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Bible Reading for September 15
Ezekiel 15
[1] And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, [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? [3] Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin
of it to hang any vessel thereon?
[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? [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?
[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.
[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.
[8] And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass,
saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 16
[1] Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, [2] Son of man, cause
Jerusalem to know her abominations, [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.
[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.
[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. [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.
[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.
[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. [9] Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly
washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. [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. [11] I decked thee
also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy
neck.
[12] And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a
beautiful crown upon thine head.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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,
[18] And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set
mine oil and mine incense before them. [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. [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, [21] That thou hast slain my children, and delivered
them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
[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.
[23] And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith
the Lord GOD;)
[24] That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee
an high place in every street. [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.
[26] Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours,
great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. [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.
[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.
[29] Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto
Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith. [30] How weak is thine
heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an
imperious whorish woman; [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;
[32] But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of
her husband!
[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.
[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. [35] Wherefore, O
harlot, hear the word of the LORD: [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;
[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. [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. [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.
[40] They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone
thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords. [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. [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. [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. [44] Behold, every one that
useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother,
so is her daughter. [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.
[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.
[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.
[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. [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. [50] And they were haughty, and committed
abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
[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. [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.
[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: [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. [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. [56] For thy sister Sodom was not
mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,
[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. [58] Thou hast borne thy lewdness
and thine abominations, saith the LORD. [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. [60] Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee
in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting
covenant. [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. [62] And I will establish my
covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:
[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.
Ezekiel 17
[1] And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, [2] Son of man, put forth a
riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;
[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: [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. [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. [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. [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.
[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. [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. [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.
[11] Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, [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; [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: [14] That the kingdom might be base,
that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might
stand. [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?
[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. [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:
[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. [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.
[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. [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.
[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: [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.
[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 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.
Ezekiel 18
[1] The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying, [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?
[3] As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use
this proverb in Israel.
[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. [5] But if a man be
just, and do that which is lawful and right, [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, [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;
[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,
[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. [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, [11] And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon
the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife, [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,
[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. [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, [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, [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,
[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. [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.
[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. [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. [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.
[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. [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? [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. [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? [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.
[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.
[28] Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that
he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. [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? [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. [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?
[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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