You have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have assigned foreigners to keep charge of my sanctuary for you.

Then he said to me, “These are the houses for boiling, where the ministers of the temple boil the sacrifices of the people.”

Then he brought me back by way of the outer gate of the sanctuary which faces east, but it was shut.

The width of the entrance was 17½ feet, and the sides of the entrance were 8¾ feet on each side. He measured the length of the outer sanctuary as 70 feet, and its width as 35 feet.

They made your oars from oaks of Bashan; they made your deck with cypresses from the Kittean isles.

As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so will I deal with you – you will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all of Edom – all of it! Then they will know that I am the Lord.’”

He will provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull, an ephah for each ram, and a gallon of olive oil for each ephah of grain.

None of the sins he has committed will be held against him; because of the righteousness he has done, he will live.

He said to me, “The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of murder, and the city is full of corruption, for they say, ‘The Lord has abandoned the land, and the Lord does not see!’

(The cherubim appeared to have the form of human hands under their wings.)

“Son of man, turn toward Mount Seir, and prophesy against it.

In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on this very day, the hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me there.

“This is how you will divide this land for yourselves among the tribes of Israel.

In my zeal, in the fire of my fury, I declare that on that day there will be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.

I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and bring you out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them fully armed, a great company with shields of different types, all of them armed with swords.

“Son of man, your brothers, your relatives, and the whole house of Israel, all of them are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘They have gone far away from the Lord; to us this land has been given as a possession.’

My hand will be against the prophets who see delusion and announce lying omens. They will not be included in the council of my people, nor be written in the registry of the house of Israel, nor enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord.

“‘On that day I will assign Gog a grave in Israel. It will be the valley of those who travel east of the sea; it will block the way of the travelers. There they will bury Gog and all his horde; they will call it the valley of Hamon-Gog.

I will drench the land with the flow of your blood up to the mountains, and the ravines will be full of your blood.

He said to me, “Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the chamber of his idolatrous images? For they think, ‘The Lord does not see us! The Lord has abandoned the land!’”