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Ärende: Bible Reading for September 20
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From: "Bob Hoffman" <bhoffman@fmlynet.org>

CHAPTER 31
Ezekiel 31:1
1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first
day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ezekiel 31:2
2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art
thou like in thy greatness?
Ezekiel 31:3
3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a
shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick
boughs.
Ezekiel 31:4
4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers
running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the
trees of the field.
Ezekiel 31:5
5 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his
boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude
of waters, when he shot forth. Ezekiel 31:6
6 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his
branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his
shadow dwelt all great nations. Ezekiel 31:7
7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his
root was by great waters.
Ezekiel 31:8
8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not
like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree
in the garden of God was like  unto him in his beauty. Ezekiel 31:9
9 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees
of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him. Ezekiel 31:10
10 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in
height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is
lifted up in his height;
Ezekiel 31:11
11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the
heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his
wickedness.
Ezekiel 31:12
12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left
him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his
boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land;  and all the people of the
earth  are gone down  from his shadow,  and have left  him. Ezekiel 31:13
13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts
of the field shall be upon his branches: Ezekiel 31:14
14 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for
their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their
trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all
delivered  unto death,  to the nether parts  of the earth,  in the midst  of
the children  of men,  with them that go down  to the pit. Ezekiel 31:15
15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused
a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof,
and the great waters  were stayed:  and I caused Lebanon  to mourn for him, and
all the trees  of the field  fainted  for him. Ezekiel 31:16
16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down
to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the
choice and best of Lebanon,  all that drink  water,  shall be comforted in the
nether parts  of the earth.
Ezekiel 31:17
17 They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the
sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of
the heathen.
Ezekiel 31:18
18 To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of
Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether
parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised  with them
that be slain  by the sword.  This is Pharaoh  and all his multitude, saith 
the Lord  GOD.
CHAPTER 32
Ezekiel 32:1
1 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first
day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ezekiel 32:2
2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto
him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the
seas:  and thou camest forth  with thy rivers,  and troubledst  the waters 
with thy feet,  and fouledst  their rivers. Ezekiel 32:3
3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a
company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net. Ezekiel 32:4
4 Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open
field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I
will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee. Ezekiel 32:5
5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy
height.
Ezekiel 32:6
6 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the
mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee. Ezekiel 32:7
7 And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars
thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give
her light.
Ezekiel 32:8
8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness
upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD. Ezekiel 32:9
9 I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction
among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known. Ezekiel 32:10
10 Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be
horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they
shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life,  in the day of thy
fall.
Ezekiel 32:11
11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come
upon thee.
Ezekiel 32:12
12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible
of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all
the multitude thereof shall be destroyed. Ezekiel 32:13
13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters;
neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts
trouble them.
Ezekiel 32:14
14 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil,
saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 32:15
15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be
destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell
therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD. Ezekiel 32:16
16 This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of
the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and
for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD. Ezekiel 32:17
17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month,
that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ezekiel 32:18
18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her,
and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth,
with them that go down into the pit. Ezekiel 32:19
19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the
uncircumcised.
Ezekiel 32:20
20 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is
delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes. Ezekiel 32:21
21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with
them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the
sword.
Ezekiel 32:22
22 Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them
slain, fallen by the sword:
Ezekiel 32:23
23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about
her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the
land  of the living.
Ezekiel 32:24
24 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them
slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether
parts of the earth, which caused their terror  in the land  of the living;  yet
have they borne  their shame  with them that go down  to the pit.
Ezekiel 32:25
25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude:
her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword:
though their terror was caused in the land  of the living,  yet have they borne
 their shame  with them that go down  to the pit:  he is put  in the midst  of
them that be slain.
Ezekiel 32:26
26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about
him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their
terror in the land of the living. Ezekiel 32:27
27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised,
which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their
swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, 
though they were the terror  of the mighty  in the land of the living.
Ezekiel 32:28
28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie
with them that are slain with the sword. Ezekiel 32:29
29 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are
laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the
uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit. Ezekiel 32:30
30 There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which
are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their
might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and
bear  their shame  with them that go down  to the pit. Ezekiel 32:31
31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even
Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD. Ezekiel 32:32
32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid
in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even
Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord  GOD. CHAPTER 33
Ezekiel 33:1
1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ezekiel 33:2
2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I
bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a  man  of their
coasts,  and set  him for their watchman: Ezekiel 33:3
3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn
the people;
Ezekiel 33:4
4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if
the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
Ezekiel 33:5
5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be
upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. Ezekiel 33:6
6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the
people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them,
he is taken away  in his iniquity;  but his blood  will I require  at the
watchman's  hand.
Ezekiel 33:7
7 So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel;
therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.
Ezekiel 33:8
8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost
not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his
iniquity; but his blood  will I require  at thine hand. Ezekiel 33:9
9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do
not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered
thy soul.
Ezekiel 33:10
10 Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak,
saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in
them, how should we then live? Ezekiel 33:11
11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the
death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye,
turn  ye from your evil  ways;  for why will ye die,  O house  of Israel?
Ezekiel 33:12
12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The
righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his
transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby
in the day  that he turneth  from his wickedness;  neither shall the righteous 
be able  to live  for his righteousness in the day  that he sinneth.
Ezekiel 33:13
13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to
his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not
be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for
it.
Ezekiel 33:14
14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from
his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; Ezekiel 33:15
15 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the
statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall
not die.
Ezekiel 33:16
16 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath
done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live. Ezekiel 33:17
17 Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as
for them, their way is not equal. Ezekiel 33:18
18 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity,
he shall even die thereby. Ezekiel 33:19
19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and
right, he shall live thereby.
Ezekiel 33:20
20 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will
judge you every one after his ways. Ezekiel 33:21
21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth
month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of
Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten. Ezekiel 33:22
22 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he that was
escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and
my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb. Ezekiel 33:23
23 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ezekiel 33:24
24 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak,
saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many;  the land 
is given  us for inheritance. Ezekiel 33:25
25 Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and
lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the
land?
Ezekiel 33:26
26 Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his
neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land? Ezekiel 33:27
27 Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they
that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open
field will I give to the beasts  to be devoured,  and they that be in the forts
 and in the caves  shall die  of the pestilence. Ezekiel 33:28
28 For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall
cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass
through.
Ezekiel 33:29
29 Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most
desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed. Ezekiel
33:30
30 Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against
thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another,
every one  to his brother,  saying,  Come,  I pray you, and hear what is the
word  that cometh forth  from the LORD. Ezekiel 33:31
31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my
people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their
mouth they shew much love, but their heart  goeth  after  their covetousness.
Ezekiel 33:32
32 And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a
pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words,
but they do them not.
Ezekiel 33:33
33 And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that
a prophet hath been among them.

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