He said to me, “This chamber which faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple, ¹ 

You have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have assigned foreigners ¹  to keep charge of my sanctuary for you.

Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the temple, all of its service and all that will be done in it.

and the chamber which faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the descendants of Zadok, from the descendants of Levi, who may approach the Lord to minister to him.”

“‘But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok ¹  who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, will approach me to minister to me; they will stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the sovereign Lord.