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

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

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.

In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned; so I defiled you and banished you from the mountain of God – the guardian cherub expelled you from the midst of the stones of fire.

The slain will fall among you and then you will know that I am the Lord.

I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my fury, and you will be melted in it.

“But as for you, in the midst of the uncircumcised you will be broken, and you will lie with those killed by the sword.

When all this comes true – and it certainly will – then they will know that a prophet was among them.”

The Lord said to him, “Go through the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of the people who moan and groan over all the abominations practiced in it.”

You must allot it as an inheritance among yourselves and for the foreigners who reside among you, who have fathered sons among you. You must treat them as native-born among the people of Israel; they will be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

In the fire were what looked like four living beings. In their appearance they had human form,

As for you, son of man, they will put ropes on you and tie you up with them, so you cannot go out among them.

“This is what the sovereign Lord says: This is Jerusalem; I placed her in the center of the nations with countries all around her.

As for their appearance, all four of them looked the same, something like a wheel within a wheel.

‘But I will take you out of the city. And I will hand you over to foreigners. I will execute judgments on you.

The glory of the Lord rose up from within the city and stopped over the mountain east of it.

For there will no longer be any false visions or flattering omens amidst the house of Israel.

and say: “‘What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay among young lions; she reared her cubs.