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Bible Reading for September 18
Ezekiel 25
[1] The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, [2] Son of man, set thy
face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;
[3] And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was
profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against
the house of Judah, when they went into captivity; [4] Behold, therefore I
will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set
their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy
fruit, and they shall drink thy milk. [5] And I will make Rabbah a stable for
camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I
am the LORD. [6] For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine
hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite
against the land of Israel;
[7] Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver
thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and
I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and
thou shalt know that I am the LORD. [8] Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that
Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;
[9] Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his
cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth,
Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim, [10] Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites,
and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered
among the nations. [11] And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall
know that I am the LORD.
[12] Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house
of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself
upon them;
[13] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon
Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from
Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword. [14] And I will lay my
vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom
according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my
vengeance, saith the Lord GOD. [15] Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the
Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful
heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;
[16] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand
upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the
remnant of the sea coast.
[17] And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and
they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
Ezekiel 26
[1] And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month,
that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, [2] Son of man, because that
Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of
the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid
waste: [3] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O
Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth
his waves to come up.
[4] And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I
will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. [5]
It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I
have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
[6] And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and
they shall know that I am the LORD. [7] For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I
will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from
the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies,
and much people.
[8] He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make
a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler
against thee.
[9] And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he
shall break down thy towers.
[10] By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy
walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the
chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein
is made a breach.
[11] With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he
shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to
the ground.
[12] And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy
merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant
houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst
of the water.
[13] And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy
harps shall be no more heard.
[14] And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to
spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it,
saith the Lord GOD.
[15] Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound
of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of
thee?
[16] Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and
lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe
themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble
at every moment, and be astonished at thee. [17] And they shall take up a
lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast
inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea,
she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!
[18] Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that
are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure. [19] For thus saith the
Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not
inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall
cover thee; [20] When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the
pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the
earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou
be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living; [21] I will
make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet
shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 27
[1] The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, [2] Now, thou son of man,
take up a lamentation for Tyrus; [3] And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art
situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many
isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect
beauty. [4] Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have
perfected thy beauty.
[5] They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken
cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee. [6] Of the oaks of Bashan have
they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of
ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.
[7] Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest
forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which
covered thee.
[8] The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O
Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots. [9] The ancients of Gebal and the
wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their
mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.
[10] They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war:
they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.
[11] The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the
Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round
about; they have made thy beauty perfect. [12] Tarshish was thy merchant by
reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and
lead, they traded in thy fairs. [13] Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy
merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
[14] They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and
horsemen and mules.
[15] The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of
thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony. [16]
Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making:
they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine
linen, and coral, and agate. [17] Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy
merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey,
and oil, and balm. [18] Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the
wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon,
and white wool. [19] Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy
fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market. [20] Dedan was
thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots. [21] Arabia, and all the
princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in
these were they thy merchants. [22] The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they
were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and
with all precious stones, and gold.
[23] Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Assur, and Chilmad,
were thy merchants.
[24] These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and
broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of
cedar, among thy merchandise.
[25] The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast
replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas. [26] Thy rowers
have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the
midst of the seas. [27] Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy
mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise,
and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in
the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy
ruin. [28] The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. [29]
And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea,
shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land; [30] And
shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and
shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
[31] And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with
sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter
wailing.
[32] And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and
lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the
midst of the sea?
[33] When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people;
thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and
of thy merchandise.
[34] In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the
waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.
[35] All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their
kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance. [36]
The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and
never shalt be any more.
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