thee, when I flash my sword against them; and they shall be sore afraid, and their hearts shall be troubled at thy fall.

For thus saith the LORD GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall smite thee.

And I will cut off thy people by the sword of valiant men, and by all the tyrannies of the heathen; and they shall devastate the glory of Egypt, and all her people shall be destroyed.

And I will destroy all their beasts by the great waters, and they shall not make any man’s foot or any beast’s hoof dull.

Then will I make their waters pure, and their rivers shall flow as oil, saith the LORD GOD, 15. When I have made desolate the land of Egypt, and have made desolate all that is in the land, and have slain all that dwell therein, that they may know that I am the LORD.

This shall be the lamentation that shall be heard: yea, many daughters of the heathen shall lament over Egypt, and all her people shall be lamented, saith the LORD GOD.

And it came to pass in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the same month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:

Son of man, weep for the people of Egypt, and cast them down with the daughters of the strong nations under the earth unto them that go down to the pit.

Where then is thy lust? Down, and lie with the uncircumcised!

They shall fall among them that are slain with the sword. The sword is already grasped and drawn upon all their people.

Of these things shall the mighty men of valour say in hell, with their helpers, which are all gone down, and lie there among the uncircumcised, and slain with the sword.

There is Assyria buried, and all his people round about, all slain, and fallen by the sword.

Their graves are deep in the pit, and his people are buried round about, all slain, and fallen by the sword, because all the world feared.

There is Elam also buried round about with all his multitude, all of them slain, and fallen by the sword, and gone down as the uncircumcised into the earth, whereof all the world also feared: and they must bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.

They are laid among the slain with all their multitude, and lie buried round about: and they are all as the uncircumcised, and as those slain by the sword, of whom also all the world feared: and they must bear their shame with them that go down to the pit, and be left among them that are slain.

There lie buried Meshech and Thubal with all their multitude round about, all uncircumcised, and slain with the sword, of whom also the whole world feared,

And all the rest of the mighty men that fell among the uncircumcised, and went to hell with their weapons of war, and put their swords under their heads, and their iniquity came upon their bones, who also were mighty men of renown throughout all the earth: so they must lie.

And thou shalt be cut in pieces among the uncircumcised, and shalt lie down among them that are slain with the sword.

There is Edom, with her kings, and all her princes, among them that are slain with the sword,
and among them that are uncircumcised, and among them that go down to the pit, which were mighty.

Yea, all the princes of the north, and all the Zidonians that went down with the slain, and their terrible power is put to shame, shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that are slain with the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.

These shall Pharaoh see, and be comforted with all his people that are slain under him with the sword, and with all his host, saith the LORD GOD.

For all the earth shall fear me, and Pharaoh and all his multitude shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that are slain with the sword, saith the LORD GOD.
(Ezekial)
Chapter 33
Of the office of spiritual watchmen.

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

Son of man, preach against thy people, and say unto them: If I bring a sword upon the land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their watchman, 3. And he saw the sword come upon the land, and blew the trumpet, and warned the people: 4. Whosoever therefore heard the sound of the trumpet, and would not be warned, and the sword came and took him away, the blood thereof was upon his head;

For he heard the sound of the trumpets, and yet was not warned: therefore his blood be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall save his life.

And if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, nor warn his people, and the sword come and take away some, they shall be taken away for their sin: but I will require their blood at the hand of the watchman.

And now, thou son of man, I have set thee a watchman over the house of Israel, when thou shalt hear any thing out of my mouth, that thou mayest warn them from me.

If therefore I say unto the wicked, Thou wicked man shalt surely die; and thou sayest not unto him, that the wicked man may be warned of his nature: the wicked man shall surely die because of his wickedness, but his blood will I require at thine hand.

But if thou warn the wicked of his nature, that he turn from it, and he will not turn from his nature, he shall die for his sin, and thou shalt save thy soul.

Wherefore, thou son of man, say unto the house of Israel, Ye say thus, Our sins and iniquities are upon us, that we perish under them: how then can we live?

Say unto them, As surely as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his evil ways, and live. Turn ye therefore from your evil nature. Why will ye die, ye of the house of Israel?

And thou, son of man, say unto thy people, If a righteous man do evil, it shall not profit him that he hath been righteous: and if an ungodly man be righteous, it shall not profit him that he hath been ungodly. So also the righteous cannot live if he sins.

For where I say unto the righteous, Let him live; and he trusteth in his righteousness, and doeth evil; all his piety shall not be remembered, but he shall die in his wickedness which he doeth.

And if I say unto the wicked, Let him die, and let him turn from his sin, and do that which is right and good,

So that the wicked shall restore the pledge, and pay that which he hath stolen, and walk in the word of life, that he do no evil; and he shall live, and not die, 16. And all his sins which he hath done shall not be remembered: for now he doeth that which is right and good: therefore he shall live.

Yet thy people say, The LORD judgeth not right, when they are wrong.

For if the righteous turn from his righteousness, and do evil, he shall surely die for it; 19. And if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is right and good, he shall live justly.

Nor say ye, The LORD judgeth not righteously, when I judge you every man of the house of Israel according to his character.

And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our prison, in the fifth day of the tenth month, that there came unto me a man escaped from Jerusalem, saying, The city is smitten.

And the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, before he that was escaped came; and he opened my mouth, until he came unto me in the morning, and opened my mouth, so that I could no more hold my peace.

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

Son of man, the inhabitants of this wilderness of the land of Israel say thus, Abraham was a few, and inherited this land: but ours is many, and we have the land more cheaply.

Say therefore unto them, Thus saith the LORD GOD; Ye have devoured blood, and lifted up your eyes unto idols, and shed blood; and think ye that ye will possess the land?

Ye continue in murder, and in abominations, and in ravishing one another’s wives, and think ye that ye will possess the land?

Speak unto them, saying, Thus saith the LORD GOD; As I live, all that dwell in the wilderness shall fall by the sword; and that which is in the field will I give to the beasts to eat: and they that are in strong holds and in dens shall die of the pestilence.

For I will make the land desolate, and will put an end to the glory thereof, and to the power thereof: and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, and none shall pass through.

And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land utterly waste, because of all their abominations which they commit.

And thou, son of man, thy people speak against thee upon the walls, and under the doors of the houses, saying one to another: Come, my beloved, and let us hear what the LORD saith.

And they shall come unto thee into the congregation,