<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;At the festivals and at the appointed feasts the grain offering will be an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as one is able,<n id="1" /> and a gallon<n id="2" /> of olive oil with each ephah of grain.<n id="3" />

Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish a lasting<n id="1" /> covenant with you.

so it would be a lowly kingdom which could not rise on its own but must keep its treaty with him in order to stand.

Then a wind<n id="1" /> lifted me up and brought me to the inner court; I watched<n id="2" /> the glory of the <sc>Lordsc> filling the temple.<n id="3" />p>

&#8220;Son of man, realize that I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you with a jolt,<n id="1" /> but you must not mourn or weep or shed tears.

But when I speak with you, I will loosen your tongue<n id="1" /> and you must say to them, &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says.&#8217; Those who listen will listen, but the indifferent will refuse,<n id="2" /> for they are a rebellious house.p>

A wind lifted me up and carried me away. I went bitterly,<n id="1" /> my spirit full of fury, and the hand of the <sc>Lordsc> rested powerfully<n id="2" /> on me.

<p class="bodytext">Then a wind<n id="1" /> came into me and stood me on my feet. The <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> spoke to me and said, &#8220;Go shut yourself in your house.

The allotment you set apart to the <sc>Lordsc> will be eight and a quarter miles<n id="1" /> in length and three and one-third miles<n id="2" /> in width.

Then a wind<n id="1" /> lifted me up and carried me to the exiles in Babylonia,<n id="2" /> in the vision given to me by the Spirit of God.p> <p class="bodytext">Then the vision I had seen went up from me.

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.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;In a controversy they will act as judges;<n id="1" /> they will judge according to my ordinances. They will keep my laws and my statutes regarding all my appointed festivals and will observe<n id="2" /> my Sabbaths.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Alongside the portion set apart as the holy allotment, you will allot for the city an area one and two-thirds miles<n id="1" /> wide and eight and a quarter miles<n id="2" /> long; it will be for the whole house of Israel.p>

The first of all the first fruits and all contributions of any kind<n id="1" /> will be for the priests; you will also give to the priest the first portion of your dough, so that a blessing may rest on your house.

You have not gone up in the breaks in the wall, nor repaired a wall for the house of Israel that it would stand strong in the battle on the day of the <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Alongside the border of the priests, the Levites will have an allotment eight and a quarter miles<n id="1" /> in length and three and one-third miles<n id="2" /> in width. The whole length will be eight and a quarter miles<n id="3" /> and the width three and one-third miles.<n id="4" />

As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted in it, and you will know that I, the <sc>Lord,sc> have poured out my anger on you.&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">This is a lament; they will chant it.p> <p class="poetry">The daughters of the nations will chant it.p> <p class="poetry">They will chant it over Egypt and over all her hordes,p> <p class="poetry">declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth of the month,<n id="1" /> a refugee came to me from Jerusalem<n id="2" /> saying, &#8220;The city has been defeated!&#8221;<n id="3" />

You will say, &#8220;I will invade<n id="1" /> a land of unwalled towns; I will advance against<n id="2" /> those living quietly in security &#8211; all of them living without walls and barred gates &#8211;