and to all the infants, wives, sons, and daughters of the entire assembly listed in the genealogical records, for they faithfully consecrated themselves.

<p class="poetry">They shed innocent blood &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">the blood of their sons and daughters,p> <p class="poetry">whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan.p> <p class="poetry">The land was polluted by bloodshed.<n id="1" />p>

So the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;I will surely<n id="2" /> punish them! Their young men will be killed in battle.<n id="3" /> Their sons and daughters will die of starvation.

That army will pelt them with stones and slash them with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;And you, son of man, this is what will happen on the day I take<n id="1" /> from them their stronghold &#8211; their beautiful source of joy, the object in which their eyes delight, and the main concern of their lives,<n id="2" /> as well as their sons and daughters:<n id="3" />