Their rims were high and awesome, and the rims of all four wheels were full of eyes all around.

“‘This will be their inheritance: I am their inheritance, and you must give them no property in Israel; I am their property.

As for their wheels, they were called “the wheelwork” as I listened.

I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within them; I will remove the hearts of stone from their bodies and I will give them tender hearts,

But those in Jerusalem will view it as a false omen. They have sworn solemn oaths, but the king of Babylon will accuse them of violations in order to seize them.

Her prophets coat their messages with whitewash. They see false visions and announce lying omens for them, saying, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says,’ when the Lord has not spoken.

when they grasped you with their hand, you broke and tore their shoulders, and when they leaned on you, you splintered and caused their legs to be unsteady.

but each had four faces and four wings.

you slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.

They will know that I am the Lord; my threats to bring this catastrophe on them were not empty.’

Say, ‘I am an object lesson for you. Just as I have done, it will be done to them; they will go into exile and captivity.’

I also gave them decrees which were not good and regulations by which they could not live.

I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David will be prince among them; I, the Lord, have spoken!

My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.

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

All the people of the land will bury them, and it will be a memorial for them on the day I magnify myself, declares the sovereign Lord.

They may eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, and every devoted thing in Israel will be theirs.

It will be their portion from the allotment of the land, a most holy place, next to the border of the Levites.

“Son of man, you are living in the midst of a rebellious house. They have eyes to see, but do not see, and ears to hear, but do not hear, because they are a rebellious house.

and say to them: “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On the day I chose Israel I swore to the descendants of the house of Jacob and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt. I swore to them, “I am the Lord your God.”