But, you have been unfaithful to me, nation of Israel, like an unfaithful wife who has left her husband,” says the Lord.

“Get another scroll and write on it everything that was written on the original scroll that King Jehoiakim of Judah burned.

And the Lord said, “This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations where I will banish them.”

So he said to me, “All right then, I will substitute cow’s manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it.”

He said to me, “Son of man, dig into the wall.” So I dug into the wall and discovered a doorway.

The Lord said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked advice in this city.

I will make you pass under the shepherd’s staff, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

You will be profaned within yourself in the sight of the nations; then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

Now the coastlands will tremble on the day of your fall; the coastlands by the sea will be terrified by your passing.’

from the ground to the area above the entrance, cherubim and decorative palm trees were carved on the wall of the outer sanctuary.

this is the interpretation, O king! It is the decision of the Most High that this has happened to my lord the king.

What he will honor is a god of fortresses – a god his fathers did not acknowledge he will honor with gold, silver, valuable stones, and treasured commodities.

That idol was made by a workman – it is not God! The calf idol of Samaria will be broken to bits.

They have sunk deep into corruption as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their wrongdoing. He will repay them for their sins.

You did not bring me sacrifices and grain offerings during the forty years you spent in the wilderness, family of Israel.

The Lord will terrify them, for he will weaken all the gods of the earth. All the distant nations will worship the Lord in their own lands.

Your eyes will see it, and then you will say, ‘May the Lord be magnified even beyond the border of Israel!’”

Why do you worry about clothing? Think about how the flowers of the field grow; they do not work or spin.

And the men were amazed and said, “What sort of person is this? Even the winds and the sea obey him!”

But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you!