Each had four faces; each had four wings and the form of human hands under the wings.

and say to them:p> <p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: On the day I chose Israel I swore<n id="1" /> to the descendants<n id="2" /> of the house of Jacob and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt. I swore<n id="3" /> to them, &#8220;I am the <sc>Lordsc> your God.&#8221;

I will stretch out my hand against them<n id="1" /> and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Riblah,<n id="2" /> in all the places where they live. Then they will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>!&#8221;p>

This is because you have disheartened the righteous person with lies (although I have not grieved him), and because you have encouraged the wicked person not to turn from his evil conduct and preserve his life.

So see here, I have stretched out my hand against you and cut off your rations. I have delivered you into the power of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed by your obscene conduct.

But I refrained from doing so,<n id="1" /> and acted instead for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

I also swore<n id="1" /> to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.<n id="2" />

Then you will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc> when I bring you to the land of Israel, to the land I swore<n id="1" /> to give to your fathers.

So this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Take note, I am about to stretch out my hand against the Philistines. I will kill<n id="1" /> the Cherethites<n id="2" /> and destroy those who remain on the seacoast.

Say to it, &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;Look, I am against you, Mount Seir;p> <p class="poetry">I will stretch out my hand against youp> <p class="poetry">and turn you into a desolate ruin.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;You have shown unrelenting hostility and poured the people of Israel onto the blades of a sword<n id="1" /> at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment.

So this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: I vow<n id="1" /> that the nations around you will endure insults as well.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I will display my majesty<n id="1" /> among the nations. All the nations will witness the judgment I have executed, and the power I have exhibited<n id="2" /> among them.

You must divide it equally just as I vowed to give it to your forefathers;<n id="1" /> this land will be assigned as your inheritance.<n id="2" />p>

My hand will be against the prophets who see delusion and announce lying omens. They will not be included in the council<n id="1" /> of my people, nor be written in the registry<n id="2" /> of the house of Israel, nor enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.p>

and say &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Woe to those who sew bands<n id="1" /> on all their wrists<n id="2" /> and make headbands<n id="3" /> for heads of every size to entrap people&#8217;s lives!<n id="4" /> Will you entrap my people&#8217;s lives, yet preserve your own lives?

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;As for the prophet, if he is made a fool by being deceived into speaking a prophetic word &#8211; I, the <sc>Lordsc>, have made a fool of<n id="1" /> that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from among my people Israel.

&#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.

On that day I swore<n id="1" /> to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out<n id="2" /> for them, a land flowing with milk and honey,<n id="3" /> the most beautiful of all lands.

I also swore<n id="1" /> to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them to the land I had given them &#8211; a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.