Therefore, prophesy against them! Prophesy, son of man!”

As I watched, I saw tendons on them, then muscles appeared, and skin covered over them from above, but there was no breath in them.

When she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

The sticks you write on will be in your hand in front of them.

Then the cherubim spread their wings with their wheels alongside them while the glory of the God of Israel hovered above 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.

When a righteous person turns back from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing, he will die for it; because of the wrongdoing he has done, he will die.

Yet I had pity on them and did not destroy them, so I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

So I have poured my anger on them, and destroyed them with the fire of my fury. I hereby repay them for what they have done, declares the sovereign Lord.”

Therefore I handed her over to her lovers, the Assyrians for whom she lusted.

“For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Bring up an army against them and subject them to terror and plunder.

“Son of man, turn toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them.

When the wicked turns from his sin and does what is just and right, he will live because of it.

So I poured my anger on them because of the blood they shed on the land and because of the idols with which they defiled it.

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

You will present them before the Lord, and the priests will scatter salt on them and offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord.

So he said to me, “All right then, I will substitute cow’s manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it.”

I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Riblah, in all the places where they live. Then they will know that I am the Lord!”

As I watched, I saw on the platform above the top of the cherubim something like a sapphire, resembling the shape of a throne, appearing above them.

She bestowed her sexual favors on them; all of them were the choicest young men of Assyria. She defiled herself with all whom she desired – with all their idols.