He said to me, “Go in and see the evil abominations they are practicing here.”

He said to me, “You will see them practicing even greater abominations!”

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

Because he considered and turned from all the sins he had done, he will surely live; he will not die.

“‘When she realized that she waited in vain, her hope was lost. She took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.

And everyone will see that I, the Lord, have burned it; it will not be extinguished.’”

“Her sister Oholibah watched this, but she became more corrupt in her lust than her sister had been, and her acts of prostitution were more numerous than those of her sister.

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

He sees the sword coming against the land, blows the trumpet, and warns the people,

I saw that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full measuring stick of 10½ feet high.

He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen this?” Then he led me back to the bank of the river.

I have seen a disgusting thing in the temple of Israel: there Ephraim practices temple prostitution and Judah defiles itself.

Just as lion cubs are born predators, so Ephraim will bear his sons for slaughter.

He showed me this: I saw the sovereign One standing by a tin wall holding tin in his hand.

Nations will see this and be disappointed by all their strength, they will put their hands over their mouths, and act as if they were deaf.

Why do you force me to witness injustice? Why do you put up with wrongdoing? Destruction and violence confront me; conflict is present and one must endure strife.

I see the tents of Cushan overwhelmed by trouble; the tent curtains of the land of Midian are shaking.

When the mountains see you, they shake. The torrential downpour sweeps through. The great deep shouts out; it lifts its hands high.

(2:5) I looked again, and there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.

Your eyes will see it, and then you will say, ‘May the Lord be magnified even beyond the border of Israel!’”