From: "FamilyNet" 

Bible Reading for September 07

Ezekiel 4
[1] Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and
pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: [2] And lay siege against it,
and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also
against it, and set battering rams against it round about.
[3] Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron
between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be
besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the
house of Israel.
[4] Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of
Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie
upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
[5] For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the
number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the
iniquity of the house of Israel.
[6] And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and
thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have
appointed thee each day for a year. [7] Therefore thou shalt set thy face
toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou
shalt prophesy against it. [8] And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and
thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the
days of thy siege. [9] Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and
beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel,
and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou
shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat
thereof. [10] And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty
shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it. [11] Thou shalt drink
also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt
thou drink.
[12] And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with
dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. [13] And the LORD said, Even
thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the
Gentiles, whither I will drive them. [14] Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold,
my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I
not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came
there abominable flesh into my mouth.
[15] Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung,
and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith. [16] Moreover he said unto me,
Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they
shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by
measure, and with astonishment: [17] That they may want bread and water,
and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

Ezekiel 5
[1] And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's
rasor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take
thee balances to weight, and divide the hair. [2] Thou shalt burn with fire
a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are
fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a
knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out
a sword after them. [3] Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and
bind them in thy skirts.
[4] Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and
burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the
house of Israel.
[5] Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst
of the nations and countries that are round about her. [6] And she hath
changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes
more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my
judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them. [7] Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are
round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my
judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that
are round about you; [8] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even
I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the
sight of the nations. [9] And I will do in thee that which I have not done,
and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine
abominations. [10] Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of
thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in
thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds. [11]
Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled
my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine
abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye
spare, neither will I have any pity. [12] A third part of thee shall die
with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of
thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee and I will
scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after
them. [13] Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury
to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the
LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.
[14] Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that
are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by. [15] So it shall be
a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations
that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger
and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
[16] When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be
for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will
increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread: [17] So
will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee;
and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the
sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.

Ezekiel 6
[1] And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, [2] Son of man, set thy
face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
[3] And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus
saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and
to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will
destroy your high places.
[4] And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and
I will cast down your slain men before your idols. [5] And I will lay the
dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will
scatter your bones round about your altars. [6] In all your dwellingplaces
the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that
your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be
broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be
abolished. [7] And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall
know that I am the LORD.
[8] Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the
sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.
[9] And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither
they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish
heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring
after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they
have committed in all their abominations. [10] And they shall know that I
am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil
unto them. [11] Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp
with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of
Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the
pestilence. [12] He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he
that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged
shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them. [13]
Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among
their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops
of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak,
the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols. [14] So
will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more
desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and
they shall know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 7
[1] Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, [2] Also, thou son
of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is
come upon the four corners of the land. [3] Now is the end come upon thee,
and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy
ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations.
[4] And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will
recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst
of thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. [5] Thus saith the Lord GOD;
An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. [6] An end is come, the end is
come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.
[7] The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the
time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the
mountains.
[8] Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine
anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will
recompense thee for all thine abominations.
[9] And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will
recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in
the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that smiteth. [10]
Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath
blossomed, pride hath budded.
[11] Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall
remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there
be wailing for them.
[12] The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor
the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. [13] For the
seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet
alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall
not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his
life.
[14] They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to
the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. [15] The sword
is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the
field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and
pestilence shall devour him.
[16] But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the
mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for
his iniquity.
[17] All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water. [18]
They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover
them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
[19] They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be
removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in
the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls,
neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their
iniquity.
[20] As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made
the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein:
therefore have I set it far from them. [21] And I will give it into the
hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a
spoil; and they shall pollute it. [22] My face will I turn also from them,
and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into
it, and defile it. [23] Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody
crimes, and the city is full of violence.
[24] Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall
possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and
their holy places shall be defiled.
[25] Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be
none. [26] Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon
rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall
perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. [27] The king shall
mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of
the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their
way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know
that I am the LORD.

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