ships. The sailors and all the pilots of the sea will stand on shore. 30 They will shout loudly because of you and cry out bitterly. They will throw dirt on their heads and roll in ashes. 31 They will make themselves bald on account of you and put on sackcloth. They will weep bitterly over you, with a bitter lament. 32 In their grief, they will raise a lament over you. They utter this lament over you, “Who is like Tyre, now silenced in the midst of the sea?” 33 When your exports were unloaded from the seas, you satisfied many peoples. By your abundant wealth and your imports, you enriched the kings of the earth. 34 Now you have been broken up by the seas and sunk into the watery depths. Your merchandise and the entire company on board have sunk. 35 All the inhabitants of the coastlands are appalled because of you. Their kings’ hair stands on end. Their faces show distress. 36 Traders among the peoples whistle and hiss at you. You have become horrifying, and you will never exist again, forever. Tyre’s King Is Expelled From Eden Ezekiel 28 1 The word of the Lord came to me. 2 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre that this is what the Lord God says. Because you became arrogant and said, “I am a god, and I occupy a throne of a god in the heart of the seas,” even though you are a mere man and not a god, and because you regard your wisdom as divine wisdom— 3 You really think you are wiser than Daniel, don’t you? No mystery baffles you. 4 By your wisdom and your shrewdness you have gained wealth for yourself and put gold and silver into your treasuries. 5 By your great skill in trading, you increased your wealth, but you became conceited because of your wealth. 6 Therefore, this is what the Lord God says. Because you regard your wisdom as divine wisdom, 7 therefore, I am about to bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations. They will unsheathe their swords against your beautiful wisdom, and they will desecrate your radiant splendor. 8 They will cast you down to the pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the sea. 9 Will you still claim “I am a god” in the presence of the one who kills you? It will be clear that you are merely a man and not a god when you fall into the hands of those who run you through. 10 You will die a death like that of the uncircumcised by the hand of foreigners, for I have spoken, declares the Lord God. 11 The word of the Lord came to me. 12 Son of man, raise a lament over the king of Tyre. Say to him that this is what the Lord God says. You were a seal of perfection, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13 You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone was covering you: carnelian, diamond, emerald, topaz, onyx, jasper, sapphire, agate, and beryl. [12] Your mountings and your settings were worked in gold. They were prepared on the day you were created. 14 You were a cherub, the anointed guardian. I appointed you. You were on the holy mountain of God, and you walked about in the midst of sparkling stones. 15 Your conduct was blameless from the day you were created until guilt was found in you. 16 In your widespread trade, you practiced much violence and you sinned. I defiled you by banishing you from the mountain of God. I expelled you, you guardian cherub, from among the sparkling stones. 17 You became arrogant because of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom together with your splendor. So I hurled you down to the earth and set you in front of kings who gloated over you. 18 By your many sins during your unscrupulous trade, you defiled your sanctuaries. So I made fire break out from your midst, and it devoured you. I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the sight of all who were watching. 19 All those among the people who knew you are appalled at you. You have become horrifying, and you will never exist again, forever. An Oracle Against Sidon 20 The word of the Lord came to me. 21 Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against her. 22 Say that this is what the Lord God says. I am against you, Sidon. I will display my glory in your midst, and they will know that I am the Lord , when I inflict punishments on you and display my holiness in you. 23 I will release the plague in her. There will be blood in her streets, and the slain will fall in her midst when the sword comes against her from all sides. Then they will know that I am the Lord . Hope for Israel 24 Never again will the house of Israel be subjected to those who deride them, who are all around them like prickly briers or painful thorns. Then they will know that I am the Lord God. 25 This is what the Lord God says. When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples where they have been scattered, I will display my holiness through them in the sight of the nations. Then they will live on their own land, which I gave to my servant Jacob. 26 They will live on it in security. They will build houses and plant vineyards. They will live on it in security when I inflict judgments upon all those around them who despise them. Then they will know that I am the Lord , their God. Footnotes Ezekiel 27:5 Or a ship with a double hull. The Hebrew word indicates that the planks were double. The meaning of many of the nautical terms in this section is uncertain. Ezekiel 27:5 The identification of some of the types of trees is uncertain. Ezekiel 27:6 The translation pine follows a different word division than that which occurs in the main Hebrew text, which has the reading daughter of Assyria. Ezekiel 27:6 The Hebrew reads Kittim. This term may include locations other than Cyprus. Ezekiel 27:9 Also called Byblos Ezekiel 27:10 Or Lydia Ezekiel 27:12 The meaning of many of the terms in verses 12-15 is uncertain. Ezekiel 27:15 The Greek text reads Rhodes , a Mediterranean island. The Hebrew reads Dedan , a desert oasis in Arabia, which is dealt with in verse 20. Ezekiel 27:16 The translation Edom follows some Hebrew manuscripts and ancient versions. Most Hebrew manuscripts read Aram , but verse 18 deals with that country under the heading Damascus , and the commodities in this verse fit better with Edom. Ezekiel 27:16 The identification of some of the precious items is uncertain. Ezekiel 27:19 In the translation, words from the beginning of verse 19 complete the sentence of verse 18. The Hebrew text at the beginning of verse 19 seems to read Dan and Javan paid for your wares, traversing back and forth , a sentence which does not fit this context. Ezekiel 28:13 The identification of some of the gemstones is uncertain. The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved. 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Through My Bible Yr 02 – June 04 Ezekiel 25 – 26 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – June 04 Ezekiel 25 – 26 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0604db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Oracles Against the Nations An Oracle Against the Ammonites Ezekiel 25 1 The word of the Lord came to me. 2 Son of man, set your face toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them. 3 You are to tell the Ammonites: Hear the word of the Lord God. This is what the Lord God says. Because you said “Aha!” against my sanctuary when it was desecrated, and against the land of Israel when it was devastated, and against the house of Judah when they went into exile, 4 therefore, I am about to give you to the people of the East as their possession. They will set up their camps in your midst and place their dwellings among you. They will eat your produce, and they will drink your milk. 5 I will make Rabbah into a camel pasture and Ammon into a sheepfold. Then you will know that I am the Lord . 6 So this is what the Lord God says. Because you clapped your hands and stomped your feet and celebrated against the land of Israel with all the contempt in your soul, 7 therefore, I have stretched out my hand against you, and I have given you as plunder [1] to the nations. I have cut you off from the peoples, and I have made you perish from among the countries. When I have exterminated you, you will know that I am the Lord . [2] An Oracle Against Moab and Edom 8 This is what the Lord God says. Because Moab and Seir said, “Look! The house of Judah is just like all the nations,” 9 I am about to open up the flank [3] of Moab from one end to the other: its cities, its border towns, and the glory of the land, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim. 10 I will deliver Moab, together with the Ammonites, into the possession of the people of the East. I will hand them over to the people of the East as their possession so that the Ammonites will no longer be remembered among the nations. 11 I will execute judgments upon Moab, and they will know that I am the Lord . 12 This is what the Lord God says. Because Edom has inflicted bitter revenge on the house of Judah and has incurred great guilt by pursuing revenge against Judah, 13 therefore, this is what the Lord God says. I will stretch out my hand against Edom. I will cut off man and beast from it and turn it into a wasteland. From Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword. 14 I will take my revenge on Edom by means of my people Israel, and they will carry out my anger and my wrath against Edom. So they will experience my revenge, declares the Lord God. An Oracle Against the Philistines 15 This is what the Lord God says. Because the Philistines pursued revenge and carried their revenge to an extreme, with bitter contempt in their soul, in order to destroy Judah with everlasting hatred, 16 therefore, this is what the Lord God says. I am about to stretch out my hand against the Philistines. I will cut off the Kerethites and destroy those who remain by the seacoast. 17 I will carry out great acts of revenge and furious punishments among them, and they will know that I am the Lord when I lay my revenge upon them. An Oracle Against Tyre Ezekiel 26 1 In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, [4] the word of the Lord came to me. 2 Son of man, because Tyre said about Jerusalem, “Aha! The gateway to the peoples has been broken. It has been turned over to me. Because of her devastation, I will achieve my goal,” 3 this is what the Lord God says. I am against you, Tyre, and I will send many nations against you, as the sea sends up its waves. 4 They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will scrape away even the dust off her and make her a bare rock. 5 In the middle of the sea, she will become nothing but a place where fishing nets are spread out to dry, for I have spoken it, says the Lord God. She will become plunder for the nations, 6 and her daughters on the mainland [5] will be slain by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord . 7 So this is what the Lord God says. I am bringing against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon and king of kings, together with horses, chariots, horsemen, and a vast array of troops from many nations. 8 Your daughters on the mainland he will kill with the sword. He will set up a siege wall against you and heap up a ramp against you, and erect a roof of shields [6] against you. 9 He will direct the blows of his battering ram against your walls, and he will demolish your towers with his swords. 10 His horses will be so numerous that the dust they raise will cover you. Your walls will shake from the noise of the horses’ hoofs, the wheels, and the chariots when he enters your gates, as men enter a breached city. 11 With the hoofs of his horses, he will trample all your streets. He will kill all your people with the sword. Your mighty pillars will topple to the ground. 12 They will plunder your wealth and take your merchandise as loot. They will tear down your walls and demolish your magnificent houses. Your stones, your timbers, and your rubble they will throw into the water. 13 I will put an end to the noise of your songs, and the sound of your lyres will be heard no more. 14 I will turn you into a bare rock. She [7] will become a place where fishing nets are spread out to dry. She will never be rebuilt, for I, the Lord , have spoken, declares the Lord God. 15 This is what the Lord God says to Tyre. How the coastlands will shudder at the sound of your downfall, when the victims groan, when the slain are slaughtered in your midst! 16 All the rulers of the sea will descend from their thrones, remove their robes, and take off their fine embroidered garments. Instead, they will be clothed with trembling. They will sit on the ground and tremble every moment. They will be appalled by you. 17 They will raise a lament over you and say to you, “How you have perished, you city inhabited by men from the sea, you city that was celebrated, a city that was the strongest in the sea. She and her inhabitants, who spread their terror—she and all of her inhabitants have perished. [8] 18 Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your downfall. The coastlands that are on the sea are terrified by your collapse.” 19 So this is what the Lord God says. When I make you a ruined city like the cities that are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you and the many waters cover you, 20 then I will bring you down to be with those who have descended to the pit, to the people from ancient times. I will make you live below the earth, like ancient ruins. You will be with those who have descended to the pit, so that you will be uninhabited, and I will not give you glory in the land of the living. 21 I will make you an object of horror, and you will no longer exist. You will be sought but never found again, declares the Lord God. Footnotes Ezekiel 25:7 Plunder (baz) is the reading from the margin of the Hebrew text. The reading in the body of the Hebrew text is bag , a word that appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Those who attempt to translate it render it as food. Ezekiel 25:7 Though the events described in this verse are still in the future at the time of speaking, the verbs are all past tense verbs, since, in God’s decree, events he foretells are as good as done. Ezekiel 25:9 Literally the shoulder or the slope Ezekiel 26:1 The Hebrew date formula is incomplete since it lacks the name of a month. One Greek manuscript reads in the twelfth year. A date in the second half of the twelfth year would place this prophecy after the fall of Jerusalem, an event which occurred in the middle of the twelfth year according to Ezekiel’s system of dating. Ezekiel 26:6 Tyre’s daughters are her suburbs on the mainland. Tyre was an island. Ezekiel 26:8 Apparently this was a cover providing protection for the battering ram. Ezekiel 26:14 That is, the city personified as a woman Ezekiel 26:17 The construction of the last part of the sentence is unclear. For clarity, the verb have perished is repeated from the start of the verse. 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Through My Bible Yr 02 – June 03 Ezekiel 24 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – June 03 Ezekiel 24 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0603db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible A Parable About the Siege of Jerusalem 1 The word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month. [1] 2 Son of man, record this date, this very day. The king of Babylon laid siege to Jerusalem on this very day. 3 Tell a parable to the rebellious house. Tell them that this is what the Lord God says. Put the pot on. Put it on. Then pour water in it. 4 Put the pieces of meat into it, every good piece, thigh and shoulder. Fill it with the best cuts. [2] 5 Take the best of the flock. Pile up the wood [3] under it. Boil it thoroughly, so that the pieces [4] in it are well cooked. 6 Therefore, this is what the Lord God says. Woe to the bloody city, a pot whose residue [5] is inside it, whose residue has not gone out of it! Take out its cuts of meat piece by piece, without choosing one piece in preference to another. [6] 7 Do this because the blood she shed remains within her. She spilled it on a bare rock. She did not pour it on the ground, where the soil would cover it. 8 To rouse wrath and to exact repayment, I have spilled her blood on a bare rock so that it would not be covered. 9 Therefore, this is what the Lord God says. Woe to the bloody city! I myself will keep piling up the wood. 10 Add more wood. Stoke the fire. Overcook the meat. Pour out the broth. [7] Let the bones be charred. 11 Leave the empty pot on the coals so that it becomes hot and its bronze glows, till the filth inside it is melted, and its residue is burned away. 12 The city has wearied me with its wickedness. Its filthy residue has not been removed from it. Into the fire with its filthy residue! 13 Your impurity is lewdness. I tried to cleanse you, but you did not become clean, and as a result you will not be clean again from your impurity until I have exhausted my wrath against you. 14 I, the Lord , have spoken. This is coming, and I will do it. I will not neglect it. I will not spare you, and I will not relent. According to your behavior and your misdeeds, you will be judged, declares the Lord God. The Death of Ezekiel’s Wife 15 The word of the Lord came to me. 16 Son of man, be warned! With one blow I am taking away from you what your eyes desire. You must not mourn or cry. Your tears must not flow. 17 Groan silently. Perform no mourning rites for the dead. Bind your turban on your head. Put your sandals on your feet. Do not cover your upper lip. Do not eat the food people bring to mourners. 18 So I spoke to the people that morning, and in the evening my wife died. The next morning I did as I had been commanded. 19 Then the people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what these things that you are doing mean for us?” 20 I answered them, “This is the word of the Lord that came to me.” 21 Say to the house of Israel that this is what the Lord God says. I am about to desecrate my sanctuary, the stronghold of which you are so proud, the sight your eyes desire, the place your soul yearns for. Your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword. 22 You will do as I have done. You will not cover your upper lip. You will not eat the food people bring to mourners. 23 Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or cry, but you will waste away in your guilt, and you will groan to one another. 24 In this way, Ezekiel will be a sign to you. You will do everything the same way as he has done it. When it happens, you will know that I am the Lord God. 25 But you, son of man, be aware that on that day when I take away from them their stronghold, their joy and glory, what their eyes desire, and that on which they set their hearts—their sons and their daughters as well— 26 on that day a survivor will come to you to let you hear it with your own ears. 27 On that day, your mouth will be opened when the survivor comes. Then you will speak and be speechless no longer. You will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the Lord . Footnotes Ezekiel 24:1 In the winter of 588 bc Ezekiel 24:4 Literally the best bones Ezekiel 24:5 The Hebrew reads bones. Removing one letter from this word leaves the reading wood , which is followed by nearly all English translations. See verse 10. Ezekiel 24:5 The Hebrew reads bones. Ezekiel 24:6 The meaning of this word is uncertain. It refers to some sort of uncleanness, perhaps the carbonized waste that remains in an overheated pot. Ezekiel 24:6 The Hebrew reads no lot has fallen on it for the words without choosing one piece in preference to another. Ezekiel 24:10 The translation follows the Greek text. The Hebrew seems to read mix in the spices. It is not clear how this reading would fit a context about the final stages of destroying the meat. The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved. Share this entry Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share by Mail Link to Flickr Link to Instagram Link to Vimeo…
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Through My Bible Yr 02 – June 02 Ezekiel 23 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – June 02 Ezekiel 23 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0602db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Two Lewd Sisters Act Like Prostitutes 1 The word of the Lord came to me. 2 Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother. 3 They acted like prostitutes in Egypt, where they were prostitutes during their youth. There they let their breasts be fondled. There they let men caress their virgin nipples. [1] 4 The older sister was named Oholah, and her sister was named Oholibah. [2] They became mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. (As for their names, Samaria is Oholah and Jerusalem is Oholibah.) 5 Oholah acted like a prostitute instead of being faithful to me. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—bodyguards 6 clothed in purple, governors and commanders, all of them desirable young men, cavalrymen riding horses. [3] 7 She bestowed her favors upon all the elite of the Assyrians, and along with all those for whom she lusted, she defiled herself with all their filthy idols. 8 She did not give up the whoring she had practiced since Egypt, when men lay down with her during her youth. They caressed her virgin nipples and poured out their lust upon her. 9 Therefore, I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she had lusted. 10 They exposed her nakedness. They took away her sons and her daughters and killed her with the sword. She became notorious among women because of the punishments they inflicted upon her. 11 Although her sister Oholibah saw this, she behaved even more obscenely and lustfully than her sister, and her lustful whoring was even worse than her sister’s whoring. 12 She lusted after the Assyrians—governors, commanders, bodyguards in full uniform, and cavalrymen riding horses, all of them desirable young men. 13 Then I saw that she too had defiled herself. Both of them had gone the same way. 14 In fact, Oholibah intensified her whoring by looking at figures of men engraved on the wall, images of Chaldeans incised in bright red, 15 with belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads. All of them looked like elite officers, like Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea. 16 At the mere sight of them she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. 17 The Babylonians came to her bed to make love, and they defiled her by acting like whores themselves. But after she had been defiled by them, she tore herself away from them in disgust. 18 Because she had acted like a whore so openly and exposed her nakedness, I tore myself away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister in disgust. 19 Yet she increased her whoring. She remembered the days of her youth when she acted like a prostitute in the land of Egypt. 20 She lusted after her paramours, whose genitals [4] were like the genitals of donkeys and whose ejaculation was like the ejaculation of horses. 21 So you revisited the lewdness of your youth when your nipples were caressed in Egypt, and your young breasts were fondled. [5] 22 Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Lord God says. Hear this loud and clear! I am about to rouse your lovers against you, those you had turned away from in disgust. I will bring them against you from all sides: 23 the sons of the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and commanders all of them, elite officers and men of high rank, all of them riding on horses. 24 They will come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a horde of people. With shields, armor, [6] and helmets they will take up positions against you on all sides. I will give you up to them for judgment, and they will judge you according to their own standards. 25 I will turn my jealousy against you, and they will deal with you in wrath. They will cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will take away your sons and your daughters, and your survivors will be devoured by fire. 26 They will strip you of your clothing and take away your beautiful jewelry. 27 I will put an end to your depravity and to the whoring you began in the land of Egypt. You will not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore. 28 For this is what the Lord God says. Listen! I am about to deliver you into the hands of those you hate, into the hands of those you turned away from in disgust. 29 They will treat you hatefully. They will take away everything you have worked for and leave you completely naked. Your whorish nakedness will be exposed. Your depravity and your acts of prostitution 30 have brought those things upon you because of your whoring after the nations, because you defiled yourself with their filthy idols. 31 Because you walked in the way of your sister, I will put her cup into your hand. 32 This is what the Lord God says. You will drink your sister’s cup, a cup deep and wide. It will cause you derision and ridicule because it is so full. 33 You will be filled with drunkenness and grief by the cup of horror and devastation, the cup of your sister Samaria. 34 You will drink it and drain it. You will gnaw its broken pieces and tear your breasts. For I have spoken, declares the Lord God. 35 Therefore, this is what the Lord God says. Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, you yourself must also bear the penalty of your depravity and your whoring. 36 The Lord also said this to me: Son of man, will you bring charges against Oholah and Oholibah? Make their abominations known to them. 37 They have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their filthy idols. They have even offered up their children, whom they bore for me, to the idols as food. 38 What is more, they have done this to me: They defiled my sanctuary on the same day they desecrated my Sabbaths. 39 When they slaughtered their children for their filthy idols, they entered my sanctuary on that same day to defile it. Just look! This is what they did in my own house. 40 They even sent for men to come from far away, men to whom they had sent a messenger, and those men did come. For them you [7] bathed. You applied eye shadow and put on your jewelry. 41 You sat on an expensive couch. In front of it you set a table, on which you placed my incense and my perfumed oil. 42 The noise of a carefree crowd surrounded her. In addition to the large throng of all kinds of men, they even brought drunkards [8] from the desert. They put bracelets on their arms and beautiful crowns on their heads. 43 Then I said about the woman worn out with adulteries, “Let them keep using her as a whore because that is what she is.” [9] 44 So they used her the way one uses a whore. So they used Oholah and Oholibah, those depraved women. 45 But righteous men will punish them with the punishment due to adulteresses, and the punishment due to murderers, for they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands. 46 So this is what the Lord God says. I will bring an army against them and hand them over to terror and plunder. 47 The army will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will slaughter their sons and daughters and burn down their houses with fire. 48 In this way I will remove depravity from the land, so that all women may take warning not to act in such a depraved way as you do. 49 They will impose upon you the penalty for your depravity, and you will bear the punishment for your sinful worship of your filthy idols. Then you will know that I am the Lord God. Footnotes Ezekiel 23:3 As he does elsewhere in the book, Ezekiel uses blunt language to condemn Israel’s sins of physical and spiritual adultery. Ezekiel 23:4 Oholah means her tent. Samaria had its own sanctuary, not the Lord ’s. Oholibah means my tent is in her. Jerusalem had the true sanctuary of the Lord , but they did not honor it. Ezekiel 23:6 Or charioteers Ezekiel 23:20 Literally flesh. Once again Ezekiel uses blunt, direct language. Ezekiel 23:21 The translation your young breasts were fondled is based on the parallel actions in verses 3 and 8. The Hebrew in verse 21 reads for the sake of your young breasts. The two readings fondle and for the sake of look almost identical in Hebrew script. Ezekiel 23:24 Or small and large shields Ezekiel 23:40 As is often the case in prophecy, there are a number of rapid switches between words addressed to the prophet and to the people, and between words addressed to the people and words about the people. Ezekiel 23:42 Or Sabeans Ezekiel 23:43 The verse is obscure. Literally the Hebrew reads now her whoredom itself will go whoring, and she. 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Through My Bible Yr 02 – June 01 Ezekiel 22 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – June 01 Ezekiel 22 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0601db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Judgment on the Bloody City for Her Abominations 1 The word of the Lord came to me. 2 You, son of man, will you put them on trial, [1] will you put the bloody city on trial? Then list for her all her abominations. 3 Say that this is what the Lord God says. O city, you shed blood in your midst, and you bring on your time of judgment. You manufacture idols throughout the city, and so you defile yourself. 4 Because of the blood you have shed, you have become guilty, and because of the filthy idols you have made, you have become defiled. You have brought near your final days. You have arrived at the end of your years. Therefore, I have made you a disgrace to the nations and subjected you to ridicule among all the countries. 5 Those nearby and those far away from you will ridicule you, who are notorious for impurity and full of turmoil. 6 Look at the rulers of Israel. Each one among you uses his power to shed blood. 7 In your midst, people have dishonored their fathers and mothers. They have exploited the alien in your midst. They have mistreated the fatherless children and the widows among you. 8 You have despised my holy things and profaned my Sabbaths. 9 Slanderers are present among you to shed blood. In you there are people who eat on the mountains and commit obscene acts in your midst. 10 In your midst, a man uncovers the nakedness of his mother, who is reserved for his father, and men force themselves on a woman who is unclean during her period. 11 In your midst, a man commits an abomination with a neighbor’s wife. Another man obscenely defiles a daughter-in-law. Another forces himself on his sister, his father’s daughter. 12 In your midst, they take bribes to shed blood. You deduct a fee from the money you lend to people, and you demand that they repay more than you lent them. In this way you exploit your neighbor by extortion. And you have forgotten me, declares the Lord God. 13 Therefore, I clap my hands [2] against the dishonest profit you have made and over the bloodshed in your midst. 14 Will your courage endure? Will your hands remain strong in the days when I deal with you? I, the Lord , have spoken, and I will accomplish it. 15 I will scatter you among the nations. I will disperse you throughout the countries and remove your uncleanness from you. 16 After you have been defiled in the eyes of the nations, you will know that I am the Lord . 17 The word of the Lord came to me. 18 Son of man, the house of Israel has become slag to me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside a furnace. They have become the slag from silver. 19 Therefore, this is what the Lord God says. Because you have all become slag, I am about to gather you inside Jerusalem. 20 As silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin are placed inside a furnace to blast them with fire and to melt them, so I will gather you in my anger and my wrath. I will throw you into the furnace and melt you. 21 I will gather you and blast you with the fire of my fury, and you will be melted in the midst of it. 22 As silver is melted inside a furnace, in the same way you will be melted inside the city. Then you will know that I, the Lord , have poured out my wrath upon you. 23 The word of the Lord came to me. 24 Son of man, say to her, “You are a land not cleansed, a land that receives no rain in the day of rage.” 25 Jerusalem’s princes [3] within her are like a roaring lion, tearing its prey. They devour people’s lives. They seize treasures and valuables. They make many women widows within her. 26 Her priests do violence to my law by profaning what is holy to me, by not distinguishing between the holy and the common, and by not teaching the difference between the unclean and the clean. They disregard my Sabbaths, with the result that I am profaned among them. 27 Her officials inside her are like wolves, tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives in order to make dishonest profits. 28 Her prophets daub whitewash for them, seeing empty visions and forecasting false omens for them. They say, “This is what the Lord God says,” when the Lord has not spoken at all. 29 The ordinary citizens practice extortion and commit robbery. They oppress the poor and the needy. They unjustly deprive the alien of his due. 30 I looked for someone among them who would repair the wall and stand in the breach before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy her, but I found no one. 31 Therefore, I will pour out my rage upon them. In the fire of my fury, I will make an end of them. I will bring down their conduct on their own heads, declares the Lord God. Footnotes Ezekiel 22:2 Or pronounce judgment on them Ezekiel 22:13 Apparently a gesture of disapproval Ezekiel 22:25 Princes is the reading of the Greek. The Hebrew reads prophets. See verse 28. The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved. Share this entry Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share by Mail Link to Flickr Link to Instagram Link to Vimeo…
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Through My Bible Yr 02 – May 31 Ezekiel 20:45 – 21:32 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – May 31 Ezekiel 20:45 – 21:32 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0531db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Ezekiel 20 Prophecy Against the Southland 45 The word of the Lord came to me. [1] 46 Son of man, set your face toward Teman. Preach against the Southland, and prophesy against the scrubby forest in the Negev. 47 Say this to the scrub forest in the Negev. Hear the word of the Lord ! This is what the Lord God says. I am about to ignite a fire among you, and among you it will devour every green tree and every dry tree. The blazing flame will not be extinguished. Every face will be scorched by it, from south to north. 48 All flesh will see that I, the Lord , have ignited it. It will not be extinguished. 49 Then I said, “Oh, Lord God, they are saying about me, ‘Doesn’t he just talk in puzzling parables?’” The Lord ’s Punishing Sword Is Drawn Ezekiel 21 1 The word of the Lord came to me. [2] 2 Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem. Preach against the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel. 3 Say this to the land of Israel. This is what the Lord says. Hear this! I am against you, and I will draw my sword out of its scabbard, and I will cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked. 4 Because I have resolved to cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked, therefore my sword will come out of its scabbard against everyone from south to north. 5 Then all flesh will know that I, the Lord , have drawn my sword from its scabbard. It will not return to its sheath again. 6 Now you, son of man, groan as though you were doubled up in pain. Groan in front of them as though in bitter anguish. 7 When they ask you, “Why are you groaning?” say, “Because of the news that is coming.” Then every heart will melt, all hands will hang limp, and all knees will run with water. [3] It is coming, and it will take place, declares the Lord God. 8 The word of the Lord came to me. 9 Son of man, prophesy and say that this is what the Lord says. A sword, a sword has been sharpened. It has also been polished. 10 It has been made very sharp for slaughter. It has been polished to flash like lightning. So shall we rejoice in the scepter of my son? The sword despises every such stick of wood. [4] 11 The sword has been set aside to be polished, to be grasped by the hand. It has been sharpened, and it has been polished, to be put into the hand of a killer. 12 Cry out and wail, son of man, because the sword is against my people. It is against all the princes of Israel. They have been thrown to the sword together with my people. Therefore, slap your thigh. [5] 13 Yes, testing is sure to come. What if the scepter, which the sword despises, is no more? [6] This is the declaration of the Lord God. 14 Now you, son of man, prophesy. Clap your hands together. [7] Let the sword strike two times or even three. It is a sword for those who are to be slain, a sword for great slaughter, [8] a sword that pursues even to the inner room, [9] 15 so that hearts melt, and those who stumble will be many. At all their gates I have placed the point [10] of the sword. Yes, it is made to flash like lightning, unsheathed for slaughter. 16 Slash to the right. Thrust to the left— wherever your blade is directed. 17 Then I myself will clap my hands. [11] I will bring my wrath to an end. I, the Lord , have spoken. Two Roads for the Sword 18 The word of the Lord came to me. 19 Now you, son of man, draw a map with two roads for the sword of the king of Babylon to follow. Both of them should start from the same country. Make a signpost. Place it at the fork of the road to the city. 20 Draw a road for the sword to come either to Rabbah of the Ammonites or to Judah, to fortified Jerusalem, 21 because the king of Babylon will stand at the fork of the road, where the two roads branch off, in order to read the omens. He will shake the arrows, consult his family gods, [12] and examine animal livers for omens. 22 In his right hand he will receive the omen for Jerusalem—to set up battering rams, to shout the command to slaughter, to sound the battle cry, to set battering rams against the gates, to throw up a ramp, to build a siege wall. 23 But to the people of Jerusalem it will seem like a false omen. They swore solemn oaths to him, so he will remind them of their guilt, and they will be captured. 24 Therefore, this is what the Lord God says. Because you brought your guilt into the open by displaying your rebellious acts, so that your sins are revealed by all your deeds—because you have brought your guilt out into the open, you will be taken in hand. 25 You corpse, you wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come for the time of final punishment, 26 this is what the Lord God says. Remove the turban. Take off the crown. Everything will be changed. Raise what is low. Bring down the high. 27 Ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it. This ruin will not end [13] until the one comes to whom judgment belongs, the one to whom I will give it. 28 Now you, son of man, prophesy and say that this is what the Lord God says concerning the Ammonites and their taunts. Say this: Sword, O sword, unsheathed for slaughter, polished to consume, to flash like lightning! 29 Though empty visions were seen about you, [14] though omens made deceptive forecasts about you, you will be applied to the necks of the corpses of wicked men, whose day has come for the time of final punishment. 30 Return, sword, to your scabbard. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you. 31 I will pour out my wrath on you. I will blow the fire of my fury upon you. I will deliver you into the hands of brutal men, expert destroyers. 32 You will be fuel for the fire. Your blood will flow all over the land, and you will no longer be remembered, for I, the Lord , have spoken. Footnotes Ezekiel 20:45 English verses 20:45-49 are 21:1-5 in Hebrew. Ezekiel 21:1 English verses 21:1-32 are 21:6-37 in Hebrew. Ezekiel 21:7 Terror will cause them to wet themselves. Ezekiel 21:10 This line seems to interrupt the Lord ’s poem, which resumes in the next verse. The verse is difficult, and the meaning is uncertain. It seems to mean that no king of Judah can stand before the sword of Babylon. See verse 13. Ezekiel 21:12 Apparently an expression of grief Ezekiel 21:13 The verse is difficult, and the meaning is uncertain. It seems to be asking, “When the kings of Judah have been destroyed, how can the promise to David come true?” See verse 10 and verse 27. Ezekiel 21:14 Apparently a signal to begin the slaughter. Compare 21:17. Ezekiel 21:14 Or to slaughter the great Ezekiel 21:14 The meaning of this line is uncertain. Ezekiel 21:15 The meaning of this word is uncertain. Ezekiel 21:17 To signal the end of the slaughter Ezekiel 21:21 Hebrew teraphim Ezekiel 21:27 Or will not be completed. The expression is quite difficult, but this verse points to the Messiah who was foretold in Genesis 49:10 as the one to whom it belongs. This verse answers the question posed in verse 13. When the kings of Judah are gone, the Messiah will come and fulfill the promise to David. It is uncertain whether the point is that the depressed status of Israel will end only when the Messiah comes, or that even after the Messiah comes, in 70 ad Jerusalem will fall again. Ezekiel 21:29 The Hebrew construction is difficult. The word you , which is the subject of the whole statement, must refer to the sword. The same applies to the word you in the next paragraph. The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved. Share this entry Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share by Mail Link to Flickr Link to Instagram Link to Vimeo…
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Through My Bible Yr 02 – May 30 Ezekiel 20:1-44 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – May 30 Ezekiel 20:1-44 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0530db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Ezekiel 20 A Review of the Old Covenant and a Promise of the New 1 In the seventh year, [1] in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, men came from the elders of Israel to consult the Lord , and they sat down in front of me. 2 Then the word of the Lord came to me. 3 “Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and tell them this.” This is what the Lord God says to them: Are you really coming to consult me? As I live, I will not let myself be consulted by you, declares the Lord God. 4 Will you put them on trial? [2] Will you put them on trial, son of man? Remind them of the abominable practices of their fathers. 5 You are to tell them the following. This is what the Lord God says. On the day when I chose Israel, when I swore with an uplifted hand to the descendants [3] of the house of Jacob, when I made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, then I lifted up my hand to them in an oath. I said, “I am the Lord , your God.” 6 On that day I swore to them with an uplifted hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey. It was the most glorious of all the lands. 7 I said to them, “Each man must throw away the loathsome things he sets his eyes on. You must not defile yourselves with the filthy idols [4] of Egypt. I am the Lord , your God.” 8 But they rebelled against me and were not willing to listen to me. Not one of them threw away the loathsome things which they set their eyes on. They did not forsake the filthy idols of Egypt, so I resolved to pour out my wrath on them and to exhaust my anger against them in the middle of the land of Egypt. 9 I acted for the sake of my name, so that it would not be profaned in the sight of the nations that were around them, the nations in whose sight I had made myself known by bringing the Israelites out of the land of Egypt. 10 So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them into the wilderness. 11 I gave them my statutes, and I made my ordinances known to them, ordinances by which a man will live if he observes them. 12 I also gave them my Sabbaths to be a sign between me and them, so that they could know that I, the Lord , am the one who sanctifies them. 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances (ordinances by which a man will live if he observes them), and they profaned my Sabbaths completely. So I threatened to pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness in order to annihilate them. 14 I acted for the sake of my name, so that it would not be profaned in the sight of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out from Egypt. 15 I also swore to them with an uplifted hand in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given to them, a land flowing with milk and honey—it is the most glorious of all the lands— 16 because they rejected my ordinances and did not walk in my statutes. Instead, they profaned my Sabbaths. This happened because their hearts chase after their filthy idols. 17 Nevertheless, my eye had pity on them so that I did not destroy them, and I did not completely destroy them in the wilderness. 18 Then I said to their children in the wilderness: “Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers. Do not observe their ordinances, and do not defile yourselves with their filthy idols. 19 I, the Lord , am your God. Walk in my statutes, and observe my ordinances and practice them. 20 Keep my Sabbaths holy so that they may be a sign between me and you, so that you may know that I, the Lord , am your God.” 21 But the children too rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes. They did not observe my ordinances by practicing them, statutes by which a person will live if he observes them. They profaned my Sabbaths, so I resolved to pour out my wrath on them and to exhaust my anger on them in the wilderness. 22 Nevertheless, I held back my hand and acted for the sake of my name, so that it would not be profaned in the sight of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out from Egypt. 23 However, I raised my hand in an oath to them in the wilderness and swore that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them among the countries 24 because they had not observed my ordinances. They despised my statutes. They profaned my Sabbaths, and they fixed their eyes on the filthy idols of their fathers. 25 So I gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live. [5] 26 I defiled them through their sacrificial gifts—when they made all their firstborn pass through the fire—in order to devastate them, so that they would know that I am the Lord . 27 Therefore, speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and tell them this. This is what the Lord God says. In this too your fathers blasphemed me by committing infidelity after infidelity against me. 28 When I brought them to the land which I had sworn with an uplifted hand to give to them, whenever they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices there. There they placed their offerings that provoke me. There they offered their fragrant sacrifices. There they poured out their drink offerings. 29 Then I said to them, “What is the high place to which you are going?” So it is called Bamah [6] to this day. 30 Therefore, say this to the house of Israel. This is what the Lord God says. Are you continuing to defile yourselves in the way your fathers did? Are you still whoring after their loathsome idolatries? 31 When you offer your gifts and make your sons pass through the fire, you continue to defile yourselves by all your filthy idols to this day. So should I let myself be consulted by you, house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord God, I will not let myself be consulted by you. 32 What you have in mind will definitely never take place. You are saying, “Let us become like the nations, like the clans in other countries, by worshipping wood and stone.” 33 As I live, says the Lord God, with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with wrath outpoured, I will rule over you! 34 I will bring you out from the nations, and I will gather you from the countries among which you have been scattered. With a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with wrath outpoured, 35 I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples. There I will enter into judgment with you face-to-face. 36 As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord God. 37 I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring you under the binding terms of the covenant. 38 I will purge out from among you those who revolt and rebel against me. From the land where they are staying I will bring them out, but they shall not come into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord . 39 But to you, house of Israel, this is what the Lord God says. Let each man go and worship his filthy idols, but after that, even if you will not listen to me, you will no longer profane my holy name with your gifts and with your filthy idols. 40 For on my holy mountain, on the high mountain of Israel, declares the Lord God, the whole house of Israel will worship me there—the whole nation in its homeland. There I will accept them. There I will request your offerings and your special gifts together with all your holy things. 41 I will accept you as a fragrant sacrifice when I bring you out from the nations and when I gather you from the lands among which you were scattered. Then through you, I will show that I am holy in the sight of the nations. 42 You will know that I am the Lord when I bring you back to the soil of Israel, to the land that I swore with an upraised hand to give to your fathers. 43 There you will remember your ways and all your deeds by which you defiled yourselves, and you will despise yourselves for all your evil deeds which you have done. 44 Then you will know that I am the Lord , when I deal with you for the sake of my name and not according to your evil ways and your corrupt deeds, O house of Israel, declares the Lord God. Footnotes Ezekiel 20:1 591 bc Ezekiel 20:4 Or judge them Ezekiel 20:5 Literally seed Ezekiel 20:7 More literally manure gods. See the note at 6:4. Ezekiel 20:25 There was nothing wrong with the statutes themselves, but Israel twisted them or misused them as a way of earning salvation rather than as a way of showing gratitude. Ezekiel 20:29 Bamah means High Place. 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Through My Bible Yr 02 – May 29 Ezekiel 18 – 19 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – May 29 Ezekiel 18 – 19 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0529db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible The Wicked Will Die; The Righteous Will Live Ezekiel 18 1 The word of the Lord came to me. 2 What do you mean, you who keep repeating this proverb concerning the soil of Israel, “Fathers eat sour grapes, and their sons’ teeth are set on edge”? 3 As surely as I live, declares the Lord God, you will never again use this proverb in Israel. 4 Indeed, all souls are mine. The soul of the father is mine just like the soul of the son. The soul who sins is the one who will die. 5 If a man is righteous and practices justice and righteousness, 6 if he does not eat on the mountains and does not lift up his eyes to the filthy idols [1] of the house of Israel, if he does not defile his neighbor’s wife and does not approach a woman during her period, 7 if he does not exploit anyone but returns the collateral given to him for a loan, if he does not seize another person’s property by force but gives his own food to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing, 8 if he does not deduct a fee from the money he lends to someone and he does not demand that people repay more than he lent them, if he holds back his hand from unrighteousness and administers impartial justice between two parties, 9 that is, if he walks in my statutes and keeps my ordinances by acting faithfully, that man is righteous and he will surely live, declares the Lord God. 10 Now if he fathers a violent son, who sheds blood or who does any one of these evil things to a brother [2] 11 (although the father did not do all these things), but the son goes so far as to eat on the mountains and even defiles his neighbor’s wife, 12 exploits the poor and the needy, seizes other people’s property by force, does not return the collateral on a loan, lifts up his eyes to the filthy idols, commits abominations, 13 and deducts a fee from the money he lends to someone and demands that people repay more than he lent them—will he live? He will not live! He committed all these abominations, so he will surely be put to death. His blood will be upon him. 14 But if that son himself fathers a son who sees all the sins that his father has committed, and though he sees, he does not do likewise— 15 he does not eat on the mountains, he does not lift up his eyes to the filthy idols of the house of Israel, he does not defile his neighbor’s wife, 16 he does not exploit anyone, he does not require collateral for a loan, he does not seize another person’s property by force, he gives his own food to the hungry and he covers the naked with clothing, 17 he takes care not to harm the poor, [3] he does not deduct a fee from the money he lends someone or demand that people repay more than he lent them, but he keeps my ordinances and walks according to my statutes—that man will not die because of his father’s guilt. He will surely live. 18 But his father, if he practices extortion, seizes his brother’s goods by force, and does what was not good among his own people, he will surely die because of his own guilt. 19 But you ask, “Why doesn’t the son share in the guilt of the father?” Because the son did what was just and right. He kept all my statutes and carried them out, so he will surely live. 20 The soul who sins is the one who will die. The son will not share in the guilt of the father, and the father will not share in the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous person will be credited to him alone, and the wickedness of the wicked person will be charged against him alone. 21 A wicked man, if he turns away from [4] all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and carries out justice and righteousness, he will surely live. He will not die. 22 All of the rebellious acts that he had committed will not be remembered against him. Because of his righteousness that he has practiced, he will live. 23 Do I really find any pleasure in the death of the wicked? says the Lord God. Don’t I want him to turn from his ways and live? 24 But if a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and does what is unrighteous—namely, all the abominations that the wicked man practices—will he live? All the righteous deeds that he did will not be remembered. Because he added one infidelity to another and because of the sins that he has committed, because of them, he will die. 25 But you say, “The Lord ’s way is not fair.” Listen now, house of Israel. Is it my way that is not fair? Is it not your ways that are not fair? 26 If a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and practices unrighteousness, he will die because of it. Because of the unrighteousness that he has practiced, he will die. 27 But if a wicked man turns from his wickedness that he has done and practices justice and righteousness, he will preserve his life. 28 Because he has seen and turned away from [5] all the rebellious acts that he had committed, he will surely live, and he will not die. 29 But the house of Israel says, “The Lord ’s way is not fair.” Is it really my ways that are not fair, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are not fair? 30 Therefore, I will judge each one of you according to his ways, O house of Israel, declares the Lord God. Repent and turn away from all your rebellious acts, so that you will not set out a stumbling block that makes you guilty. 31 Throw off from yourselves all your rebellious actions by which you have rebelled, and obtain a new heart and a new spirit for yourselves. Why should you die, O house of Israel? 32 For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies, declares the Lord God. So repent and live! A Parable About Israel’s Princes Ezekiel 19 1 Now you are to take up a lament for the princes of Israel. 2 This is what you are to say: What a lioness your mother was! She crouched among the lions. Among the young lions she reared her cubs. 3 She raised up one of her cubs. [6] When he became a young lion, he learned to tear his prey. He even ate humans. 4 When the nations heard about him, he was trapped in their pit. With hooks they led him to the land of Egypt. 5 When she saw that she was waiting in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion. 6 He prowled around among the lions, because he too had become a young lion. He learned to tear prey. He even ate humans. 7 He knew how many widows he made [7] as he ravaged their cities. The land and everyone in it were stunned by the noise of his roaring. 8 Nations set upon him from the surrounding provinces. They spread their net over him, and he was trapped in their pit. 9 With hooks they put him in a wooden cage, [8] and they brought him [9] to the king of Babylon. They brought him into prison so that his roar would no longer be heard on the mountains of Israel. 10 Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, [10] planted by water, fruitful and full of branches because of plentiful waters. 11 Its strong branches [11] became scepters for rulers. It towered high, among the clouds. It was outstanding because of its height, and because of the abundance of its branches. 12 But the vine was uprooted in wrath, and it was hurled to the ground. The east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branch was torn off so that it dried up, and fire devoured it. 13 Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land. 14 Fire has come out from its main branch and consumed its fruit, so that it no longer has a strong branch, no scepter fit for ruling. This is a lament, and it was used as a lament. Footnotes Ezekiel 18:6 More literally manure gods. See the note at 6:4. Ezekiel 18:10 Some manuscripts omit the phrase to a brother. Ezekiel 18:17 Or, following the Greek text, he withholds his hand from unrighteousness. See verse 8. Ezekiel 18:21 Or repents of Ezekiel 18:28 Or repented of Ezekiel 19:3 King Jehoahaz of Judah Ezekiel 19:7 The translation follows the Hebrew. Other ancient versions read he devastated their strongholds , which seems to fit the parallelism with ravaging cities. Ezekiel 19:9 Or a collar Ezekiel 19:9 King Jehoiachin of Judah Ezekiel 19:10 A few Hebrew manuscripts read vineyard. Most Hebrew manuscripts read blood , but the context supports vineyard. Ezekiel 19:11 The word translated strong branches also means rulers’ staffs. Also in verses 12 and 14. The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved. 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