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Bible Reading for September 18

Ezekiel 25
[1] The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, [2] Son of man, set
thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;
[3] And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith
the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was
profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against
the house of Judah, when they went into captivity; [4] Behold, therefore I
will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall
set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat
thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk. [5] And I will make Rabbah a
stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye
shall know that I am the LORD. [6] For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because
thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in
heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel;
[7] Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will
deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the
people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will
destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD. [8] Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is
like unto all the heathen; [9] Therefore, behold, I will open the side of
Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory
of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim, [10] Unto the
men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that
the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations. [11] And I will
execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
[12] Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt against the
house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged
himself upon them;
[13] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand
upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it
desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword. [14] And I
will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they
shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they
shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord GOD. [15] Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance
with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;
[16] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine
hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy
the remnant of the sea coast.
[17] And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and
they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon
them.

Ezekiel 26
[1] And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the
month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, [2] Son of man,
because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was
the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now
she is laid waste: [3] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am
against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee,
as the sea causeth his waves to come up.
[4] And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I
will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.
[5] It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea:
for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to
the nations.
[6] And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword;
and they shall know that I am the LORD. [7] For thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of
kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen,
and companies, and much people.
[8] He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall
make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the
buckler against thee.
[9] And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he
shall break down thy towers.
[10] By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee:
thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and
of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a
city wherein is made a breach.
[11] With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he
shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down
to the ground.
[12] And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy
merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant
houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the
midst of the water.
[13] And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy
harps shall be no more heard.
[14] And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to
spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken
it, saith the Lord GOD.
[15] Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the
sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the
midst of thee?
[16] Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones,
and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall
clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall
tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee. [17] And they shall
take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed,
that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong
in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all
that haunt it!
[18] Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles
that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure. [19] For thus saith
the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that
are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great
waters shall cover thee; [20] When I shall bring thee down with them that
descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in
the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go
down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the
land of the living; [21] I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no
more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith
the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 27
[1] The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, [2] Now, thou son of
man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus; [3] And say unto Tyrus, O thou that
art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for
many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of
perfect beauty. [4] Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders
have perfected thy beauty.
[5] They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have
taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee. [6] Of the oaks of Bashan
have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy
benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.
[7] Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest
forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that
which covered thee.
[8] The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O
Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots. [9] The ancients of Gebal and
the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea
with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.
[10] They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of
war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy
comeliness.
[11] The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and
the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls
round about; they have made thy beauty perfect. [12] Tarshish was thy
merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver,
iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs. [13] Javan, Tubal, and
Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and
vessels of brass in thy market. [14] They of the house of Togarmah traded
in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.
[15] The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise
of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.
[16] Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy
making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered
work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate. [17] Judah, and the land of
Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of
Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm. [18] Damascus was thy
merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of
all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool. [19] Dan also and Javan
going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus,
were in thy market. [20] Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for
chariots. [21] Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with
thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants. [22]
The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied
in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and
gold.
[23] Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Assur, and
Chilmad, were thy merchants.
[24] These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and
broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made
of cedar, among thy merchandise.
[25] The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast
replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas. [26] Thy
rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee
in the midst of the seas. [27] Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise,
thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy
merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy
company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the
seas in the day of thy ruin. [28] The suburbs shall shake at the sound of
the cry of thy pilots. [29] And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and
all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall
stand upon the land; [30] And shall cause their voice to be heard against
thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they
shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
[31] And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them
with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and
bitter wailing.
[32] And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and
lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in
the midst of the sea?
[33] When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people;
thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches
and of thy merchandise.
[34] In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the
waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.
[35] All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and
their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their
countenance. [36] The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou
shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.

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