<p class="bodytext">Yet<n id="1" /> I, the <sc>Lordsc>, say:<n id="2" /> &#8220;A new time will certainly come.<n id="3" /> People now affirm their oaths with &#8216;I swear as surely as the <sc>Lordsc> lives who delivered the people of Israel out of Egypt.&#8217;

<p class="poetry">You are the one in whom Israel may find hope.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">All who leave you will suffer shame.p> <p class="poetry">Those who turn away from you<n id="2" /> will be consigned to the nether world.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">For they have rejected you, the <sc>Lordsc>, the fountain of life.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;But<n id="1" /> tell the people of Jerusalem<n id="2" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> says, &#8216;I will give you a choice between two courses of action. One will result in life; the other will result in death.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;So I, the <sc>Lordsc>, say:<n id="1" /> &#8216;A new time will certainly come.<n id="2" /> People now affirm their oaths with &#8220;I swear as surely as the <sc>Lordsc> lives who delivered the people of Israel out of Egypt.&#8221;

You must no longer say that the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s message is burdensome.<n id="1" /> For what is &#8216;burdensome&#8217;<n id="2" /> really pertains to what a person himself says.<n id="3" /> You are misrepresenting<n id="4" /> the words of our God, the living God, the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all.<n id="5" />

<p class="poetry">I the King, whose name is the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all,<n id="1" /> swear this:p> <p class="poetry">I swear as surely as I live that<n id="2" /> a conqueror is coming.p> <p class="poetry">He will be as imposing as Mount Tabor is among the mountains,p> <p class="poetry">as Mount Carmel is against the backdrop of the sea.<n id="3" />p>

He was given daily provisions by the king of Babylon for the rest of his life until the day he died.p>

Wherever the spirit<n id="1" /> would go, they would go,<n id="2" /> and the wheels would rise up beside them because the spirit<n id="3" /> of the living being was in the wheel.

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>

and the sound of the living beings&#8217; wings brushing against each other, and the sound of the wheels alongside them, a great rumbling sound.

I will send famine and wild beasts against you and they will take your children from you.<n id="1" /> Plague and bloodshed will overwhelm you,<n id="2" /> and I will bring a sword against you. I, the <sc>Lord,sc> have spoken!&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">These were the living creatures<n id="1" /> which I saw at the Kebar River underneath the God of Israel; I knew that they were cherubim.

Even if these three men were in it, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, they could not save their own sons or daughters &#8211; they would save only their own lives.p>

As surely as I live, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, your sister Sodom and her daughters never behaved as wickedly as you and your daughters have behaved.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Therefore this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: As surely as I live, I will certainly repay him<n id="1" /> for despising my oath and breaking my covenant!

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;As surely as I live, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="1" /> you will not quote this proverb in Israel anymore!

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.

<p class="poetry">All the birds of the sky nested in its boughs;p> <p class="poetry">under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth,p> <p class="poetry">in its shade all the great<n id="1" /> nations lived.p>

<p class="poetry">I will leave you on the ground,p> <p class="poetry">I will fling you on the open field,p> <p class="poetry">I will allow<n id="1" /> all the birds of the sky to settle<n id="2" /> on you,p> <p class="poetry">and I will permit<n id="3" /> all the wild animals<n id="4" /> to gorge themselves on you.p>

Their<n id="1" /> graves are located in the remote slopes of the pit.<n id="2" /> Her assembly is around her grave, all of them struck down by the sword, those who spread terror in the land of the living.p>