I also thought to myself, “It is for the sake of people, so God can clearly show them that they are like animals.

How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine; the fragrance of your perfume is better than any spice!

The Beloved to the Maidens: O maidens of Jerusalem, I command you – If you find my beloved, what will you tell him? Tell him that I am lovesick!

But then one of the seraphs flew toward me. In his hand was a hot coal he had taken from the altar with tongs.

you will taunt the king of Babylon with these words: “Look how the oppressor has met his end! Hostility has ceased!

When the chief adviser heard the king of Assyria had departed from Lachish, he left and went to Libnah, where the king was campaigning.

Certainly you have heard how the kings of Assyria have annihilated all lands. Do you really think you will be rescued?

Yet do not depart quickly or leave in a panic. For the Lord goes before you; the God of Israel is your rear guard.

“The Lord has told you people who remain in Judah, ‘Do not go to Egypt.’ Be very sure of this: I warn you here and now.

As for the form of their faces, they were the faces whose appearance I had seen at the Kebar River. Each one moved straight ahead.

“Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Return! Turn from your idols, and turn your faces away from your abominations.

At the head of every street you erected your pavilion and you disgraced your beauty when you spread your legs to every passerby and multiplied your promiscuity.

“What do you mean by quoting this proverb concerning the land of Israel, “‘The fathers eat sour grapes And the children’s teeth become numb?’

Throw away all your sins you have committed and fashion yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why should you die, O house of Israel?

Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and all your company have sunk along with you.

Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all the foreigners, Libya, and the people of the covenant land will die by the sword along with them.

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.