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313 : Basic English : Ezekiel 1,2; 2 Timothy 3 1. Now it came about in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, while I was by the river Chebar among those who had been made prisoners, that the heavens were made open and I saw visions of God.
2. On the fifth day of the month, in the fifth year after King Jehoiachin had been made a prisoner,
3. The word of the Lord came to me, Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldaeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the Lord was on me there.
4. And, looking, I saw a storm-wind coming out of the north, a great cloud with flames of fire coming after one another, and a bright light shining round about it and in the heart of it was something coloured like electrum.
5. And in the heart of it were the forms of four living beings. And this was what they were like; they had the form of a man.
; AB church Lausanne

312 : Basic English : Lamentations 4,5; 2 Timothy 2 1. How dark has the gold become! how changed the best gold! the stones of the holy place are dropping out at the top of every street.
2. The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!
3. Even the beasts of the waste land have full breasts, they give milk to their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the waste land.
4. The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them.
5. Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.
; AB church Lausanne

311 : Basic English : Lamentations 2,3; 2 Timothy 1 1. How has the daughter of Zion been covered with a cloud by the Lord in his wrath! he has sent down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, and has not kept in memory the resting-place of his feet in the day of his wrath.
2. The Lord has given up to destruction all the living-places of Jacob without pity; pulling down in his wrath the strong places of the daughter of Judah, stretching out on the earth the wounded, even her king and her rulers.
3. In his burning wrath every horn of Israel has been cut off; his right hand has been turned back before the attacker: he has put a fire in Jacob, causing destruction round about.
4. His bow has been bent for the attack, he has taken his place with his hand ready, in his hate he has put to death all who were pleasing to the eye: on the tent of the daughter of Zion he has let loose his passion like fire.
5. The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.
; AB church Lausanne

310 : Basic English : Jeremiah 52; Lamentations 1; 1 Timothy 6 1. Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; he was king for eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2. And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.
3. And because of the wrath of the Lord this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them away from before him: and Zedekiah took up arms against the king of Babylon.
4. And in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round it.
5. So the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
; AB church Lausanne

309 : Basic English : Jeremiah 51; 1 Timothy 5 1. The Lord has said: See, I will make a wind of destruction come up against Babylon and against those who are living in Chaldaea;
2. And I will send men to Babylon to make her clean and get her land cleared: for in the day of trouble they will put up their tents against her on every side.
3. Against her the bow of the archer is bent, and he puts on his coat of metal: have no mercy on her young men, give all her army up to the curse.
4. And the dead will be stretched out in the land of the Chaldaeans, and the wounded in her streets.
5. For Israel has not been given up, or Judah, by his God, by the Lord of armies; for their land is full of sin against the Holy One of Israel.
; AB church Lausanne