14 And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,

15 Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:

16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and 6 sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. 17 And the 2 Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was Salienated from them.

18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.

a ch. 6. 9.

1 Heb.

at the sight of her eyes. b. İsa. 57. 9.

Jer. 25. 15. 2 Heb. children of Babel.

3 Heb.

loosed, or,
disjointed.

d Jer. 13. 13. e ver. 4

19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms,fch. 16. 25. in calling to remembrance the days of 9 Isa. 30. 14. her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

20 For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.

22 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thyi mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;

23 The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.

24 And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judg ment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.

ch. 20. 4.

4 Or, plead for.

ch. 22. 2. ch. 16. 37.

k ch. 16. 20. Jer. 50. 21.

ch. 5. 11. n ch. 22. 8.

ch. 44. 7. p2 Ki. 21. 4

2 Ki. 25. 6.

5 Heb.

coming.

25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and 6 Heb. thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.

26 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy 7fair jewels. 27 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any

more.

28 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:

honourable.

r ch. 16. 18.

7 Heb. instruments

8

of thy
decking.

Heb of the

multitude of men. 9 Ör, drunkards.

10 Heb. her whoredoms. ch. 16. 37.

Jerusalem and Samaria.

29 And they shall deal with thee hate-st fully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

30 I will do these things unto thee, because "thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.

31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.

32 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.

33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of "thy sister Samaria.

34 Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. 35 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

36 The LORD said moreover unto me: Son of man, wilt thou 4judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;

37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery. and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, kto pass for them through the fire, to devour them.

38 Moreover this they have done unto me: "they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and "have profaned my sabbaths.

39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, Pthus have they done in the midst of mine house.

40 And furthermore, that ye have sent for men 5 to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came. for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments,

41 And satest upon a 6stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thos hast set mine incense and mine oil

42 And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought 9 Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful Towns upon their heads

43 Then said I unto her that old in adulteries, Will they now commi 10 whoredoms with her, and she

them

44 Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playet the

AGAIN kin the ninth year, in the AGAIN A tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day.

ver. 35. 4 Heb. Jer. 16.5-7.

f

Be silent.

g ch. 6. 7. h Lev. 10. 6.

12 Sa. 15. 30. 8. 7. upper lip. k2 ki. 25. 1. Jer. 39. 1 & 52. 4.

5 Heb.

ch. 12. 9.

Jer. 1. 13.

ch. 11. 3, 7, 11.

o Jer. 7. 14.

3 And "utter a parable unto the rebel-m ch. 16. 44. lious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; "Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it: 4 Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones. 5 Take the choice of the flock, and 7burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.

61 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.

6

ch. 7. 21, 22.

pch. 7. 20.
Heb.
the pity of
your soul

q ch. 23. 47.
Or, heap.

r ch. 22. 2. sch. 4. 17.

t 2 Sa. 8. 2. Joel 3. 3.

7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she ch. 12. 6. poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;

ver. 27. ch. 12. 11. w Lev. 17. 13. Deu. 12. 16, 21.

8 That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that itch. 6. 7. should not be covered.

9 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.

10 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.

11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.

8 Heb. the

lifting up of their soul.

y ch. 33. 21, 22.

z ch. 3. 26, 27 & 29. 21.

a ch. 33. 22 & ch. 22. 15.

Sorrow without mourning.

12 She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.

13 In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.

14 I the LORD have spoken it; it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.

15 Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears 3run down.

174 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, A bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.

18 So I spake unto the people in the morning and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

19 And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest 80 ?

20 Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.

22 And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

23 And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but 'ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.

24 Thus Ezekiel is unto you "a sign: "according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

25 Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and 8 that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,

26 That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears?

Ammon, Moab, Edom.

THE

CHAPTER 25

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 dit 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 4 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 am the LORD.

6 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in 7heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel;

Overthrow of Tyrus.

h Jer. 34. 1. í ch. 7. 21. 8 Or, meat. 7 Behold, therefore I will stretch outch. 21. 7. mine hand upon thee, and will deliver ver. 14. 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 theo ch. 16. 27. countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

I ch. 27. 32. m Isa. 15. 1. n ch. 35. 2.

ver. 8. 9 Heb. shoulder of Moab. pch. 29. 18. 7 Jos. 12. 3. Ezr. 7. 12. Dan. 2. 37.

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 the1 Ch. 5. 8. 9side of Moab from the cities, from his Jer. 48. 1. cities which are on his frontiers, the u Jer. 1. 14. glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, 10 Or, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim,

10 Unto the men of the east 10 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 12by 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 14 they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.

against the
children of
Ammon.

11 Or,
pour out
the engine
of shot.
Ps. 137. 7.
Isa. 31. 5.
12 Heb. by
revenging
revengement.
13 Heb.
according
to the
enterings
of a city
braken up.

w1 Ch. 1. 45. 14 Or,

they shall fall by the sword unto Dedan.

16 Therefore thus saith the Lord Go Behold, I will stretch out mine har upon the Philistines, and I will cut c the Cherethims, and destroy the rem nant of the 2 sea coast.

17 And I will execute great 3 vengeane: upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lok when I shall lay my vengeance up them.

CHAPTER 26

AND it came to pass in the elevent A year, in the first day of the m ta

that the word of the LORD came u me, saying,

2 Son of man, because that Tyr hath said against Jerusalem, Ala, si is broken that was the gates of th people: she is turned unto me: I sta be replenished, now she is laid waste: 3 Therefore thus saith the Loni G Behold, I am against thee, O Tyra and will cause many nations to cr up against thee, as the sea causeth waves to come up.

4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: will also scrape her dust from her, au make her like the top of a rock.

5 It shall be a place for the spreadir. of nets in the midst of the sea: for have spoken it, saith the Lord GoD: and it shall become a spoil to the nationa

6 And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; a they shall know that I am the LORD. 7 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Be hold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchad rezzar king of Babylon, a king of kin "from the north, with horses, and wit chariots, and with horsemen, and o panies, and much people.

8 He shall slay with the sword the daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and I cast a mo against thee, and lift up the buckin against thee.

9 And he shall set engines of war agains thy walls, and with his axes he sha break down thy towers.

10 By reason of the abundance of h horses their dust shall cover thee; t walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, 13 as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.

11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he

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.

& 38. 13.

y Jer. 49. 722.

Am. 9. 12.
Ob, 18, 19,
21.

thy people by the sword, and thy strot garrisons shall go down to the ground 12 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy mercha dise; and they shall break down thy

Her utter destruction.

walls, and destroy 1 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?

1 Heb. houses of thy desire.

2 or, they

have made thy hatches of ivory well trodden. 3 Heb.

daughter. a Ge. 10. 4, 5.

b Isa. 33. 23. 4 Or, purple and scarlet. c Ge, 10, 4.

d1 Ki. 5. 18. Ps. 83. 7.

5 Or, stoppers of chinks. Heb. strength

eners.

e Jer. 49, 21.

ch. 27. 28

& 31. 16.

Jer. 46. 9. ch. 30. 5.

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 Isa. 66. 19. sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at rery 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 7of 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!

g Isa. 23. 8. Heb.

tremblings.

h 1 Ki. 10. 22. ch. 38. 13, 7 Heb.

of the seas. i Isa. 23. 4. j ch. 32. 23,

8 Or, merchandise.

18 Now shall the isles tremble in the Ge. 10. 2 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 Ge. 10. 3. I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; " when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and ch. 25. 13, 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 PI will make thee 11 a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.

CHAPTER 27

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 16 of perfect beauty.

m ch. 27. 34.

o chỉ 31. 14 & 32. 18

9 Heb. thy works.

10 Or, chrysoprase. p ch. 27. 36

& 28, 19, 11 Heb,

terrors.

q Judg. 11. 33. 12 Or, rosin. Jer. 8. 22

13 Or, Meuzal.

r Ex. 30. 24.

14 Heb.

clothes of

freedom.

15 Heb. they were the merchants of thy hand.

4 Thy borders are in the 17 midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy, ch. 28. 12. beauty.

5 They have 18 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

16 Heb. perfect of beauty.

18 Heb. built.

17 Heb. heart.

t Deu. 3, 9.

A lamentation for her.

made thine oars; 2the 3 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 5 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 kJavan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy 8 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 9the wares of thy making they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and 10 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 12 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 13 going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, "cassia, and calamus, were in thy market. 20 Dedan was thy merchant in a precious clothes for chariots.

21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, 15 they occupied with thee in lambs, aud 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, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.

& 30. 12
& 31. 12.

c ch. 30. 11.

27 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy mer-6 ch. 7. 21 chandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, 5 and in all thy company 5 Or, even which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.

28 The 6suburbs 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?

with all.

6 Or, waves.

Rev. 18. 17,

18. 7 Or, woundeth.

e ch. 31. 18 & 32. 19, 21, 24-30, 32

fch. 32. 2.

g Job 1. 20. Isa. 3. 24.

ch. 27. 3. ch. 31. 8, 9.

8 Or, ruby. 9Or, chrysolite. 10 Or, chrysoprase. Rev. 18, 15,

19.

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 k Ex. 25. 20. merchandise.

34 In the time when thou shalt bech. 26. 19. broken by the seas in the depths of them ch. 20. 40. 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.

n ver. 16.

Cp. Mal, 3. 17.

o ch. 26. 1.

36 The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be 11 a terror, 11 Heb. and 12 never shalt be any more.

CHAPTER 28

HE word of the LORD came again

Tunto me, saying,

2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet "thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:

3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:

terrors. 12 Heb. shalt not be for ever.

p ch. 22. 16. 7 ch. 27. 4. Isa. 31. 3.

8 ch. 30. 8,
14, 16.

Rev. 18. 9.
Zeeh. 9. 2

A lament over her king.

4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:

5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;

7 Behold, therefore I will bring 'strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. 9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that 7slayeth thee.

10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. 11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and A perfect in beauty.

13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the 8sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the 9 beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the 10 emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of "the stones of fire.

15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. 18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore "will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.