Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise up beside them because the spirit of the living being was in the wheel.

Violence has grown into a staff that supports wickedness. Not one of them will be left – not from their crowd, not from their wealth, not from their prominence.

“Take note, son of man, the house of Israel is saying, ‘The vision that he sees is for distant days; he is prophesying about the far future.’

No! It is thrown in the fire for fuel; when the fire has burned up both ends of it and it is charred in the middle, will it be useful for anything?

As for his father, because he practices extortion, robs his brother, and does what is not good among his people, he will die for his iniquity.

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

The merchants of Sheba and Raamah engaged in trade with you; they traded the best kinds of spices along with precious stones and gold for your products.

They traded with you choice garments, purple clothes and embroidered work, and multicolored carpets, bound and reinforced with cords; these were among your merchandise.

In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near; it will be a day of storm clouds, it will be a time of judgment for the nations.

They are joined by Gomer with all its troops, and by Beth Togarmah from the remote parts of the north with all its troops – many peoples are with you.

There were windows all around it and its porches, like the windows of the others; 87½ feet long and 43¾ feet wide.

There were seven steps going up to it; its porches were in front of them. It had decorative palm trees on its jambs, one on either side.

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

Then he measured its length as 35 feet, and its width as 35 feet, before the outer sanctuary. He said to me, “This is the most holy place.”

As for the outer wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, it was 87½ feet long.

Moreover, they will teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the ceremonially unclean and the clean.

“‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you must take an unblemished young bull and purify the sanctuary.

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