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!”

As for their appearance, all four of them looked the same, something like a wheel within a wheel.

The glory of the Lord rose up from within the city and stopped over the mountain east of it.

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

Say, ‘I am an object lesson for you. Just as I have done, it will be done to them; they will go into exile and captivity.’

All his retinue – his attendants and his troops – I will scatter to every wind; I will unleash a sword behind them.

When the wall has collapsed, people will ask you, “Where is the whitewash you coated it with?”

I will do this in order to capture the hearts of the house of Israel, who have alienated themselves from me on account of all their idols.’

so that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you have done in consoling them.

When a righteous person turns back from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing, he will die for it; because of the wrongdoing he has done, he will die.

When a wicked person turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will preserve his life.

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

I acted for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

Return it to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in your native land, I will judge you.

Therefore I handed her over to her lovers, the Assyrians for whom she lusted.

Yet she increased her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth when she engaged in prostitution in the land of Egypt.

She lusted after their genitals – as large as those of donkeys, and their seminal emission was as strong as that of stallions.

I will do these things to you because you engaged in prostitution with the nations, polluting yourself with their idols.

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.