Her prophets coat their messages with whitewash.<n id="1" /> They see false visions and announce lying omens for them, saying, &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says,&#8217; when the <sc>Lordsc> has not spoken.

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>

She bestowed her sexual favors on them; all of them were the choicest young men of Assyria. She defiled herself with all whom she desired<n id="1" /> &#8211; with all their idols.

<p class="poetry">Take the choice bone of the flock,p> <p class="poetry">heap up bones under it;p> <p class="poetry">boil rapidly,p> <p class="poetry">and boil its bones in it.p>

therefore this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Look,<n id="1" /> I am against you,<n id="2" /> O Tyre! I will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.

<p class="poetry">The elders of Gebal<n id="1" /> and her skilled men were within you, mending cracks;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">all the ships of the sea and their mariners were within you to trade for your merchandise.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">They will descend from their ships &#8211; all who handle the oar,p> <p class="poetry">the sailors and all the sea captains &#8211; they will stand on the land.p>

<p class="poetry">Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters;p> <p class="poetry">your merchandise and all your company have sunk<n id="1" /> along with you.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I am about to bring foreigners<n id="1" /> against you, the most terrifying of nations.p> <p class="poetry">They will draw their swords against the grandeur made by your wisdom,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and they will defile your splendor.p>

<p class="poetry">I placed you there with an anointed<n id="1" /> guardian<n id="2" /> cherub;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">you were on the holy mountain of God;p> <p class="poetry">you walked about amidst fiery stones.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">I will put an end to the hordes of Egypt,p> <p class="poetry">by the hand of King Nebuchadrezzar<n id="1" /> of Babylon.p>

<p class="poetry">I made it beautiful with its many branches;p> <p class="poetry">all the trees of Eden, in the garden of God, envied it.p>

<p class="poetry">I will disturb<n id="1" /> many peoples,p> <p class="poetry">when I bring about your destruction among the nations,p> <p class="poetry">among countries you do not know.p>

They will fall among those killed by the sword. The sword is drawn; they carry her and all her hordes away.

but there is one who hears the sound of the trumpet yet does not heed the warning. Then the sword comes and sweeps him away. He will be responsible for his own death.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">I will set one shepherd over them, and he will feed them &#8211; namely, my servant David.<n id="1" /> He will feed them and will be their shepherd.

Therefore, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, I will subject you to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.

&#8220;Son of man, turn toward<n id="1" /> Gog,<n id="2" /> of the land of Magog,<n id="3" /> the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.<n id="4" /> Prophesy against him

They are joined by<n id="1" /> Gomer with all its troops, and by Beth Togarmah from the remote parts of the north with all its troops &#8211; many peoples are with you.<n id="2" />p>

I will exalt and magnify myself; I will reveal myself before many nations. Then they will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8217;p>