On its ruins all the birds of the sky will live, and all the wild animals will walk on its branches.

They were scattered because they had no shepherd, and they became food for every wild beast.

I will save my sheep; they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.

I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David will be prince among them; I, the Lord, have spoken!

I will turn them and the regions around my hill into a blessing. I will make showers come down in their season; they will be showers that bring blessing.

I will lay waste your cities; and you will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord!

The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

Join them as one stick; they will be as one in your hand.

Then, when my sanctuary is among them forever, the nations will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel.’”

“‘Be ready and stay ready, you and all your companies assembled around you, and be a guard for them.

I will call for a sword to attack Gog on all my mountains, declares the sovereign Lord; every man’s sword will be against his brother.

Realize that it is coming and it will be done, declares the sovereign Lord. It is the day I have spoken about.

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.

“‘This will be their inheritance: I am their inheritance, and you must give them no property in Israel; I am their property.

They may eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, and every devoted thing in Israel will be theirs.

All the people of the land will contribute to this offering for the prince of Israel.

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

In whatever tribe the foreigner resides, there you will give him his inheritance,” declares the sovereign Lord.

It will be their portion from the allotment of the land, a most holy place, next to the border of the Levites.

So the warden removed the delicacies and the wine from their diet and gave them a diet of vegetables instead.