I will turn you into a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

Have you not copied their behavior<n id="1" /> and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time<n id="2" /> you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were!

When a wicked person turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will preserve his life.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;When you have completed these days, then lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days<n id="1" /> &#8211; I have assigned one day for each year.

<p class="bodytext">Now, while I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I threw myself face down and cried out with a loud voice, &#8220;Alas, sovereign <sc>Lordsc>! You are completely wiping out the remnant of Israel!&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

Her princes<n id="1" /> within her are like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they have devoured lives. They take away riches and valuable things; they have made many women widows<n id="2" /> within it.

The whole allotment will be eight and a quarter miles<n id="1" /> square, you must set apart the holy allotment with the possession of the city.p>

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>

As surely as I live, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, with a powerful hand and an outstretched arm,<n id="1" /> and with an outpouring of rage, I will be king over you.

I will bring you out from the nations, and will gather you from the lands where you are scattered, with a powerful hand and an outstretched arm and with an outpouring of rage!

<p class="bodytext">Over the heads of the living beings was something like a platform,<n id="1" /> glittering awesomely like ice,<n id="2" /> stretched out over their heads.

<p class="poetry">I will ignite a fire in Egypt;p> <p class="poetry">Syene<n id="1" /> will writhe in agony,p> <p class="poetry">Thebes will be broken down,p> <p class="poetry">and Memphis will face enemies every day.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Because they are saying to you, &#8220;You are a devourer of men, and bereave your nation of children,&#8221;

All the people of the land will bury them, and it will be a memorial<n id="1" /> for them on the day I magnify myself, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.

Say to them: &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;A great eagle<n id="2" /> with broad wings, long feathers,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">with full plumage which was multi-hued,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">came to Lebanon<n id="5" /> and took the top of the cedar.p>

She will be a place where fishing nets are spread, surrounded by the sea. For I have spoken, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>. She will become plunder for the nations,

<p class="bodytext">Then he led me toward the south. I saw<n id="1" /> a gate on the south. He measured its jambs and its porches; they had the same dimensions as the others.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Then I passed by you and watched you, noticing<n id="1" /> that you had reached the age for love.<n id="2" /> I spread my cloak<n id="3" /> over you and covered your nakedness. I swore a solemn oath to you and entered into a marriage covenant with you, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, and you became mine.p>

The <sc>Lordsc> said to him, &#8220;Go through the city of Jerusalem<n id="1" /> and put a mark<n id="2" /> on the foreheads of the people who moan and groan over all the abominations practiced in it.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;This is because they have led my people astray saying, &#8220;All is well,&#8221;<n id="1" /> when things are not well. When anyone builds a wall without mortar,<n id="2" /> they coat it with whitewash.