“‘How sick is your heart, declares the sovereign Lord, when you perform all of these acts, the deeds of a bold prostitute.

Thus they will provide the lamb, the grain offering, and the olive oil morning by morning, as a perpetual burnt offering.

Opposite the gate on the north and the east was a gate of the inner court; he measured the distance from gate to gate at 175 feet.

“And you, son of man, prophesy, and clap your hands together. Let the sword strike twice, even three times! It is a sword for slaughter, a sword for the great slaughter surrounding them.

I saw a wall all around the outside of the temple. In the man’s hand was a measuring stick 10½ feet long. He measured the thickness of the wall as 10½ feet, and its height as 10½ feet.

You will be an object of scorn and taunting, a prime example of destruction among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury. I, the Lord, have spoken!

He stretched out the form of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue which provokes to jealousy was located.

“‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by water. It was fruitful and full of branches because it was well-watered.

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.’

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

Because they used to minister to them before their idols, and became a sinful obstacle to the house of Israel, consequently I have made a vow concerning them, declares the sovereign Lord, that they will be responsible for their sin.

“Son of man, say to her: ‘You are a land that receives no rain or showers in the day of my anger.’

“‘Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will kill every person and every animal.

This is what the sovereign Lord says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will turn you into a desolation.

When I had returned, I noticed a vast number of trees on the banks of the river, on both sides.

Now the altar hearth is a perfect square, 21 feet long and 21 feet wide.

I saw an amber glow like a fire enclosed all around from his waist up. From his waist down I saw something that looked like fire. There was a brilliant light around it,

Again, take more of them and throw them into the fire, and burn them up. From there a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.

He took one from the royal family, made a treaty with him, and put him under oath. He then took the leaders of the land

A total ruin I will make it! It will come to an end when the one arrives to whom I have assigned judgment.’