<p class="poetry">All idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant.p> <p class="poetry">Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made.p> <p class="poetry">For the image he forges is merely a sham.p> <p class="poetry">There is no breath in any of those idols.p>

Each moved straight ahead<n id="1" /> &#8211; wherever the spirit<n id="2" /> would go, they would go, without turning as they went.

When the living beings moved, the wheels moved, and when they stopped moving, the wheels stopped.<n id="1" /> When they rose up from the ground, the wheels rose up from the ground; the wheels rose up beside them because the spirit of the living being was in the wheel.p>

As he spoke to me,<n id="1" /> a wind<n id="2" /> came into me and stood me on my feet, and I heard the one speaking to me.p>

<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.

Therefore fathers will eat their sons within you, Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter any survivors<n id="2" /> to the winds.<n id="3" />p>

A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you.<n id="1" /> A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you,<n id="2" /> and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.

I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within them;<n id="1" /> I will remove the hearts of stone from their bodies<n id="2" /> and I will give them tender hearts,<n id="3" />

This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit but have seen nothing!

Tell the ones who coat it with whitewash that it will fall. When there is a deluge of rain, hailstones<n id="1" /> will fall and a violent wind will break out.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Therefore this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: In my rage I will make a violent wind break out. In my anger there will be a deluge of rain and hailstones in destructive fury.

<p class="poetry">Consider! It is planted, but will it prosper?p> <p class="poetry">Will it not wither completely when the east wind blows on it?p> <p class="poetry">Will it not wither in the soil where it sprouted?&#8217;&#8221;p>

All the choice men<n id="1" /> among his troops will die<n id="2" /> by the sword and the survivors will be scattered to every wind. Then you will know that I, the <sc>Lord,sc> have spoken!p>

Throw away all your sins you have committed and fashion yourselves a new heart and a new spirit!<n id="1" /> Why should you die, O house of Israel?

<p class="poetry">But it was plucked up in anger; it was thrown down to the ground.p> <p class="poetry">The east wind<n id="1" /> dried up its fruit;p> <p class="poetry">its strong branches broke off and withered &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">a fire consumed them.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;What you plan<n id="1" /> will never happen. You say, &#8220;We will be<n id="2" /> like the nations, like the clans of the lands, who serve gods of wood and stone.&#8221;<n id="3" />

I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone<n id="1" /> from your body and give you a heart of flesh.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">The hand<n id="1" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the <sc>Lordsc> and placed<n id="2" /> me in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones.

I will put tendons<n id="1" /> on you and muscles over you and will cover you with skin; I will put breath<n id="2" /> in you and you will live. Then you will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8217;&#8221;p>

As I watched, I saw<n id="1" /> tendons on them, then muscles appeared,<n id="2" /> and skin covered over them from above, but there was no breath<n id="3" /> in them.p>