And the Lord said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

I gave them over to their stubborn desires; they did what seemed right to them.

Moreover, I, the Lord, warn you not to deceive yourselves into thinking that the Babylonian forces will go away and leave you alone. For they will not go away.

Each moved straight ahead – wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they went.

When they moved, they would go in any of the four directions they faced without turning as they moved; in the direction the head would turn they would follow without turning as they moved,

When they moved they would go in any of the four directions they faced without turning as they moved.

You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity.

They are sustained as they travel along; each one appears before God in Zion.

You plant them like trees and they put down their roots. They grow prosperous and are very fruitful. They always talk about you, but they really care nothing about you.

Egypt will run away, hissing like a snake, as the enemy comes marching up in force. They will come against her with axes as if they were woodsmen chopping down trees.

When the living beings moved, the wheels beside them moved; when the living beings rose up from the ground, the wheels rose up too.

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.’

Although they bring their flocks and herds to seek the favor of the Lord, They will not find him – he has withdrawn himself from them!

I will throw my bird net over them while they are flying, I will bring them down like birds in the sky; I will discipline them when I hear them flocking together.

He will roar like a lion, and they will follow the Lord; when he roars, his children will come trembling from the west.

His young shoots will grow; his splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.

“You must no longer give straw to the people for making bricks as before. Let them go and collect straw for themselves.

warn them of the statutes and the laws, and make known to them the way in which they must walk and the work they must do.

In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael caravans disappeared; travelers had to go on winding side roads.

Then Ahaziah son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my sailors join yours in the fleet,” but Jehoshaphat refused.