Moab, you are doomed! You people who worship Chemosh will be destroyed. Your sons will be taken away captive. Your daughters will be carried away into exile.

“Look! An army is about to come from the north. A mighty nation and many kings are stirring into action in faraway parts of the earth.

“Get out of Babylon, my people! Flee to save your lives from the fierce anger of the Lord!

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.

Here is the official record of the number of people Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile: In the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;

י (Yod) The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed.

“As for you, son of man, turn toward the daughters of your people who are prophesying from their imagination. Prophesy against them

I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

So I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening. In the morning I acted just as I was commanded.

Then the people said to me, “Will you not tell us what these things you are doing mean for us?”

When your products went out from the seas, you satisfied many peoples; with the abundance of your wealth and merchandise you enriched the kings of the earth.

The traders among the peoples hiss at you; you have become a horror, and will be no more.’”

All who know you among the peoples are shocked at you; you have become terrified and will be no more.’”

I will disturb many peoples, when I bring about your destruction among the nations, among countries you do not know.

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

“Yet your people say, ‘The behavior of the Lord is not right,’ when it is their behavior that is not right.

“‘But you, mountains of Israel, will grow your branches, and bear your fruit for my people Israel; for they will arrive soon.

Then you will live in the land I gave to your fathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God.

Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and raise you from your graves, my people.

When your people say to you, ‘Will you not tell us what these things mean?’