&#8220;The Sea&#8221; stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. &#8220;The Sea&#8221; was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward.<n id="1" />

They will be spread out and exposed to the sun, the moon and the stars.<n id="1" /> These are things they<n id="2" /> adored and served, things to which they paid allegiance,<n id="3" /> from which they sought guidance, and worshiped. The bones of these people<n id="4" /> will never be regathered and reburied. They will be like manure used to fertilize the ground.<n id="5" />

all the kings of the north, whether near or far from one another; and all the other kingdoms which are on the face of the earth. After all of them have drunk the wine of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s wrath,<n id="1" /> the king of Babylon<n id="2" /> must drink it.p>

I will chase after them with war,<n id="1" /> starvation, and disease. I will make all the kingdoms of the earth horrified at what happens to them. I will make them examples of those who are cursed, objects of horror, hissing scorn, and ridicule among all the nations where I exile them.

But the Babylonian<n id="1" /> army chased after them. They caught up with Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho<n id="2" /> and captured him.<n id="3" /> They took him to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon at Riblah<n id="4" /> in the territory of Hamath and Nebuchadnezzar passed sentence on him there.

<p class="poetry">I will make the people of Elam terrified of their enemies,p> <p class="poetry">who are seeking to kill them.p> <p class="poetry">I will vent my fierce angerp> <p class="poetry">and bring disaster upon them,&#8221;<n id="1" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I will send armies chasing after them<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">until I have completely destroyed them.p>

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.

<p class="bodytext">Then he brought me to the inner court of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s house. Right there<n id="1" /> at the entrance to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple, between the porch and the altar,<n id="2" /> were about twenty-five<n id="3" /> men with their backs to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple,<n id="4" /> facing east &#8211; they were worshiping the sun<n id="5" /> toward the east!p>

<p class="poetry">This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Because Judah has committed three covenant transgressions<n id="1" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">make that four!<n id="2" /> &#8211; I will not revoke my decree of judgment.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They rejected the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s law;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">they did not obey his commands.p> <p class="poetry">Their false gods,<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">to which their fathers were loyal,<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">led them astray.p>