Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, ‘Now they will commit immoral acts with her.’

He unrolled it before me, and it had writing on the front and back; written on it were laments, mourning, and woe.

And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement.”

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.

“‘He gave it to be polished, to be grasped in the hand – the sword is sharpened, it is polished – giving it into the hand of the executioner.

The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and placed me in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones.

After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come to a land restored from the ravages of war, with many peoples gathered on the mountains of Israel that had long been in ruins. Its people were brought out from the peoples, and all of them will be living securely.