<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>

Persia,<n id="1" /> Ethiopia, and Put<n id="2" /> are with them, all of them with shields and helmets.

For there on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, all the house of Israel will serve me, all of them<n id="1" /> in the land. I will accept them there, and there I will seek your contributions and your choice gifts, with all your holy things.

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.

I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and bring you out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them fully armed, a great company with shields of different types,<n id="1" /> all of them armed with swords.

The fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the wild beasts, all the things that creep on the ground, and all people who live on the face of the earth will shake<n id="1" /> at my presence. The mountains will topple, the cliffs<n id="2" /> will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground.

Every living creature which swarms where the river<n id="1" /> flows will live; there will be many fish, for these waters flow there. It will become fresh<n id="2" /> and everything will live where the river flows.

and say to the scrub land of the Negev, &#8216;Hear the word of the <sc>Lordsc>: This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Look here,<n id="1" /> I am about to start a fire in you,<n id="2" /> and it will devour every green tree and every dry tree in you. The flaming fire will not be extinguished, and the whole surface of the ground from the Negev to the north will be scorched by it.

For this reason no watered trees will grow so tall; their tops will not reach into the clouds, nor will the well-watered ones grow that high.<n id="1" /> For all of them have been appointed to die in the lower parts of the earth;<n id="2" /> they will be among mere mortals,<n id="3" /> with those who descend to the pit.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I will make you desolate and an object of scorn among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.

Their survivors will escape to the mountains and become like doves of the valleys; all of them will moan &#8211; each one for his iniquity.

along with their entire bodies,<n id="1" /> their backs, their hands, and their wings. The wheels of the four of them were full of eyes all around.

So I told the exiles everything<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> had shown me.p>

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

I will do this in order to capture the hearts of the house of Israel, who have alienated themselves from me on account of all their idols.&#8217;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;After all of your evil &#8211; &#8220;Woe! Woe to you!&#8221; declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> &#8211;

Have you not copied their behavior<n id="1" /> and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time<n id="2" /> you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were!

so that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you have done in consoling them.

He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Take note<n id="1" /> &#8211; he gave his promise<n id="2" /> and did all these things &#8211; he will not escape!p>

None of the sins he has committed will be held<n id="1" /> against him; because of the righteousness he has done, he will live.