Your chosen cities have become a desert; Zion has become a desert, Jerusalem is a desolate ruin.

“‘But just look at you! You are putting your confidence in a false belief that will not deliver you.

You will lose your hold on the land which I gave to you as a permanent possession. I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you know nothing about. For you have made my anger burn like a fire that will never be put out.”

“Moab will be crushed. Her children will cry out in distress.

But this I call to mind; therefore I have hope:

Let him bury his face in the dust; perhaps there is hope.

You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me.

Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.

The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music.

But you, O Lord, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation.

Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?

unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.

“When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I set an obstacle before him, he will die. If you have not warned him, he will die for his sin. The righteous deeds he performed will not be considered, but I will hold you accountable for his death.

Then you will know that I am the Lord – when their dead lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and all the mountaintops, under every green tree and every leafy oak, the places where they have offered fragrant incense to all their idols.

Terror is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.

As silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin are gathered in a furnace so that the fire can melt them, so I will gather you in my anger and in my rage. I will deposit you there and melt you.

take note, I have stretched out my hand against you, and I will hand you over as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and make you perish from the lands. I will destroy you; then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

Say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: “‘Look, I am against you, Sidon, and I will magnify myself in your midst. Then they will know that I am the Lord when I execute judgments on her and reveal my sovereign power in her.

He measured the north side as 875 feet by the measuring stick.

He measured the south side as 875 feet by the measuring stick.