Participants: Kelly Mowrer
Series Code: HWAL
Program Code: HWAL000678
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00:14 Hello and welcome to "His Words are Life."
00:17 I'm Kelly Mowrer and today we'll be reading together 00:20 from the Book of Ezekiel. 00:21 So let's pray before we start. 00:24 Dear Heavenly Father, thank you so much 00:27 for your very great love for us. 00:29 Thank you that you died to redeem us 00:32 and that you've given us these words to show us 00:36 how we can know you better. 00:37 Please be with us now, as we read 00:39 and I ask in the name of Jesus, amen. 00:43 We're reading in Ezekiel Chapter 26, 00:46 and when we left off God was speaking about 00:50 how Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon 00:53 would come upon Tyros. 00:55 We're picking up in Ezekiel 26 Verse 8, 01:01 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field 01:04 and he shall make a fort against thee, 01:06 and cast a mount against thee, 01:08 and lift up the buckler against thee. 01:11 And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, 01:14 and with his axes he shall break down thy towers. 01:18 By reason of the abundance of his horses 01:21 their dust shall cover thee, 01:23 thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, 01:25 and of the wheels, and of the chariots, 01:28 when he shall enter into thy gates, 01:29 as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach. 01:34 With the hoofs of his horses 01:36 shall he tread down all thy streets 01:38 he shall slay thy people by the sword, 01:41 and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground. 01:45 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, 01:47 and make a prey of thy merchandise 01:49 and they shall break down thy walls, 01:51 and destroy thy pleasant houses 01:54 and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber 01:57 and thy dust in the midst of the water. 02:01 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease 02:05 and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard. 02:09 And I will make thee like the top of a rock 02:12 thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon 02:14 thou shalt be built no more 02:16 for I the Lord have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. 02:21 Thus saith the Lord God to Tyrus 02:23 Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, 02:27 when the wounded cried 02:28 when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? 02:31 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down 02:34 from their thrones, and lay away their robes, 02:37 and put off their broidered garments 02:40 they shall clothe themselves with trembling 02:43 they shall sit upon the ground, 02:44 and shall tremble at every moment, 02:47 and be astonished at thee. 02:50 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, 02:52 and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, 02:55 that wast inhabited of seafaring men, 02:58 the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, 03:01 she and her inhabitants, 03:02 which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it! 03:07 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall, 03:11 yea, the isles that are in the sea 03:13 shall be troubled at thy departure. 03:16 For thus saith the Lord God, 03:18 When I shall make thee a desolate city, 03:20 like the cities that are not inhabited 03:23 when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, 03:25 and great waters shall cover thee. 03:27 When I shall bring thee down with them 03:30 the descendent into the pit with the people of old time, 03:33 and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, 03:36 in places desolate of old, 03:37 with them that go down to the pit, 03:39 that thou be not inhabited 03:41 and I shall set glory in the land of the living. 03:45 I will make thee a terror, 03:47 and thou shalt be no more, 03:49 though thou be sought for, 03:51 yet shalt thou never be found again, 03:55 saith the Lord GOD. 03:57 Continuing with Ezekiel Chapter 27 04:00 and this is the Kings James Version. 04:03 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 04:06 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus. 04:10 And say unto Tyrus, 04:13 O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, 04:16 which art a merchant of the people for many isles, 04:20 Thus saith the Lord God, 04:21 O Tyrus, thou hast said, 04:24 I am of perfect beauty. 04:27 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, 04:30 thy builders have perfected thy beauty. 04:34 They have made all thy ship boards 04:36 of fir trees of Senir they have taken cedars 04:40 from Lebanon to make masts for thee. 04:43 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars, 04:47 the company of the Ashurites 04:49 have made thy benches of ivory, 04:51 brought out of the isles of Chittim. 04:54 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt 04:57 was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail, 05:00 blue and purple from the isles of Elishah 05:02 was that which covered thee. 05:05 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners 05:08 thy wise men, O Tyrus, 05:10 that were in thee, were thy pilots. 05:13 The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof 05:16 were in thee thy calkers, 05:18 all the ships of the sea with their mariners 05:20 were in thee to occupy thy merchandise. 05:23 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, 05:27 thy men of war, 05:28 they hanged the shield and helmet in thee, 05:31 they set forth thy comeliness. 05:34 The men of Arvad with thine army 05:36 were upon thy walls round about, 05:39 and the Gammadims were in thy towers: 05:42 they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; 05:44 they have made thy beauty perfect. 05:46 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude 05:49 of all kind of riches, with silver, iron, tin, and lead 05:53 they traded in thy fairs. 05:56 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, 05:58 they were thy merchants, 06:00 they traded the persons of men 06:02 and vessels of brass in thy market. 06:04 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs 06:08 with horses and horsemen and mules. 06:12 The men of Dedan were thy merchants; 06:14 many isles were the merchandise of thine hand, 06:17 they brought thee for a present 06:19 horns of ivory and ebony. 06:21 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude 06:25 of the wares of thy making, 06:27 they occupied in thy faires with Emeraulds, 06:30 purple, and broidered worke, 06:32 fine linen, and Corall, and Agate. 06:36 Judah, and the land of Israel, 06:38 they were thy merchants, 06:40 they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, 06:42 and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm. 06:46 Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude 06:48 of the wares of thy making, 06:49 for the multitude of all riches, 06:51 in the wine of Helbon, and white wool. 06:54 Dan also and Javan going to and fro 06:58 occupied in thy fairs, 07:00 bright iron cassia, and calamus, were in thy market. 07:04 Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots. 07:08 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, 07:10 they occupied with thee in lambs, 07:12 and rams, and goats, 07:15 in these were they thy merchants. 07:18 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, 07:21 they were thy merchants they occupied in thy fairs 07:23 with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, 07:26 and gold, Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, 07:30 the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, 07:34 were thy merchants. 07:36 These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, 07:38 in blue clothes, and broidered work, 07:40 and in chests of rich apparel, 07:43 bound with cords, and made of cedar, 07:45 among thy merchandise. 07:47 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market, 07:52 and thou wast replenished, 07:53 and made very glorious in the midst of the seas. 07:58 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters, 08:01 the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas. 08:05 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, 08:08 thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, 08:13 and the occupiers of thy merchandise, 08:14 and all thy men of war, that are in thee, 08:17 and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, 08:20 shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin. 08:26 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. 08:31 And all that handle the oar, 08:33 the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, 08:35 shall come down from their ships, 08:38 they shall stand upon the land. 08:39 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, 08:42 and shall cry bitterly, 08:43 and shall cast up dust upon their heads, 08:46 they shall wallow themselves in the ashes. 08:51 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, 08:54 and gird them with sackcloth, 08:55 and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart 08:59 and bitter wailing. 09:03 And in their wailing they shall take up 09:05 a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, 09:09 saying, what city is like Tyrus, 09:14 like the destroyed in the midst of the sea? 09:18 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, 09:20 thou filledst many people, 09:22 thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude 09:25 of thy riches and of thy merchandise. 09:29 In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas 09:32 in the depths of the waters thy merchandise 09:36 and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall. 09:40 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, 09:44 and their kings shall be sore afraid, 09:47 they shall be troubled in their countenance. 09:51 The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee, 09:55 thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more. 10:00 Continuing in Ezekiel Chapter 28 10:03 and this is the King James Version. 10:05 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, 10:09 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, 10:12 Thus saith the Lord God, 10:14 Because thine heart is lifted up, 10:16 and thou hast said, I am a God, 10:19 I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas, 10:23 yet thou art a man, and not a God, 10:25 though thou set thine heart as the heart of God. 10:29 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel, 10:32 there is no secret that they can hide from thee. 10:34 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding 10:37 thou hast gotten thee riches, 10:38 and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures. 10:42 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick 10:44 hast thou increased thy riches, 10:46 and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches. 10:49 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, 10:51 Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God. 10:55 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, 10:58 the terrible of the nations 11:01 and they shall draw their swords 11:02 against the beauty of thy wisdom, 11:05 and they shall defile thy brightness. 11:07 They shall bring thee down to the pit, 11:08 and thou shalt die the deaths of them 11:11 that are slain in the midst of the seas. 11:14 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, 11:17 I am God? 11:18 but thou shalt be a man, and no God, 11:21 in the hand of him that slayeth thee. 11:23 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised 11:26 by the hand of strangers, 11:27 for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God. 11:32 Moreover the word of the Lord, 11:33 came unto me, saying, Son of man, 11:34 take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, 11:37 and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God, 11:41 Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, 11:44 and perfect in beauty. 11:46 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God, 11:49 every precious stone was thy covering, 11:52 the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, 11:55 the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, 11:58 and the carbuncle, and gold, the workmanship of thy tabrets 12:02 and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day 12:05 that thou wast created. 12:06 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth, 12:10 and I have set thee so, 12:11 thou wast upon the holy mountain of God 12:14 thou hast walked up and down 12:16 in the midst of the stones of fire. 12:19 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day 12:23 that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. 12:27 By the multitude of thy merchandise 12:29 they have filled the midst of thee with violence, 12:32 and thou hast sinned, 12:34 therefore I will cast thee as profane 12:38 out of the mountain of God 12:40 and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, 12:43 from the midst of the stones of fire. 12:46 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, 12:50 thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness. 12:55 I will cast thee to the ground, 12:57 I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. 13:01 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries 13:04 by the multitude of thine iniquities, 13:06 by the iniquity of thy traffick, 13:09 therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, 13:13 it shall devour thee, 13:14 and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth 13:16 in the sight of all them that behold thee. 13:20 All they that know thee among the people 13:22 shall be astonished at thee thou shalt be a terror, 13:26 and never shalt thou be any more. 13:30 Again the word of the Lord came unto me, 13:31 saying, Son of man, 13:33 set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it. 13:37 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD, 13:40 Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon, 13:42 and I will be glorified in the midst of thee 13:45 and they shall know that I am the Lord, 13:47 when I shall have executed judgments in her, 13:50 and shall be sanctified in her. 13:52 For I will send into her pestilence, 13:55 and blood into her streets, 13:57 and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her 14:00 by the sword upon her on every side, 14:03 and they shall know that I am the Lord. 14:06 And there shall be no more a pricking brier 14:09 unto the house of Israel, 14:11 nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, 14:14 that despised them, 14:16 and they shall know that I am the Lord God. 14:19 Thus saith the Lord God, 14:21 When I shall have gathered the house of Israel 14:24 from the people among whom they are scattered, 14:27 and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, 14:32 then shall they dwell in their land 14:34 that I have given to my servant Jacob. |
Revised 2014-12-17