PDF Ezekiel into ch 23

26-EZK.usfm

@@ -1120,7 +1120,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \v 6 As for you, son of man, groan as your loins break! In bitterness groan before their eyes!
-\v 7 Then it will happen that they will ask you, 'For what reason are you groaning?' Then you will say, 'Because of the news that is coming, for every heart will faint away, and every hand will falter! Every spirit will grow faint, and every knee will flow like water. Behold! It is coming and it will be like this!—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration.'"
+\v 7 Then it will happen that they will ask you, 'For what reason are you groaning?' Then you will say, 'Because of the news that is coming, for every heart will melt, and every hand will falter! Every spirit will grow faint, and every knee will flow like water. Behold! It is coming and it will be like this!—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration.'"
 
 \s5
 \p
@@ -1138,10 +1138,10 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 12 Call for help and lament, son of man! For that sword has come against my people! It is against all the leaders of Israel.
+\v 12 Call for help and wail, son of man! For that sword has come against my people! It is against all the leaders of Israel.
 \q They are thrown against the sword with my people. Therefore, slap your thigh!
 \q
-\v 13 For there is a trial, but what if the scepter does not last?—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration.
+\v 13 For there is a trial, but what if the scepter that despises does not last?—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -1152,7 +1152,7 @@
 \q
 \v 15 In order to melt their hearts and to multiply their fallen, I have set the sword for slaughter at all their gates. Ah! It is made like lightning, it is grasped for slaughter.
 \q
-\v 16 You, sword! Strike to the right! Strike to the left! Go wherever your face is turned.
+\v 16 Strike sharply to the righthand side! Strike to the lefthand side! Go wherever your face is turned.
 \q
 \v 17 For I will also hit my two hands together, and then I will bring my fury to rest! I, Yahweh, declare it!"
 
@@ -1160,17 +1160,17 @@
 \p
 \v 18 The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying,
 \v 19 "Now you, son of man, assign two roads for the sword of the king of Babylon to come. The two roads will start in the same land, and a signpost will mark one of them as leading to a city.
-\v 20 Mark one road for the Babylonian army to come to Rabbah, the city of the Ammonites. Mark the other to lead the army to Judah and the city of Jerusalem, which is fortified.
+\v 20 Mark one road for the sword to come to Rabbah, the city of the Ammonites. Mark the other to lead the army to Judah and the city of Jerusalem, which is fortified.
 
 \s5
 \v 21 For the king of Babylon will stop at the crossroads, at the junction, in order to practice divination. He will shake some arrows and ask direction from some idols and he will examine a liver.
 \q
-\v 22 In his right hand will be an omen about Jerusalem, to set battering rams against it, to open his mouth to order the slaughter,
+\v 22 In his right hand will be a divination about Jerusalem, to set battering rams against it, to open his mouth to order the slaughter,
 \q to sound a war cry, to set battering rams against the gates,
 \q to build a ramp, and to erect siege towers.
 \q
-\v 23 It will seem to be a useless omen in the eyes
+\v 23 It will seem to be a false divination in their eyes
-\q of the ones in Jerusalem, those who had sworn an oath to the Babylonians! But the king will accuse them of violating their treaty in order to besiege them!
+\q those who had sworn an oath to the Babylonians! But the king will accuse them of iniquity in order to besiege them!
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -1189,7 +1189,7 @@
 \s5
 \p
 \v 28 So you, son of man, prophesy and say, 'The Lord Yahweh says this to the people of Ammon concerning their coming disgrace: A sword, a sword is drawn! It is sharpened for the slaughter in order to devour, so it will be like lightning!
-\v 29 While prophets see empty visions for you, while they perform rituals to come up with lies for you, this sword will lie on the necks of the wicked who are about to be killed, whose day of punishment has come and whose time of iniquity is about to end.
+\v 29 While prophets see empty visions for you, while they practice divination to make up lies for you, this sword will lie on the necks of the wicked who are about to be killed, whose day of punishment has come and whose time of iniquity is about to end.
 
 \s5
 \p
@@ -1219,7 +1219,7 @@
 \v 9 Slanderous men have come within you in order to pour out blood, and they eat on the mountains. They perform wickedness in your midst.
 
 \s5
-\v 10 Within you men uncover the nakedness of their father. Within you they have violated unclean women during their menstrual period.
+\v 10 Within you men uncover the nakedness of their father. Within you they have violated unclean women during their impurity.
 \v 11 Men who commit abominations with their neighbors' wives, and men who make their own daughters-in-law shamefully unclean; men who abuse their own sisters—daughters of their own fathers—all these are done within you.
 \v 12 These men take bribes within you in order to pour out blood and you have loaned money for usury and taken interest, and you have damaged your neighbors through oppression, and you have forgotten me—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration.
 
@@ -1249,8 +1249,8 @@
 
 \s5
 \v 26 Her priests do violence to my law, and they profane my holy things. They do not distinguish between holy things and profane things, and do not teach the difference between the unclean and the clean. They hide their eyes from my Sabbaths so that I am profaned in their midst.
-\v 27 Her princes within her are like wolves tearing apart their victims. They pour out blood and destroy life, to make a profit dishonestly.
+\v 27 Her princes within her are like wolves tearing apart their victims. They pour out blood and destroy life for unjust gain.
-\v 28 Her prophets have painted them over with whitewash; they see false visions and predict falsehoods to them. They say "The Lord Yahweh says this" when Yahweh has not spoken.
+\v 28 Her prophets have painted them over with whitewash—their seers of false visions and diviners of lies. They say "The Lord Yahweh says this" when Yahweh has not spoken.
 
 \s5
 \v 29 The people of the land have oppressed through extortion and plundered through robbery, and they mistreat the poor and needy, and oppress the foreigner without justice.
@@ -1270,7 +1270,7 @@
 \s5
 \p
 \v 5 But Oholah acted as a prostitute even when she was mine; she lusted for her lovers, for the Assyrians who were dominant,
-\v 6 the governor who wore blue, and for his officials, who were strong and handsome, all of them men riding on horses.
+\v 6 for the governor clothed in purple, and for his officials, who were strong and handsome, all of them men riding on horses.
 \v 7 So she gave herself as a prostitute to them, to all the best of Assyria's men, and she made herself unclean with everyone she lusted for—and with all their idols.
 
 \s5
@@ -1280,7 +1280,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \p
-\v 11 Her sister Oholibah saw this, but she lusted even more passionately and acted like a prostitute even more than her sister.
+\v 11 Her sister Oholibah saw this, but her lust was more passionate than her sister's, and her prostitution was worse.
 \v 12 She lusted for the Assyrians, the governors and the dominating officials who dressed impressively, who were men riding horses. All of them were strong, handsome men.
 \v 13 I saw that she had made herself unclean. It was the same for both sisters.
 
@@ -1290,7 +1290,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \v 16 As soon as her eyes saw them, she lusted for them, so she sent out messengers to them in Chaldea.
-\v 17 Then the Babylonians came to her and to her bed of lust, and they made her unclean with their promiscuousness. By what she had done she was made unclean, so she turned herself away from them in disgust.
+\v 17 Then the Babylonians came to her and to her bed of lust, and they made her unclean with their fornication. By what she had done she was made unclean, so she turned herself away from them in disgust.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -1303,7 +1303,8 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 20 So she lusted for her lovers,
-\q whose private parts were like those of donkeys, and whose reproductive emissions were like those of horses.
+\q whose private parts were like those of donkeys
+\q and whose reproductive emissions were like those of horses.
 \q
 \v 21 This is how you committed shameful acts of your youth, when the Egyptians fondled your nipples and squeezed your young breasts.
 
@@ -1313,23 +1314,23 @@
 \q Those from whom you turned away, I will bring them against you from every side:
 \q
 \v 23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them,
-\q strong, handsome men, governors and commanders, all of them are officers and men of reputation, all of them riding on horses.
+\q strong, handsome men, governors and officials, all of them are officers and men of reputation, all of them riding on horses.
 
 \s5
 \q
 \v 24 They will come against you with weapons, and with chariots and wagons, and with a great crowd of people.
 \q They will set large shields, small shields, and helmets against you all around.
-\q I will give them the opportunity to punish you, and they will punish you with their actions.
+\q I will give them the opportunity to punish you, and they will judge you according to their judgments.
 \q
 \v 25 For I will set my jealous anger on you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will cut off your noses and your ears, and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will take away your sons and your daughters, and your survivors will be devoured by fire.
 
 \s5
-\v 26 They will strip you of your clothes and take away all of your jewelry.
+\v 26 They will strip you of your clothes and take away all of your beautiful jewelry.
 \v 27 So I will remove your shameful behavior from you and your acts of prostitution from the land of Egypt. You will not lift up your eyes toward them with longing, and you will think of Egypt no longer.'
 
 \s5
 \v 28 For the Lord Yahweh says this, 'Behold! I will give you into the hand of the ones you hate, back into the hand of the ones from whom you had turned away.
-\v 29 They will deal with you hatefully; they will take all your possessions and abandon you naked and bare, and your nakedness will be uncovered just as when you engaged in promiscuity and prostitutions.
+\v 29 They will deal with you hatefully; they will take all your possessions and abandon you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your fornication will be uncovered just as when you engaged in promiscuity and prostitutions.
 
 \s5
 \v 30 These things will be done to you in your acting like a prostitute, lusting after nations by which you became unclean with their idols.