<p class="bodytext">&#8220;When they return to it, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Her sister Oholibah watched this,<n id="1" /> but she became more corrupt in her lust than her sister had been, and her acts of prostitution were more numerous than those of her sister.

<p class="poetry">It has tried my patience;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">yet its thick rot is not removed<n id="2" /> from it.p> <p class="poetry">Subject its rot to the fire!<n id="3" />p>

They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will scrape her soil<n id="1" /> from her and make her a bare rock.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Or suppose I were to bring a sword against that land and say, &#8216;Let a sword pass through the land,&#8217; and I were to kill both people and animals.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Or suppose I were to send a plague into that land, and pour out my rage on it with bloodshed, killing both people and animals.

But if you warn the wicked man to change his behavior,<n id="1" /> and he refuses to change,<n id="2" /> he will die for his iniquity, but you have saved your own life.p>

&#8220;Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply,<n id="1" /> cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;For this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: How much worse will it be when I send my four terrible judgments &#8211; sword, famine, wild animals, and plague &#8211; to Jerusalem<n id="1" /> to kill both people and animals!

<p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;Therefore this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">Woe to the city of bloodshed,p> <p class="poetry">the pot whose rot<n id="1" /> is in it,p> <p class="poetry">whose rot has not been removed<n id="2" /> from it!p> <p class="poetry">Empty it piece by piece.p> <p class="poetry">No lot has fallen on it.<n id="3" />p>

So this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom, and I will kill the people and animals within her,<n id="1" /> and I will make her desolate; from Teman to Dedan they will die<n id="2" /> by the sword.