<t /><p class="bodytext">Then he shouted in my ears, &#8220;Approach,<n id="1" /> you who are to visit destruction on the city, each with his destructive weapon in his hand!&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">When the man went out toward the east with a measuring line in his hand, he measured 1,750 feet,<n id="1" /> and then he led me through water, which was ankle deep.

I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and I will place my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan like the fatally wounded before the king of Babylon.<n id="1" />

When he brought me there, I saw<n id="1" /> a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring stick in his hand. He was standing in the gateway.

Seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel<n id="1" /> (with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them) were standing in front of them, each with a censer in his hand, and fragrant<n id="2" /> vapors from a cloud of incense were swirling upward.p>

Next, I noticed<n id="1" /> six men<n id="2" /> coming from the direction of the upper gate<n id="3" /> which faces north, each with his war club in his hand. Among them was a man dressed in linen with a writing kit<n id="4" /> at his side. They came and stood beside the bronze altar.p>