They hammered the gold into thin sheets and cut it into narrow strips to weave them into the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and into the fine linen, the work of an artistic designer.

They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will be among ruined cities.

Let them make for me a sanctuary, so that I may live among them.

But the Levites, according to the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.

and led Israel out from their midst, for his loyal love endures,

and led Israel through its midst, for his loyal love endures,

On the poplars in her midst we hang our harps,

My strength leaves me; I am absolutely shocked.

Do not let them depart from your sight, guard them within your heart;

Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.

I walk in the path of righteousness, in the pathway of justice,

When they come in, the prince will come in with them, and when they go out, he will go out.

They made bells of pure gold and attached the bells between the pomegranates around the hem of the robe between the pomegranates.

As for any clay vessel they fall into, everything in it will become unclean and you must break it.

The Lord spoke to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any portion of property among them – I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.

Why should the name of our father be lost from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession among the relatives of our father.”

But as soon as they were inside the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the men who were with him slaughtered them and threw their bodies in a cistern.

Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘The corpses you have dumped in the midst of the city are the meat, and this city is the cooking pot, but I will take you out of it.

As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted in it, and you will know that I, the Lord, have poured out my anger on you.’”

Her princes within her are like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they have devoured lives. They take away riches and valuable things; they have made many women widows within it.