They must not sell or exchange any of it; they must not transfer this choice portion of land, for it is set apart<n id="1" /> to the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

This is the land which you will allot to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="bodytext">He said to me, &#8220;The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of murder, and the city is full of corruption,<n id="1" /> for they say, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc> has abandoned the land, and the <sc>Lordsc> does not see!&#8217;<n id="2" />

Foreigners from the most terrifying nations have cut it down and left it to lie there on the mountains. In all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs lie broken in the ravines of the land. All the peoples of the land<n id="1" /> have departed<n id="2" /> from its shade and left it.

&#8220;Son of man, the ones living in these ruins in the land of Israel are saying, &#8216;Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land, but we are many; surely the land has been given to us for a possession.&#8217;<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;When you allot the land as an inheritance, you will offer an allotment<n id="1" /> to the <sc>Lordsc>, a holy portion from the land; the length will be eight and a quarter miles<n id="2" /> and the width three and one-third miles.<n id="3" /> This entire area will be holy.<n id="4" />

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>

I will stretch out my hand against them<n id="1" /> and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Riblah,<n id="2" /> in all the places where they live. Then they will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>!&#8221;p>

&#8220;You, son of man &#8211; this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says to the land of Israel: An end! The end is coming on the four corners of the land!<n id="1" />

Doom is coming upon you who live in the land! The time is coming, the day<n id="1" /> is near. There are sounds of tumult, not shouts of joy, on the mountains.<n id="2" />

The king will mourn and the prince will be clothed with shuddering; the hands of the people of the land will tremble. Based on their behavior I will deal with them, and by their standard of justice<n id="1" /> I will judge them. Then they will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>!&#8221;p>

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.

While they are watching, raise your baggage onto your shoulder and carry it out in the dark.<n id="1" /> You must cover your face so that you cannot see the ground<n id="2" /> because I have made you an object lesson<n id="3" /> to the house of Israel.&#8221;p>

I will break down the wall you coated with whitewash and knock it to the ground so that its foundation is exposed. When it falls you will be destroyed beneath it,<n id="1" /> and you will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Or suppose I were to bring a sword against that land and say, &#8216;Let a sword pass through the land,&#8217; and I were to kill both people and animals.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Or suppose I were to send a plague into that land, and pour out my rage on it with bloodshed, killing both people and animals.

He took one from the royal family,<n id="1" /> made a treaty with him, and put him under oath.<n id="2" /> He then took the leaders of the land

Then you will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc> when I bring you to the land of Israel, to the land I swore<n id="1" /> to give to your fathers.

<p class="poetry">You will become fuel for the fire &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">your blood will stain the middle of the land;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you will no longer be remembered,p> <p class="poetry">for I, the <sc>Lordsc>, have spoken.&#8217;&#8221;p>

The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy; they have oppressed the foreigner who lives among them and denied them justice.<n id="1" />p>