Nov.
30
Ezekiel
13-16
Eze
13:1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
13:2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who
prophesy, and say you to those who prophesy out of their own heart,
Hear you the word of Yahweh:
Eze
13:3 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Woe to the foolish prophets, who
follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
Eze
13:4 Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.
Eze
13:5 You have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall
for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of Yahweh.
Eze
13:6 They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, Yahweh
says; but Yahweh has not sent them: and they have made men to hope
that the word would be confirmed.
Eze
13:7 Haven't you seen a false vision, and haven't you spoken a lying
divination, in that you say, Yahweh says; but I have not spoken?
Eze
13:8 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have spoken
falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, says
the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
13:9 My hand shall be against the prophets who see false visions,
and who divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people,
neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel,
neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and you shall know
that I am the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
13:10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying,
Peace; and there is no peace; and when one builds up a wall, behold,
they daub it with whitewash:
Eze
13:11 tell those who daub it with whitewash, that it shall fall:
there shall be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones,
shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it.
Eze
13:12 Behold, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said to you,
Where is the daubing with which you have daubed it?
Eze
13:13 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will even tear it with
a stormy wind in my wrath; and there shall be an overflowing shower
in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.
Eze
13:14 So will I break down the wall that you have daubed with
whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation
shall be uncovered; and it shall fall, and you shall be consumed in
its midst: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
13:15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on those who
have daubed it with whitewash; and I will tell you, The wall is no
more, neither those who daubed it;
Eze
13:16 to wit,
the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see
visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, says the Lord
Yahweh.
Eze
13:17 You, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your
people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy you against
them,
Eze
13:18 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the women who sew
pillows on all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head of persons
of every stature to hunt souls! Will you
hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves?
Eze
13:19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley
and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to
save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people
who listen to lies.
Eze
13:20 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against your
pillows, with which you there hunt the souls to make them
fly, and I will tear them from your arms; and I will let the souls
go, even the souls who you hunt to make them
fly.
Eze
13:21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of
your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and
you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
13:22 Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous,
whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked,
that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive:
Eze
13:23 Therefore you shall no more see false visions, nor practice
divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand; and you shall
know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
14:1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me, and sat before
me.
Eze
14:2 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
14:3 Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart,
and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face:
should I be inquired of at all by them?
Eze
14:4 Therefore speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his
heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face,
and comes to the prophet; I Yahweh will answer him therein according
to the multitude of his idols;
Eze
14:5 that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because
they are all estranged from me through their idols.
Eze
14:6 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Return you, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your
faces from all your abominations.
Eze
14:7 For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who
sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes his idols
into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before
his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I
Yahweh will answer him by myself:
Eze
14:8 and I will set my face against that man, and will make him an
astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from
the midst of my people; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Eze
14:9 If the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I, Yahweh, have
deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and
will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
Eze
14:10 They shall bear their iniquity: the iniquity of the prophet
shall be even as the iniquity of him who seeks to
him;
Eze
14:11 that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me,
neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but
that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says the Lord
Yahweh.
Eze
14:12 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
14:13 Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a
trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of its
bread, and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal;
Eze
14:14 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it,
they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says
the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
14:15 If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they
ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass through
because of the animals;
Eze
14:16 though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord
Yahweh, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only
should be delivered, but the land should be desolate.
Eze
14:17 Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, Sword, go through
the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal;
Eze
14:18 though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord
Yahweh, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only
should be delivered themselves.
Eze
14:19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my
wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal;
Eze
14:20 though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the
Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they
should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
Eze
14:21 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: How much more when I send my
four sore judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the
evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal!
Eze
14:22 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be
carried forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth
to you, and you shall see their way and their doings; and you shall
be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem,
even concerning all that I have brought on it.
Eze
14:23 They shall comfort you, when you see their way and their
doings; and you shall know that I have not done without cause all
that I have done in it, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
15:1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
15:2 Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, the
vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest?
Eze
15:3 Shall wood be taken of it to make any work? or will men take a
pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
Eze
15:4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has
devoured both its ends, and its midst is burned: is it profitable for
any work?
Eze
15:5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much
less, when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned, shall it yet
be meet for any work!
Eze
15:6 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: 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.
Eze
15:7 I will set my face against them; they shall go forth from the
fire, but the fire shall devour them; and you shall know that I am
Yahweh, when I set my face against them.
Eze
15:8 I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a
trespass, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
16:1 Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Eze
16:2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations;
Eze
16:3 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: Your birth and
your birth is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was your
father, and your mother was a Hittite.
Eze
16:4 As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not
cut, neither were you washed in water to cleanse you; you weren't
salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
Eze
16:5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have
compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, for that
your person was abhorred, in the day that you were born.
Eze
16:6 When I passed by you, and saw you weltering in your blood, I
said to you, Though you are
in your blood, live; yes, I said to you, Though
you are in your blood, live.
Eze
16:7 I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and
you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament;
your breasts were fashioned, and your hair was grown; yet you were
naked and bare.
Eze
16:8 Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time
was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered
your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with
you, says the Lord Yahweh, and you became mine.
Eze
16:9 Then washed I you with water; yes, I thoroughly washed away
your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil.
Eze
16:10 I clothed you also with embroidered work, and shod you with
sealskin, and I girded you about with fine linen, and covered you
with silk.
Eze
16:11 I decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your
hands, and a chain on your neck.
Eze
16:12 I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a
beautiful crown on your head.
Eze
16:13 Thus you were decked with gold and silver; and your clothing
was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work; you ate fine
flour, and honey, and oil; and you were exceeding beautiful, and you
prospered to royal estate.
Eze
16:14 Your renown went forth among the nations for your beauty; for
it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you, says the
Lord Yahweh.
Eze
16:15 But you did trust in your beauty, and played the prostitute
because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone
who passed by; his it was.
Eze
16:16 You took of your garments, and made for yourselves high places
decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them: the
like things shall not come, neither
shall it be so.
Eze
16:17 You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my
silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men,
and played the prostitute with them;
Eze
16:18 and you took your embroidered garments, and covered them, and
did set my oil and my incense before them.
Eze
16:19 My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and
honey, with which I fed you, you did even set it before them for a
pleasant aroma; and thus
it was, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
16:20 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you
have borne to me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be
devoured. Were your prostitution a small matter,
Eze
16:21 that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in
causing them to pass through the fire
to them?
Eze
16:22 In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not
remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and
was weltering in your blood.
Eze
16:23 It is happen after all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you!
says the Lord Yahweh),
Eze
16:24 that you have built to you a vaulted place, and have made you
a lofty place in every street.
Eze
16:25 You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and
have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet to
everyone who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution.
Eze
16:26 You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians,
your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied your
prostitution, to provoke me to anger.
Eze
16:27 See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have
diminished your ordinary food,
and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of
the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.
Eze
16:28 You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians,
because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute with
them, and yet you weren't satisfied.
Eze
16:29 You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of
merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren't satisfied with this.
Eze
16:30 How weak is your heart, says the Lord Yahweh, seeing you do
all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;
Eze
16:31 in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way,
and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a
prostitute, in that you scorn pay.
Eze
16:32 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of
her husband!
Eze
16:33 They give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to
all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every
side for your prostitution.
Eze
16:34 You are different from other
women in your prostitution, in that none follows you to play the
prostitute; and whereas you give hire, and no hire is given to you,
therefore you are different.
Eze
16:35 Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh:
Eze
16:36 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because your filthiness was poured
out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your
lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for
the blood of your children, that you gave to them;
Eze
16:37 therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you
have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those
who you have hated; I will even gather them against you on every
side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all
your nakedness.
Eze
16:38 I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood
are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
Eze
16:39 I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw
down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places; and they
shall strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful jewels; and
they shall leave you naked and bare.
Eze
16:40 They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall
stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.
Eze
16:41 They shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments
on you in the sight of many women; and I will cause you to cease from
playing the prostitute, and you shall also give no hire any more.
Eze
16:42 So will I cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my jealousy
shall depart from you, and I will be quiet, and will be no more
angry.
Eze
16:43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but
have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also
will bring your way on your head, says the Lord Yahweh: and you shall
not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.
Eze
16:44 Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use this
proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
Eze
16:45 You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband
and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed
their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and
your father an Amorite.
Eze
16:46 Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand,
she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your
right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
Eze
16:47 Yet have you not walked in their ways, nor done after their
abominations; but, as if that were
a very little thing,
you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
Eze
16:48 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, Sodom your sister has not
done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your
daughters.
Eze
16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride,
fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her
daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Eze
16:50 They were haughty, and committed abomination before me:
therefore I took them away as I saw good.
Eze
16:51 Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have
multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your
sisters by all your abominations which you have done.
Eze
16:52 You also, bear you your own shame, in that you have given
judgment for your sisters; through your sins that you have committed
more abominable than they, they are more righteous that you: yes, be
also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your
sisters.
Eze
16:53 I will turn again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and
her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and
the captivity of your captives in the midst of them;
Eze
16:54 that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed because
of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them.
Eze
16:55 Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their
former estate; and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their
former estate; and you and your daughters shall return to your former
estate.
Eze
16:56 For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the
day of your pride,
Eze
16:57 before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the
reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all who are around her,
the daughters of the Philistines, who do despite to you all around.
Eze
16:58 You have borne your lewdness and your abominations, says
Yahweh.
Eze
16:59 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also deal with you as
you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
Eze
16:60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days
of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.
Eze
16:61 Then you shall remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you
shall receive your sisters, your elder sisters
and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, but not
by your covenant.
Eze
16:62 I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that
I am Yahweh;
Eze
16:63 that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your
mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all
that you have done, says the Lord Yahweh.
Nov. 30
James 3
Jas 3:1 Let not many of
you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier
judgment.
Jas 3:2 For in many
things we all stumble. If anyone doesn't stumble in word, the same is
a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.
Jas 3:3 Indeed, we put
bits into the horses' mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide
their whole body.
Jas 3:4 Behold, the
ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds,
are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.
Jas 3:5 So the tongue
is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small
fire can spread to a large forest!
Jas 3:6 And the tongue
is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue,
which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature,
and is set on fire by Gehenna.
Jas 3:7 For every kind
of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and
has been tamed by mankind.
Jas 3:8 But nobody can
tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
Jas 3:9 With it we
bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in
the image of God.
Jas 3:10 Out of the
same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these
things ought not to be so.
Jas 3:11 Does a spring
send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?
Jas 3:12 Can a fig
tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring
yields both salt water and fresh water.
Jas 3:13 Who is wise
and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that
his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
Jas 3:14 But if you
have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast
and don't lie against the truth.
Jas 3:15 This wisdom is
not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and
demonic.
Jas 3:16 For where
jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil
deed.
Jas 3:17 But the wisdom
that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable,
full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without
hypocrisy.
Jas 3:18 Now the fruit
of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.