<p class="poetry">I said,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I have heard a message from the <sc>Lordsc>.p> <p class="poetry">A messenger has been sent among the nations to say,p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Gather your armies and march out against her!p> <p class="poetry">Prepare to do battle with her!&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Edom will become an object of horror.p> <p class="poetry">All who pass by it will be filled with horror;p> <p class="poetry">they will hiss out their scornp> <p class="poetry">because of all the disasters that have happened to it.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">But suddenly Babylonia will fall and be destroyed.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Cry out in mourning over it!p> <p class="poetry">Get medicine for her wounds!p> <p class="poetry">Perhaps she can be healed!p>

You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it.

You sat on a magnificent couch, with a table arranged in front of it where you placed my incense and my olive oil.

&#8220;Go immediately<n id="1" /> to Nineveh,<n id="2" /> that<n id="3" /> large capital<n id="4" /> city,<n id="5" /> and announce judgment against<n id="6" /> its people<n id="7" /> because their wickedness<n id="8" /> has come to my attention.&#8221;<n id="9" />

There are also two olive trees beside it, one on the right of the receptacle and the other on the left.&#8221;<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;If he cannot afford<n id="1" /> two turtledoves or two young pigeons,<n id="2" /> he must bring as his offering for his sin which he has committed<n id="3" /> a tenth of an ephah<n id="4" /> of choice wheat flour<n id="5" /> for a sin offering. He must not place olive oil on it and he must not put frankincense on it, because it is a sin offering.

So King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside<n id="1" /> it. They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year of Zedekiah&#8217;s reign.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">During<n id="1" /> the reign of Ahaz son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, King Rezin of Syria and King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel marched up to Jerusalem<n id="2" /> to do battle, but they were unable to prevail against it.<n id="3" />p>

King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside it.<n id="1" /> They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year that Zedekiah ruled over Judah.<n id="2" />

When I came to the spring today, I prayed, &#8216;O <sc>Lordsc>, God of my master Abraham, if you have decided to make my journey successful,<n id="1" /> may events unfold as follows:<n id="2" />

If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it<n id="1" /> of stones shaped with tools,<n id="2" /> for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it.<n id="3" />

Be careful not to make<n id="1" /> a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare<n id="2" /> among you.

the assembly must present a young bull for a sin offering when the sin they have committed<n id="1" /> becomes known. They must bring it before the Meeting Tent,

Anyone who touches its meat must be holy, and whoever spatters some of its blood on a garment,<n id="1" /> you must wash<n id="2" /> whatever he spatters it on in a holy place.

The priest<n id="1" /> is to present it before the <sc>Lordsc> and make atonement<n id="2" /> on her behalf, and she will be clean<n id="3" /> from her flow of blood.<n id="4" /> This is the law of the one who bears a child, for the male or the female child.

and the priest is to make one a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.<n id="1" /> So the priest<n id="2" /> is to make atonement for her before the <sc>Lordsc> from her discharge of impurity.p>

and see<n id="1" /> what the land is like,<n id="2" /> and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, few or many,

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;And if she marries a husband while under a vow,<n id="1" /> or she uttered<n id="2" /> anything impulsively by which she has pledged herself,