you built yourself a chamber and put up a pavilion in every public square.

While they are watching, dig a hole in the wall and carry your belongings out through it.

“‘I passed by you and saw you kicking around helplessly in your blood. I said to you as you lay there in your blood, “Live!” I said to you as you lay there in your blood, “Live!”

You also took your beautiful jewelry, made of my gold and my silver I had given to you, and made for yourself male images and engaged in prostitution with them.

“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor. Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off.

He said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them.

You took some of your clothing and made for yourself decorated high places; you engaged in prostitution on them. You went to him to become his.

“‘After all of your evil – “Woe! Woe to you!” declares the sovereign Lord –

Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish a lasting covenant with you.

I will do these things to you because you engaged in prostitution with the nations, polluting yourself with their idols.

The leaders of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; your skilled men, O Tyre, were your captains.

By your wisdom and understanding you have gained wealth for yourself; you have amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.

This is what the sovereign Lord says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will turn you into a desolation.

Join them as one stick; they will be as one in your hand.

When your people say to you, ‘Will you not tell us what these things mean?’

“‘Be ready and stay ready, you and all your companies assembled around you, and be a guard for them.

“As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in a single container, and make food from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side – 390 days – you will eat it.

Then you will remember, be ashamed, and remain silent when I make atonement for all you have done, declares the sovereign Lord.’”

while seeing false visions for you and reading lying omens for you – to place that sword on the necks of the profane wicked, whose day has come, the time of final punishment.

“And you, son of man, take a brick and set it in front of you. Inscribe a city on it – Jerusalem.