Again, take more of them and throw them into the fire,<n id="1" /> and burn them up. From there a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.p>

Violence<n id="1" /> has grown into a staff that supports wickedness. Not one of them will be left<n id="2" /> &#8211; not from their crowd, not from their wealth, not from their prominence.<n id="3" />

When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them; when the cherubim spread<n id="1" /> their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not move from their side.

<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.

As for the form of their faces, they were the faces whose appearance I had seen at the Kebar River. Each one moved straight ahead.p>

Therefore, this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: &#8216;The corpses you have dumped<n id="1" /> in the midst of the city<n id="2" /> are the meat, and this city<n id="3" /> is the cooking pot, but I will take you out of it.<n id="4" />

Say to them, &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: The prince will raise this burden in Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> and all the house of Israel within it.&#8217;<n id="2" />

Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel,<n id="1" /> and Job, were in it, they would save only their own lives by their righteousness, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.p>

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>

I acted for the sake of my reputation,<n id="1" /> so that I would not be profaned before the nations among whom they lived,<n id="2" /> before whom I revealed myself by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then I said, &#8220;O sovereign <sc>Lordsc>! They are saying of me, &#8216;Does he not simply speak in eloquent figures of speech?&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I looked for a man from among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one.<n id="1" />

She did not abandon the prostitution she had practiced in Egypt; for in her youth men had sex with her, fondled her virgin breasts, and ravished her.<n id="1" />

They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. She became notorious<n id="1" /> among women, and they executed judgments against her.p>

The Babylonians crawled into bed with her.<n id="1" /> They defiled her with their lust; after she was defiled by them, she<n id="2" /> became disgusted with them.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;For this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Look here,<n id="1" /> I am about to deliver you over to<n id="2" /> those whom you hate, to those with whom you were disgusted.

But upright men will punish them appropriately for their adultery and bloodshed,<n id="1" /> because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.p>

<p class="poetry">Men of Persia, Lud,<n id="1" /> and Put were in your army, men of war.p> <p class="poetry">They hung shield and helmet on you; they gave you your splendor.p>

<p class="poetry">The Arvadites<n id="1" /> joined your army on your walls all around,p> <p class="poetry">and the Gammadites<n id="2" /> were in your towers.p> <p class="poetry">They hung their quivers<n id="3" /> on your walls all around;p> <p class="poetry">they perfected your beauty.p>

Judah and the land of Israel were your clients; they traded wheat from Minnith,<n id="1" /> millet, honey, olive oil, and balm for your merchandise.