<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;These are the names of the tribes: From the northern end beside the road of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath, as far as Hazar-enan (which is on the border of Damascus, toward the north beside Hamath), extending from the east side to the west, Dan will have one portion.

The people<n id="1" /> to whom I am sending you are obstinate and hard-hearted,<n id="2" /> and you must say to them, &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says.&#8217;<n id="3" />

As for you, son of man, listen to what I am saying to you: Do not rebel like that rebellious house! Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.&#8221;p>

Soon now I will pour out my rage<n id="1" /> on you; I will fully vent my anger against you. I will judge you according to your behavior. I will hold you accountable for all your abominable practices.

The time has come; the day has struck! The customer should not rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for divine wrath<n id="1" /> comes against their whole crowd.

<p class="bodytext">Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s house. I noticed<n id="1" /> women sitting there weeping for Tammuz.<n id="2" />

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" />

&#8220;Son of man, what is this proverb you have in the land of Israel, &#8216;The days pass slowly, and every vision fails&#8217;?

&#8220;Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are now prophesying. Say to the prophets who prophesy from their imagination:<n id="1" /> &#8216;Hear the word of the <sc>Lordsc>!

No!<n id="1" /> It is thrown in the fire for fuel; when the fire has burned up both ends of it and it is charred in the middle, will it be useful for anything?

Indeed! If it was not made into anything useful when it was whole, how much less can it be made into anything when the fire has burned it up and it is charred?p>

And with all your abominable practices and prostitution you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, kicking around in your blood.p>

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.

All prostitutes receive payment,<n id="1" /> but instead you give gifts to every one of your lovers. You bribe them to come to you from all around for your sexual favors!

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;See here &#8211; this was the iniquity<n id="1" /> of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters had majesty, abundance of food, and enjoyed carefree ease, but they did not help<n id="2" /> the poor and needy.

Then you will remember, be ashamed, and remain silent<n id="1" /> when I make atonement for all you have done,<n id="2" /> declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.&#8217;&#8221;p>

and follows my statutes and observes my regulations by carrying them out.<n id="1" /> That man<n id="2" /> is righteous; he will certainly live,<n id="3" /> declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.p>

oppresses the poor and the needy,<n id="1" /> commits robbery, does not give back what was given in pledge, prays to<n id="2" /> idols, performs abominable acts,

Because I will cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked, my sword will go out from its sheath against everyone<n id="1" /> from the south<n id="2" /> to the north.

One<n id="1" /> commits an abominable act with his neighbor&#8217;s wife; another obscenely defiles his daughter-in-law; another violates<n id="2" /> his sister &#8211; his father&#8217;s daughter<n id="3" /> &#8211; within you.