The Prophet Speaks: ? (Alef) 1:1 Alas! The city once full of people now sits all alone! The prominent lady among the nations has become a widow! The princess who once ruled the provinces has become a forced laborer! ? (Bet) 1:2 She weeps bitterly at night; tears stream down her cheeks. She has no one to comfort her among all her lovers. All her friends have betrayed
The Prophet Speaks: ? (Alef) 2:1 Alas! The Lord has covered Daughter Zion with his anger. He has thrown down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth; he did not protect his temple when he displayed his anger. ? (Bet) 2:2 The Lord destroyed mercilessly all the homes of Jacob’s descendants. In his anger he tore down the fortified cities of Daughter Judah. He knocked to the
The Prophet Speaks: ? (Alef) 3:1 I am the man who has experienced affliction from the rod of his wrath. 3:2 He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light. 3:3 He repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long. ? (Bet) 3:4 He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones. 3:5
The Prophet Speaks: ? (Alef) 4:1 Alas! Gold has lost its luster; pure gold loses value. Jewels are scattered on every street corner. ? (Bet) 4:2 The precious sons of Zion were worth their weight in gold – Alas! – but now they are treated like broken clay pots, made by a potter. ? (Gimel) 4:3 Even the jackals nurse their young at their breast, but my people are
The People of Jerusalem Pray: 5:1 O LORD, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace. 5:2 Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes. 5:3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows. 5:4 We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep
Ezekiel's vision from God 1:1 In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles at the Kebar River, the heavens opened and I saw a divine vision. 1:2 (On the fifth day of the month – it was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile – 1:3
God commissions Ezekiel to prophecy against rebellious Israelites 2:1 He said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet and I will speak with you.” 2:2 As he spoke to me, a wind came into me and stood me on my feet, and I heard the one speaking to me. 2:3 He said to me, “Son
3:1 He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you see in front of you – eat this scroll – and then go and speak to the house of Israel.” 3:2 So I opened my mouth and he fed me the scroll. 3:3 He said to me, “Son of man, feed your stomach and fill
God orders a siege against Israel 4:1 “And you, son of man, take a block of clay and set it in front of you. Inscribe a city on it – Jerusalem. 4:2 Then lay siege to it! Build siege works against it. Erect a siege ramp against it! Post soldiers outside it and station battering rams
5:1 “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a razor. Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off. 5:2 When the days of your siege concluded, burn a third of it in the