From: "Eternal September"
Bible Reading for September 15
CHAPTER 15
Ezekiel 15:1
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ezekiel 15:2
2 Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which
is among the trees of the forest? Ezekiel 15:3
3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of it to
hang any vessel thereon?
Ezekiel 15:4
4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends
of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work? Ezekiel 15:5
5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it
be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?
Ezekiel 15:6
6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the
forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the
inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 15:7
7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and
another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I
set my face against them.
Ezekiel 15:8
8 And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass,
saith the Lord GOD.
CHAPTER 16
Ezekiel 16:1
1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ezekiel 16:2
2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, Ezekiel 16:3
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity
is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
Ezekiel 16:4
4 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut,
neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all,
nor swaddled at all.
Ezekiel 16:5
5 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon
thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person,
in the day that thou wast born. Ezekiel 16:6
6 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said
unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou
wast in thy blood, Live.
Ezekiel 16:7
7 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast
increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy
breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and
bare.
Ezekiel 16:8
8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the
time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea,
I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord
GOD, and thou becamest mine. Ezekiel 16:9
9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from
thee, and I anointed thee with oil. Ezekiel 16:10
10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin,
and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk. Ezekiel
16:11
11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and
a chain on thy neck.
Ezekiel 16:12
12 And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a
beautiful crown upon thine head.
Ezekiel 16:13
13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine
linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and
oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a
kingdom.
Ezekiel 16:14
14 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was
perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 16:15
15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because
of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by;
his it was.
Ezekiel 16:16
16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with
divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not
come, neither shall it be so.
Ezekiel 16:17
17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I
had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom
with them,
Ezekiel 16:18
18 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set
mine oil and mine incense before them. Ezekiel 16:19
19 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I
fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it
was, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 16:20
20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne
unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of
thy whoredoms a small matter,
Ezekiel 16:21
21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass
through the fire for them?
Ezekiel 16:22
22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered
the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy
blood.
Ezekiel 16:23
23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith
the Lord GOD;)
Ezekiel 16:24
24 That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an
high place in every street.
Ezekiel 16:25
25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy
beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by,
and multiplied thy whoredoms.
Ezekiel 16:26
26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours,
great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
Ezekiel 16:27
27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have
diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that
hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
Ezekiel 16:28
28 Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast
unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not
be satisfied.
Ezekiel 16:29
29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto
Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith. Ezekiel 16:30
30 How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these
things, the work of an imperious whorish woman; Ezekiel 16:31
31 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and
makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in
that thou scornest hire;
Ezekiel 16:32
32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of
her husband!
Ezekiel 16:33
33 They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers,
and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.
Ezekiel 16:34
34 And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none
followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no
reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary. Ezekiel 16:35
35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD: Ezekiel 16:36
36 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy
nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the
idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst
give unto them;
Ezekiel 16:37
37 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken
pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast
hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy
nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness. Ezekiel 16:38
38 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are
judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy. Ezekiel 16:39
39 And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine
eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee
also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and
bare.
Ezekiel 16:40
40 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee
with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords. Ezekiel 16:41
41 And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee
in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the
harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more. Ezekiel 16:42
42 So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart
from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry. Ezekiel 16:43
43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me
in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon
thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above
all thine abominations.
Ezekiel 16:44
44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee,
saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. Ezekiel 16:45
45 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children;
and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their
children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
Ezekiel 16:46
46 And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy
left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom
and her daughters.
Ezekiel 16:47
47 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their
abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted
more than they in all thy ways.
Ezekiel 16:48
48 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her
daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. Ezekiel 16:49
49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread,
and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she
strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. Ezekiel 16:50
50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I
took them away as I saw good.
Ezekiel 16:51
51 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied
thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine
abominations which thou hast done. Ezekiel 16:52
52 Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins
that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous
than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast
justified thy sisters. Ezekiel 16:53
53 When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her
daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring
again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them: Ezekiel 16:54
54 That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that
thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them. Ezekiel 16:55
55 When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former
estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate,
then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate. Ezekiel 16:56
56 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,
Ezekiel 16:57
57 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the
daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the
Philistines, which despise thee round about. Ezekiel 16:58
58 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.
Ezekiel 16:59
59 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done,
which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant. Ezekiel 16:60
60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy
youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant. Ezekiel 16:61
61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive
thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for
daughters, but not by thy covenant. Ezekiel 16:62
62 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am
the LORD:
Ezekiel 16:63
63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any
more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou
hast done, saith the Lord GOD. CHAPTER 17
Ezekiel 17:1
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ezekiel 17:2
2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;
Ezekiel 17:3
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings,
longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon,
and took the highest branch of the cedar: Ezekiel 17:4
4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of
traffick; he set it in a city of merchants. Ezekiel 17:5
5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he
placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree. Ezekiel 17:6
6 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches
turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine,
and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs. Ezekiel 17:7
7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and,
behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches
toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.
Ezekiel 17:8
8 It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth
branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.
Ezekiel 17:9
9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up
the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall
wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many
people to pluck it up by the roots thereof. Ezekiel 17:10
10 Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither,
when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.
Ezekiel 17:11
11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ezekiel 17:12
12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell
them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the
king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;
Ezekiel 17:13
13 And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath
taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land: Ezekiel 17:14
14 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that
by keeping of his covenant it might stand. Ezekiel 17:15
15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that
they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape
that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?
Ezekiel 17:16
16 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth
that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even
with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die. Ezekiel 17:17
17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him
in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:
Ezekiel 17:18
18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had
given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape. Ezekiel
17:19
19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath
despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon
his own head.
Ezekiel 17:20
20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I
will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that
he hath trespassed against me. Ezekiel 17:21
21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they
that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall know that I the
LORD have spoken it.
Ezekiel 17:22
22 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high
cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a
tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent: Ezekiel
17:23
23 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring
forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell
all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they
dwell.
Ezekiel 17:24
24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down
the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and
have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done
it.
CHAPTER 18
Ezekiel 18:1
1 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying, Ezekiel 18:2
2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel,
saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set
on edge?
Ezekiel 18:3
3 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use
this proverb in Israel.
Ezekiel 18:4
4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of
the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. Ezekiel 18:5
5 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, Ezekiel 18:6
6 And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to
the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife,
neither hath come near to a menstruous woman, Ezekiel 18:7
7 And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath
spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered
the naked with a garment;
Ezekiel 18:8
8 He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase,
that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment
between man and man,
Ezekiel 18:9
9 Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is
just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD. Ezekiel 18:10
10 If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth the
like to any one of these things, Ezekiel 18:11
11 And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the
mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife, Ezekiel 18:12
12 Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not
restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed
abomination,
Ezekiel 18:13
13 Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live?
he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die;
his blood shall be upon him.
Ezekiel 18:14
14 Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath
done, and considereth, and doeth not such like, Ezekiel 18:15
15 That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to
the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour's wife,
Ezekiel 18:16
16 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath
spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered
the naked with a garment,
Ezekiel 18:17
17 That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury
nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall
not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live. Ezekiel 18:18
18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by
violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall
die in his iniquity.
Ezekiel 18:19
19 Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the
son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes,
and hath done them, he shall surely live. Ezekiel 18:20
20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of
the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the
righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the
wicked shall be upon him.
Ezekiel 18:21
21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and
keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely
live, he shall not die.
Ezekiel 18:22
22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned
unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. Ezekiel 18:23
23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD:
and not that he should return from his ways, and live? Ezekiel 18:24
24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth
iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man
doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be
mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he
hath sinned, in them shall he die. Ezekiel 18:25
25 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel;
Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal? Ezekiel 18:26
26 When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth
iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
Ezekiel 18:27
27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath
committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul
alive.
Ezekiel 18:28
28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that
he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. Ezekiel 18:29
29 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of
Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal? Ezekiel 18:30
30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his
ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your
transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Ezekiel 18:31
31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed;
and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of
Israel?
Ezekiel 18:32
32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD:
wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
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