&#8220;Son of man, say to her: &#8216;You are a land that receives no rain<n id="1" /> or showers in the day of my anger.&#8217;<n id="2" />

No human foot will pass through it, and no animal&#8217;s foot will pass through it; it will be uninhabited for forty years.

therefore you will no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.

Again he measured 1,750 feet and it was a river I could not cross, for the water had risen; it was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be crossed.

When they moved they would go in any of the four directions they faced without turning as they moved.

I will silence<n id="1" /> the noise of your songs; the sound of your harps will be heard no more.

<p class="poetry">Look, you are wiser than Daniel;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">no secret is hidden from you.<n id="2" />p>

not to many peoples of unintelligible speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand<n id="1" /> &#8211; surely if<n id="2" /> I had sent you to them, they would listen to you!

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Therefore this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Because you are more arrogant<n id="1" /> than the nations around you,<n id="2" /> you have not followed my statutes and have not carried out my regulations. You have not even<n id="3" /> carried out the regulations of the nations around you!p>

The customer will no longer pay the seller<n id="1" /> while both parties are alive, for the vision against their whole crowd<n id="2" /> will not be revoked. Each person, for his iniquity,<n id="3" /> will fail to preserve his life.p>

They will discard their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated like filth.<n id="1" /> Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s fury.<n id="2" /> They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs because their wealth<n id="3" /> was the obstacle leading to their iniquity.<n id="4" />

My hand will be against the prophets who see delusion and announce lying omens. They will not be included in the council<n id="1" /> of my people, nor be written in the registry<n id="2" /> of the house of Israel, nor enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;And you, son of man, say to your people,<n id="1" /> &#8216;The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him if he rebels.<n id="2" /> As for the wicked, his wickedness will not make him stumble if he turns from it.<n id="3" /> The righteous will not be able to live by his righteousness<n id="4" /> if he sins.&#8217;<n id="5" />

They will know that I am the <sc>Lord;sc> my threats to bring this catastrophe on them were not empty.&#8217;<n id="1" />p>

But as for me, my eye will not pity them nor will I spare<n id="1" /> them; I hereby repay them for what they have done.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

They say,<n id="1" /> &#8216;The time is not near to build houses;<n id="2" /> the city<n id="3" /> is a cooking pot<n id="4" /> and we are the meat in it.&#8217;

For there will no longer be any false visions or flattering omens amidst the house of Israel.

You have not gone up in the breaks in the wall, nor repaired a wall for the house of Israel that it would stand strong in the battle on the day of the <sc>Lordsc>.

You took some of your clothing and made for yourself decorated high places; you engaged in prostitution on them. You went to him to become his.<n id="1" />

You engaged in prostitution with the Assyrians because your sexual desires were insatiable; you prostituted yourself with them and yet you were still not satisfied.