For the chambers on the outer court were 87½ feet long, while those facing the temple were 175 feet long.

Now they must put away their spiritual prostitution and the pillars of their kings far from me, and then I will live among them forever.

The people of the land will bow down at the entrance of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.

“You, O king, were watching as a great statue – one of impressive size and extraordinary brightness – was standing before you. Its appearance caused alarm.

As he spoke with me, I fell into a trance with my face to the ground. But he touched me and stood me upright.

I listened to his voice, and as I did so I fell into a trance-like sleep with my face to the ground.

But you should go your way until the end. You will rest and then at the end of the days you will arise to receive what you have been allotted.”

Their wicked deeds do not allow them to return to their God; because a spirit of idolatry controls their heart, and they do not acknowledge the Lord.

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.

Even though they have hired lovers among the nations, I will soon gather them together for judgment. Then they will begin to waste away under the oppression of a mighty king.

Yet it was I who led Ephraim, I took them by the arm; but they did not acknowledge that I had healed them.

He struggled with an angel and prevailed; he wept and begged for his favor. He found God at Bethel, and there he spoke with him!

I will plant them on their land and they will never again be uprooted from the land I have given them,” says the Lord your God.

Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria! Your officers are slumbering! Your people are scattered like sheep on the mountains and there is no one to regather them!

I asked, “What is it?” And he replied, “It is a basket for measuring grain that is moving away from here.” Moreover, he said, “This is their ‘eye’ throughout all the earth.”

“You have heard that it was said to an older generation, ‘Do not murder,’ and ‘whoever murders will be subjected to judgment.’

For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive.

Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go; just as you believed, it will be done for you.” And the servant was healed at that hour.

I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town!

And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole inhabited earth as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.