Just watch! The wrath of the Lord will come like a storm. Like a raging storm it will rage down on the heads of those who are wicked.

“Indeed a time is coming,” says the Lord, “when the city of Jerusalem will be rebuilt as my special city. It will be built from the Tower of Hananel westward to the Corner Gate.

“I am the Lord, the God of all humankind. There is, indeed, nothing too difficult for me.

King Zedekiah said to them, “Very well, you can do what you want with him. For I cannot do anything to stop you.”

For the Lord says, “Look! Like an eagle with outspread wings a nation will swoop down on Moab.

Yet in days to come I will reverse Moab’s ill fortune.” says the Lord. The judgment against Moab ends here.

But Babylonia will be put to great shame. The land where you were born will be disgraced. Indeed, Babylonia will become the least important of all nations. It will become a dry and barren desert.

“Look! An army is about to come from the north. A mighty nation and many kings are stirring into action in faraway parts of the earth.

“I have made your face adamant to match their faces, and your forehead hard to match their foreheads.

As for you, son of man, they will put ropes on you and tie you up with them, so you cannot go out among them.

“This is what the sovereign Lord says: A disaster – a one-of-a-kind disaster – is coming!

“‘See how each of the princes of Israel living within you has used his authority to shed blood.

This is what the sovereign Lord says to these bones: Look, I am about to infuse breath into you and you will live.

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

However, in the future I will allure her; I will lead her back into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

(4:1) For look! In those days and at that time I will return the exiles to Judah and Jerusalem.

Look! I will press you down, like a cart loaded down with grain presses down.

Indeed, look! The Lord is giving the command. He will smash the large house to bits, and the small house into little pieces.

Look, the Lord is coming out of his dwelling place! He will descend and march on the earth’s mountaintops!

Your warriors will be like women in your midst; the gates of your land will be wide open to your enemies; fire will consume the bars of your gates.