ח (Khet) The Lord’s loyal kindness never ceases; his compassions never end.

כ (Kaf) The Lord fully vented his wrath; he poured out his fierce anger. He started a fire in Zion; it consumed her foundations.

ר (Resh) Our very life breath – the Lord’s anointed king – was caught in their traps, of whom we thought, “Under his protection we will survive among the nations.”

O Lord, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace.

Then a wind lifted me up and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me as the glory of the Lord rose from its place,

A wind lifted me up and carried me away. I went bitterly, my spirit full of fury, and the hand of the Lord rested powerfully on me.

At the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me:

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

“This is what the sovereign Lord says: A disaster – a one-of-a-kind disaster – is coming!

Then the glory of the Lord moved away from the threshold of the temple and stopped above the cherubim.

You will die by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

But those whose hearts are devoted to detestable things and abominations, I hereby repay them for what they have done, says the sovereign Lord.”

The glory of the Lord rose up from within the city and stopped over the mountain east of it.

So I told the exiles everything the Lord had shown me.

“Then they will know that I am the Lord when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among foreign countries.

The inhabited towns will be left in ruins and the land will be devastated. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

You have not gone up in the breaks in the wall, nor repaired a wall for the house of Israel that it would stand strong in the battle on the day of the Lord.

I will establish my covenant with you, and then you will know that I am the Lord.

I am the Lord your God; follow my statutes, observe my regulations, and carry them out.

Treat my Sabbaths as holy and they will be a reminder of our relationship, and then you will know that I am the Lord your God.”