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Andrey Tikhomirov Translator
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© Andrey Tikhomirov, translation, 2022
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Chapter 1
1 And it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, when I was among the emigrants by the river Khovar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. (The show is a performance staged by the priests of Judaism to influence Ezekiel (from Hebrew «the Lord will strengthen», one of the first settlers).
2 On the fifth day of the month (it was the fifth year after the captivity of King Joachim), (At the age of 25, Ezekiel was taken captive to Babylon and settled in Chaldea).
3 The word of the LORD came to Ezekiel, the son of Buzi, the priest, in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Khovar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him. (Ezekiel, like Jeremiah and Zechariah, belonged to the priestly family of the Sadokids and may have been on the staff of the Jerusalem temple, so the priests-hypnotists influenced them in order for them to influence their flock, and the flock to return to the bosom of Judaism).
4 And I saw, and behold, a stormy wind was coming from the north, a great cloud and a swirling fire, and a radiance around it, (the north wind, a cloud of smoke from the fire and the radiance produced by the fire).
5 and from the middle of it, as it were, the light of a flame from the middle of the fire; and from the middle of it, the likeness of four animals was visible, and this was their appearance: their appearance was like that of a man; (A complex construction on a chariot with the use of torches and all kinds of devices with images of animals and man, whose task is to frighten and influence on «the prophet).
6 and each has four faces, and each of them has four wings; (The design had images of faces with wings).
7 But their feet were straight legs, and the soles of their feet were like the soles of a calf’s foot, and they shone like shining brass. (The design had images or carved figures of legs with hooves of «sacred» animals).
8 And the hands of men were under their wings, on their four sides; (The human hands held the figures of the wings).
9 and their faces and their wings were all four; their wings touched one another; during their march they did not turn around, but walked each in the direction of their face. (The structure was moving and the wings were moving).
10 The likeness of their faces is the face of a man and the face of a lion on the right side of all four of them; and on the left side the face of a bull on all four and the face of an eagle on all four. (The design had «sacred» images of certain human faces, lions, calves, eagles).
11 And their faces and their wings were separated from above, but each had two wings touching one another, and two covered their bodies. (The structure was moving and the wings were moving).
12 And they went, each one in the direction that was before him; wherever the spirit wanted to go, they went there; during their procession they did not turn around. (The structure was moving and the wings were moving).
13 And the appearance of these animals was like the appearance of burning coals, like the appearance of lamps; [fire] went among the animals, and the radiance from the fire and lightning came out of the fire. (This is a kind of scarecrow for gullible fearful people).
14 And the animals moved quickly to and fro, like lightning flashing. (The structure was moving and the animals were moving in different directions, apparently intending to break out of the fetters).
15 And I looked at the animals, and, behold, on the ground beside these animals, one wheel in front of their four faces. (The design also had wheels that were positioned in front of images of animal faces).
16 The appearance of the wheels and their arrangement is like the appearance of topaz, and the likeness of all four is the same; and by their appearance and arrangement it seemed as if the wheel was in the wheel. (Topaz is a mineral of the subclass of insular silicates, it can be of various colors: yellow, blue, pink or colorless. Complex wheel designs).
17 As they walked, they walked on their four sides; during the procession they did not turn around. (Between 593 and 591 BC, this event was repeated twice more in the same form, and about 20 years later – about 572 BC – for the fourth time. Three times Ezekiel took part in the flights of the «firmament». For the third and fourth time, that is, in 591 and 572 BC, as he claims, he was taken on a «divine» chariot from Khabur to Jerusalem. In 587 BC, that is, in the period between these two «flights», Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the temple erected by Solomon).
18 But their rims were high and terrible; their rims were full of eyes around all four of them. (Already in the Uruk period (chariots-carts were invented in the Southern Urals more than 4 thousand years ago) the Sumerians had wheeled carts, and since the third millennium BC, wheels, in order to reduce wear, began to be upholstered on the rim with nails with convex caps – such, for example, copper nails about 5 centimeters long).
19 And when the animals went, the wheels also went by [them]; and when the animals rose from the ground, then the wheels also rose. (American psychologists who studied this text found in Ezekiel symptoms of catalepsy – a painful numbness observed in a number of mental illnesses. The philosopher Karl Jaspers, a psychiatrist by training, published in 1947 a work devoted to an attempt to investigate the visions of the prophets from the point of view of psychopathology; he believes that they should be considered as hallucinations of paranoids prone to schizophrenia, that is, mentally ill with obsessive ideas. According to psychiatrists, the image of wheel rims dotted with «eyes» is a typical symptom of the disease. Many paranoids suffering from persecution mania claim that they constantly feel the gaze of many eyes on themselves just like Ezekiel).
20 Wherever the spirit wanted to go, they also went; wherever the spirit went, and the wheels rose up along with them, for the spirit of the animals was in the wheels. (The chariot of a complex design moved with great difficulty, since there were also living beings in it – people, animals, as well as their models – the «spirit of animals»).
21 When they walked, they walked; and when they stood, they stood; and when they rose from the ground, then the wheels also rose with them, for the spirit of the animals was in the wheels. (The chariot of a complex design moved with great difficulty, since there were also living beings in it – people, animals, as well as their models – the «spirit of animals»).
22 Above the heads of the animals was a kind of vault, like a kind of amazing crystal stretched out above their heads. (Ezekiel saw «the likeness of a vault» descending in a fiery cloud (Luther wrote at this point in his translation of the Bible: «Shaped like the firmament»), carried by four winged beings. The creatures had metal legs and one wheel each. On the upper side of the vault, which Ezekiel calls «the likeness of the throne,» the prophet saw «as if the likeness of a man,» and this «likeness» spoke to him).
23 And under the arch their wings stretched straight one to the other, and each had two wings that covered them, each had two wings that covered their bodies. (Apparently, Ezekiel imagined something like a battle chariot with sickles (a chariot from the wheels of which sickles or curved swords protruded), known even from Greek testimonies about the East. In addition, not only in India, but also in Mesopotamia, and since very ancient times, along with war chariots, cult ones with statues of gods were also used. Such carts were quite common for the equipment of that time).
24 And as they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the sound of many waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a great noise, like a noise in a military camp; [and] when they stopped, they lowered their wings. (The people in this structure made a lot of noise, including using homemade wings, in order to influence their victim in this way, in this case Ezekiel).
25 And the voice came from the vault that was over their heads; when they stopped, then they lowered their wings. (The voice was reproduced by a man hiding in a chariot).
26 And over the vault that was above their heads, there was a likeness of a throne in appearance, as if made of a sapphire stone; and over the likeness of the throne there was a likeness of a man above on it. (This man stood on a certain throne in order to intimidate Ezekiel so that he would believe that God himself was «broadcasting» to him. Sapphire is a mineral, a blue or blue variety of corundum).
27 And I saw, as it were, a flaming metal, as it were, a kind of fire within it around; from the sight of its loins and above, and from the sight of its loins and below, I saw, as it were, a kind of fire, and a radiance [was] around it. (All kinds of tricks, including torches with fire, the glow from mirrors, etc., are used to impress the hypnotized).
28 In what form does a rainbow appear on clouds during rain, such was the appearance of this radiance around. (All kinds of tricks are used to impress the hypnotized).
Chapter 2
1 Such was the vision of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. When I saw this, I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of the Speaker, and He said to me: Son of man! Stand on your feet, and I will speak to you. (Ezekiel understood the words «the voice of the Speaker,» which means he was speaking in a language known to Ezekiel).
2 And while he was speaking to me, the spirit entered into me and set me on my feet, and I heard him who was speaking to me. (The suggestion began to take effect).
3 And he said to me, Son of man! I am sending you to the children of Israel, to the rebellious people who have rebelled against Me; they and their fathers are traitors before me to this very day. (Lord God, that is, persons interested in spreading Judaism, gave Ezekiel instructions on the transformation of Ezekiel’s native society; thanks to these instructions, the local Judaic religion turned into one of the world religions. God. Yahweh becomes the «judge of the world.» The political background of the «Ezekiel revolt» was the subjugation and subsequent destruction of the kingdom of Solomon by the Egyptian and Babylonian empires and the beginning of the dispersion of Jews outside of what was then Palestine. Ezekiel himself, at the age of about 30, was hijacked from Jerusalem to Babylon. He was among the first to be expelled from his homeland. The place of his imprisonment was located on the bank of a tributary of the Euphrates – Khabur, also called Khovar. There, five years later, his first vision of the «divine chariot» took place).
4 And these sons with a callous face and a hard heart; I am sending you to them, and you will say to them: «Thus saith the Lord God!» (The priests of Judaism, using a stage show, influenced their priest to become a «herald of God»).
5 Whether they will listen or not, for they are a rebellious house; but let them know that there was a prophet among them. (Ezekiel is «appointed» as a prophet).
6 But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them and do not be afraid of their speeches, if they are wolves and thorns for you, and you will live with scorpions; do not be afraid of their speeches and do not be afraid of their faces, for they are a rebellious house; (The suggestion of fearlessness, that is how hypnotists would act, that is theater and verbal suggestion. «Rebellious House» – those who have departed from Judaism).
7 And speak to them my words, whether they will listen or not, for they are stubborn. (The stubborn ones who stopped feeding the priests of Judaism).
8 But you, son of man, listen to what I will say to you; don’t be stubborn like this rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you. (The suggestion was to convince Ezekiel to give up stubbornness, only listen and eat what the priests would give, most likely some «sacred» object).
9 And I saw, and, behold, a hand was stretched out to me, and, behold, a scroll of books was in it. (Using a book scroll to «confirm» the truth of events).
10 And he unfolded it before me, and behold, the scroll was written inside and out, and it was written on it, «Weeping, and groaning, and woe.» (Ezekiel could read.)
Chapter 3
1 And he said to me, Son of man! Eat what is in front of you, eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel. (An offer to eat a book scroll and then go to the «rebellious house» of Israel).
2 Then I opened my mouth, and he gave me to eat this scroll; (Ezekiel obediently fulfills the will of the hypnotist).
3 And he said to me, «Son of man! Fill your belly and fill your insides with this scroll that I am giving you; and I ate it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth. (Eating a «sacred» object, in this case a book scroll, perhaps the scroll was soaked in some sweetness).
4 And he said to me, Son of man! Get up and go to the house of Israel, and speak to them in My words; (The Prophet refers to the Israelites so that they perceive the information beneficial to the priest-hypnotist).
5 For you are not sent to the people with an inarticulate speech and an incomprehensible language, but to the house of Israel («The House of Israel» – «the chosen ones»).
6 not to many nations with slurred speech and incomprehensible language, whose words you would not understand; yes, if I had sent you to them, they would have obeyed you; (You can also send to the «unelected»).
7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me, because the whole house of Israel is with a strong forehead and a hard heart. (The Israelites have stopped bringing food to the priests of Judaism, and they send hypnotized prophets).
8 Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads. (This maxim can be understood as follows, Ezekiel is well bombed and coded (enchanted and hypnotized), so he will be able to convince the stubborn «chosen ones» to return to the bosom of Judaism).
9 I have made your forehead like a diamond, which is stronger than a stone; do not be afraid of them, and do not be afraid before them, for they are a rebellious house. (The diamond is the third precious stone in the second row of stones of the judgment breastplate of the high priest. According to some interpreters, there may be an inaccuracy of translation here: the Hebrew word «yahalom» does not mean diamond, but perhaps jasper).
10 And he said to me, «Son of man! all My words that I will speak to you, accept with your heart and listen with your ears; (Installation of a hypnotist).
11 Arise and go to the emigrants, to the sons of your people, and speak to them, and say to them, «Thus saith the LORD God!» whether they will listen or not. (Installation of a hypnotist).
12 And the spirit lifted me up; and I heard a great thunderous voice behind me: «Blessed is the glory of the Lord from his place!» («Lifted up the spirit» —that is, Ezekiel fell into a hypnotic trance, the thunderous voice of the hypnotist gave the last setting).
13 and also the noise of the wings of animals touching one another, and the sound of wheels beside them, and the sound of a great thunder. (The helpers helped to influence the prophet).
14 And the spirit lifted me up, and took me. And I went in sorrow, with an anxious spirit; and the hand of the Lord was firmly on me. («Raised the spirit» – that is, Ezekiel fell into a hypnotic trance, Ezekiel, however, did not fly, but «walked» in a hypnotic state, «the hand of the Lord was firmly on me» – hypnosis worked perfectly, the session worked, Ezekiel became a slave of a priest-hypnotist, who allegedly was god).
15 And I came to those who had been moved to Tel Aviv, who lived by the river Khovar, and I stayed where they lived, and spent seven days among them in amazement. (The Prophet of 7 days (the «sacred» seven) propagandized maxims beneficial to the Jewish priests, where the Jewish settlers lived).
16 After seven days, the word of the Lord came to me: (However, the spell (hypnosis) gradually disappeared, so a new verbal suggestion became necessary).
17 son of man! I have made you a guardian of the house of Israel, and you will listen to the word from my mouth, and you will instruct them from Me. (In its purest form, verbal hypnotic influence).
18 When I say to the wicked, «You will die by death,» and you will not admonish him or speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, so that he may live, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, and I will seek his blood at your hands. (The wrongdoer is the one who does not admire Yahweh and does not comply with the laws of Judaism, of course, if he does not come to his senses, then death awaits him, the prophet must contribute to the fact that the wrongdoer realized his «mistakes» and embarked on the path of correction, otherwise the prophet becomes an instrument of killing the wrongdoer).
19 But if you have admonished the wicked, and he has not turned from his iniquity and from his iniquitous way, then he will die in his iniquity, but you have saved your soul. (The prophet saves his soul in the event of the death of the wrongdoer, this is a very advantageous interpretation for the priests, who seem to have nothing to do with it, the priests remain behind the Scenes).
20 And if a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and acts wickedly, when I put a stumbling block before him and he dies, then if you did not admonish him, he will die for his sin, and his righteous deeds that he did will not be remembered to him; and I will seek his blood at your hands. (In any case, the prophet will be extreme, God, that is, the scheming priest, will «seek the blood of the wrongdoer» and will find out through the «sacred» substance – blood about what the prophet undertook in order to return the «rebellious house» to the bosom of Judaism. It is not profitable for the priests to kill the «chosen ones», it is profitable for them to constantly «milk» them, that is, so that the «chosen ones» bring more and more often food (without a flaw) for the priests-schemers).
21 But if you admonish the righteous, so that the righteous does not sin, and he does not sin, then he will also live, because he was admonished, and you saved your soul. (It is not profitable for the priests to kill the «chosen ones», it is profitable for them to constantly «milk» them, that is, so that the «chosen ones» bring more and more often food (without a flaw) for the priests-schemers).
22 And the hand of the LORD was upon me there, and he said to me, Arise and go out into the field, and I will speak with you there. («The Hand of the Lord» is a hypnotic obsession caused by the passes of the hands. The priest-hypnotist commands his hypnotized slave).
23 And I arose, and went out into the field; and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, like the glory that I had seen by the river Khovar; and I fell on my face. (In the field, the prophet fell into a hypnotic trance, which is shown by the phrase «I fell on my face»).
24 And the spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet, and he spoke to me, and said to me, Go and shut yourself up in your house. («And the spirit entered me» – the hypnotic trance continues, the person becomes a slave to the hypnotist and fulfills all his instructions. From that time on, Ezekiel’s behavior became the behavior of the prophet).
25 And you, son of man, behold, they will lay bonds on you, and bind you with them, and you will not walk among them. (Verbal suggestion, the general meaning of which is not to obey the rebels, even if they exert influence).
26 And I will stick your tongue to your throat, and you will be numb, and you will not be their reprover, for they are a rebellious house. (The priest-hypnotist shows his power over the hypnotized, that he can stick his tongue to the larynx, the person becomes mute. This is quite possible with the help of hypnosis).
27 And when I speak to you, then I will open your mouth, and you will say to them, «Thus saith the LORD God!» whoever wants to listen, listen; and whoever does not want to listen, do not listen: for they are a rebellious house. (Setting up how to act and talk to the rebels).
Chapter 4
1 And you, son of man, take a brick for yourself and put it before you, and draw the city of Jerusalem on it; (Jerusalem in the form of a brick. The ancient prophets had «visions», received «revelations» and gave «signs» thanks to the hypnotic influence of the priests-hypnotists. Ezekiel assures that after the first «vision» already described, he also had a number of similar ones, with the participation of all the same winged bull-shaped cherubim carrying the throne and Yahweh on it (in places the name of God is replaced by the respectful expression «glory to Yahweh». At the same time, God, that is, the hypnotist priests, each time turns to the prophet his «word», reveals to him his plans for the future of Israel and, as a rule, prescribes Ezekiel to carry out the corresponding sign, describing in detail how to perform it).
2 and lay a siege against it, and make a fortification against it, and build a rampart around it, and set up a camp against it, and set up battering machines around it; (Plan for the siege of the city).
3 and take for yourself an iron plank, and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city, and turn your face towards it, and it will be besieged, and you will besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel. (The plan of the siege of the city as a portent, a method of imitative magic).
4 But you lie down on your left side and put the iniquity of the house of Israel on it: according to the number of days that you lie on it, you will bear their iniquity. (Iniquity is a rejection of faith in Yahweh; lying motionless on one side for many days was catalepsy, but some researchers today attribute all these manifestations to the ecstatic state of the prophet and do not consider them as symptoms of a nervous illness. Naturally, these are primarily religious researchers).
5 And I have appointed unto thee the years of their iniquity by the number of days: three hundred and ninety days shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. (390 days – the magic of numbers, for the iniquities of the Israelites).
6 And when you have done this, lie down on your right side a second time, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah on you for forty days, a day for a year, a day for a year I have appointed for you. (40 days – the magic of numbers, for the iniquities of the Jews).
7 And turn your face and your naked right hand to the siege of Jerusalem, and prophesy against it. (The plan of the siege of the city as a portent, a method of imitative magic).
8 Behold, I have laid a bond upon you, and you will not turn from one side to the other until you have fulfilled the days of your siege. (Suggestion of the priest-hypnotist).
9 Take for yourself wheat and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and pour them into one vessel, and make yourself loaves of them, according to the number of days in which you will lie on your side; three hundred and ninety days you will eat them. (Without nutrition, however, even the «almighty» God will not work).
10 And your food, which you will eat, you will eat by the weight of twenty shekels a day; from time to time you will eat it. (Regulation of food intake).
11 And you shall drink water by measure, you shall drink the sixth part of a gin; from time to time you shall drink like this. (Gin is an ancient Hebrew measure of the volume of liquids, the sixth part of a baht is presumably about 3.5 liters).
12 And eat like barley cakes, and bake them in their sight on human feces. (Use of human feces as fuel, animal excrement).
13 And the LORD said: So the children of Israel will eat their unclean bread among the nations to which I will drive them out. (God expels, in fact, as a result of endless wars, the «chosen people» were resettled).
14 Then I said, O Lord God! my soul has never been defiled, and I have not eaten dead meat or torn by a beast from my youth until now; and no unclean meat has entered my mouth. (The «unclean» products included: dead meat, meat torn to pieces by animals, since it was possible to get infected with any infectious disease, the priests reached this experimentally).
15 And he said to me, «Behold, I allow you, instead of human feces, cow dung, and on it you cook your bread. (Dung, cow dung, is allowed to be used).
16 And he said to me, «Son of man! Behold, I will break the bread support in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and in sorrow, and they will drink water by measure and in despondency, (God allegedly breaks the bread and water support, which leads to hunger and thirst among the population).
17 for they will lack bread and water, and they will look at each other with horror, and they will wither away in their iniquity. (The main misfortune for priests is to lose food from fooled people, for them this is the main lawlessness).
Chapter 5
1 But you, son of man, take for yourself a sharp knife, take for yourself a barber’s razor, and run it over your head and over your beard, and take for yourself a scale, and divide the hair into parts. (Manipulation of «sacred» hair).
2 Burn the third part with fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; take the third part and cut it with a knife in its vicinity; and scatter the third part to the wind; and I will draw my sword after them. (Manipulation of «sacred» hair).
3 And take a small number from this, and tie them in your floors. (Manipulation of «sacred» hair).
4 But take some of this also, and throw it into the fire, and burn it in the fire. From there, fire will come out on the whole house of Israel. (Manipulation with hair was supposed to mean «the exit of fire to the whole house of Israel», this sorcery is very beneficial to the priests of Judaism, since this or that event will inevitably lead in an allegorical sense to the «exit» of a certain fire, that is, trouble for «disobedient» Jewish Israelis who have stopped feeding the manipulative priests).
5 Thus saith the LORD God: This is Jerusalem! I have placed him among the nations, and around him are the lands. (Again, a very streamlined phrase, which is very beneficial to the Jewish priests, God «placed» Jerusalem among the peoples and the lands surrounding it).
6 But he has done more wickedly against my ordinances than the Gentiles, and worse against my ordinances than the lands around him; for they have rejected my ordinances and do not act according to my ordinances. (The Jews do not obey).
7 Therefore thus saith the LORD God: because you have multiplied your iniquities more than the Gentiles who are around you, you do not act according to my statutes and do not fulfill my ordinances, and you do not even act according to the ordinances of the Gentiles who are around you, (the Jews do not obey).
8 Therefore thus saith the LORD God: Behold, I am also against thee, I myself, and I will bring judgment among thee before the eyes of the Gentiles. (God will punish you).
9 And I will do to you what I have never done, and what I will never do again, for all your abominations. (The promise of all sorts of misfortunes).
10 Therefore the fathers will eat the sons among you, and the sons will eat their fathers; and I will judge you, and I will scatter all your remnant to all the winds. (The promise of all kinds of misfortunes, including cannibalism).
11 Therefore, as I live, says the LORD God, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your abominations and all your abominations, I will belittle you, and my eye will not regret, and I will not have mercy on you. (The promise of all sorts of misfortunes).
12 The third part of you will die of the plague and perish of hunger in your midst; the third part will fall by the sword in your neighborhood; and the third part I will scatter to all winds, and I will draw the sword after them. (The promise of all sorts of misfortunes).
13 And my wrath will be fulfilled, and I will quench my wrath against them, and I will be satisfied; and they will know that I, the LORD, have spoken in my zeal, when my wrath is fulfilled over them. (God expresses his emotions like an ordinary crook-charlatan who is ready to mercilessly take revenge for being left without food).
14 And I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, before the eyes of everyone passing by. (The promise of all sorts of misfortunes).
15 And you will be a mockery and a reproach, an example and a terror among the nations that are around you, when I will judge you in anger and fury, and in furious executions; – I, the Lord, have spoken this; – (The promise of all kinds of misfortunes).
16 and when I send upon them the fierce arrows of famine, which will destroy, when I send them to your destruction, and I will increase the famine among you, and I will break the bread support among you, (the promise of all kinds of misfortunes).
17 And I will send famine and fierce beasts upon you, and they will defile you; and pestilence and blood will pass over you, and I will bring a sword upon you; I, the LORD, have spoken this. (The promise of all sorts of misfortunes).
Chapter 6
1 And the word of the LORD came to me: (Suggestion by words).
2 son of man! turn your face to the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them, (An indication to the prophecy, beneficial to the Jewish priests).
3 And say, The mountains of Israel! Listen to the word of the Lord God. Thus saith the LORD God to the mountains and hills, valleys and valleys: Behold, I will bring the sword upon you, and I will destroy your heights; (Appeal to the Jews who have betrayed Yahweh).
4 and your altars will be laid waste, your pillars in honor of the sun will be broken, and I will throw down your slain before your idols; (Traitors worship the wrong idols).
5 And I will lay the corpses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars. (The promise of misfortunes and troubles).
6 In all the places where you live, the cities will be desolated and the high places will be destroyed, so that your altars will be desolated and destroyed, so that your idols will be crushed and destroyed, and your sun pillars will be broken, and your works will be blotted out. (The promise of misfortunes and troubles).
7 And the slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD. (Thus, it is «proved» that God is the Lord (lord), that is, by endless murders).
8 But I will save the remnant, so that you will have survivors of the sword among the nations when you are scattered over the lands. (The Jews were becoming scattered).
9 And your survivors among the nations will remember me, where they will be taken captive, when I will bring their prodigal heart, which has fallen away from me, and their eyes, which have fornicated after idols, into contrition; and they will feel disgust for themselves for the evil that they have done in all their abominations; (The Jewish priests, acting through their prophets, they inspired favorable attitudes to them).
10 And they will know that I am the LORD; it was not in vain that I said that I would bring such a calamity upon them. (God can speak!).
11 Thus saith the LORD God: Throw up your hands, and stamp with your foot, and say, Woe for all the abominable wickedness of the house of Israel! they will fall by the sword, famine and pestilence. (Ancient customs: splashing with hands, stomping with feet. Sorcerer priests often used this to influence the public so that the public would return to the bosom of the «true» religion).
12 He who is far away will die of the pestilence; but he who is near will fall by the sword; and he who remains and survives will die of hunger; so will I bring my wrath upon them. (This is how God expresses his anger – with the promise of murder, death from illness, from hunger, just like an ordinary vindictive person).
13 And you will know that I am the LORD, when the slain will be among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every branching oak, in the place where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols. (For the priests of Judaism, other cults were rivals, which was expressed in the withdrawal of part of the flock from the Jews to other cults, this naturally caused them fits of anger and indignation, as can be seen from the above words).
14 And I will stretch out my hand against them, and make the land a wilderness and a wilderness, from the wilderness of Divlath, in all their places of residence, and they will know that I am the LORD. (The promise of all sorts of misfortunes that the vengeful god supposedly «produces», in fact, all these misfortunes are completely ordinary events during the endless wars).
Chapter 7
1 And the word of the Lord came to me: (Suggestion by words).
2 and you, son of man, [say]: Thus saith the LORD God; the land of Israel is at an end, – the end has come to the four ends of the earth. (The suggestion through the prophet of beneficial Jewish priesthood attitudes).
3 This is the end of you; and I will send my wrath upon you, and I will judge you according to your ways, and I will lay all your abominations on you. (The wrath of God, that is, the hungry Jewish priesthood, is connected with the fact that the «chosen people» stopped feeding the priests).
4 And my eye will not spare you, and I will not have mercy, and I will repay you according to your ways, and your abominations will be with you, and you will know that I am the LORD. (The Jewish priests, acting through their prophets, inspired favorable attitudes to them).
5 Thus saith the LORD God: the only trouble is, behold, trouble is coming. (The promise of troubles and misfortunes).
6 The end has come, the end has come, it has risen on you; here it has come, (The promise of troubles and misfortunes).
7 the attack has reached you, inhabitant of the earth! the time is coming, the day of confusion is approaching, and not cheerful exclamations on the mountains. (The promise of troubles and misfortunes).
8 Behold, I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and I will do my wrath upon you, and I will judge you according to your ways, and I will lay all your abominations on you. (The promise of troubles and misfortunes).
9 And my eye will not spare you, and I will not have mercy. I will reward you according to your ways, and your abominations will be with you; and you will know that I am the Lord the chastiser. (God is a punisher, that’s for sure, the priests are extremely aggressive and dangerous).
10 Here is the day! here came the attack! the rod has grown, the pride has grown. (The promise of troubles and misfortunes).
11 Power rises up against the rod of wickedness; nothing will remain of them, and of their wealth, and of their noise, and of their pomp. (The promise of troubles and misfortunes).
12 The time has come, the day has come; he who has bought, do not rejoice, and he who has sold, do not weep; for wrath is upon all their multitude. (The promise of troubles and misfortunes).
13 For he who sold will not return to the sold, even if they remain alive; for the prophetic vision of all their multitude will not be canceled, and no one will strengthen his life by his iniquity. («Visions» are hypnotic influences).
14 The trumpet will be blown, and everything is being prepared, but no one goes to war: for my wrath is upon all their multitude. (God, that is, the priests of Judaism are angry – they are hungry and cold! Their «chosen ones» stopped carrying sacrifices and offerings to them).
15 There is a sword outside the house, but pestilence and famine are in the house. Whoever is in the field will die by the sword; and whoever is in the city will be devoured by famine and pestilence. (The promise of troubles and misfortunes).
16 But the survivors of them will flee and will be on the mountains like the doves of the valleys; they will all groan, each for his iniquity. (The promise of troubles and misfortunes).
17 Everyone’s hands will fall, and everyone’s knees will tremble, [like] water. (The promise of troubles and misfortunes).
18 Then they will be girded with sackcloth, and trembling will overtake them; and all will have shame on their faces, and all will have a bald spot on their heads. (Baldness, baldness, sackcloth symbolized the presence of any disaster, misfortune).
19 They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will be neglected. Their silver and their gold will not be strong enough to save them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They will not sate their souls with it, nor will they fill their wombs; for it was a reason for their iniquity. (The promise of troubles and misfortunes).
20 And in their red robes they turned him into pride, and made images of their vile idols out of him; therefore I will make him unclean to them; (The Jewish elite especially do not like other people’s idols).
21 And I will give it into the hands of strangers for plunder, and to the wicked of the land for plunder, and they will defile it. (The promise of troubles and misfortunes).
22 And I will turn my face away from them, and they will defile my secret; and robbers will come there and defile it. (The promise of troubles and misfortunes).
23 Make a chain, for this land is filled with bloody atrocities, and the city is full of violence. (The promise of troubles and misfortunes).
24 I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will take possession of their houses. And I will put an end to the arrogance of the strong, and their shrines will be desecrated. (The promise of troubles and misfortunes).
25 Destruction is coming; they will seek peace, and they will not find it. (The promise of troubles and misfortunes).
26 Trouble will follow trouble, and news after news; and they will ask the prophet for visions, and there will be no teaching from the priest and advice from the elders. («Visions» are hypnotic influences).
27 The king will lament, and the prince will be clothed with terror, and the hands of the people of the earth will tremble. I will deal with them according to their ways, and I will judge them according to their judgments; and they will know that I am the Lord. (Ezekiel’s story is a common allegory for the ancient culture of that time (about 580 BC). If a certain «heavenly carriage» had really appeared then, not only Ezekiel would surely have seen it, not to mention that even at that time this event could have been described more precisely than the prophet did. The chariot —cart was invented in the steppes of the Southern Urals).
Chapter 8
1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth [month], on the fifth day of the month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me, and the hand of the LORD God fell upon me there. («The hand of the Lord God has descended upon me» 0 Ezekiel was hypnotized with the help of hand passes).
2 And I saw, and behold, the likeness [of a man], as it were, of fire, and from his loins and below – fire, and from his loins and above – as it were a radiance, as it were the light of a flame. (The hypnotist was all in flames, it was necessary for a better hypnotic effect).
3 And he stretched out his hand, as it were, and took me by the hair of my head, and the spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem to the entrance of the inner gate facing north, where the idol of jealousy was set up, stirring up jealousy. («Visions» – hypnotic effects, «stretched out his hand» – a pass with the hand of a hypnotist, «took me by the hair» – the use of «sacred» hair, after these actions the hypnotized fell into a trance, it began to seem to him that he was in Jerusalem, at a pagan idol, which arouses the Jerusalem priests jealousy. It is also possible that Ezekiel in a hypnotic state came together with the hypnotist to the Jerusalem temple).
4 And behold, there was the glory of the God of Israel, like that which I saw in the field. («The glory of the God of Israel» is a hypnotic state).
5 And he said to me, «Son of man! lift up your eyes to the north. And I lifted up my eyes to the north, and behold, on the north side at the gate of the altar – that idol of jealousy at the entrance. (The voice of the hypnotist inspires any «visions», there was a pagan idol at the altar).
6 And he said to me, Son of man! Do you see what they are doing? What great abominations does the house of Israel do here, that I should depart from My sanctuary? but turn around and you’ll see even bigger abominations. (The hypnotist’s voice. Ezekiel thus becomes a witness to the outrageous facts of the Jews’ betrayal of their god, and moreover in the very «house of Yahweh», in the Jerusalem temple).
7 And he brought me to the entrance of the courtyard, and I looked, and behold, there was a hole in the wall. (The hypnotist leads the hypnotized to the well).
8 And he said to me, «Son of man! dig through the wall; and I dug through the wall, and here is some kind of door. (The instruction to dig through the wall, the hypnotized obediently performs).
9 And he said to me, «Come in and see the disgusting abominations that they are doing here.» (An indication of «disgusting abominations»).
10 And I went in, and I saw, and behold, all kinds of images of reptiles and unclean animals, and all kinds of idols of the house of Israel, painted on the walls all around. (The temple is covered with images of reptiles, unclean animals and idols. Ezekiel, before his captivity, probably observed something similar in the Jerusalem temple. Obviously, there was a place for pagan cults in the «house of Yahweh», perhaps these were the figures of the beast-headed Egyptian gods. In any case, in these frescoes, in front of which incense and libations were performed, one can reasonably see remnants of ancient totemism and the cult of animals).
11 And seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel stand before them, and Jezaniah the son of Safan is among them; and each one has his censer in his hand, and a thick cloud of incense is lifted up. (Smoking, creating a cloud – using smoke for God).
12 And he said to me, «Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his own painted room? for they say: «The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken this land.» (The elders of the Israelites left «their» god, according to the rule of Talion, since Yahweh «forgot» them).
13 And he said to me, Turn around, and you will see even greater abominations, which they do. (Referring to other «abominations», worshipping the wrong gods).
14 And he brought me to the entrance of the gate of the house of the Lord, which is to the north, and behold, there are women sitting weeping for Tammuz (Tammuz-Tammuz was the dying and resurrecting Babylonian god of the vegetable power of nature, whose worshippers on certain days of the year mourned the death of their god, and then celebrated his resurrection).
15 And he said to me, «Do you see, son of man? turn around, and you’ll see big abominations. (Referring to other «abominations», worshipping the wrong gods).
16 And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the LORD, and behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, about twenty-five men [stand] with their backs to the temple of the LORD, and their faces to the east, and bow to the east to the sun. (Sun worship, Sun worship was also performed in the temple of Yahweh).
17 And he said to me, Do you see, son of man? is it not enough for the house of Judah to do such abominations as they do here? but they have also filled the earth with wickedness, and they are especially angering Me; and behold, they bring branches to their noses. (They worship the wrong gods).
18 Therefore will I also act with fury; my eye will not spare, and I will not have mercy; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them. (Yahweh will «take revenge» as an offended, vindictive person. This is not surprising, when the Jews got to Babylon, the religion of Yahweh experienced a powerful onslaught from paganism, and the prophets and priests of Yahweh really became the «guardians» of their religion).
Chapter 9
1 And he cried in my ears with a great voice, saying, Let the chastisers of the city come near, each with his own destructive instrument in his hand. (Punishers are coming).
2 And behold, six men were coming from the upper gate facing north, and each had in his hand his destructive instrument, and among them one dressed in linen, who had a scribe’s device on his belt. And they came and stood by the brazen altar. (Punishers are coming).
3 And the glory of the God of Israel came down from the cherub on which it was, to the threshold of the house. And He called a man dressed in linen clothes, who had a scribe’s device on His belt. (The show continues).
4 And the LORD said to him, «Go through the middle of the city, in the middle of Jerusalem, and make a sign on the foreheads of the people who are grieving and sighing for all the abominations that are committed in the midst of it. (The indication of the «secret» priest about the sign).
5 And he said to them in my hearing: Follow him through the city and strike; let not your eye spare, and spare not; (Permission to kill).
6 Beat the old man, the young man, and the maiden, and the baby, and the wives to death, but do not touch any person on whom the mark is, and start from my sanctuary. And they began with those elders who were in front of the house. (It is allowed to kill those who do not have a sign).
7 And he said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courtyards with the slain, and go out. And they went out and began to kill in the city. (Mass killings of those who do not obey the Jewish priests).
8 And when they had killed them, and I remained, then I fell on my face and cried out, and said, O Lord God! Will You destroy the rest of Israel by pouring out Your anger on Jerusalem? (The Prophet asks about the necessity of killing the «chosen ones» who «betrayed» their god).
9 And he said to me, The wickedness of the house of Israel and Judah is great, very great; and this land is full of blood, and the city is full of unrighteousness; for they say, «The LORD has forsaken this land, and the LORD does not see.» (The «chosen ones» have departed from the religion of Yahweh, for this the vengeful Jewish priests send the «chosen ones» to kill).
10 Therefore my eye will not spare, and I will not have mercy; I will turn their behavior on their head. (God has an eye-eye).
11 And behold, a man clothed in linen, who had a scribe’s device on his belt, answered and said, I have done as you commanded me. (The order of the vengeful priest is fulfilled!).
Chapter 10
1 And I saw, and behold, on the vault that was above the heads of the Cherubim, as if a sapphire stone, as if something resembling a throne, was apparently above them. (The show continues).
2 And he spake unto the man clothed in linen, and said, Enter between the wheels under the cherubim, and take handfuls of burning coals between the cherubim, and cast them upon the city; and he entered in my sight. (Order to the assistant).
3 The cherubim were standing on the right side of the house when the man entered, and a cloud filled the courtyard. (The show is connected with burning coals, which create clouds, as well as with assistants who were in the form of cherubs).
4 And the glory of the LORD went up from the cherubim to the threshold of the house, and the house was filled with a cloud, and the courtyard was filled with the radiance of the glory of the LORD. (The show continues).
5 And the noise of the wings of the cherubim was heard even in the outer court, as if the voice of God Almighty when he speaks. (The show continues).
6 And when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, «Take fire between the wheels, between the cherubim,» and when he entered and stood by the wheel, (An order to the assistant).
7 Then from among the cherubim, one cherub stretched out his hand to the fire that was among the cherubim, and took and gave handfuls to the one clothed in linen. He took it and left. (The show is performed by several assistants).
8 And the cherubim were seen to have the likeness of human hands under their wings. (This phrase proves that these are actors, assistants of the main showman, acting under the name of Mr. God).
9 And I saw, and behold, there were four wheels beside the Cherubim, one wheel beside each Cherub, and the wheels looked as if they were made of topaz stone. (Wheels are used in the show).
10 And in appearance all four are similar, as if the wheel were in the wheel. (The design of the wheels is such that it seems that the wheel is in the wheel, it is technically easy to do this).
11 When they went, they went on their four sides; during their procession they did not turn around, but to the place where the head was turned, and they went there; during their procession they did not turn around. (Wheels are used in the show).
12 And their whole body, and their back, and their arms, and their wings, and the wheels all around were full of eyes, all four of their wheels. (Wheels are used in the show).
