Burn a third of it in the fire inside the city when the days of your siege are completed. Take a third and slash it with a sword all around the city. Scatter a third to the wind, and I will unleash a sword behind them.

As I watched, I noticed<n id="1" /> a form that appeared to be a man.<n id="2" /> From his waist downward was something like fire,<n id="3" /> and from his waist upward something like a brightness,<n id="4" /> like an amber glow.<n id="5" />

<p class="poetry">Will you still say, &#8220;I am a god,&#8221; before the one who kills you &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">though you are a man and not a god &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">when you are in the power of those who wound you?p>

<p class="bodytext">I saw that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full measuring stick<n id="1" /> of 10½ feet<n id="2" /> high.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Suppose a man is righteous. He practices what is just and right,

<p class="poetry">Now it is planted in the wilderness,p> <p class="poetry">in a dry and thirsty land.<n id="1" />p>

Have you not seen a false vision and announced a lying omen when you say, &#8220;the <sc>Lordsc> declares,&#8221; although I myself never spoke?p>

The appearance of the wheels and their construction<n id="1" /> was like gleaming jasper,<n id="2" /> and all four wheels looked alike. Their structure was like a wheel within a wheel.<n id="3" />

Realize<n id="1" /> that to them you are like a sensual song, a beautiful voice and skilled musician.<n id="2" /> They hear your words, but they do not obey them.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">Consider Assyria,<n id="1" /> a cedar in Lebanon,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">with beautiful branches, like a forest giving shade,p> <p class="poetry">and extremely tall;p> <p class="poetry">its top reached into the clouds.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then a wind lifted me up<n id="1" /> and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me as the glory of the <sc>Lordsc> rose from its place,<n id="2" />

And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement.&#8221;<n id="1" />

A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you.<n id="1" /> A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you,<n id="2" /> and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.

You will advance;<n id="1" /> you will come like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the earth, you, all your troops, and the many other peoples with you.p>

<p class="bodytext">Then there was a voice from above the platform over their heads when they stood still.<n id="1" />

From this measured area you will measure a length of eight and a quarter miles<n id="1" /> and a width of three and one-third miles;<n id="2" /> in it will be the sanctuary, the most holy place.

And during the seven days of the feast he will provide as a burnt offering to the <sc>Lordsc> seven bulls and seven rams, all without blemish, on each of the seven days, and a male goat daily for a sin offering.

Disaster after disaster will come, and one rumor after another. They will seek a vision from a prophet; priestly instruction will disappear, along with counsel from the elders.

and come from your place, from the remote parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a vast army.

<p class="bodytext">As I watched, I noticed<n id="1" /> a windstorm<n id="2" /> coming from the north &#8211; an enormous cloud, with lightning flashing,<n id="3" /> such that bright light<n id="4" /> rimmed it and came from<n id="5" /> it like glowing amber<n id="6" /> from the middle of a fire.