None of the sins he has committed will be counted against him. He has done what is just and right; he will certainly live.

Then they will know that I, the Lord their God, am with them, and that they are my people, the house of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord.

On that day, when Gog invades the land of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord, my rage will mount up in my anger.

I will no longer hide my face from them, when I pour out my Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord.”

In the porch of the gate were two tables on either side on which to slaughter the burnt offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering.

Now they must put away their spiritual prostitution and the pillars of their kings far from me, and then I will live among them forever.

On the day of the new moon he will offer an unblemished young bull, and six lambs and a ram, all without blemish.

I saw a wall all around the outside of the temple. In the man’s hand was a measuring stick 10½ feet long. He measured the thickness of the wall as 10½ feet, and its height as 10½ feet.

Yet I had pity on them and did not destroy them, so I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

It was beautiful in its loftiness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down deep to plentiful waters.

Then he said to me: “Son of man, this is what the sovereign Lord says: These are the statutes of the altar: On the day it is built to offer up burnt offerings on it and to sprinkle blood on it,

And he said to me, “Son of man, take all my words that I speak to you to heart and listen carefully.

“‘But I said to their children in the wilderness, “Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

Then you will know that I am the Lord when I bring you to the land of Israel, to the land I swore to give to your fathers.

“‘He gave it to be polished, to be grasped in the hand – the sword is sharpened, it is polished – giving it into the hand of the executioner.

As they wail they will lament over you, chanting: “Who was like Tyre, like a tower in the midst of the sea?”

I have given him the land of Egypt as his compensation for attacking Tyre, because they did it for me, declares the sovereign Lord.

They will say, “This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; the ruined, desolate, and destroyed cities are now fortified and inhabited.”

All the people of the land will bury them, and it will be a memorial for them on the day I magnify myself, declares the sovereign Lord.

There were hooks three inches long, fastened in the house all around, and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.