Then they will know that I am the Lord when I turn the land into a desolate ruin because of all the abominable deeds they have committed.’

He measured the court as a square 175 feet long and 175 feet wide; the altar was in front of the temple.

Now the upper chambers were narrower, because the galleries took more space from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building.

This is the land which you will allot to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, declares the sovereign Lord.

and say to the scrub land of the Negev, ‘Hear the word of the Lord: This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look here, I am about to start a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree and every dry tree in you. The flaming fire will not be extinguished, and the whole surface of the ground from the Negev to the north will be scorched by it.

Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish a lasting covenant with you.

After a priest has become ceremonially clean, they must count off a period of seven days for him.

I will bring them out from among the peoples and gather them from foreign countries; I will bring them to their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the streams and all the inhabited places of the land.

And during the seven days of the feast he will provide as a burnt offering to the Lord seven bulls and seven rams, all without blemish, on each of the seven days, and a male goat daily for a sin offering.

When the wicked turns from his sin and does what is just and right, he will live because of it.

As I watched, I noticed a windstorm coming from the north – an enormous cloud, with lightning flashing, such that bright light rimmed it and came from it like glowing amber from the middle of a fire.

The hand of the Lord rested on me there, and he said to me, “Get up, go out to the valley, and I will speak with you there.”

Look here, I will tie you up with ropes, so you cannot turn from one side to the other until you complete the days of your siege.

“This is what the sovereign Lord says: This is Jerusalem; I placed her in the center of the nations with countries all around her.

You will die by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: The prince will raise this burden in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel within it.’

You took some of your clothing and made for yourself decorated high places; you engaged in prostitution on them. You went to him to become his.

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

He broke down their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and everything in it was frightened at the sound of his roaring.

“‘For this is what the sovereign Lord says: At the end of forty years I will gather Egypt from the peoples where they were scattered.