You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it.

“Look, the day! Look, it is coming! Doom has gone out! The staff has budded, pride has blossomed!

“They have blown the trumpet and everyone is ready, but no one goes to battle, because my anger is against their whole crowd.

This is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit but have seen nothing!

“As for you, son of man, turn toward the daughters of your people who are prophesying from their imagination. Prophesy against them

Then you multiplied your promiscuity to the land of merchants, Babylonia, but you were not satisfied there either.

(though the father did not do any of them). He eats pagan sacrifices on the mountains, defiles his neighbor’s wife,

I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.

“Son of man, turn toward the south, and speak out against the south. Prophesy against the open scrub land of the Negev,

“Son of man, turn toward Jerusalem and speak out against the sanctuaries. Prophesy against the land of Israel

I too will clap my hands together, I will exhaust my rage; I the Lord have spoken.”

They have sex with their father’s wife within you; they violate women during their menstrual period within you.

This is how you assessed the obscene conduct of your youth, when the Egyptians fondled your nipples and squeezed your young breasts.

“‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the city of bloodshed! I will also make the pile high.

Your rowers have brought you into surging waters. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.

“Son of man, turn toward Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.

When the wicked turns from his sin and does what is just and right, he will live because of it.

“As for you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord!

Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and tell them: ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

I will knock your bow out of your left hand and make your arrows fall from your right hand.