<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I have made your face adamant<n id="1" /> to match their faces, and your forehead hard to match their foreheads.

But as for me, my eye will not pity them nor will I spare<n id="1" /> them; I hereby repay them for what they have done.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

But those whose hearts are devoted to detestable things and abominations, I hereby repay them for what they have done,<n id="1" /> says the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;p>

You took your embroidered clothing and used it to cover them; you offered my olive oil and my incense to them.

I also gave<n id="1" /> them decrees<n id="2" /> which were not good and regulations by which they could not live.

So I have poured my anger on them, and destroyed them with the fire of my fury. I hereby repay them for what they have done,<n id="1" /> declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">To arouse anger, to take vengeance,p> <p class="poetry">I have placed her blood on an exposed rock so that it cannot be covered up.p>

Then you will live in the land I gave to your fathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God.<n id="1" />

I have made your forehead harder than flint &#8211; like diamond!<n id="1" /> Do not fear them or be terrified of the looks they give you,<n id="2" /> for they are a rebellious house.&#8221;p>

I have determined that the number of the years of their iniquity are to be the number of days<n id="1" /> for you &#8211; 390 days.<n id="2" /> So bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.<n id="3" />p>

Look here, I will tie you up with ropes, so you cannot turn from one side to the other until you complete the days of your siege.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">So he said to me, &#8220;All right then, I will substitute cow&#8217;s manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it.&#8221;p>

You also took your beautiful jewelry, made of my gold and my silver I had given to you, and made for yourself male images and engaged in prostitution<n id="1" /> with them.

As for my food that I gave you &#8211; the fine flour, olive oil, and honey I fed you &#8211; you placed it before them as a soothing aroma. That is exactly what happened, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.p>

I also gave them my Sabbaths<n id="1" /> as a reminder of our relationship,<n id="2" /> so that they would know that I, the <sc>Lord,sc> sanctify them.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">So hearts melt with fear and many stumble.p> <p class="poetry">At all their gates I have stationed the sword for slaughter.p> <p class="poetry">Ah! It is made to flash, it is drawn for slaughter!p>

I have given him the land of Egypt as his compensation for attacking Tyre<n id="1" />, because they did it for me, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Therefore, this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Like the wood of the vine is among the trees of the forest which I have provided as fuel for the fire &#8211; so I will provide the residents of Jerusalem<n id="1" /> as fuel.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Because you did not remember the days of your youth and have enraged me with all these deeds, I hereby repay you for what you have done,<n id="1" /> declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>. Have you not engaged in prostitution on top of all your other abominable practices?p>

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.