Study Desk

We pay for water with money, our wood comes to us at a price.

We are driven on our necks; we are weary, there is no rest for us.

We risk our life for food because of the sword of the desert.

The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!

You, O Yahweh, will sit forever on your throne for generation to generation.

Why have you forgotten us forever? Why have you forsaken us for so long?

And under their wings were human hands on their four sides. And their faces and their wings for the four of them were as follows:

The likeness of their faces was the face of a human in front, and the face of a lion on the right of each of them, and the face of an ox on the left of each of them, and the face of an eagle for each of them.

As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches. It was moving to and fro between the living creatures, and the fire was very bright and lightning was going out from the fire.

Wherever the spirit went they would go there, and the wheels rose, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

At their going, they go, and at their standing, they stood, and at their being lifted up from on the earth, the wheels rose, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

And they, whether they listen or whether they fail to listen, for they are a rebellious house, they will know that a prophet was in their midst.

And you, son of man, you must not be afraid of them, and you must not be afraid of their words, because briers and thorns are with you, and you are sitting among scorpions. You must not be afraid of their words, and you must not be dismayed because of their looks, for they are a rebellious house.

And you must speak my words to them whether they listen or whether they fail to listen, for they are rebellious.

For you are sent to the house of Israel, not to a people of obscure speech and of a difficult language,

and not to many nations of obscure speech and a difficult language whose words you do not understand, for if I had sent you to them they would have listened to you.

And the house of Israel, they are not willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me, for all of the house of Israel is hard of forehead, and they are hard of heart.

Like a diamond harder than flint I have made your forehead; you must not fear them, and you must not be dismayed on account of them, for they are a rebellious house.

"Son of man, I have appointed you as a watchman for the house of Israel. When you hear a word from my mouth, then you must warn them from me.

And when the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, and I place a stumbling block before him, he will die, for you did not warn him. Because of his sin he will die, and his righteousness that he did will not be remembered, and his blood I shall seek from your hand.