They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest;<n id="1" /> you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me,<n id="2" /> declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">You mix uncleanness with obscene conduct.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I tried to cleanse you,<n id="2" /> but you are not clean.p> <p class="poetry">You will not be cleansed from your uncleanness<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">until I have exhausted my anger on you.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">Your heart was proud because of your beauty;p> <p class="poetry">you corrupted your wisdom on account of your splendor.p> <p class="poetry">I threw you down to the ground;p> <p class="poetry">I placed you before kings, that they might see you.p>

<p class="poetry">when they grasped you with their hand,<n id="1" /> you broke and tore<n id="2" /> their shoulders,p> <p class="poetry">and when they leaned on you, you splintered and caused their legs to be unsteady.<n id="3" />p>

and say to the scrub land of the Negev, &#8216;Hear the word of the <sc>Lordsc>: This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Look here,<n id="1" /> I am about to start a fire in you,<n id="2" /> and it will devour every green tree and every dry tree in you. The flaming fire will not be extinguished, and the whole surface of the ground from the Negev to the north will be scorched by it.

I will direct<n id="1" /> my jealous anger against you, and they will deal with you in rage. They will cut off your nose and your ears,<n id="2" /> and your survivors will die<n id="3" /> by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your survivors will be consumed by fire.

<p class="poetry">Your wealth, products, and merchandise, your sailors and captains,p> <p class="poetry">your ship&#8217;s carpenters,<n id="1" /> your merchants,p> <p class="poetry">and all your fighting men within you,p> <p class="poetry">along with all your crew who are in you,p> <p class="poetry">will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall.p>

<p class="poetry">You were in Eden, the garden of God.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Every precious stone was your covering,p> <p class="poetry">the ruby, topaz, and emerald,p> <p class="poetry">the chrysolite, onyx, and jasper,p> <p class="poetry">the sapphire, turquoise, and beryl;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">your settings and mounts were made of gold.p> <p class="poetry">On the day you were created they were prepared.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;But as for you, son of man, your people<n id="1" /> (who are talking about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses) say to one another,<n id="2" /> &#8216;Come hear the word that comes<n id="3" /> from the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8217;

You will advance<n id="1" /> against my people Israel like a cloud covering the earth. In the latter days I will bring you against my land so that the nations may acknowledge me, when before their eyes I magnify myself<n id="2" /> through you, O Gog.p>