In the second year of his reign Nebuchadnezzar had many dreams. His mind was disturbed and he suffered from insomnia.

Then he said, “I am going to inform you about what will happen in the latter time of wrath, for the vision pertains to the appointed time of the end.

In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three whole weeks.

At that time, I will destroy the military power of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.”

I will deal with the people and priests together: I will punish them both for their ways, and I will repay them for their deeds.

Ephraim will be ruined in the day of judgment! What I am declaring to the tribes of Israel will certainly take place!

The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary markers. I will pour out my rage on them like a torrential flood!

They do not realize that I remember all of their wicked deeds. Their evil deeds have now surrounded them; their sinful deeds are always before me.

Ephraim has mixed itself like flour among the nations; Ephraim is like a ruined cake of bread that is scorched on one side.

Ephraim has been like a dove, easily deceived and lacking discernment. They called to Egypt for help; they turned to Assyria for protection.

Israel will be swallowed up among the nations; they will be like a worthless piece of pottery.

Although Ephraim has built many altars for sin offerings, these have become altars for sinning!

My God will reject them, for they have not obeyed him; so they will be fugitives among the nations.

Therefore they will disappear like the morning mist, like early morning dew that evaporates, like chaff that is blown away from a threshing floor, like smoke that disappears through an open window.

I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily, he will send down his roots like a cedar of Lebanon.

His young shoots will grow; his splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.

The Lord decided not to do this. The sovereign Lord said, “This will not happen either.”

Those who have been delivered will go up on Mount Zion in order to rule over Esau’s mountain. Then the Lord will reign as King!

Therefore no one will assign you land in the Lord’s community.

Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed up like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the Temple Mount will become a hill overgrown with brush!