committed lasciviousness, and all whom thou hast thought to be thy friends; and I will gather them both against thee round about, and I will make thy shame known unto them, that they may see thy shame.

And I will bring upon thee the judgment of adulteresses and bloodshedters, and will overthrow thy blood with fury and jealousy.

And I will deliver thee into their hand, and they shall break down thy mountain churches, and shall pull down thy mountain altars, and shall strip thee of thy garments, and take thy fair apparel, and leave thee naked and bare.

And they shall bring upon thee multitudes of men, which shall stone thee, and cut thee in pieces with their swords.

And I will burn thy houses with fire, and do thee justice in the sight of many women. So will I make an end of thy whoredom, and thou shalt no more give money, neither shalt thou acknowledge it.

And I will cool my courage in thee, and satisfy my zeal in thee, that I may rest, and be angry no more.

Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast provoked me with all these things, therefore will I lay all thy doings upon thy head, saith the LORD GOD; though I have not done according to the vice of thine abominations.

Behold, all they that practice such proverbs shall say of thee this proverb, The daughter is like the mother.

Thou art thy mother’s daughter, which putteth away her husband and her children; and thou art a sister of thy sisters, which put away their husbands and their children. Your mother is one of the Hittites, and your father an Amorite.

Samaria is thy great sister, and her daughters, which dwelleth on thy left hand; and Sodom is thy little sister, and her daughters, which dwelleth on thy right hand; 47. Yet thou hast not lived after their manner, nor done after their abominations. It is not far from this, that thou hast done worse than they in all thy ways.

As I live, saith the LORD, Sodom thy sister and her daughters have not done as thou and thy daughters have done.

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, that she and her daughters were proud and full of all things, and of good peace: but they helped not the poor and needy, 50. But were proud, and did abominable things in my sight: therefore when I began to look into them, I put them away.

So Samaria also hath not done the half of thy sins, but thou hast done so much more of thine abominations upon her, that thou hast made thy sister like unto all thine abominations which thou hast done.

Be thou also now ashamed, that thou hast made thy sister righteous by thy sins, in which thou hast done greater abominations than she, and hast made her more righteous than thou art. Be thou therefore ashamed also, and bear thy shame, because thou hast made thy sister righteous.

And I will turn away their prison, the prison of this Sodom, and of their daughters, and the prison of this Samaria, and of their daughters, and the prisoners of thy present prison with them,

That thou shouldest bear thy shame and scorn for all that thou hast done, and yet be comforted.

And thy sister, this Sodom, and her daughters, shall be converted as they were before; and Samaria and her daughters shall be converted as they were before: thou also and thy daughters shall be converted as ye were before.

And thou shalt no more praise the same Sodom thy sister, as in the days of thy pride, 57. When thy wickedness was not yet discovered, when the daughters of Syria and the daughters of the Philistines had defiled thee round about, and despised thee round about, 58. Because ye have borne your vices and your abominations, saith the Lord GOD.

For thus saith the LORD GOD; I will do unto thee as thou hast done, to forsake the oath, and to break the covenant.

But I will remember my covenant which I made with thee in the days of thy youth, and will establish with thee an everlasting covenant.

Then shalt thou remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt take unto thee thy great sisters and thy little sisters, whom I will give thee for daughters, but not of thy covenant,

But I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD, 33. That thou mayest remember, and be ashamed, and not open thy mouth any more for shame, when I shall forgive thee all that thou hast done, saith the LORD GOD.
(Ezekial)
Chapter 17
Of the captivity of Zedekiah the king, and the kingdom of Christ.

And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:

Son of man, set before the house of Israel a riddle and a parable.

And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, and long feathers, and full of feathers of many colours, came up to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar tree.

And brake off the topmost rice, and brought it into the merchant’s country, and set it in the merchant’s city.

And he took seed out of the same land, and sowed it in that good land, where there was much water, and set it by itself.

And it grew, and became a spreading vine, and a lowly trunk: for the branches thereof were bent toward it, and the roots thereof were under it: and it was a vine that grew branches and grapes.

And there was another great eagle with great wings and many feathers; and, behold, the vine had desire in his roots toward this eagle, and stretched forth his branches toward him, that he might be watered of the place of his plants.

And yet he was planted in a good soil by much water, that he might bring forth branches, and bear fruit, and be a glorious vine.

Say therefore, Thus saith the LORD GOD; Shall he be put to death? Yea, his root shall be rooted up, and his fruit shall be plucked up, and shall wither, and all his plant shall wither, and shall not be done by great arm, nor by much people, that he may be taken away from his roots.

Behold, it is planted, but shall it grow? Yea, as soon as the east wind stirreth it up, it shall wither in the place of his plant.

And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:

Speak unto the rebellious house, saying, Know ye not what these things are? And say, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took their king and their princes, and carried them away to Babylon.

And he took of the king’s seed, and made a covenant with him, and took an oath of him: but he took away the mighty men of the land,

That the kingdom might be humble, and not be exalted, that his covenant might be kept and stand.

But the same seed fell from him, and sent his message into Egypt, that they should send him horses and many people. Shall he be advised? Shall he escape that doeth these things? And shall he that breaketh the covenant escape?

As I live, saith the LORD GOD, in the place of the king that made him king, which oath he hath despised, and which covenant he hath broken, there shall he die, even at Babylon.

Neither shall Pharaoh help him in battle with a great host, and with a great people, when they shall cast up the vaults, and build strongholds, that much people shall be slain.

For because he hath despised the oath, and hath broken the covenant, whereon he gave his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.

Therefore thus saith the LORD GOD; As surely as I live, I will bring my oath, which he hath despised, and my covenant, which he hath broken, upon his head.

For I will cast my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my pursuit: and I will bring him to Babylon, and there I will make terms with him for his trespass against me.

And all his fugitives that followed him shall fall by the sword, and the remnant of them shall be scattered abroad: and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it.

Thus saith the LORD GOD; I will also take of the top of the high cedar tree, and will break from the top of the branches thereof a tender rice, and will plant it in a high heaped mountain, 23. I will plant it in the high mountain of Israel, and it shall have branches, and bring forth fruit, and be a glorious cedar tree. And every fowl shall dwell under it, and every flying thing shall dwell under the shadow of the branches thereof.

And let all the trees of the field know that I the LORD have humbled the high tree, and have exalted the low tree, and have parched the green tree, and have made green the dry tree. I the LORD speak it, and do it.
(Ezekial)
Chapter 18
God is just and merciful, therefore repent.

And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:

Why do ye practise this proverb among you in the land of Israel, saying, The fathers did eat herbs, but the children’s teeth were dulled with them?

As surely as I live, saith the LORD GOD, let no more such a proverb pass among you in Israel.

For, behold, all souls are mine: the Father’s soul is mine, as well as the Son’s soul. Whichever soul sinneth, it shall die.

If therefore one be godly,