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.

They have sex with their father’s wife within you; they violate women during their menstrual period within you.

You will be profaned within yourself in the sight of the nations; then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

At the sound of your captains’ cry the waves will surge;

As I watched, I noticed four wheels by the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub; the wheels gleamed like jasper.

“‘I will restore their fortunes, the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters (along with your fortunes among them),

The Babylonians crawled into bed with her. They defiled her with their lust; after she was defiled by them, she became disgusted with 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.

As for your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water; you were certainly not rubbed down with salt, nor wrapped with blankets.

As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters will be restored to their former status, Samaria and her daughters will be restored to their former status, and you and your daughters will be restored to your former status.

They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. She became notorious among women, and they executed judgments against her.

Now the hand of the Lord had been on me the evening before the refugee reached me, but the Lord opened my mouth by the time the refugee arrived in the morning; he opened my mouth and I was no longer unable to speak.

“‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: In the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will populate the cities and the ruins will be rebuilt.

The slain will fall among you and then you will know that I am the Lord.

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

I will make you pass under the shepherd’s staff, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

“‘As for you, profane and wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come, the time of final punishment,

They engaged in prostitution in Egypt; in their youth they engaged in prostitution. Their breasts were squeezed there; lovers fondled their virgin nipples there.

But she increased her prostitution. She saw men carved on the wall, images of the Chaldeans carved in bright red,

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