Topic
EZEKIEL
(A priest)
Passages on this topic · 86
- Ezekiel 1:1
Now in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
- Ezekiel 1:2
In the fifth of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,
- Ezekiel 1:3
Yahweh’s word came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and Yahweh’s hand was there on him.
- Ezekiel 3:25
But you, son of man, behold, they will put ropes on you, and will bind you with them, and you will not go out among them.
- Ezekiel 3:26
I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, that you will be mute, and will not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house.
- Ezekiel 5:1
“You, son of man, take a sharp sword. You shall take it as a barber’s razor to yourself, and shall cause it to pass over your head and over your beard. Then take balances to weigh and divide the hair.
- Ezekiel 5:2
A third part you shall burn in the fire in the middle of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled. You shall take a third part, and strike with the sword around it. A third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.
- Ezekiel 5:3
You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in your skirts.
- Ezekiel 5:4
Of these again you shall take, and cast them into the middle of the fire, and burn them in the fire; from it shall a fire come out into all the house of Israel.
- Ezekiel 8:5
Then he said to me, “Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward the north.” So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and saw, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
- Ezekiel 8:6
He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they do? Even the great abominations that the house of Israel commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you will again see yet other great abominations.”
- Ezekiel 9:10
As for me also, my eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head.”
- Ezekiel 11:22
Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels were beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
- Ezekiel 12:3
“Therefore, you son of man, prepare your stuff for moving, and move by day in their sight. You shall move from your place to another place in their sight. It may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.
- Ezekiel 12:4
You shall bring out your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for moving; and you shall go out yourself at evening in their sight, as when men go out into exile.
- Ezekiel 12:5
Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your stuff out that way.
- Ezekiel 12:6
In their sight you shall bear it on your shoulder, and carry it out in the dark. You shall cover your face, so that you don’t see the land, for I have set you for a sign to the house of Israel.”
- Ezekiel 12:7
I did so as I was commanded. I brought out my stuff by day, as stuff for moving, and in the evening I dug through the wall with my hand. I brought it out in the dark, and bore it on my shoulder in their sight.
- Ezekiel 17:2
“Son of man, tell a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;
- Ezekiel 17:3
and say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar.
- Ezekiel 17:4
He cropped off the topmost of its young twigs, and carried it to a land of traffic. He planted it in a city of merchants.
- Ezekiel 17:5
“‘“He also took some of the seed of the land, and planted it in fruitful soil. He placed it beside many waters. He set it as a willow tree.
- Ezekiel 17:6
It grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him. So it became a vine, produced branches, and shot out sprigs.
- Ezekiel 17:7
“‘“There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. Behold, this vine bent its roots toward him, and shot out its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it.
- Ezekiel 17:8
It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might produce branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a good vine.”’
- Ezekiel 17:9
“Say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Will it prosper? Won’t he pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? Not by a strong arm or many people can it be raised from its roots.
- Ezekiel 17:10
Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? Won’t it utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It will wither in the beds where it grew.”’”
- Ezekiel 21:6
“Sigh therefore, you son of man. You shall sigh before their eyes with a broken heart and with bitterness.
- Ezekiel 21:7
It shall be, when they ask you, ‘Why do you sigh?’ that you shall say, ‘Because of the news, for it comes! Every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.’”
- Ezekiel 24:1
Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 24:2
Son of man, write the name of the day, this same day. The king of Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this same day.
- Ezekiel 24:3
Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Set on the cauldron, set it on, and also pour water into it:
- Ezekiel 24:4
gather its pieces into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
- Ezekiel 24:5
Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile of wood for the bones under the cauldron; make it boil well; yes, let its bones be boiled within it.
- Ezekiel 24:6
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city, to the cauldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! take out of it piece after piece; No lot is fallen on it.
- Ezekiel 24:7
For her blood is in the middle of her; she set it on the bare rock; she didn’t pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.
- Ezekiel 24:8
That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood on the bare rock, that it should not be covered.
- Ezekiel 24:9
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.
- Ezekiel 24:10
Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil the meat well, and make the broth thick, and let the bones be burned.
- Ezekiel 24:11
Then set it empty on its coals, that it may be hot, and its brass may burn, and that its filthiness may be molten in it, that its rust may be consumed.
- Ezekiel 24:12
She is weary with toil; yet her great rust, rust by fire, doesn’t leave her.
- Ezekiel 24:13
In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.
- Ezekiel 24:14
I, Yahweh, have spoken it: it shall happen, and I will do it: I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to your ways, and according to your doings, shall they judge you, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 24:16
Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.
- Ezekiel 24:17
Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet, and don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat men’s bread.
- Ezekiel 24:18
So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at evening my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
- Ezekiel 24:19
The people said to me, Won’t you tell us what these things are to us, that you do so?
- Ezekiel 24:20
Then I said to them, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 24:21
Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.
- Ezekiel 24:22
You shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
- Ezekiel 24:23
Your tires shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet: you shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.
- Ezekiel 24:24
Thus Ezekiel shall be a sign to you; according to all that he has done, you will do. When this comes, then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 24:25
You, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters,
- Ezekiel 24:26
that in that day he who escapes shall come to you, to cause you to hear it with your ears?
- Ezekiel 24:27
In that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped, and you shall speak, and be no more mute: so you will be a sign to them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 33:22
Now Yahweh’s hand had been on me in the evening, before he who was escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more mute.
- Ezekiel 33:31
They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
- Ezekiel 33:32
Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don’t do them.
- Ezekiel 37:1
Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me out in Yahweh’s Spirit, and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.
- Ezekiel 37:2
He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry.
- Ezekiel 37:3
He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? I answered, Lord Yahweh, you know.
- Ezekiel 37:4
Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, you dry bones, hear Yahweh’s word.
- Ezekiel 37:5
Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.
- Ezekiel 37:6
I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 37:7
So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, an earthquake; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
- Ezekiel 37:8
I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them.
- Ezekiel 37:9
Then he said to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.
- Ezekiel 37:10
So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceedingly great army.
- Ezekiel 37:11
Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.
- Ezekiel 37:12
Therefore prophesy, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.
- Ezekiel 37:13
You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.
- Ezekiel 37:14
I will put my Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land: and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it, says Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 47:1
He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward; (for the forefront of the house was toward the east;) and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south of the altar.
- Ezekiel 47:2
Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me round by the way outside to the outer gate, by the way of the gate that looks toward the east; and behold, there ran out waters on the right side.
- Ezekiel 47:3
When the man went out eastward with the line in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the ankles.
- Ezekiel 47:4
Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through waters that were to the waist.
- Ezekiel 47:5
Afterward he measured one thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass through; for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed through.
- Ezekiel 47:6
He said to me, Son of man, have you seen? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the bank of the river.
- Ezekiel 47:7
Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.
- Ezekiel 47:8
Then he said to me, These waters flow out toward the eastern region, and will go down into the Arabah; and they will go toward the sea; and flow into the sea which will be made to flow out; and the waters will be healed.
- Ezekiel 47:9
It shall happen, that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, shall live; and there shall be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters have come there, and the waters of the sea shall be healed, and everything shall live wherever the river comes.
- Ezekiel 47:10
It shall happen, that fishermen shall stand by it: from En Gedi even to En Eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
- Ezekiel 47:11
But the miry places of it, and its marshes, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.
- Ezekiel 47:12
By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall its fruit fail: it shall produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary; and its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for healing.
- Ezekiel 47:13
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This shall be the border, by which you shall divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.
- Ezekiel 47:14
You shall inherit it, one as well as another; for I swore to give it to your fathers: and this land shall fall to you for inheritance.
From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).