Their buds and their branches will be one piece, all of it one hammered piece of pure gold.

and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They are to be enclosed in gold in their filigree settings.

Make for them linen undergarments to cover their naked bodies; they must cover from the waist to the thighs.

Since they are detestable to you, you must not eat their meat and their carcass you must detest.

I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

And to help you there is to be a man from each tribe, each man the head of his family.

Every man’s holy things will be his; whatever any man gives the priest will be his.’”

You are to offer them with their drink offerings in addition to the continual burnt offering and its grain offering – they must be unblemished.

Our children, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock will be there in the cities of Gilead,

Thus they will have towns in which to live, and their grazing lands will be for their cattle, for their possessions, and for all their animals.

You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees while still unripe.

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

(The silver collected in conjunction with reparation offerings and sin offerings was not brought to the Lord’s temple; it belonged to the priests.)

“Now, my God, may you be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.

Now I will be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.

Yet they will become his subjects, so they can experience how serving me differs from serving the surrounding nations.”

May my words and my thoughts be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my sheltering rock and my redeemer.

Your sons will carry on the dynasty of your ancestors; you will make them princes throughout the land.

Let your clothes always be white, and do not spare precious ointment on your head.

Her nobles will have nothing left to call a kingdom and all her officials will disappear.